William Patrick Fyfe, known as "the handyman killer", was a Canadian serial killer who murdered five women in the Montreal area, but once arrested, he claimed the victims were nine in total. Born on February 27, 1955, in Toronto, Fyfe stated that his first homicide was committed in 1979, when he was 24 years old. He was raised by an aunt, and in 1958, when he was 3 years old, they moved from central Canada to the Parc Extension area of Montreal, where he lived as a normal child, although his friends began to suspect him as he grew up. After coming of age, he found work as a repairman, a maintenance employee. The five women murdered by Fyfe were killed in different ways, but all in the Quebec region. Hazel Scattolon, 55, was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in the city of Mount Royal in 1981. Another victim was Anna Yarnold, 59, who was beaten to death on October 15, 1999, in Senneville. Monique Gaudreau, 46, was also stabbed to death on October 29, 1999, in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts. Teresa Shanahan, 55, was also stabbed multiple times until she was dead in November 1999 in Laval. The last of the victims attributed to Fyfe was Mary Glen, 50, who was beaten and stabbed to death on December 15, 1999, in Baie-D'Urfé. Investigators believe he may have killed four other women, and the murderer confessed as much, although it has not yet been fully confirmed. In this regard, Suzanne Bernier, 55, was murdered in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville district of Montreal on October 17, 1979. Nicole Raymond, 26, was found dead with stab wounds in her apartment on November 11, 1979, in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. Louise Blanc Poupart was also stabbed to death in her home in 1987 in Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, while Pauline Laplante, 44, was killed in 1989 in Piedmont, Quebec. Regarding the first five women, the police were able to determine Fyfe's responsibility thanks to DNA samples found on the doorframe of Glen, the last of the five women he killed. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) arrested him on December 22, 1999, as he was returning to his truck after eating at a Husky truck stop near Barrie, Ontario. Fyfe's preliminary hearing began on November 6, 2000, and the prosecutor in charge was Jean Lecours. The criminal was sentenced to life in prison and is serving his sentence in a maximum-security detention center in Saskatchewan. The Montreal Police also suspect that Fyfe is the serial rapist commonly known as "The Plumber", who is linked to a series of violent rapes in downtown Montreal during the 1980s.
