Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

Episode 182: This is a story of two talented people whose final interaction would lead to the death of one of comedy’s rising stars and a notorious place in Hollywood history for the other. On March 5, 1982, after an all too brief but stellar career in film and television, actor and comedian John Belushi, 33, was found dead in his bungalow at the infamous Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Investigators soon discovered that a Canadian woman, Catherine Evelyn or Cathy Smith, was the last person with the star and had been the person who had supplied and shot him up with the fatal overdose that killed him. Sources: United States of America and Smith, Re, 1984 CanLII 3510 (ON SC), <https://canlii.ca/t/gcj9l> Re United States of America and Smith, 1983 CanLII 1817 (ON SC), < https://canlii.ca/t/g1981 > 1984 CanLII 1913 (ON CA) | Re United States of America and Smith | CanLII ‘I Killed John Belushi’ — Secrets Of Tragic Comic’s Star-Studded Death! Chasing Dragon by Smith Cathy, Signed - AbeBooks Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi Online by Bob Woodward | Books Read California Babylon Online by Kristan Lawson and Anneli Rufus | Books The Death of John Belushi at the Chateau Marmont Gone 25 years, Belushi’s impact still felt Cathy Smith - Wikipedia Cathy Smith, who admitted to killing John Belushi, was a woman of mystery - The Globe and Mail Gordon Lightfoot here. Singer/songwriter for over 50 years whose work has been performed by everyone from Elvis to Barbra. AMA! : IAmA The Tragic Real-Life Story Of John Belushi The Weight - Remastered - song by The Band | Spotify Sundown - song by Gordon Lightfoot | Spotify High and Dry - song by Gordon Lightfoot | Spotify Flash Of Fire - song by Hoyt Axton | Spotify Addictions Treatment Helplines in Canada | Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 181 - The region in the South Nahanni River played host to several unexplained and disturbing occurrences in the first half of the twentieth century. Between1905 and 1945, in the remote and rugged wilderness in the lower west corner of Mackenzie Mountains in the Northwest Territories and other unexplained events, there were at least 44 people who went missing under mysterious circumstances. Most unsettling of all were the four bodies that were found during that time in three separate incidents. All of the corpses had been decapitated, and their heads were never recovered, earning the area the ominous nickname, the Valley of the Headless Men. No one knows who was responsible for these horrific mutilations or what became of the other missing people. Sources: Secrets of the Nahanni: The Valley of Headless Men – The Outdoor Journal The Lore Behind the Mystery of Canada’s Nahanni National Park The Valley of Headless Men. The spectacular scenery of the Nahanni… | by L Hall | Chameleon | Medium Nahanni National Park Reserve - Wikipedia Valley of Mystery — Pierre Berton | Maclean’s | March 15, 1947 Parks Canada — Nahanni National Park Reserve Mysteries of the Nahinni Park Reserve in Canada — StrangeOutdoors.com Did giants roam Canada’s Northwest Territories — or do they still? | CBC News The Valley of the Headless Men: UnresolvedMysteries Legends of the Nahanni Valley Legends of the Nahanni Valley by Hammerson Peters Serial Killer Quarterly Vol.1 No.3 “Unsolved in North America” — Scribd Read The Dangerous River Online by R. M. Patterson | Books | Scribd Read Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Weird Canada Online by Bathroom Readers’ Institute | Books | Scribd Read Strange but True Online by John Robert Colombo | Books | Scribd The Strangest Northerns: The Valley of the Beasts - Dark Worlds Quarterly The Willows, The Wendigo, and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood: Annotated and Illustrated Tales of Murder, Mystery, Horror, and Hauntings eBook: Blackwood, Algernon, Kellermeyer, M., Kellermeyer, M.: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store Canada is a huge country. Most of it is unfit for human habitation. - Vox This Is How Empty Canada Really Is (PHOTOS) | HuffPost Canada News Geography | The Canada Guide Largest Countries in the World by Area - Worldometer Table 24.1 Population, by province and territory, selected years, 1861 to 2009 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 180 - On September 22, 2015, in Renfrew County, Ontario, 66-year-old Carol Culleton was murdered in her home by her one-time handyman. The man, who’d become obsessed with the recent widow before killing her, then stole Culleton’s car and drove to the home of an ex-girlfriend, Anastasia Kuzyk, 36, and shot Anastasia there with a shotgun as her sister fled the home. However, the killer was not done settling the scores he had cooked up in his head and then drove to the home of another ex-girlfriend, Nathalie Warmerdam, 48. As Nathalie’s son ran from their home, in fear of his life, he heard the gunshot that ended his mother’s life. The killer, Basil Borutski, 58, a former millwright, then fled, and a brief search ensued that ended in Borutski being taken into police custody. Later on, in a 5-hour long taped police interview, the killer admitted to what he’d done, laying the blame for his spree squarely on his victims.Sources: Ontario Provincial Police - What we do Borutski’s history from 1977 to 2011 - Infogram Borutski’s history with Kuzyk and Warmerdam - Infogram Borutski’s history with Culleton - Infogram Murder Sites — Driving Route YouTube - Basil Borutski full police interview YouTube - Basil Borutski and the Wilno Murders: Circle of Fear - The Fifth Estate YouTube - Secrets of… Why Didn’t We Know? Basil Borutski & The Wilno Murders (podcast) - the fifth estate Marchers say Basil Borutski guilty verdict was too little, too late | CBC News What the courts knew about Basil Borutski before he murdered 3 women | CBC News Search: Basil Borutski — Newspapers.com Basil Borutski | News, Videos & Articles — GlobalNews TOPIC: BASIL BORUTSKI TRIAL — CBC.ca R. v. Borutski, 2011 ONSC 3536 (CanLII) Borutski v. Borutski, 2011 ONSC 7099 (CanLII) R. v. Borutski, 2017 ONSC 7748 (CanLII) R. v. Basil Borutski, 2017 ONSC 7762 (CanLII) The Meaning of Life: A Study of the Use of Parole Ineligibility for Murder Sentencing | CanLII BBC Partners — Outlook: Singing for my murdered sister helps me heal Ending Violence Association of Canada Psychology Today — Dark Triad Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 179 - On April 19, 2018, in the village of Victoria Gracia, a community close to Pucallpa in Peru’s central Amazon region of Ucayali, a man got off his motorcycle. He walked toward the home of Olivia Arevalo Lomas, an 81-year-old shaman and respected elder in her community. The man was irate over a debt owed to him by the woman’s son. After firing a warning shot that drew a crowd of neighbours, the elderly healer came out of her house. After a bit of yelling back and forth, the man gunned the woman down with two shots from his pistol, killing her in broad daylight. The man, later identified as Sebastian Paul Woodroffe, a 41-year-old British Columbian in Peru as an Ayahuasca researcher, was pursued by villagers who publicly lynched him. A cellphone recorded his killing, and the user later posted the video to Facebook. Woodroffe’s body was buried in a shallow grave. Two Peruvian men were later arrested for Woodroffe’s slaying. What led this man, known to his friends as a gentle, helpful soul, to such a brutal crime?Sources:[Descent into darkness | CBC News][Blurred Vision: A Shaman’s Murder Exposes the Dark Side of Ayahuasca][The Cull of Personality Ebook - Kevin Tucker — Black and Green Press]https://retreat.guru[Preparing for Ayahuasca Ceremony - The Uncensored Guide][Ayahuasca, dimethyltryptamine, and psychosis: a systematic review of human studies][Sebastian Woodroffe — YouTube Channel][Sebastian Woodroffe — Facebook][Improving On Addiction Help | Indiegogo — Sebastian Woodroffe][Sebastian Woodroffe - VICE][Global News — SEARCH: Sebastian Woodroffe][Sebastian Woodroffe video | CBC.ca][YouTube — Murder investigation in the jungle - The Fifth Estate][Hallucinogenic Plants and Their Use in Traditional Societies - An Overview | Cultural Survival][(PDF) 📄 The Consumption of Psychoactive Plants in Ancient Global and Anatolian Cultures During Religious Rituals: The Roots of the Eruption of Mythological Figures and Common Symbols in Religions and Myths][Ayahuasca Retreat Peru, Traditional Retreat Center in the Amazon of Peru][Tragedy in Pucallpa: the Death of Maestra Olivia Arévalo - Temple of the Way of Light][Peruvian mob kills Canadian man accused of killing respected shaman | Daily Mail Online][Terence McKenna - Self Transforming Elf Machines - YouTube][“Machine Elves” or “DMT Elves”: A Spirit World Journey | DoubleBlind Mag][Canadian lynched in Peru after being accused of shaman’s death | Peru | The Guardian][All evidence shows B.C. man lynched in Peru had shot and killed Indigenous healer: prosecutor | CBC News][Woodroffe remembered by neighbours as ‘spiritual, loving, kind and polite’ – Comox Valley Record][Briton Unais Gomes killed by Canadian Joshua Andrew Freeman Stevens in Peru | Daily Mail Online][The Canadian Man Who Killed a British Guy at an Ayahuasca Retreat in Peru Speaks Out] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 178: On the evening of January 29, 2017, a young man, armed with a pistol and a rifle concealed inside a guitar case, entered the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, a mosque in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood of the historic city. Just over 40 people were inside the mosque at the time. Just before 8:00 pm, the man entered the prayer hall and began firing and, within two minutes, had killed 6 and seriously injured 5 other worshippers. After the shootings, the killer walked out of the building, hopped into his car and drove off. Less than 20 minutes later, the perpetrator, a 27-year-old, Canadian-born student of anthropology and political science at Laval University, surrendered to police, admitting he was the shooter. The motive? Islamophobia.Sources:[CCIQ – Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec]R. c. Bissonnette, 