GUILTY Canada - Alban & Raymonde Garon, Marie-Claire Beniskos, slain, Ottawa, 29 June 2007

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OTTAWA – A retired federal court judge has been found dead, tied to a chair and severely beaten in his luxury condominium, along with his wife and an elderly neighbour, media reports say.

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/231448
 
Family member or someone judged by him in the past? This sounds horrible. I'm so sad for that family and neighbor for what they went through.

Seems like security was pretty tight in his building though. Hopefully they'll find the person responsible soon.
 
Danielle Dufault, a resident of the building, says security there is extremely tight. "It is a gated community," with a security guard at the gate, surveillance cameras, she said, and "you have to use a special key to get in."

Her husband Robert Dufault says "You don't get in there unless you know somebody."


That's from Alta's link - hopefully the surveillance cameras will provide the authorities a suspect. How horrible for these folks! You're supposed to be able to feel safe in your own home.
 
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=41643&sc=89

Mystery over triple murder

......................snip..................

Ottawa police said yesterday they have no suspects and no motive behind the triple homicide.

Garon and his wife had attended a friend's birthday party on Thursday, according to friends Adrienne and Lysette St. Cyr.

At the dinner, Garon told the couple that she had been surprised by a knock on her door that morning.

Garon opened the door expecting to see a neighbour. Instead, there was an apparent delivery driver.

"He said he had a package for her, but had forgotten it and would come back the next day," said St. Cyr. "She said it was strange."
 
Sounds like there are charges coming in this case....and what a strange one it is.

The apparent suspect was charged with a home invasion, robbing a 101 year old man. Reports also indicate that he sent a fax to the retired tax judge several months before the judge was murdered (along with his wife and an elderly neighbour.

The man accused of trying to kill a 101-year-old Second World War veteran in Ottawa is now a suspect in an unsolved triple homicide, police sources have confirmed to CTV Ottawa.
Ian Bush, 59, was charged with attempted murder, robbery with violence and forcible confinement after Retired Col. Ernest Cote was tied up and robbed in his apartment last December.
Sources tell CTV Ottawa that investigators have used DNA evidence to link the attack on Cote to the 2007 murders of a retired tax judge, his wife and their neighbour.


Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/suspec...ct-in-triple-homicide-1.2239311#ixzz3Rxx7U7zv

The file on the minor tax squabble should have been closed then but, in July 2001, Bush used his consulting company’s fax machine to send the strange summons, addressed to Garon in his capacity as chief judge. Garon wasn’t the judge who tossed out the case.

The fax summoned Garon to appear at an address in Orléans — Bush’s home — to review the decision to throw out the income-tax appeal.

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/bush-summoned-tax-court-judge-with-bizarre-fax-six-years-before-murders
 
Sounds like there are charges coming in this case....and what a strange one it is.

The apparent suspect was charged with a home invasion, robbing a 101 year old man. Reports also indicate that he sent a fax to the retired tax judge several months before the judge was murdered (along with his wife and an elderly neighbour.





http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/bush-summoned-tax-court-judge-with-bizarre-fax-six-years-before-murders


wow! -- his family's protestations that he was a happy stable man are a bit off then....he's had a short demented fuse for a while it would seem. MOO
 
"Norm Bush said Ian volunteered for years in minor baseball and that Ian was a soccer coach before then.

"Ian has always been a friendly, nice guy and good family member known for his volunteer work. That's the way we know Ian," Norm Bush said'

guess he fooled everyone

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...ry-grateful-ernest-côté-wasn-t-hurt-1.2881323


I wanted to add this to the thread of Ernest Cote the 101 yr old veteran that was attacked in December 2014 at his condo but search doesn't respond to my attempts. Hope mods can link this post. Thank you.
 
Danielle Dufault, a resident of the building, says security there is extremely tight. "It is a gated community," with a security guard at the gate, surveillance cameras, she said, and "you have to use a special key to get in."

Her husband Robert Dufault says "You don't get in there unless you know somebody."


