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Episode 313: Douglas Donald Moore, known in Meadowvale, Ontario,  as a drug supplier for young teens, gained notoriety in Mississauga for killing three young men before taking his own life in his jail cell while awaiting trial on 11 charges for sexual assaults on three boys. Peel Regional Police assert that Robert Grewal, 22, of Meadowvale, and Giuseppe (Joseph) Manchisi, 20, of Milton, who were close friends, were killed in 2003 by Moore. After Moore’s death, he was named the prime suspect in the murders of Grewal and Manchisi. Additionally, police believe Moore was responsible for killing Rene Charlebois, 15, also of Meadowvale. All three victims disappeared in late 2003, and their bodies were discovered in spring 2004. Charlebois’ remains were found in an Orangeville landfill, while Grewal and Manchisi’s remains were located in wooded areas near Montreal. In 2005, Moore’s former common-law wife and an unidentified 16-year-old were convicted of accessory to murder after the fact. The teen assisted in disposing of evidence, including driving with Moore to Quebec to bury the bodies of Grewal and Manchisi. Moore believed the two men had stolen drugs and cash from him, but it was later revealed that the 16-year-old was responsible for the robbery. The police have never disclosed the motive behind the killing of Rene Charlebois. Sources: Mississauga | Canadian Encyclopedia History of Mississauga | MIssissauga.ca Canada's most notorious murder case happened in Mississauga in the 1970s Improbable Cause: The Harrison Family Murders Search: Douglas Donald Moore | Newspapers.com Youth appealing in Manchisi case Murder victim’s grieving mother still has questions Dad seeks slain son’s body parts | Toronto Star Douglas Donald Moore (1968-2004) Cold North Killers by Lee Mellor | Everand Douglas Donald Moore | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Opinion: The horrifying path of Douglas Moore Ontario Newsroom | Coroner’s Inquest 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Notorious Meadowvale serial killer left suicide note Didn't know killer's background, doctor testifies | The Star Spree killer feared dangerous-offender status | The Star `I'm sorry ... I'm finally free': Killer | The Star Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 312: In a home in Shediac, New Brunswick, on February 13, 1805, Amos Babcock, driven by delusions of divine mission, subjected his family to a horrifying ordeal. He gathered his wife, children and sister, Mercy, instilling fear with his erratic behaviour and unsettling declarations. Spurred by imagined threats and seeing himself as an instrument of God, Amos prepared for a sacrificial act, treating his family with cruelty dressed up as a religious ritual. His deep descent into madness was evident as he inflicted violence upon his loved ones, sparing none from his erratic wrath. Babcock's final act of brutality saw him murder his sister, Mercy Babcock Hall, whom he saw as demonic, in a brutal frenzy of madness, bringing a tragic end to a night of unspeakable horror. Sources: Amos Babcock (1764-1805) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree Squash, Pumpkin Pie and Mercy… | Part 1 Squash, Pumpkin Pie and Mercy… | Part 2 New Brunswick — History and Culture The Babcock Tragedy, a Story of Madness and Murder Hellfire in Shediac Amos Babcock... Crazed Murderer, or...? Full text of "The New Brunswick magazine" Mar 08, 1939, page 14 - The Montreal Star at Newspapers.com Apr 13, 1939, page 15 - The Kingston Whig-Standard at Newspapers.com Jan 18, 1993, page 25 - The Leader-Post at Newspapers.com Apr 20, 2013, page 79 - National Post at Newspapers.com The Ballad of Jacob Peck by Debra Komar (Ebook) Great Awakening - First, Second & Definition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 311: On October 21, 2021, a tragic accident occurred on the set of the low-budget old-west movie Rust, filmed on a New Mexico ranch. Wife, mother and Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, was fatally shot, and writer/director Joel Souza, 48, was injured. It was the lead actor and producer, Alec Baldwin, who was holding the prop gun that killed Hutchins and wounded Souza. Somehow, it contained a live round. Investigations also revealed other live rounds on set, which is never supposed to happen. Baldwin and the film’s inexperienced armourer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 24, were charged with involuntary manslaughter. Dave Halls, 63, serving as the first assistant director on the film, entered a no-contest plea per a deal made with prosecutors, accepting responsibility for the misdemeanour offence of negligent use of a deadly weapon linked to the death of Halyna Hutchins. Numerous civil suits have also been filed, with accusations of negligence being levelled against several parties, including the production company, Hannah Gutierrez and actor Alec Baldwin. Sources: Halyna Hutchins | IMDb Joel Souza | IMDb Rust | Western | IMDb Alec Baldwin | IMDb Hannah Gutierrez Reed Probable Cause Statement | DocumentCloud Halyna Hutchins Post Mortem — 62fc0b327d166.pdf Alec Baldwin - Halyna Hutchins - FBI and Medical Examiner Reports (Aug 2022) American Cinematographer January 2022 Ac0122 | PDF | Pixel | Signal Processing The moment Alec Baldwin is told of the death of his colleague Halyna Hutchins The New Mexico Film Office Announces Rust is Currently Filming in New Mexico The day Alec Baldwin shot Halyna Hutchins and Joel Souza Search warrant reveals grim details of 'Rust' shooting and Halyna Hutchins' final minutes A Timeline of the ‘Rust’ Shooting and Investigation 'Rust' timeline: Key events in the Alec Baldwin on-set shooting Rust trial: How events unfolded after fatal shooting on Alec Baldwin film set Raise Funds In Memory of Halyna Hutchins, organized by ICG Local 600 ‘Rust’ Camera Assistant on Safety Issues, Pay Irregularities and Producer Behavior on “Brutal” Set Bonanza Creek Ranch | About Gun in Fatal Rust Shooting Used in Target Practice that Morning FULL Alec Baldwin Police Interview About Rust Shooting Incident Bodycam Released in Alec Baldwin Set Shooting Alec Baldwin, ‘Rust’ producers reach settlement with slain cinematographer’s estate - National Video shows 'Rust' rehearsal, Baldwin speak to officers after shooting | NewsNation Halyna Hutchins’s Death on the Set of Rust Was “Not a Freak Accident” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the summer of 2006, a young Calgary woman was on top of the world. She had a supportive family, amazing friends and a great job. But life as she knew it came to an abrupt stop in the middle of the night on August 6, 2006. In this episode, Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt shares details of a violent attack- a story that’s every woman’s worst fear. www.calgarycrimestoppers.org - reference case # 06274598 https://newsroom.calgary.ca/sexual-assault-case-from-2006-has-new-lead/ Contact: Instagram: @nancy.hixt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NancyHixtCrimeBeat/ Email: nancy.hixt@globalnews.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 310: On October 21, 2021, a tragic accident occurred on the set of the low-budget old-west movie Rust, filmed on a New Mexico ranch. Wife, mother and Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, was fatally shot, and writer/director Joel Souza, 48, was injured. It was the lead actor and producer, Alec Baldwin, who was holding the prop gun that killed Hutchins and wounded Souza. Somehow, it contained a live round. Investigations also revealed other live rounds on set, which is never supposed to happen. Baldwin and the film’s inexperienced armourer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 24, were charged with involuntary manslaughter. Dave Halls, 63, serving as the first assistant director on the film, entered a no-contest plea in accordance with a deal made with prosecutors, accepting responsibility for the misdemeanour offence of negligent use of a deadly weapon linked to the death of Halyna Hutchins. Numerous civil suits have also been filed, with accusations of negligence being levelled against several parties, including the production company itself, Hannah Gutierrez and actor Alec Baldwin. In this first of two parts, you will learn about the tragic trail of events leading up to the shooting. Sources: Alec Baldwin "Rust" shooting: A timeline of events in Halyna Hutchins' death | CBS News Rust shooting incident Rust shooting ‘43rd fatal incident on US film set since 1990’ Film set fatalities rise in last decade as production booms On-set deaths from prop guns are rare — but not unheard of Safety for Sarah Directors Guild of Canada Safety Bulletins – Contract Services 01_safety_bltn_firearms 02_safety_bltn_live_ammunition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 309: In Mike's first book, Murder, Madness and Mayhem, he wrote about an unknown man whose body was found on Somerton Park beach near Adelaide, Australia, by two trainee jockeys who’d been out with their horses on the morning of December 1, 1948. Lying in peaceful repose, the man wore a suit, overdressed for the warm Australian summer, and had no wallet or identification. He was unknown to anyone locally. The labels of his clothing had been ripped out.  Some enigmatic leads proved fruitless, including the discovery of a book, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, believed to have belonged to the stranger. In that book, what appeared to be coded writing was found. Experts have yet to decrypt the supposed message. Some believe the man was a spy, possibly murdered for what he knew. Called by many Somerton Man, the stranger's identity has remained unknown for decades until recently, when two separate groups came forward claiming they had information about who he was, leading to further speculation and even more questions. Sources: Murder Madness and Mayhem by Mike Browne The Unknown Man by Gerald Feltus Archived Newspaper Articles | Trove Final Report/Thesis 2015 - Derek Abbott Code Cracking: Who Murdered the Somerton Man | Prof. Derek Abbott How to Solve Ciphers Cryptography Hints 2602UMSAU — The Doe Network ‘Truth to come out’: Fresh claims emerge on Somerton Man Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 308: Kimberly Lynn Hallgarth was the 33-year-old mother of one and involved with former CFL football player Joshua Joseph Boden when. she was found brutally murdered at her residence in Burnaby, British Columbia, in March 2009. Her death was covered extensively in the media due to its connection with Boden, who had a long history of legal entanglements and was the main suspect in her killing. After years of awaiting a resolution, Kimberly’s family finally got a whiff of justice, when in 2018, Boden was charged with her murder. There had been a witness to the crime, and she was willing to testify. Sources: Kimberly Hallgarth (1975-2009) CSO - Search Traffic/Criminal By Participant Name Josh Boden | Global News, Videos & Articles 2011 BCPC 366 (CanLII) | R. v. Boden | CanLII 2012 BCPC 331 (CanLII) | R. v. Boden | CanLII 2014 BCSC 66 (CanLII) | R. v. Boden | CanLII 2021 BCSC 79 (CanLII) | R. v Boden | CanLII 2024 BCCA 6 (CanLII) | R. v. Boden | CanLII The Province 15 Aug 2008, page 19 The Province 17 Mar 2009, page 7 The Vancouver Sun 25 Sep 2009, page 4 The Vancouver Sun 03 Oct 2009, page 7 The Vancouver Sun 25 Sep 2009, page 4 The Vancouver Sun 05 Aug 2010, page 5 The Province 19 Dec 2010, page 12 The Province 05 Nov 2018, page A4 The Province 04 Nov 2020, page AS10 The Vancouver Sun 17 Jun 2022, page A7 St Vincent and the Grenadines — Government Murder of young mom still ‘unfathomable’ Woman found dead in Burnaby worked as escort Police ID woman found dead in Burnaby home | CBC News Former BC Lion Josh Boden handed 14-year minimum sentence for ex-girlfriend’s murder The Province 14 Jan 2024, page A3 Ex-girlfriend to testify via CCTV against former BC Lion accused in Burnaby murder Former BC Lion Joshua Boden found guilty of second-degree murder Josh Boden trial: Key Crown witness breaks down in tears during cross-examination Witness testifies about football player's alleged deadly attack on former girlfriend Former B.C. Lion Josh Boden's murder of ex-girlfriend was 'horrific and brutal' Former BC Lions player killed ex-girlfriend in Burnaby for ruining football career: Crown Court upholds murder conviction for ex-B.C. Lion Joshua Boden | SportseNet Court dismisses appeal of former B.C. Lions player convicted of ex-girlfriend's murder Josh Boden football Statistics on StatsCrew.com Joshua (Josh) Joseph Boden | Wikipedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 307: On Friday, July 10th, 1970, around 7 a.m., near Ludlow, Maine, 45 kilometres from the border with Canada, the crew aboard a northbound Bangor & Aroostook Railway train noticed something lying on the tracks ahead. They thought at first it might be trash but reacted quickly regardless. Despite the immediate application of the brakes, the locomotive, towing 19 heavy boxcars, could not stop in time to avoid a collision. The objects on the tracks were sleeping bags containing three young males. All appeared to be in their teens or early twenties. The bodies were found without official identification, and among them, they carried just over 5 dollars in Canadian cash. After a very brief investigation, the Aroostook County Sheriff, Darrell Crandall, said he considered the deaths either accidental or a group suicide pact. The young men were soon identified as Kenny Novak (fifteen) and David Burrows (seventeen), both from Sydney River and Terry Burt (twenty) of Whitney Pier, in Sydney, Nova Scotia. It was discovered that they had hitchhiked to the location, but they were a long way from home. Their families initially had no idea why they would cross the border. There were no indications that any of the three were suicidal. Why were they there? If their deaths were accidental, how had they not heard the train approaching? And why would they have chosen to sleep on the train tracks? Information soon came to light that there may have been a darker reason for their journey, leading to speculation that the three might have been murdered and placed on the tracks to make their deaths appear accidental. Their families and friends are still looking for answers. Sources: The Standard 11 Jul 1970, page 1 Death Notices — The Bangor Daily News 13 Jul 1970, page 26 Biddeford-Saco Journal 13 Jul 1970, page 10 The Bangor Daily News 19 Jul 1970, page 34 Remembering a Mysterious Summer of '70 Tragedy by Ken Jessome Who Killed the Three Cape Breton Boys on the Tracks? by Ken Jessome “An Unfortunate Mishap": Three Cape Breton Deaths by Ken Jessome "Sleeping Victims": A Cape Breton True Crime Story? By Ken Jessome QUEST FOR JUSTICE: The Cape Breton 3 (Interview with Lorne Novak) Cape Breton Three: The Boys on the Tracks — Murder, She Told: Maine & New England True Crime The Three Cape Breton Boys on the Tracks — Nighttime Podcast S1 E2 The Cape Breton Boys on the Track — Locating the Lost Federal Railroad Administration Rail-HwyGXing_Accidents-- DEC. 31, 1972 The Mysterious Deaths of Don Henry & Kevin Ives - Unsolved Mysteries SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS: the 1970 deaths of 3 Cape Breton Youth in Maine | Facebook Aroostook County Murder Mystery | Facebook Ingonish Beach and Freshwater Lake – Cape Breton Highlands National Park | Tourism Nova Scotia, Canada Petition to Re-Open the Investigation — Change.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 306: This week, we discuss the shooting death of American Mark Harshbarger during a 2006 hunting trip to Newfoundland. The Meshoppen, Pennsylvania, man was shot by his wife, Mary Beth Harshbarger, who claims she thought he was a black bear. In 2010, Harshbarger was extradited to Newfoundland, where she stood trial for criminal negligence causing death. The prosecution cited insurance money as Mary Beth’s motive for the killing. After two weeks of hearings in September, the presiding judge found her not guilty.  The shooting death of Mark Harshbarger has been a source of controversy since it occurred. Some people believe that Mary Beth Harshbarger was guilty of first-degree murder, while others believe that she was justified in shooting her husband because she thought he was a bear. It is important to remember that this topic is very sensitive for many people. The family and friends of Mark Harshbarger are still grieving his death, and Mary Beth Harshbarger has gone through a great deal. Mark’s children have lost their father. We aim to be respectful of all parties involved when discussing this case. Sources: Hunting | The Canadian Encyclopedia Fur Trade in Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia Town of Buchans Newfoundland & Labrador Guide describes fatal shot in U.S. hunter's trial | CBC News Official Newfoundland Hunter Safety Course | HunterCourse.com Inside The Harshbarger Family Case | CBC — True Crime Canada Public Advisory: 2023-24 Hunting and Trapping Guide Available Online - News Releases Regulation Summaries - 2022-23 Hunting and Trapping Guide Mark Harshbarger (1963-2006) | Find-a-Grave 2010 NLTD 152 (CanLII) | R. v. Harshbarger | CanLII Another Fine Day Afield | Outdoor Canada Extradition looms for hunter who shot husband | Outdoor Canada Harshbarger's father speaks out about widow's upcoming shooting trial - News - The Times-Tribune Judge throws out PFA order that had been lodged against Mary Beth Harshbarger - News - Daily Review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 305: Joseph LaPage, a French-Canadian rapist and necrophile known as the French Monster, was tried and hung in 1878 for the brutal, sexually motivated murder of Josie A. Langmaid, 17, in Pembroke, New Hampshire, in 1875. LaPage was also the sole suspect in the 1874 murder of Marietta N. Ball, a girl from St. Albans, Vermont. He was arrested for that crime; however, insufficient evidence prevented a trial, but the night before his execution, LaPage confessed to Marietta’s murder. Only weeks after LaPage was hanged, two more murders perpetrated in 1867, that of Mrs. George Fountie and her 16-year-old daughter, Minnie, from Saint-Alexandre, Quebec, were also tied to LaPage. It is believed that Joseph LaPage, with a long history of violent behaviour, is one of Canada’s earliest misogynistic serial killers, predating even Jack the Ripper. Sources: 1878: Joseph LaPage, murderer of Josie Langmaid Joseph LaPage | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Josie Langmaid-"The Murdered Maiden Student" The Trial of Joseph LaPage | CURIOSity Digital Collections The East Hill Murder (Marietta Ball, Part 1) The Suncook Town Tragedy (Marietta Ball, Part 2) Marietta Ball | Obscure Vermont Marietta N Ball (1854-1874) Josephine Ann “Josie” Langmaid (1857-1875) - Find... Josie Langmaid Monument The Murdered Maiden Student : A Tribute to the Memory of Miss Josie A. Langmaid by Rev. S. C. Keeler on James E. Arsenault & Company How a Clairvoyant Caught Josie Langmaid's Murderer in 1875 The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, March 16, 1878 Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, March 20, 1878 St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, March 22, 1878 Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, March 22, 1878 The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, April 09, 1878 Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, April 09, 1878 The Boston Globe 09 Apr 1878 Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, March 23, 1878 Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder SuncookTragedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 304: On the morning of July 11, 1996, police were called to the parking lot of a hotel under construction off Interstate 40 at 7471 Crosswood Boulevard in Knoxville, Tennesee. There, they found the body of a man, later identified as Robert Dennis Blair Adams, 31, a Canadian citizen from Surrey, B.C. Family and friends called him Blair. Scattered around his body were personal items belonging to Blair and almost $4000 in various currencies, including Canadian, American, and German money. A black fanny pack near Blair’s body was found to be filled with nearly 5 ounces of gold bars, as well as gold and platinum coins and jewelry. It was later determined that Blair had been beaten and left to die in the parking lot where he was discovered. It is unclear why Blair was in Tennessee, thousands of kilometres from home and in another country. His family later said Blair had been acting strangely and was suffering from insomnia. He told them he believed people were after him and wanted him dead. He had quit his job, emptied his bank account and safety deposit box and left home for good only two days before his body’s discovery. As Blair’s significant amount of cash and valuables lay untouched, the motive for his murder remains a mystery, as does the identity of his killer or killers. Sources: Half-nude with fanny pack of gold, Canadian's killing a Knox County mystery decades later Septemmber 11, 2017 | Knoxville News Sentinel | Wayback Machine Investigations – Cold Case – Homicides – Knox County Sheriff Website Investigations – Cold Case – Homicide – Robert Dennis Blair Adams – Knox County Sheriff Website Who killed a Canadian in Knox County but left his gold untouched? Blair Adams - Unsolved Mysteries Robert Dennis Blair Adams (1964-1996) - Find a... From the UnresolvedMysteries community on Reddit: The Mysterious Death of Blair Adams The Murder Of Blair Adams — And Why It Remains Unsolved Today CRIME HUNTER: Death far from home Appalachian Unsolved: Cross-country trip ends in Canadian's mysterious death in Knoxville Unexplained: The Story Of Blair Adam's Bizzarre Death Robert Dennis Blair Adams | Fact# 16244 | FactRepublic.com DOUBLE 'S' CEDAR HOMES Robert Dennis Blair Adams (1964-1996) - Find a Grave Memorial Blair Adams: A Bizarre Unsolved Mystery - Historic Mysteries From the UnresolvedMysteries community on Reddit: I think I might be able to explain the Blair Adams case with personal experiences The Continuum of Addiction and the Addictive Personality | Psychology Today Part 1: The Connection Between Substance Use Disorders and Mental Illness | National Institute on Drug Abuse Dry Drunk Syndrome: What Is It and Are You Experiencing It? | CCFA Dry Drunk Syndrome in Alcoholics - Shanti Ranganatha, 1985 The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction Brian Carr Update: ‘A long 35 years’: Murder charge laid in Canadian cold case thanks to genetic genealogy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 303: The Chowchilla school bus hijacking and kidnapping, a notorious case that occurred in 1976, involved the abduction of a school bus carrying 26 children, nineteen girls and seven boys, ages 5 to 14, and their driver, Frank Edward ‘Ed’ Ray, who was 55. It was orchestrated by three young men from affluent families — brothers Richard Schoenfeld, 22, James Schoenfeld, 24, and their friend Frederick Newhall Woods IV, also twenty-four. The crime was motivated by a desire for ransom money and as a cure for their boredom. The kidnappers hid the bus and took its occupants to a buried truck trailer in a quarry in Livermore, California, intending to demand $5 million for their release. Remarkably, led by Ed Ray and Michael Marshall, 14, one of the older children, the victims managed to escape without any ransom being paid. Even though they all made it out alive, the victims suffered psychological scars that changed their lives and persist to the present day. This was the largest kidnapping in U.S. history, and it has a Canadian connection. After their hostages escaped, all three kidnappers went into hiding but were eventually apprehended and convicted, although one of the suspects, the mastermind behind the kidnapping, Frederick Woods, fled to Vancouver, British Columbia, before being arrested by the RCMP. Sources: Kidnapped! At Chowchilla — The School Bus Hijacking by Gail Miller and Sandra Thompkins Oroville Mercury Register 16 Jul 1976, page 1 The San Francisco Examiner 16 Jul 1976, page 3 The Fresno Bee 16 Jul 1976, page 25 ‘Major Break’ Expected in Mass Abduction (Published 1976) The Province 23 Jul 1976, page 1 The Vancouver Sun 30 Jul 1976, page 1 Merced Sun-Star 07 Aug 1976, page 1 Merced Sun-Star 07 Aug 1976, page 9 Chowchilla bus kidnapping: Rare photos from one of the largest abductions in U.S. history Chowchilla bus kidnapping survivor's lifelong fight to keep her captors behind bars Chowchilla bus kidnapper released from prison Chowchilla nightmares / 25 years later, kidnap victims still struggling to forget past Chowchilla bus kidnapping survivor's lifelong fight to keep her captors behind bars James Schoenfeld: Chowchilla Bus Kidnapper Paroled Almost 40 Years Later Chowchilla school bus kidnap victims file lawsuit 40 years after abduction Children of Chowchilla: a study of psychic trauma - PubMed The ballad of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping New Documentary Examines Kidnapping of School Bus Full of Children — and How They Miraculously Escaped Edward Ray - A Local Hero | Chowchilla, CA 1976 Bus Kidnapping | Chowchilla, CA Edward Ray Day in Chowchilla EDWARD... - City of Chowchilla, California (Government) Kent Morrill - Ballad Of Chowchilla Ray (1976 Bardel Records) Ballad Of Chowchilla Ray | Robert Goulet Survivors of Chowchilla kidnapping break silence in new documentary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 302: On April 25, 1978, RCMP Constable Thomas (Brian) King, a 40-year-old father of three, pulled over a vehicle for a minor traffic offence at 12:35 AM on Highway 11, roughly a quarter mile (400 metres) north of the Saskatoon city boundary. Inside the car were two young men: 18-year-old Darrell Luke Crook and 19-year-old Gregory Michael Fischer. The pair had intentionally disabled the vehicle’s tail light to draw the attention of law enforcement. As the unsuspecting officer was checking Fisher’s driver’s licence, the two men overpowered, disarmed and manacled him with his service handcuffs.  The pair then forced the officer into their car and drove into Saskatoon, where they showed him off to friends. Afterward, Crook and Fisher drove to a secluded spot near the Saskatchewan River, where they beat and tortured the helpless constable. Then, they executed Brian King with his service revolver, shooting him twice and throwing his body into the river. Sources: A History of Winnipegosis RCMP Depot Division Royal Canadian Mounted Police Issues The Dark Side of the RCMP Star-Phoenix 25 Apr 1978, page 1 Star-Phoenix 27 Apr 1978, page 3 Star-Phoenix 27 Apr 1978, page 24 The Leader-Post 29 Apr 1978, page 1 Star-Phoenix 01 May 1978, page 3 1979 CanLII 2274 (SK CA) | R. v. Crook | CanLII 1980 CanLII 2130 (SK CA) | Radvanski v. Radwanski | CanLII 1991 ABCA 148 (CanLII) | R. v. Fischer | CanLII Faint Hope: Background Constable Thomas Brian King | Canadian War Memorial Thomas (Brian) King (1938-1978) | Find a Grave CBC News - Canada - In the line of duty: Deaths of RCMP officers CONSTA... - RCMP Quarterly / La Trimestrielle de la GRC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 301: In episode thirteen of Dark Poutine, we covered the Babes in the Woods case, a tragic and long-unsolved mystery from Vancouver. In 1953, the skeletal remains of two children were discovered in Stanley Park, one of Vancouver's largest urban parks. What made this case, particularly haunting was that the children were found with a hatchet that appeared to have been used to end their lives. The identities of the two children remained unknown for almost 70 years until, in 2022, using DNA genealogy, the Vancouver Police were able to identify the boys believed to have died sometime in 1947. They were seven-year-old Derek and six-year-old David D'Alton. Their mother, Eileen Bousquet, who died in 1996, told relatives at the time that social services had taken the boys as she was unable to care for them. No one knows for sure what happened leading up to their deaths, and as so much time has passed, it is doubtful we ever will. At least they have their names back. Sources: Stanley Park — City of Vancouver Murder, Mystery and Intrigue in Review: Babes in the Woods 166: Hate Crime: The Murder of Aaron Webster – Dark Poutine – True Crime & Dark History Six Officers Plead Guilty To Stanley Park Beatings 2004 BCPC 1 (CanLII) | R. v. Cronmiller | CanLII Unsolved Stanley Park ‘Babes in the Woods’ case still haunts a city Interview with Brian Honeybourn 69UMBC — The Doe Network 68UMBC — The Doe Network VPD hopes genealogical testing can help solve cold case - Vancouver Police Department VPD identifies child victims in historic cold case murder - Vancouver Police Department Babes in the Woods: Vancouver police release identities, details about historic murders - VIA Identities of Stanley Park Babes in the Woods revealed almost 70 years later Who were the Babes in the Woods? Eileen Bousquet Archives — evelazarus.com Cold Case BC by Eve Lazarus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As this is bonus content related to episode 300, we don’t have the usual show open. There are no loons. There’s no music. There’s no Mathew here for this. This episode is dedicated entirely to Daniel Jordan Levesque's memory and features my recent conversation with his mother, Stacey Thur, from her home in Revelstoke. B.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 300: In June 2011, twenty-year-old musician Daniel Jordan Levesque moved from his family home in Revelstoke, B.C., to Victoria, full of dreams to start a new life and advance his burgeoning musical career. On June 15, seeking work, Daniel went to a 7-Eleven store, where he met Joshua Tyler Bredo, the store’s Assistant Manager, who hired Daniel on the spot. Bredo presented himself as a good guy, a helpful friend, but in truth, he quickly became obsessed with Daniel sexually with nefarious motives in mind. Bredo began grooming Daniel, lying to him with promises of a more lavish lifestyle, plying him with drugs and alcohol while telling Daniel he saw him as a “little brother.” The coercion and lies continued until August 3, when Bredo lured Daniel to his apartment under the promise of an interview for Daniel at a non-existent law firm. It was there that Bredo killed Daniel and set up a scene to make it appear to be self-defence, later calling 911. Bredo was arrested that night and charged with Daniel’s murder. However, the case was not put to rest until after a mistrial in 2015, numerous other delays and a guilty plea to the lesser charge of manslaughter in 2017. Sources: 2016 BCSC 1843 (CanLII) | R. v Bredo | CanLII 2016 BCSC 2580 (CanLII) | R. v Bredo | CanLII 2016 BCSC 2701 (CanLII) | R. v Bredo | CanLII 2017 BCSC 2134 (CanLII) | R. v Bredo | CanLII Musician lured with lies, then killed; ‘Let me go. Just let me go.’ B.C. man in prison for killing friend with hammer released early ATTENTION!! ATTENTION!! For all of ... Stacey Thur Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 299: In this episode, we explore a dark chapter of Winnipeg's criminal history, centred on the "Yuletide Bandit," notorious for his holiday-season robberies in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Michael David Syrnyk, known for targeting banks and armoured vehicles, executed his crimes with a reckless disregard for human life, often using firearms and viewing his victims merely as obstacles. His choice of the festive season for these heists added a cruel irony to his crimes, starkly contrasting with the spirit of joy and family. One notable incident was a shootout at Winnipeg’s Polo Park Mall, causing terror among Christmas shoppers. The dramatic end to his criminal spree came with a 12-hour standoff involving a former girlfriend, leading to his capture. This episode not only recounts Syrnyk's heinous acts but also underscores the lasting impact of his crimes on the victims and the broader community in Winnipeg. Dark Poutine will return on January 8th, 2024, ad-free on Amazon Music and in our regular feed on January 15. Sources: NATIONAL REPORT Gunfight at Winnipeg mall has shoppers ducking Red Deer Advocate 13 Dec 2000, page 14 The Winnipeg Sun 05 May 2002, page 3 The Winnipeg Sun 08 May 2002, page 1 23 years in the nick for Yuletide Bandit Waterloo Region Record 26 Dec 2002, page 5 North Bay Nugget 18 Dec 2002, page 9 The Kingston Whig-Standard 26 Dec 2002, page 48 The unlikely suspect in hostage-taking had hidden arsenal Hostage | 72 Hours S01E14 | True Crime "72 Hours: True Crime" Hostage — s01e14 | Documentary, Crime| Michael Syrnyk | News, Videos & Articles | Global News Apr 2016: Winnipeg's notorious 'Yuletide Bandit' makes first appearance before the parole board 'I could be dead': Security guard shot by 'Yuletide Bandit' frustrated by early parole | CBC News Michael Syrnyk was released from prison on Friday | CBC News The Yuletide Bandit: The Seven Year Search for a Serial Criminal by Mike McIntyre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 298: Last week, we learned how Chinese immigrants have significantly contributed to Western Canada's development since 1788, playing critical roles in trade, gold rushes, and railway construction. Despite their contributions, they faced severe discrimination and exploitation, particularly during the railway construction in the early 1900s. Post-railway completion, they suffered rights losses and were subject to a prohibitive head tax, escalating to $500, which failed to deter immigration. Enduring nativist racism and accusations of moral and social threats, their plight culminated in the dark chapter of Canadian history on July 1, 1923, as the Chinese Exclusion Act came into law. Sources: Federal Exclusion Act - Province of British Columbia Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 | Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Chinese Head Tax in Canada (Plain-Language Summary) 1872 - Indigenous and Chinese Peoples Excluded from the Vote When Chinese in Canada Were Numbered, Interrogated, Excluded What was the Chinese Exclusion Act in Canada? 3 things you might not know - Beyond Chinese Immigration records – Library and Archives Canada Blog Douglas Jung The Chinese head tax and the Chinese Exclusion Act | CMHR  Formal apology to Chinese Canadians Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 297: The history of Chinese immigration to Canada is a story marked by adversity. Chinese labourers played a pivotal role in building the Canadian railway under harsh conditions, yet faced institutional discrimination, including the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923, which limited immigration and separated families for years. Despite these challenges, the Chinese community's resilience has left an indelible mark on Canadian culture. Today, we honour their contributions and recognize the need to confront our history's shadows, striving for a more inclusive Canadian identity that values people of all backgrounds. Sources: Was 'old-stock Canadians' coded language — or a simple screw-up? | CBC News 1872 - Indigenous and Chinese Peoples Excluded from the Vote The Fraser River Gold Rush and the Founding of British Columbia Chinese Head Tax in Canada (Plain-Language Summary) Indigneous People Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 | Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Federal Exclusion Act - Province of British Columbia Sir John A. Macdonald – Dictionary of Canadian Biography Biography – CHU LAI – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography Chinese Head tax: George Yee’s story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 296: On December 6, 1989, a tragic and profound event shook Canada and had a lasting impact. That evening, a gunman entered the École Polytechnique in Montreal, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal. This act of violence was specifically targeted against women, marking it as a horrific instance of gender-based violence. The attacker, motivated by his hatred for feminists whom he blamed for his personal and professional failures, embarked on a rampage through the school. The consequences were devastating — in less than 20 minutes, 14 young women lost their lives. They were: Anne-Marie Edward, Sonia Pelletier, Geneviève Bergeron, Maryse Leclair, Barbara Daigneault, Maud Haviernick, Michèle Richard, Anne-Marie Lemay, Annie Turcotte, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Annie St-Arneault, Maryse Laganière and Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz. Also, ten more women and four men were injured before the cowardly gunman ended his own life. The event, later known as the École Polytechnique Massacre or the Montreal Massacre, left a deep scar on Canadian society. It led to increased awareness and action against gender-based violence, prompting changes in gun control laws and police procedures. The date, December 6, was subsequently declared the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada, serving as a sombre reminder of the need to combat gender-based violence and discrimination. Sources: Polytechnique Montréal | Polytechnique Montréal est l’un des plus importants établissements d’enseignement et de recherche en génie au Canada Women in Engineering Women in scientific occupations in Canada 30 years later Nathalie Provost The Montreal Massacre — The Target — Crime Library on truTV.com Montreal_Coroners_Report Because They Were Women - The Montreal Massacre — Josée Boileau Aftermath — Monique Lepine Historical CBC Reports on the Massacre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 295: On the afternoon of December 20, 1974, a storekeeper in Calgary, Alberta, alerted the police about a customer, Philippe Laurier Gagnon, 26, who became aggressive after being denied the sale of airplane glue. The individual fled, and police pursued him to his residence two blocks away. When officers approached the suspect's residence, they were met with gunfire. Additional police, more than 130 officers, arrived to find the suspect armed with two rifles rifle in a garage. Gagnon refused to come out. A shootout ensued, resulting in the death of Detective Boyd Davidson, 43, after being shot in the neck. Six other officers were wounded by gunfire, and several others were injured.  After a military armoured car arrived, police gained the upper hand, smashed into the house and dislodged the gunman from his hideout. Gagnon, who had two rape convictions, a history of assault as well as a record of mental illness and drug abuse, also died at the scene in a hail of bullets as he charged at the officers.  Detective Davidson, a 23-year veteran of the police force and key figure in establishing the combined police and fire arson squad, left behind a wife and five children. His death and what was learned from the events led to the creation of the Calgary Police Service’s tactical team and changes to policing nationwide. Sources: Calgary Herald 21 Dec 1974, page 1 Edmonton Journal 24 Dec 1974, page 3 The Ottawa Journal 24 Dec 1974, page Page 2 The Vancouver Sun 28 Dec 1974, page 60 The Daily Herald-Tribune 30 Dec 1974, page 2 Black Friday: The day that changed policing in Canada Calgray Herald - 40 years ago Black Friday transformed Calgary policing Thugs, Thieves & Outlaws: A dark day for Calgary police Calgary Police Service | Facebook Tribute to fallen officers | Calgary Police About our Tactical Unit | Calgary Police Calgary's armoured rescue vehicle set to retire Calgary police unveil new armoured vehicle | CBC News Black Friday | YouthLinkYYC | YouTube PTSD among Police Officers: Impact on Critical Decision Making PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS INJURIES Public Safety Personnel’s interpretations of potentially traumatic events Development of an Evidence-Informed Solution to Emotional Distress in Public Safety Personnel and Healthcare Workers: The Social Support, Tracking Distress, Education, and Discussion CommunitY (STEADY) Program Calgary Police Service officer joins somber list of members killed in line of duty - Calgary Driver in death of CPS officer sentenced to 12 years Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 294: On the evening of December 21, 1883, near Bloomfield, Ontario, visitor Peter Lazier was murdered by two intruders at the farmhouse of Quakers Gilbert and Margaret Jones. The community, deeply affected, quickly organized a search. They traced footprints in the snow, leading to Joseph Thomset and the Lowder family's homes near West Lake. By the next day, Joseph Thomset and brothers David and George Lowder were arrested and charged with murder. The legal process moved rapidly. The coroner's inquest began the next day, followed by formal proceedings within a week. The trial, held at the Prince Edward County Courthouse in Picton just five months later, suggested the motive was robbery, aimed at stealing the $555 Gilbert Jones earned from selling hops. George Lowder and Joseph Thomset were found guilty of murder and hanged in June of 1884. Many felt justice was served, but others believed the law got it wrong, acting hastily without sufficient evidence. Sources: Prince Edward County The Canadian Encyclopedia | Quakers The Lazier Murder: Prince Edward County, 1884 — Robert J. Sharpe The Kingston Whig-Standard 24 Dec 1883, page 2 Ottawa Daily Citizen 24 Dec 1883, page 1 Manitoba Weekly Free Press 15 May 1884, page 2 The Lazier murder trial of 1884 – did they get the right men? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 293: During the evening of Friday, October 13 and the early hours of October 14, 1978, a group of teens and young adults attended a gathering in a rural area of Maple Ridge, B.C. That night, 16-year-old Catherine Emma Pozzobon went missing from the event. Her partially clothed remains were discovered on the afternoon of October 15, not far from the location of the party. Investigations revealed the presence of seminal fluid in her mouth, throat, and on her clothing, as well as a tuft of human hair grasped in her hand. The case was treated as a homicide by law enforcement, but without adequate evidence to pinpoint a suspect, the inquiry was eventually suspended. Two decades later, in 1998, the case was reopened with the advancement of DNA profiling as a key tool for forensic investigation. Police tested the DNA profiles of the male party attendees against the evidence found on Cathy’s body, and there was a match. Twenty years after she was murdered, Cathy’s family finally saw justice. Sources: 2001 BCSC 597 (CanLII) | R. v. Larsen | CanLII OBITUARY: The Province 18 Oct 1978, page 38 Police Seek Clues: The Vancouver Sun 20 Oct 1978, page 6 No New Leads: Surrey Leader 01 Nov 1978, page 16 10 Suspects: Times Colonist 07 Nov 1978, page 14 Unsolved: The Vancouver Sun 18 Apr 1981, page 10 The Vancouver Sun 01 May 2001, page 11 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101800177/catherine-emma-pozzobon Maple Ridge — Official Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The old days of air travel were quite risky…compared to today, the chances of your flight going down were far greater …every airport had kiosks and coin-operating vending machines where you could buy life insurance before you headed to the gate—you know, just in case you thought you weren’t going to make it to your final destination… 1977 was one of the worst years for accidents in aviation history…in addition to several violent hijackings every month—sometimes with fatal results—There were also passenger plane crashes with great loss of life…including the worst aviation disaster of all time when two 747s planes collided on a runway in the Canary Islands, killing 583 people. Frank Sinatra’s mother, the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, and all but one member of the University of Evansville basketball team died in crashes… But then there were the events of October 20, 1977, when a rickety chartered plane went down in a swamp in Mississippi…on board were members of Lynyrd Skynyrd…six of the 24 passengers died, including singer Ronnie Van Zandt, guitarist Steve Gaines, backup singer Cassie Gaines, and assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick…both pilots also died… What happened? Have I got a story for you... Like what you hear? You can find and follow Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry on your favourite podcast app or by clicking here: https://link.chtbl.com/uncharted-rssdrop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 292: In the annals of military history, few figures stand as singularly remarkable as Léo Major, a French-Canadian soldier whose audacious feats in World War II and the Korean War etched his name in the pantheon of military legends. During World War II, he served with the Régiment de la Chaudière, participating in the D-Day landings and embarking on a series of extraordinary exploits that culminated in the single-handed liberation of the Dutch town of Zwolle from Nazi occupation. Unfazed by injuries and fueled by a relentless drive, he refused to be sidelined, resolutely continuing his service. Major's saga did not conclude with the end of World War II; he reenlisted to serve in the Korean War, where he would once again defy the odds and solidify his legacy. His story is a captivating tale of bravery, resilience, and a steadfast commitment to justice, offering an inspiring testament to the power of individual courage in the face of overwhelming adversity. Some have called him Quebec’s Rambo. He is the only Canadian to have received the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) twice for his actions in two different wars. Sources: Have you heard of Léo Major, the liberator of Zwolle? A One-Eyed Québécois ‘Rambo’ Captures Imaginations in Canada (Published 2018) D-Day-the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division: 6 June 1944 Le Régiment de la Chaudière mag-decembre2008 Léo Major Cpl Léo Major Léo Major Leo Major - TRF Léo Major Leo Major Liberates Zwolle Léo Major – A Quebec Military Hero Pte. Leo Major, 87: Decorated hero Leo Major Obituary (2008) - Legacy Remembers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s 1986 and Michael Morrison is offered the opportunity of a lifetime. A chance to leave his life of poverty in Newark and start afresh. It’s a job offer he can’t afford to refuse. Michael has no idea what this new job has in store. But he soon realizes: he’s just joined ‘the biggest gang in America’. Join Seren Jones to hear Michael’s story and find out what it means to be both Black and Blue. Want to hear more? You