- [Narrator] For many teenagers, much of their lives are
lived virtually online. In fact, most talk to their
friends almost entirely through texts, Snapchat
and online messaging. To them, the online world is
just as real as anything else, but it also appears to be safer. Online, teens can share
their real thoughts without the same fear of repercussion and they can even voice
their darkest secrets. However, sometimes those
secrets are so dark that they can't stay online forever. What's up EWU Crew? Today we're going to discuss the case of a young Canadian woman, who tragically met her end in
the most brutal way possible. Police were baffled when a charred body was discovered hidden
inside of a hockey bag. But with further investigation and over 1.4 billion
pages of data transcripts, it was a clue in the popular
game World of Warcraft that eventually led to her killers. Let's get into it. Fred and Lucy Proctor
started their new year off with the best gift possible in 1992. On January 1st, they welcomed
a daughter into the world. They named her Kimberly. The family lived in Langford,
a town on Vancouver Island, just a short ferry ride from Seattle. Kimberly grew up loving animals. She raised several pets and it seemed that she was more comfortable
around her animals than with the kids her own age. Prone to being the victim
of bullying in school, Kimberly wasn't equipped to
handle the anxiety she felt in the classroom. Crammed hallways and the constant pressure from her peers led Kimberly to
transition out of her school. She ended up at Pacific
Christian Secondary School an alternative high school in
Victoria, where they described that their students are
learning and grappling with life and learning from a christian perspective. Unfortunately for Kimberly,
all alternative students were lumped together in
the classrooms, regardless of the reasons they were sent there. She was enrolled partly
because of her anxiety. And she ended up sitting
alongside students with a history of violent outbursts. Kruse Wellwood, a fellow
student was at the school because of his own history of violence. He had reportedly broken
another student's nose and on a different occasion,
had hit another classmate over the head with a chain. Kruse's tendencies were
a chip off the old block. His father who had
abandoned the family when he was still a baby is
serving a life sentence for assaulting and strangling
to death a 16 year old girl when Kruse was only seven years old. Kruse would later write,"I hated
my father for what he did." He stopped replying to his
father's letters at the age of 12 while living with his grandparents. A few years later Kruse,
whose teachers described him as quote "anti female"
moved in with his mother whom he constantly belittled and had reportedly hit on two occasions. Another student at the
school Cameron Moffatt had been friends with Kruse
since the fifth grade. The two would skip school to smoke pot and began consuming alcohol
at the age of only 10. Later, their drug use
would allegedly transition to harder drugs such as LSD and ecstasy. Cameron was a much worse
student than Kruse passing only five of his classes
during his four years in high school. But his larger stature allowed
him to display dominance over Kruse by punching him. Cameron's aggression in school,
started in kindergarten. He would hit and push kids. And in middle school,
he was suspended twice. In his home life, he was said
to physically hurt his sister and even kicked the family
dog, breaking its paw on one occasion. He was eventually expelled
permanently for bringing a box cutter to school and
threatening his sister. 16 year old Cameron, 17 year old Kruse and 18 year old, Kimberly all
hung out in the same group at their alternative high school and would get together
regularly to smoke pot. Kimberly began dating
another boy in the group but was heartbroken when
he suddenly broke off their relationship. She confided in Kruse
and Cameron by messaging them both online. Both boys began to flirt with her. Cameron wrote to her, "There
aren't many beautiful things I've seen but I must say
you are one of them." Although Kimberly played
along with the flirtations, she ultimately declined their advances. Kruse sent messages to Kimberly saying that she made him feel honest. Telling her, "You're
beautiful the way you are." And," I can't lie to you." Kimberly ended up going on
one or two dates with Kruse but ended things through a text message. Following this, Kruse was
said to torment her online for the next month. The longtime childhood
friendship between Kruse and Cameron had gradually developed into something much
darker and more violent. The two would get together to
watch aggressive adult videos and would carry on conversations
online, fantasizing about assault. They were high the majority of the time and even began experimenting with drinking blood and
other bodily fluids. The next known contact between
Kruse and Kimberley happened the same night she was
messaging online with Cameron. She switched between the two conversations telling Kruse that she was
surprised to hear from him. Kruse wrote that he wanted to apologize and asked Kimberly if she
had plans the next day because he wanted to hang with her. He told her that he had to
tell her something in person. Kimberly replied saying
that it was all so sudden and she was shocked when