That's from Alta's link - hopefully the surveillance cameras will provide the authorities a suspect. How horrible for these folks! You're supposed to be able to feel safe in your own home.

Sadly, the surveillance camera didn't catch a single photo. They were just live feeds. And there were no cameras by the building's entrance or in the halls anyway. :( It's also sad that it took so long for the fake summons to a 'court' in his home that Bush is alleged to have sent Judge Garon - which Garon asked to be placed in Bush's tax file - to be found.

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ian-bush-linked-to-notorious-2007-ottawa-triple-homicide
 
"Norm Bush said Ian volunteered for years in minor baseball and that Ian was a soccer coach before then.

"Ian has always been a friendly, nice guy and good family member known for his volunteer work. That's the way we know Ian," Norm Bush said'

guess he fooled everyone

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...ry-grateful-ernest-côté-wasn-t-hurt-1.2881323


I wanted to add this to the thread of Ernest Cote the 101 yr old veteran that was attacked in December 2014 at his condo but search doesn't respond to my attempts. Hope mods can link this post. Thank you.

I can't find a thread for Ernest either. Perhaps there isn't one?
 
I can't find a thread for Ernest either. Perhaps there isn't one?


I have asked Mods to check on it because I was pretty sure this had been discussed here at WS -- as it was just prior to Christmas......I have experienced difficulty in past day using search function....it's not pulling up active cases at all...perhaps there has been issue with tags??

the accused was definitely discussed here at WS circa Dec 2014.....
 
Just in case I am ''mis-remembering'' LOL

started a new thread today on this so we can link the two together ((as they are related))

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ed-in-his-home-robbed&p=11496007#post11496007

given that it was so soon after the horrific crime of the murders of the reservist in Ottawa and the soon to be retired solder in Quebec...we may have discussed this in the threads of the Ottawa/PQ cases...MOO
 
Sounds like there are charges coming in this case....and what a strange one it is.

The apparent suspect was charged with a home invasion, robbing a 101 year old man. Reports also indicate that he sent a fax to the retired tax judge several months before the judge was murdered (along with his wife and an elderly neighbour.





http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/bush-summoned-tax-court-judge-with-bizarre-fax-six-years-before-murders

Since it's too late to edit my post, I wanted to correct an error I made....I said that the strange fax was sent to the judge several months before he was murdered, when in fact, it was 6 years before he was murdered. Sorry about that.
 
This case and the connection to the elderly vet is shocking and bizarre!
Wonder if we are going to eventually learn about other crimes potentially connected to the suspect?
 
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/man-charged-with-robbing-veteran-deemed-fit-to-stand-trial/article23113439/

Facing a cloud of suspicion for one of Ottawa’s most-enduring unsolved murders, Ian Bush, 59, has emerged from a psychiatric assessment fit to stand trial in a more recent home invasion.

I'm finding it difficult to believe that those close to the suspect are in complete denial. I can't imagine that they didn't see him exhibit certain behaviours over the years that would signal behavioural problems. Just reading his twitter messages shows a man who seems angry about a lot of things and who had an immense dislike of civil servants and government in general..anyone who might benefit from taxpayer's dollars or who might restrict his freedoms in any way.

Of course this is just my impression from things that the suspect published for all to see.
 
Just came across this article from yesterday, which confirms that behaviour issues were evident to many over the years....

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/02/19/ian-bush-suspect-in-ottawa-triple-murder/

While many acquaintances and friends have described him as intelligent, several also said that those wits came with staunch opinions and a certain type of arrogance. To the B.C. co-worker, he appeared to be a wild card.



“Everyone wondered what he might be capable of but no one said it,” said the former colleague, who asked not to be identified.

Bush was eventually let go after a series of run-ins, including one in which he gave a female staff member a sex toy as a Christmas present.
 
amazing!!!!

funny how many times we hear 'oh he was such a nice guy' .......and then kaboom

this is once scary situation.....thanks for the national post link
 

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