Christine Demeter

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Christine Demeter (born 1940) was murdered on July 18, 1973, in the garage of her home in Mississauga, Ontario at the age of thirty-three. The case attracted much attention in Canada because Demeter, a model, was young and beautiful, and her murder had been mysterious.

Her husband, Peter Demeter, was subsequently convicted of hiring a killer to murder her to cash in on a million-dollar insurance policy. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. As of May 31 2010, Peter Demeter (now 77 years old) is still in prison in Ontario, (Canada).

George Jonas and his wife Barbara Amiel, published a book about the case, By Persons Unknown: The Strange Death of Christine Demeter (1976).

The Demeter case served as the basis for the fictional 1978 film I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses, directed by Murray Markowitz. The figure of Christine is renamed Magdalene Kruschen; she is played by German actress Elke Sommer.

References

"Wife-killer loses DNA legal battle", The Whig-Standard, 30 May 2006.

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Name	Demeter, Christine
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Short description	Canadian model
Date of birth	1940
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Date of death	1973
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