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  1. A Friend of the Family: The True Story of David Snow, the Cottage Killer. by Alison Shaw. David Snow grew up in Orangeville, Ontario, a rural area north of Toronto, and in the early 1990s – before the suspicions, charges, and convictions – he dealt antiques. Alison Shaw, who moved to Orangeville with her husband Darris to do art, and live ...

  2. May 28, 2021 · The Blackburns owned one of the cottages in the area. On April 7, 1992, Ian and Nancy Blackburn were surprised to find David inside the cottage. David stripped Nancy and beat her before choking her to death. After placing her naked body in the trunk of her car, he forced Ian to drive him to their home in Toronto, Canada, where he was killed and ...

  3. Aug 31, 2006 · As the press release put it, the movie was "inspired by the real-life memoir of Alison Shaw, 'A Friend of the Family: The True Story of David Snow.' " The main truth in the story is that Alison Shaw and her then-husband, Darris, knew David Alexander Snow, to the point where Darris was a business partner in a venture that involved demolishing ...

  4. Jul 6, 2023 · David Snow, later convicted of a double murder and multiple counts of kidnapping and sexual assault, forced Rattray to walk, at gunpoint, across the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge to his camp on the ...

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  5. Jun 14, 2023 · By Karen Martin-Robbins. Over a year before Orangeville's David Snow murdered Ian and Nancy Blackburn, he met them at their Caledon farm to look at the 8-sided barn on the property. - Toronto Star file photo. The shape of the octagonal barn provided additional floor space and lack of corners meant there was nowhere for the devil to hide.

  6. May 11, 2023 · Several months later, Nancy and Ian Blackburn suddenly disappeared from their cottage in Orangeville. They would be found murdered a week later, inside the trunk of Nancy’s car outside of the couple’s Toronto home. Police quickly focused their investigation on David Alexander Snow, an eccentric local who owned an antique shop in Orangeville.

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  8. A Friend of the Family: Directed by Stuart Gillard. With Laura Harris, Eric Johnson, Kim Coates, Sabrina Grdevich. After she narrowly escaped rape by attackers in Toronto, artist Alison Shaw and her devoted hunky husband Darris, a construction worker, move to a rural small town in Ontario and nest a dream home.

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