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Dark Poutine – True Crime and Dark History

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

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The Shag Harbour UFO Incident Nov 16, 2020

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Episode 150: Beginning at 7:19 pm Atlantic Daylight Time, on the evening of October 4, 1967, an airline pilot reported seeing an unidentified flying object heading east over Southern Quebec. About 30 minutes later, calls began coming into local authorities reporting strange lights in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean along Nova Scotia’s South Shore. The multiple sightings continued until 11:20 pm that evening when something large crashed into the water just off Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. The mysterious and odd events of that evening are one of Canada’s most enduring and well-documented UFO sightings.
Sources:
https://shagharbourincident.com/
https://shagharbourufoexpo.com/
http://www.roswellproof.com/Shag_Harbour/Shag_Harbour1_summary.html http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread485206/pg1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shag_Harbour,_Nova_Scotia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shag_Harbour_UFO_incident
http://www.ufoevidence.org/Cases/CaseSubarticle.asp?ID=179
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/unusual/ufo/Pages/default.aspx https://globalnews.ca/news/3761270/canadas-best-documented-ufo-sighting-still-intrigues-50-years-on/
https://globalnews.ca/news/4319302/cousteau-family-members-shag-harbour/ https://www.ufocasebook.com/Shagharbor.html
https://ns1763.ca/war-monuments/roycan63anchor/

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Remembrance Day 2020 – Canada’s Flying Ace, Billy Bishop Nov 09, 2020

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Episode 149: William Avery (Billy) Bishop was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, on February 8, 1894. When the First World War broke out, as with many young men of his day, Billy was off to Europe to do his part. By the end of the war, Bishop claimed he had survived more than 170 air battles and said he had shot down seventy-two German aircraft. This number left Bishop only three behind René Fonck of France and eight behind The Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, who had 80 kills. These numbers made Bishop the top Canadian and British Empire flying ace of the war and Canada’s most storied veterans. But Billy’s story does come with some controversy.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bishop
https://www.scribd.com/book/230095060/The-Courage-of-the-Early-Morning-A-Biography-of-the-Great-Ace-of-World-War-I
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/people-and-stories/billy-bishop
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/100-stories/Pages/bishop.aspx
https://www.constable.ca/caah/bbishop.htm
https://www.owensound.ca/en/billy-bishop-museum.aspx
https://valourcanada.ca/military-history-library/billy-bishop-vc/
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-avery-bishop
https://www.theworldwar.org/explore/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/billy-bishop
https://www.nfb.ca/film/the-kid-who-couldnt-miss/
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/educational-magazines/william-billy-avery-bishop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc2LjoXbX-c Classic WW1 Fighters

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Halloween 2020 – Spiritualism in Canada: Seances, Mediums and Spirits, Oh My! Oct 26, 2020

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Episode 147: Canada has a long history of folks who have attempted to communicate with the dead - a practice is known as Spiritualism. Some of these have claimed that they can connect directly with those on the other side. Here we will give a bit of history, tell some of their stories and give a how-to primer for entertainment purposes only.

We do not recommend, dear listeners, that you make attempts to commune with the beyond using the methods we will speak about later. If you do so and incur negative consequences, we bear no responsibility for your decision to proceed.
Co-host: Carol Browne
Interview with: Morgan Knudsen
Sources:
The Fox Sisters
The Canadian Spiritualist Movement and Sources for its Study
Wikipedia - The Fox Sisters
Talking Nonsense (thesis)
GlobalNews - MacKenzie King
Spiritualist Alliance
Buckland’s Book of Spirit Communications
Mary Melville, The Psychic by Flora MacDonald
LearnReligions - How To Hold a Séance
activehistory.ca

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Introducing... Crime Beat - Season 3 Oct 21, 2020

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Ride along with 25 year veteran Crime Reporter Nancy Hixt, from Global News, on her award winning podcast Crime Beat as she takes you through some of Canada’s most high-profile criminal cases. Real People, Real Crimes, Real Journalism. Each episode takes you deep inside cases she has worked to give you detail you didn't hear on the news.

Season 3 is available NOW - LISTEN

Crime Beat is the 2020 winner of the Edward R. Murrow Podcast Award (RTDNA).

