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Tormented: The Death of Ama...

01.30.2023

Episode 252: Starting when Amanda Michelle Todd was just 11 years old, a person began a campaign of sexual extortion, relentless harassment and cyberbullying. Over the next three years, Amanda endured constant pressure from the man who used 22 online ...

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01.30.2023 Tormented: The Death of Amanda Todd Episode 252: Starting when Amanda Michelle Todd was just 11 years old, a person began a campaign of sexual extortion, relentless harassment and cyberbullying. Over the next three years, Amanda endured constant pressure from the man who used 22 online ...
01.23.2023 Canada’s First Mass Murder: The Easby Family Episode 251: In the rural area known as Drummond Township, near Perth, Ontario, about a mile north of the village of Balderson’s Corners, in the early morning hours of December 10, 1828, what appeared to be an accidental fire resulted ...
01.16.2023 The Sinking of the Queen of the North Episode 250: At 8:00 PM on the evening of March 21, 2006, the B.C. Ferries-operated motor vessel Queen of the North departed Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The long-haul passenger and vehicle ferry, making the 18-hour overnight trip to Port Hardy ...
12.19.2022 Christmas 2022: Safe Cracking Santa & his Murderous Elf Episode 249: As this is our special Christmas episode. It is our tradition to tell a Yuletide-themed yarn. This one is about a duo of bandits who burglarized various shopping malls across the United States and Canada year after year ...
12.12.2022 Away Game: The Murder of John Lennon Episode 248: In New York City on the 8th of December, 1980, the world was rocked by the murder of influential rock and roll icon, artist, sometimes controversial activist and dad John Lennon. After an evening recording session at the ...
12.05.2022 The Caledonia Mills Poltergeist Episode 247: In January of 1922, the first of a series of fires broke out on a farm in the small rural community of Caledonia Mills in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. The family who lived at the farm, Alexander, 70, ...
11.28.2022 The Murder of John Ruffolo Episode 246: John Ruffolo, 36, an employee of Brinks Canada at Butler Crescent location in Saanichton, British Columbia, was due to start a night shift at 10:30 PM on October 19, 2003. He was an ATM technician and an armoured ...
11.21.2022 The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Episode 245: Between 1926 and 1928, a sinister darkness was afoot on a small chicken ranch in Wineville, California. When he was only 19, Gordon Stewart Northcott, a Canadian, had abducted, raped, tortured and murdered at least three and as ...
11.14.2022 What Happened to Tom Thomson? Episode 244: On the morning of the 8th of July 1917, thirty-nine-year-old Tom Thomson, a renowned Canadian painter and skilled outdoorsman, set off well-supplied for a day-long fishing excursion in his canoe on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park in ...
11.07.2022 Remembrance Day 2022: Disaster at Dieppe Episode 243: Eighty years ago, on August 19, 1942, in Operation Jubilee began as the Allies attacked the French port of Dieppe on the English Channel Coast. Of the more than 6100 troops involved, five thousand were soldiers of the ...
10.31.2022 Fallen Four: The Mayerthorpe Tragedy (Part 2): The Shooting & Aftermath Episode 242: On March 3, 2005, a contingent of RCMP constables, attended the property of James Michael Roszko, 46 in Rochfort Bridge, near Mayerthorpe, Alberta. The members were there to serve a search warrant for stolen property and a marijuana-growing ...
10.24.2022 Fallen Four: The Mayerthorpe Tragedy (Part 1): Offender History Episode 241: On March 3, 2005, a contingent of RCMP constables attended the property of James Michael Roszko, 46, in Rochfort Bridge, near Mayerthorpe, Alberta. The members were there to serve a search warrant for stolen property and a marijuana-growing ...
10.17.2022 The History of Wartime Internment in Canada Episode 240: Canada has had a long and embarrassing history of race relations, starting with the indigenous peoples who’d lived here for thousands of years prior to the arrival of European colonizers. Our nation has also facilitated the mass internment ...
10.12.2022 Introducing... Driven By Her: Unsung Heroines The episode you're about to hear is a sample of the "Driven By Her" series from the Ongoing History of New Music presented by Porsche Canada. On this 5 episode series host Alan Cross explores the amazing contributions some of ...
10.10.2022 Delayed Justice — Part 2: The Murder of Monica Jack In our last episode we heard of the murder of eleven-year-old Kathryn-Mary Herbert in Abbotsford, B.C. The 1975 murder went unsolved for nearly 40 years. Less than a year after Kathryn-Mary was killed, another girl from Abbotsford, Theresa Hildebrandt, 15, ...
10.03.2022 Delayed Justice — Part 1: The Murders of Kathryn-Mary Herbert & Theresa Hildebrandt Episode 238: In Abbotsford, B.C., on the evening of September 24, 1975, Kathryn-Mary Herbert, age 11, was abducted while on her way home from a friend’s home. Last seen The girl’s body was discovered almost two months later on the ...
