Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story

he murder trial of Evelyn Dick remains one of the most sensationalized events in Canadian crime history. Evelyn was arrested after local children found the torso of her missing, estranged husband. The head and limbs had been sawed from the body and evidence was later discovered that they had been burned in the furnace of her home. When she was sentenced to hang, her lawyer J. J. Robinette appealed her case, and won an acquittal. …