Mathew Charles Lamb was born in Windsor, Ontario on 5 January 1948. He was the only child of a 15-year-old mother who abandoned him soon after birth. Lamb suffered an abusive upbringing at the hands of his step-grandfather, leading him to become emotionally detached from his relatives and peers. In 1967, Lamb went on a shooting spree around his East Windsor neighborhood, killing two strangers and wounding two others. He avoided Canada’s then-mandatory death penalty for capital murder by being found not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Mathew Charles Lamb was born in Windsor, Ontario on 5 January 1948. He was the only child of a 15-year-old mother who abandoned him soon after birth. Lamb suffered an abusive upbringing at the hands of his step-grandfather, leading him to become emotionally detached from his relatives and peers. He developed violent tendencies that manifested themselves in his physical assault of a police officer at the age of 16 in February 1964, and his engaging in a brief shoot-out with law enforcement ten months later. In 1967, Lamb went on a shooting spree around his East Windsor neighborhood, killing two strangers and wounding two others. He avoided Canada’s then-mandatory death penalty for capital murder by being found not guilty by reason of insanity. Lamb joined the Rhodesian Army in late 1973 and fought for the unrecognised government of Rhodesia for the rest of his life. Lamb was killed in action on 7 November 1976 by friendly fire from one of his allies. He received what Newsweek called \”a hero’s funeral\” in the Rhodesia capital, Salisbury, before his ashes were returned to Windsor and buried by his relatives. He rarely saw his mother while growing up and never knew his father, who died in the United States while Lamb was young. Lamb spent most of his childhood with his maternal grandmother and her new husband Christopher Collins at their home on York Street in the South Central neighbourhood of Windsor. He lured his cousins into his bedroom, locked them in a closet and threatened them.
On one occasion he followed through with these threats and beat one of their cousins so badly that medical attention was required at a local hospital. When he was about seven years old, he held a knife to a smaller kid and made him eat dog faeces. He became fascinated with firearms; according to a fellow pupil, he always had guns, and always had a keen interest in knife weapons, which he carried from the time he was 12 years old. For example, Lamb once refused an invitation to a party, saying that he “didn’t like to dance” when told that he had little hesitation in showing off a knife. Lamb rarely got into trouble, but was capable, but unable to concentrate for extended periods with with with other pupils. Starting in Grade 8, when Lamb went to St Jude’s School, where the other pupils found him to be distant and quiet, he spurned attempts by the other children to include him in their social circles. Lamb continued to show improvement, becoming a productive laborer on Barker’s farm and earning the trust of the doctor’s family. In early 1973, Lamb was approved for release on the condition that he spend a year living and working under the supervision of one of Oak Ridge’s top psychiatrists, Elliot Barker. He continued to improve until he was granted a transfer back to his former regiment a year later. He died in action in Salisbury in November 1976, after being promoted to lance-corporal, and received a place in the crack Special Air Service unit in 1975.
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