Episode 332: In this episode of Dark Poutine, we delve into a troubling chapter of British Columbia’s history that reveals the deep-seated racism and fear that plagued our past. D’Arcy Island, a small and isolated landmass off the coast of Vancouver Island, became home to a leprosy colony from 1891 to 1924. But this wasn’t just any colony; it was a place where Chinese immigrants who had contracted the disease were forcibly sent to live out their days in harsh and inhumane conditions, far from society’s view. Leprosy, now known as Hansen’s disease, has been misunderstood and deeply feared throughout history. The disease, although not highly contagious and treatable today, was seen as a mark of shame and led to the isolation of those afflicted. The establishment of the D’Arcy Island colony was rooted not only in fear of the disease but also in the racist attitudes of the time, which viewed Chinese immigrants as expendable and less deserving of care. Sources: Leprosy | WHO D'Arcy Island Marine Park W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations: History & Territory The Creation of Indian Reserves and their Impact On The W̱SÁNEĆ Nation British Columbia Indian Treaties In Historical Perspective An introduction to First Nations' history in the Gulf Islands Tales from the Vault: The lepers of D'Arcy Island The lepers of D'Arcy Island The Dark Past Of D'Arcy Island • British Columbia Magazine How a tiny island off Victoria became part of B.C.’s racist history - UBC News ‘Island of Death’: BC’s Forgotten Racist Leper Colony Health campaigners call for an end to the use of the word leper D'Arcy Island | Wikipedia Chinese Canadian historic places receive provincial recognition Chinese Canadian Historic Places | PDF A Measure of Value: The Story of the D'Arcy Island Leper Colony By Chris Yorath | Google Books City of Victoria Archives | International Leprosy Association - History of Leprosy Tracadie and D’Arcy and Bentinck Islands (Canada) | International Leprosy Association - History of Leprosy The Lepers of Tracadie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 331: On November 8, 2012, in a bloody crime scene, police discovered the body of 43-year-old Panagiota “Yota” Zerbinos in her daughter’s basement suite in the Fleetwood neighbourhood of Surrey, B.C. Yota had been brutally stabbed 24 times and left under a blanket; the murder weapon, a kitchen knife, was still in her chest. Two days later, Yota’s 28-year-old daughter, Gloria Crystle Zerbinos, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. She pleaded not guilty, citing her schizophrenia, drug abuse and other complex mental health issues, claiming she was not criminally responsible for her mother’s death. Gloria was held at Alouette Correctional Centre for Women. However, as court proceedings continued, another inmate, 51-year-old April Peregooda, was found unresponsive in Gloria Zerbinos’s cell. Sources: B.C. woman who killed mother sentenced for second murder while serving time | CBC News Woman arrested in death of B.C. jail inmate | CBC News 2018 BCSC 2464 (CanLII) | R. v G.C.Z | CanLII 2019 BCSC 584 (CanLII) | R. v Zerbinos | CanLII "Gloria Zerbinos" - Search - Newspapers.com™ Surrey woman to stand trial for allegedly murdering her mother - Surrey Leader Surrey woman guilty of murder for stabbing her mother 24 times Remembering the life of Panagiota Zerbinos Panagiota Zerbinos Obituary (2012) - Legacy Remembers From straight A's to accused of stabbing her mom 24 times Mom's body was found in daughter's Surrey suite, trial hears Surrey woman was afraid to be alone with her daughter, murder trial hears Woman sentenced for prison murder in Maple Ridge 2004: Alouette Correctional Centre for Women - Province of British Columbia Ex-strip­per guilty of mother’s mur­der | The Province Surrey woman who murdered her mother can apply for parole in 12 years Facebook | Gloria Zerbinos Integrated Homicide Investigation Team Former stripper on trial for mom's murder suffered delusions, court hears Vernon woman killed in jail Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 322: Nova Scotia's rugged coastline and treacherous waters have made it a graveyard for ships throughout history. The SS Atlantic, a White Star Line steamship, sank off Nova Scotia on April 1, 1873, in one of the worst maritime disasters before the Titanic. On its 19th voyage from Liverpool to New York with around 975 people on board, the ship ran short of coal and diverted to Halifax. Navigational errors caused it to strike rocks near Prospect, Nova Scotia. Rough seas hindered lifeboat launches, trapping many passengers below deck. Local fishermen and others aided in rescue efforts, but 562 people perished, marking it the greatest civilian loss in the North Atlantic at that time. Sources: Nova Scotia Archives - Where the Land Meets the Sea: Shipwrecks of Nova Scotia HMS Tribune: Halifax's first maritime disaster is almost forgotten Atlantic's Last Stop by Robert Chaulk They Went Down To The Sea by lay Spicer Hypothermia: How long can someone survive in frigid water? The Chilling Truth About Cold Water SS Atlantic History - Rev. Ancient's Account The SS Atlantic | Canadian History Ehx The Final Voyage of SS Atlantic The S/S Atlantic of the White Star Line, disaster in 1873 HFX Studios The Wreck of the SS ATLANTIC - Halifax, NS 1873 SS Atlantic - The Mystery of the Davidsons' Grave The Grave of the Davidsons, from the SS Atlantic Sable Island: Shipwrecks at the graveyard of the Atlantic Sable Island: Shipwrecks at the graveyard of the Atlantic | CBC News Shipwreck Treasures 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 321: On August 10, 2018, the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, was rocked by a horrific shooting that left four people dead. A man armed with a legally obtained assault-style rifle opened fire in a residential neighbourhood, killing two police officers and two civilians. Constables Robb Costello, 45, and Sara Burns, 43, were gunned down as they responded to reports of shots being fired. The civilian victims were 42-year-old Donnie Robichaud and his girlfriend, 32-year-old Bobbie Lee Wright. The perpetrator, 48-year-old Matthew Vincent Raymond, was arrested at the scene after exchanging gunfire with other officers. He was charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Raymond was charged with four counts of first-degree murder. At his 2020 trial, two psychiatrists testified that he had a mental disorder that rendered him incapable of understanding his violent actions at the time they were committed. On November 20, 2020, after a nine-week trial, a jury found Raymond not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder. Many members of the public, including some members of the victims’ families, feel justice was not served. Sources: City of Fredericton 237 Brookside Dr · 237 Brookside Dr, Fredericton, NB E3A 1V3 A summary of the Matthew Raymond quadruple murder trial ‘I am just shaking:’ What people saw and heard during Fredericton shooting Canada Police Say at Least 4 Dead in Shooting How the Fredericton shooting unfolded | CBC News A timeline of the deadly shooting in Fredericton Police update on Fredericton shooting Cst. Lawrence Robert “Robb” Costello Cst. Sara Mae Helen Burns Donnie Robichaud, father of 3, identified as victim in Fredericton shooting Obituary information for Bobbie Lee Wright Fredericton pair killed in shooting spree had just begun dating, friends and relatives say Thousands attend funeral service for Fredericton officers who made ‘the ultimate sacrifice’ ‘It was hard to calm him down,’ says former colleague of alleged Fredericton shooter Husband of slain Fredericton officer Cst. Sara Burns bids tearful goodbye | YouTube Fredericton police chief chokes up remembering her fallen officers | YouTube RCMP officers describe chaotic moments after they burst into Fredericton shooter’s apartment Jury finds Fredericton shooter Matthew Raymond not criminally responsible https://publications.gc.ca/Pilot/LoPBdP/BP/prb9922-e.htm http://criminalnotebook.ca/index.php/Not_Criminally_Responsible_Due_to_Mental_Disorder https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/jsp-sjp/rr06_1/p1.html https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/2023-r001/index-en.aspx https://educaloi.qc.ca/en/capsules/not-criminally-responsible-mental-illness/ https://www.canlii.org/en/commentary/doc/2023CanLIIDocs2081?resultId=8be757e84fed4313b03096185340c5fe&resultIndex=1&searchId=bc7cff8923204edf99f182a027c5a315 https://www.legalline.ca/legal-answers/firearm-possession-and-acquisition-licence-pal/ https://ottawafirearmsafety.ca/pal-application/ https://fseso.org/courses/ https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/firearms/canadian-residents Matthew Vincent Raymond | News, Videos & Articles | Global News 2018 Fredericton shooting A Legal History of the Regulation of Assault-Style Rifles in Canada Chinese SKS Semi-Automatic Rifle Firearms expert says rifle used in Fredericton shooting designed 'to kill,' mostly used for hunting | CBC News Man who killed four people in Fredericton denied new privileges by review board 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