can follow along on your favourite podcast app here: https://link.chtbl.com/blackandblue-rssdrop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 291: Jack Fiddler was a chief and shaman among the Anishinaabe in northwestern Ontario. Born around 1839, he became renowned for his abilities in white magic, particularly his claimed power to defeat the Wendigo, a cannibalistic spirit. Fiddler asserted that he had vanquished fourteen Wendigos during his lifetime. Some of these were believed to be sent by enemy shamans, while others were individuals from his community who developed an uncontrollable craving for human flesh. Families often asked him to euthanize a gravely ill loved one to prevent them from becoming Wendigo. In 1907, the North-West Mounted Police arrested Jack and his brother Joseph Fiddler for the alleged murder of a woman believed to have turned Wendigo. The arrest was part of a broader effort to impose Canadian law on Indigenous communities. The story garnered significant media attention, with many newspapers sensationalizing the events. Jack Fiddler died by suicide while in custody, and although Joseph went to trial and was convicted, he passed away in 1909, shortly before an order for his release arrived. Sources: Killing the Shamen : Fiddler, Thomas | Internet Archive Windigo | The Canadian Encyclopedia Wendigo Lore by Chad Lewis and Kevin Lee Nelson Canadian Mysteries of the Unexplained by John Marlowe - Ebook Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History - Ebook Biography – ZHAUWUNO-GEEZHIGO-GAUBOW – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography Biography – PEEMEECHEEKAG – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography (PDF) Wendigo Psychosis The Windigo in the Material World on JSTOR The Power to Punish: Conflicts of Authority in the Case of Jack Fiddler | Deborah Rose Peña | The Hypocrite Reader Windigo of First Nations oral tradition — fearsome and loathsome creature Free Press Prairie Farmer 23 Oct 1907, page 8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On July 3, 1884, the Daily Colonist newspaper in Canada reported the capture of "Jacko," described as a human-like creature resembling a gorilla near Yale, British Columbia. Some Bigfoot enthusiasts later cited this story as evidence for Sasquatch's existence. The tale gained prominence and drew much speculation from only a single story reprinted in numerous newspapers. Jacko’s story has been featured in various books, documentaries and television shows. Other articles from 1884 dismiss the story as a probable hoax, yet some continue to believe he did exist. Sources: The Daily British Colonist, July 3, 1884 The Mainland Guardian, July 9, 1884 The British Columbian, July 12, 1884 Yale & the Strange Story of Jacko the Ape-boy by Christopher L. Murphy and Barry G. Blount Abominable Snowmen, Legend Come To Life : Ivan T. Sanderson | Internet Archive Strange Creatures from Time and Space by John A. Keel | Goodreads Sasquatch in BC: A Chronology of Incidents… by Christopher L. Murphy | Goodreads Remembering John Green's indelible footprint Kilby Historic Site The Parker Road Phantom | Saltwire rr_2009_july_protecting_elusive_sasquatch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First, we look at a little more about the history of UFO sightings in Canada and elsewhere. These are not a new phenomena. In the show’s second half, we learn about a series of UFO sightings that occurred in the 1970s in Manitoba, particularly around Carman. The sightings garnered significant attention because of their frequency and because many credible individuals, including police officers and other professionals, witnessed them. The name “Charlie Red Star” was given to the object due to its bright red hue and was often described as a glowing, pulsating, and sometimes changing shape. Sightings of the object frequently mentioned its ability to move at incredible speeds and make sudden maneuvers that seemed beyond the capability of conventional aircraft of that era. The phenomenon of Charlie Red Star drew many UFO enthusiasts, reporters, and investigators to the area in the hope of witnessing or gaining some understanding of the mysterious object. While there were numerous speculations and theories regarding the nature of Charlie Red Star, including secret military projects, extraterrestrial craft, or atmospheric phenomena, the true identity and nature of the objects remain unexplained. The events surrounding Charlie Red Star have since become a notable chapter in the annals of UFO lore. Sources: The Big Book of UFOs — Chris A. Rutkowski Search Results: Carman, MB - Canada's UFOs: The Search for the Unknown - Library and Archives Canada Charlie Red Star: True Reports of One of North America's Biggest UFO Sightings by Grant Cameron The Canadian UFO Report: The Best Cases Revealed by Chris A. Rutkowski Canada's UFOs: Declassified by Chris A. Rutkowski The Calgary Albertan 17 May 1975, page 12 Star-Phoenix 18 Jun 1975, page 17 The Brandon Sun 18 Nov 1975, page Page 1 THE SANDRA LARSON INCIDENT Schumer, Rounds Introduce New Legislation To Declassify Government Records Related To Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena & UFOs – Modeled After JFK Assassination Records Collection Act – As An Amendment To NDAA | Senate Democratic Leadership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 288: In this, the second episode of our five-part Spooktober series, we dive into three ghostly tales from coast to coast or, to coin a phrase, ghost to ghost. First, we’re off to northern New Brunswick to learn about the ghostly Fire Ship of Chaleur Bay, said to sail the waters of the bay intermittently terrifying mariners. Next, we head to Wallaceburg, Ontario, where, in the 1830s, violent poltergeist activity known as the Baldoon Mystery occurred. Last, we come back west to B.C., where in a small museum in Quesnel resides Mandy the haunted doll. Sources: City of Bathurst | Bathurst.ca | Heritage & Culture | The Legend of the Phantom Ship Le Vaisseau de Feu de la Baie des Chaleurs Lost at Sea: Ghost Ships and Other Mysteries | Goss, Michael | Internet Archive The Burning Ship of Northumberland Strait: Some Notes on That Apparition on JSTOR The Baldoon Mystery Baldoon Mystery | Psi Encyclopedia The Baldoon Mystery | Skeptoid Baldoon mystery | Wierd and Startling | McDonald, Neil T | Internet Archive “A History of Wallaceburg and Vicinity 1804 to the Present.” pp. 20–22 Biography – TROYER, JOHN – Volume VII (1836-1850) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography Mandy | Quesnel & District Museum and Archives Calgary Herald 04 Apr 1999, page 31 Quesnel Cariboo Observer 28 Apr 1999, page 12 The Paranormal Road Trippers (@theparanormalroadtrippers) | Instagram Canada's Most Haunted Doll!! | The Paranormal Road Trippers | YouTube Meet Mandy the Doll, Canada's Most Evil Antique Forget Annabelle. Meet Mandy the Haunted Doll Mandy the Haunted Doll | The Paranormal Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 287: Canada, the second-largest country in the world, is a vast land of dense forests, expansive tundras, and rugged coastlines. Our diverse landscapes are home to folklore, legends, and tales of mysterious creatures. These elusive beings have captured the imaginations of locals, researchers, and enthusiasts for generations. In this, the first of five spookier-themed episodes for October, let’s explore a few of Canada's most intriguing legendary creatures. We’ll learn about a weird giant frog in Coleman, New Brunswick, a mythical people-eating creature in B.C., grumpy fairies in Quebec, and a few mythical and often terrifying creatures from the indigenous lore of Canada’s north. Sources: The Coleman Frog Jump Into History With the Coleman Frog It’s Something | Coleman Frog Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) Book of Creatures | Baxbakwalanuxsiwae Le bonhomme sept-heures The Social Organization & Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl by Franz Boas | Internet Archive Intellectual culture of the Hudson Bay Eskimos : Rasmussen, Knud | Internet Archive A Book of Creatures | Canada .: INUIT MYTHOLOGY:. | Mahaha Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 286: On July 9, 1928, the Alberta Provincial Police were alerted to a mass murder at the Booher farm in Mannville, Alberta. Upon arrival, they discovered the bodies of Rose Booher, her oldest son Fred, and two hired hands, Gabriel Grombey and Bill Rozak, all shot dead.  The younger son, Vernon Booher, was unharmed. He’d been out in the fields working that evening and, after hearing shots, ran back to the house to his mother and brother dead. It was he who’d sounded the alarm. Two Booher daughters were in town during the incident. The father of the family, Henry, also away during the killings, was devastated.  Vernon displayed little emotion and soon became the number one suspect in the slayings. He denied involvement, and the murder weapon, a rifle, was missing. Dr. Adolph Maximilian Langsner, an Austrian criminologist and psychiatrist who claimed he could read brainwaves, was brought in to assist. He claimed he read Vernon’s mind, and confirmed he was the killer. Langsner also directed police to the missing firearm, claiming he’d drawn a map taken from Vernon’s thoughts. Presented with the formerly missing rifle, Vernon confessed, stating he killed his mother over her disapproval of his girlfriend and then eliminated witnesses. But his confession was disallowed. Why? His defence attorneys claimed Dr. Langsner had coerced him into it through hypnotism. Sources: 1928 CanLII 342 (AB KB) | Rex v. Booher | CanLII 2007 SCC 6 (CanLII) | R. v. Trochym | CanLII 2009 CanLII 40558 (ON SC) | R. v. Trochym | CanLII Hypnotism and its Legal Import Times Colonist 19 Jul 1928, page 10 Edmonton Journal 24 Jul 1928, page 1 Langsner on the Stand: The Vancouver Sun 26 Sep 1928, page 1 Edmonton Journal 29 Apr 1996, page 1 Edmonton Journal 29 Apr 1996, page 7 Hypnotically Enhanced Testimony in Criminal Proceedings Book: Strange Days: Amazing Stories From Canada's Wildest Decade by Ted Ferguson Book: The Big Book of Canadian Hauntings by John Robert Colombo Book: Murder: Twelve True Stories of Homicide in Canada by Edward Butts Detective Maximilian Langsner and the Murderer's Mind Part 1 Detective Maximilian Langsner and the Murderer's Mind Part 2 After 17 years, Stephen Trochym admits slaying Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode: 285: The 1612 Lancashire trials of the accused Pendle witches, one of the most notorious witchcraft trials in English history, took place during the reign of King James I. Twelve individuals from the area around Pendle Hill in Lancashire were accused of practicing witchcraft and brought to trial at Lancaster Assizes. Of these, ten were found guilty and hanged, one was found not guilty, and another died in prison. The trial is particularly remembered for the testimonies of the accused, especially that of the young girl, Jennet Device, whose evidence played a significant role in the convictions. While the immediate aftermath of the Pendle trials saw heightened witch paranoia, the extremity of the trials and the nature of the evidence also sowed seeds of skepticism. Over time, as more and more trials took place, some segments of society began to question the validity of witchcraft accusations and the reliability of the testimony of children and confessions obtained under pressure. It's believed that from the early 15th to the early 18th centuries, the total number of executions from English witch trials was just under 500. Sources: The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth Discovery of Witches by active 1612-1618 Thomas Potts Daemonologie. by King of England James I The Pendle Witches, a famous witch trial in Lancashire The History Press: The Pendle Witches The Demonology of King James I by Donald Tyson - Ebook Malleus Maleficarum Index The mark of the Devil: Medical proof in Witchcraft Trials by Sarah Dunn The Pendle Witches | Lancashire Witch Trials | English Witchcraft Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 284: On the evening of June 24, 1992, after she failed to pick her daughter up from school, 41-year-old Gladys Wakabayshi’s estranged husband, Shinji and her daughter, Elisa, discovered her body in the hallway of their home in Shaughnessy, a posh Vancouver neighbourhood. Gladys had been brutally slashed and bled out on the floor.  Early on, after uncovering an affair between Derek James, a long-time family friend, and Gladys Wakabayashi, Jean Ann James, 52, Derek’s wife, became the number one suspect in the murder. Jean Ann refused to talk, leaving the police without enough physical evidence to lay charges. The crime would go unsolved for more than 15 years before Jean Ann James was arrested after she confessed to the murder of her friend during an intricate Mr. Big sting. Sources: 2013 BCCA 11 (CanLII) | R. v. James | CanLII 2012 BCCA 162 (CanLII) | R. v. James | CanLII Search — Newspapers.com: Gladys Wakabayashi Woman confessed to killing husband's mistress with box cutters, court told Jean Ann James | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Not So Sleepy Jean Accused Killer Seen in Victim's Bedroom 2 Days Before Murder 'Volatile' elderly killer loses bid for private visits with cheating husband | CBC News The “Mr. Big” Police Tactic in Canada Leads to False Confessions… 华人女富豪被割喉家中 血贱温西豪宅 - 温哥华专栏 - Vansky.com The case of Nelson Hart: 2 girls, 3 years and a mystery 'Mr. Big' No New Friends: A Look at the Law Relating to Mr. Big in R. v. Hart : Royle Law | Criminal and DUI Lawyers Toronto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 283: In this episode, we venture into a controversial and tragic chapter of Canada's legal history. It intertwines public health, personal relationships, and the weight of the law. We're talking about the history of HIV non-disclosure cases in Canada. Part of our journey takes us to the early 2000s, zeroing in on Johnson Aziga, a Ugandan-born Canadian resident. His name would soon become synonymous with a landmark legal battle challenging the boundaries of consent, deception, and responsibility. Aziga was diagnosed with HIV in 1996, but his numerous subsequent relationships would cast him into the national spotlight. Two women, specifically, would become central to his story: both entered into relationships with Aziga, and HIV-related complications tragically took both. The women’s names are protected under publication bans, so we cannot speak to their biographies. Regardless, their untimely deaths would raise a storm of questions about trust, disclosure, and the duty one owes to their intimate partners. Aziga was convicted of murder and deemed a dangerous offender, but argued that his race and status as an immigrant weighed against him. In 2023, the murder convictions were overturned and replaced with manslaughter charges substituted in their place. NOTE: In this podcast, the names of survivors will be kept confidential, and initials or aliases will be used instead. Sources: A history of HIV/AIDS HIV 101: The History of HIV & AIDS in Canada - Freddie Magazine The legacy of the HIV/AIDS fight in Canada R v Cuerrier After Cuerrier | Publications - Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network African immigrant damnation syndrome: The case of Charles Ssenyonga 2006 CanLII 42798 (ON SC) | R. v. Aziga | CanLII 2007 CanLII 38 (ON SC) | R. v. Aziga | CanLII 2011 ONSC 4592 (CanLII) | R. v. Aziga | CanLII Canada: HIV “murderer” Aziga now also a “dangerous offender,” locked up for life HIV-positive man convicted of murder apologizes to victims 2014 HRTO 144 (CanLII) | Aziga v. Ontario (Community Safety and Correctional Services) | CanLII 2014 HRTO 1465 (CanLII) | Aziga v. Ontario (Community Safety and Correctional Services) | CanLII Court overturns murder convictions against Ontario man who gave two women HIV, killing them 2023 ONCA 12 (CanLII) | R. v. Aziga | CanLII Update — Canada: Murder convictions for HIV transmission reduced to manslaughter HIV Criminalization Criminal HIV Transmission Canada: Ontario leads the world in the over-criminalization of HIV non-disclosure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 282: Aurore Gagnon is probably one of the most tragic figures in twentieth-century Canadian history. She was only ten years old when she died of exhaustion and blood poisoning in her hometown of Sainte-Philomène-de-Fortierville, Quebec, on February 12, 1920. An autopsy revealed at least 54 wounds on her body, presumably inflicted over time by her stepmother Marie-Anne Houde and her father, Télesphore Gagnon. Both were later convicted for their roles in the little girl’s death. Aurore Gagnon’s story has left a lasting impact on Quebec's cultural memory, inspiring plays, films, and discussions about child abuse and children's rights in the province. Sources: Aurore! The Mystery of the Martyred Child HISTORY OF SAINTE-PHILOMÈNE Fortierville, Quebec, Canada: Church of Saint Philomena of Fortierville Fortierville GAGNON, AURORE – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography Généalogie Aurore Gagnon Centre d'interprétation de Fortierville | Église Ste-Philomène de Fortierville Monument funéraire d'Aurore Gagnon - Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec Marie-Aurore-Lucienne “Aurore” Gagnon (1909-1920)... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 281: On the night of Saturday, October 25th, 1857, in Beaver Lake, a part of Simond’s Parish in St John County, a heinous crime was committed unlike anything ever seen in New Brunswick up to that point. Sure, there had been murders and arsons, but those were often the result of heated arguments or drunken brawls. But this crime was different. It’s hard to believe that anyone in New Brunswick would coldly and calculatedly murder a man named Robert McKenzie, his wife, and his four helpless children, all for the sake of money, and then burn down their property to destroy the evidence. The perpetrators, three Irish Catholics, Hugh Breen and Patrick Slavin Sr. and Slavin’s teenage son, Patrick Jr., targeted the protestant Mackenzie family, robbing and murdering them. This crime, committed on that fateful Saturday night, was, to that point, unprecedented in New Brunswick. Some still feel the crime rivals the worst in the province’s history. Sources: The Beaver Lake tragedy | Internet Archive The Victorian Era Crime That Shocked New Brunswick: The Beaver Lake Tragedy McKenzie Murders | Cases | Crime and Punishment | Projects | Faculty of Arts | UNB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 280: In the early morning hours of July 8, 2019, Vancouver Island RCMP launched a manhunt for two inmates who had escaped from William Head, a minimum security federal institution in Metchosin, south of Victoria. The two men, James Lee Busch and Zachary Armitage had walked away from William Head the day before. The fugitives were arrested on July 9 after an off-duty RCMP officer spotted them in Esquimalt. On July 12, RCMP found the body of 60-year-old Martin Keith Payne, who had not shown up for work, at his home on Brookview Drive, in the community of Metchosin. Payne's suspicious death initiated an 11-month investigation led by the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit, involving several police agencies. On June 12, 2020, an RCMP news release reported that the escapees, Busch and Armitage, had been charged with first-degree murder concerning Martin Payne’s death. This event sparked serious debate about the decision-making process that led to these two individuals, both with histories of violent crime, being housed in a minimum-security facility. How had they simply walked away from their incarceration to murder Martin Payne? Sources: RCMP in British Columbia - Two men arrested and charged in the 2019 Martin Payne homicide investigation Metchosin The behind-the-scenes story of how ignored warnings at William Head allowed a killer to escape William Head Rd · Metchosin, BC Correctional Service on Twitter The Province 09 Jul 2019, page A13 Archive.org | CAPTURED - Prisoners who escaped from William Head Institution now in police custody Archive.org | Suspicious Death Investigation Continues in Metchosin Archive.org | Persons of interest identified in the murder of Martin Payne Victim died of multiple stab wounds and blunt force injuries, murder trial hears Woman sentenced for role in murder | CBC News Metchosin seeks permission to use emergency alerts for prison breaks Globe and Mail | Inmate tells B.C. court he ‘felt like dying’ while in solitary confinement Loved ones remember joyous Metchosin man as his killer is sentenced Family of murdered Metchosin man speaks as killer sentenced to life in prison Paul Bernardo transfer to a medium-security prison was ‘sound’: review - National CSC staff ‘worried the circus would begin’ before Bernardo transfer: emails - National ‘My father could have been anyone’: Daughters of murder victim speak out July marks 4 years since inmates escaped William Head prison, murdered Metchosin man 2019 BCPC 311 (CanLII) | R. v. Armitage | CanLII 2022 BCSC 1407 (CanLII) | R. v Armitage & Busch | CanLII Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 279: In Quebec City, on October 21, 2004, Dario Gallese got an alarming phone call from his younger brother, Eustachio Gallese. In the call, Eustachio admitted to killing his girlfriend, Chantale Deschesnes, 32, and, following his brother's advice, contacted the police to report the crime. Eustachio was arrested, charged, and convicted of the second-degree murder of Chantale. In late 2006, Eustachio was sentenced to life in prison without parole eligibility for 15 years.  In 2019, Eustachio was placed into a halfway house on day parole. In September, in what would be a controversial decision, his case management team allowed Eustachio Gallese to visit sex workers to have his sexual needs met, as long as he was ‘transparent’ with his case management team about these visits.  