Step aside, polite prairie tales — this episode digs into one of Alberta’s earliest and eeriest murders, where the only thing colder than the Okotoks wind was the blood on the ground.

In 1909, A.C. Tucker Peach met a fate that was anything but peachy. Found dead near Okotoks, in the High River, his murder sparked a scandal that rattled the hay out of everyone’s pitchforks. Cooked up by a self-proclaimed criminal mastermind and his less-than-sharp sidekick, this murder was driven by greed and executed with all the finesse of a barnyard heist. The pair figured no one would miss a quiet, penny-pinching farmer like A.C. Tucker Peach — especially one who kept to himself. But what they didn’t count on was his one peculiar habit… a habit so routine, its sudden absence lit up the suspicion faster than a lantern in a hayloft.

Sources:

https://grape-garlic-ln6k.squarespace.com/s/Peach-Alfred-Joseph-Tucker.pdf

https://static.canadiancattlemen.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/10133201/Early-days-in-southern-Alberta-part1-Jan1953.pdf

https://static.canadiancattlemen.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/10133201/Early-days-in-southern-Alberta-part1-Jan1953.pdf

https://archives-ftp.gov.yk.ca/library/normal/Royal_Northwest_Mounted_Police_Report_1911.pdf

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Report_of_the_Royal_Northwest_Mounted_Police%2C_for_year_1911._%28IA_1912v46i20p28_0862%29.pdf

https://grape-garlic-ln6k.squarespace.com/s/Fisk-John.pdf

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