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The 19-year-old man accused of murdering lawyer Barbara Schlifer four years ago
The 19-year-old man accused of murdering lawyer Barbara Schlifer four years ago

The 19-year-old man accused of murdering lawyer Barbara Schlifer four years ago

Date7 December 1982
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  • The 19-year-old man accused of murdering lawyer Barbara Schlifer four years ago
  • The 19-year-old man accused of murdering lawyer Barbara Schlifer four years ago told police that it was an army of people led by Sitting Bull who dragged the 33-year-old woman to the basement of her Leuty Ave. apartment; sexually assaulted her; killed her and fled in army trucks back to their base in Streetsville. Metro police Sergeant Wayne Oldham testified yesterday that the accused; Fernand Arthur Robinson; wrote about the killing in 1982; in two exercise scribblers; at the urging of fellow inmates at the Metro West Detention Centre.
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Original Toronto Star caption: The 19-year-old man accused of murdering lawyer Barbara Schlifer four years ago told police that it was an army of people led by Sitting Bull who dragged the 33-year-old woman to the basement of her Leuty Ave. apartment; sexually assaulted her; killed her and fled in army trucks back to their base in Streetsville. Metro police Sergeant Wayne Oldham testified yesterday that the accused; Fernand Arthur Robinson; wrote about the killing in 1982; in two exercise scribblers; at the urging of fellow inmates at the Metro West Detention Centre.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0121746F
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      Murder trial: Fernand Arthur Robinson is accused of killing lawyer Barbara Schlifer
      Murder trial: Fernand Arthur Robinson is accused of killing lawyer Barbara Schlifer
      Toronto Star (Firm)
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