Clifford Robert Olsen started his life of crime at a young age. In his early days at school, he would get into fights, often getting beaten up. He later decided to take up boxing so he could “get even”, and he did, by seeking out the other boys to even the score. Constantly with a chip on his shoulder, Clifford was a petty thief. He would even steal produce from backyards and sell them.
Clifford later dropped out of school after grade 8 and was arrested by the age of 17 for a break and enter. By the time he was 42, he had over 90 convictions and had escaped from police custody 7 times. His crimes included obstructing justice, possession of stolen property, possession of firearms, forgery, false pretenses, fraud, parole violation, impaired driving, theft, break and enter and theft, armed robbery, escape from lawful custody, rape, buggery, gross indecency, and first-degree murder.
When he had married his wife, Joan Hale, Clifford had already killed 3 children. Christine Weller, and Colleen Marian Daignault, both 13 and from Surrey, and Daryn Todd Johnsrude, 16, from Coquitlam. Just days after his wedding he abducted and killed Sandra Wolfsteiner, 16, of Langley. Within a month of killing Sandra, he killed 13-year-old Ada Anita Court of Burnaby.
In July 1981, he killed had killed six children. Simon Partington aged 9, and Terri Lyn Carson aged 15, both from Surrey. Judy Kozma aged 14 and Raymond King aged 15, from New Westminster. Sigrun Arnd aged 18, a German…