Episode 221: On the morning of December 31, 1888, in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, friends found 61-year-old fisherman François Coupard dead in his fishing shack. Someone had brutally slain Coupard and had mutilated his body horribly after his murder. A quick investigation led to two men, Auguste Neel and Louis Ollivier, trying to flee to Newfoundland on a stolen fishing boat. The pair later admitted their roles in the murder and were tried and convicted. Ollivier was sentenced to 10 years at hard labour, while Neel, against whom the evidence was more solid, received a death sentence, which was carried out on August 24, 1889. This execution was the first and last in North America using a guillotine to do the deed. Sources: ExecutedToday.com » auguste neel 19/02/1930 : Affaire NEEL Auguste et OLLIVIER Louis – Saint-Pierre et Miquelon : Ephémérides affaire néel - Histoire des îles St Pierre et Miquelon Saint Pierre and Miquelon - Wikipedia L’Île-aux-Marins - Wikipedia Canada’s top court says voluntary extreme intoxication a defence in violent crimes | Globalnews.ca R. v. Brown, 2022 SCC 18 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/jp648 > the dive spell: Saint Pierre Island: site of the only guillotine execution in north america La Veuve de Saint-Pierre History of the Guillotine 8 Things You May Not Know About the Guillotine - HISTORY The Paris Review - The Bloody Family History of the Guillotine Louis XVI - Wikipedia Does the head remain briefly conscious after decapitation (revisited)? - The Straight Dope Exploring The French Instrument Of Death: The Guillotine | Thought Catalog Guillotine by Robert Frederick Opie - Ebook | Scribd Execution by Geoffrey Abbott - Ebook | Scribd The Widow of Saint-Pierre - Wikipedia St. Pierre, a Tiny Pin Point of France and Al Capone’s Prohibition Haunt: Canadian Odyssey on the Looney Front — Part 10 | HuffPost Life Sept. 10, 1977: Heads Roll for the Last Time in France | WIRED 5 really cool things about Saint-Pierre and Miquelon - Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 220:  The attention grabbing headline of the the article in The Province newspaper on the morning of July 3, 2013 screamed, “RCMP foil Canada Day bomb plot”, the subheading read, “VICTORIA: Two British Columbians allegedly hatch scheme to blow up legislature.” Since March of that year, RCMP had been engaged in what they called Project Souvenir, a complex and expensive sting operation to gather evidence against two Surrey residents, John Stuart Nuttall, 38, and his common-law wife, Amanda Marie Korody, 29. The RCMP alleged that the pair were Islamist extremist bent on blowing up BC’s legislature buildings in Victoria and killing as many innocent Canadians as possible on Canada Day that year. On the morning of July 1, the couple had apparently placed three pressure cooker bombs strategically near concrete planters on the west and east sides of the Provincial legislature buildings.  The pair were taken into custody in the hallway of a hotel in Delta, B.C. where they had used a room, wired by cops for video and sound, where they had built their bombs and spoken openly about their plot to kill Canadians. But, as the truth came out, evidence revealed that Nuttall and Korody were not even remotely the devious threats to national security they’d been said to be and that the RCMP had in fact, according to court findings, entrapped the pair. The bombs had been inert, made using intentionally flawed designs and materials handed to the couple by the RCMP themselves during the more than one million dollar operation to bust them. Sources: John Nuttall | ReverbNation R. v. Nuttall, 2016 BCSC 1404 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gsq89 > R. v. Nuttall, 2018 BCCA 479 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/hwnvs > Korody v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015 FC 1398 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gpfvp> Friends of John Nuttall say he was a great friend, but was also troubled | Globalnews.ca 3 Jul 2013, 4 - The Province at Newspapers.com 3 Jul 2013, 3 - Times Colonist at Newspapers.com 4 Jul 2013, 4 - The Vancouver Sun at Newspapers.com CKNW — NUTTALL & KORODY Video Vancouver Sun — Raw: Alleged terrorists Nuttall, Korody talk about Canada Day plot Vancouver Sun — Raw: John Nuttall, accused in B.C. terror case, speaks with undercover officer You searched for korody - BC Civil Liberties AssociationBC Civil Liberties Association Vancouver Sun — An alleged terrorist’s Surrey suite is revealed 97a Ave Canadian Press — B.C. couple walk free after entrapment ruling in terror case BC Terror Trial Reveals Gong Show RCMP Investigation Exclusive W5 interview: Terror plotters claim they were groomed by Mounties and were relieved bombs were fake W5: Undercover RCMP anti-terror investigation — YouTube Surrey Suite, BB TV — YouTube Terror trial video shows second thoughts — YouTube Canada Day crowd at B.C. legislature was target in thwarted bomb plot, police say — Victoria Times Colonist Nuttall and Korody, couple accused in Victoria legislature bomb plot, remain free after B.C. Court of Appeal ruling - BC | Globalnews.ca RCMP spent $1M on Victoria terror plot investigation, including $90K on Nuttall and Korody - BC | Globalnews.ca RCMP entrapment of B.C. couple in legislature bomb plot was ‘travesty of justice,’ court rules | CBC News Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 219 BONUS: In this episode we hear from several Dark Poutine listeners, and in one case, a family member of a listener, who are sharing their experiences and feelings around their own UFO encounters. Mike also shares his own experience as a youth, and at the end of the show Mike and Mathew talk about their recent visit to The Extraterrestrial Highway, Rachel, Nevada and the back Gate of Area 51. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 320: In 1991, the city of Vancouver was rocked by the brutal murder of 29-year-old Mary-Lynn Kimberly Breeden. Friends and family called her Lynn. The charred remains of her body were discovered in a dumpster, with a single bullet wound to the skull. What followed was a complex investigation that would uncover a web of deceit, greed, and cold-blooded violence. Through witness accounts, advances in forensic evidence, and detailed police work, detectives were able to piece together the chilling details of Breeden's final moments. Their investigation led them to a suspect named Christian Albert Cruz, a male stripper with a history of violence. As the case unfolded, a tragic tale of betrayal and desperation began to emerge, shedding light on the dark motivations that drove one man to commit such a heinous act. Join us as we delve into the story of the murder of Lynn Breeden and explore the complex human emotions and societal factors that can lead to such senseless violence. Sources: Mary-Lynn Breeden - Search - Newspapers.com™ Mary-Lynn Kimberly “Lynn” Breeden (1960-1991) -... No5 Orange - Dance and Pub Showroom - Vancouver’s famous Gastown Fraser Arms Hotel Watch V6A - A feature documentary by Ruggero Romano Online | Vimeo On Demand 1995 CanLII 523 (BC CA) | R. v. Cruz | CanLII 1998 CanLII 5951 (BC CA) | R. v. Cruz | CanLII The Murder of Mary Lynn Breeden The Use of Forensic Odontology to Solve a Forensic Science Case - Free Essay Example - Edubirdie Biography - Linda Agostini - Australian Dictionary of Biography The Charred Remains of Lynn Breeden Dental color measurement to predict DNA concentration in incinerated teeth for human identification. - Abstract - Europe PMC Saferstein, Richard. Criminalistics: an Introduction to Forensic Science. Pearson, 2017 edition. "Forensic Files" Charred Remains (TV Episode 1997) Forensic Files - Season 2, Episode 8 - Charred Remains - Full Episode Forensic Wheels: Christian Albert Cruz' 1980 Oldsmobile Omega (Lynn Breeden Death Car) Mary-Lynn Kimberly “Lynn” Breeden (1960-1991) -... Effect of Fire on DNA and its profiling in homicide cases Identifying Maui fire victims will depend heavily on DNA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 219: In the first of two episodes released this week, Mike interviews Chris Rutkowski. Chris A. Rutkowski is a science writer who has devoted much time to investigating and studying reports of UFOs, writing about case investigations, and offering his insights into the broad UFO phenomenon publishing the annual Canadian UFO Report. Chris has authored numerous books on UFOs and two of his previous books, Abductions and Aliens and The Canadian UFO Report, were national bestsellers. He was recently referred to in a 2021 report to the Canadian Minister of Defense on UFOs in Canada as the person to which the government hands over reports of UFOs. He lives just outside Winnipeg. Sources: The Canadian UFO Survey Twitter - Chris Rutkowski Facebook Page - Chris Rutkowski, Writer Blog - Chris Rutkowski  Report a UFO in Canada - The Canadian UFO Survey Report a Canadian UFO Sighting — The Nighttime Podcast The Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System (CADORS) UFO sightings: Canada’s defence minister briefed | CTV News Thematic Guides - Unidentified Flying Objects - Library and Archives Canada What does Canada do with reports of UFO sightings? — The Big Story Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 218: The history of humanity is rife with stories of unexplained things in the skies above us. Handed down first verbally and pictographically by way of depictions painted on cave walls and then in written accounts, there are scores of stories about strange lights and objects in the sky. