Jan Canty
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98 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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It was $150,000.
And that doesn't include the cars he bought them, the rent he paid, the meals he paid for. He also bought them heroin. He would take them on drug runs for them. And I think that was his making sure they were going to be dependent upon him.
I mean, even among other criminals, John was feared. That's how vicious he was.
That was John Fry.
When he ran out of money, they lost patience with him. They had no interest in him. And decided, at least John decided, the best thing to do was just to kill him and get him out of their hair.
He realized that John had been calling our house and hanging up. Things were coming to a head, and I think he decompensated.
You're pure as snow, pure as snow, pure as snow. And I think in his mind at that point in time, he was seeing Dawn and me as very different people.
Dawn came from an abusive household and she did not have a good self-esteem. I mean, She quit school a month before she graduated high school and she was nominated valedictorian. Instead, she threw all that away, left the suburbs to go downtown and met up with John and her life took a turn for the worse after that.
In a way, that was the old me. I mean, I had nothing when I met him. And he was saying, I'll pay your tuition, just like he said it to them.
It explained to me his attraction to me, you know, that I was a project. I was a challenge to be fixed, to be provided for. I was a good prop. someone he could perform for with his knowledge and his money. And I sat and ate it all up. I was a willing participant.
I will always be grateful for what he gave me. I don't mean just financially, but the encouragement. He was instrumental in getting me on my path, and I don't think I would have done it without him.
Once I left Detroit, and paid off the bills and got away from the media and got away from the police, I felt like I could start to reinvent my life.
What that did was end up in conflicted grief. You have dueling emotions. There's a part of you that's like the typical grief, you know, those loss and sadness and missing a person. But the other side of it is relief.
A homicide survivor is someone who is grieving over the homicide of a loved one. It's somebody who's left with the aftermath of murder. And the reason we don't know of that term is I don't think it's projected much in true crime. The focus is on the perpetrator and the deed, a little bit on the victim. And we're in the background and nobody cares.
It's like they think if we get the perpetrator convicted that that's the end of the story. And I'm like, oh, if you only knew.
Now I hold that as near and dear to my heart. The people I have met, the stories I have heard, it's so healing. It was like the missing piece.
If you think about most movies dealing with homicide, the family of the victim is either never shown or they're grieving in the corner, wringing their hands, and that's the end of them. There's not any curiosity about it. And the fact of the matter is, anybody listening could be a part of our club. Homicide cuts across all racial lines, age, economic, geographic, you name it. Nobody is immune.
And if anything's going to change, we have to put our story out there. Somebody's got to do it.
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