A Nova Scotia man who raped and murdered a 12-year-old Ontario woman, later decapitating her useless physique in an try to cover proof, has been launched on parole and resides within the Halifax space.
In keeping with Halifax Regional Police, 73-year-old high-risk offender Douglas Value resides in Dartmouth.
Value, initially from the Pictou County space of Nova Scotia, was launched after serving 35 years of a federal life sentence for the December 1987 second-degree homicide of Trina Campbell in Brampton, Ont.
Nationwide Submit has contacted the Parole Board of Canada to acquire a replica of their determination to launch Value, who police say can haven’t any contact with kids or his victims, no medicine or alcohol, and should report all relationships.
Value has a legal historical past relationship again to 1968 that features break-ins, motorcar theft and the 1978 rape of an Indigenous woman in Ontario, for which he was sentenced and served eight years, incomes his launch in June of 1987, about seven months earlier than he killed Campbell.
The circumstances surrounding that homicide are detailed in a number of information articles from the time and are additionally explored in
a 2005 episode of the tv collection Crime Tales.
Within the present, it notes that shortly earlier than his launch, Value had mentioned he deliberate to kill folks and go on a rampage as retribution for his incarceration. Regardless of these considerations, he had served his restricted sentence, and nothing in Canadian regulation on the time established safeguards round launch.
After Value acquired out within the spring, nonetheless, police tracked him to Edmonton, the place he reconnected with a girl named Mary Kelly and her teenage son from a unique relationship, Shawn. Police mentioned they misplaced monitor of Value quickly after, however believed he returned to Ontario.
Police mentioned Campbell, a Metis woman who’d had a troubled life, was dwelling in a bunch residence within the fall of 1987 after having run away from foster dad and mom on a number of events.
When she did not return to the ability on Dec. 11, they thought at first she might need run away once more.
A months-long investigation into her disappearance ensued, however police didn’t have any credible leads by the point February rolled round. Regardless of no proof of foul play, the file was handed off to murder detectives Edward Toye and Len Favreau.
In the meantime, Peel police had been utterly unaware that Value was dwelling in a downtown boarding home near the place Campbell was final seen by her college bus driver.
”We had no thought this sadistic predator had moved into our space,” Inspector Rod Piukkala mentioned on Crime Tales.
Authorities later realized Value was quickly rejoined by the Kellys, and in March of 1988, he requested Mary to hire a car and accompany him in order that he may transfer proof associated to an undisclosed crime.
“He left the automobile with a hockey bag and went into this ravine space. He then was seen by Mary to return from there carrying this hockey bag that was now laden with one thing,” assistant Crown prosecutor Al O’Marra mentioned on the present.
The 2 drove about an hour north of Brampton, the place Mary mentioned Value took the bag into the woods and got here again with it empty.
Again in Brampton, he then ordered 14-year-old Shawn to wash up a stain left within the automobile’s trunk.
After the Kellys moved with Value to his residence province in April, Shawn requested his college’s steerage counsellor and Stellarton Police for assist escaping the violence he was experiencing at residence, in line with a 2005 article in The Night Information in New Glasgow.
Throughout that chat, Sgt. Hugh Muir, realizing Value was wished in reference to crimes in Ontario, requested Shawn about Brampton particularly, prompting {the teenager} to recount the stain story and that he had heard Value inform different members of the family that he had killed a person there, not a lady.
“We had been each surprised,” Muir mentioned of himself and the steerage counsellor. “We had no inkling in any way that this was coming.”
Armed with new info, Toye and Favreau situated the rental automobile with the darkish stain. Testing rapidly revealed it to be not solely human blood, however decomposed human blood. In addition they found the uncommon blood sort is frequent amongst Indigenous individuals, main police to suppose there may very well be a “unfastened likelihood” of a Campbell connection.
The Peel detectives travelled to N.S. to start surveilling Value, however had little proof to behave on. Earlier than lengthy, Sharon and Wade Lewis, Value’s sister and brother-in-law, agreed to interviews, throughout which they spoke concerning the homicide admission overheard by Shawn and Value’s rising paranoia that somebody would discover the physique and join it to him.
“They suggested us that Doug had approached them requesting help to get again to Brampton in order that he may retrieve the pinnacle of the sufferer,” Favreau mentioned on Crime Tales. “Doug instructed them that if you will get the pinnacle of the sufferer, it will forestall anybody from having the ability to establish the sufferer.”
Armed with that data, police devised a plan whereby they would offer cash and a rented automobile to Sharon that she would give to Value and urge him to hit the highway and cope with his drawback.
Value took the bait, and police discreetly tailed him again to Brampton, the place he and Mary arrived on the evening of Could 7 beneath fixed surveillance. Value gave police the slip in a single day, however officers fanned out and finally situated the pair exiting the woods.
“I’ll always remember that sight and that immense wave of reduction that washed over me after we noticed the automobile parked there and noticed Doug popping out of the bush carrying a gymnasium bag. He didn’t appear to pay us any thoughts,” Peel Det. Mike Cederberg instructed producers for Crime Tales.
To get rid of any likelihood of an alibi that he had discovered the stays and was returning them to police, officers allowed Value to drive previous two police stations earlier than stopping him in Brampton. Within the gymnasium bag, forensics officers discovered a decomposing cranium wrapped in rubbish luggage, which they quickly confirmed was that of the lacking woman.
The remainder of her physique was recovered from the world north of the town later that day.
“He broke her leg, fractured her cranium, her physique was butchered, he snapped off her forearms and dumped her physique,” O’Marra instructed the court docket throughout Value’s 1990 trial, in line with the Windsor Star.
When first apprehended, Value instructed police he’d grabbed Campbell in a grocery store, and raped and beat her earlier than leaving her to die in a ravine.
Throughout the trial, nonetheless, he pleaded not responsible to first-degree homicide. Defence lawyer Damien Frost requested the jury to just accept an madness plea, arguing Value was hallucinating and believed Campbell was a feminine jail guard from his earlier time in jail.
It took jurors beneath an hour to reject that argument and current their responsible verdict to Justice Coulter Osbourne, who handed Value a life sentence with no likelihood of parole for 23 years.
Value unleashed a complicated and contradictory rant after his sentencing, per the Star.
”I didn’t kill her,” he mentioned earlier than including, ”I’m not saying I’m to not blame for the reason for her demise.”
He went on so as to add that individuals who commit crimes like this in opposition to kids “ought to be shot.”
“That goes for me, too,” he mentioned.
He additionally instructed O’Marra that he’s “not the cold-hearted son of a b—-” he was made out to be in the course of the trial.
”They are saying I’m mentally unwell, however I don’t wish to go on dwelling like this if there’s no hope. . . I’ll put a bullet via my head.”
Halifax police mentioned its advisory this week is supposed to tell the general public of Value’s presence and is “not supposed to encourage any type of vigilante exercise or different unreasonable conduct.”
Excessive-Danger Offender Notification: Douglas Value
Halifax Regional Police is advising residents, notably these in Dartmouth, {that a} high-risk offender is residing locally.
Douglas Value, 73, is a federal offender who has been serving a life sentence for second-degree… pic.twitter.com/8B2VNjDRJf
— Halifax_Police (@HfxRegPolice) July 30, 2025
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