Vancouver Island teens admit to 'horrendous' planned sex slaying
The two teens knew Proctor and planned her death and disposal of her body
By Louise Dickson, Postmedia News October 28, 2010 1:49 PM
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VICTORIA — Two teenagers pleaded guilty Wednesday to the first-degree murder of 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor, whose burned body was found under a bridge on the Galloping Goose trail in March, admitting in chilling detail to planning and executing her rape and murder.
Under tight security, a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old — who was 17 at the time of Proctor’s killing — were led into a packed B.C. Supreme Court room and placed in separate booths. Both stood, lawyers by their side, and pleaded guilty to the crime that RCMP investigators had described as “horrendous” and “disturbing.”
The plea by the 16-year-old, a skinny teen who appeared nervous and subdued, was inaudible. His defence lawyer, Robert Jones, had to repeat it.
The teens also pleaded guilty to indignity to human remains. It is expected that charges of sexual assault and forcible confinement will be stayed by the Crown at their next appearance.
Neither of the boys can be named; their identities are shielded under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Neither teen looked at the other during the 40-minute proceeding. Their families did not appear to be in the packed courtroom, nor did their usual group of friends.
Sheriffs had blocked off the front row of the courtroom for security reasons. The second row was filled with grim-faced investigators and members of Proctor’s family, including her mother Lucia, father Fred, her aunt Jo-Anne Landolt and both sets of her grandparents.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Robert Johnston accepted the guilty pleas and ordered the teens detained in custody. Johnston issued a no-contact order, prohibiting the teens from contacting three people who could be called as witnesses at future hearings.
Johnston also ordered pre-sentence and psychiatric reports before sentencing. These will take about eight weeks to prepare and will be heard in court when a two-week sentencing hearing begins March 28. At previous court appearances, Crown prosecutor Peter Juk filed notice to have the 16-year-old and 18-year-old sentenced as adults, which would mean a stiffer penalty.
As part of the proceedings Wednesday, Juk read a five-page statement of agreed-upon facts into the court record, signed by both Crown and defence lawyers, that set out the gruesome facts of what happened to Proctor on March 18.
As Juk read the details, Fred Proctor began to cry, wiping tears from his eyes. Sitting pressed beside him, his wife bowed her head and held tightly to his hand.
The grim statement makes clear that the teenage boys planned Proctor’s death well in advance.
Through text messages and online chats, they created code words to initiate the attack, outlined how they would tie her up and assault her, discussed what types of fuel to use to burn her body, and drew up a map of possible places to dispose of her body.
After they raped and asphyxiated Proctor, and then mutilated and burned her body, the 16-year-old met up with his girlfriend and the 18-year-old went shopping and had brunch with his mother.
The statement was short on details for a motive. Proctor had flirted with both boys in the fall of 2009 before declining their advances, and they killed her four months later.
According to online chats with a female friend outlined in the statement, the 16-year-old offered two reasons for the murder. First, Proctor was “an easy target.” Second, “he had dreamed about killing someone ever since he was young,” although he admitted to the friend that “it didn’t feel like what he thought it would.”
Proctor, a Grade 12 student, was reported missing after she didn’t show up at a babysitting job the afternoon of March 18. She had last been seen at 10:30 a.m. at the bus exchange in Colwood, talking to the two boys who would later kill her.
When Proctor could not be reached on her cellphone and did not return home, friends and family members began a desperate search, putting up posters and handing out photos of her wearing a distinctive black sweatshirt with a large No. 13 decal on the front.
On the evening of March 19, a body was found beneath a bridge over Millstream Creek. The body had been burned beyond recognition, and it would take a few days to positively identify Proctor through dental records.
According to the agreed statement of facts, Proctor knew her killers through school. In the summer and fall of 2009, Proctor had dated one of the 16-year-old’s best friends. During that time, the 16-year-old talked to Proctor online through MSN chat and text messages. At times, their correspondence was “quite personal and intimate.” When Proctor broke off with her boyfriend, the 16-year-old asked her to go out with him. At first she accepted but, shortly after, she called it off.
From May to November, the 18-year-old was also chatting with Proctor on MSN. The chats were, at times, “quite flirtatious and suggestive,” according to the statement. Although she participated in the chats, Proctor declined his advances.
On March 16, two days before Proctor went missing, the 16-year-old sent a text message to a female friend, asking: “What would your opinion be on me if I killed, raped or brutalized someone?”
The next night, the 16-year-old sent Proctor a message, telling her he wanted to meet her in person the next day and explain why he, the 18-year-old and “everyone” had been mean to her lately.
They agreed to meet at 10 a.m. the next day. They exchanged phone numbers. Then Proctor and the 16-year-old had a long phone conversation that ended in the early morning of March 18. Without her knowledge, the 16-year-old had allowed the 18-year-old to listen in on the conversation. The two teens were communicating online.
“In their exchange of computer messages, they discussed their plan to lure her to the 16-year-old’s house, to seduce her, bind her, sexually assault her, murder her, then burn and dispose of her body. It was a plan they had discussed before,” according to the agreed statement of fact.
