Nana Yaw
The most dangerous time in a woman’s life is when she breaks up with her abusive husband or boyfriend. And not surprisingly, the biggest danger to her life is said husband or boyfriend. Iliada (Lois) Zois found this out on Christmas day, 2007. That is the day that her hellbeast common-law husband Nana Yaw decided she could not live without him.
Lois knew Nana Yaw was not happy. After living with him for over a year, she knew he was jealous, possessive and abusive. She’d been planning to split up with him and leave their Kipling Avenue, Toronto apartment. She had begun packing boxes and looking for furniture.
Lois Zois’ friends knew that her tumultuous relationship with Nana Yaw had already been over for months. She had only continued to live with him, she told her friends, because she was afraid to leave. In fact, she worked over 100 hours a week at two jobs likely to avoid being home with him.
Lois had originally moved in with him in order to escape from living with her mother Sandra and her mother’s criminal boyfriend, Eric Kusi. Good old Eric Kusi had been convicted of assault and pointing a gun at a woman among dozens of other crimes. Lois understandably did not feel safe in her mother’s home. She was right to move out, but so very wrong to move in with Nana Yaw.
So come December 24, 2007, Lois just knew that hellbeast Nana Yaw was ready to explode with temper. To feel safer Lois had invited her two younger brothers, 16-year-old Thomas and 14-year-old Jamie over for Christmas. She mistakenly believed that Nana Yaw wouldn’t start anything in front of the boys.
First thing on Christmas day the boys heard the bathroom mirror being smashed. Nana Yaw was arguing with Lois and was manhandling her, trying to get her cellphone away from her. The phone was ultimately smashed on the floor.
Nana Yaw was only getting started. He grabbed a corkscrew and began threatening Lois with it.
“No, Nana, stop,” the boys heard her scream. “Please help, he is trying to kill us!”
Nana Yaw grabbed a kitchen knife and began stabbing Lois as she ran and then crawled on her knees toward the door. He stabbed and stabbed and stabbed her until she died. She was only 22.
Fourteen-year-old Jamie knew he had to act fast. He tried to make it to the door to escape but Nana Yaw stopped him by plunging the knife into the boy 6 times. A wound to Jamie’s neck caused air to escape and blood to seep into his lungs. The boy was horribly injured but still alive at that point.
Next Nana Yaw went after 16-year-old Thomas. He stabbed the young man in the chest and forearm as the boy pleaded for his life. The killer Yaw stopped his killing at that point and decided instead to get good and drunk.
Over the next few hours the wounded Thomas had the privilege of watching Yaw drinking and drinking as his beloved brother struggled to breathe. Every breath Jamie made caused a wheezing sound from his neck wound, and that kinda sorta bugged the bugger Yaw.
“Shut the fuck up,” commanded the drunken Yaw as he raised his foot and stomped on Jamie’s head. The boy died almost instantly after that.
Thomas’ hell was not yet over. His sister was dead, his brother was dead, he himself was wounded and still Nana Yaw was not satisfied. In front of this poor boy, the hellbeast had sex with the dead girl’s bloodied, battered body. “This is how much I love your sister!” he told Thomas.
Pardon me while I retch.
Nana Yaw then spent the rest of the day planning what to do. His big idea was to hide the bodies and leave Canada. He packed his bags and took them to his cousin’s house.
Before leaving on Boxing Day, Nana Yaw put Thomas into a bedroom closet, tied to a chair with his mouth gagged. I am supposing that he expected Thomas to die there from his wounds.
In actuality, Thomas managed to eventually free himself from his bindings. He checked on his brother and sister and found them to be dead. Terrified and traumatized, poor Thomas returned to the closet and hid himself for hours before he could muster the courage to go to the 23 Division police station at 7:00 pm.
Detective Sergeant Gary Grinton said, “I’ve never seen anything like this. In over 30 years I’ve never seen people victimized this badly and continuously.”
He described the apartment as one of the more “grisly” crime scene he had ever investigated. “The scene is quite a bloody scene. When young people have passed away it’s particularly more mind-numbing,” he said.
Twelve hours after police arrived at the murder scene, Nana Yaw was in custody. He had actually gotten as far as Windsor, Ontario and changed his mind about his getaway. He was found very close to his apartment building.
Nana Yaw (27) was charged with two counts of 1st degree murder, one count of attempted murder and one count of forcible confinement. He pled guilty to two counts of 2nd degree murder and one count of aggravated assault.
“I still cannot believe that I did these terrible acts,” hellbeast Yaw said in a statement read out in court. “I am so sorry. I want to die.”
So die already.
In his victim impact statement young Thomas wrote, “This has impacted my life so much I am not the same person…I am not happy any more.”
I wish Thomas the very best and hope that he is healing from this horror.
Detectives said they were impressed by the boy’s courage.
On April, 2010, the murderous hellbeast Nana Yaw was sentenced to life without parole eligibility for 20 years by Justice Ian Nordheimer. The judge called the crime “almost unimaginable.” True that.
Long may Nana Yaw rot, and after that long may he burn in hell.
To read about CTV News’ coverage of the funeral, click HERE.
Should Nana Yaw fry in hell?
- Hell yes, he should fry, boil, and roast in hell. (99%, 507 Votes)
- No, he deserves mercy and forgiveness. (1%, 7 Votes)
Total Voters: 512
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I remember this, it must have been unbelievably horrible for that poor kid.
Incidentally, I believe her name was Iliada (beginning with an “i”). Well written article about the danger of domestic violence.
I have had friends leave abusive relationships and the most dangerous time for them was right after their partners learned of their plans to leave. One friend was told by her husband that he’d burn down the house with her in it if she ever tried to leave him. We all believed him. She took the “garbage” out for a couple of weeks — the bags had her clothes and personal treasures that friends picked up and kept at their houses. That was the only way she could escape with more than the clothes on her back.
BTW thanks for catching my typo. I fixed it.
Wow @ your friends “garbage bag” idea! I’m glad it worked out for her. I had to leave without so much as my shoes, in debt, broken but full of hope,…
Congrats on getting out and getting on with your life! It took a whole lot of courage and I salute you.
Garbage bag plan was very smart!
Hey Cleo, I wrote a story about 5 weeks ago, and did not get a reponse. Could someone write me back and let me know if there is something you need me to edit on the story?
TY
Carla
I sent you an email, Carla. Thanks.
I’ve read pretty much every single story on here and this one has bugged me the most…
*cringe*
I think you’re right. There’s just something there that sticks with you. It might be because most people have seen something or heard something involving a friend or just someone around them that makes you think ‘something’s not right here’.
Is there any possibility he might never go free? Because he will definitely kill more people if he does. He might even in jail.
This is just so, so sad. I wish there was some way to help Thomas. Not only will he miss his brother and sister, he has to remember how this creature high-handedly decided to end their lives.
My friend was killed by her loser ex-boyfriend. I wasn’t there. I didn’t see anything. But, even now if I wrote what happened, I would start to cry.
What is somewhat unsettling to me here is the friends who knew she wanted to get out, but seemingly sat back and waited to see what happened. I don’t want to sound self-righteous here, but if your friend says there’s something wrong and wants to get out, friends find a way to make it so.
When my SIL was being abused by her boyfriend I drove over to their house, which was an hour and a half away, 8 months pregnant to get her out while he was at work (at 2 in the morning), then informed the police of what was going on. We moved her to a safe house, I used a borrowed car that I took the plates off of before I entered the town, and I was covered up and padded so I looked bigger, not pregnant. Any of her neighbors who saw me help her would not be able to identify me or my vehicle, so herboyfriend couldn’t connect me to her moving out. Last I heard he was trying to find her, but she had moved to two other safe houses and had fled the state. Her family knows where she is, but none of us are closer than a 5 hour drive from him now, and he’s too lazy to try to track us down and ask us. If they didn’t want to do something themselves there are networks to help get it done.
I wanted more to get the word out about these chains. It takes a bit of digging to find them (obviously they don’t advertize for personal safety), but there are networks. I encourage anyone who sees something to encourage the person being abused to get out NOW, because later isn’t promised with these types.
On a different note- is this site on an anti-Canada crusade? There have been a lot of Canadian assholes featured here lately.
Sorry about the Canadian slant. There are more Americans coming up. It’s just that being Canadian I tend to write about the criminals I hear about. We have a new writer whose article I will post next (yay!), but it would be absolutely great to get contributions from our previous writers too! We’ve gotten a lot of suggestions of candidates for hell (so many monsters, so little time) which is great. If anyone has an a article to submit, please do so.
I was just wondering if I needed to dress up like Kyle’s mom from South Park and start singing “Blame Canada”.
I might do it anyways.
