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About Helmuth Buxbaum
- Helmuth Buxbaum (March 19, 1939 — November 1, 2007) was a multimillionaire owner of a network of nursing homes in Ontario who was convicted in 1986 of the murder of his wife, two years previously.
- Hanna Buxbaum was found dead July 5, 1984 on a highway near London, Ontario after having been shot in the head three times.
- Helmuth Buxbaum had taken out a $1 million life insurance policy on his wife shortly before her murder.
- The Crown attorney prosecuting the case argued that Buxbaum had hired a hitman to kill his wife for $10,000 and had pulled over to the side of the road so that the man could drag her out of the car and shoot her.
- The gunman, Gary Foshay, was convicted of second-degree murder.
- Buxbaum was convicted after a high-profile trial and sentenced to a life sentence without the possibility of parole for 25 years.
- He died in prison in Kingston, Ontario on November 1, 2007 at the age of 68.Buxbaum was born in East Prussia grew up in West Germany, the youngest of ten children.
- His family immigrated to Canada when he was 19 years old.
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