“Their plan, as detailed in their text messages, included specifically planning when and where to meet, how to get money and buy a specific brand of fuel with which to burn the body, how to get back to the 16-year-old’s house, whether to take the bus or walk, what buses to take, and what they would say and do to carry out their attack, including the use of code words to initiate the attack. Their text messages included graphic descriptions of how they would bind and sexually assault Kimberly Proctor over an extended period of time, and a discussion of various possible sites at which to dispose of her body, including making reference to a detailed annotated map they created for this purpose.”
On the morning of March 18, they met Proctor at the bus exchange. The 18-year-old went to a store to buy fuel, then the three went back to the 16-year-old’s house, arriving just after 11 a.m.
The boys bound and gagged Proctor, and over several hours repeatedly assaulted her both sexually and physically.
“She was choked and suffocated and eventually died. A knife was used to mutilate her body,” said the statement.
After the youths killed her, they placed her body in a freezer in the garage of the 16-year-old’s house.
At 6:24 p.m., the 16-year-old sent three text messages to Proctor’s phone: “Hey”/ “I thought you had babysitting”/ “Did you finish early.” Proctor would have been at his home at the time, although it’s not clear if she was alive or dead at the time it was sent.
Later that night, the 18-year-old sent text messages to another female high school student with whom he’d had a sexual relationship, trying to convince her to sneak out of her house and join him at the 16-year-old’s house. These messages were sent while Proctor’s body was at the house.
The next morning, the boys put Proctor’s body and the fuel from the house into a large duffel bag, boarded a bus and went to the bridge beneath the Galloping Goose Trail where her body was doused with fuel and set on fire. Investigators would later recover fabric, zippers, and grommets consistent with a duffel bag at the scene.
Later that morning, the 18-year-old’s mother bought him a video game and took him for brunch. The 16-year-old spent the day with his girlfriend at his house.
A week later, the 16-year-old sent a text message to a female friend — the same one he’d texted two days before Proctor went missing — asking her to meet him online on World of Warcraft, an Internet game, to chat because he needed “to tell her something he could not tell her over the MSN chat lines.”
In their online discussion, the 16-year-old told the girl that he had killed “Kim.” The girl knew he was talking about Proctor because he also sent her links to news articles about her death and said that was her.
The 16-year-old told the girl, in disturbing detail, what he and the 18-year-old had done to Proctor: raping her, strangling her and mutilating her body.
The girl asked if he “pre-planned it.” The 16-year-old said “yes.” The 16-year-old went on to say “he had dreamed about killing someone ever since he was young and it didn’t feel like he thought it would,” according to the statement of facts. He told the girl he thought he would get away with it and he didn’t feel bad.
The 18-year-old also sent messages to the same girl about the killing. He told the friend he was “aware” they were going to target Proctor. The 16-year-old had approached him and asked him if he wanted to do it.
“When she asked him if he felt bad about it, he said he felt bad he was going to get caught, but said he did not feel bad for Proctor’s family or friends.”
The youths will undergo psychiatric assessments before sentencing.
ldickson@timescolonist.com
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VICTORIA — Two teenagers pleaded guilty Wednesday to the first-degree murder of 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor, whose burned body was found under a bridge on the Galloping Goose trail in March, admitting in chilling detail to planning and executing her rape and murder.
Under tight security, a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old — who was 17 at the time of Proctor’s killing — were led into a packed B.C. Supreme Court room and placed in separate booths. Both stood, lawyers by their side, and pleaded guilty to the crime that RCMP investigators had described as “horrendous” and “disturbing.”
The plea by the 16-year-old, a skinny teen who appeared nervous and subdued, was inaudible. His defence lawyer, Robert Jones, had to repeat it.
The teens also pleaded guilty to indignity to human remains. It is expected that charges of sexual assault and forcible confinement will be stayed by the Crown at their next appearance.
Neither of the boys can be named; their identities are shielded under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Neither teen looked at the other during the 40-minute proceeding. Their families did not appear to be in the packed courtroom, nor did their usual group of friends.
Sheriffs had blocked off the front row of the courtroom for security reasons. The second row was filled with grim-faced investigators and members of Proctor’s family, including her mother Lucia, father Fred, her aunt Jo-Anne Landolt and both sets of her grandparents.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Robert Johnston accepted the guilty pleas and ordered the teens detained in custody. Johnston issued a no-contact order, prohibiting the teens from contacting three people who could be called as witnesses at future hearings.
Johnston also ordered pre-sentence and psychiatric reports before sentencing. These will take about eight weeks to prepare and will be heard in court when a two-week sentencing hearing begins March 28. At previous court appearances, Crown prosecutor Peter Juk filed notice to have the 16-year-old and 18-year-old sentenced as adults, which would mean a stiffer penalty.
As part of the proceedings Wednesday, Juk read a five-page statement of agreed-upon facts into the court record, signed by both Crown and defence lawyers, that set out the gruesome facts of what happened to Proctor on March 18.
As Juk read the details, Fred Proctor began to cry, wiping tears from his eyes. Sitting pressed beside him, his wife bowed her head and held tightly to his hand.
The grim statement makes clear that the teenage boys planned Proctor’s death well in advance.
Through text messages and online chats, they created code words to initiate the attack, outlined how they would tie her up and assault her, discussed what types of fuel to use to burn her body, and drew up a map of possible places to dispose of her body.
After they raped and asphyxiated Proctor, and then mutilated and burned her body, the 16-year-old met up with his girlfriend and the 18-year-old went shopping and had brunch with his mother.
The statement was short on details for a motive. Proctor had flirted with both boys in the fall of 2009 before declining their advances, and they killed her four months later.
According to online chats with a female friend outlined in the statement, the 16-year-old offered two reasons for the murder. First, Proctor was “an easy target.” Second, “he had dreamed about killing someone ever since he was young,” although he admitted to the friend that “it didn’t feel like what he thought it would.”
Proctor, a Grade 12 student, was reported missing after she didn’t show up at a babysitting job the afternoon of March 18. She had last been seen at 10:30 a.m. at the bus exchange in Colwood, talking to the two boys who would later kill her.
When Proctor could not be reached on her cellphone and did not return home, friends and family members began a desperate search, putting up posters and handing out photos of her wearing a distinctive black sweatshirt with a large No. 13 decal on the front.
On the evening of March 19, a body was found beneath a bridge over Millstream Creek. The body had been burned beyond recognition, and it would take a few days to positively identify Proctor through dental records.
According to the agreed statement of facts, Proctor knew her killers through school. In the summer and fall of 2009, Proctor had dated one of the 16-year-old’s best friends. During that time, the 16-year-old talked to Proctor online through MSN chat and text messages. At times, their correspondence was “quite personal and intimate.” When Proctor broke off with her boyfriend, the 16-year-old asked her to go out with him. At first she accepted but, shortly after, she called it off.
From May to November, the 18-year-old was also chatting with Proctor on MSN. The chats were, at times, “quite flirtatious and suggestive,” according to the statement. Although she participated in the chats, Proctor declined his advances.
On March 16, two days before Proctor went missing, the 16-year-old sent a text message to a female friend, asking: “What would your opinion be on me if I killed, raped or brutalized someone?”
The next night, the 16-year-old sent Proctor a message, telling her he wanted to meet her in person the next day and explain why he, the 18-year-old and “everyone” had been mean to her lately.
They agreed to meet at 10 a.m. the next day. They exchanged phone numbers. Then Proctor and the 16-year-old had a long phone conversation that ended in the early morning of March 18. Without her knowledge, the 16-year-old had allowed the 18-year-old to listen in on the conversation. The two teens were communicating online.
“In their exchange of computer messages, they discussed their plan to lure her to the 16-year-old’s house, to seduce her, bind her, sexually assault her, murder her, then burn and dispose of her body. It was a plan they had discussed before,” according to the agreed statement of fact.
“Their plan, as detailed in their text messages, included specifically planning when and where to meet, how to get money and buy a specific brand of fuel with which to burn the body, how to get back to the 16-year-old’s house, whether to take the bus or walk, what buses to take, and what they would say and do to carry out their attack, including the use of code words to initiate the attack. Their text messages included graphic descriptions of how they would bind and sexually assault Kimberly Proctor over an extended period of time, and a discussion of various possible sites at which to dispose of her body, including making reference to a detailed annotated map they created for this purpose.”
On the morning of March 18, they met Proctor at the bus exchange. The 18-year-old went to a store to buy fuel, then the three went back to the 16-year-old’s house, arriving just after 11 a.m.
The boys bound and gagged Proctor, and over several hours repeatedly assaulted her both sexually and physically.
“She was choked and suffocated and eventually died. A knife was used to mutilate her body,” said the statement.
After the youths killed her, they placed her body in a freezer in the garage of the 16-year-old’s house.
At 6:24 p.m., the 16-year-old sent three text messages to Proctor’s phone: “Hey”/ “I thought you had babysitting”/ “Did you finish early.” Proctor would have been at his home at the time, although it’s not clear if she was alive or dead at the time it was sent.
Later that night, the 18-year-old sent text messages to another female high school student with whom he’d had a sexual relationship, trying to convince her to sneak out of her house and join him at the 16-year-old’s house. These messages were sent while Proctor’s body was at the house.
The next morning, the boys put Proctor’s body and the fuel from the house into a large duffel bag, boarded a bus and went to the bridge beneath the Galloping Goose Trail where her body was doused with fuel and set on fire. Investigators would later recover fabric, zippers, and grommets consistent with a duffel bag at the scene.
Later that morning, the 18-year-old’s mother bought him a video game and took him for brunch. The 16-year-old spent the day with his girlfriend at his house.
A week later, the 16-year-old sent a text message to a female friend — the same one he’d texted two days before Proctor went missing — asking her to meet him online on World of Warcraft, an Internet game, to chat because he needed “to tell her something he could not tell her over the MSN chat lines.”