2019 QCCS 354 (CanLII), < [https://canlii.ca/t/j1672] >Bissonnette c. R., 2020 QCCA 1585 (CanLII), < [https://canlii.ca/t/jbth0] >[YouTube - Alexandre Bissonnette’s interrogation (en Français)][YouTube - Alexandre Bissonnette’s FULL interrogation (en Français) 3 hour 8 minute][YouTube - La déclaration des parents d’Alexandre Bissonnette][Les parents d’Alexandre Bissonnette jugent sa peine très sévère | Radio-Canada.ca][Alexandre Bissonnette’s parents speak out about their son | Global News][Open Letter From Raymond Bissonnette | Murder | Criminal Justice][‘I had to do something’: Mosque shooter said he acted to prevent terrorism | Montreal Gazette][Remembering the Québec City mosque attack: Islamophobia and Canada’s national amnesia][Court reduces sentence for Quebec City mosque attacker | Courts News | Al Jazeera][Alexandre Bissonnette: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com]https://twitter.com/justintrudeau/status/825438460265762816?lang=en[Alexandre Bissonnette’s parents ask Prime Minister to stop calling their son a terrorist | CTV News][Islamophobia.org][Islamophobia: Understanding Anti-Muslim Sentiment in the West][Islamophobia in Canada - Wikipedia][Read Fear of a Muslim Planet Online by Arsalan Iftikhar | Books][Cyber Racism and Community Resilience: Strategies For Combating Online Race Hate | Scribd][Naming The Gunman Glorifies His Crimes, Not Naming Him Could Undermine The Truth : NPR Public Editor : NPR][NO NOTORIETY]()[What is the government doing about Islamophobia in Canada? Here’s what we know - National | Globalnews.ca][Pourquoi les peines consécutives font-elles débat? | Radio-Canada.ca][Quebec City mosque shooting - Wikipedia][London, Ontario truck attack - Wikipedia] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 177: On July 3, 1979, a pair of typical Montreal teenagers, Chantal Dupont, 15 and her friend, Maurice Marcil, 14, went missing as they walked home from a concert. Their loved ones had no idea what had happened to them. A week later they heard the news they dreaded. The bodies of Chantal and Maurice were discovered in different spots along the banks of the St. Lawrence River. The details of how the pair ended up in the water and the events leading up to their murders are horrifying.Sources:R. v. Guerin, 1984 CanLII 3533 (QC CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/gccd1>R. c. Guérin, 1987 CanLII 1063 (QC CA), < [https://canlii.ca/t/1sth2] >[PressReader.com - Normand Guérin et Gilles Pimparé][PressReader.com - Bridge Murders Timeline][Pillar 111 – The 1979 murders of Maurice Marcil and Chantal Dupont | WHO KILLED THERESA?][The Bridge Murders – To Err is Human, to Forgive, Divine – Crime Website][La force du pardon | Michèle Ouimet | La Presse - Archived][La Rage | Michèle Ouimet | La Presse - Archived][L’innocence perdue | Michèle Ouimet | La Presse - Archived][Le deuil | La Presse | Michèle Ouimet | La Presse][Même après 38 ans, le meurtrier Gilles Pimparé restera en prison | Radio-Canada.ca][Le Pardon (film) — Wikipédia][Dossier de presse][Dupont (Chantal) - La Mémoire du Québec][La force du pardon - La Presse+][Montreal killer asks for parole for the sixth time][L’un des pires criminels du Québec veut sa liberté | TVA Nouvelles][Pimparé «est encore dangereux», selon le frère d’une victime | TVA Nouvelles][Dossier de presse - *Ces parents qui ont pardonné l’impardonnable*][Coolopolis: The unspeakably horrific Jacques Cartier Bridge murders][Le pont du suicide Jacques-Cartier - Blogue de Montréal hanté][Le Pardon de Denis Boivin – Voyage à travers le Québec][Ideomotor phenomenon - Wikipedia] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 176: On the night of November 13, 1974, In the sleepy community of Amityville on the coast of Long Island, New York, a 23-year-old man named Ronald (Butch) DeFeo Jr. came running into a local bar. He was distraught and claiming his whole family, his mother and father and 4 siblings, had been murdered in their home, a large Dutch Colonial house located at 112 Ocean Avenue. However, it was later determined it was Butch himself who’d annihilated his family. A year later, Butch was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder and received an equal number of sentences of 25 years to life in prison for slaughtering his family as they slept. A month after Butch DeFeo’s conviction, the Lutz family, Kathy, George and their three kids moved into the property having purchased it for a steal, $80,000. But, after only 28 days in the house, the Lutz family fled. They claimed they’d been chased out by relentless psychic torture inflicted on them by some unseen presence; they thought demonic, who’d made life in the house impossible. A 1977 book on the case by author Jay Anson titled The Amityville Horror, and subsequent film in 1979 introduced the story to an international audience and has become one of the most well-known, most covered and at the same time, controversial tales of hauntings and demonic possession in history.Sources:[The Amityville Horror Website: Hosted By George Lutz - ARCHIVED][The Amityville Murders—The Story Behind the Haunted House and Murders - ARHIVED][The Real Amityville Horror: The Tragic Murder of the Ronald De Feo Family - ARCHIVED][The Amityville Files - America’s Most Famous Haunted House Controversy][Ronald DeFeo: The Original 911 Call Transcripts of the Murders][The Real ‘Amityville Horror’: Chilling Facts About the Crime and Haunted House - Biography][Slain Family Drugged, Police on L:I..Report - The New York Times][Ronald DeFeo - Murders, Movie & Family - Biography][Reel or Real? The Truth Behind Two Hollywood Ghost Stories | Skeptical Inquirer][Inside the ‘Amityville Horror’ house today, Long Island’s most notorious mansion - New York Post][Morgan Knudsen - Entityseeker Paranormal Research & Teachings] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 175: Like any other region, Canada has its share of stories of fantastical creatures that may or may not exist. Dark Poutine has covered a few of them. In episode 25 we learned of Swift Runner, believed to be possessed by the cannibalistic spirit known as Wendigo, we talked about, Ogopogo, the giant serpent in Okanagan Lake in episode 113 and of course, in episode 131 we gave you a primer on Sasquatch aka Bigfoot in Western Canada and the USA. In this episode, you will learn about some of Canada’s lesser-known cryptids, The Loup-Garou, The Thunderbird, The Toronto Tunnel Monster and The Giant Spider Bat. Source:[Loup-Garou | The Canadian Encyclopedia][The Werewolf of Quebec City — CANADIANA][Le loup-garou du Kamouraska (1766-1767) – Patrimoine, Histoire et Multimédia][Les Loups-Garous du Québec – Werewolves of Quebec | Julian Peters comics][Thunderbird | New Cryptozoology Wiki | Fandom][Thunderbird: a symbol of power, strength and nobility - Ecstatic Trance Postures][Thunderbird- A Canadian Legend][Toronto Tunnel Monster | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom][The Toronto Tunnel Monster | Cryptozoology News Articles & Investigations][Toronto Urban Legends: The Real Toronto Underground][Strange Encounters with Bizarre Tunnel-Dwelling Monsters | Mysterious Universe][A guide to the secret tunnels hidden beneath Toronto][Little people (mythology) - Wikipedia][What Lies Beneath: Toronto and The Tunnel Monster of Cabbagetown][ParaResearchers Of Ontario - Toronto Tunnel Monster][The Creepy Cabbagetown Monster Lurking in Toronto’s Underground][Cryptids of Canada and Other Toronto Urban Legends We Bet You Didn’t Know About - Mary-am Suites][C.H.U.D. (1984) - IMDb][Myths & Monsters - DIBAAJIMOWIN][memegwesi (na) | The Ojibwe People’s Dictionary][Mysteries of Canada – Canada History and Mysteries][Stranger Things: Four-in-Five Canadians believe][Giant Canadian Spiderbat | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom][North American House Hippo - YouTube] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 174 - Between 1974 and 1980, a group of three mask-wearing Canadian outlaws named Stephen Reid, Patrick (Paddy) Mitchell, and Lionel Wright, in well-planned, precisely timed and carefully executed heists, robbed at least 140 banks and armoured cars in Canada and the United States making off with a total of more than $15 million in cash, gold and other valuables.Sources:[The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang | The Atavist Magazine][Stephen Reid fonds - Search Research Collections][Inside Time by Jason Young - NFB][Paddy Mitchell’s Blog - A blog behind bars][Read This Bank Robber’s Life Online by Patrick Mitchell | Books - Scribd.com][The Stopwatch Gang: notorious bank robber, celebrated author dies – RCI | English][Lionel Wright | Today in Ottawa’s History][Stephen Reid - ABC BookWorld][Obituary: Stephen Reid - Ottawa Citizen][Stephen Reid’s 10 toughest prisons in North America] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 173 - On July 6, 2013, in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, an unattended 73-car freight train carrying crude oil rolled down a grade and derailed downtown, multiple tank cars exploded, resulting in a massive fire. More than 30 buildings in the town's core were destroyed, and, sadly, forty-seven people lost their lives.Sources:[Ville Lac-Mégantic - Une ville à coeur ouvert][Déraillement mortel d’un train à Lac-Mégantic - Ville Lac-Mégantic][Balado Découverte - Le Marcheur d’étoiles | Circuit touristique de Lac-Mégantic][Cinq clés pour comprendre la tragédie de Lac-Mégantic | Radio-Canada.ca][10 of Canada’s worst train accidents - Macleans.ca][Firefighter watched ghost train barrel past him moments before Lac-Mégantic derailment | CBC News][Rail at center of Quebec town tragedy and heart of its recovery | Reuters][Lac-Megantic’s resilience tested after ‘le train d’enfer’ - CentralMaine.com][Summary of Railway Investigation Report R13D0054 - TSB Canada][Railway Investigation Full Report R13D0054 - TSB Canada][Lac-Mégantic MMA Train Accident - 6 July 2013 - YouTube][Audio: Train engineer and railway company talk as Lac-Mégantic burns - The Globe and Mail][Lac-Mégantic engineer Thomas Harding’s firing ruled illegal - Montreal | Globalnews.ca][YouTube - Angry Lac Megantic residents seek answers - Global News][YouTube - Lac-Mégantic News Conference - Investigation Report Release][YouTube - Lac-Mégantic engineer calls released][YouTube - Tragédie Lac Mégantic - Pierre Duquet][YouTube - Incendie à Lac-Mégantic - username Nitrof Taz][Wayback Machine - Montreal Gazette - Lives lost: Remembering Lac-Mégantic’s victims][Global News Search - Lac-Mégantic][Lac-Mégantic rail disaster - Wikipedia] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 172 - To curtail social ills like alcoholism, family violence, and other unsavoury behaviours, religious and puritanical proponents of the Temperance Movement demonized alcohol throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. After numerous U.S. states had become ‘dry’ outlawing the production and sale of alcohol in the years prior, in 1919, the United States ratified the 18th amendment to their constitution, which banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within the country’s borders. As hoarded supplies quickly began to run dry over the next ten years, Americans looked outside their borders to keep the liquor flowing into the country. Scores of Canadians stepped up, flouting the laws to move alcohol across the 49th parallel. Many were entrepreneurs with a daredevil spirit, a means of transportation and a desire to make a quick buck, but others were psychopathic, dangerous, mob-connected killers. We’ll talk about a couple of them here. Mike Browne's new book, MURDER, MADNESS, AND MAYHEM: Twenty-Five Tales of True Crime and Dark History, is available this November from Harper Collins Canada! You can pre-order your copy now: https://bit.ly/3oSnKXSSources:[Prohibition: An Interactive History – Mob Museum][Women Led the Temperance Charge – Prohibition: An Interactive History][Captain Jack Randell][Captain Jack Randell - Classic Sailboats][The Sinking of The I’m Alone][Heaving To Is a Valuable Skill for All Sailors][Story of the I’m Alone | Decora-chan | Prince Edward Island][Ernest Hemingway - Biographical - NobelPrize.org][The Whisky King - Trevor Cole - eBook][Molls of a mobster | Maclean’s | OCTOBER 5, 1987][Biography – STARKMAN, BESHA (Tobin)] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 171 - Rosemary Podgis, 56, and her husband Alfred, 58, were found in a Pennsylvania Ravine. They had been fatally shot in their Loch Arbour, New Jersey home over the Fourth of July weekend in 1982. The apparent perpetrators arrested by police 5 days later were two 18-year-olds: Scott Robert Franz, Rosemary’s son from a previous marriage, and Scott’s Canadian friend Bruce Anthony Curtis, who had been Scott’s classmate at King’s Edgehill private school in Nova Scotia where the pair had just graduated. The events leading up to the deaths of Rosemary and Alfred Podgis would be extremely important in establishing what led two teens, both with promising futures ahead of them, to kill Scott Franz’s mother and stepfather. Was it cold-blooded murder or, as Bruce would later claim, a tragic accident caused by a faulty firearm?Sources:[Blood Knot: The Trial and Conviction of Bruce Curtis by David Hayes][State v. Curtis :: 1984 :: New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division :: Justia][Two 18-year-olds, one from Nova Scotia, were held today… - UPI Archives][A disputed killing in New Jersey | Maclean’s | APRIL 16, 1984][Curtis’s long trip home | Maclean’s | MARCH 7, 1988][National Film Board of Canada - Journey Into Darkness: The Bruce Curtis Story][Dalhousie - The Gazette - Volume 117, Number 22 - February 21, 1985][Canadians Mount Campaign To Obtain Man in New Jersey Prison][YouTube - Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story - 1992 NBC Sunday Night Movie][Crime-Sep-24-1989-947717 | NewspaperArchive][Scott Franz’s Home - GoogleMaps][Bruce Curtis and Scott Franz case - MemoryNS][Shootings of Alfred and Rosemary Podgis - Wikipedia] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 170 - In November of 1902, a rancher named Issac Belt from Haynes Creek near Red Deer, Alberta, had gone missing. Investigating officers had gone to Belt’s ranch to question a young man calling himself Bert Ellsworth, who was suspected of horse theft, who had been lending a hand there. That young man and Belt were both missing. Police discovered the man claiming to be Ellsworth at a camp on the outskirts of Calgary. Some of Belt’s personal belongings were in Cashel's possession, and Cashel was wearing Issac's clothes. In reality, his name was Ernest Cashel, a 21-year-old American. He was on the run from U.S. and Canadian authorities for forgery and other crimes, including escaping from custody several times. Cashel was arrested and charged with theft and later charged with Isaac Belt’s murder, convicted and sentenced to hang. Cashel escaped one last time, only days before he was to be executed, and was on the run for more than a month before being recaptured and sent to see his maker via the hangman.Sources:[The Case of Ernest Cashel | Maclean’s | December 1st 1930][Ernest Cashel - Wikipedia][2 Feb 1904, Page 1 - Vancouver Daily World at Newspapers.com][Ernest Cashel Hanged at Calgary - Newspapers.com][Scoundrels and Scallywags: Characters from Alberta’s Past by Brian Brennan][The Pursuit of Ernest Cashel by MJ Malcolm][14 Dec 1929, 39 - The Province at Newspapers.com][Ernest Cashel Hanged - page 3 - Newspapers.com][Hanged - Edmonton Journal (archived)][Ernest Cashel on way to trial, Calgary, Alberta - Photo][Ernest Cashel Story - Glenbow.org - January 30 - February 5][Biography – NOLAN, PATRICK JAMES – Volume XIV (1911-1920)] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 169: On the evening of Christmas Day in 2017, upon gaining access to an Oak Bay, British Columbia apartment, police discovered a bloody crime scene. In the suite were the bodies of six-year-old Chloe Berry and her four-year-old sister, Aubrey Berry. They had been murdered in their beds. First responders also discovered Andrew Berry, Chloe and Aubrey’s father, naked, seriously injured and bleeding in the apartment's bathtub. He had penetrating injuries to his left chest and throat. First responders took Andrew by ambulance to Victoria General Hospital for treatment. He’d eventually have a rather tall tale to tell about what had taken place that day.Sources:R. v Berry, 2019 BCSC 2362 (CanLII), < [https://canlii.ca/t/j5tr8]>[Global News - SEARCH - Andrew Berry][Oak Bay News - SEARCH - Andrew Berry][Search Results | Times Colonist - Andrew Berry][Oak Bay Police Note - Twitter][Photo exhibits from Andrew Berry murder trial - BC | Globalnews.ca][Mom of slain Oak Bay sisters supports recent changes to Canada’s Divorce Act | Globalnews.ca][Chloe & Aubrey Berry Bursary Fund - Victoria Foundation] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 168 - On the evening of July 28, 2010, Nadine Anne Taylor, a 29-year-old woman in Halifax, Nova Scotia, left the Convoy Avenue apartment in Fairview she shared with her boyfriend, Gene. Nadine, who did not have a telephone, told Gene she needed to make a call, left her home and walked a nearby payphone to make a call. She was never seen alive again. Sources and Further Reading:[CANADA - Canada - Nadine Taylor, 29, Halifax NS, 28 July 2010][Police locate human remains | Halifax]R. v. Laffin, 2013 NSSC 135 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/fx9dc] >R. v. Laffin, 2013 NSSC 136 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/fxb17] >[Global News SEARCH: Steven Elliot Laffin][Steven Laffin | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers][Obituary of Nadine Anne Taylor | J Albert Funeral Home][Fears grow for missing Halifax woman | CBC News][Fact Sheet - Prostitution Criminal Law Reform: Bill C-36, the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act][Stepping Stone Nova Scotia | Sex Worker Support][51 Weyburn Road - Dartmouth, NS - Google Maps][Luminol - Wikipedia][R.I.P Nadine Taylor - Facebook Group] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 167: On July 13, 1994, just after 2:00 am, police responded to a 911 call from Sebastian Burns, 18. Sebastian and his friend, Atif Rafay, also 18, claimed they had discovered ‘some kind of break in’ and multiple deaths at Atif’s family home in Bellevue, Washington. A bloody crime scene awaited the first responders. All three of the victims, Tariq and Sultana, Atif’s parents and his sister, Basma, had been bludgeoned to death. Right away, something felt off to the Bellevue Police, who focused their attention on the pair of young men who’d reported the crime. But did they get it right?Sources:United States of America v. Burns, 1997 CanLII 3271 (BC CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/1dzl0>United States v. Burns, 2001 SCC 7 (CanLII), [2001] 1 SCR 283, <https://canlii.ca/t/523r>[168 Wn. App. 734, STATE V. RAFAY][Rafay Burns Appeal Site][Sebastian Burns 911 Call - YouTube][On the Margins of Freedom | The Walrus][Written In Blood - CBS News][Confessions of Murder ; Exposing the False Confessions Created from the Mr. Big Stings by Alan R. Warren | eBooks - Scribd][The wrongful convictions of Sebastian Burns and … - En Vero][Give Them Enough Rope - Shawn Blore][YouTube - Sebastian Burns Pre-Sentence Statement Part 1 of 6]https://fuqrafiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WMFuqraWash.pdf Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the early morning hours of November 17, 2001, officers from the Vancouver Police were dispatched to the Second Beach area of Stanley Park. Several callers to 911 indicated that there had been some kind of altercation and a group of man had badly beaten another man. Two VPD constables arrived at the Second Beach parking lot within minutes of being called to find a distraught man frantically providing CPR to a bloodied man on the ground. The man on the ground was naked except for socks and shoes. Police assessed the man’s condition and immediately called for an ambulance. The paramedics from the BC Ambulance Service arrived quickly, but determined that it was too late. Aaron Zane Donald Webster, 42-year-old and a member of Vancouver’s gay community, was dead. He had been brutally beaten with a blunt instrument and his killers had skittered off into the night leaving Aaron to die. Aaron’s death would be come