The case was closed on 11 January 1994 without an interview with Turner. This story broke my heart. Turners work took her to Iowa, while Bagby served out medical residencies in New York and Pennsylvania. Those new to the group are almost in a stupor as they enter the room. Promotional still from "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father" via Oscilloscope Laboratories. You have entered an incorrect email address! In 1983, Turner moved to Labrador City and worked as a science teacher. The Bagbys still hold a bitterness when they talk about how they were failed by a legal system that let Turner out on bail and allowed her to retain custody of Zachary. During her remedial second residency period in early 2000, Turner missed nine days of her three-month rotation and falsified clinical reports. Bagby came from Sunnyvale, California, and was the son of Kathleen Daphne Bagby (ne Barnard), a registered nurse and midwife from Chatham, England, United Kingdom; and David Franklin Bagby, an American former United States Navy serviceman and computer engineer. Tragic doesn't even come close to describing this case. The following morning, Bagby's body was found in a day-use parking lot at Keystone State Park in Derry Township, Pennsylvania. While they could not have foreseen the murder or their son, Andrew, they did everything they could to keep their grandson, Zachery, safe. Even before the ultimate tragic end,I strongly felt that it was a crime within itself that that woman had that defenceless child. Since 1982, Turner had taken out baby bonuses for her children from a scholarship fund with the expectation of sending them to university. Also in Turner's apartment were MapQuest printouts for road directions to Latrobe. Doucet said he was "disappointed" by the verdict, while David Bagby stated that he was happy with the precedent his case would be setting. [21], The Chicago Film Critics Association nominated Dear Zachary for its Best Documentary award, and the Society of Professional Journalists presented the film with its Sigma Delta Chi Award for Best Documentary. Zachary Andrew Turner (18 July 2002 18 August 2003)[2]:78 was a Canadian child from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, who was killed by his mother, Shirley Jane Turner, in a murdersuicide. Now an award-wining filmmaker, Kurt Kuenne met Andrew Bagby in first grade at St. Andrews Episcopal School in Saratoga. I was just hoping more from this book, but I can understand it. Then, in August 2003, Shirley killed herself and the one-year-old Zachary by jumping into the Atlantic Ocean. [5], Shirley Jane Turner (28 January 1961 18 August 2003) was a Canadian-American daughter of a U.S. serviceman and local woman from St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador. Canadian authorities' decisioncontradicted the advisement of Pennsylvaniaprosecutors. When I read true crime, I like to see more back story of the people involved. In the fall of 2001, Bagby moved to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and began his residency at a family practice under the supervision of T. Clark Simpson. [4] The case led to the passage of Bill C-464, or Zachary's Bill, strengthening the conditions for bail in Canadian courts in cases involving the well-being of children. Sign up forThe Lineup's newsletter, and get our chilling investigations delivered straight to your inbox. . I also want to get the Early Bird Books newsletter featuring great deals on ebooks. It pains me to award only two stars to a book written by David Bagby, but I want to use the Goodreads' ranking system more accurately. [8] Turner was released from Her Majesty's Penitentiary's Clarenville Correctional Centre for Women, and was required to post CAD$75,000 bail, turn in her passports, pay weekly visits to the RNC, promise not to leave the area, and make no attempt to contact Bagby's family. Murders of Andrew Bagby and Zachary Turner, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, Learn how and when to remove this template message, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, "Murder-suicide funeral: An assignment to dread", "No need for Zachary Turner to die: death review", "Canadian judge let Turner free despite U.S. advice", Why Was an Accused Killer Free to Kill Again? In August 2000, Turner moved to Sac City, Iowa, to begin work for Trimark Physicians Corporation. Eight months later, Turner purchased a lethal amount of Lorazepam, drugged both herself and her infant son, strapped him to her chest, and jumped into the ocean at Conception Bay South in Newfoundland. No spoilers here for my friends but you must watch this film. While she was serving her medical residency, her supervising physician, who would later describe her as a manipulative, guiltless psychopath, said that she frequently became hostile, yelling, crying, and accusing me of treating her unfairly.. Andrew David Bagby was born on 25 September 1973. Local police called the Bagbys, who were living in Sunnyvale at the time, and told them to contact the Penn. When Dear Zachary was released on DVD, Kuenne sent 400 copies to every single member of Canadian Parliament. Its a day the couple would most likely prefer to spend quietly, avoiding the phone. 