Yes indeed it’s very different between the two countries and thank goodness Bundy didn’t commit murders in Canada. In 1989 the maximum jail term he’d face here would’ve been 25 years considering all sentencing ran concurrently at that time. He’d have been released from prison by now.
What?!?! How is that even possible?! That's absolutely terrifying.
I saw a lot of comments on this case saying "Kam and Bryer should have just turned themselves in, they'd be out in 25 years anyway." But I thought those people were just being facetious...apparently not.
Well either way, my criticism of the way the Canadian police run things stands. Maybe that is their protocol but I don't agree with their protocol. On this and, apparently, many other things.
I considered trying to move to Canada back in 2016...good thing I didn't....
Sitting exposed beside a river in that area at that time of year... They must have been sick from bugs eating them alive, or drinking parasite contaminated water if they didn't have any clean water..
I've seen a lot of posts on here about them (K and B) not being able to get back up the steep bank and being apparently trapped there. I haven't seen that in any news articles yet, it's easy to miss things when there's so much info though lol. Anyone have a link to where it says that?
If they really were stuck there and ultimately decided to end it there, I think they were probably in bad shape and had to give up. Probably weak, exhausted, starving, dehydrated, sick, delirious.. All things that would make getting back up a steep slippery slope especially difficult or impossible.
Could be. That would explain their delusional statements made on the videos, at least.
I was in the Walmart camping section a few weeks ago though, and I did of course, note that they sell water purification tablets and devices there. If these guys had any semblance of "survivalist training" they could have easily gotten those. But who knows if it was even that planned.
It depends whether or not the victims are intentionally chosen and it can be proven their murder was preplanned. Picton is an example of how it was proven he selected his victims and brought them to his pig farm.
But I’ve noticed nothing to suggest B&K fit the classic definition of serial killers. Regardless, as they are dead so they will never be tried.
JMO -- they were spree killers, not serial killers. This is all based on reading I've done on the topic:
Serial killers live an otherwise normal life and intermittently kill over the course of years or even decades. There is a cooling-off period between the murders. They usually take more steps to plan, and to avoid getting caught, like dumping the victims' bodies in a remote location far from where they were abducted. They have a self-preservation instinct, ie. they don't want to die or be captured.
For spree killers, it's generally a suicide mission from the outset, ie. an "extinction burst." They have lost their self-preservation instinct and know it will end in death or capture. They generally don't make much of an attempt to avoid getting caught -- in fact, quite the opposite usually. They're trying to make a statement, like a middle finger to the world or whoever they felt "wronged" them.
Their motive is generally rage. If the spree is targeting people they know, it's rage against those specific people. If the spree is targeting random people, it's rage against the world or society. There is also little to no cooling-off period between the murders -- which we now know there wasn't for Kam and Bryer, given their attempted murder on the 17th.
That's why I say this was a "Columbine thing." One was a mass shooting/failed bombing and the other was a series of random murders, but I think the motives were very similar.
EDIT: The main thing in this case that's atypical of spree killers is that they stopped. Usually spree killers continue killing until they die or are captured. I think that's why a lot of people thought they would have remorse for what they did, because they didn't continue doing it.