to be recognized as Canada’s most well-known and notorious cases of ‘gay bashing’. Guest Host: Mathew Stockton (Steve the dog's dad) Sources:R. v. J.S., 2003 BCPC 442 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/1g7d2>R. v. A.C., 2003 BCPC 508 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/1hd4j>R. v. Cran and Rao, 2004 BCSC 1635 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/1jfdp>R. v. Cran, 2005 BCSC 171 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/1jr5n>R. v. J.S., 2005 BCPC 556 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/1m420>R. v. Cran, 2006 BCCA 464 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/1ps4p>[Wright, N. (2011). Murder in the park : civic identity-making and space in Vancouver. University of British Columbia.][Aaron Webster | Xtra Magazine][The murder that changed us | Xtra Magazine][Ten Years After Aaron Webster’s Death, What’s Changed? | The Tyee][Stanley Park Rawlings Trail, Gay Vancouver Cruising Areas][Stanley Park | City of Vancouver][Search - Aaron Webster - 2001 - Newspapers.com][Aaron Webster - CHF BC][Aaron Webster Housing Co-operative – Original Site – Community Land Trust][QMUNITY — BC’s Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Resource Centre][Pflag Canada] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s 2021. It’s been a hell of a year and Dark Poutine is still ticking along. That said, I need a quick break for my sanity and to do some behind the scenes work to freshen up some of the elements the show. Dark Poutine will be returning on April 19, 2021, with the same level of careful research and compassionate, personal story telling with new guest hosts, a shiny new logo and some new music. See you in a month, so until then, don’t forget to be a good egg and not a bad apple. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 165: On the afternoon of July 24, 2015, the RCMP were called by the residents of 192 Pleasant Grove Road, outside of Charlottetown in Prince Edward Island. They said that the night before there had been a fight between a man, Joel Lawrence Clow, 46, and a woman, Clow’s 40-year-old on an off-again girlfriend and mother of one, Traci Lynn Lynch. Responding officers knew they would be investigating a domestic dispute, they’d dealt with Traci and Joel before. Things became more serious when cops discovered Traci, deceased on Clow’s property.Sources: R v. Clow, 2017 PESC 9 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/h4g38 >R v. Clow, 2017 PESC 10 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/h4g39 >R v. Clow, 2017 PESC 12 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/h5jd3>R v Clow, 2019 PECA 5 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/hxmb0 > Trial - Day 1 Trial - Day 2 Trial - Day 3 Trial - Delay Trial - Day 4 Trial - Day 5 Trial - Day 6 Trial - Day 7 Trial - Day 7b Trial - Day 8 How This P.E.I. Program Helps Women Take Back Control After Leaving Abusive Relationships | CBC News | Ethical Editor Belvedere Funeral Home - Traci Lynch Obituary Clow / Lynch Timeline - CBC Why People Stay - The Hotline Ending Violence Association of Canada Domestic Violence and Abuse - HelpGuide.org Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 164: On July 12, 1997, in the town of Kitimat, British Columbia, after months of tension, tempers boiled over, and a violent altercation took place between a mad man and four young men. Three of the men, Michael Mauro and Mark Teves, both 20 and 21-year-old David Nunes were dead, and another, 20-year-old Donny Oliveira, was barely clinging to life after a local man named Kevin Louis Vermette allegedly blasted away at the group with a sawed-off shotgun before disappearing into the brush. He is still on the loose almost 24 years later. Co-host: Carol Browne Sources: Suspected BC murderer: Vermette still on the loose | Dawson Creek Mirror $25,000 reward in Kitimat triple murder cold case set to expire | Globalnews.ca Wanted by the RCMP: Kevin Louis Vermette | Royal Canadian Mounted Police B.C. town rescinds $25,000 reward for info on 1997 triple-murder. Some donors want their money back | National Post A hockey game gets rowdy, and other Kitimat police files this week – Kitimat Northern Sentinel Wanted man who fled B.C. city 16 years ago may be alive: RCMP - The Globe and Mail Experienced outdoorsman flees into forest after killing 3 young adults and injuring another with a shotgun. Police believe he may still be alive. : UnresolvedMysteries Fifteen years on, the questions remain – Terrace Standard America’s Most Wanted Fans - Kevin Vermette KEVIN LOUIS VERMETTE | Wanted For Murder (July 1997, Kitimat, BC) Wanted by the RCMP - Kevin Louis VERMETTE CANADA’S MOST WANTED: These killers are on the run; have you seen them? | Toronto Sun America’s Most Wanted - Season 22 Episode 32: May 23, 2009 - Metacritic Community Profile - District of Kitimat Unsolved Mysteries - Board With Everything amw.com | Kevin Vermette - Fugitive Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 163: In New Brunswick, in the fall of 1922 a convicted double murderer named Bennie Swim was hanged for the murder of the woman he loved, his first cousin Olive and her husband, Harvey Trenholm. Bennie didn’t die the first time, so the authorities hanged him again. Co-host: Carol BrownePromo: MurderishSources: The Ballad of Benny Swim (original) - Mike Q - YouTube Hanged Twice_Benny Swim Bennie Swim | Cases | Crime and Punishment | Projects | Faculty of Arts | UNB ExecutedToday.com » 1922: Benny Swim, “dead as a door-nail” (or not) The Carleton County Man Who Was Hung Twice ”Benny Swim” Benny “Bennie” Swim (1899-1922) - Find A Grave Memorial The Life of a Screw - Douglas E. Arch Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada: Poplak, Lorna HistoricPlaces.ca - HistoricPlaces.ca Harvey Dixon Trenholm (1883-1922) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree Olive M (Swim) Trenholm (1905-1922) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree Benny Swim (1899-1922) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree William Guy Carr - Wikipedia This Week in New Brunswick History http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/canada.html Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 162: In July of 2013, on a busy summer night in downtown Toronto, police received several calls about a man on a streetcar brandishing a knife and threatening passengers and the transit operator. After an encounter with police lasting only 50 seconds, 18-year-old Sammy Yatim had been shot nine times and later died from his wounds. As videos of the incident surfaced, many people were outraged, claiming that the police had used excessive force and calling for the head of the officer who had pulled the trigger.Co-host: Carol BrownePromo: Ignorance Was BlissSources:Global News | Search - Sammy YatimToronto Police shoot Sammy Yatim on TTC streetcar - Markus Grupp YouTubeEnhanced audio/video - Shooting of Sammy Yatim by Toronto Police Const. Forcillo on July 27, 2013 - YouTubeTTC surveillance camera 1 - YouTubeTTC surveillance camera 2 - YouTubeTTC surveillance camera 3 - YouTubeTTC surveillance camera 4 - YouTubeThe Killing of Sammy Yatim | Toronto LifeSammy’s Fight Back for Justice - Home | FacebookShooting of Sammy Yatim - WikipediaSpecial Investigations Unit — News ReleaseJames Forcillo bail decision | Bail | AppealReasons for the sentence of James Forcillo | Murder | Crime & ViolenceJames Forcillo parole decision | Parole | Probation OfficerPolice Encounters With People in Crisis 2014 | Emergency Department | Mental Health Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 161 - On a warm July day in 1986, 11-year-old Alison Parrott was lured from her Toronto home by a man on the phone claiming to be a sports photographer who wanted to take photos of the young athlete. Two boys discovered Alison’s body in a heavily wooded section of Kings Mill Park two days later. She had been bound, raped and strangled to death. It would take a decade before science caught up to the point where her killer could be brought to justice.Co-Host: Carol BrowneSources:R. v. Roy, 2003 CanLII 4272 (ON CA), < [https://canlii.ca/t/drk] >[Exhibit A - Killer in a Box][Alison Parrott: Leader of the pack | Globalnews.ca][YouTube - Crime Beat TV Show - Alison Parrott][Murder of Alison Parrott - Wikipedia][The horror of child murders | Maclean’s | AUGUST 11, 1986][Parrott’s Killer Convicted | The Canadian Encyclopedia][FindAGrave.com - Alison May Campbell Parrott][GIRL FOLLOWED RULES, BUT KILLER WON GAME - Chicago Tribune][Jury convicts Roy in Alison Parrot murder | CBC News][News Article - Toronto Star Ottawa Bureau][Staring down evil - The Globe and Mail][Why millions in Crime Stoppers rewards go unclaimed | The Star][Girls who went missing in Ontario: Solved and unsolved cases | The Star][Colin Pitchfork - Wikipedia][Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System | Royal Canadian Mounted Police][What is ViCLAS – What is ViCLAS][Stay Alert Stay Safe PSA#3 - YouTube] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 160 - Elena Tchoudakova was a beautiful, outgoing and vibrant 23-year-old Russian woman attending Interior Design at Toronto’s Ryerson University. In January of 1995 Elena was discovered in her apartment, she’d been brutally beaten to death and left in her bathub. There were a number of suspects with means and motive but only one with opportunity.Co-host: Carol BrowneSources:[The Russian Princess Case: MacDonald, Bruce: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store]R. v. Ho, 1999 CanLII 3823 (ON CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/1f9wr>[50 Cambridge Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Housecreep][Tchoudakova : Toronto Public Library][Interactive: Toronto homicides since 1990 | The Star][Can a theatre program help rehabilitate Ontario prisoners? | The Star] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 159: In the early 1980s near the small town of Rulo, Nebraska a white-supremacist cult leader named Michael Wayne Ryan and his band of followers took over a local farm essentially stealing it from the property owner. They burglarized nearby businesses and residences to fund their survival after the upcoming battle of Armageddon prophesied in the Books of Revelations. Ryan, a proponent the Christian Identity movement’s doctrines with links to an anti-government group called Posse Comitatus spewed antisemitic views, the supremacy of the white race and planned to take down the government. In 1982 Ryan was arrested for the torture and murder of, Luke Stice, the 5-year-old son of the property’s former owner and the torture killing of one of his followers, 27-year-old, James Thimm.Co-host: Carol BrowneSources:[Michael Wayne Ryan | Murderpedia][Michael W. Ryan - Wikipedia][Christian Identity and Religions of America (Joseph Baker)][Evil Harvest: The True Story of Cult Murder in the American Heartland][Nebraska Inmate Details][Cult Education Institute :: Group Information Archives][Christian Identity | Extremism in America | ADL][ROSS] Facts[NIGHTMARE IN RULO - Chicago Tribune][State v. Ryan :: 1989 :: Nebraska Supreme Court Decisions :: Justia][Dennis Ryan | Omaha Magazine][SPLCenter.org: Identity Crisis][Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville Timeline][PolitiFact | Donald Trump’s ‘very fine people on both sides’ remarks (transcript)][Rick Ross, Executive Director] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 158 - Twenty-three-year-old nurse and former beauty queen, Alexandra Wiwrachuk, thought the warm spring night in 1962 would be perfect for a walk down by the river before her midnight shift at Saskatoon’s City Hospital. Alexandra did not show up for work that night, and it was not until thirteen days later that children stumbled upon her broken body in a shallow grave. Someone had savagely beaten the young woman, brutally raped her and then buried her alive, leaving her to die. Nearly sixty years later, no one has ever been brought to justice in Alexandra Wiwcharuk’s murder.Co-host: Carol BrowneSources:https://justiceforalex.comhttp://alexandrawiwcharuk.net/index.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/alexandrawiwcharuk/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_murders_in_Canadahttps://thestarphoenix.remembering.ca/obituary/alexandra-wiwcharuk-1074725458https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0068LY6BE/ Girl In Saskatoon - Doc Johnny Cash - The Girl in Saskatoon SASKATOON POLICESaskatoon Police [email protected] SASKATOON CRIME STOPPERSCrime Stoppers1-800-222-8477 THE NIECES OF ALEXANDRANieces Official [email protected] (toll free)All calls private and confidential! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 157 - From the late 1920s until after the Second World War, Lila and William Young ran the Ideal Maternity Home and Sanitarium for Unwed Mothers at East Chester, Nova Scotia. The pair have been referred to as ‘baby farmers’ who sold healthy newborns to wealthy couples with the means to pay and left the less viable to die of starvation. Estimates are that more than 100 and as many as 400 to 600 babies may have died in their care. Many of these deceased infants were quietly buried in wooden butter boxes at various sites around the area, while it is believed that others may have been disposed of in the nearby Atlantic Ocean.Co-host: Carol BrowneSources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_Maternity_Homehttps://canadiancrc.com/Butterbox-Babies_Killers-Child-Trafficking-Canada/Butterbox_Survivors.aspxhttps://canadiancrc.com/Butterbox-Babies_Killers-Child-Trafficking-Canada/Butterbox-Babies-Baby-killers-child-trafficking-selling-babies-Canada-adoption-story.aspxhttps://murderpedia.org/female.Y/y/young-gladys-lila.htmhttp://archive.macleans.ca/article/1995/1/9/maternal-damnationhttps://www.amazon.ca/Butterbox-Survivors-Robert-Hartlen/dp/1551092905https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184030298/eva-margaret-nieforthhttps://www.scribd.com/read/238627429/Deadly-Duoshttps://www.scribd.com/read/350837071/True-Crime-Confidential-Volume-4-True-Crime-Confidential-4#b_search-menu_662236https://www.scribd.com/read/230097379/Cold-North-Killers-Canadian-Serial-Murderhttps://web.archive.org/web/20010606012612/http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/bhartlenhttp://bastards.org/nova-scotiahttps://commons.allard.ubc.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=emeritus_pubs Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 156 - In 2006, Thomas George Svekla, 38, a man who’d been in and out of trouble since 16, became the focus of a murder investigation lead by the Project KARE task force. Svekla was a suspect in as many as twelve murders. He was only ever charged with two slayings, that of Theresa Innes and Rachel Quinney, but was designated a dangerous offender for his long history of violent offences.Co-host: Carol BrowneSources:R. v. Svekla, 2007 ABQB 557 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/1sxk0>R. v. Svekla, 2009 ABQB 181 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/22w61>R. v. Svekla, 2009 ABQB 187 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/22xkx>R. v. Svekla, 2009 ABQB 193 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/22zrg>R. v. Svekla, 2010 ABQB 370 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/2b5xx>R. v. Svekla, 2010 ABCA 390 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/2dz2f>R. v. Svekla, 2011 ABCA 154 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/flk2b>Edmonton Journal - June 8, 2008 - Tom Svekla's Secret Lifehttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/edmonton-killer-gets-life-no-parole-for-17-years/article18452563/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 155: The holidays can be a notoriously hard time for people who either miss loved ones or have a hard time being around them so much. For those reasons, we take a break from all the murder and mayhem and try to bring you a little holiday cheer with a bit of a dark edge. This year, for our fourth Christmas, themed episode, we learn about the global depictions of Santa Claus, some dark Christmas traditions from around the world, and Krampus, the Christmas Demon. See you in the new year!Co-host: Carol BrowneSources:https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholashttps://www.whychristmas.com/customs/fatherchristmas.shtmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampushttp://www.krampus.com/krampus-on-the-web.phphttps://www.thethings.com/15-terrifying-christmas-stories-that-will-put-you-in-true-holiday-spirit-this-year/ https://carterhaughschool.com/10-spooky-ghost-stories-for-christmastime/ https://www.scaryforkids.com/christmas-stories/ https://litreactor.com/columns/20-ghost-and-horror-stories-for-christmashttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-do-ghost-stories-go-christmas-180961547/ https://carterhaughschool.com/10-spooky-ghost-stories-for-christmastime/ https://www.icelandairhotels.com/magazine/blog/icelands-13-yule-lads-maghttps://www.ranker.com/list/story-of-icelandic-yule-brothers/erin-wistihttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71999/9-facts-about-krampus-st-nicks-demonic-companionhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Enkiduhttps://thecompanion.in/christmas-eclipse-festival-saturnalia/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 154 - Twenty-three year old Gordon Adrian Kralt had been the caretaker for a Bible camp on Vancouver Island when he went missing on Halloween in 1970. Gordon was found two weeks later, he had been brutally slain. Tracking down Gordie’s killer uncovered a career psychopath who was believed to have killed before. Co-host: Carol BrowneWritten by: Josina De BreeSources:Regina v. Stewart, 1972 CanLII 1445 (BC CA), <http://canlii.ca/t/hv006> Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 153 - Between 2002 and 2005, Charles Eli Kembo, a refugee from Malawi, murdered four people, his business partner, Arden Samuel, his stepdaughter, Rita Yeung, his girlfriend, Sui Yin Ma, and his wife, Margaret Kembo, whose body has never been found. He set up elaborate schemes to steal their identities, set up false bank accounts, insurance claims, and run up credit in his victims’ names. Sources:R. v. Kembo, 2010 BCSC 914 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/2bbxq>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kembo-guilty-of-4-murders-b-c-jury-1.911825https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/33466/DiSanto_Julianne_M_2016_PhD.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=2https://www.refworld.org/docid/467bb4921e.htmlhttps://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/campaigns/immigration-matters/system.html#screeninghttps://www.pressreader.com/canada/national-post-latest-edition/20100306/289579580900497https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/serial-killer-charles-kembo-book_n_1070290https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/serial-killer-charles-kembo-loses-appealhttps://jezebel.com/meet-the-kids-author-who-is-also-a-serial-killer-5856417https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/murder-suspect-has-lengthy-list-of-offences/article4313841/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/predator-kembo-guilty-sentenced-to-life/article4388720/https://www.straight.com/news/jury-finds-charles-kembo-guilty-four-counts-first-degree-murderhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kembo-guilty-of-4-murders-b-c-jury-1.911825http://www.primetimecrime.com/Recent/Murder/Charles%20Kembo.htmhttps://www.surreynowleader.com/news/four-time-surrey-murderer-loses-conviction-appeal/https://bc.ctvnews.ca/crown-says-kembo-killed-4-to-steal-identities-1.443147https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/serial-killer-charles-kembo-s-lawyer-calls-trial-bewildering-1.2625206 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 152: In November of 1992, a twenty-four-year-old woman came forward to Kipling, Saskatchewan RCMP, accusing a respected local doctor, John Schneeberger, of sexual assault. After years of ridicule from other Kipling residents who refused to believe her claims, the young woman finally found some justice. When the truth saw the light, it uncovered one of the strangest and most devious criminals in Canadian history. Co-host: Carol BrownePromo: True Crime IslandSources:Canada v. Schneeberger, 2003 FC 970 (CanLII), [2004] 1 FCR 280, <http://canlii.ca/t/1fx21>Midazolam aka VersedTown of Kipling, SKWikipedia - John SchneebergerHBO's Autopsy 7: Dead Men TalkingForensic Files - Bad Blood - Season 6 Episode 13ForensicFilesNow - What Happened to Dr. John Schneeberger?Justice Denied: Extraordinary miscarriages of justiceTime Magazine - A Brief History of DNA TestingThe endless nightmare of Lisa Dillman5 Ways to Recover From Being Cheated, Lied to or ManipulatedSexAssault.caWAVAW.caBC Victim Services & Violence Against Women Program Directory Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 151 - On January at 10:30 p.m., a 911 operator took a call from a seemingly distraught sixteen-year-old girl. When Peel Police arrived at the Mississauga, Ontario home two teenage girls, Sandra, 16, and Beth, 15, led them upstairs to the bathroom where their mother, Linda Andersen, 43, lie face down, deceased in the tub. For almost a year the police believed Linda's death was a tragic accident, but they learned differently from a young man who could not keep a secret any longer.NOTE: Aliases used to protect the identities of young offenders.co-host: Carol Brownepromo: Minds of MadnessSources:R. v. K.