Nancy Alice Edward Eaton (May 28, 1961 – January 21, 1985) was a Canadian heiress and a member of the prominent Eaton family. She was the great-great-granddaughter of Timothy Eaton, founder of Eaton's department stores. She was the only daughter of Edward Eaton and Nancy Leigh (Gossage) Eaton of Toronto.
Nancy Eaton | |
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| Born | Nancy Alice Edward Eaton May 28, 1961 |
| Died | January 21, 1985 (aged 23) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Cause of death | Stab wound |
| Burial place | Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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Murder
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On January 21, 1985, Eaton was stabbed twenty-one times and then raped in her Farnham Street apartment [1] in Toronto. An acquaintance of Eaton's, Ernest John Andrew Leyshon-Hughes,[2] also known as Andrew Leyshon-Hughes, who was himself a member of the prominent Canadian Osler family, admitted to murdering her, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He was indefinitely remanded to the custody of The Ontario Review Board.[3] In February 2001, Leyshon-Hughes was living at the Royal Ottawa Hospital and was a student at Algonquin College.[4] In 2005, Leyshon-Hughes was discharged from the psychiatric hospital into the community.[2]
Eaton was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto.
In popular culture
editIn 2003, the television movie The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton was released. Jessica Paré played the part of Nancy. It airs on LMN in the United States and is based on the book A Question of Guilt by William Scoular.[5] As of 2018 the movie was released online on Encore+.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "January 21st 1985: Nancy Eaton is discovered dead., eBrandon discussion".
- ^ a b "Leyshon-Hughes v. Ontario" (PDF). Review Board. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
- ^ "Nancy Eaton's Killer Wants More Freedom". CBC. Canada. February 13, 2001. Archived from the original on February 2, 2011. Retrieved November 29, 2010.
- ^ "Freedom weighed for killer of heiress". CBC. Canada. February 13, 2001. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ "The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton". IMdb.