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, as human technology has improved, we have been able to better document and disseminate information about these sightings. Over the next two episodes, we have a look at unidentified flying objects, more commonly called UFOs. In this first episode we’ll take a brief look at the phenomena itself, the stigma surrounding it and recent admissions by governmental officials of the existence of these objects. As well, we will peek at some of the stories from right here in Canada that we haven’t already covered. I have had to pick and choose some of the more interesting and detailed reports, as there are more than 1000 reports per year and the database of reports in Canada alone is massive.  Sources: Chris Hadfield on exploring Mars and the growing conversation about UFOs | CBC Radio Former Arizona Governor says he saw a UFO during the 1997 Phoenix Lights - Wikinews, the free news source The Canadian UFO Report by Chris A. Rutkowski, Geoff Dittman - Ebook | Scribd ParaResearchers Of Ontario - Welcome To Our Space On The Web Simeon Perkins Records UFO sighting October 12, 1796 | Queens County Museum Canadian DND Report: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Canada’s UFOs: The search for the unknown - Library and Archives Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Magnet_(UFO) Wilbert Smith on UFOs Project Magnet and his Contacts with the Boys from Topside — YouTube Pentagon UFO videos - Wikipedia Documents | NAVAIR - FOIA Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System — CADORS: Report 2016P1783 Credible UFO Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian Government Documents Reveal UFO sightings: Canada’s defence minister briefed | CTV News http://www.psican.org http://pararesearchers.org List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System - Wikipedia US10144532B2 — Craft using an inertial mass reduction device — Google Patents Walker ‘stunned’ to see ship hovering high above sea off Cornwall | Science | The Guardian NINA HAGEN 1985 “Gods Of Aquarius” (English) IN EKSTASY — YouTube Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 217: In the early hours of March 27, 2010, Holly Bartlett, 31, was found unconscious and badly injured under the A. Murray MacKay bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 350 metres away from her home. She died the next day in a Halifax Hospital. Holly, a grad student at Dalhousie University, was fiercely independent despite her disability. She had been completely blind since she was thirteen years old. Holly’s autopsy indicated she’d imbibed alcohol and that she had sustained “blunt force injury to the head (…) attributable to a fall” and that the manner of death was accidental. Police did a brief investigation determining that after cabbing home from a night out with a friend, Holly became disoriented and lost due to the combination of her alcohol consumption and her blindness. Somehow, Holly had wandered down two steeply graded streets away from her home and toward the harbour, had made her way through a hole in a chain link fence, down a steep embankment, and fell 7 metres off a concrete abutment under the bridge across Halifax harbour. They called Holly’s death accidental. Holly’s family and friends in the Justice for Holly group were not satisfied and pressed for further investigation into her death.  Sources: What Happened to Holly Bartlett? | CNIB Documentary What Happened to Holly Bartlett Seasons | Accessible Media Inc. Podcast What Happened to Holly Bartlett Podcast | Accessible Media Inc. Sights Unseen — YouTube Holly Elizabeth Bartlett 1978-2010 - Macleans.ca Holly Bartlett witness changes key details in death investigation | CBC News Review to be held into blind woman’s death: Halifax police | Globalnews.ca External review confirms 2010 death of Holly Bartlett was accidental - Halifax | Globalnews.ca Police handling of Holly Bartlett’s death criticized in review | CBC News Review of Investigation Into The Death of Holly Bartlett | PDF | Polygraph | Victimology Holly Bartlett’s unlikely journey | City | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST Police announce independent review into Holly Bartlett’s death | News | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST Telling Holly’s Bartlett’s story, again | Arts + Culture | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST Holly Bartlett’s family is angry with Halifax police What happened to Holly Bartlett? : UnresolvedMysteries Holly Bartlett: Autopsy & Clothing - Album on Imgur Imgur: Map, based on police report Home | CNIB NEADS - Financial Aid Directory JAWS® – Freedom Scientific Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 216: In Quebec, on April 15, 1763, after a supposed confession and hasty trial by an English military tribunal, 30-year-old Marie-Josephte Corriveau was convicted of murdering in brutal fashion her second husband, Louis-Étienne Dodier, and was sentenced to death. She was hanged with haste, three days later. Her body was then put on display in a form-fitting metal cage and placed at a crossroad where for the next five weeks, she stood as a warning to others considering domestic homicide as an answer to an unhappy marriage. When her cage disappeared locals believed that the Devil himself had come and taken Marie-Josephte to hell. It said that La Corriveau's spectre haunts the crossroads still. Sources: Marie-Josephte Corriveau - Wikipedia Uncertain Justice by F. Murray Greenwood, Beverley Boissery - Ebook | Scribd Killing Women by Wilfrid Laurier University Press - Ebook | Scribd The History of Gibbeting by Samantha Priestley - Ebook | Scribd La destinée de la Corriveau « Histoire du Québec Légende de la Corriveau – Voyage à travers le Québec Les anciens Canadiens - Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Il était cent fois La Corriveau : anthologie : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive PressReader.com - Macabre Discovery Canadian Mysteries of the Unexplained: Investigations Into the Fantastic, the Bizarre and the Disturbing Biography – CORRIVEAU, MARIE-JOSEPHTE, La Corriveau – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography The Legend of La Corriveau: Québécois Folklore and The Politics of Nation-Making in Canada by Leslie Savath La Corriveau: A woman victim of Society? by Isabelle Parent View of From Vilified to Victorious: Reconceiving La Corriveau in Anne Hébert’s La Cage | Studies in Canadian Literature La Corriveau | The Canadian Encyclopedia The Hanging Cage That Held An Infamous Québec Murderess - Atlas Obscura Canadian Urban Legends: La Corriveau of Quebec City | NUVO A Shrine for Marie-Josephte Corriveau and for all women who are victims of domestic violence - UBC Library Open Collections A Shrine for Marie-Josephte Corriveau - KooZA/rch Classic French-Canadian Folktales: Volume I (English Edition; Annotated) eBook : Beaugrand, Honore, Frechette, Louis-Honore, Peters, Hammerson: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store Cage of la Corriveau on display in Lévis | CBC News La Corriveau: The Gibbet of Quebec — YouTube French Mourning in the 1700s - Geri Walton Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 215: Mary Celeste, formerly Amazon, was an American registered, Nova Scotia built brigantine that was found abandoned on December 4, 1872, some 740 km off the Azores, Portugal. The fate of the 10 people aboard remains a mystery almost 150 years later. Sources: Fisherman’s Memorial | Lunenburg NS Sable Island | Maritime Museum of the Atlantic The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834) by… | Poetry Foundation The Mystery of the Mary Celeste. Part One: The Facts - Daily Nautica The Mystery of the Mary Celeste. Part Two: Theories - Daily Nautica The Mystery of the Mary Celeste. Part Three: the Rediscovery of the Cursed Ship - Daily Nautica Solved: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste | UCL News - UCL – University College London Mary Celeste - The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia Mary Celeste Monument – Diligent River, Nova