Episode 366: On a cold night, March 14, 1980, the city of Toronto was shaken by an act of violence that would leave a deep scar on its police force and forever change the lives of one family. It was the kind of crime that, decades later, still echoes in the halls of justice and the memories of those who lived through it. This is the story of  Constable Michael Sweet, a dedicated police officer, loving husband, and devoted father of three young girls, all under ten years old, who lost his life in the line of duty at the hands of two brothers whose names would become synonymous with brutality: Craig Alfred Munro, 28, and his 21-year-old brother, James Scott Munro.

Sources:

⁠1983 CanLII 3542 (ON CA) | R. v. Munro | CanLII⁠⁠1984 CanLII 3608 (QC CA) | R. v. Vaillancourt | CanLII⁠⁠Oct 20, 1983, page 19 - The Toronto Star at Newspapers.com⁠⁠Oct 28, 1980, page 3 - The Toronto Star at Newspapers.com⁠⁠Mar 21, 1980, page 9 - The Toronto Star at Newspapers.com⁠⁠Mar 19, 1980, page 3 - The Toronto Star at Newspapers.com⁠⁠Mar 17, 1980, page 14 - The Toronto Star at Newspapers.com⁠⁠Mar 15, 1980, page 1 - The Toronto Star at Newspapers.com⁠⁠Mar 15, 1980, page 9 - The Toronto Star at Newspapers.com⁠

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Episode 365: On a humid August morning in 1873, the quiet, tight-knit community of Baker’s Settlement outside of Bridgewater in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, was shattered by a crime so shocking that it would echo for generations. This is the story of Mary Ann Frauzel Mailman—a woman described by her contemporaries as strikingly beautiful, and by all accounts, a devoted mother—whose life ended violently at the hands of her husband, Peter Mailman. The murder and its aftermath would become one of the most infamous cases in the province’s history, both for its brutality and for the chilling window it offered into the darkness that can lurk behind closed doors.

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Episode 364: On June 17, 1958, a warm summer afternoon in Vancouver, British Columbia, the bustling construction site of the Second Narrows Bridge was alive with activity. Seventy-nine workers, including ironworkers, engineers, and painters, were perched high above the waters of Burrard Inlet, labouring to connect Vancouver to the North Shore. Little did they know that in mere moments, their world would come crashing down in what would become the worst industrial disaster in Vancouver's history. Several bridge spans suddenly collapsed as they attempted to join two chords of the unfinished arch. The disaster sent all the bridge builders on shift plummeting 30 meters into the waters below. Tragically, 18 workers lost their lives instantly or shortly after, possibly due to drowning from their heavy tool belts. The death toll rose to 19 when a diver searching for bodies also drowned in the days following the collapse.

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Collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge during Construction | Proceedings | Vol , No

1958 – BC Infrastructure Disaster – Ironworkers Memorial Bridge – Vancouver 1958

Time Traveller: 19 die in 1958 Second Narrows Bridge collapse and ensuing rescue

Second Narrows Bridge Collapse

Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing

The Lions Gate Bridge

The Lions Gate Bridge - And The Lions Who Guard It

Building a Vancouver Icon: The Lions Gate Bridge - Introduction - MONOVA

Jun 18, 1958, page 35 - The Province at Newspapers.com

Last living survivor of Second Narrows Bridge disaster won't let pandemic stop him from honouring dead | CBC News

Check out this historical video report on the 1958 collapse of the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing (VIDEO)

Tragedy at Second Narrows: The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge

Time Traveller: 19 die in 1958 Second Narrows Bridge collapse and ensuing rescue

This Week in History: 1896: The Point Ellice Bridge collapses in Victoria, killing 55

Looking Back: 126 years since 55 killed in catastrophic Victoria bridge collapse

The Point Ellice Bridge Failure

The Point Ellice Bridge Disaster

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Episode 362: On the morning of May 29, 2010, gunshots shattered the quiet of a rural property just outside Cranbrook, British Columbia. By the time police arrived at the scene, two lives had been tragically cut short in an apparent case of mistaken identity.

The victims were Jeffrey Todd Taylor, 42, and Leanne Laura MacFarlane, 43, a couple who had been renting half of a duplex on a large piece of land for about three months. They had no connection to the criminal underworld and appeared to have been innocent victims caught in the crossfire of a drug gang dispute.

Over the last 15 years, authorities and the couple’s family and friends have fought to bring their killers to justice.

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Obituary of Leanne MacFarlane | McPherson Funeral Service - Cranbrook

Remembering the life of Jeffrey Taylor.

