Rehtaeh Parsons and Johnathan Townsend

Motive and Opportunity

Keith starts this weeks episode with a story of bullying that has a tragic end, and Amanda tells us the story of a young murderer named Johnathan Townsend.

Sources:
Keith:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Rehtaeh_Parsons

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/christie-blatchford-boy-in-notorious-rehtaeh-parsons-photo-talks-for-first-time-about-what-happened

http://rehtaehparsons.ca

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/five-years-gone/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/15/rehtaeh-parsons-second-man-walks-free-humiliation-canadian-teen-killed-herself

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(hacker_group)

No Place to Hide (2015)

Amanda:

https://thewalrus.ca/how-canadas-health-care-system-helped-create-a-killer/

https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/judge-you-planned-and-you-acted-on-the-murder-townsend-gets-life-in-prison-1.3449382

https://torontosun.com/2013/09/25/us-girl-12-charged-in-connection-to-sault-murder

https://www.sootoday.com/city-police-beat/sault-killer-johnathan-townsend-loses-appeal-murder-conviction-stands-7644289#:~:text=Townsend%20was%2018%20when%20he,Marie%20courthouse.

https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/im-proud-of-myself-i-finally-did-it-i-took-someones-life-583907

https://www.thesudburystar.com/2017/04/27/family-of-murder-victim-to-speak-in-sault

https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2017/2017onsc1204/2017onsc1204.html?resultIndex=1&resultId=4617cb76cb93471cba2b1270802cd59a&searchId=2024-03-11T15:44:07:094/96b0e6cf0cc14e5fbc7636bbdbe63e27&searchUrlHash=AAAAAQASSm9obmF0aGFuIFRvd25zZW5kAAAAAAE

Resources: