I’d love to know why murdered Lynda Shaw’s file still appears in the Ontario Provincial Police web site in their “Unsolved Cases” page. I suppose it’s simply an oversight, but it does shake my confidence just a little that they aren’t updating this valuable resource—their web site—even after knowing the case was solved…
“How did we become so far left wing?” That was the question being asked by a mother—a citizen, a Canadian—after finally finding out, just two weeks ago, the identity of the monster who killer her daughter Lynda Shaw, some fifteen years earlier. It turns out the killer was a double murderer named Alan Craig MacDonald—and he killed her daughter about a year after he was paroled by our government geniuses and was living in a Brantford halfway house. He had killed a police officer and a cabbie, and had only served twelve years of a life sentence. Typical.
This is just more liberal “compassion” run amok. “Tolerance”. “Understanding”…. of criminals. Leftist ideological compassion for criminals—murders—brutal animals—evil people—INSTEAD of good innocent citizens.
The killer, MacDonald, killed himself in 1994, so the police decided not to reveal his name to anyone including the victim’s mother until just two week ago, for “privacy concerns”. Again: privacy concerns—for the killer. He would get this “privacy”, though he’s dead, for thirty years, she was told.
Lynda Shaw’s mother, Carol Taylor, was rightly incredulous:
“I was told because he was deceased, his name needed to be protected for 30 years. I thought, ‘That’s incredible. How did we become so far left wing?’ I don’t know.”
[…] “I think many Canadians feel the same way. We’re putting our head in the sand. We don’t want to think that this kind of ugliness is out there, but it is,” she said.
“Let’s take a stand and change this thing. We just have to find someone or a group to actively pursue this. The No. 1 thing is if a person has already been convicted of sexual assault, using a gun or that kind of crime, we need to have more time to assess these people and get them help rather than let them back into our community.”
The London Free Press story continued and in doing so served us all a small reminder or lesson, perhaps unwittingly (sometime you have to search for meaning?):
Speaking to the recent spate of gun violence in Toronto, Taylor said she believes young people today turn to crime because they lack loving families, role models and values.
“Many times they lack love and support. Were they born to live their lives that way? No. We are a materialistic society. We think we deserve cars, appliances, that we need these things to live—which we don’t. But the core (values) of having a heart with love and care, that needs to be there.”
Taylor said her traumatic loss has been eased over time with the help of a loving family and the support of her community. Members of her church visited yesterday.
“If this had happened in the first year or two after Lynda was found, I would have been in tears. I would have been completely broken. But time has a way of healing,” said Taylor, adding she has found solace in her faith.
“If you have a belief, a love in your heart—if you have a belief that someone is with you, then you have a strength to go through life,” she said.
Asked where she goes from here, Taylor said simply, “I go just one day at a time.”
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