City of Cranbrook - Our City

Cranbrook BC | The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Ktunaxa First Nation

4 charged in alleged B.C. murder conspiracy | CBC News

B.C. Court of Appeal orders new trial in Cranbrook double homicide | CBC News

Charges laid 8 years after innocent B.C. pair were killed in targeted shooting | CBC News

Four charged in murder plot that saw innocent Cranbrook couple executed

Masked man held gun to head of slain woman's sister-in-law, court hears

Daughter of Cranbrook woman slain in mistaken identity murders shocked at not guilty verdict

2013 BCSC 828 (CanLII) | R. v. Adams | CanLII

2016 BCCA 330 (CanLII) | R. v. Correia | CanLII

2020 BCSC 608 (CanLII) | R. v Correia | CanLII

2022 BCSC 647 (CanLII) | R. v Correia | CanLII

2024 BCCA 361 (CanLII) | R. v. Correia | CanLII

2025 BCSC 372 (CanLII) | R. v Correia | CanLII

Man who killed 2 in case of mistaken identity sentenced to life in prison | CBC News

Man pleads guilty to Cranbrook mistaken identity murders

Man who killed 2 in case of mistaken identity sentenced to life in prison

Life sentence for man who killed B.C. couple in 2010 mistaken-identity murders

Second person charged in Brampton shooting that killed unintended target

Kingston man killed in Ottawa in what his family believes was a case of mistaken identity

Shooting Of Sikh Family In Canada Case Of Mistaken Identity: Police

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Episode 362: We explore chilling events that unfolded at POW Camp 132 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, during World War II. This prisoner-of-war camp, one of many scattered across Canada, became the site of two brutal murders that shocked even hardened veterans and led to Canada's last mass execution.

In the summer of 1943, August Plaszek, a former French Foreign Legion soldier forcibly integrated into the German army, met a gruesome end at the hands of Nazi hardliners within the camp. Just over a year later, in September 1944, Karl Lehmann, a university professor turned Luftwaffe interpreter, suffered a similar fate for daring to share news of Germany's failing war effort with his fellow prisoners. These murders, born from the complex dynamics of a “little piece of Germany” transplanted to the Canadian prairies, would set in motion a series of dramatic trials that tested the limits of Canadian justice and international law.

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Protected persons: Prisoners of war and detainees | Red Cross

Prisoners of war: What you need to know | Red Cross

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Geneva Conventions | International Humanitarian Law, Protections & History | Britannica

Prisoners of War - Historical Sheet - Second World War - History - Veterans Affairs Canada

Normandy Massacres | Nazi War Crimes, Allied Retaliation & Impact | Britannica

Canadian Prisoners of War

In Enemy Hands | CM Archive

Abbaye d'Ardenne - Veterans Affairs Canada

Three survivors on how they endured oppression, cruelty and abuse as prisoners in Japan during WW II

Camp 132 – Medicine Hat

Illegitimate trials. PoW hangings. A miniature Nazi state on the Prairie. | The Star

When was it unjust to kill seven Nazi soldiers? When it happened in Canada | Globe & Mail

Hanged in Medicine Hat - Sutherland House Publishing

Gestapo PoWs | Legion Magazine

Ideological Battles in Medicine Hat By Danial Duda

Murders in a Nazi Prisoner-of-War Camp - And Canada's Last Mass Execution | History is Now

POW Camp 132 in Medicine Hat, Alberta

Camp 132 by Robin Warren Stotz

POW and Internment Camps in Alberta: WWII | Alberta Historic Places

World War II Prisoner of War Camp in Medicine Hat | Shaw TV Medicine Hat

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Internment Camps

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Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 27 July 1929

Name, Rank, and Serial Number: The Legacy of the 1929 Geneva Convention | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

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Episode 361: On October 4, 1957, as the world's eyes turned skyward to witness the launch of Sputnik 1, another technological marvel was about to be unveiled in a hangar in Malton, Ontario. The Avro Arrow, Canada's ambitious supersonic interceptor, was poised to revolutionize aviation. But within two years, it would vanish without a trace, leaving behind a legacy of controversy and conspiracy.