Scotia - Atlas Obscura Mary Celeste | The Canadian Encyclopedia Mary Celeste - Wikipedia 6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries That Have Totally Been Solved | Cracked.com Weetabix Mary Celeste — YouTube The story of the “Mary Celeste” : Fay, Charles Edey : Internet Archive Ghost ship : the mysterious true story of the Mary Celeste and her missing crew : Hicks, Brian, 1966 : Internet Archive Phantom Ship , The : Henry Passmore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The Galley of Count Arnaldos, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Colossal Squid ~ MarineBio Conservation Society   Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 214: On November 25, 2011, neighbours around the four-plex at 51st Avenue and 47th Street in the town of Innisfail, Alberta heard a bang which shook their homes. Some said sounded like a gunshot, others said it sounded like someone dropping a heavy pile of wood. The dining room window of one the corner suites had been blown outward, glass was strewn throughout the yard. Police were called to the scene by a bystander inside the home and found a horrific scene. The home was full of smoke and debris. There at the dining room table, still in her wheelchair, first responders discovered the body of 23-year-old, Victoria (Vicky) Shachtay who’d died in what appeared to have been an explosion. Sources: Innisfail | The Canadian Encyclopedia R v Malley, 2015 ABCA 213 (CanLII), R v Malley, 2017 ABCA 186 (CanLII), Malley (Re), 2014 IIROC 10 (CanLII), Malley (Re), 2014 IIROC 29 (CanLII), Blast that killed Vicky Shachtay was a ‘targeted attack’: police | National Post Stepfather told victim not to open Christmas gift that turned out to be bomb | CTV News Friends, family gather to remember Vicky Shachtay - MountainviewToday.ca Disabled woman killed by parcel bomb — YouTube A defining case | Royal Canadian Mounted Police Bombing suspect arrested, police hold conference — YouTube Brian Malley loses last appeal chance - MountainviewToday.ca Pipe bomb - Wikipedia The pipe bomb: a modern terrorist weapon - PubMed GUILTY - Canada - Vicky Shachtay, 23, paraplegic, killed by bomb, Innisfail, AB, 25 Nov 2011 Financial advisor found guilty in blast that killed disabled woman — macleans.ca Bomb that killed paraplegic Innisfail mom Vicky Shachtay disguised to look like Christmas presents, Red Deer court told | Edmonton Sun Friends, family gather to remember Vicky Shachtay - MountainviewToday.ca Charges laid in bombing murder of Vicky Shachtay - MountainviewToday.ca Victoria Shachtay’s caregiver testifies about moments before fatal explosion Mysterious package killed Alberta mother | CBC News Canada ‘extremely lucky’ to face few bomb threats, attacks: RCMP - iPolitics Presentation to Finance Committee Re: Disability Tax Credit Regarding Bill C-462 | Council of Canadians with Disabilities Vicky Shachtay’s step-dad issues statement about her murder | CTV News Investment Executive: Brian Malley Articles Global News: Victoria Shachtay | News, Videos & Articles Red Deer Advocate: Vicky Shacktay Articles Victoria-Shachtay | National Post Unsolved Murders. Help us solve a crime today. Home http://www.unsolvedcrimes.ca A machinist in rural Ontario flipped the switch on a flashlight that arrived in the mail. Then it exploded | The Star 16 years later, police still don’t know who killed Paavo Henttonen | News | toronto.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 213: Toronto theatre magnate and enigmatic millionaire Ambrose J. Small disappeared without a trace on December 2, 1919, only a day after having made a lucrative deal to sell his ownership interests in his chain of theatres including the Grand Opera House in Toronto. People interested in the case suspected one of two theories were the most likely for the tycoon’s abrupt disappearance — either Small had run off and had into hiding under his own steam, or someone had abducted and very likely killed him. This case has become one of Canada’s oldest mysteries as more than 100 years later, there is yet no answer as to Small’s ultimate fate. Sources: Ambrose Small Case | The Canadian Encyclopedia Canada West | The Canadian Encyclopedia $1,750,000 in 1919 → 2022 | Inflation Calculator Biography – SMALL, AMBROSE JOSEPH – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography Disappearance of Ambrose Small - Wikipedia The Doe Network: Ambrose Small - 1891DMON The Mysterious Disappearance of Ambrose J. Small | Grand Theatre London What Really Happened to Ambrose Small? | Maclean’s | January 15, 1951 How the mystery of Ambrose Small became Toronto’s most captivating cold case | The Star The Mystery Of Ambrose J. Small, The Missing Millionaire - Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Ambrose Small, Toronto’s most sensational mystery The Grand Mystery of Ambrose Small Ambrose Small, The Ghost of the Grand Theatre Investigations following the finding of these human bones near Humber… News Photo - Getty Images AMBROSE SMALL: CANADA’S COLDEST CASE CLOSED! The Missing Millionaire by Katie Daubs | Penguin Random House Canada Canadian Mysteries of the Unexplained: Investigations Into the Fantastic, the Bizarre and the Disturbing Wild Talents by Charles Fort - Ebook | Scribd Mysteries of Ontario by John Robert Colombo - Ebook | Scribd Ghost Stories of Canada by John Robert Colombo, Jillian Hulme Gilliland - Ebook | Scribd Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 212: On the afternoon of January 27, 1993, the day before her 20th birthday, Sian Simmonds, a student who was working he way through school, was found dead in her basement suite in the Guildford neighbourhood of Surrey, B.C. She had been shot and bludgeoned. Neighbours had heard screams coming from her suite. Only days later, a man named David Schlender was arrested. Already on bail for the attempted murder of one of his cocaine dealers the year before, Schlender told police he’d been hired by another man, Brian West, to commit the murder in exchange for wiping an outstanding drug debt. The investigation of Brian West led to another man, Josephakis Charalambous, the Simmonds’ family doctor who had hired West to murder Sian. Eighteen months before her murder, Sian and her older sister Katie had filed grievances with the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons alleging sexual assault by Charalambous. Rather than face censure by the College and risk losing his substantial annual income, Charlambous had sought to silence the girls. As the truth came out about the doctor, his carefully constructed facade of the community minded healer came tumbling down revealing an ugly pattern of violence and predatory behaviour toward young women and girls. Sources: Betrayal of trust | Maclean’s | DECEMBER 12, 1994 R. v. West, 1997 CanLII 3157 (BC CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/1dzn4 > R. v. Charalambous, 1997 CanLII 3363 (BC CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/1dznk > Mountie Seduced My Wife. I Want a New Trial — PressReader.com Charalambous v. Canada (Attorney General), 2009 FC 1082 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/26bkj > Charalambous v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015 FC 1045 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gl077 > Charalambous v. Canada (Attorney General), 2016 FCA 177 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gs5q6 > Charalambous v. Attorney General of Canada, 2017 CanLII 1337 (SCC), < https://canlii.ca/t/gx021 > Doctor denied day parole 27 years after hiring hitman to kill teen | Vancouver Sun Scandalous Case had Public Riveted — PressReader.com Documentary pays tribute to parents of murdered children - New West Record Family Physician Hired a Hit Man to Silence Her…Permanently - Medical Bag Serving Life 25-One Guard’s Story — Scribd Dr. Death M.D. by David Pietras - Ebook | Scribd Doctors Who Kill by Carol Anne Davis - Ebook | Scribd Fatal Prescription: A Doctor without Remorse by John Griffiths | Goodreads Medical Ethics | The Canadian Encyclopedia About CAVEAT Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 211: On January 27, 1896, in the tiny community of Bear River, Nova Scotia, popular fourteen-year-old Annie Kempton was brutally murdered in her home while her parents were out of town. The crime, papers said, was the worst ever seen in the province up to that point and there was an outcry for swift justice on the heels of the slaying. Two days after the crime, Peter David Wheeler, 26, an immigrant, was arrested and charged with the murder. In July of that year, Wheeler was found guilty of the crime and after his trial, made a confession that some have come to see as coerced. He was hanged less than 8 months after the murder in the middle of the night as a crowd was allegedly on their way from Bear River to lynch him. Sources: Nova Scotia Archives - Admiral Digby Museum Place-names of the Province of Nova Scotia : Brown, Thomas J : Internet Archive