In their online discussion, the 16-year-old told the girl that he had killed “Kim.” The girl knew he was talking about Proctor because he also sent her links to news articles about her death and said that was her.
The 16-year-old told the girl, in disturbing detail, what he and the 18-year-old had done to Proctor: raping her, strangling her and mutilating her body.
The girl asked if he “pre-planned it.” The 16-year-old said “yes.” The 16-year-old went on to say “he had dreamed about killing someone ever since he was young and it didn’t feel like he thought it would,” according to the statement of facts. He told the girl he thought he would get away with it and he didn’t feel bad.
The 18-year-old also sent messages to the same girl about the killing. He told the friend he was “aware” they were going to target Proctor. The 16-year-old had approached him and asked him if he wanted to do it.
“When she asked him if he felt bad about it, he said he felt bad he was going to get caught, but said he did not feel bad for Proctor’s family or friends.”
The youths will undergo psychiatric assessments before sentencing.
ldickson@timescolonist.com
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Vancouver+Island+teens+admit+horrendous+planned+slaying/3736346/story.html#ixzz13hHHT6ue
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VICTORIA — Her favourite nickname was Kimmie. She loved music, chatting on her computer, sewing clothes, watching Japanese cartoons and playing with her many pets. And she talked a lot.
“Our home is quiet now,” Fred and Lucia Proctor said in a video statement to police in June following the brutal killing of their 18-year-old daughter in March.
Kimberly Patricia Proctor was a Grade 12 student at Pacific Secondary School in the Victoria suburb of Colwood when she was murdered. The horrendous details of her death, however, shed little light on who she was in life.
By most accounts, Proctor had a fairly ordinary childhood. She loved her floppy-eared bunny, Sunny, her dog, Miko, and all cats. As a child, she also owned hamsters and mice.
She had tickle fights with the children she babysat, played games on Facebook and chatted to her friends on the Internet. She loved the music of Canadian singer Avril Lavigne.
Among her friends, Proctor was seen as the peacemaker and problem-solver. However, on the Internet she complained of being bullied and having problems with boyfriends.
“She was a great kid with a big heart who was gentle — gentle to a fault,” Fred Proctor said in his statement to police in June.
She was deprived of the chance to graduate, grow into a woman, get married, have children and maybe one day look back and laugh over the ups and downs of her teenage years, said her family.
“This has left a huge void in our lives. We don’t know what she could have become, or would have been, or what future we would have had with her,” said Fred Proctor.
At the time of her death, Proctor’s mother was a personnel manager at Walmart and her father was the president of Wilson and Proctor Ltd., which repairs and rebuilds industrial, logging and marine diesel engines. Her 20-year-old brother Rob, attended a Victoria college and worked at Walmart.
Proctor was looking forward to graduating, sewing her prom dress with her grandmother, and “growing up so to speak,” said her father.
Her best friend, Melissa Hadju, imagined Proctor might try modelling or sewing clothes in the future.
“She was rambunctious and talkative, and she liked to have a good time,” the 19-year-old said Wednesday. “She had a great sense of humour — really silly.”
Best friends since Grade 7, Hadju and Proctor watched videos on YouTube and laughed — “rolling over” at times, Hadju said.
At Proctor’s 16th birthday party, the girls stayed up until sunrise, dancing, watching movies and eating popcorn.
The best kind of day for the pair would be finishing school on a Friday and going on a shopping spree, telling each other jokes and “just hanging out,” Hadju said. No outing was complete without iced cappuccinos from Tim Hortons.
If Proctor was shy, it was only in front of boys, Hadju said.
“She was very social and cared deeply for her friends and family,” reads Proctor’s obituary. “Kim was always willing to help people in need.”
To reflect her love of animals, donations upon her death were sent to Wild Arc, which offers rehabilitation services to wild animals on Vancouver Island.
If anything upset or scared Proctor, it was cruelty to animals, Hadju said.
Hadju thinks of her best friend every day. But rather than it being a burden of sorrow, she sees it as a way to pay tribute.
“I don’t let her disappear. I keep her always in the back of my mind,” Hadju said. “I wish everyone knew how much we cherished her and miss her so much. Basically, she was loved and still is loved by so many people.”
Proctor is survived by her parents, brother, her paternal and maternal grandparents and a host of relatives.
In a video statement to police, Lucia Proctor said only one thing: “All we can hope for now is justice to be done for Kimberly.”
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Gentle+fault+family+friends+remember+slain+teen+Kimberly+Proctor/3737220/story.html#ixzz13hRSiFMk
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“Our home is quiet now,” Fred and Lucia Proctor said in a video statement to police in June following the brutal killing of their 18-year-old daughter in March.
Kimberly Patricia Proctor was a Grade 12 student at Pacific Secondary School in the Victoria suburb of Colwood when she was murdered. The horrendous details of her death, however, shed little light on who she was in life.
By most accounts, Proctor had a fairly ordinary childhood. She loved her floppy-eared bunny, Sunny, her dog, Miko, and all cats. As a child, she also owned hamsters and mice.
She had tickle fights with the children she babysat, played games on Facebook and chatted to her friends on the Internet. She loved the music of Canadian singer Avril Lavigne.
Among her friends, Proctor was seen as the peacemaker and problem-solver. However, on the Internet she complained of being bullied and having problems with boyfriends.
“She was a great kid with a big heart who was gentle — gentle to a fault,” Fred Proctor said in his statement to police in June.
She was deprived of the chance to graduate, grow into a woman, get married, have children and maybe one day look back and laugh over the ups and downs of her teenage years, said her family.
“This has left a huge void in our lives. We don’t know what she could have become, or would have been, or what future we would have had with her,” said Fred Proctor.
At the time of her death, Proctor’s mother was a personnel manager at Walmart and her father was the president of Wilson and Proctor Ltd., which repairs and rebuilds industrial, logging and marine diesel engines. Her 20-year-old brother Rob, attended a Victoria college and worked at Walmart.
Proctor was looking forward to graduating, sewing her prom dress with her grandmother, and “growing up so to speak,” said her father.
Her best friend, Melissa Hadju, imagined Proctor might try modelling or sewing clothes in the future.
“She was rambunctious and talkative, and she liked to have a good time,” the 19-year-old said Wednesday. “She had a great sense of humour — really silly.”
Best friends since Grade 7, Hadju and Proctor watched videos on YouTube and laughed — “rolling over” at times, Hadju said.
At Proctor’s 16th birthday party, the girls stayed up until sunrise, dancing, watching movies and eating popcorn.
The best kind of day for the pair would be finishing school on a Friday and going on a shopping spree, telling each other jokes and “just hanging out,” Hadju said. No outing was complete without iced cappuccinos from Tim Hortons.
If Proctor was shy, it was only in front of boys, Hadju said.
“She was very social and cared deeply for her friends and family,” reads Proctor’s obituary. “Kim was always willing to help people in need.”
To reflect her love of animals, donations upon her death were sent to Wild Arc, which offers rehabilitation services to wild animals on Vancouver Island.
If anything upset or scared Proctor, it was cruelty to animals, Hadju said.
Hadju thinks of her best friend every day. But rather than it being a burden of sorrow, she sees it as a way to pay tribute.
“I don’t let her disappear. I keep her always in the back of my mind,” Hadju said. “I wish everyone knew how much we cherished her and miss her so much. Basically, she was loved and still is loved by so many people.”
Proctor is survived by her parents, brother, her paternal and maternal grandparents and a host of relatives.
In a video statement to police, Lucia Proctor said only one thing: “All we can hope for now is justice to be done for Kimberly.”
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Gentle+fault+family+friends+remember+slain+teen+Kimberly+Proctor/3737220/story.html#ixzz13hRSiFMk
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VICTORIA — One of the teens who raped and killed 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor was a self-described “nihilistic atheist” whose father was a convicted criminal, while the other was an avid gamer who lived with his parents.
Neither showed any remorse when they bragged to a friend about the brutal beating, murder and mutilation.
The agreed-upon statement of facts about the case, read in B.C. Supreme Court in Victoria Wednesday as the pair pleaded guilty, offered a glimpse into the lives of the two killers.
Details of the teens’ identities, where they live, or what they look like are banned from publication under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The court heard that Proctor met them at school in a Victoria suburb, where she was set to have graduated in June — three months after her murder.
Both teens expressed interest in Proctor, sending her flirtatious texts and instant messages online until she turned them down. Both stopped texting her in November 2009.
The younger offender — the admitted mastermind of the crime — is 16, slightly built, with collar-length light brown hair.
He lived with his mother in Langford, B.C., and it was there that he and his 18-year-old accomplice raped and killed Proctor and put her body in a freezer until they took it to a creek under a popular walking trail to burn the next morning.
On his Facebook profile, which has since been deleted from the website, he calls himself a “nihilistic atheist” whose interests include misanthropy — hatred of human beings or society. He also had a black-and-white sketch of a naked woman, her organs drawn in blood red.
Among his favourite quotes are those from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Shortly after his arrest on June 18, the boy’s mother proclaimed her son’s innocence and asked his friends for support through a post on his Facebook.
She wrote: “I’m (his) mother, and I believe he is innocent. If you think kindly of (him), then I encourage you to speak up and spread the truth. Testify in court if you have to. (He) needs it. Please do the right thing.
“Don’t listen to the lies, don’t believe everything you hear without some proof. Some people have said my son was a sociopath, but I don’t believe so.”
A friend of the 16-year-old said he was much smarter than the average high-school student.
“(He) was the type that could easily get passing grades on every subject, but wasn’t very enthusiastic about it,” the friend wrote in an email. “When we were together, we talked about several subjects or just did mild clowning (around). We also used drugs for recreational purposes, but he mostly stuck with marijuana.”
The mother of a friend of Proctor’s said her son had been attacked by the 16-year-old near the school last year. The 16-year-old was threatening to kill her son’s ex-girlfriend, so her son stepped in to defend the girl, the mother said.
