Dean Michael Wiwchar (born 1986) is a Canadian hitman currently serving a life sentence for murdering Johnny Raposo in 2012.
[2] In the fall of 2004, Wiwchar went on a series of violent robberies in York Region, robbing and beating people in fast food restaurants, in their homes and in their automobiles.
[1] The next day, Wiwchar broke into a house and attacked the homeowner with a knife, and mutilated his face by cutting a giant gash from his ear to his lips.
[1] It remains unclear why Wiwchar was sent to British Columbia as normally Canadian prisoners served their sentences in their home provinces.
[4] His parole officer wrote: "For such an young man to have incurred your criminal record and to have been assessed as a maximum security inmate is of concern".
[5] The automobile that Wiwchar was driving was leased by a man who was wanted for other crimes and found inside the vehicle was a considerable quantity of marihuana and a loaded gun.
[5] Wiwchar's parole was revoked as a result of the Maple Ridge traffic incident and he continued to be a violent prisoner.
[7] In an ottoman in his living room, Wiwchar hid a bulletproof vest, handcuffs, 7 handguns, an Uzi submachine gun, two other assault rifles, two shotguns and plus enough ammunition to sustain a lengthy shoot-out.
[7] The handguns that Wiwchar owned were a Smith & Weston, a Ruger, a Colt, a SIG Sauer, a Heckler & Kock, a Taurus and a Norinco.
[7] Like other members of the Wolfpack, Wiwchar communicated obsessively via encrypted texts on the Pretty Good Privacy network, where they often wrote frankly about their plans to commit crimes such as murder.
[7] On 17 January 2012, the gangster Sandip "Dip" Duhre was shot dead in the lobby of the Sheraton Wall Centre in downtown Vancouver.
On the afternoon of 21 May 2012, Robby Alkhalil in Montreal texted Wiwchar and offered him $100,000 in cash in exchange for killing another Wolfpack leader, Johnny Raposo, in Toronto.
College Street is heatey [hot, i.e. difficult to operate on] but if I get em [them] inside the shop its ok no noise why are we killing ice cream people?
[13] Using information supplied by Caputo, Wiwchar began to hunt Raposo in his home neighborhood of Bloor West Village.
[14] He also drew up a map of Bloor Village West neighborhood that included the best escape routes as Wiwchar worked out how much time it would take to drive down each street after he killed Raposo.
[17] In one text to Alkhalil on 29 May 2012, Wiwchar wrote about his desire to have his girlfriend work as a hitwoman, writing: "I like gangster girls who kill[.]
"[18] On 30 May 2012, Alkhalil texted the Hells Angel Larry Amero: "They [the police] got 10 cars tailing Zelda [Wiwchar] in dot [Toronto].
[23] The journalist Jerry Langton wrote "Although it may sound childish and comical, the word 'goof' is considered perhaps the worse insult" in the Canadian underworld, further noting that: "At least two murders in Kingston [prison] alone since the '80s were reported to be the result of someone calling someone else the G-word".
[27] At about 1: 40 pm, Wiwchar walked into the café, dressed as a construction worker and wearing a dusk mask and a blonde wig.
I had the whole construction uniform on mullet helment [helmet] dusk mask orange side road shirt and rocker shades lol I sat down and orderd [ordered] a corona".
[30] Wiwchar, a lean man with cropped hair who stands 6'3 was described as looking more like a university team basketball player than a hitman.
[30] The police found inside of the house of Wiwchar's parents in Stouffville the uniform of a construction worker, a hardhat, and $60,000 in cash.
[34] Justice Gregory Bowden noted that Wiwchar's fingerprints were not found on any of the guns, but his fingerprints were found on a London Drugs bag in which the guns were wrapped in, leading him to conclude: "It is reasonable to infer that either Mr. Wiwchar himself placed the London Drugs bag in the ottoman or he was present in suite 1209 when Ley placed it there.
[39] Creechan wrote: "...the Vancouver hitman, Dean Michael Wiwchar, was being tailed weeks in advance, and yet police wiretaps and his intercepted SMS messages describe how he forged ahead even though he believed he was being watched.
His text messages border on paranoid rants about being followed by ten agents, but also reflect a false confidence that he could outwit those who were on his tail.
He elaborated complicated travel arrangements to evade the police before executing Raposo, but then he was arrested almost immediately and easily when those same messages indicated that he planned to visit his family home in a Toronto suburb".