Murder-suicide at its most intriguing in Cowtown

Man kills wife, calls her family and drives himself into a long-haul truck ...

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=4f76dfa2-43fc-4c6d-9c70-07327cd839ba

Moments before Ricky Anguish's car slammed into an oncoming semi Thursday, he made a phone call to his dead wife's family.

"It's Rick. You lose, I win," was his lone sentence for Darcy Rae Elder's brother-in-law, Kevin Halliday.

The words are believed to be Anguish's last, their sting painfully confirming the worst fears of Elder's family.

Two hours later, police arrived at the couple's Bridlewood home to check on her welfare. It was too late. Elder was dead. She had been strangled.

After serving 10 years for killing a man ...


http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2008/04/27/5399491-sun.html

The lives of two men, one making the best of what life offered and the other selfishly, no matter the cost, stealing from others, collided in an Ontario farmer's field.

And that story, begun on a November 1994 day when Berkley Black was gunned down by Ricky Anguish, has seen its final chapter written, said Black's brother after learning his sibling's killer died in an Alberta crash this week.

"I think God brought their two stories together -- that's the way the story is played out," said Keith Black, 72.

Anguish, 44, died Thursday in a head-on collision with a semi near Strathmore in what police suspect to be a suicide.

His wife Darcy Rae Elder, 45, was found strangled in her southwest Calgary home that same day, and Anguish is believed to be her killer.

 

Ironic name... anguish

 

Indeed ... but I'm glad the Sun played it straight, instead of playing off the name. Might have been a tad tasteless.

 

Murdering your wife aside, if you are going to kill your damn self, why involve some innocent trucker. Thank makes him a double asswipe, in my book.

 

Pure class.

 

he was just getting his life together, too.

 

When I saw the thread title, I thought T. Cullen Davis had clawed his way out of his still-living Fort Worth grave.

 

Boy, that's something you never hear just before the leap off the deep end.

 

Since when did any of the Sun papers care about that?

 

On the odd occasion, Calgary does ...


By the way, you knew this was coming, right? It's the system's fault.

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=0f6220f3-05b7-47fe-9065-17ee3024d8a8

A man suspected to have murdered his wife after serving time for manslaughter in the slaying of an Ontario farmer was failed by the system, spending years in and out of prison, says the farmer's brother.