In search of justice for Peter and Annie | The Chronicle Herald Bear River Historical Society | Nova Scotia, Canada Peter Wheeler, Murder of Annie… - Admiral Digby Museum | Facebook Justice Denied - Atlantic Books Stories of our Local Characters The Lynching of Peter Wheeler by Debra Komar - Ebook | Scribd Maritime Murder: Deadly Crimes from the Buried Past eBook : Vernon, Steve: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store Graveyard Tour | Fall For Bear River Annie Kempton (1881-1896) - Find a Grave Memorial Folksongs from Southern New Brunswick : Creighton, Helen, 1899- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Bear River tragedy retold in ‘Annie Kempton’ | SaltWire Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 210: In the summer of 2003, Ardeth Wood, a 27-year-old PhD candidate studying philosophy at the University of Waterloo, was enjoying a well needed break at her parent’s home in the Orleans neighbourhood of Ottawa. In the early afternoon of August 6, 2003, wanting to take advantage of a beautiful, warm summer day Ardeth borrowed her brother’s bike to go for a ride. Ardeth never came home. Ardeth’s disappearance triggered one of the largest searches in Ottawa’s history up to that point covering the almost 200 kilometres of bike paths around the capital city and its suburbs. Five days later, Ardeth’s body was discovered. She’d been drowned on purpose and then hidden by her killer in a densely wooded area along the banks of Green’s Creek. Police had no suspects. Fearing for their own safety, many of the residents of Ottawa were terrified to use the parks and bike paths for some time even with increased police patrols. It would be more than two years before charges were laid against the man accused of Ardeth’s murder. Sources and Further Reading: The Disappearance of Ardeth Wood An Anthology of True Crime by Pete Dove - Ebook | Scribd Ardeth Wood - Wikipedia Murder She Solved - The Pathway Predator - Dailymotion Video Ardeth WOOD | Obituary | Ottawa Citizen Ardeth Mary Margaret Wood (1975-2003) - Find a Grave Memorial The value of virginity? « knitnut.net University of Waterloo — September 10, 2003: Scholarship remembers murdered grad A Mother’s Grief – The Healing Power of Forgiveness | Nourished Motherhood Blog Archived Ardeth Remembered Archived A death that touched an entire city Ardeth Wood murder resonates 10 years later | CBC News Interview with Colum Wood — YouTube Global study on homicide Kristen Gilchrist (2010) “Newsworthy” Victims?, Feminist Media Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2010.514110 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 319: In the first two parts of our Shadows of Deception series, we delved into the abysmal depths of depravity exhibited by Dellen Millard and Mark Smich through the heinous murders of Tim Bosma and Laura Babcock. With Millard and Smich already incarcerated for their previous atrocities, a new investigation was launched into the 2012 death of Dellen's father, Wayne Millard, a wealthy aviation businessman. Initially presumed to be a suicide, the circumstances surrounding his demise came under intense scrutiny after his son's sensational arrests for the Bosma and Babcock murders. After their investigation, authorities arrested Dellen Millard and charged him with the first-degree murder of his father. This shocking twist cast a sinister shadow over the already grim narrative, painting Dellen Millard as a far more depraved criminal than initially realized – one willing to extinguish even the life of his own flesh and blood. It appears that Dellen Millard is a cold-blooded individual who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted. Sources: Search: Dellen Millard | Canadian Legal Information Institute | CanLII 2018 ONSC 5602 (CanLII) | R. v. Millard | CanLII CBC News | Wayward Son Dellen Millard | News, Videos & Articles | GlobalNews Letters Between Dellen Millard and Christina Noudga | PDF Serial killer Dellen Millard found guilty in prison stabbing incident Serial killer Dellen Millard gets one year in prison for role in prison stabbing | CBC News Ontario's top court dismisses Millard, Smich conviction appeals in murder of Hamilton's Tim Bosma | CBC News Serial killer Dellen Millard says he's too smart a crook to commit 'sloppy' Tim Bosma murder Rosie DiManno: Dellen Millard, convicted of first-degree murder in killing of Tim Bosma, Laura Babcock, is now on trial in the death of his father Millard murder ruled a suicide inside two days The Case of Serial Killer Dellen Millard In jailhouse interview, Dellen Millard admits for first time he had a part in Tim Bosma’s murder Killer Mark Smich’s move to medium-security prison outrages victims’ families Ann Brocklehurst, Dark Ambition: The Shocking Crime of Dellen Millard & Mark Smich.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 209: Daleen Kay Bosse, was a 26-year-old, wife and mother of Cree heritage and member of the Onion Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan near Saskatoon. On May 18, 2004, after a night out with friends Daleen did not return home. Her family grew worried. When she still hadn’t come home the next day Jeremiah, Daleen’s husband, contacted police, who, initially did not respond with much enthusiasm, telling Jeremiah and Daleen’s concerned parents to wait; that she would probably either come home or check in soon. Daleen’s family organized searches themselves and two weeks later Daleen’s car was found abandoned, but there was no sign of the missing woman. It would be more than four years later that Daleen’s family would find out what had happened to their missing loved one. Daleen had been murdered by a man named Douglas Richard Hales, who, during a Mr. Big sting, had admitted to killing the woman and the led police to Daleen’s charred remains. Sources: Onion Lake – Cree Nation The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan | Details — Treaty 6 The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan | Details — Frog Lake Massacre Frog Lake Massacre - Wikipedia SACP | Missing Persons Database Daleen Bosse Obituary (2008) - Saskatoon StarPhoenix NWAC - Daleen’s Story Family hires investigator to help locate daughter MMIWG & Violence Prevention • Native Women’s Association of Canada Home Page - Final Report | MMIWG R v Hales, 2014 SKQB 411 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gfrdx > Highlights from the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, 2015 | CanLII Man says he killed woman because she laughed when he couldn’t perform sexually | Philippine Canadian Inquirer Douglas Hales guilty of 2nd degree murder of Daleen Bosse | CBC News GUILTY - Canada - Daleen Bosse, 26, Saskatoon, Sask, 18 May 2004 Muskego Family Gets Some Closure - First Nations Drum Newspaper Mother recalls trauma of daughter’s disappearance, murder Daleen Bosse | News, Videos & Articles Kristen Gilchrist (2010) “Newsworthy” Victims?, Feminist Media Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2010.514110 The Different Stories of Cree Woman, Daleen Kay Bosse (Muskego) and Dakota-Sioux Woman, Amber Tara-Lynn Redman: Understanding Their Disappearances and Murders through Media Re-Presentations and Family Members’ Narratives News camera allowed in Saskatchewan court for first time - J-Source Saskatchewan man found guilty of killing Onion Lake Cree Nation woman, 25 - APTN News Karina Wolfe case echoes Daleen Bosse murder | 650 CKOM Finding Dawn by Christine Welsh - NFB Douglas Hales’ appeal decision, Nov 23 2015 — YouTube Hales appeal dismissed. - Free Online Library Tasha Beeds – Walking With Our Sisters 2021 National Action Plan Home • National Family and Survivors Circle Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 208: On Feb 4, 1880, just past midnight 5 members of the Donnelly family (A mother and father, two sons, and a niece) we brutally murdered by a mob in their homes just outside of Lucan, Ontario, in Biddolph township. A crime that happened 142 years ago this month, but it is one that had its roots in the distant past, and that has echoed into the future in Canada right up to today. The family and their story became legendary, and often shocks people into the realization of how dark, and unforgiving life in early Canada could be. Numerous books, songs, tv shows, plays, and films have been made about the murders. There is even a Craft Beer brand in Ontario called The Black Donnelly’s Brewing Company, will illustrations of the family on their bottles. If you grew up in Ontario the massacre was actually part of the school curriculum. This is a case of victim blaming on a huge scale. Myths and legends sprung up about the family — perhaps somewhat to appease the guilty conscience of society. Even up to the early 1980’s if you went to Lucan people would say ‘we don’t talk about the Donnellys’ Sources: [The Vigilante Massacre | Maclean’s | June 1, 1950] [Heaven and Hell on Earth: The Massacre of the”Black Donnellys”] [Black Donnellys - Wikipedia] [History | Lucan Museum] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 207: After World War II, Canada’s economy rose. Work was much easier to come by than during the depression. Even though he’d been able to secure decent employment, family man and world war veteran with movie star good looks, Edwin Alonzo Boyd, was bored. He’d had his share of trouble already and was feeling the itch again. In the fall of 1949, he robbed his first bank. This crime kicked off events that would lead to one of the most infamous Canadian criminal gangs of the era. Over just a few years, The Boyd Gang, named for their charismatic de facto leader, Edwin, robbed numerous banks broke out of one of Canada’s toughest prisons, not once but twice. To some, they were folk heroes. However, public sentiment turned firmly against them after members of the gang, Steve Suchan and Lennie Jackson, murdered Toronto Police Department Sergeant of Detectives Edmund “Eddie” Tong and severely wounded his partner Roy Perry. Sources: Regina v. Boyd, 1953 CanLII 88 (ON CA), Edwin Alonzo Boyd: Life and Crimes of Canada’s Master Bank Robber by Nate Hendley Fatal Intentions by Barbara Smith - Ebook | Scribd Line of Fire by Edward Butts - Ebook | Scribd John J. Robinette by George D. Finlayson - Ebook | Scribd The Desperate Ones by Edward Butts - Ebook | Scribd Now You Know Canada’s Heroes by Doug Lennox - Ebook | Scribd Lost Rivers — Don Jail Historicist: Titillating and Terrorizing Toronto - Torontoist — Archived Geocities — BOYD GANG Toronto’s Infamous ‘Boyd Gang’ - CBC Archives CBC Archives — Suchan and Jackson hanged back to back Edwin Alonzo Boyd | The Canadian Encyclopedia Toronto Feature: The Boyd Gang | The Canadian Encyclopedia WHAT THE BOYD GANG FIASCO CAN TEACH US — Macleans Magazine — 1952 ExecutedToday.com » 1952: Lennie Jackson and Steve Suchan, of the Boyd Gang Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 206: Starting on the evening of June 29 and going into the early morning of June 30, 2002, Lisa Marie Young, a 21-year-old indigenous woman, was celebrating with friends in her hometown, Nanaimo, B.C. It was not only Canada Day long weekend, but also her friend Dallas’s birthday. The group went to several nightclubs and then attended a pair of house parties outside the city. Lisa left the party with a man the group had met just that evening. There were several frantic texts from Lisa shortly after her departure indicating she was afraid. Lisa Marie Young has not been heard from since. The man she was seen with while leaving the party was later identified as a local 27-year-old man named Christopher William Adair. Adair now refuses to speak to police and has left the country. Nanaimo RCMP presume Lisa has been murdered and her remains have never been found. In the days before the recording of this podcast, an anonymous donor contacted advocates for Lisa offering $50,000 reward to locate her remains. It’s time to bring Lisa home. Someone knows where she is. Maybe you can help. When she went missing, Lisa Marie Young was 21 years old. She was 5’4” (163 cm) tall and weighed 115 pounds (52 kg). She had long dark brown hair, brown eyes. Lisa has a tattoo of a band of flowers with a heart in the middle that circles her upper right arm. She was wearing a black skirt, black top, black high boots and a silver hoop necklace. If you have any tips or information regarding Lisa Marie Young’s disappearance, please call RCMP Corporal Markus Muntener directly at 250-754-2345 #BringLisaHome Promo Dealing Justice - Podcast Sources & Further Reading Disappearance of Lisa Marie Young - Wikipedia Native Women’s Association of Canada — Lisa’s Story Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) YouTube — Lisa Marie Young — Nanaimo Crime Stoppers McColl Magazine - Lisa Marie Young, Missing Women Lisa Marie Young Help Find Lisa Missed by family and loved ones from Nanaimo+ Since June 30, 2002 Lisa’s Song by Allison Crowe — MP3 Island Crime Podcast Lisa Marie Young: Reward offered for location of missing Nanaimo woman | CTV News Lisa Marie Young — Facebook Group Main | Lil’ Red Dress Project Final Report | MMIWG MMIWG2S Inquiry — Master List of Report Recommendations MMIW — Calls for Justice Family seeks closure 10 years after daughter’s disappearance | Ha-Shilth-Sa Newspaper Case 26: Lisa Marie Young - Casefile: True Crime Podcast The Disappearance of Lisa Marie Young — True Crime Files The Disappearance of Lisa Marie Young - Part I - Canada Day Weekend : UnresolvedMysteries The Disappearance of Lisa Marie Young - Part II - The Man in the Red Jaguar : UnresolvedMysteries The Disappearance of Lisa Marie Young - Part III - The City Without Pity - Conclusion : UnresolvedMysteries CSO - Search Traffic/Criminal By Participant Name — Christopher William Adair Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 205: In this Away Game we are off to post World War One Germany where in the early 1920s, a brutal serial killer, Fritz Haarmann, killed at least 27 young men and boys. Many of his crimes, it appears, were committed to impress his lover, a man named Hans Grans. Although Haarmann admitted it was he who murdered and dismembered the victims, he claimed that ultimately, in a few cases, it was Grans who chose who was to die. Sources: Weimar Republic - HISTORY List of German serial killers - Wikipedia Author & Radio Host | Alan R. Warren Butcher of Hanover: Fritz Haarmann by Alan R. Warren Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 204: Between 1957 and 1964 in Montreal, Quebec, experiments were undertaken that compromised and invaded people’s minds, their agency to make decisions for themselves removed and their brains mucked about in, both physically and psychologically. These barbaric, Orwellian experiments often involved mind expanding drugs like LSD, sensory deprivation, shock treatments and periods of sleep induced for weeks at a time as well as other treatments that could easily be called torturous. They were sponsored by the most notorious branch of the United States government, the CIA, the Canadian government as well as other shadowy organizations with funding coming even from the Rockefellers. The goals behind the research, it seems were to develop brainwashed, zombie-like ‘recruits’ who would do the bidding of these groups without question or conscience getting in the way and to develop new methods of psychological torture to aid in enemy interrogation. All of it took place right here in Canada. The research was overseen by Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, an eminent and well-respected psychiatrist at McGill University’s, Allan Memorial Institute with unwitting Canadian psychiatric patients used as Guinae pigs. The project was called MK-ULTRA. Sources: D. Ewen Cameron, M.D., F.R.C.P.C. Donald Ewen Cameron Donald Ewen Cameron | The McClaughry’s Blog CIA MKULTRA / Mind Control Collection - The Black Vault MKULTRA files : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive The Most Dangerous Game : Josh Shore, Paul Shore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron Psychological Warfare | RAND Mind Control & MK-ULTRA MK Ultra Project - Commission on Assisted Dying George Cooper Report Ewen Cameron, 1986 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive MK Ultra: CIA mind control program in Canada (1980) - The Fifth Estate — YouTube Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada - The Fifth Estate — YouTube CIA Mind Control Survivors Seek Restitution From Canadian Government SAAGA — Survivors Against Government Abuse Brainwashed | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen Ravenscrag, Montreal - Wikipedia Allan Memorial Institute - Wikipedia Project MKULTRA - McGill Declassified: Mind Control at McGill | The McGill Tribune Reader CIA Brainwashing McIntosh Montreal MKULTRA Experiments | The Canadian Encyclopedia The toxic legacy of Canada’s CIA brainwashing experiments: ‘They strip you of your soul’ | Canada | The Guardian Victims of CIA’s MKUltra Mind Control Program Are Fighting Back | Gaia Mind Wars by Marie D. Jones | Goodreads The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control by John D. Marks | Goodreads Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer | Goodreads Maisonneuve | Distant Relatives Trudeau government gag order in CIA brainwashing case silences victims, lawyer says | CBC News Brainwashed: The echoes of MK-ULTRA | CBC News Social Media and the Brain US claims Russia planning ‘false-flag’ operation to justify Ukraine invasion | Russia | The Guardian Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 203: On May 7, 1992, after the McDonald’s restaurant on Kings Road near Keltic Drive in Sydney River, Nova Scotia, closed for the night and the overnight crew was coming in and the evening crew was leaving. Three young men, armed with a shovel handle, knives and a .22 calibre pistol robbed the establishment. They beat, stabbed and shot 4 of the restaurant workers, killing