Lorne Joe Acquin (March 21, 1950 – June 2015)[2] was a Canadian-American mass murderer who killed his foster brother's wife, her seven children, and their niece in their home at Cedar Hill Drive in Prospect, Connecticut, on July 22, 1977, by beating them to death with a tire iron.
[1][4] On Friday, July 22, 1977, Lorne Acquin went to the home of his foster brother Fred Beaudoin, who was at work at the time, and killed the latter's wife Cheryl, their seven children, and a niece of theirs by bludgeoning them to death with a tire iron.
Within 24 hours, police interviewed more than a hundred witnesses, including Fred Beaudoin and Lorne J. Acquin.
The following Sunday night, Acquin agreed to make a statement to police in which he admitted to attacking his sister-in-law and the children.
He served his sentence in MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution until his June 2015 death from a severe brain bleed at the UConn Health Center in Farmington.