Beaver Lake Tragedy: The McKenzie Murders

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

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🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Episode 281: On the night of Saturday, October 25th, 1857, in Beaver Lake, a part of Simond’s Parish in St John County, a heinous crime was committed unlike anything ever seen in New Brunswick up to that point. Sure, there had been murders and arsons, but those were often the result of heated arguments or drunken brawls. But this crime was different. It’s hard to believe that anyone in New Brunswick would coldly and calculatedly murder a man named Robert McKenzie, his wife, and his four helpless children, all for the sake of money, and then burn down their property to destroy the evidence. The perpetrators, three Irish Catholics, Hugh Breen and Patrick Slavin Sr. and Slavin’s teenage son, Patrick Jr., targeted the protestant Mackenzie family, robbing and murdering them. This crime, committed on that fateful Saturday night, was, to that point, unprecedented in New Brunswick. Some still feel the crime rivals the worst in the province’s history. Sources: The Beaver Lake tragedy | Internet Archive The Victorian Era Crime That Shocked New Brunswick: The Beaver Lake Tragedy McKenzie Murders | Cases | Crime and Punishment | Projects | Faculty of Arts | UNB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:23.6	on the night of Saturday, October 25, 1857. In Beaver Lake, a part of Simon's parish in St. John
2:52.3	County, a heinous crime was committed unlike anything ever seen in New Brunswick up to that point.
2:58.8	Sure, there had been murders in Harsons, but those were often a result of heated arguments or
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