Nancy Eaton
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Nancy Alice Edward Eaton (died January 21, 1985) was the only daughter of Edward Eaton and Nancy Leigh Gossage Eaton of Toronto. She was a department store heiress who was murdered in 1985.
Nancy was the great-great-granddaughter of Timothy Eaton, founder of Eaton's department stores.
Timothy's eldest son Edward Young Eaton was groomed to become president of Eaton's, but he died before he could take on this role. Edward had a daughter named Alice, who married Edward Browse. After giving birth to a boy named Edward, Alice divorced her husband and reverted her own and her child's name back to Eaton. Alice's son, Edward Eaton, married Nancy Leigh Gossage of Toronto.
Nancy Gossage was descended from a long line of Toronto Establishmentarians.
Nancy and Edward had a daughter whom they named Nancy Alice Edward Eaton.
[edit] Murder
She was stabbed twenty-one times and then raped, at the age of 23, in her apartment in Toronto, on January 21, 1985. An acquaintance of Nancy's, Andrew Leyshon-Hughes, who was himself a member of the Osler family, admitted to murdering Nancy Eaton, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
A movie, starring Jessica Pare, was made of her life, called The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton (2003).
A book, by William Scoular, A Question Of Guilt
