Clare Fader wants to clear her son’s name.

In the spring of last year, Randy Fader Jr. was shot point-blank, execution style, in the driveway of his Niagara Falls home. It was early in the evening. His wife and kids were inside. And the gunman and his driver got away. Since then, Clare says, police have “made him out to be a monster.”

In reality, he was far from that, she says. “He was the most loving person in this world.” He was a victim, she insists.

The Star has been speaking with Clare on and off for a year since Fader’s murder was first connected — by the FBI — to a massive cartel-linked cocaine ring led by a Canadian ex-Olympian. Now, in an exclusive interview at her Niagara home, she is speaking publicly for the first time.

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