Dale Nelson

Dale's first stop was at Shirley Wasyk's house. Dale was a distant relative of Shirley but he wasn't paying a nice family visit. He crushed he skull with the butt of his 7mm. rifle. He then went into one of her children bedrooms where he forced her eight-year-old daughter, Sharlene, to give him a blow job. Luckily for her Nelson enjoyed it and he let her live, the same can't be said for her sister, Tracey, seven, who was sliced from her head to her cunt. She was also cut from ear-to-ear, through the mouth. Dale Nelson then proceeded to eat undigested cereal from her stomach. For some reason he left the eldest daughter, Debbie, 12, completely alone, just pushing her out of his way as he destroyed her family.

This is where the story gets really interesting.

Young Debbie ran to the next house and told the occupant, Maureen McCay (her cousin) what was happening next door. The Mounties were called in at 12.30 am. When they arrived at the house they went in to find Shirley and Tracey Wasyk dead. Next to the younger victim there was a bloody carving knife. The Mounties then went across the road to warn others about Nelson. Upon there return they found a trail of blood leading from the house to their car, the front seat and steering wheel were smeared with it. Nelson had actually been standing in the front yard watching them the whole time, for some reason not shooting them while they investigated the house.

While the police were over the road Nelson re-entered the house and took the body of young Tracey, placing her in his car and driving away with her.

For some reason Nelson the drove to a house occupied by a family Nelson didn't know. That didn't seem to bother him as Nelson shot the entire family dead. Ray Phipps, his wife, Isabelle and three of their four children were killed in a few minutes.

Nelson had killed Ray Phipps as he opened the door, and he had then shot his wife as she tried to run. The worst of the murderers was that of the Phipp's eighteen-month-old son, Roy, who had his head blown completely off by Nelson as he had turned to face the killer. Next he killed ten-year-old Paul, then Brian, seven. All died from head-shots. Upon talking to neighbors Police realized that Nelson had taken the Phipps's eight-year-old daughter, Cathy with him.

The next day police found Nelson's car. In it he'd left a hammer which had human hair stuck to it. It didn't look good for Cathy. Within 40 meters of the car searchers found a human arm, then a head, then a leg, then eventually the torso, with the remaining arm and leg still attached. It was Tracy Wasyk. About 200 meters down the road police found a rope tied to a tree, little Cathy had been tied up all night it seemed.

Later in the day they found Nelson asleep, I suppose exhausted after a hard night, and he was arrested. He then showed the cops where the final body was. When found, young Cathy had been stabbed in the back, then gutted. Next to her was a bloody wine bottle. I wonder what Dale had gotten up to the night before?

Dale Nelson was found guilty of all 8 murders and was sentenced to life on 1 April 1971.