Gabriel Wortman give off warning signs in his school-work patterns?

Gabriel Wortman graduated high school at the normal age and with marks good enough to get him into a demanding university (UNB) in his native province of New Brunswick.

I have seen nothing at all from online comments from his fellow high school students that he was anything but normal, popular, popular with girls, smilingly & helpful friendly.

That’s as of late June 1986. By Fall 1986 he at UNB (taking what ? - he had talked of joining the RCMP).

If people who were in his dorm (BRIDGES HOUSE) recollect rightly, he was now seen as weird and unpopular : unpopular enough to actually win the dreaded CHUCK COSBY award in April 1987 for being the biggest asshole on campus —- or at least unpopular enough to be nominated which was almost as bad.

THIS WAS NOT AN AWARD THAT WAS LIGHTLY HANDED OUT.

Not given to people who merely wore pen protectors, glasses and shirts buttons done up to the top. It was given to people who made living in the same huge dorm with them sheer hell.

Next year he is in a different gentler residence, still unpopular, still seen as odd.

Does he graduate ? My guess is no.

He might have been to vocational school after this,  learning considerable carpentry and plumbing skills, and according to neighbours in Nova Scotia, he intimated as much.

Next, we do know he became a mortician employee at Walker’s Funeral Home in Dartmouth Nova Scotia, hundreds of kilometres from his home.

When ? “Sometime in the 1990s” according to the TORONTO STAR’s informant, former Dartmouth alderman Donnie Walker.

I’d love for a more specific date, but hey, this is Nova Scotia, Canada.  (Note to foreigners : Canadians are rather more vague than they are polite , though they frequently confuse the two with being one and the same thing.)

Not clear if he had formal training in that craft.

But somewhat like the RCMP, its a job that frequently involves dealing at close hand with violent deaths  —- from murders, car accidents, fires, suicides etc.

As a job, it is very much a minority taste.

Apart, neither job alone raises alarms : together - it might show a pattern, particularly when coupled with his love of guns.

Next, by 2001 by the latest, he is still in Dartmouth, many many safe miles away from his reputation for oddness back in New Brunswick, running a denturist business on Portland Street.

Again, I am not clear if by that date, a denturist needed formal training, which is usually done in Ontario and nowadays takes three years.

Now dealing in dentures is as far away as one can imagine from police or mortician work and guns.
His customers loved him.

All this job has in common with his earlier efforts is that it requires good physical skills (social skills too of course) : remember he is very good with his hands.

Good with riding powerful motor bikes, good with guns and hunting , good with fixing up dentures and fixing up houses and fixing up old cars.

But we still have a big gap between 1988 till 2001 to fill in with facts, not speculation.

My gut feeling as to the reason that we are not seeing stories out of New Brunswick  about Gabriel Wortman is not because he barely spent any of his life there but rather the reverse : most of his formative years, hell most of his life, was spent in New Brunswick and the collective feeling about New Brunswickers is we don’t want to be reminded of that fact...