(9 July 1924-16 Oct. 1983) and his wife Bronislawa Jakubionek (1 August 1921-16 Oct. 1983), murder victims. Johann Malitzki was born in the Ukraine, and his wife was born in Poland. They met when they were living in England, and they were married in England on 3 June 1950. They emigrated to Canada in 1955 with their only child Aleksander (born 11 Sept. 1951). In May 1959 they bought a farm on Lot 20, 2nd Concession of Lancaster Township, near Bainsville. On 16 Oct. 1983 their badly disturbed 32-year-old son, an unemployed gardener, murdered his father and mother with a shotgun. In a fire which he built near the house he cremated their bodies so effectively that only fragments were recovered on the ground and in a nearby stream. After an attempt to disappear into the United States, Aleksander Malitzki was brought back to Canada. He was charged with second-degree murder but in Nov. 1984 a Supreme Court jury in Cornwall decided that he was not guilty by reason of insanity. He was then committed to the maximum security Ontario Psychiatric Hospital at Penetanguishene. The tragedy of the Malitskis and the fate of their bodies makes up one of the more remarkable murder stories in Glengarry history.

Reporting on the murder story in Glengarry News throughout, but see esp. issue of 21 Nov. 1984 (illustr., portrait of Aleksander) * U. K. marriage records (Rochdale district)