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Jul 18, 2023 · Christine Demeter, the 33-year-old wife of Hungarian-born real estate developer Peter Demeter, was attacked and bludgeoned to death inside the garage of the couple’s upscale Dundas Cres. home on...
Mar 20, 2019 · At 85, the notorious criminal who hired an assassin to kill his model wife in the garage of their Mississauga mansion back in 1973 had applied for release for the first time in 20 years. But in...
- Bludgeoned to Death
- Prison Visits Led to Night Terrors
- 'You Ooze Evil Out of Every Pore'
- Declared An Unfit Mother
- Rehab and Aa
- Started Business to Help Others
- Nobody Asks About Mother
She was just 3½ years old the day her 33-year-old mother, a fashion model from Austria, was bludgeoned to death in the garage while her little girl watched TV. She has no memory of that day. The night of the murder, she was taken to live with her father's cousin and his wife, the late Marjorie and Steven Demeter, who raised her. For years, she thou...
Her father, who was being held at Warkworth Institution in Campbellford, Ont., told her to stop calling the Demeters mom and dad. Confusing for a nine-year-old. "It was a twisted world I lived in," she told CBC News. Even now, she still has night terrors about the large clanging gates they had to pass through to get in and out of the prison. She ca...
While sentencing him in 1988, Ontario Supreme Court Justice John O'Driscoll told Demeter: "You ooze evil out of every pore and contaminate everyone around you." His daughter would not disagree with that statement. As a father, he did more harm than good, she says. Even though she knew she didn't want to grow up to be like him, she has many regrets ...
Her biggest regret is losing custody of a daughter in 2004 when the girl was four years old. Demeter Scratch was declared an unfit mother after being caught driving drunk with the girl in the car. She says the court did the right thing taking the child away. "I had no right to parent," she said. "I was an addict." But she longs to have contact with...
It was the fear of losing custody of the twins that motivated Demeter Scratch to get healthy. She did two stints in rehab and immersed herself in Alcoholics Anonymous, which she credits with playing a big role in her recovery. Physical fitness was also a large part of her journey to wellness. But it was only when a psychologist diagnosed her as hav...
She now runs a business helping others with PTSD, mostly veterans, coaching them on physical fitness, nutrition and how to access benefits. She also helps clients manoeuvre their way through the federal government's Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations. She is a proponent of cannabidiol oil, or CBD, which is the non-psychoactive comp...
One thing that still makes her sad is nobody ever asks about her mother; they only ask about her locked-up father. She wishes she could remember more about her mom. She does recall that she had coarse hair, likely from dyeing it so much because she was a model. And she remembers she always smelled nice. Asked what she will do when she's notified ab...
Mar 18, 2024 · Gabby Sears, charged with the second-degree murder of Darren Middleton, was in court Monday to straighten out the latest twist in a trial that's seen more than its fair share.
- Kathy Michaels
Feb 4, 2022 · Darren James Gagnon was charged with second-degree murder in the July 2016 death of Phoenix Jones-Pidgeon. The Crown stayed the charge last March after deciding there was no longer a reasonable...
May 10, 2024 · After the death of 33-year-old Austrian-born model Christine Demeter in 1973 in the garage of her family home in Mississauga, Ont., suspicion fell on her husband, Hungarian-born multi-millionaire...
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Apr 18, 2024 · She is currently in custody for charges of second-degree murder and interference with human remains after allegedly bludgeoning and then mutilating the genitals of Darren Middleton. Sears appeared by video from the Okanagan Correctional Centre where she was being held.
