She Told Me To: The Blackman Family Tragedy

Episode 185: RCMP officers arrived at the Blackman family residence on Spuraway Avenue in Coquitlam, B.C.’s Ranch Park subdivision in the early morning hours of January 18th, 1983. A neighbour had called 911after hearing screams and then witnessing what appeared to be a domestic argument next door that escalated into a shooting. Inside the eerily silent home as the cold winter rain fell, the responding officers found a horrific and bloody scene; six members of the Blackman family were dead.

The deceased were Richard Blackman, 50, his wife, Irene Blackman, 49, their daughter, Roberta Lynn Davies, 28, Roberta’s husband, John Iowerth Davies, 39, Karen Dale Rhodes, 25, another of the Blackman’s daughters, and the youngest of the Blackman children, 16-year-old son, Rick Blackman. Just outside the home, police had detained a young man, 22-year-old, Bruce Alfred Blackman, another of Irene and Richard’s sons. Bruce, who’d been picked up as police arrived, was acting bizarrely, telling the RCMP officers that he was the Antichrist and that the world was going to end on January 31.

Sources:

Blackman v. British Columbia (Review Board), 1995 CanLII 3437 (BC CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/1ddr0 >

Blackman v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 1993 CanLII 2620 (BC CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/1dbks >

British Columbia Review Board – Decision on Bruce Alfred Blackman

https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/arc_oic/0332_1983

https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/arc_oic/1122_1991

Violence and Schizophrenia by Heidi J. Wehring and William T. Carpenter

Correlates of Future Violence in People Being Treated for Schizophrenia | American Journal of Psychiatry

Schizophrenia: Warning Signs of Violence | HealthLink BC

A Voice out of Nowhere eBook : Booth, Janice Holly: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Bruce Alfred Blackman | Amok Wiki | Fandom

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