(C.)1 and K. (C.)2, 2005 ONCJ 462 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/1m0c0>R. v. K.(Cr.) and K.(Ct.), 2006 ONCJ 283 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/1p2zx>R. v. J.F., 2011 ONCA 220 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/fkxmb>R. v. J.F., 2013 SCC 12 (CanLII), [2013] 1 SCR 565, <http://canlii.ca/t/fwb36>https://web.archive.org/web/20150120034422/http://nicholasguindon.com/f/C_K_Ruling.PDFhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Linda_Andersenhttps://www.mississauga.com/news-story/3123956-man-who-aided-bathtub-girls-asks-for-more-time/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bathtub-girl-killer-gets-early-release-for-university-studies-1.854264https://www.citynews1130.com/2014/04/09/from-murder-to-law-school-story-of-ontario-sisters-who-drowned-mom-now-a-movie/ https://www.thestar.com/search.html?q=bathtub%20girls&pagenum=2https://www.newspapers.com/search/legacy/#query=bathtub+girls+mississauga&dr_year=2004-2020&offset=12&p_place=Canadahttps://torontosun.com/news/local-news/bathtub-girls-younger-of-two-sisters-who-killed-mom-in-2003-now-an-articling-student-for-toronto-criminal-lawyer Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 150: Beginning at 7:19 pm Atlantic Daylight Time, on the evening of October 4, 1967, an airline pilot reported seeing an unidentified flying object heading east over Southern Quebec. About 30 minutes later, calls began coming into local authorities reporting strange lights in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean along Nova Scotia’s South Shore. The multiple sightings continued until 11:20 pm that evening when something large crashed into the water just off Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. The mysterious and odd events of that evening are one of Canada’s most enduring and well-documented UFO sightings.Sources:https://shagharbourincident.com/ https://shagharbourufoexpo.com/ http://www.roswellproof.com/Shag_Harbour/Shag_Harbour1_summary.html http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread485206/pg1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shag_Harbour,_Nova_Scotiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shag_Harbour_UFO_incident http://www.ufoevidence.org/Cases/CaseSubarticle.asp?ID=179 https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/unusual/ufo/Pages/default.aspx https://globalnews.ca/news/3761270/canadas-best-documented-ufo-sighting-still-intrigues-50-years-on/ https://globalnews.ca/news/4319302/cousteau-family-members-shag-harbour/ https://www.ufocasebook.com/Shagharbor.html https://ns1763.ca/war-monuments/roycan63anchor/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 149: William Avery (Billy) Bishop was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, on February 8, 1894. When the First World War broke out, as with many young men of his day, Billy was off to Europe to do his part. By the end of the war, Bishop claimed he had survived more than 170 air battles and said he had shot down seventy-two German aircraft. This number left Bishop only three behind René Fonck of France and eight behind The Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, who had 80 kills. These numbers made Bishop the top Canadian and British Empire flying ace of the war and Canada’s most storied veterans. But Billy’s story does come with some controversy.Sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bishophttps://www.scribd.com/book/230095060/The-Courage-of-the-Early-Morning-A-Biography-of-the-Great-Ace-of-World-War-Ihttps://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/people-and-stories/billy-bishophttps://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/100-stories/Pages/bishop.aspxhttps://www.constable.ca/caah/bbishop.htmhttps://www.owensound.ca/en/billy-bishop-museum.aspxhttps://valourcanada.ca/military-history-library/billy-bishop-vc/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-avery-bishophttps://www.theworldwar.org/explore/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/billy-bishophttps://www.nfb.ca/film/the-kid-who-couldnt-miss/https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/educational-magazines/william-billy-avery-bishophttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc2LjoXbX-c Classic WW1 Fighters Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 147: Canada has a long history of folks who have attempted to communicate with the dead - a practice is known as Spiritualism. Some of these have claimed that they can connect directly with those on the other side. Here we will give a bit of history, tell some of their stories and give a how-to primer for entertainment purposes only. We do not recommend, dear listeners, that you make attempts to commune with the beyond using the methods we will speak about later. If you do so and incur negative consequences, we bear no responsibility for your decision to proceed.Co-host: Carol BrowneInterview with: Morgan KnudsenSources:The Fox SistersThe Canadian Spiritualist Movement and Sources for its Study Wikipedia - The Fox SistersTalking Nonsense (thesis)GlobalNews - MacKenzie King Spiritualist AllianceBuckland’s Book of Spirit CommunicationsMary Melville, The Psychic by Flora MacDonaldLearnReligions - How To Hold a Séanceactivehistory.ca Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ride along with 25 year veteran Crime Reporter Nancy Hixt, from Global News, on her award winning podcast Crime Beat as she takes you through some of Canada’s most high-profile criminal cases. Real People, Real Crimes, Real Journalism. Each episode takes you deep inside cases she has worked to give you detail you didn't hear on the news. Season 3 is available NOW - LISTEN​ Crime Beat is the 2020 winner of the Edward R. Murrow Podcast Award (RTDNA). Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 146: On June 13th 1901, Ada Mills Redpath and her son Jocelyn Clifford Redpath were killed in their mansion in on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal. Ada had been shot to the back of the head. Clifford has a gunshot wound to his the temple. The police were not called. A coroner’s inquest the next day declared the deaths a murder-suicide. Ada and Clifford were buried June 15th without any further investigation.Written By: Josina De BreeSources: https://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/redpath/home/indexen.htmlhttps://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/the-m-naghten-rule.htmlhttps://www.epilepsy.com/learn/about-epilepsy-basics/what-epilepsyhttps://www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/epilepsy-aurashttps://www.cureepilepsy.org/for-patients/what-are-the-phases-of-seizures-of-epilepsy/ Denton A, Tellez-Zenteno JF. A patient with epilepsy charged with kidnapping, unlawful confinement, and assault causing bodily harm after seizures: Deficiencies in the legal system. Epilepsy Behav Rep. 2020;13:100361. Published 2020 Mar 21. doi:10.1016/j.ebr.2020.100361 Dougall, L. (2019) The Summit House Mystery; Or, The Earthly Purgatory. Good Press. Original work published 1905. Reuber M, Mackay RD. Epileptic automatisms in the criminal courts: 13 cases tried in England and Wales between 1975 and 2001. Epilepsia. 2008 Jan;49(1):138-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01269.x. PMID: 17727668. Shih JJ, LeslieMazwi T, Falcao G, Van Gerpen J. Directed aggressive behavior in frontal lobe epilepsy: video-EEG and ictal spect case study. Neurology. 2009;73(21):1804-1806. doi:10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181c2933f Devinsky, Orrin. “Postictal psychosis: common, dangerous, and treatable.” Epilepsy currents vol. 8,2 (2008): 31-4. doi:10.1111/j.1535-7511.2008.00227.x Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 145: This episode contains disturbing and graphic details of the 2015 murder of Chinese millionaire, Gang Yuan, in West Vancouver at the hands of his soft-spoken cousin Li Zhao. The crime’s unthinkable and twisted aftermath is horrendous.Sources:Pre-Trial Voire DireR. v Zhao, 2020 BCSC 1322 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/j9jsm>BC v. Child 3, 2019 BCCA 171 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/j09gq>Mother 1 v Solus Trust , 2019 BCSC 200 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/hxnc9> 963 King Georges Way, West Vancouver | Dana Inman - 360hometours.ca961 King Georges Way - Real Estate tour video (renumbered address)961 King Georges Way - Realtor Listing 3333 The CrescentPym IslandNY Times ArticleNational Post Article 2014HBICtv: Ultra Rich Asian Girls - WikipediaHBICtv: YouTubeGlobalNews - Conviction Article Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 144: On the evening of December 27, 2005, in my home province of Nova Scotia, Jason McCrae, husband of a beloved educator, artist, sister and mother named Paula Anne Gallant, reported her missing. Paula failed to return to her home in Timberlea after a shopping trip to nearby Halifax. The next day, Paula’s body was found locked in the trunk of her car in the parking lot of the school where she taught the third grade. The cause of Paula’s death was not immediately evident, nor was it apparent how she had come to be in the trunk of her vehicle.Sources:https://www.scribd.com/document/49878324/Statement-of-Facts-R-v-Jason-Wayne-MacRAEhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Ann_Gallanthttps://web.archive.org/web/20160304180629/http://paulagallant.com/http://silentwitnessnovascotia.ca/paula-anne-gallant/https://www.victimsweek.gc.ca/stories-experience/r3.htmlhttps://caperfrasers.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/paula-gallant-murder-2/https://canadianwomen.org/the-facts/gender-based-violence/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/macrae-strangled-wife-over-700-debt-1.1054417https://haligonia.ca/regan-relieved-closure-coming-for-family-of-paula-gallant-34003/https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2010/08/18/husband_charged_five_years_after_wifes_murder.htmlhttps://damianpenny.com/2011/03/03/justice-at-last-for-paula-gallant/https://pictouadvocate.com/tag/paula-gallant/https://globalnews.ca/news/70852/have-you-met-mr-big/https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/ca/special-reports/women-of-influence-2015/lana-kenny-48909.aspxhttps://www.metro.us/macrae-sentenced-life-in-prison-no-parole-for-15-years/https://dubyadubya.wordpress.com/tag/leslie-conrad/https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/halifax-ns/paul-kenny-9135535https://www.capebretonpost.com/news/local/paula-gallants-husband-says-he-killed-her-in-argument-over-700-gambling-debt-4474/http://thans.ca/paula-gallant-memorial-modified-art-therapy-project/http://musingsbygina.blogspot.com/2007/08/not-so-merry-after-all.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20130701012300/http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ns/news-nouvelles/releases-communiques/Aug1810_133158-eng.htm Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 143: On the island paradise Bermuda in the early morning hours of July 3, 1996, a group of friends were riding in a car headed toward Ferry Reach Park, on the northeastern edge of the island. The vehicle’s occupants were startled when the car’s headlights illuminated a form lying in the middle of the dark and isolated road. They pulled the car over and got out to investigate. The group presumed at first it was an injured dog, but as they approached, they realized that this was a nearly naked and bloodied teenage girl. She was seventeen-year-old, Rebecca Middleton from Belleville, Ontario. Although alive when the strangers found her, Rebecca died from her injuries before authorities could get to her. Rebecca's story and aftermath have become the basis for one of the darkest moments in Bermuda's history.Sources:https://www.amazon.ca/Kill-Me-Once-Twice-Playground-ebook/dp/B07933SB3S/https://web.archive.org/web/20060714193555/http://rebeccamiddleton.org/index.htmlhttps://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/7662753-middleton-murder-accused-deported-from-bermuda/https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/06/29/rebecca-middleton-remembered-20-years-after-her-murder-in-bermuda.htmlhttp://michellesaysso.blogspot.com/2007/05/forget-your-trip-to-bermuda.htmlhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/world/blair-s-wife-asks-bermudian-court-to-reopen-case-of-slain-canadian-1.668711https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Rebecca_Middletonhttp://www.royalgazette.com/letters-to-the-editor/article/20180702/in-memory-of-rebeccahttp://www.royalgazette.com/news/article/20160704/bermuda-remembers-rebecca-middletonhttp://www.royalgazette.com/letters-to-the-editor/article/20171019/embarrassing-that-mundy-gets-executive-treatmenthttp://www.royalgazette.com/crime/article/20171013/mundy-returns-to-jamaicahttp://www.royalgazette.com/letters-to-the-editor/article/20160704/spare-thought-rebecca-middletonhttp://www.royalgazette.com/news/article/20160704/bermuda-remembers-rebecca-middletonhttp://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140409/COMMENT03/140409756http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140915/NEWS/140919824https://youtu.be/lVYhEdSaTEU ID Documentary Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 142: On a chilly, cloudy winter night in early 2005 at a gas station in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, a 24-year-old gas station attendant named Grant de Patie was brutally slain by a callous young man over just $12 and 30 cents worth of gas.Sources:R. v. Pratt, 2006 BCSC 1198 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/1p295>R. v. Pratt, 2007 BCCA 206 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/1r1sv>https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/driver-from-2005-vehicle-dragging-death-in-maple-ridge-dies/https://globalnews.ca/news/5080921/grant-de-patie-killer-darnell-pratt-dies/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%27s_Lawhttps://globalnews.ca/news/5342451/bc-late-night-workers-grants-law/https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/plaque-will-honour-grant-and-worker-safety/https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/03/21/im-a-little-numb-killer-of-b-c-gas-station-attendant-grant-de-patie-dies/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/death-of-toddler-mauled-by-rottweilers-was-accidental-inquest-rules/article960766/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 141 - In late June 1993, police were called to a possible stabbing at a residence in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. In one of the bedrooms, Kenneth John Ladubec, 46, lay dead in a massive pool of blood. His killer was Jacob Leroy Andrew Green, 16, the son of Kenneth's live-in girlfriend. Green was tried as a young offender and found guilty of manslaughter. After Jake's release, all seemed relatively okay. Underneath his cool exterior simmered a rage that would surface again in 1999 when, after a breakup, Jake stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Lesli Yaremko and her parents, Sharon and Terry.Sources:https://moosejaw.ca/Welcome To Moose Jaw - Canada's Most Notorious City R. v. G. (J.L.), 1994 CanLII 4627 (SK CA), <http://canlii.ca/t/1nqnr>R. v. J.L.A.G., 2002 SKQB 289 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/5j7g>https://app.vlex.com/#vid/681138249 Dangerous Offender Applicationhttps://app.vlex.com/#vid/r-v-green-j-681449913 2004 Appealhttps://www.pressreader.com/canada/regina-leader-post/20100626/284223756774309https://www.pressreader.com/canada/saskatoon-starphoenix/20100628/282789237698833https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_offenderhttps://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-753.htmlhttp://criminalnotebook.ca/index.php/Requirements_for_a_Dangerous_Offender_Designationhttps://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/hghrsk-ffndrs-hndb/index-en.aspxhttps://www.defencegroup.ca/blog/crime/what-are-dangerous-offenders/https://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/research/r125-eng.shtmlhttps://www.macleans.ca/canadas-most-dangerous-places-2020/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412652-moose-jaw-murders-and-other-deaths Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 140: On July 22, 2018, at around 10:00 pm, calls flooded Toronto's 911 call centre. There was a man on Danforth shooting at people in the streets and in the restaurants and cafes in Greektown. After the 16-minute rampage, 13 people were wounded, 10-year-old Julianna Kozis and 18-year-old Reese Fallon had been killed and the gunman had completed suicide. Even after two intensive investigations, one question remains - Why?Sources:https://globalnews.ca/news/4347334/toronto-danforth-shooting-timeline-map/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Toronto_shootinghttps://www.torontopolice.on.ca/publications/files/20190621-danforth_shootings_findings_of_investigation.pdfhttps://www.siu.on.ca/en/directors_report_details.php?drid=165https://globalnews.ca/news/5416470/toronto-police-danforth-shooting-investigation/|https://globalnews.ca/news/4346833/danforth-shooting-what-we-know-about-suspect/https://globalnews.ca/?s=danforth+shootinghttps://globalnews.ca/tag/julianna-kozis/https://globalnews.ca/?s=reese+fallonhttps://globalnews.ca/?s=faisal+hussainhttps://canadiantruecrime.ca/news/2018/4/24/canadian-crime-podcast-eventhttps://www.arbormemorial.ca/highland-scarborough/obituaries/reese-fallon/21923https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incelhttps://youtu.be/xmiM91Elbn8 https://youtu.be/4mMgJML1pbY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1igcEIdikZwhttps://twitter.com/stilez/status/1021242759401779201?lang=en Trigger Warning: Shooting Video Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 139: On September 27, 2017, when Dianna Mah-Jones failed to show up for her shift without calling in sick, her co-workers were concerned. Neither Dianna nor her husband, Richard Jones, was answering the phone. One of Dianna's colleagues went to the couple's home in Vancouver's Marpole neighbourhood and discovered what appeared to be a bloody crime scene. Dianna and Richard lay dead inside the house, brutally murdered. After a complex and intense investigation police had their suspect. He was an odd man, with an odder name and an ever more odd explanation for what he had done.Sources:R. v Kam, 2020 BCSC 893 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/j897x> Complete Vancouver police interrogation of Rocky Rambo Wei Nam Kam | Vancouver Sun2017 Health Care Hero Vancouver Coastal: Dianna Mah Jones - BC Health Care Awards Thrill KillingUBC MemoriamGlobal News - Marpole MurdersCrime Scene Evidence Photos Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 138 - On the afternoon of May 10, 1973, a stranger entered the CIBC branch on Main St in the small town of Kenora, Ontario. The man, claiming he had a bomb, demanded all the money in the bank. (Photo credit: Don Dutton, Toronto Star)Sources:CJRL Covers the Kenora Bank Robbery 10 May 1973Devil's Gap by Joe