Raymond Guertin, 26, was the first murder victim of 1972.Kids and neighbours found an olde rolled up carpet behind 6972 Chateaubriand and unrolled it to find this guy's dead body.
They didn't know there was a dead guy in it that had been stabbed 65 times. In fact they were using the carpet as a ball hockey net and a bench on 4 January.
He had a plastic bag over his head tied with an electrical wire. There's a photo of the body - not a very good one - in the Allo Police. The article suggests that the result is typical of gay men and there's no big surprise in this terriblle fate.
The absolute worst is from the cover of 29 August 1971, a 12 year old boy who had blindfolded and hung dead by his crazy mom. I'm sorta tempted to post it to show how media has evolved but it's pretty awful. If you think I should post some of those photos of victims of grisly fates - most of them aren't very sharp - I'd like to hear what you think.
Some of the photos those papers carried are pretty brilliant, however, for example, here's one of a kid crying after his little brother was briefly taken hostage by a crazy drug addict outside a restaurant in the Point. The little boy was clearly shocked for a bit.
Then again I can just post pleasant pictures, such as this one taken at the Olympic Village yesterday.
Pls don't post those photos, this isn't a snuff site.
ReplyDeletePost more chicks on cellphones!
Post them all. they are usually too grainy to be disturbing anyways. Is that a man's head rolling down the street or an infrared weather satellite shot?, I just don't know, but hopefully we will get more posts.
ReplyDeleteWe don't need pictures of girls on cell phones, now that strippers cant smoke inside just walk past a strip club to get your fill.
So you like to look at dead people instead of strippers? Nice.
ReplyDeleteI'll offer a compromise. I'll host them on photobucket and link to them, so you won't see the actual pictures on coolopolis, but you'll be able to click a text link if you're really determined to see 'em. If you don't want to see them, then just don't click. They're pretty hard to make out anyway. (altho once again, the mother who hung her son picture ...think twice before clicking that one.)
ReplyDeleteI think it's important part of Montreal to show what was on the front lines of the newspaper kiosks of that era.
I don't mind grisly crime photos. I remember when they had the photos of the columbine killers in some tabloid...i checked it out while at the checkout line. They blacked out the dead guy's faces. Crime photos don't bother me that much.
ReplyDeleteI can see girls having dumb cell phone conversations on the bus...and the crime photos did run in a newspaper so i guess they're fit for public consumption.