Since September 2017, when her best friend, 58-year-old Susan (Susie) Butlin, was shot and killed in her home at Bayhead, near Tatamagouche, Suzanne Davis has been in pain. Davis still thinks about her friend — whom she’d known since kindergarten — all the time. She says if they didn’t speak on the phone three times […]
Judge may be asked to step away from Butlin murder case
Judge Al Bégin signed a no-contact order to keep Junior Duggan away from Susie Butlin. Duggan is now charged with murdering Butlin. Should Judge Bégin recuse himself from hearing the murder case?
The normally serene community of Tatamagouche was rocked last September by the murder of a 58-year-old woman named Susan (Susie) Butlin, who sold real estate and worked at a local restaurant. What made it even more difficult was the man accused of first-degree murder was Butlin’s next-door neighbour in Bayhead — a hamlet seven kilometres...