09.19.2022 Murder in Chatham: Virginia & Alfred Critchley and Jasen Pangburn Episode 237: On a fall evening in 1991, police discovered the bodies of Alfred Critchley, 75, and Virginia Critchley, 73, in the Chatham, Ontario residence they shared with their son and his family. The couple had been brutally stabbed. Alfred ...
09.12.2022 The Murder of Diana Russell (Part 2) Episode 236: In our last episode, we heard about the murder of 61-year-old retiree, and beloved mother, grandmother and recent great-grandmother, Diana Russell. On February 22, 2002, after her car was found abandoned, in out-of-the way Boston Bar, her family ...
09.05.2022 The Murder of Diana Russell (Part 1) Episode 235: On February 22, 2002, a vehicle was found in the ditch off the Trans-Canada highway near Boston Bar, B.C. The car was registered to 61-year-old mother, grandmother and recent great-grandmother, Diana Russell, who was nowhere around the car. ...
08.29.2022 Heaven’s Gate — UFO Death Cult Episode 234: On March 26, 1997, police found the bodies of 39 members of a religious UFO cult known as Heaven’s Gate in an 830 square-metre (9,000 square foot) home in Rancho Santa Fe, California, a San Diego suburb. All, ...
08.22.2022 Falling Stars: The Belcher Island Murders Episode 233: During the harsh winter of 1941, as World War II raged elsewhere, closer to home, a tragedy occurred on the remote, ice-covered island archipelago in Hudson Bay called the Belcher Islands. After witnessing a dramatic meteor shower, a ...
08.15.2022 Washed Away: The 1929 Newfoundland Tsunami Epidsode 232: The strongest earthquake ever recorded in eastern Canada, measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale, occurred at 5:02pm Newfoundland time on the 18 of November in 1929. It was felt as far west as Ottawa and as far south ...
08.08.2022 Die by the Sword: The Life and Murder of Gerald Bull Episode 231: Gerald Vincent Bull was a smart cookie from North Bay, Ontario. He graduated from the University of Toronto at 20, got a master’s degree at age 21, and at 22 earned a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering from the ...
08.01.2022 The Chambermaid Murders - Belva Russell, Jane Woolley and Edith Authier Episode 230: Over a period of 22 months, between January 1969 and January 1971, 3 women in Southwestern Ontario were brutally murdered in 3 different towns. These women’s names were Isobella “Belva” Russell, Edith Authier, and Jane Wooley. Police solved ...
07.25.2022 Lonely Monster: Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen (Part 3) Episode 229: In our last episode we learned about the life and first two murders of British serial murderer Dennis Andrew Nilsen. He was arrested after police discovered human remains he’d flushed down the toilet at 23 Cranley Gardens in ...
07.18.2022 Lonely Monster: Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen (Part 2) Episode 228: In our last episode we learned about the final killing and capture of British serial murderer Dennis Andrew Nilsen after police discovered human remains he’d flushed down the toilet at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a Suburb ...
07.11.2022 Lonely Monster: Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen (Part 1) Episode 227: On the 8th of February, 1983, complaints about the plumbing at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a suburb in London, England led to the discovery of human remains. The remains were traced to the flat of a ...
07.04.2022 Blueprint for Murder, and the Architecture of Grief On a hot, sunny Saturday afternoon on the 15th of August 1914, in a house near Spring Green, Wisconsin one of the worst mass killings in the state’s history occurred when 7 people were axed to death, immolated, and the ...
06.27.2022 Tragedy x2: Gail Miller and David Milgaard (Part 2) Episode 225: In our last episode we learned that in Saskatoon, on the morning of January 31, 1969, a 12-year-old girl on the way to school stumbled upon the body of Gail Miller, a 20-year-old nurse’s aide, lying in the ...
06.20.2022 Tragedy x2: Gail Miller and David Milgaard (Part 1) Episode 224: In Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on the morning of January 31, 1969, a 12-year-old girl on the way to school stumbled upon the body of Gail Miller, a 20-year-old nurse’s aide, lying in the snow in an alley. Gail had ...
06.13.2022 Blurred Justice: The Murders of Corporal Irwin and Trooper Black Episode 223: On Friday, February 20, 1976, while on vacation in Florida OPP Corporal Donald R. Irwin, 39, a father of three from Kitchener, Ontario, went on a ride along with his good friend Florida State Trooper, Philip Black, also ...
06.06.2022 Murder on the Island: Who Killed Byron Carr? Episode 222: On Sunday, November 12,1988 beloved 36-year-old high school teacher named Byron Carr was found by his family dead in the bedroom of his home in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He’d been strangled to death and stabbed. Byron’s wallet ...
