The Hockey Player Who Killed a Woman
He drove under the influence, but found redemption later
Legendary hockey player, Craig MacTavish, in 1985, walked out of jail. He had served a one year sentence for vehicular manslaughter, and at the end of the day, MacTavish expressed significant remorse for killing someone while driving under the influence. He pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and driving under the influence of alcohol on January 25, 1984.
“It’s not over and not behind me,” Boston Bruins forward said of the event.
MacTavish killed a 26-year-old woman named Kim Radley in Newfield, Maine, when he crashed into her during a car accident. She died four years later. After MacTavish spent a year in jail, he played 17 more years in the NHL.
MacTavish would later call the event a “fatal mistake” in the words of the LA Times. The parents of Radley, Hazel and Ronald Foote, would meet with MacTavish frequently while he was in jail, according to Barry Meisel in the Chicago Tribune.
“We felt this was something we had to do, something we wanted to do to see if it would help us accept what had happened. We had a question in our mind, and we had to draw a conclusion. We both felt if we could talk with him, see how he felt, that it might help us with some of our problems,” Ronald Foote…
