Dawn was breaking over a quiet suburban street in Coquitlam when Ed Field heard the first pop. Half-asleep, he wondered if he’d imagined it. Then came another. And another. From his bedroom window, he watched two figures moving through the house across the street, one chasing the other through rooms blazing with light.
Sources:
UPI, 18 Janaury, 1983 – “Police Said”
The Vancouver Sun, 18 January, 1983 – “Six Slain”
The Vancouver Sun, 18 Janaury, 1983 – “Killings Follow Meeting”
The Vancouver Sun, 19 Janaury, 1983 – “Slayings Leave Street Stunned”
The Province, 19 Janaury, 1983 – “Death House Shocking”
Times Colonist, 21 January, 1983 – “Some Victims First Shot”
The Province, 23 January, 1983 – “Friends, Relatives Mourn Blackmans”
The Vancouver Sun, 24 January, 1983 – “Simple Funeral Held for Blackman Family”
The Province, 10 February, 1983 – “Blackman Insane Unfit for Trial”
The Vancouver Sun, 27 April, 1983 – “Blackman Declared Now Fit”
The Vancouver Sun, 3 November, 1983 – “State of Mind”
The Standard, 4 November, 1983 – “Devil Made him Slaughter Family”
The Vancouver Sun, 4 November, 1983 – “MD Says Family Warned”
The Vancouver Sun, 5 November, 1983 – “Killer Committed as Insanity Ruled”
The Globe and Mail, 5 November, 1983 – “Son Judged Insane”
The Vancouver Sun, 15 November, 1983 – “Blackman’s Deadly disorder”
THe Toronto Star, 14 Janaury, 1993 – “2 Mass Murderers”
Stanard-Freeholder, 24 August, 1991 – “Murderer Given Discharge”
The Province, 25 August, 1991 – “Blackman Out, No Supervision”
The Vancouver Sun, 15 September, 1993 – “Man Who Killed Family”
The Vancouver Sun, 10 June, 1995 – “Blackman Freed”
