Shooting Gallery: Joe Di Maulo

Ah yes, the Mafia. The original organized crime syndicate that practically invented the sudden hit. This is exactly what happened to high-level Mafia patriarch Joe Di Maulo. Di Maulo was found dead in the driveway of a home in Montreal, apparently after walking out of his home near where an assassin was waiting in the bushes. The hit comes a mere month after the release of a rival Mafia family head, Vito Rizzuto. Could it be there will be more than one hit coming? If so, it'll make for some good news stories all around!

Rot In Hell Wayne Alan Cunningham

This wonderful piece of work, along with surviving co-accused David James Leblanc, was believed responsible for chaining up a sixteen year old boy and sexually assaulting him for a week in Upper Chelsea, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. The boy finally escaped, wearing little more than the shackles they kept him in, and fled to a nearby house for help. What is known is that after being charged, Cunningham and LeBlanc fled to Longlac, Ontario where LeBlanc was arrested and Cunningham was found dead, from presumed complications of untreated diabetes, on 3 October 2012. Cunningham's cousin, Amy Kempton, quoted as saying "It's not the ending we all wanted." probably speaks only for her own family and doesn't realize that the ending most would want here is for both suspects to be dead instead.

Shooting Gallery: Todd Joseph Krantz

Well known to police as a member of the Independant Soldiers gang, Krantz was shot down in the stairwell of his mixed martial arts gym on 20 October 2008. Not surprisingly, his friends and family described him in glowing terms, despite drug and weapon seizures from a house he shared with his eight year old daughter.

Dishonourable Mention: Clifford Robert Olson

Clifford Olson's crimes need no introduction. In addition to a lengthy previous record, he killed 11 children in the span of a year, offered to reveal where their bodies had been disposed of and plead guilty in return for a payout to his wife and young son, and then continued to taunt his victims from prison. He died as he should have, in jail and painfully of cancer, on 30 September 2011.

Dishonourable Mention: Roch Thériault

Thériault, a cult leader who killed his wife and cut off the hand of a follower with a chainsaw, was killed in a prison altercation at Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick, on 26 February 2011.

Dishonourable Mention: Daniel Richard Wolfe

Wolfe, a former gang member, was stabbed to death by fellow inmates at Prince Albert Penitentiary on 4 January 2010.

Shooting Gallery: Gordon Douglas Kendall and Jeffrey Ronald Ivans

Originally posted 29 September 2009

For all the bad press travel to Mexico has gotten lately, with many unsolved tourist killings over the past few years, sometime it's comforting to know that the criminal element there hates competition as much as it does in Canada. Kendall and Ivans, two individuals from British Columbia who RCMP had been well aware of, were gunned down in Mexico, presumably as part of gang warfare or the like. After both were shot in front of the apartment building they were staying at, the two, who were armed, were then shot repeatedly at close range by up to three gunmen just to make sure they had learned their lesson about the dangers of gang affiliation (especially the wrong one). Luckily for them, it was probably a much quicker and less painful death than by being hooked on whatever these two were peddling back home. Thankfully in Mexico, as in Canada, sometimes the right people are targeted, rather than the innocent.