True Crime gives us many examples of the anti-hero.  The character that we find ourselves possibly rooting for, even though they do not possess or show the traits that are common in a hero. The anti-hero is not idealistic and certainly often works outside the boundaries of morality.  Many of us think of people like Gary Plauché who killed his son’s kidnapper and molester in 1984.  This week we are going to cover another person who was in that same vein.  This man, in 2016 would track down a number of sex offenders by getting their information from the nation’s public registry on the matter.  He would attack at least three men who had previously been convicted of sexual crimes and after being dubbed The Alaskan Avenger, he would eventually wind up behind bars.

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On April 4th of 1991 a young, 20-year-old woman was stopping at a payphone to call her fiancee to let him know that she was too tired to meet up for their plans and that she was instead going to head home for the night to rest and sleep.  While she was still on the phone with her boyfriend she would be grabbed and kidnapped.  This case had some interesting turns along the way and is still technically unsolved even though in 2021 a new theory came about. 

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If you have ever taken a psychology class or really, if you are a fan of true crime, at some point in your life you have probably come across The Bystander Effect.  The Bystander Effect is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim of a crime when there are other people present.  They believe instead that someone else must have called authorities or someone else will help.  This theory is actually largely based on the murder of Kitty Genovese and we are going to change a lot of what you may know or may have been taught about that case here today.  Lost in all of the controversy that has surrounded that over the years, is a story of a woman that was brutally murdered, regardless of the circumstances that surrounded that murder. 

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Stories that are unsolved are terrible, there is no denying it.  As we have said many times in the past on our show, we wonder how people can possibly live with themselves when they take a life.  On October 10th, 2008 that is precisely what happened.  A young man, 18 years of age, was walking home on a country road when he was struck by a vehicle and left for dead on the side of the road.  It took 14 years for arrests to be made in this case, but currently it looks like there may be light at the end of a long tunnel for the family, at least in terms of answers.  This week we cover what happened in 2008, what happened in between and what is currently happening now within the case. 

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On February 19th, 2013 a body would be found inside a large cistern on the roof of the Stay on Main hotel in downtown Los Angeles in the United States of America.  Now, over 9 years later, many would say that there are plenty of mysteries and unanswered questions surrounding the case.  This death has been called back to in pop culture many times over the years and in fact bore a lot of similarities to the horror movie Dark Water which actually came out many years before the death, in 2005.  This week we will talk about the girl at the center of the story, the hotel itself, the video that was later released to the public, The Elevator Game and some of the theories that have popped up over the years. 

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Murder in a small town is something that is supposed to be rare.  However, when it does happen generally the cases do not remain open for too long because in a setting like that, most everyone knows one another and there are clues, eye witnesses and mistakes.  This week we are going to look at a case though that took place in Orangeville, Ontario in 2010.  At that time, the population was roughly 27 thousand people.  Now, 12 years later, sadly, this case remains open.  To this day, very little information is known as to what happened, including the details surrounding how a young nurse died.  Today, we will look at what details there are on the case in the hopes of helping to find some answers. 

Over a three day period from June 22nd to June 24th of 2007 a tragedy occurred that was on a magnitude that we don’t see very often.  Not because of what happened perhaps, because sadly those circumstances do exist on a near daily, if not daily basis, in the world around us.  However, the part of the story that makes this stand out from the others was WHO was committing the acts in question.  It is not so often that we see someone who is a public figure, someone who lives in the public eye every day commit acts like the ones that we are going to talk about today.  Over those three days, the man in question would murder his son, his wife and then take his own life.  The story runs deep and to set the scene we are going to go WAY back because of the theories and the things that are believed to have played  apart here.  We are going to discuss the life and final days of a man who is known by fans of professional wrestling and true crime all over the world. 

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So many of our episodes cover the loss of people or the loss of life and either offer up a sad ending or a story that has yet to be finished.  This week we are going travelling south of the border to The United States and we are going to cover a case that starts out so similar to many of the cases that we have covered and yet, one that has a happy ending.  At the age of 14 a young girl was kidnapped right out of her own home and from a room that she shared with her sister.  The family fought hard, never gave up hope and never gave up on trying to find their beloved daughter.  About nine months after she was abducted all of the hard work and effort paid off and the young girl was discovered about 29 kilometres from her home.  Now, she is an advocate for missing persons and victims of sexual assault. 

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I think that most people can have empathy with someone that says “woe is me” on some level.  I think that most people can understand growing up and feeling as though life was unfair or that life was depressing.  Those are generally pretty common feelings, especially when we are children growing up and we see other people who perhaps have things that we don’t have or a life that we don’t have.  On January 18th, 2003 though two sisters would take those feelings to an entirely different and sadistic level when they would complete a plot that led to what is believed to have been the first ever matricide in Canada by two sisters.  The names in this case are fictional because names are protected under The Youth Criminal Justice Act, but the story is very real.  The worst part of the murder that we are about to discuss is that everything was premeditated and the two sisters almost got away with it. 

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David Michael Kreuger is best known by his birth name, Peter Woodcock and he is known as Canada’s youngest serial killer.  By the time that his life ended in 2010 he was known as a serial killer, a child rapist and was also diagnosed as a psychopath.  Peter is known for crimes that actually took place many, many years apart as he would initially be incarcerated for three murders of young children in Toronto in the late 1950s.  However, one of the most jarring things about Peter was that he also would commit murder in 1991 on his very first day of unsupervised release from the institution that he had been held in. 

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