West End Gang assassin - how he was killed

  
     Jackie McLaughlin was a West End Gang assassin and bodyguard to Duney Ryan to whom he once demonstrated his loyalty by coordinating the assassination of four coked-out bikers who had plotted to kidnap Ryan's young son and daughter.
   McLaughlin was brutally murdered by his friend Noel Winters, who then killed McLaughlin's girlfriend Maria Hillebrand and their pitbull and buried their bodies in his backyard. Winters hanged himself in jail days later.
  Hillebrand, a German immigrant, started going out with McLaughlin after meeting him while she worked as a waitress at the Cavalier on St. James Street West.
  Here's the tale: a short but muscular drug dealer named Giggy Dow was making a drug deal with a biker. The drugs were to be resold in New Brunswick. The biker had to fetch his stash.

  
   The biker's girlfriend waited with Giggy Dow and the two smoked up and sniffed cocaine. Dow then beat her and raped her and fled town.
   Jackie McLaughlin went to St. John and stabbed Giggy Dow to death as retribution for the rape and beating of the woman. A woman saw this happen and eventually told her friend about it in the presence of a psychotic murderer named Noel Winters. Winters was friends with Giggy Dow and two had been in the same drug operation.
   Here's what one Montrealer with considerable experience in the underworld tells Coolopolis about Noel Winters:

    Noel Winters who I personally had a beef with, was not an underworld figure rather, he was a paranoid schizophrenic. who became delusional after excessive cocaine use. He even tried to rob me once. He heard voices all the time. Sad case. Grew up in Saint John slums, which is the worse shit-hole in Canada-highest with the rate of birth defects and he couldn't read or write like most Saint John criminals. They all went to the notorious King's Clear Reformatory where the guards would sodomize all the kids under 13.

  McLaughlin had already befriended Winters as he had to hang around St. John to track down Dow and it's a small town. So when McLaughlin faced some heat in Montreal he decided to stay with his girlfriend for a while in St. John. One day an unsuspecting McLaughlin was sitting next to Winters, who simply stuck a knife into his ribs and killed him as revenge for killing Giggy Dow. Winters then went to the cabin and killed McLaughlin's girlfriend. It's a horrifying and brutal story.
   The story is laid out in Brian O'Neill's Bodies in the Backyard, an impressive little book that is so rare that it has some value now. The author himself had a criminal past and later got into trouble for snooping around too closely in the Paul Bernardo murders. Would love to hear from O'Neill wherever he is now.