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Central Coast Ace Hardware (David; Kate and Zachary; Shirley and Zachary) Mrs. Bagby and her husband were. He was a man whose smiling eyes and kind heart put friends, colleagues and strangers at ease. We just want as many people as possible to know this story, the documentary, for the practical reasons in my fantasies, I suppose some judge, some place, actually gets it and denies bail to somebody who could kill again. David Bagby. and allowed to play Russian Roulette with her baby's and other people's lives is totally ludacris. Later, a Derry resident reported having seen Bagby's Toyota Corolla parked next to Turner's RAV4 ten minutes after Bagby made his last phone call to Simpson and the Corolla parked alone the following morning. Most people do figure out how to at least keep on how to eat and breathe, at least. Released in 2008, the filmmakes the cut as one ofthe greatest documentaries of all time. Society as a whole should take the lessons derived from this book and just pray the same tragedy never befalls their own family. They both drowned. Shortly after his death, she fled to Canada and settled back in St. Johns. However, in 2003a month to the day after Zacharys first birthdayTurner drugged both herself and her son and jumped from a wharf into the Atlantic Ocean in a tragic murder-suicide. Andrew Bagby was born on September 25, 1973 and died on November 5, 2001. View the profiles of people named David Bagby. People We Want to See on a Comedy Central Roast, Your Favorite Mothers from MTV's "Teen Mom". [2]:86. David and Kathleen Bagby, the parents of murdered Latrobe doctor Andrew Bagby, are pleased with how quickly a recent push for bail reform in Canada has gained ground since their grandson was killed in 2003. In the wake of the shocking turn of events, Andrews father, David Bagby, wrote a true crime memoir that is described as a eulogy for a dead son, an elegy for lives cut tragically short, and a castigation of a broken system.. They also went to Ottawa to push the case for Bill C-464, which had been introduced by then Liberal MP Scott Andrews, at a committee hearing. The experience with Turner led that St. John's practice to make "constructive changes" in its residency evaluation process. If you are a WordPress user with administrative privileges on this site, please enter your email address in the box below and click "Send". You can download Dance with the Devil today, and stream Dear Zachary on Amazon Prime. We need each other, have each other to get through this, added David. By the time investigators issued a warrant for Turners arrest, she had fled the country and returned to her home province of Newfoundland. Zachary would be 15 now, the same age as their godson. They do still attend occasional meetings for a group supporting parents whove lost children, not necessarily through crime. Kate Bagby feels her son was too trusting to agree to meet Turner at the park the day he was killed. David Bagby wrote Dance with the Devil: A Memoir of Murder and Loss, a best-seller in Canada in 2007, about his family's ordeal. Three years later, Turner and her second husband divorced, and she was granted custody of their daughter. Turner alternately told her shooting instructor that her gun had been stolen. When Turner visited him in Latrobe in late October 2001immediately after the last of her firearms lessons in Omahathe two frequently argued over his relationship with a new girlfriend. Meanwhile, Andrew Bagbys friends and family have shared their stories with the same intention in mind. Not only do you get the whole story of how the justice system failed, but Dave goes on to explain how it should be fixed. Maybe it's being told your son was taken from you and then, with no consolation, immediately asking questions as to why he was where he was when he passed? On 10 July 2001, less than a year into her ten-year contract with Trimark, Turner left their Sac City clinic and moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where she was hired by Alegent Health System of Omaha, Nebraska. The Bagbys, who recently marked their 50th wedding anniversary, say it sustained them for nearly a decade as they struggled to come to terms first with the 2001 slaying of their 28-year-old son, Dr. Andrew Bagby, and later with the murder of Andrew's son, 13 . In 2003, 13-month-old Zacharys body washed up on Manuels Beach, along with Turners. Despite the evidence gathered, Turner had fled the country by the time authorities obtained a warrant for her arrest. Between 1998 and 2000, she served as a resident physician at teaching hospitals across Newfoundland. Therefore be forewarned that the back of the book reveals exactly what happened, as does the book itself near the beginning. On 2 December, the Unit seized her trash and discovered printouts for an ultrasound taken on 29 November, showing a fetus that was conceived with Bagby the previous month. This is the most moving and incredibly outrageous true story I've ever heard. The news that Turner was pregnant with Bagby's child turned the extradition case into one involving child custody, and subsequently led to a complicated legal saga.