Daniel Robert Dow was a suspect in the disappearance of Sherri McLaughlin in 1993, while Ralph Bernard Shaw shot two during a domestic dispute in 2021
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Two violent criminals have died in B.C. prisons in the past 10 days.
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On June 22, Daniel Robert Dow died at Mission Institution. He was 68 years old and was serving an indeterminate sentence that began in March 1998.
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Dow was a repeat violent sexual offender who was convicted in 1998 for beating and choking a woman into unconsciousness and threatening to kill her child.
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Dow was also a suspect in the disappearance of 20-year-old Sherri McLaughlin, who went missing from Kamloops in 1993 at a time when Dow was on parole for a previous conviction.
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Dow’s car was linked through forensics with McLaughlin’s damaged bicycle, but he was never charged in the case and McLaughlin’s body was never found.
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On June 24, Ralph Bernard Shaw died at Pacific Institution’s regional treatment centreregional treatment centre in Abbotsford. He was 65 years old and was serving a life sentence that began in November 2024.
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In October 2021, Shaw shot and killed a man and a woman in Faro, Yukon, after what police called a domestic dispute, leading to a local lockdown.
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Patrick McCracken, 73, and Saenduean Honchaiyaphum, 42, died in the shooting. Honchaiyaphum was married to Shaw but the couple had separated months earlier.
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The Correctional Service of Canada said the families of both inmates have been informed.
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