Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

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No Justice for Rebecca Midd...

09.28.2020

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 ...

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History episodes:

09.28.2020 No Justice for Rebecca Middleton 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 ...
09.21.2020 The Murder of Grant De Patie 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 ...
09.14.2020 Dangerous Offender: The Crimes of Jake Green (SK) 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 ...
09.07.2020 The 2018 Danforth Shooting 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, ...
08.31.2020 The Marpole Murders: Dianna Mah-Jones and Richard Jones 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 ...
08.24.2020 The 1973 Kenora Bank Robbery Mystery (ON) 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. ...
08.17.2020 The Hillcrest Mining Disaster 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 Bree Sources: Anderson, Frank. ...
08.10.2020 Love & Dishonour: The Murder of Keith Black (BC/AB) 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 ...
08.03.2020 What Happened to Dylan Koshman? (AB/SK) 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, ...
07.27.2020 Terror on Parliament Hill: The Murder of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo (ON) 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 ...
07.20.2020 AWAY GAME: Stranger Danger - Westley Allan Dodd Episode 133 - Throughout the 1970s and '80s serial pedophile Westley Allan Dodd molested dozens of children in the Pacific Northwest. Although caught for his crimes more than once Dodd never did any real prison time. Feeling invincible, Westley's fantasies ...
07.13.2020 A Brief History: Slavery in Canada and Africville Episode 132: In this episode we take a look at a topic not spoken of often, slavery in colonial Canada and its aftermath. As well, we learn a little about the Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia and the shameful destruction ...
06.29.2020 Introduction to Sasquatch Episode 131 - For centuries, the indigenous peoples of the western Canada and in the forest along the west coast of the United States told tales of a an elusive massive, hair covered bipedal creature leaving giant footprints behind. Called ...
06.22.2020 Who Killed Sharron Prior? (QC) Episode 130 - On March 29, 1975, pretty and popular, 16-year-old Sharron Prior left her home in the Montreal, QC, neighbourhood where she lived with her mom and siblings. She was off to a pizza joint only 5 short blocks ...
06.15.2020 EXCLUDED: The Komagatu Maru Incident Episode 129: In May of 1914, before the outbreak of WWI, a Japanese steamship called the Komagatu Maru anchored in Burrard Inlet in the Vancouver harbour. There were 376 people aboard led by a man named Baba Gurdit Singh Sirhali. ...
06.08.2020 The Murders of Chynna Deese, Lucas Fowler & Leonard Dyck Episode 128 - On the 15th of July, 2019, just outside Liard Hot Springs, B.C., the bodies of an innocent couple, Chynna Deese, 24, from Charlotte, NC, and her Australian boyfriend, Lucas Fowler, 23, were found shot to death beside ...
06.01.2020 Little Girl Gone - Cecilia Zhang Episode 127 - On the morning of October 20, 2003, in North York, a quiet neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Raymond Zhang and Sherry Xu awakened to find their only child, 9-year-old, Cecilia was missing. She had clearly been abducted. There ...
05.25.2020 The Legend of Simon Gunanoot (BC) Episode 126 - On the morning of June 18, 1906, on the trail on the west side of the Two-Mile House, a drinking establishment outside Hazelton, B.C., the body of local tough guy, Alex McIntosh, was found. He had been ...
05.18.2020 Cold December: Cst. O’Leary and Cpl. Bourgeois (NB) Episode 125 - On cold December night just before Christmas in 1974, the 14-year-old son of Moncton, NB restauranteur, Cy Stein was kidnapped from the family home by two masked gunman. By just before 5:00am the kidnapping came to and ...
05.11.2020 Highway of Tears – Jill, Natasha, Cynthia & Loren (2009 – 2010) Episode 124 - Women and girls, many indigenous have been going missing in the area of Northern British Columbia's Highway 16 since 1969. The route has become known as the Highway of Tears. Many have been found deceased and still ...
05.04.2020 The Flying Bandit - Ken Leishman (MB) Episode 123 - Born during the Great Depression, Ken Leishman was a stylish, good looking guy with a Clark Gable moustache. A married father of 7, he was adventurous, smart, charismatic, creative and enterprising. He used his skill as a ...
04.27.2020 Connections: Nova Scotian Heartbreak (NS) Episode 122 - This is for or the deceased victims, the injured, the families, the friends and Bluenosers everywhere who are hurting after the shooting rampage that shook the little province of Nova Scotia to its core on April 18 ...
04.20.2020 Canadian Legends: Demons, a Witch and a Flying Canoe Episode 121: In this episode we examine 3 different Canadian legends. First we look at Demon Isle a phantom island somewhere in or near the Gulf of St Lawrence. This is where French noblewoman Marguerite de Roberval was marooned by ...
04.13.2020 Over the Edge: Death and Daring at Niagara Falls (ON) Episode 120 - For ages people have been drawn to Niagara Falls, the most famous group of waterfalls in North America, and maybe the world. As many as 20 million people per year visit to view the awesome power of ...
04.06.2020 MMIW - No Justice - The Murder of Tina Fontaine (MB) Tina Michelle Fontaine was an Indigenous girl who had a tough go right from the beginning. As she had run away before when 15-year-old Tina disappeared on August 9, 2014 the authorities did not treat it with much urgency at ...
03.30.2020 Humboldt Broncos Bus Crash - Green Shirt Day (SK) In a tragedy that shook Canada and the rest of the hockey playing world, just before 5:00pm on April 6, 2018, the team bus of the Humboldt Broncos Junior Hockey team smashed into a semi that had just blown through ...