“My son did have an altercation with him and it was about him harming another young lady,” she said. “To me, this seems like this is this kid’s MO.”
Most of what is known about the 18-year-old killer is contained in the statement of fact sworn in court Wednesday.
The teen, who is tall with short hair, lives with his parents, who are married and who are both working professionals.
Unlike the 16-year-old, he didn’t have an open Facebook profile page.
On the night of the murder, he tried to lure another female high school student, with whom he had had a sexual relationship, to the home where they had just killed Proctor.
The morning after, the 18-year-old met up with his mother and grandmother for brunch and his mother bought him a video game.
Both teens were avid players of the online role-playing game World of Warcraft. It was on that website that the 16-year-old confessed to a female friend that he had sexually assaulted and strangled “Kim,” sending news articles about the murder and including horrifying details.
The 18-year-old also told the same girl about the murder, saying it was the 16-year-old’s idea.
According to the statement of facts, when the girl asked the 18-year-old if he felt bad about it, “(he) said he felt bad that he was going to get caught, but he did not feel bad for Kimberly Proctor’s family or friends.”
Raymond Corrado, a youth violence expert and Simon Fraser University criminologist, said the crime shows a level of planning and callousness rare among young offenders.
“It’s so rare,” he said. “I mean statistically it’s a complete aberration. Sexual offending, serious sexual assault generally among children and adolescents is very low. This level of brutality is even more rare.”
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Killers+were+avid+gamers+self+described+nihilistic+atheist/3737206/story.html#ixzz13hTD4M86
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VICTORIA — The family of Kimberly Proctor filled the front row at B.C. Supreme Court in Victoria Wednesday to hear details of how, on March 18, the 18-year-old was raped and smothered before her body was brutalized, burned and left under a bridge near a popular walking trail.
It was the second time in less than 24 hours they’d heard the horrifying events of Proctor’s death. On Tuesday night, they met RCMP investigators to listen to the disturbing details contained in the agreed statement of facts.
On Wednesday, they sat less than two metres behind the prisoners’ dock, with only Plexiglas separating them from the 16-year-old boy and 18-year-old man who, for the first time, admitted to first-degree murder and committing an indignity to human remains.
The two teens sat in silence, other than to rise and say “guilty” to the charges. Both wore dress shirts and dark pants. They made no eye contact with Proctor’s family during the hearing.
The rest of the gallery was filled with the public, police and media representatives.
After the hearing was over, the Proctor family was ushered out of the courthouse while RCMP spokesman Cpl. Darren Lagan spoke to media on their behalf.
“This is a day of anguish for them,” said Lagan.
The core group of 10 RCMP investigators knew four months ago they had Proctor’s killers in their sights. But there was nothing to celebrate Wednesday when the teens avoided a trial and entered surprise guilty pleas.
And while the agreed statement of facts entered into evidence as part of the pleas goes into great detail about how the teens planned and executed the murder, one question has so far gone unanswered — why?
Those answers may come at the sentencing hearing set for March 28, said Lagan. The hearing will also be an opportunity for the family to face the killers and, through victim-impact statements, talk about the extent of their grief and loss.
It’s not just the family that needs time to heal, said Lagan.
“This is a crime which will haunt the community, the investigators and her family for the rest of our lives,” he said.
Seasoned investigators were shocked by the brutality of the crime and some received counselling, he said. The investigation at times moved Lagan to tears during news conferences.
“As a human, as a father, as a member of the community, to have dealt with the file we dealt with . . . it’s certainly challenging,” he said.
Both the community and the media were of great assistance to the investigation, Lagan said.
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Neither showed any remorse when they bragged to a friend about the brutal beating, murder and mutilation.
The agreed-upon statement of facts about the case, read in B.C. Supreme Court in Victoria Wednesday as the pair pleaded guilty, offered a glimpse into the lives of the two killers.
Details of the teens’ identities, where they live, or what they look like are banned from publication under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The court heard that Proctor met them at school in a Victoria suburb, where she was set to have graduated in June — three months after her murder.
Both teens expressed interest in Proctor, sending her flirtatious texts and instant messages online until she turned them down. Both stopped texting her in November 2009.
The younger offender — the admitted mastermind of the crime — is 16, slightly built, with collar-length light brown hair.
He lived with his mother in Langford, B.C., and it was there that he and his 18-year-old accomplice raped and killed Proctor and put her body in a freezer until they took it to a creek under a popular walking trail to burn the next morning.
On his Facebook profile, which has since been deleted from the website, he calls himself a “nihilistic atheist” whose interests include misanthropy — hatred of human beings or society. He also had a black-and-white sketch of a naked woman, her organs drawn in blood red.
Among his favourite quotes are those from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Shortly after his arrest on June 18, the boy’s mother proclaimed her son’s innocence and asked his friends for support through a post on his Facebook.
She wrote: “I’m (his) mother, and I believe he is innocent. If you think kindly of (him), then I encourage you to speak up and spread the truth. Testify in court if you have to. (He) needs it. Please do the right thing.