she got his message. She asked him to call her. The two talked on the
phone for about an hour but unknown to Kimberly during
the call Kruse merged it so that Cameron could also listen in. Kimberly, agreed to meet
Kruse the following morning at the Langford Bus Exchange. During the conversation,
the two boys messaged back and forth relishing in
their dark fantasies. Kruse wrote to Cameron, "I'm
going to rip her nose ring out and burn it. Burn her flesh." Cameron recommended, "Why not
keep her bound and alive?" To which Kruse responded,
"That's what I'm going to do but I need to get her stoned
first and possibly seduce her." All the while Kruse
continued to talk to Kimberly on the phone as though nothing was wrong. On the morning of March
18th, 2010, Kimberly and her parents had a lot to celebrate. The previous day, they found out that she had earned
enough credits to graduate from high school. And Kimberly was very excited
about potentially beginning to volunteer at an animal sanctuary. When her mother kissed her goodbye and told her she loved her before leaving for work, she expected that Kimberly would babysit
later that afternoon. And then return home to
sew her graduation dress. Kimberly slipped on her black
hoodie adorning the number 13 before leaving the house. Around 10:30 AM that morning,
Kimberly met up with Kruse and Cameron at the Langford
Bus Exchange as she'd planned. Cameron had entered the Canadian
Tire Home improvement store earlier that morning to purchase about $17 worth of camping fuel. The three of them talked for a bit before heading to Kruse's
house on Happy Valley Road. The two boys had planned
an attack on Kimberly the night before. Kruse told Cameron the code phrase for when he was ready
to initiate the attack. He told Cameron that when he said, "I think I'm going to make some KD." That would be the signal. K D is a Canadian abbreviation for Kraft macaroni and cheese dinner. It wasn't long after the three
teenagers entered the house that the two boys pounced on Kimberly. They bound and gagged her, tying her up from the wrists and ankles,
shoving a sock into her mouth and sealing it with duct tape. For hours they took turns assaulting and beating the helpless girl living out the twisted fantasies they had discussed with each other before
stuffing her into a freezer. Her official cause of death
was asphyxiation, as she slowly and painfully ran out of
oxygen inside the freezer. At one point during the torture, possibly while Kimberly was
still alive Kruse logged into his computer and
sent her one last message. Presumably trying to
give himself an alibi. In the message, he asked her
if she was done babysitting. While on the computer,
other friends messaged Kruse after noticing that he was online. After one of these friends complained that Cruz wasn't responding as he had continued his
sinister activities. He eventually wrote
back," Sorry, the freezer was jumping around." The following day,
Cameron and Kruse stuffed Kimberly's lifeless
body into a hockey bag. Cameron, the stronger of the
two was able to carry the bag to the public bus stop where they along with Kimberly's corpse boarded the bus heading
for a popular hiking trail. Getting off the bus, near
the Galloping Goose Trail, they carried the body into
the woods and under a bridge. They covered the bag in the
camping fuel that Cameron had purchased the previous
day before setting it on fire. During their time under the
bridge, Kruse sent a message from his phone. One that he would come to regret. The boys then continued on
as if nothing had happened. Later that day, Cameron
had brunch with his mother and grandmother who ended up buying him a video game afterward. Kruse then spent the day
at his house with a girl he was dating. All the while Kimberly's
family was worried sick and desperately searching for her. At around 7:00 PM that evening, a few hikers went under the bridge of the Galloping Goose
Trail, where they discovered Kimberly's charred remains. They notified authorities who immediately began an investigation. It only took three days for
police to use dental records to confirm the identity of
the body as Kimberly Proctor. Her family was utterly devastated. At first investigators were bewildered. Who could be responsible for
doing such a horrific thing to an 18 year old girl? As friends and family set
up a public memorial page in Kimberly's honor on Facebook. They kept close, watch scouring each post and comments for clues. "You'd be amazed at how
many people don't have a single privacy setting
on there," said one of the authorities on the case. Kruse already worried
that his text message sent from the Galloping Goose
Trail could be incriminating, grew more cautious about
leaving any online traces that could lead the police to him. Nonetheless, he couldn't
fight back the desire to share the gruesome
acts that he had committed with his online gamer girlfriend who lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He messaged her five days
after murdering Kimberly. Sharing with her that
he wanted to tell her something important and that
he wanted the two to talk in a chat room in World of Warcraft. He chose the multi-player
online role-playing game as his medium because he
thought the conversations were less likely to be saved
than a traditional messenger. He confessed the crime
