Episode 372: In the spring of 2007, Glen Douglas Race’s violent odyssey escalated from a regional nightmare in Nova Scotia to an international manhunt that spanned two countries and left a trail of devastation in its wake. After the murders of Michael Knott and Trevor Brewster, Race fled Canada, later claiming that he was driven by delusions of a supernatural war against “demons” and “vampires” that only he could see. His flight would lead him to yet another murder at a hunting lodge in upstate New York, that of Darcy Manor, 35.
He was eventually arrested in Texas after a violent confrontation with U.S. Border Patrol, and ultimately faced justice in two nations. Psychiatric experts grappled with the question of whether he was a cold-blooded killer or a man so consumed by mental illness that he could no longer distinguish reality from fantasy. Ultimately, justice on either side of the border looked very different.
Sources:2014 NSSC 6 (CanLII) | R. v. Race | CanLII)Glen Race Hearing's Agreed Statement of Facts | PDF | Psychosis | Psychiatry)Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia: 2007-05 Murders)Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia: Michael Paul Knott)Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia: Trevor Charles Brewster)Halifax LGBTQ2S+ history: Cruising Citadel Hill - Nova Scotia Advocate)Before the parade)Michael Paul Knott | Obituary)Man charged with murder of Halifax-area gay men)Nov 2013: Details of Halifax stabbing deaths told)‘I will always need you, Daddy’)Nov 2013: Details of Halifax stabbing deaths told)
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