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Accused serial killer Peter Dale MacDonald was charming and friendly, but he had a vicious temper and would disappear for months on end, says a former common-law relation.

Oliver Bertin, 62, a freelance journalist who lived in Toronto with one of MacDonald's sisters, Jewel for 10 years. Some of the killer’s family believed his personality deteriorated after he was struck on the head as a boy, he said.

“With blue eyes, smiling, he was very sweet, a very charming guy, very pleasant and then he would disappear and you wouldn’t see him again for six months and it would turn out that he had been charged with assault,” Bertin said.

On Thursday, MacDonald, 52, was charged with murdering three Parkdale prostitutes: Julieanne Middleton, 23, and Virginia Coote, 33, in 1994; and Darlene MacNeill, 35, in 1997.

All were found near or in Lake Ontario, near Sunnyside Pool.

And in January, MacDonald was charged with the 2000 Windsor murder of Michelle Charette, 40.

He is already serving a life sentence for the 2000 Parkdale murder of James Campbell, 63, and has a string of other convictions, including robbery, assault and forcible confinement.

But as a boy, MacDonald was known as a “lovely kid,” Bertin said.

The fourth of five children, MacDonald grew up in Carleton, P.E.I., in a solid, respectable family, Bertin said. His father was a potato dealer.

At age 10 or 12, the door of a pickup truck in which he was riding opened, and he fell out and banged his head, Bertin said.

“The mother claimed that this changed his character and the sister certainly agreed. He became unmanageable after that.”

Back in 1994, around the time of the first murder, an exhausted MacDonald showed up at the doorstep of the Beach-area house Bertin shared with Jewel. MacDonald asked if he could sleep there for a few hours.

“He looked completely worn out, and he slept for 18 hours,” Bertin said. “He was very charming. I gave him a sweater and he disappeared for another six months. This is a very common pattern.”

MacDonald, who had tremendous physical strength, couldn't handle alcohol — one of the triggers to what his sisters feared was a vicious temper, Bertin said.

However, Bertin only experienced MacDonald’s anger once. It was around 1997, when he phoned at 5:30 a.m.

“He called me and wanted to talk and I said, ‘Listen Peter it’s 5:30 in the morning. Go back to bed,’ and he got really angry and he slammed down the phone.”

That day, perhaps by coincidence, somebody kicked in the door of Bertin's house, went into the basement and let out the family goldfinch, leaving a mess.

Around the time of the Parkdale prostitute murders, MacDonald lived at a half-way house at Keele and Dundas Sts., according to Bertin.

At other times he would sleep rough.

“The police would call periodically and say, ‘Do you know where your brother is?’ to my girlfriend, and she would be helpful and say, ‘I haven’t seen him for three months.’”

from the Toronto star by Peter Small

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