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A convicted killer has confessed to two other crimes he says occurred within a week of the 1994 murder of a Northern Manitoba teenager that put him behind bars. Robert Bliss Arthurson, who is serving a life sentence for strangling a 13-year-old girl in The Pas, admitted during a parole hearing last week that he had 15 or 16 other victims, some of whom police did not know about. But he would not elaborate on how they were victimized and provided no other details at the time. Now a report on the parole hearing states that Arthurson admitted that two of those illegal acts occurred within seven days of the infamous murder. Hundreds of people from The Pas and area helped search for the 13-year-old victim after she went missing in September 1994. Her body was eventually found next to a gravel road in the community. At least 1,000 residents had signed a petition in support of keeping Arthurson in his Alberta prison cell.
