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The man who murdered three women in one day around the Ottawa Valley almost a decade ago — a case that became a flashpoint in the fight against domestic violence in Canada — has died in custody.
Basil Borutski, 66, died at Millhaven Institution on March 28 “of apparent natural causes,” according to a press release from the Correctional Service of Canada.
The women he murdered were:
- Nathalie Warmerdam, nurse, mother of two and former partner of Borutski’s. She was convicted of threatening her family in 2012 and had a video surveillance system, a domestic violence panic button and a shotgun in her bedroom at the time of her murder.
- Anastasia Kuzyk, who worked in real estate and previously tended bar at a popular pub in Wilno, Ont. He had been convicted of assaulting and strangling her in 2013 and 2014.
- Carol Culleton, who had retired just four days before her murder and was disturbed by Borutski’s possessive behavior after she hired him to fix up her cottage.
He was on trial for threatening Warmerdam’s son and their dog when he beat Kuzyk and was on trial for the crimes against Kuzyk when he murdered her, Warmerdam and Culleton on September 22, 2015.
Borutski had been serving an indeterminate sentence that began on December 6, 2017, for two first-degree murders and the second-degree murder of Culleton.
Eighty-six recommendations, many of them sweeping in scope, were made by the jury at the inquest into their murders.
“As in all cases involving the death of an inmate, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) will review the circumstances,” he said in the statement.
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