On the night of January 22, 2020, Eustachio Gallese walked into a Quebec City police station and admitted to having murdered another woman, a 22-year-old masseuse named Marylène Levesque, whom he’d become obsessed with. Marylène’s body was found in the Sainte-Foy (Sant-Fwa) hotel room where Gallese said she would be. She’d been stabbed 30 times. A month later, Eustachio Gallese, then 51, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. After a public outcry inciting parliamentary debate, the Correctional Service of Canada and the Parole Board of Canada announced a joint investigation into Gallese’s release. Sources: 2004 CanLII 56627 (QC CS) | R. c. Gallese | CanLII 2009 QCCA 1071 (CanLII) | Gallese c. R. | CanLII Meurtre de Marylène Lévesque: une vigile contre les féminicides Meurtre à Sainte-Foy: «C’était prévisible», dénonce la fille de la victime Debates (Hansard) No. 14 - February 4, 2020 (43-1) - House of Commons of Canada Stigma and Criminalization of Sex Work Facilitated the Murder of Marylène Levesque Correctional services missed signs leading up to Marylène Levesque murder, says report | CBC News Warning signs were missed prior to murder of Marylène Lévesque: report | Watch News Videos Online Internal investigation into the murder of Marylène Lévesque: Pierre Paul-Hus calls for the immediate reopening of the internal investigation | Pierre Paul-Hus Joint National Board of Investigation: Correctional Service of Canada - Parole Board of Canada Enforcing prostitution laws could have saved Marylène Lévesque | The Star Marylène Lévesque - Investigation Report | PDF Capitalism Is Killing My Fellow Sex Workers How Canada’s sex work laws put lives at risk | CityNews Quebec City man sentenced to life with no parole for 25 years for 1st-degree murder of sex worker | CBC News https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/quebec-wants-answers-on-how-moderate-risk-murder-suspect-made-parole Correctional Service Canada takes concrete actions in response to Board of Investigation results Why Sex Work Should Be Decriminalized Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 278: In this episode, we plunge into the perplexing saga of Grace Marks and James McDermott. Their story, a blend of mystery and controversy, revolves around the savage murders of wealthy Richmond Hill farmer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery, in 1843. This tale continues to ignite debates about guilt, innocence, and the essence of criminality. We'll lay out a tangled web of facts and speculations surrounding these infamous figures and their crimes. We journey through Grace's life, from her hazardous upbringing in Ireland to her immigration to Canada and her involvement in one of the 19th century's most notorious crimes. We also delve into James McDermott's role and his complex relationship with Grace Marks, a subject of relentless speculation. Sources: Grace Marks | The Canadian Encyclopedia Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie - Free Ebook The trials of James McDermott and Grace Marks | Digital Archive | Toronto Public Library An Historical Enigma: the real Grace Marks and Alias Grace | Anna Mazzola Is ‘Alias Grace’ a True Story? Separate Fact vs. Fiction Beyond Grace: Criminal Lunatic Women in Victorian Canada The Trial and Testimony of Grace Marks, Murderess: Gender Performance in a Colonial Courtroom, Upper Canada 1843 by Ashley Banbury Early Days in Richmond Hill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 277: On January 26, 2012, Jo Anne Alexander called 911 from her residence in Richmond, B.C., pleading for help and mentioning that she had ingested sleeping pills. Upon arrival, police found Jo Anne and her husband, John Alexander, in their bed with their deceased family dog. John was dead and had suffered blunt-force injuries. His death was ruled a homicide. Jo Anne was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was arrested after a conversation with police and subsequently charged with second-degree murder. A B.C. Supreme Court jury found Jo Anne Alexander guilty of the second-degree murder of her husband in March. She was sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 11 years. The court heard that the couple had been in severe financial distress, living off the proceeds from the sale of their home and borrowing from friends and family. In a letter to her family, Jo Anne, apparently suicidal, said the couple was facing "financial ruin" and that her husband didn't understand. John and Jo Anne's son, David, will share his experiences over the past 11 and a half years since his father died in the next part of this episode. The following episode includes talk of suicide. If you need help, you can contact a crisis responder to get help without judgement, twenty-four / seven, 365 days a year at 1-833-456-4566. For more information, please go to talksuicide.ca. You matter and are deserving of help.  Sources: Get Help | Talk Suicide Canada 2014 BCSC 293 (CanLII) | R. v. Alexander | CanLII 2014 BCSC 1306 (CanLII) | R. v. Alexander | CanLII Richmond woman, 63, gets 11-year prison term for murder of ailing husband - Richmond News Richmond woman charged with murdering invalid husband of 40 years | Globalnews.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 276: On March 27, 2020, Jacob Sansom, 39, and his uncle, Maurice Cardinal, 57, both Métis, went hunting in Glendon, Alberta. They later began driving along Range Road 484, where they were mistakenly suspected of planning a burglary by Roger Bilodeau, a white property owner. Bilodeau, 58, and his 16-year-old son, Joseph, gave chase, reaching speeds up to 150 km/h. Another son, Anthony Bilodeau, 33, was called to join during the chase. He did and brought a gun.  After a confrontation at an intersection near Glendon, Alberta, Anthony shot and killed both Sansom and Cardinal. The Bilodeaus fled the scene, offering no aid, nor did they contact authorities. The victims’ bodies were discovered by a passerby hours later. Sources: Justice for Jacob and Morris Obituary of Jacob Christoper Sansom | Northern Lights Funeral Chapel Obituary of Maurice David Cardinal | Northern Lights Funeral Chapel Justice For Jake and Morris | Facebook Métis National Council 2022 ABQB 576 (CanLII) | R v Bilodeau | CanLII 2023 ABKB 13 (CanLII) | R v Bilodeau | CanLII Global News | Search: Jacob Sansom and Morris Cardinal Métis hunters’ families reacts to Anthony Bilodeau’s sentence | APTN News Surveillance footage shows Metis hunters’ deaths | Toronto Star | YouTube Alberta father and son both guilty in killing of two Métis hunters | The Star Metis hunter in Alberta says threats not new in province | APTN News Experiences of discrimination among the Black and Indigenous populations in Canada, 2019 History of Racism in Canada - Anti-Racism Learning Toolkit - Library and Academic Services at RRC Polytech White Canadian man found guilty of murder of two Indigenous hunters | Canada | The Guardian Edmonton Journal | Jacob Sansom and Morris Cardinal Murdered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This historical, true crime podcast hosted by Kru Williams from History Television's hit original series Deadman’s Curse: The Legend of the Lost Gold investigates the curse and legend surrounding the lost gold mine of Pitt Lake. On their quest they're joined by members of the Stó:lō and Katzie First Nations, historians and cultural experts of diverse backgrounds, as they sort fact from fiction and give Slumach a voice from the other side of the veil. You'll hear about how an Indigenous prospector, accused of murder set a curse on anyone who searched for his hidden gold just before he was hanged. Over a century later, a prospector, a mountaineer, a truth-seeker and a way-shower band together to walk the same paths of those who went looking for Slumach’s cursed gold and never returned find how a single bullet was the catalyst for a 150-year-old mystery. Click here to find it on your favourite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 275: On May 8, 1984, a man with a beard, dressed in Canadian Forces camouflage attire and wearing a beret, entered the studios of CJRP, a radio station in Quebec City. Employees at the station noticed the man had a knife secured to his leg. The man approached the assistant to radio host André Arthur’s assistant, presented her with an envelope while introducing himself as “Mr. D.” and promptly left. The man was later identified as Denis Lortie, a 25-year-old disgruntled Canadian Forces corporal who then entered the Citadelle de Quebec to commit a mass shooting of members of the National Assembly of Quebec. He opened fire, killing three unelected legislature employees, Georges Boyer, 61, Camille Lepage, 54, and Roger Lefrançois, 57. He injured thirteen others before being apprehended, thanks to the heroism of René Marc Jalbert, a retired Canadian Forces officer and the sergeant-at-arms of the National Assembly of Quebec. Lortie’s actions shocked the nation and prompted discussions on security measures and political extremism. Jalbert’s earned him the Cross of Valour, Canada’s highest civilian bravery award. Sources: Home - La Citadelle de Québec – Musée Royal 22e Régiment This is the story of how one lock and key, unlocked terror. | Diefenbunker.ca Dramatic video: 30th Anniversary of National Assembly shootings | CBC.ca “Mr. D.” - TIME The Père-version of the Political in the Case of Denis Lortie Canadian Parliamentary Review - Article Il y a 20 ans, la fusillade de l’Assemblée nationale | Radio-Canada.ca Le Soleil > Itinéraire d’un tueur 1990 CanLII 3485 (QC CA) | R. c. Lortie | CanLII 1986 CanLII 7293 (QC CA) | Lortie v. R. | CanLII Lortie, Re, 1985 CanLII 3637 (QC CA) | Lortie Re. | CanLii Rampage: Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing by Dr. Lee Mellor | Scribd Mr. René Marc Jalbert | The Governor General of Canada Canadian Parliamentary Review - Article Lortie Released | The Canadian Encyclopedia Plaque to honour victims of 1984 National Assembly shooting unveiled | Montreal Gazette J’étais la femme du tueur: le récit de Lise Levesque, épouse du caporal Denis Lortie: Dominique Fournier: 9782920839052: Books - Amazon.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 274: Trina Hunt, a 48-year-old woman from Port Moody, B.C., was reported missing on the evening of January 18, 2021. Her husband, Iain Hunt, claimed to have seen her at her home that morning. Her whereabouts remained unknown for weeks despite extensive search efforts by authorities and volunteers. Tragically, Trina’s body was discovered near Hope, B.C., South of Silver Creek on March 29, 2021. Her death was determined a homicide.  The investigation into her murder is ongoing, and her killer has yet to be apprehended. Sources: TrinaHunt.com 40 Hawthorn Drive - 40 Hawthorn Drive, Port Moody, BC 38 Hawthorn Drive, Port Moody, BC - 5 Beds for sale for $1,950,000 For sale: 38 HAWTHORN DRIVE, Port Moody, British Columbia V3H0A4 - R2732834 | REALTOR.ca Missing Person - Port Moody Police Department Family of missing Port Moody woman Trina Hunt makes a statement | GlobalNews Trina Hunt’s family speaks out following the identification of her body | GlobalNews Trina Hunt $50,000 Reward Offered | YouTube IHIT - Trina Hunt investigation continues IHIT - IHIT appeal to the public on the two-year anniversary of Trina Hunt investigation Vancouver Sun | It has been two years since Trina Hunt was killed, and still no charge in the case Facebook Page | Justice For Trina Hunt | Port Moody BC JUSTICE FOR TRINA HUNT (@justicefortrina) | Instagram GoFundMe | JUSTICE FOR TRINA Unofficial Reddit Sub | r/MissingTrinaHunt Twitter | @findtrina The Murder Of Trina Hunt | Unofficial Facebook Discussion Group Man arrested in connection with Trina Hunt killing released without charges | Globalnews.ca Death of Chilliwack’s Shaelene Bell classified as ‘undetermined’: coroner - Hope Standard Pinterest | Iain Hunt Reddit | r/MissingTrinaHunt | Iain confronted at Dairy Queen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 273: On August 15, 2009, the mutilated body of Jasmine Fiore, a 28-year-old Playboy model and aspiring actress, was found stuffed into a suitcase and discarded in a dumpster in Buena Park, California. The investigation quickly led to her husband, Ryan Jenkins, a Canadian real estate investor and former contestant on the reality TV show “Megan Wants a Millionaire.” As the investigation progressed, a disturbing picture of domestic violence and jealousy emerged. It was revealed that Jenkins had a history of abusive behaviour towards Jasmine, and the couple had a tumultuous relationship. The motive for the murder appeared to be jealousy and control. Ryan Jenkins fled to Canada, and an international manhunt was launched to apprehend him. However, on August 23, 2009, Jenkins was found dead in a Hope, British Columbia motel room. He had completed suicide by hanging himself. This case generated widespread media coverage and sparked discussions about domestic violence, the dark side of reality TV, and the importance of raising awareness about toxic relationships. The tragic death of Jasmine Fiore served as a grim reminder of the dangers of domestic violence and the need for intervention and support for victims. Sources: Police: Violent Struggle Before Model’s Murder — YouTube Ryan Jenkins | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Grim Reality: Jasmine Fiore and Ryan Jenkins — Introduction — Crime Library Swimsuit Model’s Suspected Killer Husband Found Dead - ABC News Friends of Murdered Model, Jasmine Fiore, Tell Her Story - ABC News Friends mourn former swimsuit model, Bonny Doon native - Santa Cruz Sentinel Jasmine Lepore Fiore (1981-2009) - Find a Grave Memorial ‘The Playboy Murders’: Model’s breast implants helped ID vic Playboy model Jasmine Fiore’s reality TV millionaire husband Ryan Jenkins remains ‘on the run’ after her death | Daily Mail Online Blood found in car of slain model, say police | CTV News Ryan Jenkins’ Suicide Note: Love, Anger for Jasmine Fiore (Photos) - CBS News The Playboy Murders: What happened to Jasmine Fiore? Private memorial held in Calgary for Ryan Jenkins | CTV News Police Discover Ryan Jenkins’ Suicide Note | Blog Archive | Vh1 Blog Slain model’s ex-husband has assault record | CBC News Thunderbird Motel RCMP know woman who helped Jenkins - The Globe and Mail Father of fugitive says he will talk | CTV News Ryan Jenkins Death Rack/ Coat Rack (Item ID: 102251, End Time : N/A) - Ghouls Like Us Wayback Machine — Collective Intelligence vs. Straightline International Friends and family portray two very different Ryan Jenkins after murder, suicide - Red Deer Advocate Reality TV contestant suspected of murdering his ex-wife found dead | US news | The Guardian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 272: Peter Vasilievich Verigin, also known as “Lordly,” was a highly respected and influential leader among the Doukhobors. These Doukhobors had migrated to Canada in 1899, seeking a new life and religious freedom. Verigin was pivotal in guiding and inspiring them to create a strong and united community based on their religious beliefs. However, tragedy struck in 1924, casting a dark shadow over Verigin’s legacy. An explosion occurred on Car 1586 of the Kettle Valley Line, resulting in the loss of Verigin’s life, the life of his companion, and seven others. The devastating incident left people shocked and searching for answers. Some suspected that fanatics or government agents might have been responsible, while others believed that fellow Doukhobors or accidental causes played a role. The truth behind this tragic event remains a mystery, and the case remains unsolved. Sources: Home | Doukhobor Heritage Doukhobor Discovery Centre - Home The Kootenay-Columbia Fuel Supply Company at Nelson, BC | Doukhobor Heritage Explosion on the Kettle Valley Line: The Death of Peter Verigin Peter Vasilevich Verigin | The Canadian Encyclopedia Doukhobors | The Canadian Encyclopedia The River Press 05 Nov 1902, page 2 - Newspapers.com Times Colonist 29 Oct 1924, page 1 - Newspapers.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 271: In this episode, we’re providing updates on two historical shows that are now recently solved by way of updates to DNA technology and genetic genealogy. In the first half of this episode, we have recent updates to show 130, where we learned of the brutal rape and murder of a Montreal teen, Sharron Prior. We can finally answer the question posed in that episode’s title, “Who Killed Sharron Prior?” In the second half, we go all the way back to episode 13, “Babes in the Woods - Stanley Park.” In that show, we learned that in 1953 in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, the skeletal remains of two young boys who were murdered around 1947 with a hatchet that was found near their bones. The boys’ identities remained a mystery until 2022, when their names were finally restored. Sources: Sharron Prior Sharron Prior’s website Sharron Prior website blog Documentary: Don’t Rest in Peace | Crave.ca Sharron Prior’s family relieved Longueuil police solve cold case 48 years later | Global News Babes in the Woods VPD identifies child victims in historic cold case murder | Vancouver Police Department Vancouver police share details about Babes in the Woods case | Vancouver Is Awesome Identities of Stanley Park Babes in the Woods revealed almost 70 years later | Globalnews.ca Babes in the Woods officially identified, 75 years after their death | Vancouver Sun Who are the Babes in the Woods found dead in Stanley Park? | Vancouver Is Awesome 68UMBC 69UMBC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 270: Having just set out from Quebec City the previous day, in the early hours of May 29, 1914, the passenger ship Empress of Ireland sank in the Saint Lawrence River near Rimouski, Quebec. She was on a return trip to Liverpool, England and due to heavy fog, the ship collided with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad.  Just two years after the Titanic calamity in international waters off the coast of Nova Scotia came the deadliest shipwreck in Canadian history. The event was so significant it is number 11 on the list of deadliest all-time Canadian disasters, just behind number 10, the Halifax Explosion. The collision occurred when most of the 1,057 passengers and 420 crew members were fast asleep. The aftermath was devastating; the liner plummeted beneath the waters in less than a quarter of an hour, resulting in the tragic loss of more than 1,000 lives. Sources: Commémoration Empress of Ireland 2014 ARCHIVED: Investigating the Empress of Ireland | Library and Archives Canada The Empress of Ireland disaster | National Museums Liverpool Into the Mist by Anne Renaud - Ebook | Scribd Losing the Empress by David Creighton - Ebook | Scribd Dark Descent by Kevin F. McMurray - Ebook | Scribd Empress of Ireland, ‘Canada’s Titanic,’ finally getting its due after 100 years - The Globe and Mail Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 269: On April 12, 1991, a group of teens attended a woodland party near Oromocto, New Brunswick, involving alcohol and drugs, including LSD. Pamela Gail Bischoff, 14, and William Wayne Dale (Billy) Stillman, 17, left the gathering together, marking the last sighting of Pamela Bischoff alive. Stillman returned home later, wet from the thighs down, cold, shaking, and sporting a cut above his eye with mud and grass on his pants. Six days later, Pamela’s body was discovered in the Oromocto River, a short distance from the party site. The time of death correlated to the evening she had left with Billy Stillman. Eyewitnesses confirmed seeing a male accompanying Pamela near the discovery site, and Stillman was seen departing the area, his pants muddied. An autopsy showed that Pamela’s death resulted from head wounds, and there was evidence of sexual assault, which included semen inside her body. Billy Stillman was arrested, released, arrested again and eventually charged and convicted in Pamela’s murder. Stillman’s appeals were based on alleged inappropriate conduct by the RCMP officers collecting important DNA evidence. This resulted in the case being heard and decided in Canada’s highest court in 1997, and a new trial was ordered. Sources: 1995 CanLII 5579 (NB CA) | R. v. Stillman | CanLII R. v. Stillman (W.W.D.) (1997), 192 N.B.R.(2d) 298 (TD | vLex Justis 1997 CanLII 384 (SCC) | R. v. Stillman | CanLII Pamela Gail Bischoff – Life Through My Eyes Pamela Gail Bischoff 1976-1991 - Ancestry® The Constitution Act, 1982, Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), 1982, c 11 | Federal Statutes Oromocto — Deer Park The Vancouver Sun 21 Mar 1997, page 7 - Newspapers.com The New Brunswick Telegraph Journal 22 Sep 1992, page 3 - Newspapers.com YouTube — What Happened To 14-Year-Old Pamela Bischoff? | Dark Waters Of Crime | Real Crime ARCHIVED - Kingsclear Investigation Report | Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP ROBERT FREDERICK BISCHOFF: obituary and death notice on InMemoriam Criminal AND Civil LAW Assignment - Regina vs. Stillman Criminal and Civil Law - Case Law Assignment - StuDocu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 268: On November 18, 1987, Jay Cook, 20, and Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18, a young couple from Vancouver Island, went on a road trip to Seattle, Washington. Unfortunately, they were never seen alive again. Their bodies were discovered weeks later in separate locations. Tanya had been raped, shot, and left in a ditch in Skagit County. Jay was found strangled in the woods near Monroe, about 60 miles away. The case went unsolved for over three decades until 2018, when authorities were able to use genetic genealogy to identify a suspect. He was arrested and charged with the murders. The man pleaded not guilty. In 2021, after his trial, the man was the first to be convicted using genetic genealogy. The couple’s killer was subsequently sentenced to life behind bars. Sources: The Murder of Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg - Unsolved Mysteries The disappearance of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook: Following a decades-old cold case - CBS News Sheriff’s Office Seeks Information for Unsolved 1987 Murders | Snohomish County, WA Sheriff’s Office Detectives Seek the Public’s Help to Identify Suspect in 1987 Double Homicide Cold Case | Snohomish County, WA Arrest Made in 1987 Double Homicide Cold Case | Snohomish County, WA 2018 Annual Report | Skagit County Sheriff’s Office Suspect arrested in 1987 deaths of a young couple from BC | HeraldNet.com My cousin, the killer: Her DNA cracked a 1987 double murder - Victoria News Parabon NanoLabs: Engineering DNA for Next-Generation Nanotech, Analytics, and Forensics GENSCO | Home Chelsea Rustad | AMA : IAmA How DNA Expert CeCe Moore Solved 109 Cold Cases Is murder in your DNA? - The Fifth Estate season premiere - YouTube Killer of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook Sentenced | CBC News Life in prison for 1987 killer of young Canadian couple | Seattle Weekly Man convicted in the murder of Saanich couple left DNA on zip tie in 1987 – Victoria News Man appealing genetic genealogy murder conviction was a violent child, his family told police | CBC News State Of Washington, Respondent V. William Earl Talbott II Conviction for 1987 murders of Tanya van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook overturned | CBC News) Guilty verdict in 1987 killings of Saanich couple restored | CTV News The Forever Witness by Edward Humes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 267: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants attacked the US embassy in Tehran, Iran, taking 66 diplomats and staff members hostage. Remarkably, six diplomats managed to slip away unnoticed. These individuals were Robert Anders, Cora Lijek, Mark Lijek, Joseph Stafford, Kathleen Stafford, and Lee Schatz. Schatz sought refuge at the Swedish embassy, while the others went to the British embassy. However, upon nearing the embassy, they encountered a large crowd of protestors obstructing their path. Consequently, they decided to take shelter at Anders’ residence and devise their next steps. After six harrowing days, the six American diplomats sought refuge at the Canadian embassy.  The Canadian Ambassador to Iran, Ken Taylor, and his team provided shelter to the American diplomats and false Canadian passports. The Canadian government played a critical role in the mission to rescue them. The then-Canadian Prime Minister, Joe Clark, approved the operation and fully supported Ambassador Taylor and his team.  