Nancy Eaton
May 28, 1961 – January 21, 1985
Timothy Eaton's great-great-granddaughter — a young Toronto heiress whose 1985 murder became one of Canada's most haunting criminal cases.
The Story
Nancy Alice Edward Eaton was born on May 28, 1961, the only daughter of Edward Eaton and Nancy Leigh (Gossage) Eaton of Toronto, and the great-great-granddaughter of Timothy Eaton, the founder of Eaton's.
On January 21, 1985, Nancy Eaton was murdered in her apartment on Farnham Street in Toronto. She was 23. The killer was an acquaintance, Ernest Leyshon-Hughes, himself a scion of another prominent Toronto family, the Oslers; he admitted the killing and was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and held for years under the Ontario Review Board before his discharge into the community in 2005. Nancy's story was later told in the 2003 television film The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton. She is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery with the family whose name she carried.
On January 21, 1985, Nancy Eaton was murdered in her apartment on Farnham Street in Toronto. She was 23. The killer was an acquaintance, Ernest Leyshon-Hughes, himself a scion of another prominent Toronto family, the Oslers; he admitted the killing and was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and held for years under the Ontario Review Board before his discharge into the community in 2005. Nancy's story was later told in the 2003 television film The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton. She is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery with the family whose name she carried.
- Died
- Toronto, Ontario
- Buried
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto