Blood Brothers

A new book tells the true story of Canada’s biggest biker bloodbath.

Early in the morning of April 8, 2006, eight Canadian members of the Bandidos motorcycle gang were murdered in a barn in the rural town of Shedden, Ontario. Twelve hours later, Toronto Star reporter Peter Edwards was on the phone with the ringleader, Wayne “Weiner” Kellestine, the Nazi-loving Bandido who’d lured his friends to his home, and to their deaths.

Edwards knew it was a dangerous world to report on – his friend and colleague, Canadian journalist Michel Auger, had been shot by Hells Angels in 2000 – but the story of brotherhood betrayed was too good to ignore.

For three years, Edwards covered the investigation, the trial, and finally the sentencing of the men who’d shot their friends in cold blood. His new book, The Bandido Massacre: A Story of Bikers, Brotherhood and Betrayal, tells the tale of how eight men ended up dead in the home of the man they’d thought was their friend. The Crime Report’s Julia Dahl discussed the shadowy biker world in Canada with Edwards for one of our regularly featured author’s Q&As.
http://thecrimereport.org/2010/04/15/blood-brothers/