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It was a sunny day in Vancouver on April 26, 1981. Carmen Aguirre and her cousin Macarena were walking along a trail in the University of British Columbia Endowment Lands, giggling and talking about boys. Typical 13-year-old girl type of stuff. They were looking to share a smoke that Carmen had snuck from her dad’s pack of cigarettes.
As they walked down the trail they heard a twig snap behind them. Freezing in fear, they thought that they were somehow busted for the cigarette. The reality was far worse.
“Put your hands on your head, turn around, and don’t look back.”, a man’s voice said behind them. “Don’t try to run. I have a gun and I will shoot you. Do as I say.”
“Put your hands on her shoulders and walk. If either of you turn around, I’ll shoot.” “Walk! I have the gun to your sister’s head and I’ll shoot her if you don’t walk. Off the trail, into the bush. Now.”
The two girls had the misfortune to have met a man named John Horace Oughton. A man that was dubbed by the media as “The Paper Bag Rapist”.
“You have two choices,” he said. “Either you make love to me or I kill you.”, to which Carmen defiantly replied that wouldn’t be “making love”, it would be rape.
What followed was three hours of psychological torture. The man told Macarena that…