The Bathtub Murderers
What drove two sisters to kill their own mother?
The killers of “Linda Andersen” have never been publicly named in Canada. For that matter, neither has she, as to reveal her true name would also reveal the names of the two girls who murdered her, known to many only as ‘Sandra Andersen” and “Beth Andersen”. Because her two daughters were minors when they committed matricide, Canadian courts prevent them from being named outside the judicial system.
These names are merely the ones given to those involved in this crime by Bob Mitchell in his book The Class Project: How To Kill A Mother: The True Story of Canada’s Infamous Bathtub Girls, but all these years later, most of us know “Linda” by her real name — Anne Margaret Karubin. She was murdered by her daughters, Caroline Karubin and Catherine Karubin on January 18, 2003, in Mississauga Ontario.
According to detectives who interviews the two daughters, Caroline — age 16, and Catherine — age 15, their mother was an alcoholic and prone to depression. The girls had grown tired of not having the things many of their friends had like “swimming pools and clothes” because their mother wasted too much money on alcohol, in their opinion.
Growing increasingly unhappy with their situation at home, they began to do internet research on ways to kill their mother so…
