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A grim monument stands in Renfrew County by the banks of Ontario's

Pettihuahua River, where three steel sculptures bend gracefully towards a stone inscribed, with the names of over two dozen murdered women.

The women's monument commemorates lives lost at the hands of men since 1969 and in 2016 it added three more.

Join me now as we remember the stories of three women whose lives became entangled with a vicious and vengeful man.

You'll hear how he inserted himself into their lives, the warning signs authorities ignored, and this system that failed to protect the innocent when his rage inevitably flew out of control.

Renfrew County, Ontario is an isolated place and on the roughly four-hour drive north from Toronto, the landscape doesn't just grow less urban, it gets wilder.

Halfway there, the hills start getting bigger, the forest stents are. Farmland gives way to the rocky Canadian shield.

It's not exactly Yukon level remote, but despite sprawling across more than 20-100 square miles, Renfrew County's largest city has a population of a little over 14,000.

It's the kind of place that sounds just about perfect if you're tired of the rat race.

Then again, if you needed help in a hurry, you might find yourself hunkering down as you wait.

But Frank and Natalie Warmerdam weren't worried when they moved there in the summer of 2005.

Natalie had grown up in Renfrew County and Frank had been raised real too.

After living in Toronto for a number of years, they wanted to give a taste of country life to the two young children, Adrian and Valerie, and they found just the place to do it.

An expanded log cabin on a private piece of land.

It was Natalie's dream property, a home with a wide lawn, overlooking the rolling hills, and she paired it with a promising career change.

In her mid-30s, Natalie was transitioning out of an unfulfilling career in software development to become a pallet of cariners.

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