CANADA CANADA - Shawn Cameron Lamb, Suspected SK Caught in Winnipeg MB

A Canadian drifter with an extensive criminal background is now accused of becoming a Winnipeg serial killer.

Shawn Cameron Lamb, 52, has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Tanya Nepinak, Carolyn Sinclair, and Lorna Blacksmith, police announced Monday morning. Police are also investigating whether the accused could be involved in other unsolved cases of murdered or missing women, the source says.

All three women worked in the city’s sex-trade industry. Police said the bodies of Sinclair and Blacksmith have been located – reportedly in dumpsters and wrapped in plastic – while the search for Nepinak’s remains is ongoing.

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McCaskill said it's irrelevant how the murdered women made a living.
"They are victims and they should never have been," McCaskill said.
He said Lamb, who is originally from Sarnia, Ont., has travelled extensively across the country and investigators will be in contact with other police agencies to see if he is connected with any unsolved homicides in other communities.
A man who identified himself as Lamb's stepbrother from Ontario spoke briefly with the Free Press on Monday afternoon.
He said someone at his work asked him what his brother's middle name is, and when he answered "Cameron," he immediately told him he'd better check the news.
"It was all over the Internet," said the man, who refused to give his name. "He's an idiot. I'm glad he is where he is.
"I feel sorry for those women. I'm a compassionate person. I cried when I heard... Why wouldn't I?"
Police said it's believed Lamb has lived here full time since last year, but has had contact with police in the city dating back to 1999. It's unknown if he lived here full time for all of that period, though.
Guyader said the bodies of Blacksmith and Sinclair are too badly decomposed to determine a cause of death or to know if they had been sexually assaulted. However, he said forensic work is being done to try to answer those questions.

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A man accused of killing three women has admitted to harbouring years of pent-up anger over neglect and abuse he says he experienced at the hands of several important women in his life.

Court documents obtained by the Winnipeg Free Press show Shawn Lamb, 52, was struggling to deal in recent years with being removed from his now-deceased biological mother’s care at the age of two as part of the “60’s scoop,” taken from his First Nation community and raised by a white family in Ontario.

Lamb claims his foster mother, who is no longer alive, sexually and physically abused him while also introducing him to alcohol when he was just nine. He makes similar claims against his estranged stepsister, saying she would play “doctor” with him as a young child and molest him.

“Why did they stomp out the last tiny vestiges of self worth from this child? What wrong had he committed? Why was he kicked and beaten, raped and abused in both mind and body? Why?” Lamb states in an excerpt of a self-help book he was writing.

Police have disclosed no motive for the three homicides in Winnipeg that Lamb is accused of committing. He is charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of Tanya Nepinak on Sept. 13, 2011, Carolyn Sinclair on Dec. 18, 2011 and Lorna Blacksmith on Jan. 12.
Sinclair and Blacksmith’s bodies have been found, but Nepinak’s remains have not been located. Investigators are scouring unsolved and missing persons cases around the country to determine if Lamb could be linked to any other slayings.

Lamb previously told court he was diagnosed in 2001 as bipolar and took solace in expressing his deepest, darkest feelings through the written word. He was working with the John Howard Society in 2010 to help express his views and said he wanted to publish the book to help others avoid the same mistakes he’d made.

“Once upon a time there was born a baby boy, a little Indian boy, as sweet and fat-cheeked and gifted by the Creator as any baby anywhere. He was born innocent, as innocent as a puppy,” Lamb began in the excerpt given to provincial court Judge Linda Giesbrecht. “An innocent baby deserves not to be torn apart from its mother.”

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Penelope said:

I live about an hour outside of Winnipeg and am very connected with the city's Aboriginal community. Over the past couple of days, I have become privy to the following regarding Shawn Lamb:
-- One young woman (under age 15) that I know is considered a "teen at risk" by the Winnipeg Police Dept. She had a few "run-ins" with Lamb. Once when she had disappeared from home she met Lamb and was invited to do drugs with him. He tried to sexually assault her but she fought and got away. She reported it to the police and was one of the reasons they began investigating Lamb.
-- Another adult woman met Lamb through the prison system. She saw Lamb at one of the vigils held by the Aboriginal Community for the Missing and Murdered Women. He actually came up to her and asked if she remembered him.
-- Both the teen and the woman are traumatized by Lambs arrest and the allegations against him and are relieved that they survived their encounters with him.

I just found this article. The woman quoted is a friend of mine -- her daughter is the girl mentioned above.

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dotr said:

That poor Mother must be going through h..l, thinking of the what ifs, wishing her and daughter strength to overcome her difficulties.Reading about his prior crimes, I have wondered how many unsolved crimes he might have been responsible for in Ontario, especially this cold-case..
Mary Hammond, missing, presumed murdered coldcase /83 has new leads Brantford Ontario - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

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Morrisseau murder probed for links to suspected serial killer
Updated: Friday, June 29, 2012 05:23 PM EDT

Gatineau police will reach out to their Winnipeg counterparts to explore any potential links between the unsolved murder of Kelly Morrisseau and those of a suspected serial killer charged in the deaths of three aboriginal women.

Morrisseau, a 27-year-old aboriginal woman who lived in Vanier, was seven months pregnant when her body was found in the early morning hours of Dec. 10, 2006, by a hiker in Gatineau Park. She had been stabbed a dozen times.
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But with the June 21 arrest in Winnipeg of Shawn Cameron Lamb, the Morrisseau case is getting renewed attention as Gatineau police determine whether there may be any links.
A drug-addled drifter with more than 100 convictions, 52-year-old Lamb is charged in the deaths of three aboriginal women: Tanya Jane Nepinak, Carolyn Sinclair and Lorna Blacksmith.

full article: http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/06/29/morrisseau-murder-probed-for-links-to-suspected-serial-killer

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