Nancy Eaton

{{Short description|Canadian heiress and murder victim (1961 – 1985)}}

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|birth_name = Nancy Alice Edward Eaton

|birth_date = {{birth date|1961|05|28}}

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|death_cause = Stab wound

|death_date = {{death date and age|1985|01|21|1961|05|28}}

|death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

|burial_place = Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto

|nationality = Canadian

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|mother = Nancy Eaton Sr.

|father = Edward Eaton

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Nancy Alice Edward Eaton (May 28, 1961 – January 21, 1985) was a Canadian heiress and a member of the prominent Eaton family. She was the great-great-granddaughter of Timothy Eaton, founder of Eaton's, a Canadian department store chain. She was the only daughter of Edward Eaton and Nancy Leigh (Gossage) Eaton of Toronto.

Murder

File:Grave of Nancy Eaton (1961–1985) at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.jpg

On January 21, 1985, Eaton was stabbed twenty-one times and then raped in her Farnham Street apartment {{cite web | url=https://ebrandon.ca/messagethread.aspx?message_id=245173&cat_id=57 | title=January 21st 1985: Nancy Eaton is discovered dead., eBrandon discussion }} in Toronto. An acquaintance of Eaton's, Ernest John Andrew Leyshon-Hughes,{{cite web|url=http://www.bcrb.bc.ca/Decisions/all%20cases%20together/Leyshon-Hughes%20v.%20Ontario%20%28Review%20Board%29.pdf |title=Leyshon-Hughes v. Ontario |publisher=Review Board|accessdate=20 January 2018}} also known as Andrew Leyshon-Hughes, who was himself a member of the prominent Canadian Osler family, admitted to murdering her, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He was indefinitely remanded to the custody of The Ontario Review Board.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nancy-eaton-s-killer-wants-more-privileges-1.278593

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|archive-date=February 2, 2011

|title=Nancy Eaton's Killer Wants More Freedom|access-date=2010-11-29 | work=CBC | location=Canada | date=13 February 2001}} In February 2001, Leyshon-Hughes was living at the Royal Ottawa Hospital and was a student at Algonquin College.{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/freedom-weighed-for-killer-of-heiress-1.274901|title=Freedom weighed for killer of heiress|accessdate=2014-11-02 | work=CBC | location=Canada | date=13 February 2001}}

In 2005, Leyshon-Hughes was discharged from the psychiatric hospital into the community.

Eaton was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto.

In popular culture

In 2003, the television movie The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton was released. Jessica Paré played the part of Nancy. It airs on LMN in the United States and is based on the book A Question of Guilt by William Scoular.{{cite news|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368672/|title=The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton| work=IMdb}} As of 2018 the movie was released online on Encore+.