Michael Wayne McGray

Michael Wayne McGray (born July 11, 1965) is a Canadian serial killer. He was convicted for killing 7 individuals but claims to have killed 11 others.

Early life

McGray was born in Collingwood, Ontario, but was raised in Argyle, Nova Scotia.^[1]

Crimes

In 1985, he murdered Elizabeth Gale Tucker in Digby County, Nova Scotia. In 1987, he killed Mark Gibbons, an alleged accomplice in a robbery in NB. On February 29, 1998, McGray was arrested for the murder of Joan Hicks and her 11-year old daughter Nina, which occurred the day before.^[2] He then confessed to other murders, stabbing Robert Assaly and Gaetan Ethier in Montreal in 1991 (while on a three-day pass from prison).

McGray claims to have killed 11 other victims in Halifax, Saint John, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and Seattle. He claims he will provide information to the authorities on these killings in exchange for specific demands being met.^[3]

McGray blamed his urge to kill on beatings he received as a child, and warned he would kill again if he didn't received proper treatments.^[4]

In November 2010, following a transfer to a medium security institution, McGray killed again by murdering his cellmate Jeremy Phillips, 33. McGray claimed that Phillips invented a false hostage taking scenario where McGray would tie him up, and Philips would then be brought to an infirmary. McGray complied with the plan, but then strangled Philips, killing him. Lawyers of the victim's family doubted the claims, as Phillips was going to be released on parole soon. A resulting coroner's inquest recommended that serial killers be housed in single cells.^[5]

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