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Avro Arrow | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Avro Arrow | canadahistory.com

Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow | Wikipedia

Avro CF-100 Canuck | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Broken Arrow | Legion Magazine

A legend in aviation still hard at work | Canadian Military History

Janusz Zurakowski - Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame

Avro Arrow - List of Firsts - Canadians At Arms

CF-105, the Arrow Program

Avro Arrow: Canada’s Lost Dream of Aviation Supremacy

Canadian Aviation And The Avro Arrow Book By Fred Smye

Avro Arrow Pictures | avro-arrow.org

The Avro Arrow: Exploding The Myths And Misconceptions

Royal Canadian Air Force

The Avro Arrow New Edition: The Story Of The Great Canadian Cold War Interceptor Jet In Pictures And Documents Book By Lawrence Miller

The Avro Arrow: For The Record Book By Palmiro Campagna

Storms Of Controversy: The Secret Avro Arrow Files Revealed Book By Palmiro Campagna

Who Killed The Avro Arrow? Book By Chris Gainor

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Episode 360: On May 18, 1966, Paul Joseph Chartier, among other things, a disillusioned and unemployed security guard and former truck driver, attempted a deadly act of terrorism on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Chartier planned to throw a homemade dynamite bomb into the House of Commons chamber, targeting politicians he blamed for societal injustices and his personal failures. However, the bomb detonated prematurely in a washroom, killing only Chartier himself. This tragic incident drew significant attention at the time, leading to investigations by the RCMP and led to a federal inquiry.

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Robert N. Wilkins: Remembering the man who tried blowing up Parliament, 50 years ago

The Munsinger Affair

Miner, Author, Singer, Lone-Actor Terrorist: The Lives and Death of Paul Joseph Chartier - University of Toronto Press

The Mad Bomber of Parliament Hill by Fontana, James A

The Parliament bombing of 1966

Citizen@175: 'I might as well give you a blast to wake you up'

IMV_-_Terrorism-Research-Key-findings-eng

Learn the lesson of the bad bomb

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Inquest Paul Joseph Chartier bombing of Parliament

Miner, Author, Singer, Lone-Actor Terrorist: The Lives and Death of Paul Joseph Chartier - University of Toronto Press

201604_clat_final_report — Lone-Actor Terrorism

“Happy-Go-Lucky Fellow”: Lone-Actor Terrorism, Masculinity, and the 1966 Bombing on Parliament Hill in Ottawa

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Paul Joseph Chartier

Parliament will carry on

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Episode 359: On a warm summer evening in June 1887, 17-year-old Mary Pickering Tuplin vanished from her family's farm in Margate, PEI. A search and a grim discovery followed that would rock the quiet farming community to its core. Mary's body was found in the Southwest River, weighed down by a heavy stone, with two gunshot wounds to her head. The subsequent investigation would uncover a web of secrets, including the fact that Mary was six months pregnant. Circumstantial evidence led to 19-year-old William Millman's arrest, allegedly Mary’s lover. The shocking facts of the crime and its investigation led to a sensational trial that captivated the entire country. Millman was convicted and sent to the gallows in April 1888. Was justice indeed served, or, as some speculate, was an innocent man sent to the gallows?

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History Of The Blackhorse Corner Tavern

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Apr 11, 1888, page 2 - Telegraph-Journal at Newspapers.com

Verbatim report of the Millman-Tuplin Murder Trial | Canadiana.ca

Mary Tuplin - Search - Newspapers.com™

’They hung the wrong boy’: New questions in 1887 murder of pregnant P.E.I. girl

Ceremony reunites head with murdered owner 129 years later

'We finally got it right': 1887 murder victim's skull re-united with rest of remains | CBC News

Mary Pickering Tuplin, 1887 murder victim, properly laid to rest

Skull of murdered P.E.I. teen finally reunited with her body after 129 years

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Mary Pickering Tuplin

Millman and Tuplin Song, The

9780774817530

Murder of Mary Tuplin

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Episode 358: In Los Angeles, California, in the autumn of 1969, along winding Mulholland Drive, a young woman's body was discovered, brutally stabbed more than 150 times, her identity shrouded in mystery for nearly half a century. This Jane Doe, known only as case number 59, would lie nameless for the next 46 years, her story untold and her family unaware of her tragic fate. In a chilling twist, the proximity of her death to the infamous Tate-LaBianca murder scenes led investigators down a twisted path of speculation. The brutal nature of the crime sparked whispers of a possible connection to one of America's most notorious cults — the Manson Family.

It wasn't until 2016 that modern forensic techniques finally gave her a name: Reet Silvia Jurvetson, a 19-year-old from Montreal who had ventured to L.A. with dreams as big as the Hollywood sign. Despite her identity now being known, Reet Jurvetson’s murder remains unsolved. Her family is still hoping for answers more than 55 years later.

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The Murder of Marina Habe

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

About Reet Jurvetson | Reet Jurvetson's Family Memorial

Man Who Found Possible Manson Victim as Teen Speaks Out

Forensic DNA analysis: technology and application (BP-443E)

'Jane Doe #59' was a 19-year-old from Montreal -- was she also a Manson victim?

