At approximately 1:30 a.m. on April 20, 1965, Leonard Hogue shot and killed his wife and six children with a .357 Magnum revolver.
[1][2][3][4] Leonard Raymond Hogue moved from Saint Boniface, Manitoba (now part of Winnipeg) to Vancouver with his wife and two children.
In the early 1960s, Hogue and another police officer committed a series of thefts, stealing bags of cash from Dairy Queen freezers.
[5] Around the same time in the Vancouver area, a series of robberies were committed at the homes of wealthy people who were on vacation and reported their absence to the police.
On February 11, 1965, Hogue and three other police officers robbed a train carrying banknotes for destruction, stealing $1.2 million.