The Massacre of the Petersons

The community couldn't believe that a single person could have executed the massacre without any of the family escaping. The soul prints found at the scene were sent for forensic processing in regina, the capital city of saskatchewan. With the aid of 75 police dogs, they thoro searched the area surrounding the peterson farmhouse and encouraged locals to report anything they saw as suspicious. On august seventeenth, two days after the massacre, a farmer walked into the shell brook r c m p saying his neighbor's son just got out of the mental hospital,. He gave a name, victor ernest hoffman. Officers retrieved the gun and sent it to forensics to match