“Don’t listen to the lies, don’t believe everything you hear without some proof. Some people have said my son was a sociopath, but I don’t believe so.”
A friend of the 16-year-old said he was much smarter than the average high-school student.
“(He) was the type that could easily get passing grades on every subject, but wasn’t very enthusiastic about it,” the friend wrote in an email. “When we were together, we talked about several subjects or just did mild clowning (around). We also used drugs for recreational purposes, but he mostly stuck with marijuana.”
The mother of a friend of Proctor’s said her son had been attacked by the 16-year-old near the school last year. The 16-year-old was threatening to kill her son’s ex-girlfriend, so her son stepped in to defend the girl, the mother said.
“My son did have an altercation with him and it was about him harming another young lady,” she said. “To me, this seems like this is this kid’s MO.”
Most of what is known about the 18-year-old killer is contained in the statement of fact sworn in court Wednesday.
The teen, who is tall with short hair, lives with his parents, who are married and who are both working professionals.
Unlike the 16-year-old, he didn’t have an open Facebook profile page.
On the night of the murder, he tried to lure another female high school student, with whom he had had a sexual relationship, to the home where they had just killed Proctor.
The morning after, the 18-year-old met up with his mother and grandmother for brunch and his mother bought him a video game.
Both teens were avid players of the online role-playing game World of Warcraft. It was on that website that the 16-year-old confessed to a female friend that he had sexually assaulted and strangled “Kim,” sending news articles about the murder and including horrifying details.
The 18-year-old also told the same girl about the murder, saying it was the 16-year-old’s idea.
According to the statement of facts, when the girl asked the 18-year-old if he felt bad about it, “(he) said he felt bad that he was going to get caught, but he did not feel bad for Kimberly Proctor’s family or friends.”
Raymond Corrado, a youth violence expert and Simon Fraser University criminologist, said the crime shows a level of planning and callousness rare among young offenders.
“It’s so rare,” he said. “I mean statistically it’s a complete aberration. Sexual offending, serious sexual assault generally among children and adolescents is very low. This level of brutality is even more rare.”
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Family ‘anguished’ as details of teen’s slaying read in court
By Sandra McCulloch, Postmedia NewsOctober 27, 2010
Kimberly Proctor was kiled at 18 years of age.
Photograph by: Files, timescolonist.com
It was the second time in less than 24 hours they’d heard the horrifying events of Proctor’s death. On Tuesday night, they met RCMP investigators to listen to the disturbing details contained in the agreed statement of facts.
On Wednesday, they sat less than two metres behind the prisoners’ dock, with only Plexiglas separating them from the 16-year-old boy and 18-year-old man who, for the first time, admitted to first-degree murder and committing an indignity to human remains.
The two teens sat in silence, other than to rise and say “guilty” to the charges. Both wore dress shirts and dark pants. They made no eye contact with Proctor’s family during the hearing.
The rest of the gallery was filled with the public, police and media representatives.
After the hearing was over, the Proctor family was ushered out of the courthouse while RCMP spokesman Cpl. Darren Lagan spoke to media on their behalf.
“This is a day of anguish for them,” said Lagan.
The core group of 10 RCMP investigators knew four months ago they had Proctor’s killers in their sights. But there was nothing to celebrate Wednesday when the teens avoided a trial and entered surprise guilty pleas.
And while the agreed statement of facts entered into evidence as part of the pleas goes into great detail about how the teens planned and executed the murder, one question has so far gone unanswered — why?
Those answers may come at the sentencing hearing set for March 28, said Lagan. The hearing will also be an opportunity for the family to face the killers and, through victim-impact statements, talk about the extent of their grief and loss.
It’s not just the family that needs time to heal, said Lagan.
“This is a crime which will haunt the community, the investigators and her family for the rest of our lives,” he said.
Seasoned investigators were shocked by the brutality of the crime and some received counselling, he said. The investigation at times moved Lagan to tears during news conferences.
“As a human, as a father, as a member of the community, to have dealt with the file we dealt with . . . it’s certainly challenging,” he said.
Both the community and the media were of great assistance to the investigation, Lagan said.
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Langford teens charged with first-degree murder, sexual assault, confinement of Kimberly Proctor
By Ian Shelton, timescolonist.com September 28, 2010
Two Langford teens were arrested Friday and later charged in the murder of Kimberly Proctor.
Photograph by: from Facebook, timescolonist.com
Three months after Kimberly Proctor’s badly burned body was found by the edge of a creek, two Langford teens have been charged with the 18-year-old’s murder.
The males, ages 16 and 18, have been charged with first-degree murder, sexual assault, forcible confinement and indignity to human remains.
In a news conference Saturday morning, a visibly upset Cpl. Darren Lagan, spokesman for Island district RCMP, said the murder is the worst he’s seen in a decade on the force.
“Investigators have used the words ‘horrendous,’ ‘disturbing,’ ” Lagan said.
The RCMP remain tight-lipped on any details that might identify the two. They were both under the age of 18 at the time of the murder and their identities are protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
However, Lagan did say that Proctor was familiar with her killers.
