Bill Luft

1957 - 2000  (43 years)

• Name	Bill Luft
  Born	1957	, Czechoslovakia   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Interesting	crime, murder, story
  Misfortune	6 Jul 2000	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	murdered wife and children, then killed self.
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-40268
  Died	6 Jul 2000	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Buried	Williamsburg Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I40268	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Vilem Luft
  Mother	Miroslava
  Family ID	F50266	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bohumila Pejlova,   b. 1972,   d. 6 Jul 2000, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 28 years)
  Married	1993	, Czechoslovakia   [1]
  Children	1. Daniel Luft,   b. 1992,   d. 6 Jul 2000, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 8 years)   2. Nicole Luft,   b. 1994,   d. 6 Jul 2000, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 6 years)   3. Peter Luft,   b. 1997,   d. 6 Jul 2000, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 3 years)   4. David Luft,   b. 2000,   d. 6 Jul 2000, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2025
  Family ID	F50265	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  KITCHENER Fifteen years ago, Bill Luft turned on his family, killing his wife, four young children and himself. The killings on July 6, 2000, in a home on Mooregate Crescent in Kitchener, still stand as Waterloo Region's worst mass murder. An 11-day inquest in 2001 concluded nothing could have prevented the murders. They took place while Luft's parents were inside their temporary home, a motorhome parked in the driveway. They heard nothing. Luft, who was 42, had bipolar disorder marked by extreme shifts in mood but often refused to take his medication, partly due to the stigma about mental illness. Luft was also under an extreme amount of stress. He was unemployed, in debt and trying to come to terms with his 10-week-old son being diagnosed with spina bifida.... Waterloo Region Record 3 Jul 2015

  
  

• Sources

  [S602] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - The Waterloo Region Record (March 2008- ), Luft mass murder shocked Kitchener 15 years ago - 3 Jul 2015.

  
  

• Event Map

  Misfortune - murdered wife and children, then killed self. - 6 Jul 2000 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 6 Jul 2000 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Williamsburg Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth