Veteran Paul Berkley Murdered In Bizarre Love Triangle

April 22, 2008

Navy Reservist Paul Berkley, 46, had been proudly serving his country in the Middle East in President George W. Bush's war against Iraq since January 2005, when he left his family and their Clayton, North Carolina home for a tour of duty that was based out of Bahrain.  According to his daughter, Becky, 18, Berkley had served in the Middle East "for months and months" without ever getting shot, only to return home to presumably safer turf where he was ironically shot down in a public park while on a picnic with his wife, Monique, twenty years his junior, in what appeared, at least on the surface, as a bizarre, bungled robbery.

What Berkley didn't know when he returned home was that shortly after he had left for Bahrain, Monique had begun an affair with an 18-year-old man, Andrew Canty, who promptly moved in with her after Paul's shipped out.  Canty, raised in Brooklyn and Queens County, New York, the police later learned, had attended the same high school as Becky Berkley and her brother, Zeke, Paul Berkley's two children from a previous marriage.  Canty, it turned out, had moved out of Monique's place prior to Berkley's homecoming on December 14, 2005—but not before engaging in a secret murder plot with Monique to kill Berkley so that they could collect his $400,000 life insurance policy.

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Photo Courtesy of Raleigh, N.C. Police Department