three, Jimmy Fagan, 27, Donna Warren, 22, and Neil Burroughs Jr., 29, and critically wounding 20-year-old, Arlene MacNeil, who was permanently disabled both physically and mentally, requiring round the clock care until her death in 2018. The crime’s brutality brought unwelcome international media attention to the small town, especially when the truth came out. To almost everyone’s surprise, days after the murders, it quickly became evident that the brutal crime had been committed by three, fairly well-liked young men from the area. They’d robbed the place for its cash, making off with a tiny fraction of what they had assumed would be in the restaurant’s safe. Sources: Sydney River McDonald’s murders - Wikipedia R. v. Muise, 1992 CanLII 4046 (NS SC), < https://canlii.ca/t/1qlf2 > R. v. MacNeil, 1993 CanLII 4442 (NS SC), < https://canlii.ca/t/1pqsc > R. v. MacNeil, 1993 CanLII 4449 (NS SC), < https://canlii.ca/t/1pqsl > R. v. Wood, 1993 CanLII 4535 (NS SC), < https://canlii.ca/t/1ql92 > R. v. Muise (No. 1), 1993 CanLII 4555 (NS SC), < https://canlii.ca/t/1ql9r > R. v. Muise, 1994 NSCA 198 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/1mqpp > R. v. Wood, 1994 NSCA 239 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/1mqcn > R. v. MacNeil, 1995 NSCA 10 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/1mqdv > Twenty years of heartache | The Chronicle Herald N.S. McDonald’s killer granted full parole | CBC News McDonald’s killer Darren Muise ‘financially secure’ and ‘living a good life’ on parole: documents - Halifax | Globalnews.ca McDonald’s murderer ‘financially secure’ and ‘living a good life’: parole documents | CTV News Derek Wood, convicted in McDonald’s murders, denied day parole | CBC News Wood v Warden (Atlantic Institution), 2017 CanLII 67340 (NB CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/h6mgr > Derek Anthony Wood and the Sydney River McDonald’s Murders - Christopher di Armani.com Sydney River McDonald’s killer loses appeal | SaltWire One of three men convicted in McDonald’s murders awarded unescorted absences - Halifax | Globalnews.ca 24 Sep 2000, 28 - The Winnipeg Sun at Newspapers.com Murder at McDonald’s: The Killers Next Door eBook : Jessome, Phonse: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 202: Mathew Charles Lamb was a troubled and disturbed youngster. He was born in Windsor, Ontario, unwanted, to a teenage mother and bounced from one relative’s home to another, never having close relationships with any of them. To him they were merely his keepers. The rules they laid out for him to follow were bothersome to him. Young Matt was incorrigible. He became violent early on, many of the other kids in his family and in the neighbourhood were terrified of him. After a number of run ins with local police and several violent incidents involving firearms, one including a shootout with police, Mathew Lamb was jailed in the Kingston Pen for the first time — he was just 16. At 18 years old, only days after an early release, Mathew Charles Lamb, went on a shooting spree in Windsor, killing two strangers and wounding two more. Sources: City Of Windsor Canada’s Most Dangerous Places 2020 - Macleans.ca The Windsor Star - Google News Archive Search Mathew Charles Lamb | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Read Watching the Devil Dance Online by William Toffan | Books Mathew Charles Lamb - Wikipedia House of Commons Debates, 30th Parliament, 2nd … - Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources New Book Documents Canada’s First Spree Killer and Windsor Native Matthew Lamb | 519 Magazine Book - The Psychopath Test About: Mathew Charles Lamb   Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 201: On October 14, 2007, after a gruelling 20-hour journey from Poland, Robert Dziekanski, arrived at the YVR airport’s international terminal in Richmond, B.C. Dziekanski, who spoke nor read any English, was unable to read the signs directing him to what he should do next or where he should go. The confused man spent ten hours in the airport wandering around the secure customs area. His mother was waiting for him with a friend only a few meters away in the public waiting area. Had the two been able to connect this story would have had a very different conclusion, but they did not. She left the airport, frustrated, hours before her son’s final moments. Sources: Commissioner’s Statement - Incident at Vancouver Airport - Canada.ca Report Following a Public Interest Investigation into a Chair-Initiated Complaint Respecting the Death in RCMP Custody of Mr. Robert Dziekanski | Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP Braidwood Inquiry Braidwood Commission Report Vancouver Sun — YVR Robert Dziekanski 2007 Taser incident — YouTube Vancouver Airport Tragedy - Canada — YouTube (song) Rundel v. British Columbia – Braidwood Commission, 2009 BCSC 814 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/2465p > Taser International, Inc. v. British Columbia, 2010 BCSC 1120 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/2c0pd > R. v. Bentley, 2013 BCSC 1125 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/g0349 > R. v. Bentley, 2013 BCSC 1364 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/fzvpn > R. v. Millington, 2014 BCSC 756 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/g6pxd > R. v. Millington, 2015 BCSC 143 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gg44h > R. v. Bentley, 2015 BCCA 251 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gjdgc > R. v. Robinson, 2015 BCSC 433 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/ggsh4 > R. v. Millington, 2015 BCSC 515 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gh26c > R. v. Rundel, 2015 BCSC 1090 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gjr5s > R. v. Millington, 2015 BCSC 1380 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gkh89 > R. v. Millington, 2015 BCSC 1426 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gkmrj > R. v. Robinson, 2015 BCSC 1535 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gkwtz > R. v. Millington, 2016 BCCA 293 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gshg5 > R. v. Robinson, 2017 BCCA 6 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gwss2 > Criminal Law: Perjury | CanLII Connects Final report from Braidwood Commission finds Taser use unjustified Osoyoos First Nation Mountie still trying to clear his name 12 years after the Robert Dziekanski died - APTN News Mother of Robert Dziekanski dies during visit to Poland | Watch News Videos Online Blamed and Broken: The Mounties and the Death of Robert Dziekanski eBook : Petrovich, Curt: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store CBA British Columbia - In Memoriam: Thomas Braidwood Coroner’s Report Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 200: The story we are about to tell is a harrowing tale of child neglect that leaves a young boy badly scarred for life. In December of 1990, after being overlooked by his family who were on their way to Paris for a Christmas visit, Kevin McCallister is left on his own in the family’s large Winnetka, Illinois home. There the 7-year-old not only has to care for himself, but has to do his best fend off two serial burglars, a team known as the Wet Bandits, attempting to break into the McCallister residence. Leaving Kevin McCallister with lifelong issues due to the effects of post traumatic stress, and later problems with addiction. Sources: An inaccurate Film Dramatization of Actual Events 671 Lincoln Ave, Winnetka, IL 60093 - realtor.com® Bill Breakdown: How Much Kevin McCallister’s Dad Spent In Home Alone | Sideshow Collectibles All Injuries Sustained In Home Alone - Assessed By A Real Doctor - Thrillist Home Alone | Home Alone Wiki | Fandom Kevin McCallister | Home Alone Wiki | Fandom Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 318: In the previous episode, we explored the shocking murder of Tim Bosma and the subsequent trial that brought two killers to justice. However, their trail of violence did not end there. In this second installment of our three-part series, we delve into the tragic case of Laura Babcock, 23, whose July 2012 disappearance from Toronto was eventually attributed to Dellen Millard and Mark Smich. We'll learn a bit about Laura’s life and examine the circumstances surrounding her vanishing and the painstaking yet unsuccessful search efforts to uncover her remains. You’ll hear disturbing details that emerged during the trial for her murder, shedding even more light on the twisted dynamics between Millard, Smich, and their unfortunate victim. This episode serves as a prelude to the final chapter, where we'll explore the most shocking revelation of all, that Dellen Millard also killed his father, Wayne, for his money. Sources: Search — Laura Babcock | Toronto Star Laura Babcock had an intense fear of death since childhood, court hears in murder trial for Dellen Millard and Mark Smich Laura Babcock had intense