HUNTER: GTA dismemberment pedophile killer Douglas Worth out of prison

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Douglas Worth is the very personification of evil.

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When homicide detectives nabbed him in 1987, resting in the backseat of his car was the severed head of a troubled girl named Trina Campbell. She was 12 years old.

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Now, even at 73 years old, cops are still calling Worth a high-risk offender, but never mind that. He’s free and living his best life in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Police dutifully raised the alarm.

To put it mildly, Douglas Worth is a monster. His criminal history reaches back to 1968 with beefs for rape, break and enter, auto theft, prison breaches, and other highlights of a wasted life.

“The release of this information is in accordance with the Nova Scotia Release of High-Risk Offender Information Protocol,” Halifax Regional Police said in a statement.

“It is provided to alert members of the public of his presence in the community and is not intended to encourage any form of vigilante activity or other unreasonable conduct.”

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Sure.

On Dec. 13, 1987, Trina Campbell was living in a Brampton group home. Originally from Saskatchewan, Trina was adopted after her mother’s death. Her adoptive parents had difficulty raising the girl, who became a ward of the aid society three months before her disappearance.

Trina took a school bus to Brampton but never arrived home. The girl had been known to run away, but something seemed different when she didn’t come home from school.

What no one knew at the time was that she had been snatched by convicted rapist Douglas Worth. The only thing you can say about Worth is that he warned authorities not to release him. The native of Pictou, N.S. told our good friends at the Parole Board that he had a deep desire to murder children using an axe.

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In a nod to the more things change, his warnings were not heeded, and it was too late for Trina Campbell.

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Worth raped, murdered and then dismembered the tragic girl. Then he disposed of her remains, retrieved them, then relocated Trina’s corpse several times over six months.

But Worth’s stepson and his sister dropped a dime. The killer had shared his black-as-night secrets.

Detectives began around-the-clock surveillance on Worth. They even sorted him out with a car and money via his brother-in-law so he could return to Ontario. Investigators hoped that he would lead them to Trina’s body.

A surveillance team caught Worth dumping evidence into a garbage bin. Cops moved in, and he was arrested, and that’s when they found Trina’s head.

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The rest of the Brampton girl’s remains were discovered covered by foliage in a field north of Shelbourne, north of Toronto.  Worth was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.

It emerged during his trial that Worth and his wife were asleep in their car outside a Pictou store in March 1988 when two cops banged on the window and asked to see his driver’s licence.

He told his sister: “Mary didn’t even know the body was in the trunk. I was saying to myself, if he (the cop) had’ve said ‘Open up the trunk,’ I’d have nothing to stick him with.”

Douglas Worth. Pedophile. Child killer. Dismemberer.

This is your system.

bhunter@postmedia.com

@HunterTOSun

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