Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

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True crime, legends, folklore, dark history and other creepy topics from the perspective of real Canadians.

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Number 1: If Anything Should Happen: The Ottey Sisters Murders
Episode 433: On August 16, 1995, Avis Ottey came home to her townhouse in Scarborough, Ontario, expecting to find her daughters packing for the future. Instead, she found nineteen-year-old Marsha Ottey and sixteen-year-old Tamara "Tami" Ottey murdered in the basement. Marsha was just two days away from leaving for Arkansas State University on an athletic scholarship she had worked years to earn. She had also confided something chilling to her mother while packing her bags: "If anything should happen to me, it's Rohan." What followed was a seven-month investigation that stretched beyond the murders of the Ottey sisters. Two unsolved sexual assaults, a seemingly unrelated killing at a Toronto subway station, that of TTC employee Dimitrija Trajceski, DNA evidence, and the largest manhunt in Toronto Police history ultimately exposed the truth behind a crime driven by obsession, control, and extraordinary violence. Sources: https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/1999/1999canlii14909/1999canlii14909.html https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2003/2003canlii15438/2003canlii15438.html https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2003/2003canlii32900/2003canlii32900.html https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2003/2003canlii52177/2003canlii52177.html https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2011/2011onca311/2011onca311.html https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc-l/doc/2012/2012canlii5501/2012canlii5501.html Guilty verdict in 1995 slaying of Toronto sisters | CBC News Walk in memory of Agincourt Collegiate’s Ottey sisters If anything happens to me: The murder of the Ottey sisters | Global News Crime Beat: If Anything Happens To Me - The Ottey Sisters | S1 E8 Murder suspect appears in Canada court - UPI Archives MANDEL: Killer of Ottey sisters granted 60-day unescorted pass Rosie DiManno: Killer of the Ottey sisters, now out on parole, still has a life ahead of him, unlike his victims MANDEL: Killer of Ottey sisters granted full parole despite risk ISN CEO Revisits One of His “Most Challenging Cases” In Global TV's ‘Crime Beat’ Episode 88 Valley Stream Drive, Toronto, ON, CA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 24, 202652min
Number 2: Botched Justice: The Death of Crystal Taman
Episode 434: On the morning of February 25th, 2005, Crystal Taman, a forty-year-old dental assistant, wife, and mother of three, left her home in East St. Paul, Manitoba on her way to work. She never arrived. Stopped at a red light on Highway 59 at the Perimeter Highway, her car was struck at highway speed by a blue Dodge Dakota truck driven by an off-duty Winnipeg Police Service constable named Derek Harvey-Zenk, who had spent the night drinking with fellow officers at a north-end bar and a colleague's home. Crystal died on impact. Harvey-Zenk refused to provide a breath sample and was charged with impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death, criminal negligence causing death, and refusal to provide a breath sample. More than two years later, all charges except dangerous driving causing death were stayed in a plea deal, and Harvey-Zenk was sentenced to two years less a day — served at home, with no conditions. The outcome sparked a public inquiry. Sources: TAMAN CRYSTAL - Obituaries - Winnipeg Free Press Passages Taman Inquiry | Wikipedia Crystal Ann Sveinson Taman (1964-2005) - Find a... http://www.tamaninquiry.ca/ May 2012: No memory of fatal crash: Harvey-Zenk | Winnipeg Free Press Review clears police force after controversial case | Global News Harvey-Zenk appeared tired, not drunk, at party before crash, inquiry hears | CBC News Province of Manitoba | Archived News Releases | Taman Report Published Former cop finally takes the stand | Global News Major changes to how police officers will be investigated | CTV News Police told cousin Harvey Zenk was drunk | Global News Jun 2012: Ex-officer from Taman inquiry sues RCMP, police | Winnipeg Free Press Bringing the Thin Blue Line into Line: Bill 16, the Police Services Act, 2011 CanLIIDocs 256 Disgraced cop’s lawyer slams Taman inquiry | Global News Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 31, 20261h 3min
Number 3: Lives On Display: The Dionne Quintuplets
