And now, twenty years later, the crime, often called a "national tragedy," continues to fascinate and disturb, distilled into poetry in the recent Griffin Prize nominated book Tell, discussed on true-crime podcasts, and studied in high school, college, and law school classrooms. Her case became the subject of artwork, poems, plays, academic essays, documentaries and my book, Under The Bridge. Her part in a vicious, unfathomable murder sparked an intense media frenzy, drawing reporters from GQ, The New York Times and Dateline to her hometown on Vancouver Island. Yet, the woman, dubbed "Killer Kelly" by the media, was once a staple of breaking news updates and newspaper front pages. In the small room Kelly told the board members that she was eight months pregnant, and her impending motherhood changed her, allowing her to "see the world with different eyes."įor those born in the 90s, the name Kelly Ellard might not be familiar. This past October, in Abbotsford, British Columbia, a young woman named Kelly Ellard, serving a life sentence for murder, went before the Parole Board of Canada to request prison release.
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