Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story

Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story

🎞️ Movie 91 min CA
โ˜… 6.0 /10 2002

The 1946/1947 murder trial of young and beautiful Evelyn Dick remains the most lurid murder case in Canadian history. After children find only the torso of her missing husband, John, Evelyn is arrested for his murder. The head and limbs had been sawed from his body and evidence that they had been burned in the furnace of her home (she and her adolescent daughter shared with her parents) later surfaced. (There is some weird twist involving her parents and a supposed baby boy that she gave up for adoption some 3 years prior to the murder.) After she was sentenced to hang, lawyer J.J. Robinette appealed her case, and won an eventual acquittal. But, when police are tipped-off by her father, the decayed remains of Evelyn's baby boy encased in cement under the floor boards of her home are found. Although she is acquitted of the murder of her husband, she is sentenced to 11 years in prison for the murder of her infant son. No one was ever convicted of the murder of John Dick. Evelyn was released from prison in 1958. After her release, her whereabouts were never known or at least never reported or published.

Cast

Kathleen Robertson
Kathleen Robertson
Evelyn Dick
Victor Garber
Victor Garber
J.J. Robinette
Brenda Fricker
Brenda Fricker
Alexandra MacLean
Callum Keith Rennie
Callum Keith Rennie
Inspector Wood
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Ken James
Donald MacLean
Jonathan Potts
Jonathan Potts
Detective Sgt. Preston
Tom McCamus
Tom McCamus
Crown Prosecutor Rigney
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Jim Boeven
John Dick
Joseph Scoren
Joseph Scoren
Bill Bohozuk
Bruce Gray
Bruce Gray
Third Trial Judge
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Christopher Dedrick
Composer
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Nikos Evdemon
Cinematographer