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Dino Bravo was an icon in Quebec. He was an idol. Bravo!
I am proud of my heritage.
He was big. He was strong.
He could bench press 500 pounds.
He had the size and he had the weight.
He was really like the old Kogan of Montreal.
Dino appears to be in great physical condition.
I mean, he could do no wrong. I feel at my best when I answer that square
circle. You can't turn your back on Dino Bravo.
Dino Bravo combined relentless ambition with a fiery intensity that made him a
superstar in Montreal, Quebec, and saw him wrestle the biggest names in the
He did work with Ogun. He did work with Ultimate Warrior.
Did you see that power move by Dino Bravo?
With Dino Bravo, either he liked you or he doesn't like you.
He loves to live dangerously.
He's tough.
Nothing could touch him.
For me, Mafia always scared me. The word Mafia scared me.
I said, listen, I don't know if you're doing the right thing, but it's not for
me to judge what he did.
His world was the wrestling world. It wasn't the organized crime world.
He screwed up.
On this episode, we'll examine
the tragic consequences when a wrestling enforcer is pushed out of the
spotlight. and into a life of crime.
Let that be a lesson for everybody, me included, that everybody's touchable.
On March 10, 1993, the family of Dino Bravo came home and discovered his dead
body. Police said he had been struck by 11 bullets.
Within days, rumors began to surface that it was a mafia -style execution.
30 years later, Dino's unsolved murder remains one of wrestling's darkest
mysteries. Those closest to him have never spoken openly about what led him
such a dangerous path until now.
My favorite.
I never want to give him a kiss.
And when he gives me a kiss, I was always like...
He said, okay, give me a kiss with your nose.
Dino Bravo, his name is Luther.
His name is Adolfo Bresciano.
I'm Diane Rivet. I'm from Montreal.
I met him when I was working in a bar.
And the manager of the place, who also knew a lot about boxing and wrestling,
was in love with Dino.
And he always told me when I arrived there, Dino is coming, Dino is coming.
I said, who is Dino?
I was barely 19 years old. And so he
offered me to come and drive me home.
My name is Patrick Leprade.
I'm a wrestling historian.
I first started watching wrestling when I was six years old. And Dino was just
that super hero to me.
He was big, he was strong, full of muscle. He was really like an action
coming to life.
In the early 80s, Montreal's international wrestling is the leading
Quebec. And Dino Bravo is its premier star.
We had almost 2 million people watching the TV on Sunday morning. It was very,
very big. My name is Tony Muley. I was a wrestling promoter from 1971 to
1986.
During international wrestling, we had Rick Martel, King Tonga. We had
Raymond Rojo, Jacques Rojo, and The Giant.
But listen, Dino Bravo, he was the biggest star here in the 80s.
Dino Bravo was very hard to get to be friends with. But once you were, he
by you. He had your back.
That's what I like about Dino. My name is Gino Brito.
Not wrestling now, but I started wrestling in 1961.
So I think I know a bit about wrestling.
Well, Dino Bravo was more than a friend. He was almost family.
The other wrestler was seeing us getting into the arena. Me, Dino, and Dino. Oh,
here's the Italian connection.
With his two business partners by his side, Dino isn't just international
wrestling's top draw.
He's also co -owner and matchmaker.
Dino was the boss here of the company in Quebec.
And we were like superstars in our own home, in our own province, and Dino
created all that.
Maybe if you could just give us a brief introduction to who you are. Do you know
who I am?
I'm the Mountie.
My name is Jacques Rougeau. I've been wrestling for 41
years. But Dino Bravo, I've known him since I was 18 years old.
Dino was the booker.
It's like when you watch a sitcom on TV every week, they have storylines.
Well, the booker is the one who creates the storyline.
How was it to have that full packed house right behind you during that main
event? And he created himself.
He beat everybody when they came in, and he worked around his image and his
future. The fans here are obviously solidly behind Dino Bravo.
I think he was so passionate, and he was so into the fight, that he just wanted
to become more and more famous.
Over my shoulder.
the belt emblematic of the International Heavyweight Wrestling Championship.
This belt worn so proudly for four of the last five years by, of course, the
great Dino Bravo.
Casting himself as the main attraction doesn't always sit well with the other
wrestlers, especially those looking to make a name for themselves.
He'd book himself a main event, and he'd put my brother and I like in third or
fourth match before intermission.
