I vividly remember freaking out taking a plane ride in 1981, fearing our plane would be hijacked, which was related to the airplane hijackings of the late 70s, early 80s. But that wasn't an actual news story I remember.
This is a Winnipeg-centric memory, but I was haunted as a kid by the murder of Candace Derksen, who was kidnapped and left to die in a shed in the middle of winter in 1984 (I had to look up the date). I still can recall seeing on TV the shed where they found her body and I had nightmares about it as a kid.
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