Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free june 1987 Inse duo parable 3affled Dale free press classmates by Maureen Murray Ron Jean stared Down at his cupped hands quickly filling with the Gash on his Palm was a sym Bol of his baptism into a twisted pact to Rule the moments Robert Chaulk sat at a Kitchen table gripping a razor Sharp Hunting knife and per formed the rite of Jean had offered his hand As a willing sacrifice with the help of eight a slight scar would be the Only four months later on Chaulk pressed a similar Blade against George Edgar Haywood Throat and Slit it this time the victim had no the 83yearold mans cries for mercy faded As he was repeatedly stabbed and the perpetually scowling then had befriended a dangling youth named Francis Darren mor Rissette 11 months earlier in octo Ber 15 at the a dark haired teen with inquisitive eyes and Clown like was the perfect foil to the brooding Blond breaking Chaulk was in Grade 9 at san some Junior High Morris Sette in Grade 10 at Sturgeon Creek regional secondary they lived within walking Dis Tance of each others Homes in a quiet James a 16yearold with a Grade 3 Reading moved to the area in february and became instant friends with the in separable by the time Chaulk entered Grade 10 at Sturgeon Creek and Morrissette was in Grade they had committed several House breaking and killed months before they took Haywood the duo contemplated slaying Jean he Chaulk would say to How would it feel like to kill someone i knew someone would end up Jean former classmates often were mystified by the Chaulk enjoyed fantasizing about killing teachers he Andre Mitchell he would come Home and if i had a Little id stick it in that goofs he but i never took him Mitchell recognized his error in judgment during Chaulk and mor Rissetter first degree murder a psychologist testified Chaulk told him Mitchell was the preferred tar it scares me a Mitchell said in a recent especially since Chaulk has been Send ing messages via his younger brother for Mitchell to visit him at the Manitoba youth where he was being he was a Little strange but 1 cant understand him doing some thing like that wanting to kill i always thought Morrissette was the really weird a classmates were divided Over which of the pair was More Dis the debate continued in the schoolyard rumours had it that Chaulk ate part of a cows Eye while dissecting it in science and he created a stir when he shaved his head in Grade he used to be so contended a who attended Bedson elementary school with Chaulk was seen As a Dull loner who shunned organized sports and group i was always afraid of another former Bedson now recalling How Chaulk always threatened to beat her then there was Morrissette the flamboyant weird one who thrived on making a spectacle of an underprivileged Par native scorned by Many and pitied by Jean said Morrissette came up with the plan to Rule the he formulated the hypothesis of How to achieve enough mental Power to move Large alter Peoples destinies and finally control the at other times Morrissette could be found in his basement trying to make Ive watched Darren a couple of times make these Little Mitchell he was always really Morrissette also led try ing to Contact dead relatives and the Morrissette and Chaulk claimed to hear voices of the dead during the Midnight Jean said he didst hear any thing but he As he did with their plot to conquer the i was in this 1 just said or did anything to be the three killed neighbourhood cats and picked he wed tie something to the cats and throw them in the River and watch the Little bubbles come if we didst like wed beat them up if they did Jean the neighbourhood considered the threesome and they honed their skills playing the Jean experts look further Back for the answer to chalks and Morris settes they link it to a genetic infected by environmental abuse and on Morrissette was born in Winnipeg to an alcoholic and abusive when he was just months old she gave him to a childcare before his first she took him the boy and his younger sister allegedly were physically abused by his Mother and psychologist Eric Ellis testified during the jumbled blur the violent and neglect Ful first five or six years of his life showed him it was safer to be in the world of his Ellis Morrissette drifted with his Mother throughout the by the time he was his various Homes and schools had become a jumbled blur in his in 1980 after a custody he and his sister went to live with their Stepmother and two Brothers near Morrissette father worked in construction in Northern Manitoba and was Seldom by the chalks fair haired baby born Christmas eve was raised in a stable Middle class he grew up on White Gates cres a Street of neatly manicured lawns and Well kept chalks father works As a technician for a Crown his Mother stayed Home to raise him and his younger hobbies parents Are super Nice a 17yearold neighbor Justice Patrick Ferg ruled that Chaulk left and Morrissette must spend at least 25 years in he and his brother had every they were Rode dirt bikes but a closer look revealed cracks in the polished an expert who had Contact with the chalks Chaulk was a poor student who failed several Grade 9 a learning disability was Dis covered Only when his parents took him for an intelligence not Long before the he had difficulty doing some things in school and it caused a lot of stress in the the who asked not to be chalks mathematics skills were particularly weak and his father forced him to practise for he was under a lot of the expert chalks parents didst suspect their son had serious psychological a psychiatrist who saw him in october because of discipline said the trouble was re lated to a Short attention his in court throughout the appeared tense and Visi Bly pained As a psychiatrist Testi fied their son was the sickest adolescent he had on the other Morrissette family knew there was something but didst know How to Deal with after the killing they stopped and moved to Sas Katche the two enigmas to those around tragically found each they feed off each fan Ning the flames of an expert dangerous symptoms seen in children for every Robert Chaulk and Francis Darren Morrissette who