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Clifford Robert Olson Jr (born January 1, 1940 in Vancouver, Canada) is a serial killer who claimed the lives of eleven children in the early 1980s.

Despite being raised in a stable home free of abuse (unlike many other serial killers) he soon showed signs of delinquency. He skipped school frequently and was thirteen when he was first arrested for theft. He was known as a bully, a show-off and was rumoured to torture and kill local animals. In adulthood, he picked up dozens of convictions for crimes ranging from fraud, armed robbery and firearms offences, and he spent a great deal of time in prison, although he escaped on several occasions.

On November 17, 1980, Olson abducted 12-year-old Christine Weller in Surrey, British Columbia. She was found on Christmas day, strangled with a belt and stabbed a number of times. On April 16, 1981, Colleen Marian Daignault, aged 13, vanished. It was five months before her body was found. By then, Daryn Todd Johnsrude, 16, had been abducted by Olson, who smashed the boy's head in with a hammer and tossed him into a ditch.

In May 1981, Olson got married. Around this time he was accused of molesting a local 5-year-old girl, although he was not charged, owing to lack of evidence.

Just four days after his wedding, on May 19, Olson abducted and murdered 16-year-old Sandra Wolfsteiner. The following month he killed Ada Court, 13.

Olson claimed six victims in quick succession in July 1981. There was a 9-year-old boy named Simon Partington, abducted and strangled on the 2nd of the month. A week later, he raped and strangled Judy Kozma, aged 14. He took her address book and phoned up her friends and family, playing tapes of her screaming down the telephone. Olson killed Raymond King, 15, on July 23, and just the following day he abducted an 18-year-old German tourist named Sigrun Arnd, whom he raped and battered to death with a hammer. On July 27, he abducted and strangled Terry Carson, 15.

Olson had now killed ten children. Because the victims were of both sexes, and only three had been found with the other seven tentatively listed as probable runaways, the cases were not initially linked by authorities. By now, however, the police in British Columbia had finally realized they had a serial killer on their hands, and a major investigation was soon under way. They were too late to save Louise Chartrand, 17, whom Olson battered to death on July 30th with a hammer, burying her corpse in a shallow grave.

Because of his lengthy criminal record, Olson, then 41, became the prime suspect. He was questioned, but there was not enough evidence to hold him. However, on August 12, Olson was arrested for attempting to abduct two girls.

Olson eventually came up with a controversial deal: he would confess to the eleven murders, and show police where the bodies of those not recovered were buried, and in return he wanted $10,000 paid to his wife for each victim. The authorities were outraged at this suggestion at first, but, as they had little evidence to tie Olson to the killings and the families of the missing children were desperate to give their loved ones a decent burial, the agreement was eventually made. In January 1982, Olson pleaded guilty to eleven counts of murder and was given eleven life sentences. As agreed, $110,000 was paid to his wife.

External link

• Clifford Olson: The Case of the Missing Lower Mainland Children

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