Greyhound Bus Decapitation Victim, Tim Maclean's mom demands answers, 'Why didn't they do something'?

Opinion

Barry Artiste

A Mother upon hearing the news of a young man being decapitated on a Greyhound Bus, feels for the victims family, not realizing later it was her own son the media were reporting on.

Upon hearing it was her own son by the father, exclaimed “Don’t say that. Don’t say that”!

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Bus victim’s mom demands answers from RCMP ‘Why didn’t they do something,’ grieving mother wants to know

Gordon Sinclair, Winnipeg Free Press

Published: Tuesday, August 26, 2008

WINNIPEG – Carol deDelley remembers her initial reaction when she heard that a man had been savagely stabbed and beheaded on a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg.

“Oh, my God, that’s horrible.” The 47-year-old school bus driver and cook from Elie, Man. – a small town about 40 kilometres west of Winnipeg – told the Winnipeg Free Press in an exclusive interview that she couldn’t believe something that gruesome could happen in Canada.

“And then,” she said, “my thoughts went immediately to the family.” What deDelley didn’t know then was that the family she was feeling sorry for was her own.

Tim McLean, the 22-year-old victim, was her son. Nearly 24 hours after the incident began on July 30, deDelley’s former husband, Tim ‘Bim’ McLean reached her at home with the news. “Don’t say that. Don’t say that,” deDelley kept repeating.