The Beast of British Columbia
When he dies the world will finally be rid of yet another psychotic psychopath. Clifford Robert Olson will be mourned by no one. Even his mother would shrink in disgust from his presence, recoil from his horrible legacy of anguished and forever-mourning families. He distinguished himself in the annals of human monsters, as a sadistic, vicious serious killer.
He had no conscience, no pity, not a shred of thought for the young human lives he took immense pleasure in destroying.
He claimed that he had taken the lives of up to several hundred young people. It is entirely possible. It was, however, the lives of almost a dozen young people whom he abducted, terrified, tortured and slaughtered, then tossed away, out of sight out of mind, ready to launch another attack, another death, that brought him finally to justice.
His contorted mind seemed to take pleasure in his dread notoriety.
Like child predators before him, he tempted the trust of young people by promising them something enticing to them. Very young children are often promised sweets or puppies to play with; Olson promised those whom he targeted the opportunity to have a job. His victims ranged in age from 9 years to 18:
Incredibly, the monster had a wife, and they shared a child.
Prison psychiatrists testified that at no time was there ever evidence of contrition, regret on his part that Olson had murdered innocent young people. Unremorseful, he added that were he to ever have the opportunity he would simply continue killing to serve his insane personal needs. He felt no shame for the atrocities he committed.
Olson in fact wrote manuscripts and produced a video series that he titled Motivational Sexual Homicide patterns of Serial Sexual Homicide Patterns of Serial Child Killer Clifford Robert Olson. Giving his acts the quasi-legitimacy of a psychiatric and personality assessment of his own devising. The dozen videotapes expressing graphically Olson's depraved acts.
Improbably, Olson felt entitled to apply repeatedly for early release, after having served fifteen years of his sentence. Between August 1997 and 2010, the parents and the extended families of those whom he had abducted, tortured, assaulted and murdered lived in an agony of witnessing their children's murderer confidently smirking and challenging the justice system for early parole and release.
It was discovered in the last few years that Olson had been receiving federal old age security. The public reacted with furious indignation. Improbably, alerting the federal government that people took huge umbrage that their tax dollars were not only maintaining this monster and keeping him alive, but benefiting him with a bank account.
Now the public can sigh in relief that though the cancer ravaging his body is not working sufficiently diligently, it will eventually prevail and rid the world of a deadly cancer every bit as horrible a fleshly predator as the disease. And the grieving family members have the opportunity now to fantasize excruciating pain they hope he is experiencing.
He will soon be gone. The mind cannot but help musing on the quality of trust between Olson and his wife. On the kind of personality that would take supportive funding from the public based on the atrocities her husband had committed. On the genetic inheritance that such a child as the two created would end up with.
He had no conscience, no pity, not a shred of thought for the young human lives he took immense pleasure in destroying.
He claimed that he had taken the lives of up to several hundred young people. It is entirely possible. It was, however, the lives of almost a dozen young people whom he abducted, terrified, tortured and slaughtered, then tossed away, out of sight out of mind, ready to launch another attack, another death, that brought him finally to justice.
His contorted mind seemed to take pleasure in his dread notoriety.
Like child predators before him, he tempted the trust of young people by promising them something enticing to them. Very young children are often promised sweets or puppies to play with; Olson promised those whom he targeted the opportunity to have a job. His victims ranged in age from 9 years to 18:
- Christine Ann Weller, 12 years of age missing November 19, body found Christmas Day 1980;
- Colleen Daignault, 13 years old, last seen August 1981, in North Delta;
- Daryn Todd Johnsrude, 16, of Saskatoon, visiting Coquitlam, last seen April 21, 1981;
- Sandra Lyn Wolfsteiner, 16 years old, of Langley, last seen May 19, 1981 on the Fraser Highway;
- Ada Anita Court, 13, of Burnaby, left her brother's Coquitlam home June 21, 1981;
- Simon Partington, 9 years old, last seen riding his bicycle to a friend's house in Surrey, July 2, 1981;
- Judy Kozma, 14 years of age, left her New Westminister home to visit a friend in Richmond, July 9 1981;
- Ray King Jr., 15, years old went to the Canada Manpower youth employment centre on July 21, 1981 in New Westminster;
- Louise Marie Chartrand, 17 years old, hitchhiked on July 20, 1981 to her waitressing job at Maple Ridge;
- Sigrun Charlotte Elisabeth Arnd, 18 years old, a visitor to Canada with a tour group from Germany, last seen in July 1981;
- Teri Lyn Carson, 15 years of age, left her Surrey home to apply for a job at the Guildford Town Centre, August 1, 1981.
Incredibly, the monster had a wife, and they shared a child.
Prison psychiatrists testified that at no time was there ever evidence of contrition, regret on his part that Olson had murdered innocent young people. Unremorseful, he added that were he to ever have the opportunity he would simply continue killing to serve his insane personal needs. He felt no shame for the atrocities he committed.
Olson in fact wrote manuscripts and produced a video series that he titled Motivational Sexual Homicide patterns of Serial Sexual Homicide Patterns of Serial Child Killer Clifford Robert Olson. Giving his acts the quasi-legitimacy of a psychiatric and personality assessment of his own devising. The dozen videotapes expressing graphically Olson's depraved acts.
Improbably, Olson felt entitled to apply repeatedly for early release, after having served fifteen years of his sentence. Between August 1997 and 2010, the parents and the extended families of those whom he had abducted, tortured, assaulted and murdered lived in an agony of witnessing their children's murderer confidently smirking and challenging the justice system for early parole and release.
It was discovered in the last few years that Olson had been receiving federal old age security. The public reacted with furious indignation. Improbably, alerting the federal government that people took huge umbrage that their tax dollars were not only maintaining this monster and keeping him alive, but benefiting him with a bank account.
Now the public can sigh in relief that though the cancer ravaging his body is not working sufficiently diligently, it will eventually prevail and rid the world of a deadly cancer every bit as horrible a fleshly predator as the disease. And the grieving family members have the opportunity now to fantasize excruciating pain they hope he is experiencing.
He will soon be gone. The mind cannot but help musing on the quality of trust between Olson and his wife. On the kind of personality that would take supportive funding from the public based on the atrocities her husband had committed. On the genetic inheritance that such a child as the two created would end up with.
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