Over 30 years ago Canada experienced its first fast food murders in the small community of Sydney River, Nova Scotia. What was supposed to be a simple robbery of a McDonald’s restaurant with an inside man as the mastermind turned into a grisly murder scene that rocked the island of Cape Breton and the entire province of Nova Scotia.
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