Buxbaum

Ross Willmot is Executive Director of the Ontario Association for
Continuing Education.

The author is a CBC-TV reporter. He became familiar to millions for his coverage of the bizarre four-month murder trial of Helmuth Buxbaum, the immigrant who became a millionaire and who arranged to have his wife shot.

This book is a responsible journalistic account based on trial evidence and events directly connected to it. It gives all the important details of how this European couple came to Canada with no money or knowledge of English. In less than ten years they were married, were raising a family, and had started a successful chain of nursing homes that would soon grow into a 20 million dollar empire.

A stroke changed Buxbaum’s lifestyle from a pillar of his Baptist Church community to a compulsive user of hard drugs and sordid sex. He sought freedom by murder from the woman he no longer desired who would never give him a divorce.