March 5, 1939 - Peter Woodcock
His case spans more than three decades of institutional confinement, bookended by crimes that define his place in Canadian criminal history. Woodcock killed three children in Toronto during the late 1950s, was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and spent the following decades in psychiatric custody — until, on the first day he was permitted unsupervised release in 1991, he committed another murder. The trajectory of his case raised lasting questions about psychiatric evaluation, public safety, and the limits of institutional oversight.
From Wikipedia
David Michael Krueger (March 5, 1939 – March 5, 2010), best known by his birth name Peter Woodcock, was a Canadian serial killer, child rapist and diagnosed psychopath. He gained notoriety for the murders of three young children in Toronto in the late 1950s, as well as for a murder in 1991 on his first day of unsupervised release from the psychiatric institution in which he had been incarcerated for his earlier crimes.
An adopted child, Krueger lived in numerous foster homes as an infant and showed signs of severe emotional trauma when he found a permanent foster home at the age of 3. Unable to adjust to social situations, he was bullied by his peers. Krueger would often wander from his home by foot, bicycle or train to parts of Toronto, where he would molest dozens of children and ultimately murder three. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, he was sent to a psychiatric facility.
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