British Columbia Murders
Mysteries, Crimes and Scandals
AUTHOR: Susan McNicoll
FORMAT: 5.5 x 8.5 pb / 144 pages
ISBN-10:1-55153-963-2
ISBN-13: 9781551539638
Lock your doors and draw your curtains… Six of British Columbia’s most notorious murders are recounted in these gripping stories of betrayal and intrigue. From the tragic murder of Molly Justice to the unsolved mystery of Janet Smith’s untimely death, these stories will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Prologue
Wong Foon Sing had been kidnapped and beaten for 14
days by some of the people paid to uphold the law, not
break it. After putting a chain around his body and tying
it to his feet, they slapped him, punched him and
rammed his head into the wall. Blood flowed from his
nose and ear. His captives washed the blood off and the
next day started the assault again.
The constant buzz inside his head would not go
away. They thought he’d been lying and wanted the truth.
He told them the same facts he had been stating all along
about the murder of nursemaid Janet Smith. The truth
made them angry. Now, it appeared, his suffering was
going to come to a tragic end.
The men showed him a picture of his wife and told
Wong he would never see her again. He was unchained
and taken upstairs to an unfinished room with exposed
wooden beams. There was a rough scaffold with a chair
on it and Wong saw a rope hanging over one of the
beams. It had a noose at one end. “They put me on chair and fix rope on my head,” Wong later testified. “Man says, ‘You tell everything or we
kill you. You tell or you be dead.’ I say I no can tell anymore.
I no know nothing more about poor nursie. Man
say again they hang me.”
One of his captors pulled the chair out from under
him. Wong Foon Sing lost consciousness.
About the Author
Susan McNicoll lives in Port Coquitlam, BC, where she divides her time between writing and running her own bookkeeping business. Although she is now a die-hard British Columbian, her heart still belongs to the Toronto Blue Jays.
Susan's lifelong love of words and history has been the main focus of her writing career, which began with five years as a reporter for the Ottawa Journal. With this Amazing Stories title she has been able to indulge her interests in the use of forensic science and the criminal mind.
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