to his online girlfriend and even sent her links to news articles to back up his story. Unsurprisingly to him she
responded, "I'll always be here, no matter what you do." Cameron also confirmed Kruse's story to his gamer girlfriend
through World of Warcraft. When the girl asked Kruse if he felt sorry for Kimberly's friends
and family and quote, " All whose lives you have ruined." Kruse replied, "No, I
don't feel bad for them." For the next few weeks Kruse
attended school intermittently while fellow students
mourned the loss of Kimberly. He had outbursts in class when
the subject of Kimberly came up telling one student,
"I'm glad she's dead. I hated her" Kruse and Cameron bragged to themselves over online chat rooms
that they were getting away with the murder. Feeling confident Cameron wrote to Kruse, "Since we killed that,
and it wasn't too hard, we should do it again." Eventually the two boys were brought in and questioned by police. Although they admitted to
seeing Kimberly the morning of her murder, they said she
left early to go to school. Investigators weren't convinced, And it wasn't too long before
they had enough evidence to monitor both of them officially. Kruse and Cameron had their
homes bugged by investigators, along with their cell phones and even the gazebo at a
park where they hung out. They also traced their online searches and retrieved old texts
and online messages. In the end, the evidence
collected accumulated to the equivalent of a staggering
1.4 billion pages of data and transcripts between the two of them. Kruse and Cameron were both
arrested on June 18th, 2010. Both boys were said to be
extremely calm when taken into custody. Two days later, police began
to interrogate Cameron. But when they asked for specific details Cameron toyed with police saying, - I'm telling you the truth. I'm just not telling
you every single little thing that happened down
to the tiniest grain and detail about (indistinct). And trust me, there's a
lot of really disgusting. - [Narrator] He told them
that they burned the body knowing that the bones
would be left behind. But at least the evidence of the bruises and horrors acted out upon
Kimberly's flesh would be gone. He also said, "There's gonna be a time and place one day when this is
going to be so easy to tell." In a conversation recorded
between the two teens that took place in a Sheriff's van on the way to their first
court appearance, Kruse could be heard telling Cameron
about his interrogation. He said, "They were really
trying to stroke my ego telling me how smart they think I am." Cameron replied, "I just
laughed at half the things they said and just like sat
there with a big ass grin on my face." Both Kruse and Cameron pleaded guilty to first degree murder and
indignity to human remains. Even though both teens were
minors at the time of the crime, the prosecution sought adult sentences. Almost a year after the murder, a Canadian court sentenced
Kruse and Cameron to life in prison with no
chance of parole for 10 years. They were transferred to adult facilities where a more comprehensive
offender treatment program is offered. One of these treatments
includes chemical castration which is a drug treatment used in Canada to reduce the likelihood of
recidivism in assault crimes. Even though the sentence
imposed was the maximum penalty for a juvenile under Canadian law, Kimberly's parents were not satisfied with the justice served. They wanted to see the boys pay for their crime with their lives. However, the death penalty
is not an option in Canada. Kimberly's mother Lucy
told reporters quote, "When an animal is
sick, you put them down. They're not even animals. I don't like to use that word because Kim was a huge animal person. Those two are monsters." Kimberly's father Fred
would tell reporters outside the courtroom, "These animals
aren't rehabilitatable. They deserve to die a long,
slow, horrific, painful death." 10 years later on May 15th,
2020 Kruse faced a hearing to determine whether he was
eligible for full parole and escorted temporary absences. Jo-Anne Landolt Kimberly's aunt said, "He told the parole board he
wanted the escorted day passes because he wanted to
go to church on Sundays which is ridiculous because
they have chaplains in prison." She was listening in to
the hearing virtually due to COVID constraints. She added, "It's ridiculous. We could be going through this
again and again and again. And who knows when Cameron's
going to start trying? We're not going to see the end
of this until they are dead or they are released." Kruse's parole was denied
in the first 10 minutes but he will automatically
be eligible for parole again in five years. He can apply for escorted
day passes any time. Reports about the crime were careful not to blame video games,
specifically World of Warcraft. However, the online chat
room played a key role in gathering the evidence
needed to convict Kruse and Cameron. Recalling the tragedy
Kimberly's mother said, "It doesn't go away and thinking
about what she went through is beyond horrific." Kimberly is gone forever,
but Kruse and Cameron may one day be released and
integrated back into society. What are your thoughts
about the chance that these killer boys could
eventually be let out of prison? Let us know in the comments below. And if you found this video interesting, more stories for you to
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