The brother of one of child murderer Clifford Olson's young victims has broken his 30-year silence -- after learning the serial killer is stricken with cancer and just days from death.
For 30 years, Olson has haunted Peter Kozma, whose sister Judy died at his hands in 1981.
"It destroyed our family; it destroyed me as a person growing up," Kozma told CTV News.
Kozma was 16-years-old when his younger sister Judy, just 14, disappeared. Her body was found two weeks later.
"My sister and I were the closest I think because we kind of both played sports -- she was kind of like me," he said.
Kozma said he felt compelled to speak for the first time publically about his sister's murder when he learned her killer is terminally ill.
Olson was recently moved from the maximum security prison in Quebec to a hospital in Laval. He's now 71-years-old and prison officials believe he could die any day.
"It's giving me a lot of comfort that he's finally going to pass, pass and go to a place that he's going to be punished for the rest of his life," Kozma said.
Trudy Court, whose sister Ada was Olson's fifth victim, is also finding comfort in the news.
Court says every time the serial killer is mentioned in the media it opens old, painful wounds.
"I don't have to hear about him ever again, I don't have to see his picture on TV again, it means I can start my healing process and get closure," she said.
The RCMP paid Olson $100,000 to lead them to the bodies of his victims, a payoff many have considered blood money. He pleaded guilty to killing eight girls and three boys in 1981 and was given 11 concurrent life sentences.
Olson applied for parole on three occasions and was denied each time, the last hearing held in Nov. 2010. His lawyer says his client loved the attention.
"I don't think there's any question that a conscious-less sociopath with a huge ego would thrive on that. It's all within his head; nobody else is fooled by it," Robert Shantz said.
For Peter Kozma, news of Olson's passing can't come soon enough.
"He's finally going to get something he that deserves," he said.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Brent Shearer