Did Gabriel Wortman kill people in America to obtain his illegal cache of high powered weapons ?

Sometimes it is really worth going back carefully through older news scoops, to see the stuff that all others may have have ignored.

Spree killer GW’s Portapique neighbour Brenda Forbes’s account has hardly gone unreported either here in Canada —- or around the world.

Nevertheless, the media have not focussed equally upon every portion of her interview with CBC AS IT HAPPENS host Carol Off.

Brenda was a good friend of Gabriel Wortman’s uncle Glynn who lived very near GW himself in Portapique.

Gabe loved to drink, as did Glynn and Glynn’s drinking buddies.

Rich guy Gabe supplied the booze.

So when their alcohol dealer Gabe started choking his spouse on Glynn’s property, all three did nothing —- didn’t call the mounties.

Nothing new here —— not calling the Mounties on Gabe was the Portapique neighbourly way of doing things : nice neighbours don’t fink on bad neighbours with lots of guns and short fuse when drunk. Not when the Mounties are a 100 km away on a good day.

But Brenda Forbes says that Glynn Wortman told the RCMP via speaker phone that his nephew would kill him if he made a formal complaint about the choking and Gabe’s big stash of illegal guns from the US, because Gabe had already said he had killed guys in the US.

Wow ! It says everything about the scope of this extraordinary story that a blockbuster detail like this is made public but not made popular - ie didn’t become front page news.

Paul Wortman told FRANK MAGAZINE that Gabe told Glynn he planned to kill his mom and dad and Paul says that on a trip to Cuba he did attempt to kill him, his dad.

Now we learned, via CBC/Brenda Forbes - that he threatened to do the same to his uncle Glynn.

Gabe’s RCMP uncles, Cris in lower mainland BC and Alan in Ottawa, were probably both too far away and too well trained in guns for Gabe to try to kill them.

But his oldest uncle, Neil in Shediac NB was near by, in frail health and had a very successful career in education, the sort of career success that would rankle the ego of Gabriel.

I wonder if Gabe ever threatened him ?

And frankly, if I were Gabe’s brother Jeff in the US, I would have been totally terrified of having gained a resentful older brother with lots of illegal high powered weapons and a very short fuse.

Because it seems clear that Gabe really, really resented his parents doting over his newly found baby brother.

Some Canadian media really should interview Jeff and his wive Robin....

But really, really folks, its the illegal gun cache from US + “killed guys in US” angle that grabs me.

I keep flashing back to that photo with all those American flags in the background in the shrine to one of Gabe’s precious motorbikes - the photo GW featured on the front page of his FACEBOOK page.

I think we will find that GW was definitely a full on SECOND Amendments NRA type of guy - tutored by his grandmother Doris’s second husband - the mysterious gun smuggler from Michigan that father Paul talked about.

Did Gabe obtain some of his illegal weapons by killing guys for them in the US ?

Was this in anyway connected to those mysterious overnight trips he made while an adult at UNB in 1990, using false names and false ID ? (UNB Fredericton is just a short drive to SECOND AMENDMENT-rabid Northern Maine.)

Admittedly, Gabe probably told all this “killing guys in US” stuff to uncle Glynn when both were drunk out of their skulls.

On the other hand, things you have long successfully concealed when cold sober , do tend to slip out when you are stone-blind drunk....