Jane Hurshman


Jane Hurshman Corkum was a Canadian woman best known for having killed her abusive ex-husband Lamont William "Billy" Stafford on the evening of March 11, 1982, and for being acquitted of his murder.
The Crown appealed, concerned with the legal precedent, and Corkum pleaded guilty to manslaughter, receiving a six-month sentence. She was released after two months.
On February 23, 1992, her body was found in a car on the Halifax waterfront, dead from a single gunshot wound.

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