Sex offender guilty of 1979 Winnipeg murder dies in Sask. prison
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This article was published 27/01/2020 (2437 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The man convicted of a murder and three rapes in Winnipeg four decades ago died last week while in the custody of a psychiatric facility in Saskatoon.
Edwin Dennis Proctor died Jan. 24, at the age of 68. Since Feb. 9, 1979, he’s been serving an “indeterminate sentence” for first-degree murder, attempted murder, rape and buggery.
Proctor was arrested in 1979, after abducting and raping Tracey Walsh and her friend — both 15 — and leaving them to die in a ditch outside the city. Both young women survived.
He also raped and killed Catherine Cluney, 21, a few weeks prior. Her body was found naked and bound with clothesline in a flax field near a dirt road on the outskirts of Winnipeg.
“My wife was tied up, raped and murdered,” Cluney’s widower, Douglas Cluney, said at the time. “I feel like breaking something but I can’t do it. I’ve cried so much I don’t know whether I have any tears left. I feel nothing. A void.”
After years of court proceedings following Proctor’s arrest, he was convicted in 1995 of first-degree murder, attempted murder, rape and buggery in connection to the cases.
Proctor’s death in custody of the Regional Psychiatric Centre was announced by the Correctional Service of Canada, which notifies the public whenever an inmate dies.
He died “of apparent natural causes following an illness,” CSC said in a news release. Proctor’s next of kin have also been notified.
While the names of sexual assault victims are not usually published, Walsh — who did not immediately respond to a request for comment — got the court to remove the publication ban on her name in 2006.
In the past, Walsh explained it was important for her to speak out on the case, so Proctor “would never get free again, so that I would be his last victim.”
Walsh read victim-impact statements at a number of court proceedings over the years.
ryan.thorpe@freepress.mb.ca
Twitter: @rk_thorpe
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Updated on Monday, January 27, 2020 10:21 PM CST: Fixes typo