Basil Borutski, the man who was convicted of murdering three women in one day around the Ottawa Valley nearly a decade ago has died. According to reports, 66-year-old Borutski died at Millhaven Institution on March 28th “of apparent natural causes”. Borutski had been serving an indeterminate sentence that began Dec. 6, 2017, for two first-degree murders and the second-degree murder in the deaths of three women in the Ottawa Valley.
The women he murdered were:
Nathalie Warmerdam, a nurse, mother of two and former partner of Borutski’s. He was convicted of threatening her family in 2012 and she 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 tavern in Wilno, Ont. He had been convicted of assaulting and choking her in 2013 and 2014.
Carol Culleton, who had retired just four days before her murder and who was disturbed by Borutski’s possessive behaviour after she had hired him to fix up her cottage.
Eighty-six recommendations, many of them sweeping in scope, were made by the jury at the inquest into their murders.
(Written by: Kyle Robinson)