“This was not a random act. Kimberly, for whatever reason... was the intended victim.”
Proctor was last seen at a bus stop the morning of March 18. Her badly burned body was found the next day on a rock ledge next to Millstream Creek, beneath a bridge on the Galloping Goose Trail. It took police three days to identify her remains.
Both the investigation and media coverage of the murder ranged well beyond B.C., even reaching television news south of the border because of the role social networking sites played in revealing personal information about Proctor and fueling speculation about her murder.
Comments Proctor made on her profile on vampirefreaks.com — a website dedicated to the goth subculture that has been connected with the Dawson College shooting in Montreal in 2006 — fueled speculation that Proctor’s death was related to bullying.
Lagan, though, said while Proctor had been bullied in the past, there was no indication that it was an important factor in her death. He also warned against singling out any one aspect of the teen’s life.
“This could have been anyone’s daughter,” he said. “Her family deserves Kimberly to be seen as who she was and vampirefreaks.com is not a true representation of who she was.”
West Shore RCMP inspector Mark Fisher added that there was no way the family could have avoided the tragedy.
“Kim walked into this unknowingly and she didn’t deserve this.”
Friends and family have described Proctor as a typical teen who raised dozens of animals and was sewing her prom dress with her grandmother.
While Proctor’s family is asking for privacy, her parents released a videotaped statement Saturday morning.
Clutching his wife’s hand, Fred Proctor’s choked back tears as he tried to explain what the tragedy meant.
“Our home is quiet now,” he said. “This has left a huge void in our lives. We’ll never know what she could have become or would have been or what future we would have had with her.”
Discovery of the teen’s body kicked off a massive investigation. A core of 40 RCMP investigators and additional officers from other forces logged 20,000 hours trying to determine who was responsible.
While some investigators will continue to work on the case, Lagan said police expect no further arrests.
“Our investigators are confident they have arrested the individuals responsible for Kimberly’s homicide,” Lagan said.
That will come as some comfort for Proctor’s mother, Lucia, who remained silent through most of the videotaped statement, but managed just one thought.
“All we can hope for now is for justice to be done for Kimberly.”
The accused have been remanded into custody and are expected to appear in Victoria Youth Court Monday morning.
The males, ages 16 and 18, have been charged with first-degree murder, sexual assault, forcible confinement and indignity to human remains.
In a news conference Saturday morning, a visibly upset Cpl. Darren Lagan, spokesman for Island district RCMP, said the murder is the worst he’s seen in a decade on the force.
“Investigators have used the words ‘horrendous,’ ‘disturbing,’ ” Lagan said.
The RCMP remain tight-lipped on any details that might identify the two. They were both under the age of 18 at the time of the murder and their identities are protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
However, Lagan did say that Proctor was familiar with her killers.
“This was not a random act. Kimberly, for whatever reason... was the intended victim.”
Proctor was last seen at a bus stop the morning of March 18. Her badly burned body was found the next day on a rock ledge next to Millstream Creek, beneath a bridge on the Galloping Goose Trail. It took police three days to identify her remains.
Both the investigation and media coverage of the murder ranged well beyond B.C., even reaching television news south of the border because of the role social networking sites played in revealing personal information about Proctor and fueling speculation about her murder.
Comments Proctor made on her profile on vampirefreaks.com — a website dedicated to the goth subculture that has been connected with the Dawson College shooting in Montreal in 2006 — fueled speculation that Proctor’s death was related to bullying.
Lagan, though, said while Proctor had been bullied in the past, there was no indication that it was an important factor in her death. He also warned against singling out any one aspect of the teen’s life.
“This could have been anyone’s daughter,” he said. “Her family deserves Kimberly to be seen as who she was and vampirefreaks.com is not a true representation of who she was.”
West Shore RCMP inspector Mark Fisher added that there was no way the family could have avoided the tragedy.
“Kim walked into this unknowingly and she didn’t deserve this.”
Friends and family have described Proctor as a typical teen who raised dozens of animals and was sewing her prom dress with her grandmother.
While Proctor’s family is asking for privacy, her parents released a videotaped statement Saturday morning.
Clutching his wife’s hand, Fred Proctor’s choked back tears as he tried to explain what the tragedy meant.
“Our home is quiet now,” he said. “This has left a huge void in our lives. We’ll never know what she could have become or would have been or what future we would have had with her.”
Discovery of the teen’s body kicked off a massive investigation. A core of 40 RCMP investigators and additional officers from other forces logged 20,000 hours trying to determine who was responsible.
While some investigators will continue to work on the case, Lagan said police expect no further arrests.
“Our investigators are confident they have arrested the individuals responsible for Kimberly’s homicide,” Lagan said.
That will come as some comfort for Proctor’s mother, Lucia, who remained silent through most of the videotaped statement, but managed just one thought.
“All we can hope for now is for justice to be done for Kimberly.”
The accused have been remanded into custody and are expected to appear in Victoria Youth Court Monday morning.
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