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)