Seriously Illegal Predation
Now how about that? Another story of another womanizing bounder, this time in Toronto. Complementing, in a way, the notorious Bountiful Mormon sect in British Columbia, where Winston Blackmore and James Oler couldn't amass enough women and children to adequately fulfil their obligations to their cherished religion. Now there's another candidate to be charged under Section 293 of the Criminal Code in Canada.
An Irish immigrant who, on the evidence - inclusive of interviews he fulsomely gave - was not a lover of women, but a greedy predator on the weaker sex. And how weak they proved to be, succumbing to the allure he presented to them: "Conning women is easy. I studied psychology and behaviour patterns. I presented myself as a dashing, suave sort of guy and women fell for it.
"I have a strong personality and an air of total respectability. And, of course, I'm a good lover - that's the sealing factor." Boastful, isn't he, the clever hound? That's part of an interview he gave with the Daily Mail in 2006, around the time that a documentary film based on his exploits in serial marriages was aired on British Television.
The film was titled "The Conman With 14 Wives", but, claimed Oliver John Killeen, that was wrong. Over a 25-year span, following the death of his original wife in 1974, leaving him with eight children, he married a total of nineteen women. Oh perhaps the term 'marry' is misunderstood here, for he never did go to the cost and bother of obtaining divorces before embarking on yet another connubial adventure.
He amassed, he explained a "collection of wives" out of necessity; to care for his young brood. "Getting divorced is costly and time-consuming, so I decided not to bother" he explained nonchalantly. His penchant for re-inventing himself, presenting as someone he was not, as for example posing as a psychologist with fake degrees, further made him 'irresistible' to women, he said.
This is a man of many parts. Now an elderly 71, Oliver John Killeen was also involved with organized crime in Canada and the United Kingdom. As befits a criminal, his relationships were expressed by "extremely violent" episodes. Causing a judge in an Irish court to sentence him on bigamy charges in 2004, citing the "cruelty and gross deception inflicted on the women in [his] life".
Now he faces charges in Canada, for his bigamous con game. Prison won't be a new experience for him, having spent prison time on fraud charges, previously. Still, with all the information available about his life-style, police are searching for information from his many past wives, asking they contact Crime Stoppers or local authorities.
The man doesn't present as a paragon of virtue, to be sure, but it hardly seems fair to disturb the serene and contemplative nature of his departure into obscurity and agedness. One might think he deserves to revel in the massive self confidence of a life lived well and truly badly.
An Irish immigrant who, on the evidence - inclusive of interviews he fulsomely gave - was not a lover of women, but a greedy predator on the weaker sex. And how weak they proved to be, succumbing to the allure he presented to them: "Conning women is easy. I studied psychology and behaviour patterns. I presented myself as a dashing, suave sort of guy and women fell for it.
"I have a strong personality and an air of total respectability. And, of course, I'm a good lover - that's the sealing factor." Boastful, isn't he, the clever hound? That's part of an interview he gave with the Daily Mail in 2006, around the time that a documentary film based on his exploits in serial marriages was aired on British Television.
The film was titled "The Conman With 14 Wives", but, claimed Oliver John Killeen, that was wrong. Over a 25-year span, following the death of his original wife in 1974, leaving him with eight children, he married a total of nineteen women. Oh perhaps the term 'marry' is misunderstood here, for he never did go to the cost and bother of obtaining divorces before embarking on yet another connubial adventure.
He amassed, he explained a "collection of wives" out of necessity; to care for his young brood. "Getting divorced is costly and time-consuming, so I decided not to bother" he explained nonchalantly. His penchant for re-inventing himself, presenting as someone he was not, as for example posing as a psychologist with fake degrees, further made him 'irresistible' to women, he said.
This is a man of many parts. Now an elderly 71, Oliver John Killeen was also involved with organized crime in Canada and the United Kingdom. As befits a criminal, his relationships were expressed by "extremely violent" episodes. Causing a judge in an Irish court to sentence him on bigamy charges in 2004, citing the "cruelty and gross deception inflicted on the women in [his] life".
Now he faces charges in Canada, for his bigamous con game. Prison won't be a new experience for him, having spent prison time on fraud charges, previously. Still, with all the information available about his life-style, police are searching for information from his many past wives, asking they contact Crime Stoppers or local authorities.
The man doesn't present as a paragon of virtue, to be sure, but it hardly seems fair to disturb the serene and contemplative nature of his departure into obscurity and agedness. One might think he deserves to revel in the massive self confidence of a life lived well and truly badly.
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