Peter Woodcock

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Peter Woodcock (b. March 5, 1939) is a Canadian serial killer and child rapist who murdered three young children in Toronto, Canada in 1956 and 1957 when he was still a teenager. Woodcock was apprehended in 1957, declared legally insane and placed into an Ontario psychiatric facility under the name David Michael Krueger. Woodcock also murdered a fellow psychiatric patient 34 years later, during the first hour of his very first hospital day pass. Woodcock was subsequently returned to the same mental institution.

[edit] Victims

  • Wayne Mallette - seven-year-old boy lured into the deserted Toronto Exhibition grounds on September 15, 1956.
  • Garry Morris - nine-year-old boy murdered in October of 1956. Originally, another teen was charged with the child's murder.
  • Carole Voyce - four-year-old girl murdered by Woodcock on January 19, 1957 and dumped in a ravine.
  • Dennis Kerr - psychiatric inmate murdered on July 31, 1991 with a hatchet by Peter Woodcock with the help of another inmate, Bruce Hamill.

[edit] References

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters by Peter Vronsky, The Berkley Publishing Group, Penguin Group, 2004 ISBN 0-425-19640-2

By Reason of Insanity: The David Michael Krueger Story by Mark Bourrie, Toronto:Hounslow (Dundurn), 1997.

[edit] External links

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