CONVICTED MURDERER AND RAPIST RELEASED ON PAROLE, LIVING IN DARTMOUTH
A Nova Scotia man who raped and murdered a 12-year-old Ontario girl, later decapitating her dead body in an attempt to hide evidence, has been released on parole and is living in the Halifax area.According to Halifax Regional Police, 73-year-old high-risk offender Douglas Worth is living in Dartmouth.
Worth, originally from the Pictou County area of Nova Scotia, was released after serving 35 years of a federal life sentence for the December 1987 second-degree murder of Trina Campbell in Brampton, Ont.
Police said Campbell, a Metis girl who’d had a troubled life, was living in a group home in the fall of 1987 after having run away from foster parents on several occasions.
When she failed to return to the facility on Dec.
11, they thought at first she might have run away again.
Shortly before his release, Worth had said he planned to kill people and go on a rampage as retribution for his incarceration.
Despite those concerns, he had served his limited sentence, and nothing in Canadian law at the time established safeguards around release.
After Worth got out in the spring, police tracked him to Edmonton, where he reconnected with a woman named Mary Kelly and her teenage son from a different relationship, Shawn.
Police said they lost track of Worth soon after, but believed he returned to Ontario.
National Post has contacted the Parole Board of Canada to obtain a copy of their decision to release Worth, who police say can have no contact with children or his victims, no drugs or alcohol, and must report all relationships.
Worth has a criminal history dating back to 1968 that includes break-ins, motor vehicle theft and the 1978 rape of an Indigenous girl in Ontario, for which he was sentenced and served eight years, earning his release in June of 1987, about seven months before he killed Campbell.
The circumstances surrounding that murder are detailed in multiple news articles from the time and are also explored in a 2005 episode of the television series Crime Stories.
In the show, it notes that shortly before his release, Worth had said he planned to kill people and go on a rampage as retribution for his incarceration.
Despite those concerns, he had served his limited sentence, and nothing in Canadian law at the time established safeguards around release.
Police said Campbell, a Metis girl who’d had a troubled life, was living in a group home in the fall of 1987 after having run away from foster parents on several occasions.
When she failed to return to the facility on Dec.
11, they thought at first she might have run away again.
Shortly before his release, Worth had said he planned to kill people and go on a rampage as retribution for his incarceration.
Despite those concerns, he had served his limited sentence, and nothing in Canadian law at the time established safeguards around release.
After Worth got out in the spring, police tracked him to Edmonton, where he reconnected with a woman named Mary Kelly and her teenage son from a different relationship, Shawn.
Police said they lost track of Worth soon after, but believed he returned to Ontario.