Ralkohttps://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Paul_Higginshttps://www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/missing-disparus/case-dossier.jsf?case=2016065871&id=10https://www.thestar.com/photos/toronto_star_photo_blog/2017/05/remembering-don-dutton-through-his-photos.html https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/1067788 (gore warning)https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_Criminal_Sentencing/Cases/Robbery#Bank_robberyhttps://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/bank-crime-statistics-2018.pdf/viewhttps://www.trentu.ca/indigenous/welcome/about-chanie-wenjackhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Canadian_Imperial_Bank_of_Commerce_bank_robbery Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 137 - At 9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 19, 1914, the worst coal mining disaster in Canadian history occurred at Hillcrest, Alberta, in the Crowsnest Pass region of western Canada.Episode written by Josina de BreeSources:Anderson, Frank. “Hillcrest Mine Disaster” (Triumph and Tragedy in the Crowsnest Pass. Diana Wilson, Heritage House Publishing, Surrey, BC, 2005)www.crowsnest.bc.cawww.crowsnest-highway.cawww.hillcrestminedisaster.comArchival Holding PR0740. Provincial Archives of Alberta. https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/Details.aspx?ObjectID=PR0740&dv=True&deptID=1https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war/canada/Canada3https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_(Handel)http://www.indsci.com/the-monitor-blog/carbon-monoxide-carbon-dioxide/https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/hw193731https://alchetron.com/Hillcrest-mine-disasterhttps://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2466176980 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 136 - In July of 1998, Keith Scott Black went missing. He was a respected Taekwondo instructor who had three schools near Kelowna., B.C., where he taught with his wife, Rhonda Petra Black. Rhonda was saying Keith had abandoned her, but Keith's sister Sandy and the cops knew there was more to the story. After five long years the story came to a conclusion as the true story emerged as did Keith's remains.Sources:R. v. Black, 2007 BCSC 1105 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/1s6zv> R. v. Steadman, 2008 BCSC 1613 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/21nmn> http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx5MLf3sdRQ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 135 - In the wee hours of Saturday, October 11, 2008, after an altercation with his cousin and one of two roommates, 21-year-old, Dylan Koshman, left the Edmonton home he shared and out into the night wearing only sneakers, jeans and a t-shirt. Dylan has not been seen since and what was thought to be a missing person case was upgraded to homicide in 2017 by the Edmonton Police Service. Dylan's mother, Melanie Alix, and his sister, Tara Koshman, were kind enough to share with us about Dylan's disappearance and their years long search for him.DOB/Age: 21 at the age of disappearanceEPS File #:08-136304 Dylan went missing on October 11, 2008 from the residence at 10404-33 Avenue.The circumstances of his disappearance are very suspicious and he has not been heard or seen since that date. There is a reward of up to $40,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person(s) responsible for this homicide. If you have any information on this or any other crime, please contact the Edmonton Police Service Complaint Line at 780-423-4567 or the Edmonton Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or submit your tip online. Please reference the EPS file number when possible.Sources and Further Reading:https://globalnews.ca/search/dylan%20koshman/https://pleasebringmehome.com/dylan-koshman/https://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2016-2017/the-disappearance-of-dylan-koshmanThe Disappearance of Dylan Koshman - The Fifth EstateEPS open hotline in Dylan Koshman casehttps://www.facebook.com/helpfinddylankoshman/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/dylan-koshman-edmonton-missing-person-homicide-investigation-1.4037783https://www.edmontonpolice.ca/CrimeFiles/Homicides/2000/DylanKOSHMANhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/dylankoshman/https://discovermoosejaw.com/local/koshman-case-approaches-10-years-oldhttps://jerkshirehathaway.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/seven-years-ago-my-best-friend-disappeared/https://www.metro.us/mom-holds-hope-for-son/http://lostfacesofthemissing.blogspot.com/2008/11/monday4-missing-dylan-koshman.html Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 134 - On the morning of October 22, 2014, an armed terrorist murdered Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, one of three honour guards at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario. Immediately after that, the man shot his way into the Parliament Buildings but was quickly neutralized by security service officers inside our nation's capital. Further Reading and Sources:Nathan Cirillohttps://globalnews.ca/news/1630945/nathan-cirillo-soldier-and-dog-rescuerhttps://truepatriotlove.com/http://www.standonguardfund.com/https://globalnews.ca/news/6067053/nathan-cirillo-five-year-anniversary/https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/nathan-cirillo-obituary?pid=179271124https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nathan-cirillo-tributes-pour-in-for-young-father-photographed-by-tourists-moments-before-fatal-9812599.htmlhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/cpl-nathan-cirillo-mourned-at-funeral-in-hamilton-1.2814727https://youtu.be/fWtNKJ22a8Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWC5XyjKCO0 GLOBAL: Ottawa Shooting: Who tried to save Nathan Cirillo's life?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVFesFLnbm0 GLOBAL: Nathan Cirillo's family delivers statement on his tragic deathhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FfnZgVeaKI https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-story-of-the-strangers-who-tried-to-save-cpl-nathan-cirillo/https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/remembering-cpl-nathan-cirillo/https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/2014/10/28/letter-to-the-son-of-corporal-nathan-cirillo.htmlhttps://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-man-who-comforted-cpl-nathan-cirillo-in-his-last-moments-is-haunted-by-the-parliament-hill-shootinghttps://www.insideottawavalley.com/news-story/4948067-cpl-nathan-cirillo-mourned-as-kid-at-heart-/https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2014/10/22/soldier_fatally_shot_on_parliament_hill_identified_as_nathan_cirillo_of_hamilton.htmlhttps://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/22/soldier_slain_at_war_memorial_remembered_as_compassionate.htmlhttps://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/12/21/slain_soldiers_cirillo_vincent_named_newsmaker_of_the_year.htmlhttps://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/11/15/facebook-shuts-down-fake-profile-with-cpl-nathan-cirillos-photos-to-contact-women.htmlhttps://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/remembering-cpl-nathan-cirillo-five-years-after-he-was-killed-1.4649966VIDEO and AUDIO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjZG099WJm4 3 camerashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrGqoISd-do Gunfirehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cev1D4c1tqU EXCLUSIVE: Parliament Hill gunman shot 31 timeshttps://youtu.be/v4wfzWJ2Hwo How Kevin Vickers managed to subdue Ottawa gunmanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu5XX-OTunc Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers receives a standing ovationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OABF6RrNH6c RAW Ottawa shooting aftermathhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1H98uSBIfw Ottawa shooting: CCTV shows suspect arriving at parliament - BBC NewsRadicalization Informationhttps://www.ltai.info/https://web.archive.org/web/20130703015057/https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/nsci-ecsn/rad/youth-jeune-eng.pdfhttps://www.scribd.com/book/323301024/What-You-Need-to-Know-About-ISIS-Terror-Religion-War-the-Caliphate-TERRORISMhttps://theglobalcoalition.org/en/The Shooterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f5m-wjA6kA Video made by Parliament Hill shooterhttp://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/michael-zehaf-bibeau-addict-drifter-walking-contradiction/http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/michael-zehaf-bibeau-buried-in-libyahttp://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/photos-emerge-nathan-cirillo-shooting-zehaf-bibeau-war-memorialhttp://canlii.ca/t/gf5kghttp://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/6-things-we-learned-about-michael-zehaf-bibeau-and-parliament-hill-shooting-1.2984759https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/11/10/rcmp-hits-wall-in-search-for-origin-of-michael-zehaf-bibeaus-gun.htmlhttps://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/24/parliament_gunman_bought_car_used_in_attack_for_650.htmlhttps://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/24/what_propelled_michael_zehafbibeau_on_path_to_radicalization.htmlMore Related Informationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_shootings_at_Parliament_Hill,_Ottawahttps://youtu.be/iqOrmnBp_nA Rushing to Cpl. Cirillo's aidhttp://www.canada.com/health/loved+ottawa+lawyer+describes+trying+save+nathan+cirillo+with+video/10318953/story.htmlhttps://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/pblc-rprt-trrrsm-thrt-cnd-2018/index-en.aspxhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Canadahttps://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/pblc-rprt-trrrsm-thrt-cnd-2018/index-en.aspxhttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/odds-dying-terrorist-attack-zeeshan-ul-hassan-usmanihttps://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/01/08/ottawa_shooting_hero_kevin_vickers_to_be_named_ambassador_to_ireland.html Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices