Carol Ann MacWilliams and her brother-in-law, Jack MacWilliams, were part of a rough party crowd who did their boozing at the Continental Hotel in North Bay.

But sometime during the summer of 1969, things soured. There were whispers that sex worker Carol was singing to the cops about the group’s criminal activities.

That November, officers discovered the bodies of the MacWilliams, lying face down in about two feet of water in the North River. Carol was shot twice in the head with a .38 calibre revolver, while Jack had been shot through the mouth.

Both were very dead.

The investigation was stuck on cold until 1975, when the MacWilliams coterie of low-rent pals were arrested. One of the killers was hyper-violent Donald Kelly, 37, a lifelong criminal.

He had attempted to murder Carol Ann

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