03.23.2020 Away Game: The Hollow Earth - Fact or Fiction? Episode 117 - In this away game Mike and Scott explore the wacky world of the origins of Hollow Earth movement. We hear about Captain John Cleves Symmes Jr's desires for an expedition to the hole in the North Pole, ...
03.16.2020 Close to Home - The Murder of Heather Thomas (BC) Episode 116 - The last time Heather Thomas's dad Pat saw his ten year old daughter alive was on the afternoon of October 1, 2000 when she went outside to play around their Cloverdale, BC, townhouse complex. After one the ...
03.09.2020 The Homicidal Sleepwalker (ON) Episode 115 - On the morning of May 24, 1987, 23-year-old Kenneth Parks walked into a police department covered in blood that was not just his own. Kenneth was disoriented and bleeding profusely from wounds to both his hands which ...
03.02.2020 The Murder of Cst. Catherine Campbell - Sex, Lies and Surveillance Video (NS) Episode 114 - On the morning of September 11, 2015, off-duty Truro, Nova Scotia police constable, Catherine Campbell, went to a Halifax bar to wind down after a tough work week. She was looking forward to a visit with an ...
02.24.2020 The Okanagan Oddity - Ogopogo (BC) Episode 113 - This week Mike and Scott present some lighter fare in the form of a mystery that has persisted for generations surrounding a mysterious creature said to inhabit the waters of Lake Okanagan. Sightings of the serpent like ...
02.17.2020 Sins of the Father - The McGuigan Murders (PE) Episode 112 - On a dark rural PEI road on November 19, 1970, the Vuozzo family, of nearby Montague had their lives changed forever. A drunk driver, named Herb McGuigan, ran a stop sign and hit the Vuozzo's fan, killing ...
02.10.2020 Murdered on Duty - Cst. John Davidson (BC) Episode 111 - Near noon on November 6, 2017, reports of multiple shots fired in the parking lot of a busy Abbotsford, B.C. strip mall brought a swarm of Abby PD officers racing toward the scene. The first to arrive ...
02.03.2020 MMIW - The Unsolved Murder of Amber Tuccaro (AB) Episode 110 - In Nisku, Alberta, on August of 2010 the family of 20-year-old Amber Alyssa Tuccaro became concerned when a phone call with her brother ended abruptly and she she stopped answering texts and calls after that. She’d been ...
01.27.2020 Earle Leonard Nelson - The Dark Strangler (MB) Episode 109 - In a 16 month span over 1926 and 1927, in nine U.S. states and one Canadian province, 21 women and an infant were murdered by a sadistic serial predator and necrophile that became known as the Dark ...
01.20.2020 Carol King - From Missing to Murdered (SK) Episode 108 - On August 6, 2011, Carol Nora King went missing from her home in the tiny village of Herschel, Saskatchewan. That same day she was to make an official statement to Rosetown, SK., about ongoing harassment and stalking ...
01.13.2020 The Murder of Brenda Young (NL) Episode 107 - In June of 1993, 9-year-old Cindy Young found her mother, Brenda, deceased on the floor of their St. John’s, Newfoundland apartment. Brenda Marie Young, 26, and a mother of two was brutally murdered while her children slept. ...
01.06.2020 The Crimes of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream (QC/ON) Episode 106 - This week we take on the case of a morphine addicted, syphilitic, Scottish Canadian physician with a lust for murder and a blackmail. Dr. Thomas Neill Cream used his intelligence, medical training, relative good looks and higher ...
12.23.2019 Away Game: Christmas Eve Incident at Nakatomi Plaza Episode 105 - Holiday Special - On Christmas Eve in 1988, after killing two security guards, gunmen burst into the Los Angeles offices of the Nakatomi Corporation in Century City at the newly opened Nakatomi Plaza building. The 30 plus ...
12.16.2019 The Rallo Family Murders (ON) Hamilton was shocked by the murders of a woman and her children in 1976. Respected City hall employee, Jon George Rallo, the father of the two children and husband of the murdered woman was responsible.
12.09.2019 The Mystery of The Mad Trapper of Rat River (NT) Who was the Mad Trapper from Rat River in Canada's Northwest Territories? It's n enduring mystery over 75 years old.
12.02.2019 Murder in Shell Lake: The Peterson Family Slayings (SK) Episode 102 - On the morning of August 15, 1967, in what was one of the most heinous random crimes ever to have happened in Canada, 9 members of the Peterson family of Shell Lake Saskatchewan were found gunned down ...
11.25.2019 Who Killed Dana Bradley? (NL) Dana Bradley was murdered on December 14, 1981 in St John's, NL. Her slayign remains unsolved.
11.18.2019 Live in Vancouver: The Disappearance of Madison Scott (BC) In our 100th episode we take a look back before talking about the disappearance of Madison Scott from Vanderhoof BC in May of 2011.
11.11.2019 Remembrance Day 2019: Ardenne Abbey Massacre Episode 99 - Only days after the D-Day invasion 18 Canadians were taken as prisoners of war by the fanatical nazis in the 12 SS Panzer Division. The were led back to Abbaye d'Aredene in Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, France, a complex of ...
11.04.2019 The Legend of Bloody Jack Krafchenko (MB) Episode 98 - After a life long career as a notorious thief, safe cracker, international bank robber and jail break artist in 1913, charismatic Bloody Jack Krafchenko made his final score; the bank in his home town of Plum Coulee, ...
10.28.2019 Halloween History & Canadian Ghost Stories This is the second anniversary of Dark Poutine and our annual Hallowe'en episode
10.21.2019 Broken Arrow: Bomber 075 & the Lost Nuke (BC) As a result of the crash of a USAF bomber in 1950, the core of a nuclear weapon was lost over British Columbia.
10.14.2019 NCR: The Death of Brian Smith & Life of Jeffrey Arenburg (ON/NS) In 1995 Jeffrey Arenburg shot and killed sportscaster and former hockey player Brian Smith in Ottawa. Arenburg was ultimately found NCR for the murder. This is their story.
10.07.2019 Part 2 - Murder Most Pointless - Lynn Duggan & Patti Ducharme (BC) Brock Graham murders again and is finally caught. He continues lying about Lynn Duggan's murder until he's confronted by her family, face to face.

