Sep 10, 2021 · At the time of her murder, Roy Lowther, 51, was a failed poet and teacher. They had two children, Roy had three from his first marriage, and Pat had a boy and a girl from her first marriage. A week after she’d last seen her mother, Pat’s daughter Kathy went to police and reported her missing.

Sep 23, 2000 · Twenty-five years ago today, West Coast poet Pat Lowther was brutally murdered by her husband and fellow poet, Roy Lowther. During her lifetime (1935-1975) she published three books of...

Nov 4, 2013 · To a woman with low self-esteem and febrile ambitions, Roy Lowther was an apparent power figure in the tiny Vancouver literary pond of the 1960s. Pat was doing what women are biologically pro grammed to do.

Dec 1, 2009 · In October 1975 Roy Lowther was charged with the murder of his wife, Pat, a gifted and renowned Canadian poet, when her two young daughters, Chris and Beth, were seven and nine. In this film, the two women revisit the circumstances surrounding the violent death of their mother and try to make sense of their father’s brutal act and its aftermath.

Dec 10, 2005 · Did Roy Lowther script his wife's death, she asks, to fall on Sept. 23, 1975, International Women's Year and the anniversary of Pablo Neruda's death?

Aug 27, 2021 · Roy G. Lowther, 94, born October 18, 1926, in Cambridge, OH, passed away peacefully on the morning of August 25, 2021, at Baptist East Hospital in Louisville, KY. Roy grew up in and around Spencer, WV, where he worked for his father’s oil and gas drilling company.

In an early chapter, Wiesenthal provides a sophisticated reading of Roy Lowther's trial, an event so marked by sensation that it has entered local legal history. The crown prosecutor, in an incredible gesture, introduced Lowther's skull and the hammer that smashed it as evidence.

Roy Lowther, her second husband, whom she had married in 1963, was convicted of her murder in June 1977. He died in Matsqui prison in Abbotsford, British Columbia , on July 14, 1985. Lowther's daughters are the poet Christine Lowther , Beth Lowther, and Kathy Lyons (d. 2015).

Jan 23, 2015 · At 2 pm October 2, 1975, Roy Lowther walked into Detective Fred Menzies' office at the Vancouver Police Department. Lowther was a tall, thin man, casually dressed. His hair was grey-white and he had a white beard.

Dec 29, 2005 · Roy Lowther, who at first insisted that his wife must have been killed by a mysterious stranger but admitted to disposing of the body, was a poet wannabe, frightened by the validation that was...