Killed on the Job: Constable Emmanuel Aucoin

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Episode 351: On March 8, 1987, a routine Sunday morning traffic stop on a quiet stretch of Route 640 between Yoho Lake and Hanwell to the southwest of Fredericton, New Brunswick, turned into a tragedy that shocked the nation. Constable Emmanuel “Manni” Aucoin, a 31-year-old highway patrol officer, husband and father of two young children, was shot and killed in the line of duty. His murderer, Anthony Phillip Romeo, an American fugitive who was wanted for another killing in New York, had been fleeing authorities when Aucoin pulled him over for speeding. Romeo shot Aucoin twice in the head as he wrote up a ticket, leaving him to die in his cruiser before fleeing back to the United States. Romeo was later captured, claiming Aucoin was a monster who’d been killing young men. Constable Aucoin was the third Canadian police officer killed on duty in 1987 and was the first and only member of the New Brunswick Highway Patrol ever to die while serving. Sources: Joseph Emmanuel “Manni” Aucoin (1955-1987) - Find... Anthony Philip Romeo, Petitioner, Appellant, v. James B. Roache, Respondent, Appellee, 820 F.2d 540 (1st Cir. 1987) Cst. Emmanuel Joseph Aucoin 1991 CanLII 12407 (NB KB) | R. v. Romeo (1991) | CanLII 1991 CanLII 113 (SCC) | R. v. Romeo | CanLII R. v. Romeo - SCC Cases HE’S CHARGED IN ’85 GUN SLAY Anthony Phillip Romeo - Search - Newspapers.com™ Governor General Award — Emmanuel Joseph Aucoin Police Exemplary Service Medal, Awarded on August 28, 1987 New Brunswick Highway Patrol SUSPECT IN KILLING ON FIRE I. IS HELD IN CANADIAN SLAYING (Published 1987) N.B. cop killer Anthony Romeo granted escorted trip for meditation class Facebook — MURDER - CST. MANNY AUCOIN N.B. cop killer Anthony Romeo granted escorted trip for meditation class - New Brunswick Facing killer a life-changing event | Blue Line Man, 25, Found Slain In Home on Fire Island (Published 1985) SUSPECT IS NAMED IN MURDER OF SON OF EX-AIDE TO CUOMO (Published 1987) New Yorker ordered held in Canadian cop killing - UPI Archives PEOPLE v. ROMEO (2008) 1985 L.I. conviction is overturned Parole board denies release of American who killed New Brunswick cop in 1987 - New Brunswick New Brunswick highway patrol officer's killer denied full parole | CBC News Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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