But for me in my head, I was a main eventer. There wasn't always sunshine
between me and Dino.
I wanted his spot.
He was the boss.
And me being unhappy, Pat Patterson and Vince will call on me. They said,
Jacques, would you like to join the WWF? And I said, well, I don't know. It's a
jungle out there. You know, I want to go there out there alone in that jungle.
As part of its plan for global dominance, the Emerging World Wrestling
Federation set its sights on Montreal.
and his intent on poaching the town's top stars.
It was unheard of to have wrestlers make the kind of money that Vince McMahon
could make these people. By the 90s, it was a new wave. It was something new. It
was fun to see Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Whoa!
And Coco Beware with his birds. And it was, ooh, yeah, with Miss Elizabeth. It
was an era that came and just, it was fun to watch.
Welcome to WrestleMania 3!
Vince is a very intelligent individual, and he knew that he needed Dino Bravo on
board if he really wanted to draw good crowds in Montreal.
And in 1985, early 1986, there was a big match that he aired in
Montreal. It was a dream match.
Al Cogan against Dino Bravo.
As a matter of fact, that would have been a match you could have put in the
Olympic Stadium and draw at least 40 ,000 people.
And it never materialized. They got scared that Dino Bravo would actually be
more popular than Hulk Hogan in Montreal.
And at the last minute, just decided to cancel the match. So Dino was not happy
with WWE and decided to actually try to bring international wrestling to a level
of popularity where they could actually compete with WWE.
He was in a mood where, I'm not going to let him ruin my business.
He was fooling himself, and there's nothing that he could have done to match
what WWF was coming with.
Despite Dino's blind ambition, international wrestling is no match for
showmanship. He's outclassed in almost every single way.
Now, either you get out of the way, or you compete against an elephant.
When I left to go to WWF, I did what I had to do, and my dad and Dino, they
begged me. I swear to God, begged me.
Don't go, don't go, because if you go, the WWF's going to come in here and
they're going to kill everybody.
But it was too late. The damage was done.
The Talon, they all went for Vince.
The Rougeos went for Vince.
Martel, Tonga, everybody went there. Once your Talon's gone, you can't eat.
And that was it. It was a downfall that was, I think, that you couldn't avoid.
Certain moments of frustration with the WWF. And, of course, they questioned
themselves.
By the end of 1986, Dino Bravo's once thriving company is on life support.
Now he must decide whether to continue to fight for his independence or to side
with the enemy.
In order to support his family, Dino Bravo must decide if he can let go of
pride and join the opposition, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation.
So, of course, he was looking to take care of his family. And Vince McMahon
offered Dino money that Dino couldn't refuse.
It was something like $300 ,000 guaranteed.
And with everything else, he could have made over a million.
Something that he could have not dreamed of doing if he would have stayed in
Montreal. I think Dino came to his senses, and he came to WWF. And that was
funny, because when he walked into the room, hey, how you doing, Dino? You
you did the same move we did.
But there was never animosity.
It was almost like when Dino came, he put that behind him, and he says, okay,
let's move.
It was like
a new life
for Luther, a completely new stage in his career.
To make a French -Canadian strongman fit within the cartoon world of the WWF,
Dino was paired with one of American wrestling's most iconic personalities.
Can you tell us who Jimmy Hart is?
Oh, my God.
The best man in the business.
Some managers took the credibility away from their boys. Jimmy Hart was the guy
who knew how to give credibility to his wrestler.
Look at him, man. Look how strong he is. Woo!
I wanted the ring. I was a baritone. When I came out, I was a soprano.
He's the world's strongest man. I guarantee you that. Look at me.
The wrestler was always the Cadillac. We were kind of the hood on a Cadillac. He
was in great shape. He could go 30 -minute matches if he had to.
He could go against Hogan. He could go against Andre the John or any of them.
was a big man's territory.
And he had the size and he had the weight. By being with me, it kind of put
rocket on his career.
And all of a sudden, he started moving up the card a little bit more.
And of course, when you make a lot of money, your lifestyle goes up.
And he had the Mercedes, the big million -dollar house. He had this, he had
that. We had our houses built at the same time.
That's how we got to be next to each other.
Moi, je lui ai demandé pourquoi une maison, une grande maison à Laval. Il y
avait un garage avec une auto rouge.
Il m 'amenait à ce garage -là, puis il me disait, ça, c 'est ton auto.
Puis ça, je vais m 'en souvenir toute ma vie.