The rescue mission, known as the “Canadian Caper,” involved the creation of a fake movie production company called “Studio Six” and the production of a fake science fiction film called “Argo.” The Canadian embassy staff, along with the American diplomats, managed to escape from Iran using a combination of air travel and ground transportation. They were safely evacuated from Iran on January 28, 1980. The role played by Canada in the hostage crisis was highly appreciated by the US government and earned Canada international recognition for helping resolve the crisis. Sources: How the Shah’s Cancer May Have Changed History The Iranian Revolution — A timeline of events Ken Taylor and the Canadian Caper Our Man In Tehran by Robert Wright — Ebook | Scribd The Canadian Caper — Pelletier, Jean | Internet Archive Ken Taylor and the “Canadian Caper” | The Canadian Encyclopedia Canada history: Jan 27, 1980 — The famous “Canadian Caper” rescue – RCI | English What you won’t see in Argo — Macleans.ca Argo, F**k Yourself: Iran and the Oscars – The Diplomat ‘We lost a true hero’: Ken Taylor, 1934-2015 - Macleans.ca Tony Mendez, former CIA officer and inspiration for ‘Argo,’ dies at 78 - National | Globalnews.ca Ken Taylor satisfied with Affleck’s shoutout to Canada during Oscar speech | Globalnews.ca Canada and Iran U.S. Relations With Iran - United States Department of State Iran - The CIA World Factbook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In October 2008, the friends and family of 38-year-old Johnny Altinger were worried. Although emails and social media messages had indicated Johnny had run away on the spur of the moment with an unknown woman he’d just met, things didn’t add up. The messages did not have the same feel as Johnny’s typical fare, and he wasn’t known for his spontaneity. Police had already spoken with the tenant at the Edmonton garage that Johnny was directed to on the night he disappeared. They’d seen some things that concerned them, but there was no sign of Johnny. Something seemed off with the 29-year-old filmmaker Mark Andrew Twitchell, the man they’d spoken to. Little did the police know that only a week before Johnny vanished, another man, Gilles Tetreault, had suffered a bizarre attack at Twitchell’s hands after being lured to the same garage. NOTE: This is part two of an updated, two-part expanded REDO of an earlier episode with which we thought we could have done better. We plan to update several more historical episodes to provide a better listener experience, more in line with the tone of our show. Sources: 2010 ABQB 693 (CanLII) | R. v. Twitchell | CanLII Edmonton Journal | Mark Twitchell’s First Statement To Police | Scribd Edmonton Sun | Twitchell Agreed Statement 1 | Scribd Edmonton Sun | Second Agreed Statement of Facts in Twitchell Case | Scribd Edmonton Sun | Garage and Evidence Photos Edmonton Sun | Video Evidence of Garage | YouTube A Transcript of Police Interview with Mark Twitchell From Oct. 20, 2008 | Scribd Alleged Diary from Mark Twitchell’s Computer | Scribd Twitchell DNA Report | Scribd Live Blog of Twitchell Trial | Scribd  Edmonton Journal | E-Mail Exchange Between Mark Twitchell & a Facebook Friend | Scribd Edmonton Journal | Mark Twitchell’s Notice of Appeal | Scribd Mark Twitchell case: Inside the mind of “The Dexter Killer” - CBS News Gilles Tetreault | Author | The One Who Got Away Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 265: In October 2008, 38-year-old Johnny Altinger was looking for love online and, thinking he’d found it, was lured to his death in a dingy south Edmonton, Alberta garage. Johnny believed he would meet the girl of his dreams, but a Star Wars and Dexter-Morgan-obsessed serial killer wannabe and 29-year-old amateur filmmaker named Mark Andrew Twitchell awaited him in the garage’s darkness. NOTE: This is part one of an updated, two-part expanded REDO of an earlier episode with which we thought we could have done better. We plan to update several more historical episodes to provide a better listener experience, more in line with the tone of our show. Sources: 2010 ABQB 693 (CanLII) | R. v. Twitchell | CanLII Edmonton Journal | Mark Twitchell’s First Statement To Police | Scribd Edmonton Sun | Twitchell Agreed Statement 1 | Scribd Edmonton Sun | Second Agreed Statement of Facts in Twitchell Case | Scribd Edmonton Sun | Garage and Evidence Photos Edmonton Sun | Video Evidence of Garage | YouTube A Transcript of Police Interview with Mark Twitchell From Oct. 20, 2008 | Scribd Alleged Diary from Mark Twitchell’s Computer | Scribd Twitchell DNA Report | Scribd Live Blog of Twitchell Trial | Scribd  Edmonton Journal | E-Mail Exchange Between Mark Twitchell & a Facebook Friend | Scribd Edmonton Journal | Mark Twitchell’s Notice of Appeal | Scribd Mark Twitchell case: Inside the mind of “The Dexter Killer” - CBS News Gilles Tetreault | Author | The One Who Got Away That Taxi Podcast | a podcast by Thomas & Taxi David Edmonton Journal | Johnny Altinger BIO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 264: In Montreal, Quebec on the evening of April 10, 1734, a fire broke out in the home of Madame de Francheville on Rue Saint-Paul and quickly spread throughout the city. Raging for hours, it destroyed over 46 buildings, primarily residential homes, and the Hôtel-Dieu, a hospital that provided medical care to soldiers and people who were too poor to care for at home. There were rumours that Madame de Francheville’s Portuguese-born black enslaved woman, Marie-Josèphe dite Angélique, started the fire as an act of rebellion on learning she was to be sold and sent away from her lover, a white man and salt trafficker named Claude Thibault. Angélique was arrested and subsequently tortured until she confessed to setting the fire. She was then convicted of arson and hanged on June 21, 1734. The fire significantly impacted Montreal’s development and created new building codes and fire prevention measures. The event remains integral to Montreal’s cultural and historical heritage and yet another dark spot in Canada’s history. Some have called Angélique a heroine, others a scapegoat. Unfortunately, the truth of the matter is lost to time. Sources: Torture and Truth: Angélique and the Burning of Montreal The Hanging Of Angelique by Afua Cooper - Ebook | Scribd Marie-Josèphe-Angélique | Mémoires des Montréalais Le procès de Marie-Josèphe-Angélique | Mémoires des Montréalais A Canadian Slavery Story — CANADIANA web series Biography – MARIE-JOSEPH-ANGÉLIQUE — Dictionary of Canadian Biography Biography – POULIN DE FRANCHEVILLE, FRANÇOIS — Dictionary of Canadian Biography Marie-Joseph Angélique | The Canadian Encyclopedia The role of seigneur in New France — The French-Canadian Genealogist Old Montreal fire: Questions raised about safety of building | CP24.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 263: Approaching the week of 4/20, cannabis enthusiasts worldwide are preparing for a unique celebration. However, it’s essential to acknowledge the dark history of cannabis prohibition in Canada and the USA. The criminalization of cannabis wasn’t based on scientific evidence of its harmful effects or widespread health concerns but was fuelled by moral panic, racism, and xenophobia. It served as a tool to maintain a rigid social hierarchy, where those in power and privilege oppressed and marginalized those considered inferior. The ‘war on drugs’ transformed into a ‘war on cannabis,’ ultimately becoming a war on minorities in both countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 262: In early March of 1946, John Dick, a 39-year-old streetcar conductor in Hamilton, Ontario, disappeared. Weeks later, five local children found John’s torso on the city’s outskirts — his head and limbs were missing. Suspicion soon fell on John’s wife, Evelyn, who was arrested and charged with the murder. The pair had had a whirlwind courtship and had been married only months before John turned up dead.  During the investigation, police discovered the body of a newborn encased in concrete in Evelyn Dick’s father’s attic. At her trial, evidence emerged of her volatile relationship with her husband, multiple extramarital affairs, and allegations of other criminal activities, including involvement in the alleged murder of her child. Despite her claims of innocence, Evelyn was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Her story was not close to over. Sources: 1947 CanLII 12 (ON CA) | R. v. Dick | CanLII 1947 CanLII 116 (ON CA) | Rex v. Dick | CanLII Evelyn Dick Photos | Digital Archive: Toronto Public Library The Evelyn Dick Files – A second look at the post-war trials of Evelyn Dick Evelyn Dick (nee MacLean) (@evelyndick1946) | Instagram John J. Robinette by George D. Finlayson - Ebook | Scribd Evil Wives Fully Illustrated: Deadly Women Whose Crimes Knew No Limits Fully Illustrated | Scribd Documentary: The Notorious Mrs. Dick by Reel-to-Reel films for CTV | YouTube EvelynDick.com Evelyn Dick | The Canadian Encyclopedia Canada: ONTARIO: The Dick Affair - TIME Story of murderer Evelyn Dick enthralled and enraged Hamilton | TheSpec.com 75 years later: The endless fascination with Evelyn Dick | TheSpec.com How Could You, Mrs. Dick? | Steel City History Forgotten Rebels - Mrs. Evelyn Dick, live @ Lee’s Palace in Toronto. Nov 22, 2014 | YouTube Mark McNeil — Song: Evelyn Dick | YouTube YouTube Search Results: Evelyn Dick - ProQuest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 261: On September 5th, 1998, between 11:00 and 11:30 pm, Brianne Ruth Wolgram was last seen at the 7-11 store in Revelstoke, BC., in the company of three young females whose identities are unknown. Five days later, Brianne’s abandoned car was discovered 30 km south of Revelstoke, towards the Akolkolex Falls & River, on Echo Lake Road. Inside the car was her wallet, driver’s license and $200, but there was no sign of Brianne. Nearly 25 years later, Brianne’s family and friends are left wondering whatever became of the shy 19-year-old. Police have not ruled out foul play in her disappearance. If you have any information on Brianne Wolgram’s disappearance or whereabouts, please email the Missing Children Society of Canada (MCSC) at tips@mcsc.ca or contact Crimestoppers at 1.800.222.TIPS (8477) or the Revelstoke RCMP non-emergency number at 250-837-5255. You can also leave an anonymous message through the contact page at findbreanne.wordpress.com. You can also email darkpoutinepodcast@gmail.com, and we will pass the information to the proper authorities. Sources: The History of Revelstoke — Revelstoke Museum & Archives Find Brianne Wolgram Cold Case BC - MISSING: Brianne Wolgram | Facebook Reddit: Breanne Wolgram MCSC - Home Brianne Wolgram | Missing Children Society of Canada | Archived 287. Use of Hypnosis—Purpose | JM | Department of Justice Hypnosis Decision SCC: 2007 SCC 6 (CanLII) | R. v. Trochym | CanLII Sotirios Konstantinos Kaviris - California Missing Person Directory Second person, Allan Ellsworth, reported missing in Beaton area - Revelstoke Mountaineer Public help sought as Revelstoke RCMP search for missing man - Okanagan | Globalnews.ca The Ghost Story Guys Podcast A Strange Little Place: The Paranormal Secrets of Revelstoke, British Columbia by Storr, Brennan | Amazon.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 260: Canada played an important role in the Cold War, a period of intense geopolitical tension and rivalry between the Western powers and the Soviet Union that lasted from the end of World War II in 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. As a member of the Western Bloc and a close ally of the United States, Canada was involved in a wide range of Cold War activities, including the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the construction of a network of radar stations in the Canadian Arctic known as the DEWline, and the creation of a series of underground emergency government bunkers known as Diefenbunkers. The Cold War also had a significant impact on Canadian society, shaping public attitudes toward issues such as national security, nuclear weapons, and international relations. Sources: Gouzenko Affair - Canada’s Human Rights History Spies, Lies, and a Commission by Dominque Clément Did the Cold War Start in Canada? – All About Canadian History The Gouzenko Affair - The Historical Society of Ottawa Parks Canada - Gouzenko Affair National Historic Event Canada and the Cold War | The Canadian Encyclopedia NATO - Declassified: Canada and NATO - 1949 The Red Scare Sound of SPUTNIK-1 | YouTube DEWLine Museum – HOME – The Distant Early Warning Radar Line, the Coldest Part of the Cold War. The Distant Early Warning Line and the Canadian Battle for Public Perception - Canadian Military Journal The Distant Early Warning Line: An Environmental Legacy Project - Canada.ca Diefenbunker.ca Diefenbunker Museum Blog – Canada’s Cold War Museum Blog Top Secret: The Lives of Employees at CFS Carp Canadian Nuclear Weapons by John Clearwater - Ebook | Scribd Underground Structures of the Cold War by Paul Ozorak - Ebook | Scribd Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers by Nick McCamley - Ebook | Scribd NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat by Gordon A.A. Wilson - Ebook | Scribd Now You Know Canada by Doug Lennox - Ebook | Scribd Canada and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization North American Defence | PDF Canadian Military Journal Vol. 12, No. 1 Current Time - 2023 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 259: After she’d been missing only one day, on the evening of May 7th, 2002, the body of 14-year-old Jessica Grimard was discovered by her father in a stream within a wooded area near her home in Rivière-des-Prairies, a suburban borough on the eastern tip of the city of Montreal, Quebec. As her killer had placed Jessica in the water, washing away evidence, there was not much for the cops to go on. At first, police considered that Jessica had been killed by someone known to her. However, thanks to a few strange twists, the case would head in a new direction, eventually capturing a known sexual predator and suspected serial killer who had bragged about his crimes. The boasting included confessions of responsibility for two other 1993 deaths around Montreal, initially ruled accidental, that of 12-year-old Christine Speich and 20-year-old Anna Lisa Cefali. The killer had used water and fire to cover his crimes. Sources: Angelo Colalillo | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Une marche pour commémorer le triste événement | TVA Nouvelles Meurtre de Jessica Grimard: un an plus tard, la douleur reste vive | TVA Nouvelles Grimard (Jessica) - La Mémoire du Québec 2000 CanLII 6067 (QC CQ) | R. c. Paccione | CanLII 2003 CanLII 10002 (QC CQ) | R. c. Chalfoun | CanLII 2005 CanLII 49803 (QC CS) | R. v. Colalillo | CanLII 2005 CanLII 49804 (QC CS) | R. v. Colalillo | CanLII 2006 QCCS 274 (CanLII) | R. c. Colalillo | CanLII 2006 QCCS 7903 (CanLII) | R. c. Colalillo | CanLII Search - Newspapers.com: Angelo Colalillo The Man Behind the Letters | PressReader.com Letters to be examined in Chalfoun trial | CBC News Colalillo laisse derrière lui son testament criminel | TVA Nouvelles Colallilo (Angelo) - La Mémoire du Québec West Island man who sexually assaulted about 20 women denied parole | Montreal Gazette Cold Careers and Occupational Hazards: The Occupational Preferences of Canadian Serial Killers Accused Quebec serial killer dies in hospital | CBC Quebec murder suspect took own life: report | CBC News The sudden death of a man ‘like a wolf amongst the lambs’ - The Globe and Mail The Murderer Who Used Water To Hide His Trace | Real Stories |YouTube Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder | Scribd Angelo Colalillo (1964-2006) - Find a Grave Memorial Lifeless in a Stream | Real Crime | By Real Crime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 258: On the morning of February 20, 1989, stay-at-home mother of two Janice Faye Johnson was found unconscious, gravely injured and barely clinging to life at the foot of a flight of basement stairs in the Shelburne, Nova Scotia home she shared with her family, Clayton Norman Johnson and daughters Darla and Dawn. Even though she was still alive when she was found by a neighbour, who called for an ambulance immediately, Janice died in the hospital just after noon that day. More than three years after her death, police arrested Janice’s husband, Clayton, a high school industrial arts teacher, and charged him with first-degree murder. Consistently maintaining his innocence throughout subsequent proceedings, on May 4, 1993, Clayton was found guilty of the first-degree murder of his wife. He was later sentenced to life in prison — his appeals, citing spurious forensic evidence, were rejected. He spent the next five years in prison. Sources: Clayton Johnson - Innocence Canada Crown Halts Clayton Johnson Murder Prosecution - Government of Nova Scotia, Canada Clayton Johnson Settlement - Government of Nova Scotia, Canada Clayton Johnson: Innocent man convicted by so-called experts Clayton Johnson walks as Crown balks at new trial | CBC News Shelburne man, wrongly convicted of wife’s murder, dies | CBC News 1998 NSCA 14 (CanLII) | R. v. Johnson | CanLII 1994 NSCA 79 (CanLII) | R. v. Johnson | CanLII Clayton Johnson - Wrongful Conviction - Pyzer Criminal Lawyers Clayton Johnson: obituary and death notice on InMemoriam Clayton Johnson wrongful murder conviction: Tide of Suspicion (1998) - The Fifth Estate — YouTube Wrongly convicted man cleared in wife’s death - The Globe and Mail Accident or Murder? | Forensic Files Wiki | Fandom “Forensic Files” Accident or Murder? (TV Episode 1999) - Reference View - IMDb Obituary | Clayton Norman Johnson of Barrington, Nova Scotia | H.M. Huskilson’s Funeral Home Scribd | Justice Miscarried: Inside Wrongful Convictions in Canada  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 257: In Victoria, B.C., on the rainy evening of Friday, September 29, 1899, on her way home from work alone, forty-four-year-old Agnes Bings walked across a railroad bridge, cutting through the Songhees Reserve as she did every other night without incident. This night, however, would be her last. Someone took her life somewhere during the 20-minute walk between her bakery on Store Street and the Bings family home on Russell Street. The next morning, Agnes Bing’s body was discovered. She’d been strangled, and her body mutilated. Her slaying has never been solved, although there have been a few suspects, interestingly including the world’s most famous serial killer, Jack the Ripper, whose 1888 crimes also remain unsolved. Sources: HISTORY OF DOWNTOWN VICTORIA | LIVE SITE Home | Victoria Canada’s Jack the Ripper Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records Relating To The Murder of Agnes Bings | PDF Historical police records give a glimpse into Victoria’s seamier side | Times Colonist The British Colonist 1858-1961 Agnes Bings (1855-1899) - Find a Grave Memorial Murder & Mutilation In Victoria - Jack The Ripper Forums - Ripperology For The 21st Century Unlocking the Dark Secrets of Victoria - Monday Magazine Coroner Inquests in BC around the time of Agnes Bings’ Murder Seeing Dead People E23 — Mrs. Bings Meets a Madman The History of Garrick’s Head Pub | Victoria, BC, Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 256: Colten Boushie was a 22-year-old Indigenous man from the Red Pheasant First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada, who was shot and killed on a farm near Biggar, Saskatchewan, on August 9, 2016. His death received widespread attention and led to a national conversation in Canada about systemic racism and the treatment of Indigenous peoples in the criminal justice system. The trial and acquittal of the farmer who was charged with Boushie’s death, a man named Gerald Stanley, also sparked controversy and led to calls for reforms in the Canadian justice system. Sources: Red Pheasant Cree Nation – A prospering Nation 2017 SKQB 366 (CanLII) | R v Stanley | CanLII 2017 SKQB 367 (CanLII) | R v Stanley | CanLII 2018 SKQB 27 (CanLII) | R v Stanley | CanLII Colten’s friend Eric talking about the shooting | Twitter Victim, friends needed help with flat tire before farmyard shooting: witness | 650 CKOM DocumentCloud | FSIN Media Release The night Colten Boushie died | The Globe and Mail The Legal Trial of Gerald Stanley - a second look at the case through the lens of law | CanLII Connects CRCC Final Report on the Death of Colten Boushie ‘Have to keep talking about it,’ says Boushie’s mother, five years after Stanley acquittal | Star Phoenix Colten Boushie, Gerald Stanley and a case that’s hard to defend | The Star Read ‘The Rodney King of Western Canada’: Killing of Indigenous Man Heads to Trial Online Who was Colten Boushie? | CBC News Colten Boushie Archives - APTN News ‘White Lives Matter’ signs show up in North Battleford Saskatchewan Debbie Baptiste | Canada’s National Observer: News & Analysis Brad Wall - Racism has no place in Saskatchewan. | Facebook We Will Stand Up | CBC Docs POV |YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 255: On September 28, 2016, a police dog discovered the nude and decomposing body of a young woman on the grounds of Gabriola House, a famous and, at that time, abandoned mansion on Davie Street in Vancouver’s West End. The body was that of Natsumi Kogawa, 30, a Japanese woman who’d been in Canada on a Visa to study English since May that year. Natsumi’s friends and family had not heard from her since September 8, and she’d been officially listed as a missing person four days after that.  On the same day as discovering Ms. Kogawa’s body, police arrested William Victor Schneider, a man from Vernon, B.C. Schneider’s brother Warren turned him into the police after William had told him where he’d put Natsumi’s body and that he ‘done something bad.’ Warren also recalled to police about overhearing a phone conversation during which he said he’d thought William had admitted to having killed Natsumi. The legal proceedings that followed dragged on into the fall of 2022. Sources: Hirosaki – Travel guide at Wikivoyage Tonari Gumi - Japanese Community Volunteers Association - Vancouver, Canada FIND Natsumi Kogawa／古川夏好さん捜索情報 — Facebook Search for Natsumi Kogawa - TokyoReporter Japanese woman missing in Canada - Japan Today Vancouver Shinpo - 古川夏好さん三回忌しめやかに Vancouver Shinpo - その三十五 古川夏好（こがわなつみ）さんの一周忌 古川さん殺害、終身刑の男が控訴 | 日加トゥデイ/JC Today Police Looking for Missing Woman | Vancouver Police Department Update: Body of Missing Woman Found | Vancouver Police Department EXCLUSIVE: Friends of murdered Japanese student, Natsumi Kogawa, speak out - BC | Globalnews.ca A look at the troubled life of William Schneider, the killer of Natsumi Kogawa - Vernon News - Castanet.net ‘It’s my fault,’ court hears accused tell police in murder trial of Japanese student | The Star Man gets life in prison for killing Japanese woman in Canada | The Japan Times ‘People listened’: Mother of murdered Japanese student grateful for guilty verdict | CBC News New trial ordered for man found guilty of murdering Japanese student Natsumi Kogawa | Globalnews.ca Murder conviction of B.C. man who killed exchange student restored: Supreme Court of Canada | Globalnews.ca ‘People listened’: Mother of murdered Japanese student grateful for guilty verdict | CBC News 1523 Davie St, Vancouver, BC • Vancouver Heritage Foundation | Vancouver Heritage Site Finder YOU SHOULD KNOW: About The History Of “The Gabriola Mansion” In The West End – Scout Magazine 2021 BCCA 41 (CanLII) | R. v. Schneider | CanLII 2022 SCC 34 (CanLII) | R. v. Schneider | CanLII Supreme Court of Canada - SCC Case Information - Docket - 39559 Supreme Court of Canada - 39559 Supreme Court of Canada - SCC Case Information - Webcast of the Hearing on 2021-12-10 - 39559 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 254: On Saturday, June 23, 1990, three teenagers, Brigitte Grenier, 16, Kyle Unger, 19, and Timothy Houlahan, 17, all separately attended a music festival at a ski resort near Roseisle, Manitoba. The following morning, Brigette was discovered dead in a creek in a heavily forested area within the resort. She’d been sexually assaulted, beaten, tortured and strangled to death. As both had been seen with the victim during the hours before her death, police quickly targeted Kyle Unger and Timothy Houlahan as suspects in Brigette’s slaying.  