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Thank you all very much for your messages of sympathy in the death of my friend, Janet McKnight. She was a very special person. She had a great sense of humour, a vast amount of compassion and was one of the most intelligent, capable women I know. Janet cared very deeply about many things..her students, her parents, sister and brother, her three young nephews, and her friends...and she had many friends. Most of all, she loved her husband, Dr. Robert McKnight. Bob was an orthopedic surgeon in Hamilton. He was being treated for depression. I had an email message on Sunday evening from Janet (we talked off and on all day at work and evenings and weekends on email). Janet said in her message that she had had a great day. The next morning (I think/hope she was still asleep), she was stabbed to death. When neither Janet nor Bob were at work in the morning, Bob's secretary and I feared the worst. She phoned the police but they wouldn't force their way in. I phoned a friend of Janet's who had a key to her house and she went there and let them in. The police rescued Bob who had hanged himself..five minutes more and he would have been dead. There was nothing they could do for Janet. Bob has been charged with murder. That's the whole story as far as I know it. Thank you all for your offers of help and prayer and support. They are much appreciated.