Jane Hurshman Corkum was a Canadian housewife who killed her abusive husband Billy Stafford in 1982 and was famously acquitted.
The Crown later appealed, concerned with the legal precedent, and she pled out to manslaughter and received a six-month sentence, and was released after two months.

After her release, she spoke out about spousal abuse, then an all-but-ignored subject.

On Feb 23, 1992, her body was found in a car on the Halifax waterfront, dead from a single gunshot wound.

In media

• A TV movie, Life with Billy
  Life with Billy (film)
  Life with Billy is a 1994 Canadian television film based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Brian Vallée. The film was nominated for five Gemini Awards, and won three....
  
   was produced in 1994.
• The song Waltz For Jane by Denis Ryan's 5 Pound Spent.