Halifax Examiner
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📍 NS
May 21, 2026
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Commission finds ‘serious deficiencies’ in how RCMP ‘handled every aspect’ in the case of Susan Butlin, who was murdered in 2017
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Commission finds ‘serious deficiencies’ in how RCMP ‘handled every aspect’ in the case of Susan Butlin, who was murdered in 2017
Retired RCMP officer Cathy Mansley filed complaint with the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP in 2021 after she read in the Halifax Examiner an account of Butlin’s treatment at the hands of the RCMP
BY JOAN BAXTER
MAY 21, 2026
Susan Butlin in a photo she posted to Facebook in 2015. Credit: Susan Butlin
Nearly nine years after Susan Butlin was murdered in her home in Bayhead near Tatamagouche in norther…
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