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Poisoning the well

Poisoning the well

Debby Rideout had her whole future ahead of her. In August 1987, Rideout had just gotten married, and was already hatching plans to open her own hair salon. Just two days after her wedding, which crammed a hundred revellers into a nearby Lions Club hall, she moved from her hometown of Twillingate to picturesque Moreton’s Harbour, into a cozy wood-panelled home she built from the ground up with her husband, Chris.