Clifford Olson at death’s door, says victim’s family
VANCOUVER – Clifford Olson, the self-described ‘Beast of B.C.’ is dying of cancer, a painful end many Canadians can’t help but rejoice.
“I’ve waited 30 years for this,” said mother Terry Bizeau, whose daughter Terri Lyn Carson, 15,gucci outlet was strangled by the notorious child killer during his reign of terror across southern British Columbia three decades ago. “Once he is dead, justice will be done.”
Other families of the 11 slain children expressed similar sentiments after learning earlier this week from corrections officials that Olson is on his deathbed.
Dee Johnston, whose 13-year-old step-daughter Colleen Daignault was also killed added: “You raise (children) believing that you don’t wish him any harm, you don’t wish him dead, but deep down in our guts we do want him dead.”
Sharon Rosenfeldt, whose 16-year-old son Daryn Johnsrude was Olson’s third victim, said she was told he had been moved to a hospital in Laval, Que. near his prison in Sainte-Anne-Des-Plaines, where he has been serving a life sentence for the child sex murders.
“Once the cancer has metastasized. It could be in the brain, it could be in the bones, it could be in the pancreas – but once it has metastasized that’s the final stages,” Rosenfeldt said Wednesday.
Olson went on trial in 1982 for killing eight girls and three boys between the ages of nine and 18 in B.C.
He’s never expressed regret for the murders and said he actually killed more than 100. He dubbed himself the ‘Beast of B.C.’ and has continued to torment the families of victims, once trying to sell memorabilia of his crimes on a website.
“It has been most confusing to me as to how I’m supposed to feel,” said Rosenfeldt.
British Columbians took to the airwaves Wednesday morning, recalling the terror the child killer inflicted on the southern part of the province.
“The fire still came to my throat after all these years. He’s (going to be) gone and now the universe will make him pay the price,” a caller told CKNW radio station.
Olson’s crimes provoked terror among a community and sparked a national debate about the death penalty.
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