William Patrick Fyfe is a Canadian

Canada

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 serial killer

Serial killer

A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

 convicted of killing five women in the Montreal

Montreal

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 area of Quebec

Quebec

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, although he claims to have killed four others. He allegedly killed his first victim in 1979 at age of 24.

Early life

He was born in Toronto, Ontario. He was raised by an aunt and moved from Central Canada to Montreal in 1958. As an adult, he worked as a handyman.

Murders

A finger print left on a door frame at Mary Glen's house and DNA evidence

Genetic fingerprinting

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 led police to charge Fyfe for the murders. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) arrested him on 22 December 1999, while he was returning to his pick-up truck after eating at a Husky Truck Stop near Barrie Ontario. He has confessed to only a portion of the crimes he is suspected of committing.

Fyfe's preliminary hearing began on 6 November 2000. Jean Lecours was the crown prosecutor heading up the case against Fyfe. He is now serving a life sentence in a psychiatric hospital

Psychiatric hospital

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 in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

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. The four last victims he admitted to, only after being incarcerated.

He is also suspected by Montreal Police of being the serial rapist commonly known as "The Plumber" who was responsible for a string of violent rapes during the 1980's in downtown Montreal.

Known victims

• Suzanne-Marie Bernier,a 62-year-old woman who was stabbed and sexually assaulted 17 October 1979 in Cartierville, Montreal, Quebec

• Nicole Raymond, a 26-year-old woman who was stabbed and sexually assaulted on 14 November 1979 in Pointe-Claire, Montreal, Quebec

• Hazel Scattolon, a 52-year-old woman who was stabbed and sexually assaulted in 1981.

• Louise Poupart-Leblanc, a 37-year-old woman who was stabbed and sexually assaulted on 26 September 1987 in Sainte-Adèle, Quebec.

• Pauline Laplante, a 45-year-old woman who was stabbed and sexually assaulted on 9 June 1989 in Sainte-Adèle, Quebec.

• Anna Yarnold, a 59-year-old woman who was found dead on 15 October 1999 in Senneville, Quebec

• Monique Gaudreau, a 46-year-old woman who was found dead on 29 October 1999 in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec.

• Teresa Shanahan, a 55-year-old woman who was stabbed to death in November 1999 in Laval, Quebec.

• Mary Glen, a 50-year-old woman who was beaten and stabbed on 15 December 1999 in Baie-d'Urfé, Quebec