J 'avais 4 ans, je pense.
Dino's lavish new lifestyle comes at a cost, as Vince McMahon makes radical
changes to his character, from all -round Canadian hero to an anti
bleach -blonde villain.
So for someone who's not familiar, how would you describe who Vince McMahon is?
Wow!
That's the question I didn't expect.
Vince likes to test the boys who stick up to him.
You don't see an Italian with blonde hair.
You know, not in Quebec.
Everybody thought it was funny when he came through with the blonder.
And then Dino was pissed.
Because Dino's a very proud guy.
He was so embarrassed.
but he had to do it because that's what they wanted. That's the difference in
when you're in a small -time league like international wrestling. You believe in
yourself, you build, you create yourself. When you go to WWF, you're a
you're a character, you're just part of a show.
Competing with the WWF's all -star roster, the French -Canadian flair that
worked for Dino back home gets lost in translation.
I think everybody looks at merchandise and looks at sales and looks at what
can do with you.
Let's just say Dino Bravo, he had that broken English.
It was
hard for people to understand what he might be saying, and so that held him
back a little bit.
Dino had his routine.
He had his punches, he had his boots, he had his routine.
But he was never the kind of guy to discover something new.
I think the hardest thing for Dino was doing jobs for guys that weren't on top.
Well, I'm talking getting beat.
The most important thing in wrestling is your valeur marchande, which means what
you are worth on the market. And if you are a guy that the fans see on TV week
after week getting beat, getting beat.
Even if it's a show and it's fake and it's organized, people don't believe in
you anymore.
He was getting older. Gotta remember that when he was like at his peak of his
career back in international wrestling, he was like in the early to the mid
-30s. Now he was late 30s, early 40s. He still saw himself as a top guy.
When you go to WWF, if there's one thing you don't bring, there's an ego. All
the shames and all the things you're afraid of, it's going to happen.
Unfortunately, Dino had bigger plans for himself than Vince had for him.
Vince figured, you know, bring in new talent, new faith, new blood, and you're
out. By the end of 1992, Dino's days with the WWF are over when his contract
expires and is not renewed.
No, he just came and told me, hey, I'm leaving. He said, look, I'm burnt out.
I've done everything I can. I want to spend time with my family. We hugged and
everything else, and that was basically it.
No, but suddenly it stopped.
There's no more income. And you don't have a pension and resting or nothing
that. That's where the trouble starts.
With his career over, Dino has lost his life's passion and his livelihood and is
left staring into an abyss.
After six years on wrestling's biggest stage, Dino Bravo's career is over.
He must look for other ways to support his family and decadent lifestyle.
I think that once you get with the WWF and you leave, where could you go? You
know, it's like playing professional baseball and then dropping down to a
league contract.
You know, as soon as you drop down, it's like, oh, his career is over.
Everybody has good times in life.
makes money and everybody has bad times in life where they need money.
I've been there, done that many times.
With no professional experience outside of wrestling, Dino has very few options.
What he does have is connections.
Montreal is not far from the United States, and the corruption is widespread
the police.
and the government in Quebec.
That's why the mafiosi like Montreal.
I am a journalist with interest in mafia and organized crime.
The Cotonou family was very active under the authority of the Sicilian family
Rizzuto. Vic Cotonou was the leader of the first mafia family in the history of
Quebec. Everybody knew who Vic Cotroni was.
He was like the so -called father of the mob here in Montreal.
Vic Cotroni was also a former wrestler. He wrestled back in the 1930s under the
name of Vic Vincent.
Dino Bravo was actually related to the Cotronis because Vic was Dino's uncle.
For me, it's the Cotroni family. He was in our family, actually.
You have to say it. It wasn't a guy who had a judicial record.
It was a guy who had contacts.
And there are people who will say, it's not because you're alive that you're
part of it.
But it depends.
The Cotroni group was powerful at that time, at the
level of cigarette smuggling, smuggling at the level of alcohol.
It was an imposing guy.
C 'était un gars qui avait une belle personnalité.
Et je pense que les gens de la mafia italienne ont voulu, d 'une façon, l
'approcher. Moi, je pense qu 'il a peut -être été naïf. Et souvent, l 'argent va
faire des choses.
Il était imposant. De collecter, c 'était inquiétant.
Bravo avait une stature très imposante. Quand tu vois, il y avait deux gars dans
la porte.
It was like a
$60 million man. He had no fear of anything and no consequences.