fear of death since childhood, court hears Toronto family receives death certificate years after daughter was murdered Who was Laura Babcock? A look into her life as the trial into her presumed death continues | CBC News Dellen Millard, Mark Smich found guilty of murder in Laura Babcock’s death What the jury didn't hear in the Laura Babcock murder trial Laura Babcock, horoscope for birth date 12 February 1989, born in Etobicoke, with Astrodatabank biography Dec 12, 2019, page A30 - Red Deer Advocate at Newspapers.com Dec 07, 2017, page 2 - The Toronto Star at Newspapers.com 2015 ONSC 6206 (CanLII) | R. v Millard and Smich | CanLII 2017 ONSC 7584 (CanLII) | R. v. Millard | CanLII R. v. Ward-Jackson, (2018) O.J. No. 163 | PDF | Sentence (Law) | Crime & Violence 2018 ONSC 178 (CanLII) | R. v. Ward-Jackson | CanLII 2018 ONSC 5602 (CanLII) | R. v. Millard | CanLII 2023 ONCA 418 (CanLII) | R. v. Millard | CanLII Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 199: In all the recent photos I could find of Melissa Ann Shepard, she looks like an ordinary, little old lady. But Melissa, Millie to some, has a criminal record a mile long, including convictions for fraud, impersonation and forgery. But, she is best known for, luring men via the internet, drugging them and taking control of all aspects of their lives. Melissa also caused the death of one of her husbands in Nova Scotia, was suspected in another’s death and at least two more men came close to dying. Sources: Melissa Ann Shepard - Wikipedia CBC News Indepth: Melissa Ann Friedrich Melissa Friedrich | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers HRP News — High Risk Offender Notification | Halifax.ca Internet Black Widow Melissa Ann Shepard arrested in Halifax | CBC News The internet black widow: Is this Canada’s most dangerous woman? - BBC News How a smitten man came face to face with the ‘Internet Black Widow’ - The Globe and Mail This 80-year-old ‘Black Widow,’ who lured lonesome old men to horrible fates, is out of prison again - The Washington Post National Film Board of Canada — Why Women Kill ‘Internet Black Widow’ Melissa Ann Weeks charged with attempted murder in N.S. | Globalnews.ca ‘Black Widow’s’ ex-boyfriend warns men as she gets out of prison: ‘Watch out’ | Globalnews.ca P.E.I.’s infamous ‘Black Widow’ facing attempted murder charges | SaltWire Victims of ‘Internet Black Widow’ concerned over her release in N.S. | CTV News Prison for Women’s Invisible Minority | Journal of Prisoners on Prisons Unknown Gender History: Melissa Friedrich (Weeks), “The Internet Black Widow” of Nova Scotia - 2012 Unknown Gender History: Black Widow Serial Killers Alex Strategos: ‘Millie Weeks’, AKA Melissa Friedrich, The Internet Black Widow - Inquisitr Melissa Ann Shepard : Internet Black Widow (2012) - the fifth estate — YouTube Melissa-Ann-Shepard | National Post Read Webs of Black Widows Online by Pete Katz | Books Read Lady Killers Online by Tori Telfer | Books Read The Craigslist Killer Online by Crystal Majkowski | Books True Crime: Canadian Monsters: 25 Horrific Canadian Serial Killers eBook : Keller, Robert: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store Raw Video: ‘Internet Black Widow’ appears in court — YouTube Online Dating and Dating App Safety Tips | RAINN Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 198: If you’ve had any interest in the Wild West, you’ve no doubt heard of a many of the storied gunmen and bandits from the era like Butch Cassidy, Jesse James and Billy the Kid. You probably also think of the United States, but Canada has its own legends and colourful characters from the era on both sides of the border. For example, legendary gunslinger and lawman, Bat Masterson, was was born in Henryville, Quebec. Sometimes the outlaws were women, like one notorious Canadian-born, lady bandit and the subject of this episode, whose most famous alias was Pearl Hart. After a rough life with criminal exploits that started during her troubled childhood, Pearl got herself into big trouble in Arizona in 1899 and was finally taken into custody after robbing a stage coach. Sources: Pearl Hart - Wikipedia Pearl Hart – Lady Bandit of Arizona – Legends of America Bandit Pearl Hart holds up an Arizona stagecoach - HISTORY The life and times of Pearl Hart, Ontario’s cigar-smoking, Wild West superstar | The Star Pearl Hart: The Amazing Life of The Bandit Queen Female bandit Pearl Hart: “I shall not be tried under a law in which my sex had no voice in making” The wild life and death of Old West feminist bandit Pearl Hart Pearl Hart - ‘Bandit Queen’ of the Old West - WednesdaysWomen Pearl Hart, the Last Lady Outlaw - HeadStuff Wild Women of the Wild West: Pearl Hart ~ Lady Bandit of Arizona Listen to Wildcat Audiobook by John Boessenecker The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters - Leon Claire Metz - Google Books The Cosmopolitan — Volume 27 — Google Play Books Pearl Hart: Smooth-talking card shark led Pearl’s slide to perdition | Local news | tucson.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 197: In our last episode we learned a bit about the life and depraved, early crimes of David Russell Williams, a 46-year-old decorated colonel and commander of the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) in Trenton, Ontario - one of the largest and busiest air force bases in Canada. The Canadian military’s rising star also had some dark secrets. Williams had been involved in dozens of instances of break, enter and theft of women’s undergarments in the communities in which he lived. The homeowners and police were unaware that many of these crimes had taken place. Many of the women presumed that their underwear had simply gone missing. They had no clue that they had been taken by someone who’s fantasy life had taken a very dark turn. Williams felt powerful in the homes, taking photos as he pleasured himself with the most private possessions of women he didn’t know. Russell would take their underwear home where, sexually aroused once again, he would take photos of himself as he modelled the items recalling his time in the homes of the women. The continued use of the garments thrilled Russell Williams and gave him a feeling of complete control. In September 2009, Russell’s insatiable cravings for yet another sexual thrill demanded he take things a step further. Williams sexually assaulted two Tweed women, forcibly confining them, fondling them as he snapped multiple photos of the terrified women after removing their clothes. While those events had been exciting for Williams, they were dry runs for what he would do next. In November, 2009, Russell Williams committed his first murder, that of Marie-France Comeau. Month's later, he killed Jessica Lloyd, but his inattention to the little details, eventually got him caught. Sources: Book, ”Camouflaged Killer” by David A. Gibb Read Beyond Suspicion: Russell Williams A Canadian Serial Killer Online by Alan R Warren | Books A New Kind of Monster by Timothy Appleby Jim Van Allen | ISN Inc Russell Williams Case | The Canadian Encyclopedia Read Snakes in Suits Online by Dr. Paul Babiak and Dr. Robert D. Hare | Books The dark, depraved side of Russell Williams revealed in court - Macleans.ca CPL Marie-France Comeau (1972-2009) - Find A Grave Memorial 252 Raglan Street, Brighton, Ontario, Canada | Housecreep Jessica Elizabeth Lloyd (1982-2010) - Find A Grave Memorial Jessica Lloyd Obituary - Belleville, Ontario | John R. Bush Funeral Home Lloyd, Jessica – Canadian Crimeopedia Belleville honours Jessica Lloyd | CBC News 62 Cosy Cove Lane, Tweed, Ontario, Canada | Housecreep Russell Williams’s wife knew he was a predator: victim - Macleans.ca Col. Russell Williams timeline | CBC News “Russell Williams - Above Suspicion” episode from CBC program The Fifth Estate Russell Williams Case | The Canadian Encyclopedia Russell Williams | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers David Russell Williams: The Kinky Killer Colonel — Obsession — Crime Library [Russell Williams (criminal) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Williams_(criminal)) YouTube — The Russell Williams Arrest Press Conference Russell Williams - Full Murder Confession Russell Williams Confession Part 1 Russell Williams Confession Part 2 Russell Williams Confession Part 3 Russell Williams interview transcript Demi-victoire pour Laurie Massicotte contre Russell Williams | Radio-Canada.ca Laurie Massicotte settles $7M lawsuit against convicted sex killer Russell Williams | CBC News Massicotte v. Williams, 2014 ONCA 792 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gf735 > M.E.H. v. Williams, 2012 ONCA 35 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/fpxq4 > Family, friends of Jessica Lloyd mark decade since Russell Williams received life sentence | Globalnews.ca Marie-France Comeau | News, Videos & Articles Marie-France Comeau news, opinion and analysis - Macleans.ca Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices