TALES FROM MY HOOD: DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE BY AN UNUSUAL MURDERESS
Bob told me one of the great literary influences of his life has been the lurid and sensational “Allo Police” reeking with screaming headlines published in Montreal and now long gone. Sensational and grisly photos particularly murder victims. Rape, assaults, bank robberies, drugs, gangs of the lowest roustabouts even worse than what you see on “90 Day Finance” or its 98 spinoffs. It made his once hometown of Montreal look like the fiery pits of hell, politics aside. No hebetude when reading “Allo Police”!
When I tell you this Tale From My Hood perhaps that “Allo Police” yellow lumpenproletarian journalism has rubbed off on me.
The old guard of the hood mention this awful twenty year old occurrence. About a 10-minute walk from here there lived a 37-year-old psychiatrist Suzanne Killinger-Johnson with her husband and two children. Yes, a psychiatrist can be mentally disturbed. This lady took her six-month-old son Cuyler and jumped in the path of a subway train. Cuyler died on impact while mother lingered for a few days before succumbing to her injuries. The murder suicide shook Toronto to its roots and I can see it still rattles the old guard when they talk about it while us dogs’ nose around.
Bob drives by her house and I hear him occasionally mutter……..
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