In May of 1999, convicted bank robber, Ty Conn, escaped from Kingston penitentiary, one of the most heavily secured correctional facilities in Canada. When the police caught up with Conn a few weeks later in a Toronto apartment, rather than facing the balance of his 47-year prison sentence, he decided to take his own life. In Who Killed Ty Conn? Linden MacIntyre and Theresa Burke, the two journalists who were on the phone with Conn just moments before his death, offer a compelling account of Conn's tragic life and the ways in which our system failed him.
In May of 1999, convicted bank robber, Ty Conn, escaped from Kingston penitentiary, one of the most heavily secured correctional facilities in Canada. When the police caught up with Conn a few weeks later in a Toronto apartment, rather than facing the balance of his 47-year prison sentence, he decided to take his own life. In Who Killed Ty Conn? Linden MacIntyre and Theresa Burke, the two journalists who were on the phone with Conn just moments before his death, offer a compelling account of Conn's tragic life and the ways in which our system failed him.