On September 22, 2015, Basil Borutski murdered three women in quick succession. Carol Cullerton was strangled; the other two were shot dead. After the murders, Borutski made no meaningful attempt to escape, which would in any case have been futile, but when questioned initially, told his interrogators that he was the victim.
This is a straightforward documentary made, some might say, in indecent haste. It was first broadcast on the day of his conviction. He was sentenced the following month.
Although the documentary makers have done an excellent job, interviewing the friends and relatives of the victims, they have also pursued an obvious narrative: this wasn't about a man with a long history of violence who lost it one day, rather it was yet another shocking example of violence against women. Sadly, this is rather typical for Canada. Not mentioned here is Borutski's claim that he wanted to commit a fourth murder, this time of a man, and that he would kill any police officer who tried to stop him. That doesn't fit the narrative, but fortunately neither of those things happened.
Borutski's crime spree has become known as the Wilno Murders. Curiously, this is not the first. In 1925, the Wilno School Massacre claimed five victims, including two of the three perpetrators, and ten injured, but that was a politically motivated attack, at Wilno in Poland.