Man pleads guilty to killing wife and her daughter with hammer and a bat
HALIFAX — In his suicide note, Gerald Rushton said he loved his common-law wife and her daughter.
The Nova Scotia man wrote the note after he killed both of them in 2013 — using a claw hammer to bludgeon the younger woman and a bat to beat her mother — but his suicide attempt failed.
On Thursday, Rushton pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder.
He admitted in an agreed statement of facts that on Dec. 27, 2013, he got into a heated argument with his wife’s daughter, 24-year-old Brittany MacPherson, who was visiting the family home in Bible Hill, a hour’s drive north of Halifax.