Behind the Headlines: How the Media Exploited the Pauls Family Massacre

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Vancouver in 1958 liked to tell itself a story. It was a city that still felt like a small town, where the back door stayed unlocked and kids spent their summer nights wandering the streets until the lamps flickered on. But that version of Vancouver effectively died on the rainy night of June 10, 1958. That was the night the Pauls family was slaughtered in what became the city’s first triple homicide—a case that’s been sitting on a shelf at the VPD for nearly seventy years.