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Basil Borutski was convicted in 2017 of murdering Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam at their homes across Renfrew County, Ontario, and was sentenced to life imprisonment with no eligibility for parole for 70 years.

Borutski lived in the Wilno area of Renfrew County, in the Ottawa Valley of eastern Ontario. He had a decades-long record of domestic violence, including convictions for assaulting Warmerdam, 48, and Kuzyk, 36, both former partners. Culleton, 66, kept a cottage in the area and was not a former partner. He had been stalking her after she rejected his advances and began harassing her at the cottage in the summer of 2015.

Police assessments classified Borutski as a high risk offender. Courts ordered him into the Partner Assault Response program in 2013 and again in 2015, but he never completed it. In 2014, while on probation for assaulting Warmerdam, he was arrested for assaulting Kuzyk. Officers found that he had lied about where he was living and found a crossbow at his home in breach of a weapons prohibition. A later inquest heard he faced no consequence for those breaches.

On the morning of September 22, 2015, Borutski killed the three women within about an hour. He strangled Culleton with a television coaxial cable at her cottage in Combermere, shot Kuzyk at close range with a 12 gauge shotgun at her home in Wilno, then shot Warmerdam at her home in Bonnechere Valley Township. The first 911 call reached police at 8:52 a.m., reporting a man with a firearm at Kuzyk's address. Warmerdam's son, who was at her house, called at 9:20 a.m.

Ontario Provincial Police contained the three residences and linked the victims to Borutski that morning. His cellphone was tracked around midday to Pembroke and then to Kinburn, inside the City of Ottawa. An OPP helicopter, the OPP tactics and rescue unit and Ottawa Police Service officers converged there. They arrested him that afternoon, and a firearm was recovered.

Detective Sergeant Caley O'Neill of the OPP interviewed Borutski for close to five hours on September 23, 2015. Borutski focused much of the recorded interview on what he considered unfair treatment by police and the courts, saying Kuzyk and Warmerdam had lied in court and used the justice system against him. He accepted responsibility for all three deaths but rejected the word murder, quoted Biblical passages and told O'Neill, "I killed them because they were not innocent." Describing the morning, he said, "It was fast. It was not like if you think about the distance, it's quite a piece from one place to the other but it was more like bang, bang, bang." Asked whether he would take it back, he said, "Of course I would." Asked whether he was sorry about how it ended, he said, "Of course I feel sorry."

Borutski represented himself at his trial before Justice Robert Maranger in Ottawa in the fall of 2017 and remained silent and disengaged through most of the proceeding. On November 24, 2017, the jury found him guilty of first degree murder in the deaths of Kuzyk and Warmerdam and second degree murder in Culleton's death. On December 6, 2017, Maranger imposed the 70-year parole ineligibility period by running the two 25-year periods for first degree murder consecutively and adding 20 years for the second degree count. He called the killings deplorable, devoid of mercy and cold blooded. No appeal was reported. A coroner's inquest sat for three weeks in June 2022 and returned 86 recommendations, most directed at the Ontario government, including that intimate partner violence be formally declared an epidemic. Borutski died in custody at Millhaven Institution on March 28, 2024, of apparent natural causes, according to the Correctional Service of Canada.

The video is a narrated analysis built on police interview-room footage and runs about 51 minutes. It covers the interview described above.