05.30.2022 Murder on the Isle of Dogs: The Execution of Auguste Neel Episode 221: On the morning of December 31, 1888, in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, friends found 61-year-old fisherman François Coupard dead in his fishing shack. Someone had brutally slain Coupard and had mutilated his body horribly after his murder. A quick ...
05.23.2022 Set Up: The Bombing that Never Was Episode 220: The attention grabbing headline of the the article in The Province newspaper on the morning of July 3, 2013 screamed, “RCMP foil Canada Day bomb plot”, the subheading read, “VICTORIA: Two British Columbians allegedly hatch scheme to blow ...
05.16.2022 UFOs Part 2b - BONUS - Listener Stories of UFO Encounters & Area 51 Episode 219 BONUS: In this episode we hear from several Dark Poutine listeners, and in one case, a family member of a listener, who are sharing their experiences and feelings around their own UFO encounters. Mike also shares his own ...
05.16.2022 UFOs Part 2a - UFOlogist Chris Rutkowski Interview Episode 219: In the first of two episodes released this week, Mike interviews Chris Rutkowski. Chris A. Rutkowski is a science writer who has devoted much time to investigating and studying reports of UFOs, writing about case investigations, and offering ...
05.09.2022 UFOs Part 1 — Canadian Reports, Research & Disclosure Episode 218: The history of humanity is rife with stories of unexplained things in the skies above us. Handed down first verbally and pictographically by way of depictions painted on cave walls and then in written accounts, there are scores ...
04.25.2022 The Mysterious Death of Holly Bartlett Episode 217: In the early hours of March 27, 2010, Holly Bartlett, 31, was found unconscious and badly injured under the A. Murray MacKay bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 350 metres away from her home. She died the next day ...
04.18.2022 The Legend of La Corriveau Episode 216: In Quebec, on April 15, 1763, after a supposed confession and hasty trial by an English military tribunal, 30-year-old Marie-Josephte Corriveau was convicted of murdering in brutal fashion her second husband, Louis-Étienne Dodier, and was sentenced to death. ...
04.11.2022 Ghost Ship: The Tale of the Mary Celeste Episode 215: Mary Celeste, formerly Amazon, was an American registered, Nova Scotia built brigantine that was found abandoned on December 4, 1872, some 740 km off the Azores, Portugal. The fate of the 10 people aboard remains a mystery almost ...
04.04.2022 Innisfail Bombing: The Murder of Vicky Shachtay Episode 214: On November 25, 2011, neighbours around the four-plex at 51st Avenue and 47th Street in the town of Innisfail, Alberta heard a bang which shook their homes. Some said sounded like a gunshot, others said it sounded like ...
03.28.2022 The Mystery of the Missing Millionaire: Ambrose Small Episode 213: Toronto theatre magnate and enigmatic millionaire Ambrose J. Small disappeared without a trace on December 2, 1919, only a day after having made a lucrative deal to sell his ownership interests in his chain of theatres including the ...
03.21.2022 Breaking the Oath: The Murder of Sian Simmonds Episode 212: On the afternoon of January 27, 1993, the day before her 20th birthday, Sian Simmonds, a student who was working he way through school, was found dead in her basement suite in the Guildford neighbourhood of Surrey, B.C. ...
03.14.2022 Murder in Bear River: The Slaying of Annie Kempton Episode 211: On January 27, 1896, in the tiny community of Bear River, Nova Scotia, popular fourteen-year-old Annie Kempton was brutally murdered in her home while her parents were out of town. The crime, papers said, was the worst ever ...
03.07.2022 The Murder of Ardeth Wood Episode 210: In the summer of 2003, Ardeth Wood, a 27-year-old PhD candidate studying philosophy at the University of Waterloo, was enjoying a well needed break at her parent’s home in the Orleans neighbourhood of Ottawa. In the early afternoon ...
02.28.2022 MMIW: The Murder of Daleen Kay Bosse Episode 209: Daleen Kay Bosse, was a 26-year-old, wife and mother of Cree heritage and member of the Onion Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan near Saskatoon. On May 18, 2004, after a night out with friends Daleen did not return ...
02.21.2022 The Donnelly Family Massacre Episode 208: On Feb 4, 1880, just past midnight 5 members of the Donnelly family (A mother and father, two sons, and a niece) we brutally murdered by a mob in their homes just outside of Lucan, Ontario, in Biddolph ...
02.14.2022 Bad Apples: Edwin Alonzo Boyd and his Gang Episode 207: After World War II, Canada’s economy rose. Work was much easier to come by than during the depression. Even though he’d been able to secure decent employment, family man and world war veteran with movie star good looks, ...
02.07.2022 MMIW: Nanaimo Girl Gone — Lisa Marie Young Episode 206: Starting on the evening of June 29 and going into the early morning of June 30, 2002, Lisa Marie Young, a 21-year-old indigenous woman, was celebrating with friends in her hometown, Nanaimo, B.C. It was not only Canada ...
01.31.2022 Away Game: The Butcher of Hanover — Fritz Haarmann Episode 205: In this Away Game we are off to post World War One Germany where in the early 1920s, a brutal serial killer, Fritz Haarmann, killed at least 27 young men and boys. Many of his crimes, it appears, ...