Woman found near Manson murders ID'd after 47 years

ID of woman found near Manson murders site stirs mystery

Who Killed Jane Doe #59 | CBC News

Jane Doe found in L.A. in 1969 ID'd as Montreal teen | CBC News

'Who is he?': Sketch shows 'person of interest' at heart of probe into Canadian woman's brutal 1969 killing | CBC News

Could Canadian's brutal 1969 stabbing death be connected to another L.A. cold case? | CBC News

'In a hurry': Did Canadian woman's killer drop his glasses as he got rid of body in L.A. in 1969? | CBC News

Who Killed Jane Doe #59 : The Case of Reet Jurvetson - The Fifth Estate

LAPD Seeks to Identify Two Men in Connection with Murder of Reet Jurvetson

Reet Jurvetson: Was Jane Doe No. 59 a Victim of the Manson Family?

Did Charles Manson Have 4 More Victims? 'There's an Answer There Somewhere,' Says LAPD Detective

Murder of Reet Jurvetson | Wikipedia

Reet Silvia Jurvetson (1950-1969)

From the UnresolvedMysteries community on Reddit: Who are the two men named 'Jean' who Reet Jurvetson visited with before she was found murdered on November 16, 1969?

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/gcypxe/who_are_the_two_men_named_jean_who_reet_jurvetson/

LAPD releases sketches of two men linked to 1969 killing of Canadian Reet Jurvetson

Who Killed Jane Doe #59 : The Case of Reet Jurvetson - the fifth estate

Reet Silvia Jürvetson (1950-1969)

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LAPD Seeks to Identify Two Men in Connection with Murder of Reet Jurvetson

ID of woman found near Manson murders site stirs mystery

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Episode 357: On a sunny Wednesday afternoon, 21 June 1950, the tranquil tobacco farming community of Langton, of Langton, Ontario, was shattered by a violent crime that would leave an indelible mark on Canadian history. Joseph Herbert McAuliffe, a World War II veteran turned counterfeiter, walked into the Imperial Bank of Canada with robbery on his mind. In less than half an hour, two innocent men lay dead at the robber’s hands, Arthur Lierman and William Goddyn, their bodies riddled with bullets, and a community was gripped by fear.

For three harrowing days, Norfolk County held its breath as McAuliffe, armed and desperate, evaded capture in the surrounding woods. The manhunt that ensued would reveal a tale of tragic childhood, wartime heroism, and a descent into criminality that culminated in a botched robbery and senseless killings. As the story unfolded, it exposed the raw nerves of a nation grappling with questions of justice, redemption, and the ultimate price of crime.

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Jun 22, 1950, page 7 - The Hamilton Spectator at Newspapers.com

Jun 22, 1950, page 8 - The Hamilton Spectator at Newspapers.com

Jun 22, 1950, page 1 - The Sun Times at Newspapers.com

Jun 22, 1950, page 1 - The Expositor at Newspapers.com

Jun 22, 1950, page 2 - The Expositor at Newspapers.com

Jun 22, 1950, page 3 - The Expositor at Newspapers.com

Jun 22, 1950, page 1 - The Ottawa Journal at Newspapers.com

Jul 08, 1950, page 5 - The Expositor at Newspapers.com

Jul 17, 1950, page 1 - The Sault Star at Newspapers.com

Jul 18, 1950, page 8 - The Hamilton Spectator at Newspapers.com

Jul 18, 1950, page 17 - The Montreal Star at Newspapers.com

Sept 06, 1950, page 1 - Niagara Falls Review at Newspapers.com

Sept 06, 1950, page 1 - Daily Standard-Freeholder at Newspapers.com

Sept 07, 1950, page 9 - The Gazette at Newspapers.com

Sept 07, 1950, page 31 - The Windsor Star at Newspapers.com

Sept 08, 1950, page 6 - The Sun Times at Newspapers.com

Sept 12, 1950, page 7 - Niagara Falls Review at Newspapers.com

Sept 14, 1950, page 1 - North Bay Nugget at Newspapers.com

Sept 14, 1950, page 1 - The Expositor at Newspapers.com

Nov 21, 1950, page 2 - The Windsor Star at Newspapers.com

Nov 28, 1950, page 24 - The Hamilton Spectator at Newspapers.com

Dec 18, 1950, page 2 - The Sault Star at Newspapers.com

Dec 19, 1950, page 4 - The Gazette at Newspapers.com

Dec 19, 1950, page 7 - The Hamilton Spectator at Newspapers.com

Dec 19, 1950, page 8 - The Hamilton Spectator at Newspapers.com

Dec 20, 1950, page 13 - Telegraph-Journal at Newspapers.com

Aug 05, 1952, page 3 - The Windsor Star at Newspapers.com

The Ballad of HERB McAULIFFE (2023)

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