others Are ticking in class rooms waiting to a Winni Peg psychiatrist Sheila who special izes in adolescent said most of these children will go undetected until its too it terrifies me that the schools Arent picking up on these who treats paranoid schizophrenic said she agrees with several psychiatrists who testified that Chaulk and mor Rissette were suffering from that particular mental she said such children who go berserk in adolescence Likely Dis played symptoms of maladjusted behaviour since Early you have to be dumb and stupid not to notice she the brooding child who is a loner and has difficulty coping with group situations is an Early warning Sig Nal of paranoid can Tor the child who is labelled As weird and acts out is often although most adult schizophrenics behaved unusually during child Keith Sig Anundson every Odd child will not develop i he if you stand these children Side there is no Way to predict which ones will become Schizo said he Chaulk brooding Blond provinces director of adolescent he estimated there Are about 500 psychotic children Between the Ages of five and 18 in Manitoba and of a Small percentage Likely have a paranoid psychosis is a mental state in which someone loses touch with if the condition lasts for More than six a person is diagnosed As some experts testified at the trial thu Chaulk and Morrissette were suffering paranoid psychosis when they killed George Edgar Haywood on the professional opinions differed As to whether their delusional state was Shorter Morrissette perfect foil a person who is paranoid is Pla Gued with fears of persecution or suffers from grandiose and unshakeable a predisposition to schizophrenia is believed to be passed on through a genetic experts argued Over the extent to which environmental pressures contribute to bring on the Cantor and Sigmundson agree that Only a Small percentage of paranoid schizophrenics will Ever become but they said it is a game of Chance trying to predict which ones will Cantor said unpredictability is All the More reason Why no child Dis playing Early symptoms should be a schizophrenic child who receives treatment at an Early age is least Likely to be violent she schools have the Best Vantage Point to pick abnormal children out of the Cantor but she believes it is a responsibility the education system is largely the schools blissfully sit on these very disturbed kids their Heads firmly in the she said schizophrenic children often have learning if the disability is treated improving the Childs self esteem it often helps his underlying mental Chaulk was first diagnosed As having a learning disability shortly before Haywood Cantor said although Chaulk and Morrissette Likely were Predis posed to mental they have exploded without the right several experts who testified said the catalyst Likely was their Friend child psychologist Eric Ellis said the pair came to share the same twisted delusional a rare psychiatric condition known As Folies a Deus madness of if they haunt Likely neither of them would have committed Ellis m hero in one of favorite heavy Metal songs Robert Chaulk killed at but the hero in one of his favorite heavy Metal songs killed at the morning George Haywood brutal death was publicized As win Nipges 10th murder of Chaulk Phil Winnipeg whet Tress fantasized he was the protagonist in a heavy Metal his Friend Ron Jean As the Media reported gory de tails on Jean said he and Chaulk laughed about the killing while listening to Iron maid ens song Sun and the lyrics to the song begin you killed your first at killer animal supreme Rob kept that Robert Chaulk and Darren Morrissette enjoyed heavy Metal albums like those that now he was really Liy in you had Learned to fight the Way of the you took it us your the song Chaulk and his fran Cis Darren would later Tell police and psychiatrists they had the right to kill their trial was told Chaulk and Morrissette believed they had bes towed on each other the right to take a the heavy Metal music they enjoyed Likely also gave Sanction to their act of a Winnipeg psychiatrist Sheila who special izes in treating said a desire to emulate their musical heroes could have contributed to pushing Chaulk and Morrissette Over the while music has Little influence on the average Cantor said in an it can further distort a deviant it can have a devastating Impact on a sick she at the several psychiatric described Morrissette and Chaulk As paranoid cantor1 said schizophrenic Chil Dren tend to Echo whatever they music gets stuck in their Heads and drives them nuts or pushes them to act on she she said the music also May have provided Chaulk and Morrissette with validation for their behaviour that they didst find the lyrics from one of the youths favorite Black Sabbath master of according to echoes the doctors straight people dont know what youre about they put you Down and shut you you gave me a new belief a psychologist at the University of Manitoba said there is clinical evidence that maladjusted adolescents Are drawn by music with themes of death and the edouard Schludermann said a 1985 Canadian study showed teens use music As a sign of Power and free it music often stimulates cer Tain kinds of fantasies that they can do certain things which they cant in their daily Schludermann said in an while Normal adolescents have Little difficulty separating fantasy from he disturbed teens Andre a former school mate of Chaulk and said the youths used to refer to heavy Metal songs while they de scribed How they would like to kill they would follow the lyrics and talk about stabbing someone and marking them with the number of the Mitchell referring to the Iron Maiden number of the Mitchell said although he and his other friends were also heavy Metal they we rent As wrapped up in it As Morrissette and he said Morrissette used to talk incessantly about becoming master of an idea he thinks Morris Sette stole from the Black Sabbath album of the same the teenagers expressed plan to Rule the world was based on a premise of gaining the mental ability to manipulate he has the Power to for see or to look into the the time will Home for him to claim his and then the foes yes be Cut Down to tame a by Iron ;