Leonard john fraser biography
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History of Fraser
There is little mention of the area now known as Fraser until the second half of the 19th Century. Macomb County was growing; Mt. Clemens, Romeo and Utica had been established. To make travel easier, the Detroit Erin Blank Road Company began to build Utica Plank Road (Utica Road) in from the Gratiot Turnpike to the City of Utica. This is really the beginning of the crossroads community that became Fraser.
In , the Chicago, Detroit and Canada Grand Trunk Junction Railroad Company purchased their right-of-way through Fraser, and a depot was later built on what is still called Depot Road. These two factors, the Utica Road and the Railway Depot, created a crossroads community that grew into a village and center for commerce in the immediate area.
Drawn by the commercial prospects of the area, a Detroit lawyer, Alexander J. Frazer, came to this area in or His father, also a lawyer, was a prominent figure in Detroit. He purchased land in Fraser in near the Grand Trunk right-of-way. He plotted a subdivision and may have built some houses. It is also possible he built and perhaps operated a hotel near the depot. Between and various pieces of this property were sold. After he apparently no longer lived in the village. He drowned in Detroit sometime during the ye
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Leonard Fraser
Australian serial killer and rapist
For the lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia, see Leonard William Fraser.
Leonard John Fraser (27 June – 1 January ), also known as The Rockhampton Rapist, was an Australian convicted serial killer.
Biography
[edit]Fraser was born in Ingham, Queensland in and moved to Sydney in He left school in the s and had an extensive criminal record dating back to , when at age 15 he was sentenced to 12 months in a boys home for stealing. He would spend the following years in and out of jail for theft and various other crimes.[1]
Crimes
[edit]Before a life sentence on 7 September for the abduction, rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl, Keyra Steinhardt, in Rockhampton, Queensland, Leonard Fraser had spent almost 20 of the preceding 22 years behind bars for the rape of women. He even raped a terminally ill cancer patient with whom he had been living with in early He was subsequently charged with four murders. Police found many trophies of his victims in his flat; these included ponytails from three different women which could not be traced to any of his known victims.[2]
Fraser originally confessed to five murders in an apparent deal with police to avoid general population in prison, but one of