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The Redpath Mansion Mystery Oct 19, 2020

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Episode 146: On June 13th 1901, Ada Mills Redpath and her son Jocelyn Clifford Redpath were killed in their mansion in on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal. Ada had been shot to the back of the head. Clifford has a gunshot wound to his the temple. The police were not called. A coroner’s inquest the next day declared the deaths a murder-suicide. Ada and Clifford were buried June 15th without any further investigation.
Written By: Josina De Bree
Sources:

https://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/redpath/home/indexen.html
https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/the-m-naghten-rule.html
https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/about-epilepsy-basics/what-epilepsy
https://www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/epilepsy-auras
https://www.cureepilepsy.org/for-patients/what-are-the-phases-of-seizures-of-epilepsy/

Denton A, Tellez-Zenteno JF. A patient with epilepsy charged with kidnapping, unlawful confinement, and assault causing bodily harm after seizures: Deficiencies in the legal system. Epilepsy Behav Rep. 2020;13:100361. Published 2020 Mar 21. doi:10.1016/j.ebr.2020.100361

Dougall, L. (2019) The Summit House Mystery; Or, The Earthly Purgatory. Good Press. Original work published 1905.

Reuber M, Mackay RD. Epileptic automatisms in the criminal courts: 13 cases tried in England and Wales between 1975 and 2001. Epilepsia. 2008 Jan;49(1):138-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01269.x. PMID: 17727668.

Shih JJ, LeslieMazwi T, Falcao G, Van Gerpen J. Directed aggressive behavior in frontal lobe epilepsy: video-EEG and ictal spect case study. Neurology. 2009;73(21):1804-1806. doi:10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181c2933f

Devinsky, Orrin. “Postictal psychosis: common, dangerous, and treatable.” Epilepsy currents vol. 8,2 (2008): 31-4. doi:10.1111/j.1535-7511.2008.00227.x

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Lust, Greed and Anger: The Slaying of Gang Yuan Oct 12, 2020

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Episode 145: This episode contains disturbing and graphic details of the 2015 murder of Chinese millionaire, Gang Yuan, in West Vancouver at the hands of his soft-spoken cousin Li Zhao. The crime’s unthinkable and twisted aftermath is horrendous.
Sources:
Pre-Trial Voire Dire
R. v Zhao, 2020 BCSC 1322 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/j9jsm>
BC v. Child 3, 2019 BCCA 171 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/j09gq>
Mother 1 v Solus Trust , 2019 BCSC 200 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/hxnc9>
963 King Georges Way, West Vancouver | Dana Inman - 360hometours.ca
961 King Georges Way - Real Estate tour video (renumbered address)
961 King Georges Way - Realtor Listing
3333 The Crescent
Pym Island
NY Times Article
National Post Article 2014
HBICtv: Ultra Rich Asian Girls - Wikipedia
HBICtv: YouTube
GlobalNews - Conviction Article

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Perseverance, Prosecution & Peace: The Murder of Paula Gallant Oct 05, 2020

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Episode 144: On the evening of December 27, 2005, in my home province of Nova Scotia, Jason McCrae, husband of a beloved educator, artist, sister and mother named Paula Anne Gallant, reported her missing. Paula failed to return to her home in Timberlea after a shopping trip to nearby Halifax. The next day, Paula’s body was found locked in the trunk of her car in the parking lot of the school where she taught the third grade. The cause of Paula’s death was not immediately evident, nor was it apparent how she had come to be in the trunk of her vehicle.
Sources:
https://www.scribd.com/document/49878324/Statement-of-Facts-R-v-Jason-Wayne-MacRAE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Ann_Gallant
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304180629/http://paulagallant.com/
http://silentwitnessnovascotia.ca/paula-anne-gallant/
https://www.victimsweek.gc.ca/stories-experience/r3.html
https://caperfrasers.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/paula-gallant-murder-2/
https://canadianwomen.org/the-facts/gender-based-violence/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/macrae-strangled-wife-over-700-debt-1.1054417
https://haligonia.ca/regan-relieved-closure-coming-for-family-of-paula-gallant-34003/
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2010/08/18/husband_charged_five_years_after_wifes_murder.html
https://damianpenny.com/2011/03/03/justice-at-last-for-paula-gallant/
https://pictouadvocate.com/tag/paula-gallant/
https://globalnews.ca/news/70852/have-you-met-mr-big/
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/ca/special-reports/women-of-influence-2015/lana-kenny-48909.aspx
https://www.metro.us/macrae-sentenced-life-in-prison-no-parole-for-15-years/
https://dubyadubya.wordpress.com/tag/leslie-conrad/
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/halifax-ns/paul-kenny-9135535
https://www.capebretonpost.com/news/local/paula-gallants-husband-says-he-killed-her-in-argument-over-700-gambling-debt-4474/
http://thans.ca/paula-gallant-memorial-modified-art-therapy-project/
http://musingsbygina.blogspot.com/2007/08/not-so-merry-after-all.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20130701012300/http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ns/news-nouvelles/releases-communiques/Aug1810_133158-eng.htm