There's nothing could happen to him.
Dino's past life as a wrestling powerhouse means he has all the brute
debt collector requires.
We've kind of heard stories about Dino kind of had a little bit of a temper. Is
that true?
Yeah. Hot temper? Oh, no, he had a hot temper.
Very, very hot temper.
Dino Bravo was a big Montreal Canadiens fan. And if you're a Montreal Canadiens
fan, you hated everything about the Quebec Nordiques. I'm not going to name
the player, but one time in a bar in Quebec City, there's a player that said
something. I'm 18 years old.
I'm drinking, drinking, drinking, and I'm coming down the stairs, and then
says, hey, that's a hockey player from the Nordiques.
And me, with my loud mouth, I'm drunk, half drunk. I go, ah, the Nordiques.
That's all bullshit.
So he backs up against the wall and he puts himself in position like that. And
start running with my fist. But I'm running towards the wall and he ducks
hit the wall.
And he grabs me by the shirt. And I swear, I would have probably had the
of my life.
And Dino took him and he sidestepped and he says, hey, let him go. And then he
made a something to Dino.
He said something about phony. And the guy had a nice Corvette.
Dino picked him up like you'd pick up a rag doll and ran his head right into the
Corvette just out of nowhere.
You know, the guy just went down like a sack of babies.
He said, you think I'm a phony? Come and try me out.
Believe me, you didn't want to be around him when he got mad.
You were to put a gun to his head, he says, don't point a gun at me. Shoot me
right away because I'm coming for you.
As Dino heads down his new career path, his wife, Diane, senses trouble.
It was very dangerous because if you don't know the rules,
you're in trouble.
One night, Dino calls me. Hey Jacques, can you come and see me?
I'm like, Dino's calling me to go see him? We're not that close of friends. We
respect each other, but we're not that close of friends.
And I said, okay. I said, I can't go today, but I'll go tomorrow. He said,
and see me as soon as you can.
That was his last words to me.
That night, there was a hockey game.
I called him. I said, Dino, what are you doing?
He says, I'm going to watch the hockey game.
And the next morning, I'm at the gas station. Now I'm going to see him.
The gas, we got the pump. The guy says, yeah, your friend, your buddy there, he
got it, huh?
I looked at the paper. It was the front page of the Montreal paper.
He got 11 bullets in the body and 7 bullets in the head.
That's a rough way to go.
Are there any details that you wish to share on that final day?
Close to midnight on March 10, 1993, Dino Bravo's wife, Diane, pulls into the
driveway with six -year -old Claudia sleeping in the back seat.
Almost the first one to know because his wife got back home and we had the house
one beside the other one.
She rings up the bell and I see her crying with Claudia in her hand.
They come in the house, said, why are you crying? Do you know he's dead?
I said, what did you say?
It's like the biggest shock I ever had in my life.
If you would have taken a 2x4 and you hit me in the back of my head, you
wouldn't have hurt me more than that. I said, are you crazy?
Yeah, he was shot.
It wasn't no scuffle.
His wife and family were sent away, and he was just sitting there.
Like he was waiting for it to happen, you know.
Then you hear all kind of different stories, you know, about what happened.
Well, was it a robbery? Was it a break -in? It was so sketchy on everything.
Dino had been shot 11 times, seven bullets to the head and four to his
A pistol and a machine gun are found at the scene, but strangely there is no
sign of forced entry, and the door is unlocked.
The mysterious and brutal circumstances of his death leaves Dino's family and
friends
I waited and the funeral, went to the funeral.
I don't know what to tell you. It was the worst time of my life.
J 'ai fait un dessin de ma famille. J 'ai dessiné ma mère, mon père et moi.
Puis je lui ai apporté ça dans sa tombe.
Tous les gens derrière moi se sont levés parce qu 'ils trouvaient ça tellement
peur qu 'un enfant...
Mais je l 'ai pas reconnu sur le coup.
Mais j 'ai reconnu ses doigts.
I see his daughter there, so young, that she didn't understand exactly.
You know how sad it is.
On m 'expliquait que mon père était parti au ciel rejoindre les étoiles et
'allais plus le voir.
C 'était dur pour moi de réaliser qu 'il était vraiment plus là, en fait.
Je pense qu 'elle l 'a réalisé plus quand elle a commencé à aller à l 'école
des amis, puis que les gens savaient qui était son père, des choses comme ça.
