These two serial or mass murders are examples that show that Canada isn't the only North American country that has crime.
Clifford Olson reaked havoc on British Columbia in the 80's, killing many young people over a period of aroung three months. His victims varried in age, the youngest being 9 years old. His first crimes were little things like B&E's and theft, and later evolved into assault on children. He was jailed for these, and was known in prison as a "senator" or a "stoolie" because he wrote many letters honing polititians about prison conditions and he was a tattle tale- eagerly ready to tell the guards what others were doing wrong. This may be deviant behavior, because it would make the other prisonmates mad, and eventually resulted in him needing protection.
In 1981, Olson seduced Joan Hale, a woman that had survived an abusive marriage, and they had a son together. Only a few days after they were married, Olson killed Sandra Lynn Wolfsteiner, and she was the one of the first youths that he would go on to kill.
Olson had odd behavior like driving thousands of kilometers in a matter of weeks or darting throught the city as he walked- into back alleys and doing U-turns multiple times. He was often seen with young people in his car and seemed to like giving his victims beer and pills that knocked them out.
Marc Lepine was a mass murderer from Quebec who hated women. He entered a university in December, 1989 and shot down 14 women, as well as wounding another 10 women and 4 men. He had an intense feeling of hatred towards women apparantly because of the fact that they had been taking jobs away from men for many years. This may also have stemmed from having trouble with past girlfriends turning him down- his last girlfriend became pregnant which made him very happy because she was less likely to leave him. Things turned bad when Lepine’s girlfriend insisted on her right to have the pregnancy terminated - this was militant feminism if ever he heard it and it seemed to be the last straw for Lepine.
He had trouble with being rejected all his life. It turned out that earlier in the same year, 1989, he had been rejected for a place at the University of Montreal’s engineering faculty as well as the Canadian Armed forces because they thought he was mentally unstable.
I think that Olson was a deranged man- by the time Olson was 41 years old, he had spent only four years of his adult life as a free man. Even when he was a small child he was beligerant and got into a lot of trouble. As far as I can see, his family was very normal and there was no reason to believe that his criminal behavior was caused by problems in the home.
Lepine was a sad man I believe- one too many rejections and the possibility that he was an outcast in society I believe contributed to all the murders he commited. Maybe if Lepine had more people in his life that had protected him or stood up for him, those murders may not have happened.
Although both were horrific crimes- in Olson's case I think the problem was initiated by nature- but that Lepine's case was a matter of nurture.
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