By Reason of Insanity: The David Michael Krueger Story

· Dundurn
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In the summer of 1993, people in Ontario were shocked by one of the most bizarre murders in the province's history. A patient at the Brockville psychiatric hospital was brutally killed in a forest grove on the grounds of the institution. One of the killers, a nearly blind psychiatric patient, walked into a nearby police station and turned himself in. The other murderer lay near the body in a sleeping bag, drugged into unconsciousness.

Police found that the myopic suspect is one of the Canada's most dangerous killers, David Michael Krueger. His accomplice was Bruce Hamill, a murderer who had been freed after years of treatment at Penatanguishene's Oak Ridge Institution for the criminally insane. Brockville hospital authorities had let Hamill escort Krueger on his first day pass in thirty-five years.

How could this killing have happened?

The bizarre story of Krueger's life unfolds in this tightly-written book. It explores how Krueger allowed his strange fantasies to run his own life and how he was able to dupe psychiatrists, lawyers, and fellow inmates of the country's toughest institution into doing his bidding.

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3.7
3 reviews
Liz W
July 12, 2013
I read this book for.the first time in 1981, and to also say I have never had any book grab my mind as this true story did, at the time that I read it, I was so deeply mesmerized by how ones mind can or cannot think. This is a true story (from Ontario, Canada) which scared me even more this book is is a definite mind boggling story, I could not put the book down it grips, scares, and keeps you glued. I will again buy the Book in hardcover next time I go to the book store to add to my Library
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About the author

Mark Bourrie, a Parliamentary Press Gallery journalist specializing in legal issues, has written for Canada's largest newspapers and magazines including: the Toronto Star, the London Free Press, Reader's Digest, and Canadian Lawyer. He is also the author of three books: Chicago of the North, a history of Canadian Pacific passenger ships, Ninety Fathoms Down: Canadian Stories of the Great Lakes, and Canada's Parliament Buildings.

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