Nine people, all members of the Peterson family, were shot in the head by a man who was later called "Canada's worst random mass murderer.

"[1] Victor Hoffman was 21 years old at the time of the murders and had been released from a mental hospital just three weeks prior.

[2] He then proceeded to shoot all but one of the present members of the Peterson family, seven of them children, at close range around the four-room house.

During the trial, Crown prosecutor Serge Kujawa called Hoffman "the craziest man in Saskatchewan.

He remained most of the time in an Ontario-based institution until December 2001, when he was granted supervised access to the towns of Penetanguishene, Port McNicoll and Midland in Ontario.

Canadian journalist Peter Tadman wrote a book about the murders in 1992 and had the chance to interview Hoffman several times.