ABSTRACT
Case study Barry has been convicted of three sexual homicides. At the time of his murders, he was married with two children and he was the owner of a company that specialized in pipe cleaning. His company was located in the eastern part of Montreal while he was living in a suburb outside of Montreal. Prior to his first murder, Barry was engaged in an extramarital affair with a receptionist working at his company. After a few weeks, the woman decided to end the affair. Barry was very angry and decided to fire her. The day of the murder, he contacted the victim under the pretext of hiring her back. He indicated that she needed to meet with him for this purpose. The woman was living with her parents and her three children on the west side of Montreal. She left the house, telling her parents that she had a date. Her family was not aware of her affair with her boss. It was a Saturday and the business was closed. When the victim arrived at the office, she quickly realized that she was going to be alone with the offender. Although during the interview the offender did not remember exactly what was said between the two, he remembered that he tried to convince her to continue the affair. The victim was not interested but before she had the time to explain, the offender took her to a garage within the building. He grabbed her from behind and cut her throat. The offender undressed her and inserted a knife in her rectum. It is not clear if the victim was dead at the time the knife was inserted. Afterward, he placed the victim in his company truck and took her to a wooded area near his residence. He dismembered the body and buried the head separately. He then decided to burn all the other body parts. He left the body disposal scene and cleaned his truck and garage. The offender did not recidivate for two years. Due to his business, he was often on the road driving long distances. The day of the second murder, he was driving in a small town 65 km north of Montreal. According to the offender, the victim was playing outside with her dog. The victim was unemployed and she was living with her husband (no children) who was working at the University of Montreal. The victim’s normal routine was that she was alone during the daytime. The offender was driving when he noticed the victim. He stopped and asked the victim how to get out of the town. He also took the opportunity to ask
for a glass of water and the victim let him inside. Immediately after being permitted into the home, the offender tied up the victim with a rope taken from the kitchen (wrists behind her back, and ankles). The offender used the .22 caliber rifle that he was carrying in his truck and shot the victim in the back of the head. Moreover, the offender cut her nipples and as with the first victim, he inserted a knife into her rectum. The offender also placed one of the nipples into the mouth of the victim. When leaving the scene the offender took the rope he had used to restrain the victim as well as his rifle. At around 5:30 p.m., the victim’s husband came back from work and found his wife face down on the floor, naked from the waist down. The victim’s husband turned the victim over with the intention of doing CPR. When he observed her injuries, he called the police. Almost 10 months later, the offender committed his third and final sexual homicide. The day prior to the murder, the offender called the victim to inquire about a house that she had listed for sale. He had seen the house for sale while driving around in another small town, about 30 km west of Montreal. The victim gave him some details about the house but asked him to call back during the evening when her husband would be available. The offender did not call back. Instead, the next morning at around 10 a.m., the offender came to visit the house. The victim let the offender in and he proceeded to feign interest in the house by pretending to take measurements. The victim’s husband called while the offender was there and even spoke to the offender, answering his questions. The offender then told the victim that he was going get his camera to take some photographs. A few minutes later, the victim’s mother called. The victim told her mother that she would be there at 1 p.m. to pick up her son, explaining that she needed to wait for a man who was visiting the house to leave. When Barry came back to the house, he had his ax with him. He hit the victim on the head with the ax and the victim collapsed to the floor. Although she was bleeding heavily, this blow did not cause her death. Barry tied her ankles with an electric wire from a hairdryer and he tied her hands behind her back with another electric wire from a curling iron. He used her bra to gag her. After the victim was restrained, the offender pulled down her pants and underwear and pulled her sweater up over her face. He took a broomstick and inserted it into her rectum. The broomstick caused internal bleeding, which resulted in the death of the victim. Before the victim died, the offender stole her credit and debit cards and asked for the PINs. He then left the crime scene and stopped to withdraw some money with the stolen cards at a small convenience store close to his residence. At 4:30 p.m., after the victim did not show up to pick up her son, the victim’s mother came to her house to check on her. Once in the house, she discovered the body of her daughter and she called the police. When the police arrived at the scene, the victim’s body was lying face down on the kitchen floor. Due to a security camera at the ATM machine from the convenience store, the police were able to identify the offender. Upon arrest, he confessed to the three murders and told the police where he had buried the first victim.