Forensic evidence pointed to Houlahan, and he, in turn, pointed to Kyle Unger as Brigette’s murderer, but Kyle was adamant he’d had nothing to do with Brigette’s death. The physical evidence against Kyle Unger was a single strand of hair found on Brigette’s sweatshirt. RCMP needed more, so they turned to their tried and true Mr. Big technique and, sure enough, acquired a confession from Kyle Unger. In February of 1992, both Unger and Houlahan were convicted of first-degree murder. Both appealed. Houlahan’s appeal was successful, and in July 1993, the Manitoba Court of Appeal ordered a new trial for him. Tim Houlahan completed suicide before his second trial. Kyle Unger’s conviction was upheld. Did the justice system get it right? Unfortunately, we will see that it did not, at least not right away. Sources: Historic Sites of Manitoba: Roseisle Pioneer Monument (Roseisle, RM of Dufferin) 1992 CanLII 13202 (MB KB) | R. v. Unger (K.W.) and Houlahan (T.L.) | CanLII 1993 CanLII 4409 (MB CA) | R. v. Unger | CanLII Kyle Unger settles wrongful murder conviction | CBC News Kyle Unger — Innocence Canada Kyle Unger | News, Videos & Articles — Global News Real Justice: A Police Mr. Big Sting Goes Wrong: The Story of Kyle Unger by Richard Brignall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 253: At 12:53 am on the morning of October 15, 2018, a frantic, garbled 911 came in from the Closs Family just west of the City of Barron, Wisconsin, U.S.A. There is screaming throughout the 45 seconds of the call from what seems to be two different females. Police arrived shortly after 911 was placed. Inside the home were the bodies of James and Denise Closs. They’d both been shot to death. It was soon discovered that the Closs couple’s 13-year-old daughter, Jayme Lynn, was missing. Sources: JAYME CLOSS — FBI www.facebook.com/barroncountysheriff FBI Milwaukee (@FBIMilwaukee). State of Wisconsin v. Jake T Patterson Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Evidence logs. Case 1831604. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Police report. BNSO 1831604 Primary, Closs/Patterson. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of Barron County SO 911 call.mp4. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of Erik Sedani squad video.mp4. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of James Pressley squad video 1.mp4. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of James Pressley squad video 2.mp4. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of James Pressley squad video 3.mp4. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of Jon Fick squad video 1.mp4. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of Jon Fick squad video 2.mp4. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of Erik Sedani body camera video 1 audio only.wav. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of Erik Sedani body camera video 2 audio only.wav. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of James Pressley body camera video 1 audio only.wav. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of James Pressley body camera video 2 audio only.wav. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of Jon Fick body camera video 1 audio only.wav. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of Jon Fick body camera video 2 audio only.wav. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of Jon Fick body camera video 3 audio only.wav. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of Jon Fick body camera video 4 audio only.wav. 2018.  Barron County Sheriff’s Department. Transcription of Jon Fick body camera video 5 audio only.wav. 2018.  Douglas County Sheriff’s Office — Report for case 19DC00130. 2018.  Douglas County Sheriff’s Office — Douglas County SO 911 call.mp4. 2018. Douglas County Sheriff’s Office — 140202_001-Patterson transport w919.mp4. 2018. Wisconsin Department of Justice — Division of Criminal Investigation. Case Master Report 18-7648. Wisconsin Department of Justice — Department of Transport footage. 18-7648.  Wisconsin Department of Justice — Interview of Kyle Jaenke-Annis.  Associated Press. “Statement of Jayme Closs at Sentencing for Abductor.” 24 May 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 252: Starting when Amanda Michelle Todd was just 11 years old, a person began a campaign of sexual extortion, relentless harassment and cyberbullying. Over the next three years, Amanda endured constant pressure from the man who used 22 online aliases on four different social media platforms to coerce and lure her into performing pornographic cam shows for him. On September 7, 2012, Amanda posted a now-famous video on YouTube in which she used a series of flashcards to tell her experience of being blackmailed into exposing her breasts via webcam, which later led to her being bullied and physically assaulted. The video gained global attention when it went viral after Amanda completed suicide at her family home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, a month before her 16th birthday on October 10th, 2012. As of this writing, the video, still up on YouTube, is just about to crack 15 million views. Amanda’s mother, Carol Todd, was driven by grief of her daughter’s loss to become an activist. She established the Amanda Todd Trust at the Royal Bank of Canada, which receives donations to support anti-bullying awareness education and programs for young people with mental health problems. In 2014, a Dutch-Turkish man, Aydin Coban, in his 30s when the abuse of Amanda Todd began, was identified as the man who’d been harassing her and at least 39 other young girls and young gay males in the Netherlands, U.K., and Canada. After legal proceedings in the Netherlands wrapped up, Coban was imprisoned there. Although charged with five offences related to Amanda Todd here in Canada, Amanda’s family would have to wait for justice for her. In June 2022, almost ten years after Amanda’s death, after being extradited to Canada, Aydan Coban stood trial in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. On August 5, 2022, the jury found Coban guilty of all five of the charges he was facing. Sources: Amanda Todd Legacy Society Official Site - Home My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm | YouTube The Story of Amanda Todd | The New Yorker 2022 BCSC 1810 (CanLII) | R. v Coban | CanLII Dutch man Aydin Coban convicted of sexually extorting B.C. teen Amanda Todd | CBC News Amanda Todd - Transcript of video - Pastebin.com Amanda Michelle “Manda” Todd (1996-2012) - Find a Grave Memorial Get help & support for suicide - Google Search Help Canadian Association For Suicide Prevention International Association for Suicide Prevention Amanda Todd Legacy - Staying Strong Carol Todd’s Snowflakes | http://amandatoddlegacy.org/ https://snowflakes4amanda.tumblr.com My Name is Amanda Todd | Life Reflected | National Arts Centre ‘She shared everything with me’: Amanda Todd’s mother talks about her life with her daughter (with video) Timeline of the Amanda Todd cyberbullying case | Vancouver Sun Timeline: Amanda Todd investigation | CTV News Amanda Todd blackmailer Kody Maxson outed another pedophile blackmailer Cyberbullying trial: Closing arguments in B.C. | CTV News Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 251: In the rural area known as Drummond Township, near Perth, Ontario, about a mile north of the village of Balderson’s Corners, in the early morning hours of December 10, 1828, what appeared to be an accidental fire resulted in the deaths of Thomas Easby’s wife and four eldest children. Only a month later, it was the word of Thomas’s only surviving son that painted a different, more sinister picture. Thomas was arrested, charged with the murders and tried. Easby’s trial was brief, he was convicted and sentenced to hang for what has been called Canada's first mass murder. Sources: Rampage: Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing The Thomas Easby Murders in 1829 — Foulest Ever in Lanark County | lindaseccaspina Perth & District Historical Society - Perth, Ontario, Canada THE DEVIL VISITS DRUMMOND TOWNSHIP Thomas Easby Murders « Arlene Stafford Wilson A Matter of Honour: And Other Tales of Early Perth - Susan Code - Google Books The Early History of Balderson’s Corners Historic Lanark County Documents from the Perth Courier Uncovering the Secrets of the Perth Museum Archives: A Q&A with Debbie Sproule - Lanark County Tourism A History of Drummond Township - John C. Ebbs - Google Books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 250: At 8:00 PM on the evening of March 21, 2006, the B.C. Ferries-operated motor vessel Queen of the North departed Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The long-haul passenger and vehicle ferry, making the 18-hour overnight trip to *Port Hardy* on the Northern end of Vancouver Island, was carrying 22 vehicles, 101 people, 59 passengers and 42 crew. Many passengers were asleep when, at 12:21 A.M., at 17.5 knots, the ferry struck an underwater ledge on the northeast side of Gil Island in Wright Sound. The damage to the hull was catastrophic; it tore holes in the starboard side and took out the propellers. The ferry lost propulsion and began drifting and taking on water. Upon realizing the ferry was lost, the crew and passengers loaded into lifeboats to take them safely away from the foundering vessel, which sank in 430 m of water only 80 Minutes later. Sadly, two of the passengers, Shirley Rosette and Gerald Foisy, both of 100 Mile House, British Columbia, were unaccounted for and, as they’ve never been found, they have since been declared dead. Investigations by B.C. Ferries and the Canadian Transportation Safety Board determined that the sinking was due to human error on the part of the ferry’s navigational crew, and the RCMP undertook a criminal investigation. Helmswomen Karen Briker was fired, as was Captain Colin Henthorne, rightfully in his cabin at the time. But the blame for the incident fell squarely on the shoulders of another man, the ship’s fourth officer. On March 16, 2010, the Crown charged *Karl-Heinz Arthur Lilgert* with two counts of criminal negligence, causing death. Lilgert was subsequently convicted of both charges and sentenced to four years in prison. Sources: Connecting the Coast | BC Ferries Marine Investigation Report M92W1057 - Transportation Safety Board of Canada Marine Investigation Report M06W0052 - Transportation Safety Board of Canada Skidegate Band Council Home | City of Prince Rupert Divisional Inquiry | BC Ferries - British Columbia Ferry Services Inc. 2013 BCSC 1329 (CanLII) | R. v. Lilgert | CanLII Navigator was either fighting or having sex with former lover on bridge of B.C. ferry the night it sank, Crown tells court | National Post Queen of the North, the Captain’s story - North Island Gazette The Queen of the North Disaster by Colin Henthorne - Ebook | Scribd Family asked to prove loved ones died at ferry sinking trial | CTV News Family of two victims testify at B.C. ferry sinking trial | CBC News Ferry passenger believes she saw couple before crash, thinks they went overboard | Globalnews.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 249: As this is our special Christmas episode. It is our tradition to tell a Yuletide-themed yarn. This one is about a duo of bandits who burglarized various shopping malls across the United States and Canada year after year during the holidays. Their insidious M.O. was to work from the inside. The group’s leader, a safe cracker named Willie Thomas Soke and his sidekick, a little person of colour called Marcus Skidmore, would acquire jobs inside the department store. Soke, a foul-mouthed, chronic alcoholic and sex addict, would play the store’s Santa Claus, and Skidmore, his evil sidekick, would be one of Santa’s elves. Finally, after the murder of the head of a mall security manager named Johnny ‘Gin’ Calhoun at a Phoenix, Arizona, shopping complex, the pair were brought to justice in 2003. This was thanks partly to the unwitting help of a Canadian-born 10-year-old boy, Thurman Merman, who was living in Phoenix with his grandmother. Sources: Achondroplasia | Johns Hopkins Medicine City of Phoenix, Arizona, Police Department Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’ - song and lyrics by Charley Pride | Spotify Simon Fraser University The University of British Columbia ‘Documentary’: Bad Santa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 248: In New York City on the 8th of December, 1980, the world was rocked by the murder of influential rock and roll icon, artist, sometimes controversial activist and dad John Lennon. After an evening recording session at the Record Plant, John Lennon and his wife, artist Yoko Ono returned to their Central Park West apartment building, The Dakota. As John and Yoko approached the entrance to the building, they passed a man for whom, only hours earlier, Lennon had signed an autograph. The man, Mark David Chapman, 25, watched the couple walk by and then pulled a .38 special from his coat and unloaded on John Lennon, shooting him in the back four times. The deadly hollow point bullets tore through the former Beatle, mortally wounding him. He was pronounced dead at Roosevelt Hospital later. When police arrived, they found Chapman patiently reading his book, Catcher in the Rye.  Sources: JOHN LENNON. GIMME SOME TRUTH. The Beatles This Is: The Beatles | Spotify Playlist This is: John Lennon | Spotify Playlist John Lennon’s “bigger than Jesus” quote | Slate 23 December 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono meet Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau | The Beatles Bible The Catcher in the Rye | Summary, Analysis, Reception, & Facts | Britannica Two Marks — Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon — Crime Library BBC NEWS | Entertainment | John Lennon killer ‘wanted fame’ BBC ON THIS DAY | 8 | 1980: John Lennon shot dead Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 247: In January of 1922, the first of a series of fires broke out on a farm in the small rural community of Caledonia Mills in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. The family who lived at the farm, Alexander, 70, and sixty-nine-year-old Janet MacDonald, 69, and their 15-year-old adopted daughter Mary-Ellen, claimed the unexplained blazes, 30 in all, had begun in rapid succession in places not close to either wood stove. The fires and other terrifying occurrences that drove them out of the home, they believed, were caused by a malicious poltergeist bent on their destruction and focused around Mary-Ellen. News of the events brought renowned international investigators of things paranormal, even catching the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Sources: Caledonia Mills: The Mary Ellen Spook Farm Case Fire Spook by Monica Graham - Ebook | Scribd Ghost Stories of Canada by John Robert Colombo, Jillian Hulme Gilliland - Ebook | Scribd The Mary Ellen Spook Folklore | Visit Antigonish Caledonia Mills - Wikipedia Folklore of Nova Scotia by Mary L. Fraser Antigonish Heritage Museum - The Old Train Station News - Newsletter 8, Oct 2009 Hobgoblin - Wikipedia Apparitions Of Black Dogs Black Shuck: The Legendary Devil Dog Of The English Countryside Investigating the Antigonish Fire Spook Haunting PSICAN - Paranormal Studies and Inquiry Canada - Caledonia Mills Fire Spook American Society for Psychical Research A look back at the mysterious haunting of an Antigonish County farm, 100 years later | CBC News More Canadian Poltergeists The Mysterious Fire Spook of Caledonia Hills Phantoms and Monsters - Real Cryptid Encounter Reports - Fortean Researcher Lon Strickler Seeks Ghosts: Poltergeist: Fire Spook, Part l Dark Visions: Personal Accounts of the Mysterious in Canada - John Robert Colombo - Google Books Le cas curieux de la ferme Mary Ellen Spook - PREUVES DU PARANORMAL poltergeist | Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained - Credo Reference spr.ac.uk | Glossary | spr.ac.uk Lexscien: Library of Exploratory Science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 246: John Ruffolo, 36, an employee of Brinks Canada at Butler Crescent location in Saanichton, British Columbia, was due to start a night shift at 10:30 PM on October 19, 2003. He was an ATM technician and an armoured car driver. When John didn’t show up, the rest of the armoured car crew waited 30 minutes before calling John’s home. A woman answered the phone, telling John’s co-worker, Jason Amos, that John had left for work some time ago. The crew waited a few more minutes before calling in a replacement. John’s wife, Ruby Ann Ruffolo, reported her husband missing on October 20th. His car turned up outside a local pub in Victoria two days after that. On October 25, 2003, a hiker walking near Humpback Road in Langford, 15 kilometres from his Victoria home, found John Ruffolo’s body in a culvert and called the police. John’s body was uninjured except for puncture wounds, believed to be needle marks, on both arms. Six months after John Ruffolo died, police arrested Ruby Ann Ruffolo and charged her with first-degree murder in her husband’s death. John’s surviving family had to wait seven long years for justice in a case beset by numerous delays, some initiated by the defendant and her lawyers, but also included a judge’s death and a mistrial.  Sources: John RUFFOLO Obituary (2003) - The Times Colonist 2010 BCSC 1630 R. v. Ruffolo 2012 BCCA 325 R. v. Ruffolo 826 Esquimalt Road, Victoria, BC — Google Maps Routes from 994 Tulip Ave to 6721 Butler Crescent — Google Maps Heroin | HealthLink BC Amitriptyline - Oral | HealthLink BC Nortriptyline - Oral | HealthLink BC Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative CN BC: Judge’s Death Puts Cases In Jeopardy Woman killed cheating husband with overdose of heroin | CTV News Family furious over convicted killer’s release | CBC News Murder victim’s family responds to Ruffolo’s release - Saanich News Ruby Ann Ruffolo Guilty of First Degree Murder - YouTube Ruby Ann Ruffolo loses last appeal of conviction for murdering husband in 2003 - Victoria Times Colonist KidSport Canada | So all kids can play Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 195: Hannah Buxbaum was found dead July 5, 1984 on a highway near London, Ontario after having been shot by roadside bandits three times in the head as her husband Helmuth Buxbaum and their young nephew, Roy, in town from Vancouver for a visit watched helplessly. The bandits sped off with Hanna’s purse and police were called. No one could figure out why anyone would want to murder Hanna Buxbaum, who was as close to being a living saint that anyone could find.  The press initially labelled the case ‘The Good Samaritan Murder’ until the true story unfolded. This story has so many twists and turns and crazy elements. The Buxbaums being millionaire owners of several nursing homes there were huge sums of money, cocaine, sex addiction, sex workers, double crossing, nuclear bunkers filled with tobacco and alcohol, people being dangled by their feet off 14th floor balconies, worries of rocket launcher attacks and courtroom spectacles. No less than a motley crew of 7 people were charged in the killing of the earnest, salt of the earth woman, until, finally, the truth came out. Sources: A cruel case of murder | Maclean’s | DECEMBER 2, 1985 After 30 years, a son comes to terms with his father?s murder of his mother | Chatham Daily News The killer I knew | National Post Helmuth Buxbaum, convicted in 1980s murder, dies in jail | CBC News Edward Greenspan - Wikipedia Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 245: Between 1926 and 1928, a sinister darkness was afoot on a small chicken ranch in Wineville, California. When he was only 19, Gordon Stewart Northcott, a Canadian, had abducted, raped, tortured and murdered at least three and as many as 20 others. His victims were predominantly prepubescent boys. He sexually assaulted and released numerous others. When a portion of the truth came out, much of it was told by Northcott’s nephew, 13-year-old Sanford Clark. Northcott had brought Sanford with him from Canada two years before.  Northcott viciously raped and beat Clark numerous times before tiring of him as he aged. Afterward, through fear and intimidation, Northcott coerced his nephew into assisting him in committing and covering up the murders of his victims. Even Northcott’s mother, Sarah Louise Northcott, helped in some of the crimes to keep her son out of jail.  