Katherine May Wilson
The 61-year-old was arrested in January and initially charged with first-degree murder, abduction and forcible confinement.
London, Ont., man pleads guilty to murder in 1970 missing girl case
Barry Vincent Manion, appearing in a Haileybury, Ont., court, received a life sentence for second-degree murder with no possibility of parole for 10 years in Katherine May Wilson's 1970 disappearance in Kirkland Lake.
Her body has never been found.
The 61-year-old was arrested in January and initially charged with first-degree murder, abduction and forcible confinement.
Manion, who most recently lived in London, resided in Kirkland Lake when Katherine went missing on Oct. 10, 1970. He is a distant cousin of the missing girl, her family has said.
The girl had been picking up groceries for her mother, Aline Wilson, on the afternoon she went missing on the town's outskirts. Katherine called home just before 5 p.m. to ask whether she could buy a can of pop or a bag of chips with the leftover change.
Her mother agreed, and Katherine said she was going to walk home. Katherine's two sisters walked out to meet her halfway, but the girl never showed up.
An exhaustive police search that included dogs, helicopters and boats lasted for several weeks.
40 years later
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2009/03/11/kirkland-lake-disappearance.html
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Child-killer found dead in his cell
Barry Manion pleaded guilty to 1970 slaying three days ago..
TIMMINS -- Sentenced to life in prison for a nearly 40-year-old child murder three days ago, a London man was found hanged in his cell at a provincial jail yesterday.
Barry Manion, 61, had pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder in the 1970 slaying of 12-year-old Katherine May Wilson on the outskirts of Kirkland Lake in northern Ontario.
you can read about his DEATH here at
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2009/03/13/8741961.html
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