
The Renfrew County Massacre
Canadian True Crime
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The Story of Basil Collettan
66-year-old widow Carol Collettan was shuring up plans for her upcoming retirement after spending more than a decade in the public service. She had a small cottage nearby on Kamineskag Lake that she planned to sell as part of her retirement plan. Basil Barutsky would borrow his neighbour Sherl's car and just show up at Carol's cottage to work on it. He even planted a strawberry patch under her picture window and did mechanical work on her car. All he asked in return was to borrow that car several times a week to run errands. To Carol, they weren't in a relationship so what right did he have to behave like this? The next day
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