Sources: The Road Out of Hell : Flacco, Anthony : Internet Archive Nothing is Strange with You : Paul, James Jeffrey Internet Archive Cold North Killers : Canadian Serial Murder : Mellor, Lee : Internet Archive Beyond Evil by Robert Keller - Ebook | Scribd Gordon Northcott | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers 10 Notorious Serial Killers Who All Suffered Childhood Head Injuries Healdsburg Tribune 20 September 1928 — California Digital Newspaper Collection Gordon Stewart Northcott’s handwritten confession, Riverside, 1928 - UCLA Library Digital Collections People v. Northcott, 209 Cal. 639 | Casetext Search + Citator Gordon Stewart Northcott Archives - Deranged LA Crimes ®Deranged LA Crimes ® Gordon Stewart Northcott (1906-1930) - Find a Grave Memorial Clark, chief witness in `20s child murders led exemplary life – Whittier Daily News The Puzzling Disappearance Of Walter Collins | BuzzFeed Unsolved Wiki | Fandom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 244: On the morning of the 8th of July 1917, thirty-nine-year-old Tom Thomson, a renowned Canadian painter and skilled outdoorsman, set off well-supplied for a day-long fishing excursion in his canoe on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park in Whitney, Ontario. A canoe, later identified as Thomson’s, was found floating upside down in the lake later on the same day. When Tom did not return from his fishing trip the next day, his friends became concerned. Eight days after Thomson first set out, Dr. G. W. (Goldwyn) Howland, a cottager from Toronto, spotted Tom’s bloated and decomposed body floating in the lake. An examination of Thomson’s body uncovered a large bruise on the right side of his head, and blood had come out of his right ear. Thomson’s death was quickly ruled an accident, and no police investigation occurred. Thomson was laid to rest in Mowat Cemetery near Canoe Lake, where he’d died. However, Thomson’s older brother George demanded the body be exhumed. Two days later, Tom’s grave was re-opened, the casket removed, and he was re-interred on July 21 in the family plot beside the Leith Presbyterian Church in what is now the Municipality of Meaford, Ontario. Officially the matter was closed, but mythology has grown around Thomson’s death. In the intervening years since Thomson’s death, investigations by sleuths, amateur and professional, have come to various conflicting conclusions. Some agree with the initial findings that Thomson died due to accidental drowning. Others, however, suggest that Tom Thomson was murdered. Sources: Death on a Painted Lake: The Tom Thomson Tragedy Algonquin Provincial Park | Ontario, Canada | The Friends of Algonquin Park Tom Thomson | The Canadian Encyclopedia The Group of Seven – Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933 Canada’s History Books - Canada’s History The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson, Canadian Painter – alexanderadamsart Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm by David Silcox, Harold Town - Ebook | Scribd Tom Thomson by Joan Murray - Ebook | Scribd Who Killed Tom Thomson? by John Little - Ebook | Scribd The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson by Gregory Klages - Ebook | Scribd The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson by George A. Walker - Ebook | Scribd Tom Thomson’s Last Paddle by Larry McCloskey - Ebook | Scribd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 243: Eighty years ago, on August 19, 1942, in Operation Jubilee began as the Allies attacked the French port of Dieppe on the English Channel Coast. Of the more than 6100 troops involved, five thousand were soldiers of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division and a thousand British, many commandos, with a handful of others including Americans. The hope was to gain a foothold in Europe, breaching Hitler’s heavily-fortified Atlantic Wall. But unfortunately, the Germans were ready for them, and things did not go as planned.  After nine excruciating hours of brutal fighting along the shore, the allied force retreated. Almost 1000 Allied troops lay dead, and at least 2000 more were prisoners of war, making this one of Canada’s darkest days ever in a time of war. Sources: Dieppe - Veterans Affairs Canada The Dieppe Raid - Historical Sheet - Second World War - History - Veterans Affairs Canada WarMuseum.ca - Democracy at War - Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942 - Operations Dieppe: a German Learning Experience - James Shelley - King’s College London WWII: The Dieppe Raid - Canada at War The Dieppe Raid : Juno Beach Centre Cpt. Romuald Nalecz Tyminski, Polish Canadian Hero PATRICK PORTEOUS VC CBC - Dieppe Prisoner of War: A Story from Dieppe : Juno Beach Centre HyperWar: Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific Chapter 11 HyperWar: Six Years of War: The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific Chapter 12 DIEPPE: “They Didn’t Have To Die!” - Legion Magazine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 242: On March 3, 2005, a contingent of RCMP constables, attended the property of James Michael Roszko, 46 in Rochfort Bridge, near Mayerthorpe, Alberta. The members were there to serve a search warrant for stolen property and a marijuana-growing operation on the farm, discovered the day before. Roszko, knowing the police would be arriving soon, armed himself with the help of a couple friends, Shawn Hennessey and Dennis Cheeseman, and then he laid in wait for the RCMP. When four of the officers, Anthony Gordon, Lionide “Leo” Johnston, Brock Myrol and Peter Schiemann, walked into a quonset hut on the farm. Roszko, hidden inside the building, opened fire on the four members, killing them and then himself before the other RCMP members on site could come to their aid.  In the last episode we learned of the life of the murderer leading up to the day of the slaying of the four RCMP members. In this episode you’ll hear about the crime and its aftermath. Sources: Town of Mayerthorpe: Home CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE STATISTICS - Darkness to Light Report to the Attorney General : public inquiry into the deaths of Cst. Anthony Gordon, Cst. Lionide Johnston, Cst. Brock Myrol, Cst. Peter Schiemann and Mr. James Roszko - Open Government Report to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General Public Fatality Inquiry - PDF Fallen Four | Home Fallen Four Memorial Park & Visitor Information Centre | Facebook Line of Fire by Edward Butts - Ebook | Scribd James Roszko | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers RCMP Tribute to Five Officers Mayerthorpe Tragedy - Wikipedia 2008 ABQB 242 (CanLII) | R. v. Hennessey | CanLII 2008 ABQB 282 (CanLII) | R. v. Cheeseman | CanLII 2009 ABQB 60 (CanLII) | R. v. Hennessey | CanLII 2010 ABCA 274 (CanLII) | R. v. Hennessey | CanLII Murder charge approved in Burnaby RCMP officer’s killing | CTV News Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 241: On March 3, 2005, a contingent of RCMP constables attended the property of James Michael Roszko, 46, in Rochfort Bridge, near Mayerthorpe, Alberta. The members were there to serve a search warrant for stolen property and a marijuana-growing operation on the farm, discovered the day before. Roszko, knowing the police would be arriving soon, armed himself with the help of a couple of friends, Shawn Hennessey and Dennis Cheeseman, and then he lay in wait for the RCMP. When four of the officers, Anthony Gordon, Lionide “Leo” Johnston, Brock Myrol and Peter Schiemann, walked into a quonset hut on the farm. Roszko, hidden inside the building, opened fire on the four members, killing them and then himself before the other RCMP members on-site could come to their aid.  This episode covers the life of the murderer and leads us up to the slaying of the four RCMP members. Next week in part 2, you’ll hear about the crime and its aftermath. Sources: Town of Mayerthorpe: Home CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE STATISTICS - Darkness to Light Report to the Attorney General : public inquiry into the deaths of Cst. Anthony Gordon, Cst. Lionide Johnston, Cst. Brock Myrol, Cst. Peter Schiemann and Mr. James Roszko - Open Government Report to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General Public Fatality Inquiry - PDF Fallen Four | Home Fallen Four Memorial Park & Visitor Information Centre | Facebook Line of Fire by Edward Butts - Ebook | Scribd James Roszko | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers RCMP Tribute to Five Officers Mayerthorpe Tragedy - Wikipedia 2008 ABQB 242 (CanLII) | R. v. Hennessey | CanLII 2008 ABQB 282 (CanLII) | R. v. Cheeseman | CanLII 2009 ABQB 60 (CanLII) | R. v. Hennessey | CanLII 2010 ABCA 274 (CanLII) | R. v. Hennessey | CanLII Murder charge approved in Burnaby RCMP officer’s killing | CTV News Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 240: Canada has had a long and embarrassing history of race relations, starting with the indigenous peoples who’d lived here for thousands of years prior to the arrival of European colonizers.  Our nation has also facilitated the mass internment of people perceived as threats to our national security during war time. As World War I raged in Europe, internment camps were set up to house Ukranians, Germans, Turks and Bulgrians. Of the more than 8500 detainees involuntarily held in camps across the country, a small percentage were women and children, the dependants of the men being held. Other internees included homeless people, conscientious objectors, and members of outlawed cultural and political associations.  At the outset of World War II, a number of Canadian citizens of German and Italian decent, as well as Jews who were immigrating to Canada, fleeing Europe were rounded up and put into internment camps. After the Japanese attack on the United States in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, on 7 December, 1941, North Americans were afraid. The Second World War had come far too close to home. Just over a month after the Pearl Harbour attack, a process began which saw the mass internment of Japanese Canadians from 1942 until 1949. Many of the detainees, including women and children, had been born in Canada. The country they’d grown up to love had uprooted them from their homes, seized their properties and taken away their rights and freedoms. Dark Poutine is sponsored by BetterHelp. Sources: Internment in Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia Internment of Japanese Canadians | The Canadian Encyclopedia The Canadian Race Relations Foundation — Legalized Racism Japanese Canadian History – The Politics of Racism Hastings Park Internment Centre - vancouvertraces Japanese Canadian Historic Sites in BC: Journeys of Home | Super, Natural BC Hastings Park 1942 | Internment at Hastings Park Tashme: A forgotten internment camp remembered - Fraser Valley Current Tashme | Historical Project Canada’s Internment Camps – Canadian History Ehx “Enemy Aliens” - The Internment of Ukrainian Canadians | Canada and the First World War From Racism to Redress: The Japanese Canadian Experience Japanese Canadian internment and the struggle for redress | CMHR Japanese Internment Japanese Canadian Historic Places - Heritage BC HOME PAGE – Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Internment in Canada: WW1 vs WW2 – All About Canadian History Vanishing B.C. Japanese-Canadian internment sites in the Slocan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The episode you're about to hear is a sample of the "Driven By Her" series from the Ongoing History of New Music presented by Porsche Canada. On this 5 episode series host Alan Cross explores the amazing contributions some of the most talented women on the planet have made to Modern Music. From Women who made the 90's rock to guitar heroes to the stories of some of the most talented songwriters and producers on the planet making the biggest hit we all know the words to...​ On the sample you're about to hear you'll learn about more than a dozen women that have changed music forever but have been given little to no credit, and Alan wants to fix that as he shines a spotlight on Trixie Smith, Ma Rainey, Memphis Minnie and more. You'll be surprised to find that behind the rock and roll... the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd ALL have women to thank for their contributions to music history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our last episode we heard of the murder of eleven-year-old Kathryn-Mary Herbert in Abbotsford, B.C. The 1975 murder went unsolved for nearly 40 years.  Less than a year after Kathryn-Mary was killed, another girl from Abbotsford, Theresa Hildebrandt, 15, also went missing. Her body turned up in 1980, she’d been murdered. Two years after that and more than 200 kilometres from Abbotsford, another girl, Monica Jack, 12, went bike riding near Merritt, B.C. and was never again seen alive. Her remains were not found until 1995 near Nicola Lake, she too had been murdered.  Police believed that all three murders were connected. They had only circumstantial evidence on one suspect they presumed had committed all three killings.  Sources: 2015 BCSC 1023 (CanLII) | R. v Handlen | CanLII 2018 BCSC 1330 (CanLII) | R. v Handlen | CanLII 2022 BCCA 304 (CanLII) | R. v. Handlen | CanLII Garden Of Tears~Garden Of Hope 36 years later, Chilliwack woman believes daughter’s killer will be caught New details emerge on alleged child killer’s history | CTV News Are Kamloops and area murders linked to deceased American suspect? - Kamloops This Week Family Of Theresa Hildebrandt Lives Four Decades Without Answers In Her Murder | Abbotsford News Garry Handlen’s ‘Mr. Big’ Confession Could Have Been Fabricated, Judge Says | Abbotsford News Garry Handlen convicted in Monica Jack killing: What the jury didn’t hear Garry Taylor Handlen, accused child killer, evaded charges for 39 years | CBC News Crown Proceeds by Direct Indictment in R. v. Handlen Vancouver Sun — Handlen’s confession to murder of second B.C. girl not heard at trial UBCIC Stands with Family of Monica Jack as her Murderer Appeals Conviction - UBCIC B.C. court dismisses appeal of man convicted of 1978 murder of 12-year-old Monica Jack | CBC News B.C. man convicted in young girl’s murder in 1978 loses appeal - Surrey Now-Leader GRAPHIC CONTENT: Confession of Garry Taylor Handlen to the murder of Monica Jack | Vancouver Sun — YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 238: In Abbotsford, B.C., on the evening of September 24, 1975, Kathryn-Mary Herbert, age 11, was abducted while on her way home from a friend’s home. Last seen The girl’s body was discovered almost two months later on the Matsqui Indian Reserve north of Abbotsford. Investigators determined that she was likely murdered on the day she’d disappeared. In May 1976, Theresa Hildebrandt, 15, vanished without a trace from her Aldergrove, B.C. home. F Police believed she might be a runaway, but her family felt otherwise. or nearly four years no one knew what had become of Theresa. In March of 1980, her skeletal remains were found in a shallow grave off Downes and Mt. Lehman roads.  Almost exactly two years after Theresa’s disappearance, in early May 1976, 12-year-old Monica Jack was riding her bicycle near Merritt, B.C. when she disappeared. As Monica was of indigenous heritage, her disappearance fell under Project E-PANA, the RCMP’s initiative to solve the multitude of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls along B.C.’s infamous Highway of Tears. In June of 1995, Monica’s remains were discovered off a logging road on Swakum Mountain, to the west of Nicola Lake and several kilometres from where she was last seen. Families of the victims had their suspicions about suspects and worked hard to hold police on task, to solve the murders of their girls.  Due to similarities in the cases, police believed them all, potentially, linked. After years of running down tip after tip, a man with a history of sexual assault convictions and had been living in B.C. during all three killings fell under suspicion of investigators. After a long operation which involved the employment pf their infamous Mr. Big technique to get their suspect to talk, RCMP arrested 67-year-old Garry Taylor Handlen, and charged him with the murders of Kathryn-Mary Herbert and Monica Jack in 2014, more than 36 years after the murder of Monica Jack. He was later convicted of first-degree murder. Sadly, in regards to Theresa Hildebrant’s murder, no one has yet been charged in her killing, and 46 years later, her family has yet to receive any official answers about Theresa’s death. Sources: 2015 BCSC 1023 (CanLII) | R. v Handlen | CanLII 2018 BCSC 1330 (CanLII) | R. v Handlen | CanLII A Garden of Tears: The murder of Kathryn-Mary Herbert | CBC.ca CBC: Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women — Monica Jack Kathryn-Mary Herbert | Theyaremissing Blog A garden of tears (2009) | ridgenfilm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 237: On a fall evening in 1991, police discovered the bodies of Alfred Critchley, 75, and Virginia Critchley, 73, in the Chatham, Ontario residence they shared with their son and his family. The couple had been brutally stabbed. Alfred was unconscious but alive and Virginia was barely alive. Virginia died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital and Alfred died later in the hospital having never regained consciousness. After a brief search, the couple’s grandson, Jasen Pangburn, 19, was discovered partially buried in a nearby ravine. Jasen had been executed with a single gunshot to the chest from a .22 calibre firearm. Thanks to Virginia’s dying words, suspicion fell on two youths, who’d been acquaintances of Jasen Pangburn’s, Jason Shawn Cofell, 18, and a 15-year-old accomplice we’ll call C.B. Sources: 2007 CanLII 76511 (ON SC) | R. v. Cofell | CanLII The Essex and Kent Scottish - Canada.ca Chatham triple-murderer granted parole after almost 25 years in prison | CBC News Teenage triple-murderer whose killings rocked Chatham, region gets parole after decades in prison Search — Jason Shaw Cofell — Newspapers.com Cofell, Jason – Canadian Crimeopedia Chatham-Kent, ON Crime Rates & Map Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 236: In our last episode, we heard about the murder of 61-year-old retiree, and beloved mother, grandmother and recent great-grandmother, Diana Russell. On February 22, 2002, after her car was found abandoned, in out-of-the way Boston Bar, her family became concerned. Diana was not answering her phone and no one knew where she was. She was later found by police in the basement of Kelowna ,B.C. townhome. Diana had been beaten, hogtied, raped and then strangled. The number one suspect was no stranger to the family. He was Ronald Leal Fowler, an ex-boyfriend of Diana’s eldest daughter, Michele, and father to that daughter’s two-year-old son, Brandon.  After killing Diana, Fowler had fled in her car, but after it became hopelessly stuck after a freak winter mud and snow slide he’d hitchhiked to Vancouver. Fowler was arrested there after the truck driver who’d dropped him off in the Lower Mainland called police about the sketchy guy who’d ridden with him. Fowler, who’d illegally walked away from half-way house in which he’d been living, claimed amnesia due to drug and alcohol binge at the time. He denied responsibility for Diana’s murder and maintains that position to this day. Diana’s remaining family was left to pick of the pieces of their broken lives. This crime is still a painful wound for them, ripped open by Fowler’s every appeal and applications for parole. In the second part of this episode we hear from Collin Lucksinger, Diana Russell's grandson, as he shares with us his feelings about the his grandmother and the crime. Sources: Facebook — Biography of Diana Russell Search Castanet News - Ronald Fowler 2006 BCSC 1215 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII 2006 BCSC 1214 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII 2005 BCSC 1876 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII 2005 BCSC 1875 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII 2005 BCSC 1874 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII CN BC: Drug Experts Differ Over Blackouts - Rave.ca Femicide RamsReef — Twitch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 235: On February 22, 2002, a vehicle was found in the ditch off the Trans-Canada highway near Boston Bar, B.C. The car was registered to 61-year-old mother, grandmother and recent great-grandmother, Diana Russell, who was nowhere around the car. RCMP obtained a key to Diana’s Kelowna townhouse and went inside finding the woman partially clothed body underneath some mattresses and furniture. She’d been hogtied, raped, beaten and strangled. Police quickly determined that Ronald Leal Fowler, 31, was a person of interest in the murder. Fowler, father of one of Diana’s grandchildren after a brief relationship with Diana’s eldest daughter, Fowler was later dramatically captured in Vancouver. He was then charged and in 2006 was convicted of first degree murder. Diana Russell's daughter Valerie MacPherson kindly shared her writings about her family's pain around the time of the murder and the twenty years since. In part 2 we will hear from Diana's grandson, Collin Lucksinger, as he shares first hand his thoughts and feelings around Diana's murder. Sources: Facebook — Biography of Diana Russell Search Castanet News - Ronald Fowler 2006 BCSC 1215 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII 2006 BCSC 1214 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII 2005 BCSC 1876 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII 2005 BCSC 1875 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII 2005 BCSC 1874 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII CN BC: Drug Experts Differ Over Blackouts - Rave.ca Femicide RamsReef — Twitch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 234: On March 26, 1997, police found the bodies of 39 members of a religious UFO cult known as Heaven’s Gate in an 830 square-metre (9,000 square foot) home in Rancho Santa Fe, California, a San Diego suburb. All, including the group’s leader, Marshall Applewhite Jr., had died in a ritualistic act of mass suicide. The headline on the cult’s website, which remains online today, stated, “Hale-Bopp brings closure to Heaven’s Gate.” Over the following weeks, as investigators probed what happened in the home, the story of the Heaven’s Gate cult emerged, each detail weirder than the next.  I wrote about this story in my first book, Murder Madness and Mayhem. I have always wanted to cover this on Dark Poutine. I have expanded on what I wrote, especially toward the end of the story, I get into more detail about the victims. The medium of a podcast also allows for other content, including audio clips from individuals involved in the case and other details I was otherwise unable to convey in the book involving Canadian connections which includes one of the victims, Erika Ernst, 40, who was from Calgary, Alberta. That’s right, this is not an away game.  Sources: Get Help | Talk Suicide Canada Heaven’s Gate — How and When It May Be Entered YouTube — Heaven’s Gate Cult Initiation Tape Part 1 Heaven’s Gate : Federal Bureau of Investigation — Internet Archive Video Anonymous Heaven’s Gate caller who directed police to mansion, 25 years after tragedy - ABC News Heaven’s Gate, 25 Years Later: Remembering Lives Lost in Cult CNN - Some members of suicide cult castrated - Mar. 28, 1997 Heaven’s Gate Survivor Lost His Soulmate to Suicide Cult Facilitating You! – You are the love you have been looking for. Erika Ernst (1956-1997) - Find a Grave Memorial Cult Test | Cult Escape | Are you In A Religious Cult? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 233: During the harsh winter of 1941, as World War II raged elsewhere, closer to home, a tragedy occurred on the remote, ice-covered island archipelago in Hudson Bay called the Belcher Islands. After witnessing a dramatic meteor shower, a tribal group of Inuit people believed the world was ending. Inspired by a copy of the New Testament Bible translated into Inuit syllabics by Anglican missionaries, 27-year-old Charlie Ouyerack, self-professed shaman of the tribe, claimed he was the second coming of Jesus Christ. Charlie determined his friend, Peter Sala, a skilled hunter and navigator, to be God. Their cult, Charlie, Peter, Peter's sister Mina and their followers, labelled any deniers as satanic heretics, eventually leading to the brutal murders of nine people within the group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Epidsode 232: The strongest earthquake ever recorded in eastern Canada, measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale, occurred at 5:02pm Newfoundland time on the 18 of November in 1929. It was felt as far west as Ottawa and as far south as New York City. The quake, centred around 250 km south of Newfoundland along the southern edge of the Grand Banks caused a massive sub-ocean landslide. Two and a half hours after the quake a series of tsunami waves smashed into Newfoundland’s isolated Burin Peninsula devastating property, upending the fishery and causing 28 deaths. Sources: The Tsunami of 1929 The 1929 Magnitude 7.2 “Grand Banks” earthquake and tsunami 1883 Rossi-Forel Scale of Earthquake Intensity Report a felt earthquake View of The Newfoundland Tsunami of November 18, 1929: An Examination of the Twenty-eight Deaths of the “South Coast Disaster” | Newfoundland & Labrador Studies 90 years later, a tsunami in southern Newfoundland still brings vivid memories | CBC News A disastrous tsunami’s lethal legacy in Newfoundland - Macleans.ca 1929 Grand Banks earthquake - Wikipedia The Wake by Linden MacIntyre - Ebook | Scribd Newfoundland Tsunami - Water - SOS! Canadian Disasters - Library and Archives Canada CBC News Indepth: The South Shore disaster: Newfoundland’s Tsunami GEOSCAN Search Results: Fastlink Get prepared for an earthquake - Province of British Columbia THE ASSESSMENT OF GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS IN NEWFOUNDLAND: AN UPDATE Dominion of Newfoundland - Wikipedia Newfoundland and Labrador - Wikipedia Welcome to Newfoundland and Labrador - Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1920 - Dec 1939 Get prepared for an earthquake - Province of British Columbia Surviving A Tsunami—Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 231: Gerald Vincent Bull was a smart cookie from North Bay, Ontario. He graduated from the University of Toronto at 20, got a master’s degree at age 21, and at 22 earned a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering from the University of Toronto’s newly created Institute of Aerodynamics. Magazines touted him the ‘boy rocket scientist’. Nations sought him for his innovative ideas regarding long range artillery, ballistics and other military related endeavours. He was charged several times with breaching arms embargoes, even spending time in prison, a sore spot for the proud scientist. Eventually he became involved in Iraq’s ‘Project Babylon’ in which he was asked personally by then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to build a Supergun which would launch weapons into space, giving Hussein the capability of bombing targets 1000’s of kilometres away. This obviously worried Iraq’s neighbours in the Middle East. Before the project was completed Gerald Bull was assassinated, shot five times outside his apartment building in Brussels, Belgium. A lot of nations hated Gerald Bull and some, no doubt, wanted him dead, but it remains a mystery who was behind his killing. It isn’t clear who actually pulled the trigger in the murder of Gerald Bull, most likely it was someone either within, or acting on behalf of, one of those governments who’d felt threatened by Bull’s activities and alliances. Sources: Gerald Bull - Wikipedia Gerald Bull | The Canadian Encyclopedia The tragic tale of Saddam Hussein’s ‘supergun’ - BBC Future Superguns 1854–1991 by Steven J. Zaloga, Jim Laurier - Ebook | Scribd Bull’s Eye: The Assassination and Life of Supergun Inventor Gerald Bull eBook : Adams, James: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store Strange Crime by Editors of Portable Press - Ebook | Scribd Three in the Back, Two in the Head by Jason Sherman - Ebook | Scribd Ready the Cannons! by William Gurstelle - Ebook | Scribd Who Killed Gerald Victor Bull | PDF | Mossad | Central Intelligence Agency Gerald Bull │ Super Gun │ History Documentary │ YouTube NYT — Gerald Bull — Wayback Machine Israel to kill in U.S., allied nations - UPI.com Doomsday Gun (TV Movie 1994) - IMDb CBC Archives — Who killed Gerald Bull? Gerald Bull The Man Behind Iraq’s Supergun - The New York Times Dr. Gerald Bull: Scientist, Weapons Maker, Dreamer - People - CBC Archives THE GUNS OF SADDAM - The Washington Post A Brief History of the HARP Project Gerald Bull, 62, Shot in Belgium; Scientist Who Violated Arms Law - New York Times Remarks by President Biden on a Successful Counterterrorism Operation in Afghanistan | The White House The Mossad Mossad | History & Functions | Britannica Was Gerald Bull murdered by the Mossad? | CBC.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 230: Over a period of 22 months, between January 1969 and January 1971, 3 women in Southwestern Ontario were brutally murdered in 3 different towns. These women’s names were Isobella “Belva” Russell, Edith Authier, and Jane Wooley. Police solved the case of the third victim, Belva Russell, a matter of weeks after the crime. The perpetrator, Gerald Thomas Archer was convicted and imprisoned. There were obvious similarities between all three crimes. For several reasons the initial investigators on the cases missed them. Gerald Thomas Archer got his freedom in 1985, when he was 65. He was a drifter and passed away in 1995. Five years after Archer’s death, his family made police aware of new information. Through DNA, were police able to connect him to the murders of Edith Authier, and Jane Wooley.  Gerald Thomas Archer, had been a serial killer and had walked free for the last ten years of his life. Promo:  Evidence Locker Podcast Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Thomas_Archer https://www.facebook.com/vintagelondon/photos/a.449810945145208/1187331708059791/ https://www.facebook.com/vintagelondon/photos/a.449810945145208/822774754515490/ https://www.facebook.com/vintagelondon/photos/a.661428090650158/668089943317306/ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48417869/the-windsor-star/ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kTM_AAAAIBAJ&pg=5456%2C768541 https://www.retrosuites.com/ https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/1967-detroit-riots The home of Hugh Smith in 1971. 53 Wellington Street, Chatham. The downtown Chatham Hotel in 1935. Where Belva Russell worked in 1971. The Rankin Hotel in 1965. Where Belva and Reginald first stopped for a drink on the fateful night.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 229: In our last episode we learned about the life and first two murders of British serial murderer Dennis Andrew Nilsen. He was arrested after police discovered human remains he’d flushed down the toilet at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a Suburb of North London. In this episode we’ll learn about Nilsen’s next twelve murders, what happened after his arrest and the aftermath of his crimes. A number of Nilsen’s victims remain unidentified to this day. As Dennis Nilsen was a necrophile, some of the information we are about to share are intense and may be very disturbing to some. Listener discretion is strongly advised. Sources: How Serial Killers “Cool Off” Between Murders | Psychology Today Canada Dennis Nilsen’s house where he dismembered and cooked victims sold with gruesome warning - Mirror Online Strangled, chopped up and burnt: The Sheffield man slayed by evil serial killer Dennis Nilsen | Doncaster Free Press Sheffield man’s brutal murder to feature in new TV drama about serial killer Dennis Nilsen | The Star The Real ‘Des’: The Dennis Nilsen Story: what happened to Carl Stotter? | HELLO! - Memoires of a Heroinhead - Dennis Nilsen - Wikipedia Dyno-Rod Local Drains & Plumbing Experts | Fixed-Price | 24/7 Killing For Company: Masters, Brian: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store Dinner, Drinks & Death ; The True Story of Dennis Nilsen by Alan R. Warren - Ebook | Scribd A Plague of Murder by Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson - Ebook | Scribd Watch Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes | Netflix Official Site The Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen Story Reddit — Dennis Nilsen Spotify Playlist - Nilsen's Favourite Tunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 228: In our last episode we learned about the final killing and capture of British serial murderer Dennis Andrew Nilsen after police discovered human remains he’d flushed down the toilet at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a Suburb of North London, England. After his capture, the enigmatic Muswell Hill Murderer, or Kindly Killer, as he would come to be called, was more than happy to discuss his crimes. In this episode we’ll learn more about the killer’s life, his other crimes and what possibly led to the murders of 15 young men and boys, one of them a young Canadian student, Kenneth Ockendon Jr. Sources: Dennis Nilsen - Wikipedia Dyno-Rod Local Drains & Plumbing Experts | Fixed-Price | 24/7 Killing For Company: Masters, Brian: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store Dinner, Drinks & Death ; The True Story of Dennis Nilsen by Alan R. Warren - Ebook | Scribd A Plague of Murder by Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson - Ebook | Scribd Watch Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes | Netflix Official Site The Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen Story Reddit — Dennis Nilsen Dennis Nilsen – Nick Davies Tommy - Album by The Who | Spotify Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen And His Career In The Army I Struck Up a Friendship with the Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen. Then I Edited His Memoirs. The Argus — Serial killer Dennis Nilsen’s impact on Brighton survivor A murderer among us: I was Dennis Nilsen’s boss | The Spectator Dennis Nilsen and Bleep: What Really happened to Des’ dog? The Big Read: Dennis Nilsen - The Scottish nobody who became the archetypal serial killer | HeraldScotland An honest lack of answers | The Psychologist Psychopathic Serial Killers – Dennis Nilsen – Psychopaths In Life Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 227: On the 8th of February, 1983, complaints about the plumbing at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a suburb in London, England led to the discovery of human remains. The remains were traced to the flat of a tenant in the home named Dennis Andrew Nilsen, 37, a civil servant, former police officer and veteran of the British military. In Nilsen’s home police found grisly evidence of many more murders. The enigmatic Muswell Hill Murderer, or Kindly Killer, as he would come to be called, is believed to have killed 15 young men and boys, one of them a Canadian named Kenneth Ockendon Jr.  Listener discretion is strongly suggested Sources: Dennis Nilsen - Wikipedia Dyno-Rod Local Drains & Plumbing Experts | Fixed-Price | 24/7 Killing For Company: Masters, Brian: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store Dinner, Drinks & Death ; The True Story of Dennis Nilsen by Alan R. Warren - Ebook | Scribd A Plague of Murder by Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson - Ebook | Scribd Watch Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes | Netflix Official Site The Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen Story Reddit — Dennis Nilsen Dennis Nilsen – Nick Davies Tommy - Album by The Who | Spotify Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen And His Career In The Army I Struck Up a Friendship with the Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen. Then I Edited His Memoirs. The Argus — Serial killer Dennis Nilsen’s impact on Brighton survivor A murderer among us: I was Dennis Nilsen’s boss | The Spectator The Big Read: Dennis Nilsen - The Scottish nobody who became the archetypal serial killer | HeraldScotland An honest lack of answers | The Psychologist Psychopathic Serial Killers – Dennis Nilsen – Psychopaths In Life Mike Browne's - Dennis Nilsen Spotify playlist Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On a hot, sunny Saturday afternoon on the 15th of August 1914, in a house near Spring Green, Wisconsin one of the worst mass killings in the state’s history occurred when 7 people were axed to death, immolated, and the house they were in burnt down. It was a case that on its own would have made headlines - but it wasn’t just any house that was burnt - it was the world-famous architectural treasure named Taliesin that was left in rubble, a house created by the internationally renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The victims were Wright’s partner Martha Borthwick, and two children, her 9-year-old Martha, and 11-year-old John. Also slain were gardener David Lindblom, draftsman Emil Brodell, builder Thomas Brunkner, and Bruckner's 13-year-old son Ernest. Promo: True Consequences Sources: https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/05/01/murder-in-the-blueprints-of-frank-lloyd-wright/ https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/taliesin https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28519/taliesin-tragedy https://la.curbed.com/2015/10/28/9906764/sowden-house-george-hodel-black-dahlia https://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/wright-mare-massacre-frank-lloyd-home-article-1.1591522 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86086068/1912-01-04/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1912&index=0&rows=20&words=Frank+Lloyd+Wright&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=Wisconsin&date2=1912&proxtext=Frank+Lloyd+Wright&y=18&x=12&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/carlton-julian.htm           https://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2017/04/murder-at-taliesin.html https://www.taliesinpreservation.org/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 225: In our last episode we learned that in Saskatoon, on the morning of January 31, 1969, a 12-year-old girl on the way to school stumbled upon the body of Gail Miller, a 20-year-old nurse’s aide, lying in the snow in an alley. Gail had been raped, murdered and discarded in the snow by her killer. As there had been a number of sexual assaults in the city, police were under enormous pressure to solve the murder and soon their attention turned to 16-year-old David Edgar Milgaard. He’d been in the neighbourhood and at a home nearby the alley where Gail’s body lay on the morning of the murder. Witnesses later claimed he’d seen blood on David’s clothing and gave other incriminating information to police. Milgaard was subsequently arrested and charged with Gail’s murder. Exactly a year after the murder, Milgaard was convicted of the murder and sentenced to a term of life in prison — justice, it appeared, had been served. We’ll find out, that was not the case at all. After serving 23 hellish years in prison, David Milgaard, who’d always maintained his innocence, was finally exonerated by DNA evidence that pointed to another man as Gail Miller’s killer, a man named Larry Earl Fisher. Sources: Saskatoon.ca | INQUIRY CALLED INTO WRONGFUL CONVICTION OF DAVID MILGAARD | News and Media | Government of Saskatchewan Commission of the Inquiry Into the Wrongful Conviction of David Milgaard David Milgaard - Innocence Canada Reference re Milgaard (Can.) - SCC Cases R. v. Milgaard, 1971 CanLII 792 (SK CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/g7c3z > R. v. Fisher (L.E.), 1999 SKQB 88 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/g95sx > Justice Miscarried by Helena Katz - Ebook | Scribd Shrunk by J. Thomas Dalby, PhD, Editor, Lorene Shyba, PhD, Editor - Audiobook | Scribd Wrongful Convictions in Canada | PDF | Miscarriage Of Justice | Law David Milgaard - Wikipedia David Milgaard was innocent of Gail Miller murder and rape - SaskToday.ca Milgaard inquiry: Don’t judge us: Cops Man convicted of notorious murder dies at Abbotsford prison – Abbotsford News A Mother’s Story - Joyce Milgaard Donald Marshall Jr. – Dark Poutine – True Crime & Dark History Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 224: In Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on the morning of January 31, 1969, a 12-year-old girl on the way to school stumbled upon the body of Gail Miller, a 20-year-old nurse’s aide, lying in the snow in an alley. Gail had been raped, murdered and discarded in the snow by her killer. As there had been a number of sexual assaults in the city, police were under enormous pressure to solve the murder and soon their attention turned to 16-year-old David Edgar Milgaard. He’d been in the neighbourhood and at a home nearby the alley where Gail’s body lay on the morning of the murder. Witnesses later claimed he’d seen blood on David’s clothing and gave other incriminating information to police. Milgaard was subsequently arrested and charged with Gail’s murder. Exactly a year after the murder, Milgaard was convicted of the murder and sentenced to a term of life in prison — justice, it appeared, had been served. We’ll find out, that was not the case at all. After serving 23 hellish years in prison, David Milgaard, who’d always maintained his innocence, was finally exonerated by DNA evidence that pointed to another man as Gail Miller’s killer. Sources: Saskatoon.ca INQUIRY CALLED INTO WRONGFUL CONVICTION OF DAVID MILGAARD | News and Media | Government of Saskatchewan Commission of the Inquiry Into the Wrongful Conviction of David Milgaard David Milgaard - Innocence Canada Reference re Milgaard (Can.) - SCC Cases R. v. Milgaard, 1971 CanLII 792 (SK CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/g7c3z > R. v. Fisher (L.E.), 1999 SKQB 88 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/g95sx > Justice Miscarried by Helena Katz - Ebook | Scribd Shrunk by J. Thomas Dalby, PhD, Editor, Lorene Shyba, PhD, Editor - Audiobook | Scribd Wrongful Convictions in Canada | PDF | Miscarriage Of Justice | Law David Milgaard - Wikipedia David Milgaard was innocent of Gail Miller murder and rape - SaskToday.ca Milgaard inquiry: Don’t judge us: Cops Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 223: On Friday, February 20, 1976, while on vacation in Florida OPP Corporal Donald R. Irwin, 39, a father of three from Kitchener, Ontario, went on a ride along with his good friend Florida State Trooper, Philip Black, also 39-years-old. Irwin was in civilian clothing and unarmed. At around 7:15 a.m. they checked an old Camaro parked in a rest area on I-95, north of Pompano Beach, Florida. Moments later, both officers were dead, and the five people who’d been in the Camaro had fled in Black’s cruiser.  Walter Norman Rhodes Jr., 26, 29-year-old, Jesse Joseph Tafero, Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs, 28, Tafero’s wife and two children, Jacobs’ 9-year-old son, Eric, and the couple’s 10-month-old daughter, Christina, were apprehended at a road block after having kidnapped another man, and stolen his Cadillac from a retirement home after abandoning Black’s cruiser. Rhodes’ life was spared as he pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against the other two. Jacobs and Tafero were both sentenced to die in Florida’s electric chair, but was justice really served. The case eventually unravelled but not before Tafero had his date with Old Sparky in 1990. Promo: Podcast by Proxy Sources: 21 Feb 1976, Page 1 - Fort Lauderdale News at Newspapers.com Killer of 2 Police Officers Executed in Florida - The New York Times Ontario Police Memorial Foundation — Donald R. Irwin FHP MEMORIAL — Phillip A. Black (1936-1976) In the Blink of an Eye - Essay https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/i-had-nothing-the-world-i-left-no-longer-existed Jesse Tafero - Case Chart - Grassroots Investigation Project by Claudia Whitman Sponsored by Equal Justice USA Jesse Tafero - Case Summary - Innocence Project by Claudia Whitman sponsored by Equal Justice USA Jesse Tafero - Wikipedia Exoneree, Center on Wrongful Convictions: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Tafero v. State, 223 So. 2d 564 | Casetext Search + Citator Jesse Tafero | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Jesse Tafero - Wikipedia Jessie Joseph Tafero, Petitioner-appellant, v. Louie L. Wainwright, Respondent-appellee, 796 F.2d 1314 (11th Cir. 1986) :: Justia Home - The Sunny Center The Joys of Forgiveness on Death Row | Sunny Jacobs | TEDxGalway — YouTube ‘Exonerated’ blurs facts about death penalty case Former death row couple: ‘Life turned out beautifully’ | Family | The Guardian TIPS LEAD TO CAPTURE OF PAROLED MURDERER – Sun Sentinel Fugitive’s prosthetic leg gives him away | The Seattle Times WALTER RHODES JR v. HARDEE CI WARDEN FLORIDA PAROLE COMMISSION SECRETARY FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS | FindLaw Rhodes v. Fla. Parole Comm’n, CASE NO. 8:13-cv-1424-T-36AEP | Casetext Search + Citator Phillip Black and Donald Irwin murders 2/20/1976 Broward County, FL *Shot to death by Walter Rhodes, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison; It is, actually, a complicated case* | Bonnie’s Blog of Crime Sunny Jacobs: Life Beyond Stretch of I-95 honors 2 fallen troopers   TRANSLATE with x English ArabicHebrewPolish BulgarianHindiPortuguese CatalanHmong DawRomanian Chinese SimplifiedHungarianRussian Chinese TraditionalIndonesianSlovak CzechItalianSlovenian DanishJapaneseSpanish DutchKlingonSwedish EnglishKoreanThai EstonianLatvianTurkish FinnishLithuanianUkrainian FrenchMalayUrdu GermanMalteseVietnamese GreekNorwegianWelsh Haitian CreolePersian TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster Portal Back Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 222: On Sunday, November 12,1988 beloved 36-year-old high school teacher named Byron Carr was found by his family dead in the bedroom of his home in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He’d been strangled to death and stabbed. Byron’s wallet had been stolen, and ominously on his wall, written in pen, were the words “I will kill again.” Investigators revealed that Byron was a closeted gay man, and had been involved in a consensual sexual encounter with an as yet unidentified man prior to his death. It is presumed that it was this man who killed Byron. No one has ever been brought to justice in Byron’s death. Anyone with any information regarding this crime, no matter how insignificant it may seem, is asked to call the Bell Aliant sponsored Byron Carr Hot Line 1-877-566-3952 or PEI Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-TIPS. Promo: Crimes from the East Sources: Homicides | Charlottetown Police Services PEI Crime Stoppers - Homicides Charlottetown police reopen 1980s murder case | CBC News Skimpy underwear connected to 1988 murder | CBC News Charlottetown police release sketch of possible Byron Carr killer | SaltWire Byron Carr murder accomplice identified by police | CBC News 2013, John Carr interview | CBC.ca ‘Give this family closure’: Police still working to solve 30-year-old Byron Carr murder | CBC News Unsolved Case Files Canada: Murder of Byron Carr After Sexual Encounter With Another Male Cold case, warm memories: Byron Carr’s friends, family want his 1988 P.E.I. murder solved | SaltWire On the hunt | SaltWire Brad MacConnell Named New Chief of Police | Charlottetown Police Services r/PEI: Byron Carr r/UnresolvedMysteries: Byron Carr CANADA — Canada — Byron Carr, 36, Schoolteacher — Nov’ 88 | Websleuths Reader’s Digest: Canada’s Most Notorious Cold Cases Public Attitudes toward Homosexuality — Tom W. Smith TIMELINE | Same-sex rights in Canada | CBC News Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights in Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia LGBT+ Pride 2021 Global Survey points to increasingly positive attitudes in Canada toward LGBT+ individuals | Ipsos R. v. MacDonald, 2004 CanLII 9284 (ON CA), Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices