James Schwalm, a firefighter from Ontario, Canada, killed his wife Ashley and staged a car crash to make it appear as an accident. The discovery of his deception left his family and community devastated.
At first glance, it looked as though the mom-of-two had lost control of her car late at night and swerved off the snow-covered road in the bitter cold down a steep embankment.
Ashley and James Schwalm married at Craigleith Ski Club, in Ontario, with the bride arriving by horse and carriage He used his mother’s car, which he’d parked nearby, as a getaway vehicle after staging the fake crash.In one text, he asked her to fill up gas cans for a snowblower. Two days after the death, Schwalm gave a statement to officers from Ontario Provincial Police, saying he had been walking the family dog in the neighborhood when his wife had apparently crashed her car.
‘I’ve been picturing that moment since I was a little girl,’ she told Wedding Bells magazine in 2012.A misspelled 2013 Valentine’s Day tweet to his wife read: ‘Lots of people can say your pretty when they meet you Guys at the bar say your hot but I get to call you beautiful every day.’She changed jobs and the couple tried marital counselling, hoping to save their relationship.
It emerged that his wife had a $1 million life insurance policy of which he was the sole beneficiary. There was also a $250,000 policy for their children in the event of her death. A family friend described how her four-year-old son happily hugged Schwalm after his wife’s death because the youngster ‘trusted firefighter Jamie.’‘This image will haunt us for the rest of our lives. We allowed the hands that just murdered our friend to hold our child.
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