They were the most feared and dreaded foursome in Canada at the time. They were four brothers from central Alberta, and were Ukrainian by descent. Their first names were Slaw, Slava, Metro, and Georgi. Their last name was Lawluk. The four boys all born one year apart grew up on a farm and refused to work the fields or work the pens. At the tender age of eleven Slaw who was the oldest finally had enough of his father asking him to work on the fields and when his father became physical with him Slaw flew into a rage beating the father into near death and had a good time doing it. His mother watched in horror at the sight of her first born beating his father.

Alvin Mara had known little about his father's past. His father had died when Alvin was the tender age of four. Alvin had asked his mother about his father and she didn't say much. But as Alvin grew older he started to develop his own thinking and critical judgment wondering what had actually happened to his father. He had always been told that his father had died of natural causes which he believed when he was a young child but later on in his youth he wanted to know more. He persistently agitated his mom with a barrage of questions to the point where she snapped on him and told him to never mention his father's name again. This caused Alvin to become more suspicious than ever. 

During the 19th century the criminal  profession of body snatching was a big business as medical schools were in desperate need of fresh, semi warm corpses to be used in medical schools for the purpose of training surgeons and for anatomical dissection classes. Thousands of bodies in Europe and in North America were dug up illegally for medically purposes. And in many cases some of the victims were murdered in a set up to make it look like a suicide. The body would then be buried and dug up by the original killers and sold to unscrupulous medical schools. The practice of body snatching became so prevalent and wide spread that people would be buried with irons bars around their coffins or the bodies would be bolted to the coffin floor. But the most simple method of prevention was to hire a night watchman at the graveyard to keep an eye on the freshly buried bodies. The problem with the watchmen was that they were poorly paid and open to bribes, especially if they were lucrative ones. 

​During my father's time as an architect he has had many types of clients and has worked with all kinds of unusual characters but none were more unusual than an engineer that he had worked with on a project about a decade ago. I cant remember his name so we will call him John Doe for story telling purposes.