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| 1871 Lodge Agnus McVee Diner is where Sean and I are having our 10th Anniversary Celebration Dinner |
Agnus McVee was a Canadian
serial killer. McVee ran a hotel and store at 108 Mile House
on the Cariboo Wagon Road
from 1875 to 1885 during the Cariboo Gold Rush. Along
with her husband Jim McVee
and her son-in-law Al Riley, she is said to have killed many
miners for their gold and
kidnapped women for sale to miners as white slaves.
The story has achieved
local prominence, but documentary evidence is absent.
Agnus McVee
The story goes that a
miner, Jim MacDonald, wished to buy a young girl from the
McVees. Agnus agreed to
sell MacDonald a seventeen-year-old girl.The next
morning Jim McVee followed
MacDonald down the Cariboo Wagon Road.
McVee murdered MacDonald
and took all his money. The next morning, Agnus
McVee poisoned her husband
in retaliation for this murder. The girl, however, was able
to escape and to identify
Jim McVee to the North West Mounted Police. Upon
investigation, the police
found McVee, Al Riley (her brother-in-law), Jim McVee's body,
and eight young girls in
the basement of the McVee's hotel.
Upon investigation, the
police found McVee, Al Riley (her brother-in-law), Jim McVee's
body, and eight young girls
in the basement of the McVee's hotel. The police arrested
McVee and Riley and the
pair were taken to Fort Kamloops. They were charged and
convicted of murder and
kidnapping. They were than transported to New Westminster
and incarcerated in the New
Westminster jail. McVee committed suicide in 1885 while in
the jail by swallowing
poison. Riley was hanged shortly after.
