Protect the protectors. Credit: Kate Gillie.
Bruce Kruger isn’t dead, but he is stuck. A police officer with the Ontario Provincial Police service, in 1977 Kruger shot and killed an escapee from Joyceville Penitentiary; in 1980 he pulled two bodies from a lake; in 1981 he found a colleague’s frozen body with two bullet holes between his eyes.
The talk show running through his head is that of a wounded thing, angry and scared: wary and constantly vigilant. The funnel through which all life must slide is plugged solid.