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No Justice for Rebecca Middleton Sep 28, 2020

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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 were startled when the car’s headlights illuminated a form lying in the middle of the dark and isolated road. They pulled the car over and got out to investigate. The group presumed at first it was an injured dog, but as they approached, they realized that this was a nearly naked and bloodied teenage girl. She was seventeen-year-old, Rebecca Middleton from Belleville, Ontario. Although alive when the strangers found her, Rebecca died from her injuries before authorities could get to her. Rebecca's story and aftermath have become the basis for one of the darkest moments in Bermuda's history.
Sources:
https://www.amazon.ca/Kill-Me-Once-Twice-Playground-ebook/dp/B07933SB3S/
https://web.archive.org/web/20060714193555/
http://rebeccamiddleton.org/index.html
https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/7662753-middleton-murder-accused-deported-from-bermuda/
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/06/29/rebecca-middleton-remembered-20-years-after-her-murder-in-bermuda.html
http://michellesaysso.blogspot.com/2007/05/forget-your-trip-to-bermuda.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/blair-s-wife-asks-bermudian-court-to-reopen-case-of-slain-canadian-1.668711
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Rebecca_Middleton
http://www.royalgazette.com/letters-to-the-editor/article/20180702/in-memory-of-rebecca
http://www.royalgazette.com/news/article/20160704/bermuda-remembers-rebecca-middleton
http://www.royalgazette.com/letters-to-the-editor/article/20171019/embarrassing-that-mundy-gets-executive-treatment
http://www.royalgazette.com/crime/article/20171013/mundy-returns-to-jamaica
http://www.royalgazette.com/letters-to-the-editor/article/20160704/spare-thought-rebecca-middleton
http://www.royalgazette.com/news/article/20160704/bermuda-remembers-rebecca-middleton
http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140409/COMMENT03/140409756
http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140915/NEWS/140919824
https://youtu.be/lVYhEdSaTEU ID Documentary

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The Murder of Grant De Patie Sep 21, 2020

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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 and 30 cents worth of gas.
Sources:
R. v. Pratt, 2006 BCSC 1198 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/1p295>
R. v. Pratt, 2007 BCCA 206 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/1r1sv>
https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/driver-from-2005-vehicle-dragging-death-in-maple-ridge-dies/
https://globalnews.ca/news/5080921/grant-de-patie-killer-darnell-pratt-dies/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%27s_Law
https://globalnews.ca/news/5342451/bc-late-night-workers-grants-law/
https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/plaque-will-honour-grant-and-worker-safety/
https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/03/21/im-a-little-numb-killer-of-b-c-gas-station-attendant-grant-de-patie-dies/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/death-of-toddler-mauled-by-rottweilers-was-accidental-inquest-rules/article960766/

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Dangerous Offender: The Crimes of Jake Green (SK) Sep 14, 2020

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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 was Jacob Leroy Andrew Green, 16, the son of Kenneth's live-in girlfriend. Green was tried as a young offender and found guilty of manslaughter.

After Jake's release, all seemed relatively okay. Underneath his cool exterior simmered a rage that would surface again in 1999 when, after a breakup, Jake stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Lesli Yaremko and her parents, Sharon and Terry.
Sources:
https://moosejaw.ca/
Welcome To Moose Jaw - Canada's Most Notorious City
R. v. G. (J.L.), 1994 CanLII 4627 (SK CA), <http://canlii.ca/t/1nqnr>
R. v. J.L.A.G., 2002 SKQB 289 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/5j7g>
https://app.vlex.com/#vid/681138249 Dangerous Offender Application
https://app.vlex.com/#vid/r-v-green-j-681449913 2004 Appeal
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/regina-leader-post/20100626/284223756774309
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/saskatoon-starphoenix/20100628/282789237698833
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_offender
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-753.html
http://criminalnotebook.ca/index.php/Requirements_for_a_Dangerous_Offender_Designation
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/hghrsk-ffndrs-hndb/index-en.aspx
https://www.defencegroup.ca/blog/crime/what-are-dangerous-offenders/
https://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/research/r125-eng.shtml
https://www.macleans.ca/canadas-most-dangerous-places-2020/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412652-moose-jaw-murders-and-other-deaths

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