Nancy Eaton

Nancy Alice Edward Eaton (May 28, 1962 – January 21, 1985) was a Canadian heiress, the great-great-granddaughter of Timothy Eaton, founder of Eaton's department stores. She was the only daughter of Edward Eaton and Nancy Leigh Gossage Eaton of Toronto.

Murder

On January 21, 1985, Eaton was stabbed twenty-one times and then raped in her apartment in Toronto. An acquaintance of Eaton's, Andrew Leyshon-Hughes, who was himself a member of the Osler family, admitted to murdering her, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He was remanded to the custody of a psychiatric hospital, where he will remain until his release.

In popular culture

In 2003, the television film The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton, was released. The film was based on the book A Question of Guilt, by William Scoular.

Notes

See also

• Eaton Family

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