Whatever floats your boat. ;D
I have to disagree somewhat. Sure, as a friend you do what you can, but often, there is NOTHING you can do. I’ve been in this situation growing up with an abused mother and trying to get her out as an adult, an abused sister, and with friends in this situation. The worst thing that one can do is PLAN and WAIT…if you need to get out, you leave with the clothes on your back, period. The longer you wait, the higher the danger. After years of doing the best I can to support and help a mother and sister who try to leave, only to wait and wait and wait, and then keep returning after the times they do leave, there comes a time you have to let go a little. And yes, there is the factor of your children and your own family that you may not want to put at risk. I stopped being a part of it when I had my daughter and received a threat from my stepdad towards my child (who wasn’t there, of course) during one time while I was helping my mom to leave WITH the police there. That was the last time I helped her. Her continued decision to stay in that relationship, though very painful to me, is her own, and I cannot risk my daughter’s life or mine over and over and over again because she is too codependent to leave. I suffered horribly…nightmarish abuse not unlike what you read here…because of her decision to stay throughout my childhood. Friends often do try to help…I’d be willing to bet anything most of her friends were begging her to not wait, to leave now, and they would help her…it sounds like it was her decision to stay there and wait a little longer. Not that she’s to blame for what happened to her, NEVER that…but it’s NOT right to blame her friends when you don’t know the situation. I’ve seen countless times a friend tell someone they loved they will do anything to help them, to LEAVE NOW, but the person almost always, almost without fail, decides to wait to save money, or get their own place, or till things are better financially for them to leave. That is no one’s fault, certainly not the victim, when something bad ends up happening to them, but it’s not the fault of the friend either…you cannot force someone you love to do what you know deep down is the safest thing to do.
Sad but true. I have a relative now in a similar situation. The guy rarely gets physical and right now its extreme control, she basically stays in the house, he has all the money and will take her phone and car away whenever he thinks she is thinking of leaving. She has left twice once with her kids where he tracked her to a shelter and she went back, second time to my house with just the clothes on her back but went back cause she needed money and missed her kids. Im afraid this will turn into physical violence but nothing I or the rest of the family can do but wait to spring into action.
Cleo, I had ask Jason to publish the story on Jonathan Edington that I had submitted to you and I also wrote a totally different story for him but he hasn’t submitted either of them. IDK why though. Maybe you could submit the Jonathan Edington story.
I lost a brother and that was one of the hardest things I have ever been through so I can’t imagine what poor Thomas must be dealing with on a daily basis. I just hope he is able to move on with his life and turn this tragedy into something productive.
I was once in a domestic violence relationship and while packing my stuff to leave he came home and tried to kill me. I finally got away but lost all of my material things. I moved over 6 hours away just to get away from him, once I moved on he’d find me and beg me to come back….I never did. While he was beating me, choking me, threatening to kill me because I was leaving him he also began to repeatedly rape me. After I left and had moved on I gave birth to a daughter(not by him) and so that’s one reason I told hell no I won’t come back….remember what you done to me? Just imagine what you would do to my baby girl. I just wish this young girl could’ve gotten away safely with her brothers in tow.
I remember bringing my brother and a friend to our home(the abusive ex) thinking he wouldn’t do anything with them there….I was wrong he beat me that night also. Please ladies if you are being abused please get help. I never called police, which I regret horribly. There’s no telling what he put another poor woman through and to think if I would’ve been brave enough to tell he’d would’ve been stopped. Good thing is KARMA is a bitch. In 2008, he committed suicide by driving down a busy road(full of traffic lights) at 100 MPH and got smashed by another driver. It broke every bone in his body but also killed an innocent elderly lady.
Thank goodness your abuser is dead and you don’t have to constantly look over your shoulder for him. He did the world a favor, but it is a horrible shame that somebody died because of his actions. That poor woman.
Your article is now in the queue. Feel free to send me any more you have up your sleeve.
What a fucking worthless asshole. Piece of shit bastard. Die you fucking piece of shit. Dickhead. Why did I have to read that first thing in the morning. That just pissed me right the fuck off.
I suggest bringing a handgun home in your purse with you instead of other people. A bullet hole in the abuser’s head slows them down somewhat while they’re attempting to kill you. The purse is kind of a nice coverup. Just put the strap over your shoulder, reach inside for the gun, point the purse at them, and pull the trigger several times.
Don’t use a nice purse. You wouldn’t want to ruin it.
I’m not joking, either.
You may want to die, fucker, but I hope you get raped and shanked constantly in prison before you do. People like this make me almost ashamed of my gender sometimes.
Gender? Try species.
I try to remain detached when reading these, but honestly, if you have sex with a dead body, you are beyond repair. You just need to be cauterized from society. If (God forbid) I was that twisted, that’s what I would want.
