That was certainly the case for the men whose stories are told in this chapter. All three murdered and escaped detection for a considerable time, until the bodies of their victims resurfaced. Strictly speaking, only in one case did a skeleton actually return to the surface; two of the killers simply left their victims where they were killed.John Munroe: Nobody Asked About Mother and DaughterThe young architect was anything but subtle. He met his lover at a public event, he courted her in full view of the community, he showed up at her home every Sunday, she gave their baby girl his surname, and virtually everyone who knew him regularly saw the couple out and around Saint John, New Brunswick. When the married father of two (now three) decided to murder the mother of his illegitimate child, he hired a coach and coachman, and twice drove her to the spot where what remained of the mother and child eventually were found. And despite making absolutely no effort to hide his cruel deed, he very nearly got away with the murders.John Munroe was born in Ireland in 1839, one of three children of a well-to-do carpenter.