Donc, c 'est là qu 'on s 'était savés, puis on lui a expliqué un peu plus de
détails, mais...
The details of Dino's murder dominate the headlines in Montreal.
Yet despite all the coverage pointing to a mafia -style execution, questions
surrounding who did it and why remain.
finir de cette façon -là.
Monsieur Bravo aurait confié à un proche, avec qui nous avons parlé ce
'il craignait pour sa vie. C 'est là où on en est rendu.
Ah, mon Dieu, mon père, il n 'y avait pas d 'ennemis. Tout le monde l 'aimait.
Il aimait le monde.
Je ne sais pas comment il aurait pu se faire des ennemis à part que quelqu 'un,
quelque chose a mal tourné.
I honestly think when Dino was at the end of his day, that he may have done
something that he wasn't supposed to. A lot of rumors run.
And he must have realized at one point, you're screwed.
But the true depth of Dino's involvement in organized crime will stun the
wrestling world and beyond.
The door must have been unlocked because there's no forced entry.
Or he let somebody in.
I wouldn't want to go that way.
Police examining the crime scene of Dino Bravo's murder discover 17 bullet
casings from two different firearms on the living room floor.
This leads authorities to believe that two assassins are involved and supports
the theory that his death is linked to organized crime.
The neighborhood he was living in in Laval was in Vimon, which is like a very
upscale neighborhood.
A lot of Mafiosi from the new generation, they moved there. At least
who were living near Dino Bravo were killed at the same time.
Nine months earlier, Mafia accountant Robert Caberson was shot in his home
down the street from Bravo's house.
Four months later... And two streets away, a cigarette smuggler, Gislan
was also killed. The police, aware of Bravo's ties to the Catroni family,
for connections.
Three
days
after his death, a crucial piece of evidence is uncovered.
On laisse entendre également qu 'il y avait une somme considérable d 'argent à
'intérieur de la maison.
Un montant d 'environ 55 000 $ qui comprenait une cargaison de cigarettes
de contrebande.
À un moment donné, il y a eu un vol de camions, puis on n 'a pas pu savoir où
est allée la marchandise.
Il y a quelqu 'un qui a dit, on a une perte de 50 000 $. Pour les enquêteurs,
mort d 'Ido Bravo est reliée.
By the early 1990s, organized crime is flourishing in Montreal.
Alongside the mafia are warring biker gangs and smugglers operating out of
Nation reserves.
What connects them all is the lucrative business of contraband cigarettes.
Il m 'amenait n 'importe où, je veux dire, j 'étais comme son amie. Quand on
était seules ensemble, quand ma mère n 'était pas présente, il m 'assoyait en
avant dans l 'auto.
Il m 'amenait surtout chez les Indiens. J 'avais aucune idée de ce que les
Indiens représentaient pour mon père. C 'était leur ami.
Je ne sais pas comment il a nécessairement rencontré ces gens -là.
C 'est sûrement quelqu 'un qui a présenté, puis à un moment donné...
C 'était comme officialisé. Je m 'occupe avec des amis de la contrebande de
cigarettes. Voici des cigarettes à plumes qui viennent de ces réserves.
Ça se détaillait combien à l 'époque?
Ça devait être cinq piastres à cartouches.
Did you know that he was involved in cigarette smuggling?
Yeah, well, of course I knew.
Yeah, he told me. I said, well, everybody at that time, a lot of people
into that business because everybody smoked and everybody wanted to pay less
money. So is it from that? I don't know.
Is it for something else? I don't know.
Because if I knew, believe me, I was so close to him, I would like to have that
revenge for him.
The only wrestler that I know of that Dino talked to about his organized
crime life prior to leaving wrestling was Rick Martel.
Martel declined to be involved in this documentary.
But in 2007, he gave a rare interview revealing conversations he had with Dino
about his life in organized crime.
Dino went to see the Indians.
And the Indians were big wrestling fans, you know.
So when they saw Dino, oh man, you know, so they started dealing strictly with
Dino. So Dino had the monopoly with the Indians because the Indians, you know,
they have the river there.
You know, they can pass cigarettes like crazy or whatever.
I had no idea what he was involved in.
Really, no idea.
Control over the narcotics trade is in a constant state of flux.
Each criminal group is looking for an edge, even if that means crossing into
somebody else's turf.
doing so great that the cocaine people, you know, saying, hey, there's some
money for us in there too, you know. So the big cocaine guy apparently went to
see Dino and said, look, you let me in on your cigarette deals and I'll let you
in on some cocaine deal.