Ladies, be careful who you go to bed with! Do background checks on your boyfriends before you make the mistake of moving in with them!
Second-degree murder and aggravated assault? You have GOT to be kidding me.
And I can’t even imagine what it must have been like for Thomas. Not just with the hellbeast did, but with how people will be reacting to him as he lives his life. People will either look at him with pity or weirded-out-ness. How can he live a normal life after this? -____-
Whip him hard with a wet noodle!
Sounds like he could be free when he is my age while Lois won’t be able to leave the grave in 20 years.
Criminal Justice System – forgetting about the victims as much as possible!
1% says that he deserves forgiveness? Really? What if those had been your kids? Would you still believe that he deserves forgiveness? Fucktards. He deserves to die as gruesomely as they did!
I can’t believe he’s eligible for parole in twenty years, or AT ALL for that matter!
He only got 2nd degree murder, also? Canada has some rather lax criminal laws and penalties.
I also saw a documentary about those powder-puff Canadian prisons. Geez. This monster is probably living better off than a lot of us are!!
One more thing –
If this asshole was so sorry that he didn’t want to live anymore, he would have killed himself already. Fuck this guy, and fuck his mother for giving birth to him and raising a future murderer!
I blame the mother for setting the whole thing in motion. She HAD to choose her lowlife criminal boyfriend over her daughter?
Depravity like this is why I have a gun.
EZEKIEL 19;1-3 MOREOVER TAKE THOU UP A LAMENTATION FOR THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL.AND SAY,WHAT IS THY MOTHER? A LIONESS;SHE LAY DOWN AMONG LIONS,SHE NOURISHED HER WHELPS AMONG YOUNG LIONS.AND SHE BROUGHT UP ONE OF HER WHELPS;IT BECAME A YOUNG LION,AND IT LEARNED TO CATCH THE PREY;IT DEVOURED MEN. MORAL OF THE TEXT BEWARE OF THE LION YOU BED WITH.FOR OUT OF EVERY CLAN THERE IS ONE WHO WILL ESCAPE AND KILL HIS FELLOW MAN/WOMAN.WHY TAKE CHANCES WITH DANGER.EVERYTHING YOU SEE AINT TO HAVE AND TO HOLD AND EVERYTHING YOU SEE THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD.TAKE CARE AND BEWARE FOR DEATH IS OUT THERE .DON’T BE THE NEXT VICTIM.
EZEKIEL 19;1-3 MOREOVER TAKE THOU UP A LAMENTATION FOR THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL.AND SAY,WHAT IS THY MOTHER? A LIONESS;SHE LAY DOWN AMONG LIONS,SHE NOURISHED HER WHELPS AMONG YOUNG LIONS.AND SHE BROUGHT UP ONE OF HER WHELPS;IT BECAME A YOUNG LION,AND IT LEARNED TO CATCH THE PREY;IT DEVOURED MEN. MORAL OF THE TEXT BEWARE OF THE LION YOU BED WITH.FOR OUT OF EVERY CLAN THERE IS ONE WHO WILL ESCAPE AND KILL HIS FELLOW MAN/WOMAN.WHY TAKE CHANCES WITH DANGER.EVERYTHING YOU SEE AIN’T TO HAVE AND TO BEHOLD AND EVERYTHING YOU SEE THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD.TAKE CARE AND BEWARE FOR DEATH IS OUT THERE .DON’T BE THE NEXT VICTIM.
Oh, dear God, we’ve got another one quoting the Bible in all caps.
Let me go find my copy/paste reply…
LOL KHR, did you expect anything less, sweetheart? They come a dime a dozen on this site! Anyway, I hope this monster fries, as he is not sorry one bit. Crazy, jealous, possessive ass. He needs to be tied to a chair and then thrown screaming from a helicopter. Burn in hell, Nana Yaw!
Good advice to young white women–if you want to escape being a victim of domestic violence, don’t start relationships with black men! It sounds so simple, but there it is! Learn from what happened to Lois.
This isn’t a Tea Party rally. Take your racist bullshit elsewhere.
Damn it KHR, you beat me to it. But I’ll say it regardless:
Fuck you, Rod. Fuck you upside down in a banana tree! My husband is black and he has never raised a hand to me or our children in the nine years we have been married. Domestic violence is not based on one race you ignorant fuck.
Is it just me or has it been ever since I came back to this site the trolls are getting stupider and more desperate for attention?
Roddy ol buddy, you try far too hard. You’re not worth the effort.