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What's Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History about?

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Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History episodes:

No Justice for Rebecca Middleton

The Murder of Grant De Patie

Dangerous Offender: The Crimes of Jake Green (SK)

The 2018 Danforth Shooting

The Marpole Murders: Dianna Mah-Jones and Richard Jones

The 1973 Kenora Bank Robbery Mystery (ON)

The Hillcrest Mining Disaster

Love & Dishonour: The Murder of Keith Black (BC/AB)

What Happened to Dylan Koshman? (AB/SK)

Terror on Parliament Hill: The Murder of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo (ON)

AWAY GAME: Stranger Danger - Westley Allan Dodd

A Brief History: Slavery in Canada and Africville

Introduction to Sasquatch

Who Killed Sharron Prior? (QC)

EXCLUDED: The Komagatu Maru Incident

The Murders of Chynna Deese, Lucas Fowler & Leonard Dyck

Little Girl Gone - Cecilia Zhang

The Legend of Simon Gunanoot (BC)

Cold December: Cst. O’Leary and Cpl. Bourgeois (NB)

Highway of Tears – Jill, Natasha, Cynthia & Loren (2009 – 2010)

The Flying Bandit - Ken Leishman (MB)

Connections: Nova Scotian Heartbreak (NS)

Canadian Legends: Demons, a Witch and a Flying Canoe

Over the Edge: Death and Daring at Niagara Falls (ON)

MMIW - No Justice - The Murder of Tina Fontaine (MB)

Humboldt Broncos Bus Crash - Green Shirt Day (SK)

Away Game: The Hollow Earth - Fact or Fiction?

Close to Home - The Murder of Heather Thomas (BC)

The Homicidal Sleepwalker (ON)

The Murder of Cst. Catherine Campbell - Sex, Lies and Surveillance Video (NS)

The Okanagan Oddity - Ogopogo (BC)

Sins of the Father - The McGuigan Murders (PE)

Murdered on Duty - Cst. John Davidson (BC)

MMIW - The Unsolved Murder of Amber Tuccaro (AB)

Earle Leonard Nelson - The Dark Strangler (MB)

Carol King - From Missing to Murdered (SK)

The Murder of Brenda Young (NL)

The Crimes of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream (QC/ON)

Away Game: Christmas Eve Incident at Nakatomi Plaza

The Rallo Family Murders (ON)

The Mystery of The Mad Trapper of Rat River (NT)

Murder in Shell Lake: The Peterson Family Slayings (SK)

Who Killed Dana Bradley? (NL)

Live in Vancouver: The Disappearance of Madison Scott (BC)

Remembrance Day 2019: Ardenne Abbey Massacre

The Legend of Bloody Jack Krafchenko (MB)

Halloween History & Canadian Ghost Stories

Broken Arrow: Bomber 075 & the Lost Nuke (BC)

NCR: The Death of Brian Smith & Life of Jeffrey Arenburg (ON/NS)

Part 2 - Murder Most Pointless - Lynn Duggan & Patti Ducharme (BC)

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