So what apparently happened, they did some kind of agreement and Dino had a
,000 shipment in some warehouse somewhere and it stayed there for like
days.
A few days before the murder, the police seized a large quantity of
cigarettes in a warehouse.
They made surveillance of the warehouse, and they saw Dino Bravo with people who
were on investigation.
And on the third day, when the cocaine guy went to pick it up,
The RCMP and all the police were there. So they were blaming each other. Dino
said, oh, you should have picked it up the first day. It never happened, and
shouldn't have let it sit there. So there was a lot of heat.
Dino screwed up and would have made the organization lose tons of money.
It was a big seizure, $400 ,000.
It's enough to be killed.
They did investigations.
It was so violent, and the way they did it, the mafia...
They are more classy when they shoot somebody.
I did hear that the thinking was that the killer wanted police to believe
were two shooters.
The person who killed him was a friend.
That's what I think.
Sitting in the couch with your remote control, when there's someone in front
you, it can't be a stranger.
It has to be someone you like and you trust.
That, for me, is the definition of mafia for me.
In 35 years, I never heard that natives killed people
off the reserve.
The motorcycle gangs, maybe it's in their style. They are more violent.
That's why maybe the bikers execute a contract or the natives behind that
contract. We don't know. It's a mystery for everybody.
This is a beautiful picture. Dino Brower in blonde and Claudia, his little girl.
Of course, the little girl was always around him.
And here is me and Dino, well, walking here at the arena. We were getting ready
to work.
So these are the best memories of my life.
I miss him every day.
What could have been? What could have been?
Questions with no answers.
Decades after Dino Bravo's brutal murder, friends and family still don't
they'll ever find out the truth of what happened and why.
Alors, on a juste continué à vivre le quotidien. Puis avec ma belle -mère,
évidemment, elle avait la force de juste vivre sans son fils. Puis moi, je
suivais un peu aussi cette force -là pour aussi élever ma fille. Puis d
'air d 'une maman normale avec son enfant qui est veuve à 28 ans.
It's correct.
It's correct that she did that.
He started wrestling in 1970, ended up in 1992.
That's a 22 -year career.
So that's the only thing he knew. That's the only thing he could do. And there's
not a lot of jobs you can do, which will give you several hundreds of thousands
of dollars aside from organized crime.
Dino Bravo always made sure that there was harmony.
between the boys.
Dino knew how to create a team.
If I had to start my life again, that would be one part I'd never change.
The time that I had a business in Quebec, working for Dino Bravo.
Listen, my father was a volcano, an explosion.
As much as he could be nice in his role, as much as when he was mean, he was
mean. He was in his character.
So I think the best heritage he left to people is to be passionate.
But believe me, the way things are, people always keep reminding, there will
always be stories that will come out about Dino, how he died, and did he die
from the bikers?
That will stay with them. And that's too bad.
But that's the way it is.
You know, you've got to take the punch.
It created an immense pain, an immense emptiness, more than immense.
It's not even the word.
Even today, after 25 years, everyone is still sad about my father's loss.
My family was angry that he wasn't found guilty.
Extremely angry about that.
But also, I think it's better that we don't know, because knowing is just
being...
I have
beautiful
memories of the man who was, who gave me a beautiful daughter, whom I am very,
very proud of.
J 'aimerais que les gens se rappellent de lui étant un homme fier de
le Québec au niveau de la lutte, au niveau de sa profession.
L 'homme le plus fort au monde.
Et surtout un bon coéquipier au niveau des amis, puis un bon père de famille et
un bon mari.
Je le pardonne.
D 'avoir pris des mauvaises décisions parce qu 'il a fait ça pour nous, mais
je l 'aime et que j 'aimerais que ce soit là.
J 'aimerais que ce soit là et qu 'il serait grand -père aujourd 'hui de deux
magnifiques enfants.
Mon fils, je le ressent tellement, c 'est sa copie. J 'aurais tellement aimé
qu 'il joue à la lutte avec lui.
The Quebec police were contacted for this documentary, but they declined to
participate as this case still remains open.
You know the old saying, Shakespeare, somebody said, the evil that men do
after them, but the good...
gets injured with their bones, it should be the other way around.
Think about the good and, you know, the rest. Try to forget it and try not to
repeat it.
That's it.
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