06 The Murder of Reena Virk

Victoria, British Columbia

In 1997, a 14 year old girl is invited by a group of peers she thinks are her friends to meet under a bridge in Victoria, British Columbia. What happened next was unthinkable. The crime was a watershed event that changed peoples' attitudes about youth violence and incited controversy in Canada. 

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Main information sources:

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kelly-ellard-reena-virk-hearing-1.3941842

• http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/convicted-b-c-killer-kelly-ellard-allowed-escorted-prison-absences-1.3302583

• http://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/crime/youthcrime_timeline.html

• ttp://vancouversun.com/news/crime/reena-virk-murder-nearly-two-decades-ago-greater-victoria-lost-its-innocence

• http://www.timescolonist.com/news/kelly-ellard-30-waives-latest-parole-hearing-for-1997-murder-of-victoria-teen-reena-virk-1.24596

• http://www.academia.edu/1268100/A_fair_trial_Race_and_the_retrial_of_Kelly_Ellard

• http://globalnews.ca/news/66450/timeline-reena-virk-murder-and-the-trials-of-kelly-ellard/

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/the-murder-of-reena-virk-and-trials-of-kelly-ellard-1.792656

• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mistrial-called-in-virk-murder-case/article20434099/

• http://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/viewFile/5978/5167have

• http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/05/04/teen-who-killed-reena-virk-asks-for-parole-19-years-after-murder_n_9826344.html

• Documentary: Crime Stories - The Bully Kills (2010)

• Academic Roundtable Discussion: Remembering Reena Virk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoOrIiupjGM

• Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk by Rebecca Godfrey

• Reena Virk: Critical Perspectives on a Canadian Murder by Mythili Rajiva and Sheila Batacharya

• https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+stuff+of+legend%3A+T%2Fselling+the+story+of+Reena+Virk.-a0302114684

• http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9519687/ns/dateline_nbc/t/what-happened-under-bridge/

• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/inside-the-mind-of-kelly-ellard/article4118214/

• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-teen-killer-kelly-ellard-acknowledges-responsibility-for-first-time-denied-day-parole/article29839074/

• http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/one-of-b-c-s-best-known-killers-still-serving-a-life-sentence-for-slaying-teen-girl-eight-months-pregnant-in-jail

• http://vancouversun.com/news/crime/a-peek-inside-the-nursery-at-fraser-valley-institution-where-kelly-ellard-lives-with-her-son

• http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/notorious-teen-killer-kelly-ellard-applies-for-parole-19-years-after-she-drowned-a-14-year-old-in-victoria

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nrkoCOol8g&t=1s

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/judge-declares-mistrial-in-kelly-ellard-case-1.473807

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/glowatski-denied-parole-in-virk-murder-1.483606

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/3rd-trial-finds-kelly-ellard-guilty-of-murder-1.553028

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/one-of-virk-s-killers-wins-measure-of-freedom-1.580156

• Reena: A Father's Story By Manjit Virk

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tearful-killer-granted-day-parole-in-virk-murder-1.637671

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ellard-to-stay-in-jail-until-top-court-rules-on-4th-trial-in-teen-killing-1.788035

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/court-orders-4th-trial-for-ellard-in-murder-of-victoria-teen-reena-virk-1.713400

• https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/05/06/kelly-ellard-reveals-shes-no-monster-just-flesh-and-blood-and-venom-dimanno.html

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ellard-conviction-restored-in-reena-virk-murder-case-1.792653

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/glowatski-guilty-of-contempt-1.252064

• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ellard-defence-tries-to-redirect-blame/article25459096/

• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/why-ellards-grandmother-cannot-keep-the-tears-at-bay/article735656/

• http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/kelly-ellards-lawyer-says-pregnant-killer-thinking-about-her-victims-family

Warren Glowatski