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Veteran Paul Berkley Murdered In Bizarre Love Triangle

By David Lohr

Navy Reservist Paul Berkley, 46, had been proudly serving his country in the Middle East in President George W. Bush's war against Iraq since January 2005, when he left his family and their Clayton, North Carolina home for a tour of duty that was based out of Bahrain.  According to his daughter, Becky, 18, Berkley had served in the Middle East "for months and months" without ever getting shot, only to return home to presumably safer turf where he was ironically shot down in a public park while on a picnic with his wife, Monique, twenty years his junior, in what appeared, at least on the surface, as a bizarre, bungled robbery. What Berkley didn't know when he returned home was that shortly after he had left for Bahrain, Monique had begun an affair with an 18-year-old man, Andrew Canty, who promptly moved in with her after Paul's shipped out...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).