Serial killer's former wife claims she saw nothing of blood money
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Serial killer's former wife claims she saw nothing of blood money
Two decades after husband pleaded guilty to 11 murders, Joan Olson says
$100,000 eaten up by court, legal fees
The Province
The former wife of Canada's most notorious serial killer says she never
received a penny of the $100,000 in so-called blood money.
All money paid to Clifford Olson for leading RCMP to the bodies of his young
victims was challenged by the victims' families in court and legal fees ate
most of it up, Joan Olson said in interviews with the National Post and BCTV
News on Global.
The former wife of Olson granted a lengthy interview to the Post, which will
publish the first of its articles today.
She repeats her assertion that the RCMP shouldn't have agreed to pay Olson
because she believes she could have got Olson to confess.
Olson was sentenced to life imprisonment without eligibility for parole for
25 years after he pleaded guilty in January 1982 to 11 counts of
first-degree murder.
Olson admitted to murdering 10 children and one young woman during a reign
of terror that sent shock waves through the community as Lower Mainland
parents tried to cope with the idea that someone was scooping up teenagers
and children at random and savagely murdering them.
Joan says she's now living a normal life. She and her son Stephen have
different names. "Stephen knows who his father is. You can't hide it from
him, but he wants nothing to do with him," she told BCTV.
In 1986, the Supreme Court of Canada decided that Joan Olson could keep the
$100,000, refusing to consider a claim on the money by the parents of the
slain children, ending a case that had been before the courts for more than
four years.
The divorce of Joan Adell Hale, then 45, and Olson was finalized in March
1985.
Hale had met Olson in February 1980 and married him in May 1981 when the
notorious mass murderer was in the midst of his rampage. Hale had previously
been married for 21 years in an abusive relationship.
Olson remains behind bars.
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Greg Carr
> Why was she found to be wearing my sister's earrings and bracelet, the police found in Joan and Clifford's home tapes of the kids pleading for their life, Joan was never an abused wife in her first marriage, she left a man who loved her and their children, her former husband was absolutely devasted.