Episode 425: In May 1934, five identical girls were born in a farmhouse outside Corbeil, Ontario. They were the first quintuplets known to survive infancy anywhere in the world. Within weeks, the Province of Ontario had taken them from their parents. What followed was nine years inside a government-run compound called Quintland, where millions of tourists paid to watch the Dionne sisters play through one-way glass, twice a day, while their faces sold soap, cereal, and corn syrup across North America. The girls went home in 1943. The horror of what happened next took decades to come to light. Sources: The Canadian Encyclopedia — Dionne Quintuplets | (Canadian Encyclopedia) Dionne Quintuplets: The Miracle Babies | (Canadian Encyclopedia) Dionne quintuplets | (Wikipedia) Dionne quintuplets | Deaths, Parents, Names, & Facts | (Britannica) The Birth of the Dionne Quintuplets | (Government of Canada) The Dionne Quintuplets National Historic Event | (Parks Canada) Dionne Quintuplets (1934—) | (Encyclopedia.com) Dionne Quintuplets (b. 1934) | (Encyclopedia.com) The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets by Sarah Miller (Scholastic Focus, 2017) | (Book) We Were Five: The Dionne Quintuplets' Story from Birth through Girlhood to Womanhood by James Brough with Annette, Cécile, Marie, and Yvonne Dionne (1965) | (Book) Family Secrets: The Dionne Quintuplets' Own Story by Jean-Yves Soucy with Annette, Cécile, and Yvonne Dionne (1997) | (Book) The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama by Pierre Berton (1977) | (Book) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 29, 20261h 1min
Number 4: Unnatural Selection — The Alberta Eugenics Act
Episode 424: Between 1928 and 1972, the Alberta government authorized the forced sterilization of nearly 3,000 Albertans deemed "unfit" to reproduce. They were told they were having their appendix removed. Many were children. Most had no idea what was being done to them. The targets were the poor, the mentally ill, Indigenous people, immigrants — anyone who didn't fit the province's vision of a productive society. This wasn't a fringe movement. It was backed by doctors, politicians, newspapers, and some of the most celebrated figures in Canadian history. Sources: The Canadian Encyclopedia — Eugenics History of Rights Canada — Eugenics Prairie History Journal, University of Alberta Gladue / University of Saskatchewan — Eugenics Resource Eugenics Archive Canada — Timeline Eugenics Archive Canada — Our Stories City Museum Edmonton — Leilani Muir and Eugenics in Alberta National Post — When Canada Lost Its Mind Over Eugenics CBC News — Leilani Muir, Advocate for Alberta's Sterilization Victims, Dies CBC News — Cash Settlement for Sterilized Women (BC) Alberta Law Review — Mikkel Dack Toronto Sun — The Controversial Beliefs of Canada's Famous Five Wired — CRISPR Babies and Human Genome Editing Scientific American — The Dark Side of CRISPR NFB — The Sterilization of Leilani Muir The Guardian — What Is Pronatalism? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 22, 20261h 3min
Number 5: Three-Fingered Abe: The Kidnapping of John S. Labatt
Episode 427: In the summer of 1934, John Sackville Labatt was one of the most recognizable names in Canada. The fifty-three-year-old president of John Labatt Limited had spent nearly two decades running one of the country's largest and oldest breweries, a family business built across three generations and tested by Prohibition, the Depression, and the rum-running trade that kept it alive through both. On the morning of August 14, he left his Lake Huron summer home running late for a meeting and took a shortcut through the forest on a little-used dirt road outside Sarnia. What happened on that road set off the largest manhunt in Canadian history, triggered Canada's first kidnapping trial, and sent an innocent man to prison for a crime he had nothing to do with. Sources: John Sackville Labatt | The Canadian Encyclopedia John Labatt’s 1934 kidnap | The Star John Sackville Labatt | Wikipedia Labatt Brewing Company | Wikipedia Prohibition in Canada | Wikipedia Labatt Brewing | Company Site Lambton County's Infamous Abduction: The John S. Labatt Kidnapping - Archived Lambton County's Infamous Abduction: The John S. Labatt Kidnapping - New Snatched! by Susan Goldenberg - Ebook | Scribd The Courier-News • Fri, Aug 17, 1934 • Page 10 • (Bridgewater, New Jersey) The Courier-News • Fri, Aug 17, 1934 • Page 1 • (Bridgewater, New Jersey) The Windsor Star • Fri, Aug 17, 1934 • Page 1 • (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) The Windsor Star • Sat, Sep 08, 1934 • Page 9 • (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) The Windsor Star • Sat, Feb 01, 1936 • Page 11 • (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) The Hamilton Spectator • Tue, Sep 11, 1906 • Page 9 • (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) The Molsons, The Labatts and The St.Johns | StJohnsWort.ca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
July 13, 20261h 6min