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Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History episodes:

Tormented: The Death of Amanda Todd

Canada’s First Mass Murder: The Easby Family

The Sinking of the Queen of the North

Christmas 2022: Safe Cracking Santa & his Murderous Elf

Away Game: The Murder of John Lennon

The Caledonia Mills Poltergeist

The Murder of John Ruffolo

The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders

What Happened to Tom Thomson?

Remembrance Day 2022: Disaster at Dieppe

Fallen Four: The Mayerthorpe Tragedy (Part 2): The Shooting & Aftermath

Fallen Four: The Mayerthorpe Tragedy (Part 1): Offender History

The History of Wartime Internment in Canada

Introducing... Driven By Her: Unsung Heroines

Delayed Justice — Part 2: The Murder of Monica Jack

Delayed Justice — Part 1: The Murders of Kathryn-Mary Herbert & Theresa Hildebrandt

Murder in Chatham: Virginia & Alfred Critchley and Jasen Pangburn

The Murder of Diana Russell (Part 2)

The Murder of Diana Russell (Part 1)

Heaven’s Gate — UFO Death Cult

Falling Stars: The Belcher Island Murders

Washed Away: The 1929 Newfoundland Tsunami

Die by the Sword: The Life and Murder of Gerald Bull

The Chambermaid Murders - Belva Russell, Jane Woolley and Edith Authier

Lonely Monster: Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen (Part 3)

Lonely Monster: Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen (Part 2)

Lonely Monster: Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen (Part 1)

Blueprint for Murder, and the Architecture of Grief

Tragedy x2: Gail Miller and David Milgaard (Part 2)

Tragedy x2: Gail Miller and David Milgaard (Part 1)

Blurred Justice: The Murders of Corporal Irwin and Trooper Black

Murder on the Island: Who Killed Byron Carr?

Murder on the Isle of Dogs: The Execution of Auguste Neel

Set Up: The Bombing that Never Was

UFOs Part 2b - BONUS - Listener Stories of UFO Encounters & Area 51

UFOs Part 2a - UFOlogist Chris Rutkowski Interview

UFOs Part 1 — Canadian Reports, Research & Disclosure

The Mysterious Death of Holly Bartlett

The Legend of La Corriveau

Ghost Ship: The Tale of the Mary Celeste

Innisfail Bombing: The Murder of Vicky Shachtay

The Mystery of the Missing Millionaire: Ambrose Small

Breaking the Oath: The Murder of Sian Simmonds

Murder in Bear River: The Slaying of Annie Kempton

The Murder of Ardeth Wood

MMIW: The Murder of Daleen Kay Bosse

The Donnelly Family Massacre

Bad Apples: Edwin Alonzo Boyd and his Gang

MMIW: Nanaimo Girl Gone — Lisa Marie Young

Away Game: The Butcher of Hanover — Fritz Haarmann

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