Christine Demeter (1940 – July 18, 1973) was murdered in the garage of her home in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 33. The case attracted much attention in Canada because Demeter, a model, was considered to be young and beautiful, and her murder had been mysterious.[1][2]
The case was investigated by Detective William Teggart (who would later rise to police chief) of the Peel Regional Police.[3] Demeter's husband, Peter Demeter, was subsequently convicted[when?] of hiring a killer to murder her to cash in on a million-dollar insurance policy. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. He later received a second life sentence for unrelated criminal acts; as of May 31, 2010, then 77 years old, he was still in prison in Ontario.
George Jonas and his then-wife Barbara Amiel, published a book about the case, By Persons Unknown: The Strange Death of Christine Demeter (1976).
The Demeter case served as the basis for the fictional 1978 film I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses, directed by Murray Markowitz. The victim is renamed Magdalene Kruschen and is played by German actress Elke Sommer.
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^"Daughter of notorious wife-killer Peter Demeter says 'twisted' childhood caused PTSD". CBC News.
^"Chief Teggart - Peel Regional Police". Archived from the original on 2018-02-02. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
ChristineDemeter (1940 – July 18, 1973) was murdered in the garage of her home in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 33. The case attracted...
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the monster Echidna, by an otherwise unknown Perias. Although usually Demeter was the mother, by Zeus, of the underworld-goddess Persephone, according...
either male or female depending on region and cult. Limos was opposed by Demeter, goddess of grain and the harvest with whom Ovid wrote Limos could never...
transformed into a mint plant by either his wife Persephone or her mother Demeter. The plant was also called by some as hedyosmos (Ancient Greek: ἡδύοσμος)...
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the underworld. When Demeter found out that Zeus had given Hades permission to abduct Persephone and take her as a wife, Demeter became enraged at Zeus...
brothers live with their father Astraeus; Eurus serves nectar in cups when Demeter pays a visit. In the Pergamon Altar, which depicts the battle of the gods...
brothers live with their father Astraeus; Notus serves water from a jug when Demeter pays a visit. In the Iliad, Notus dined together with his brothers in a...
Arion's more common parentage is different, in this case the Olympians Demeter and Poseidon. In some sources Zephyrus has a son named Carpus ("fruit")...
mythology and ritual the myrtle was sacred to the goddesses Aphrodite and also Demeter: Artemidorus asserts that in interpreting dreams "a myrtle garland signifies...
century BCE, likened Isis to Demeter, whose mythical search for her daughter Persephone resembled Isis's search for Osiris. Demeter was one of the few Greek...
from the original on 2013-04-09. www.demeter-usa.org/, Demeter USA. "Demeter History - Demeter USA". www.demeter-usa.org. Retrieved 2017-06-28. "European...
with a deer skin, besides Demeter and Persephone. It was said that she was not the daughter of Leto, but the daughter of Demeter. Stymphalia, of Stymphalus...
marriage but also consented to the abduction. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter he asks Demeter to sooth her pain, as Hades is not an unworthy son-in-law or bridegroom...
fertility, possibly the Minoan poppy goddess, or an early form of the goddess Demeter. Opium poppy has also been found in settlements of the Unetice culture...
Vatican Mythographers records the story and supplants Leto with Ceres/Demeter, who tried to drink from the spring, thirsty as she was after days of looking...
Circe. Isis, the good Mother (fruit, birth, rebirth, immortality); also: Demeter and Ishtar (Inanna). Mary (spiritual transformation); also: Kwan-Yin (Avalokiteśvara)...
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