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Live in Vancouver: The Disappearance of Madison Scott (BC) Nov 18, 2019

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Episode 100 - This episode was recorded live at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver on November 9, 2019 as part of 2019 Vancouver Podcast Festival. In front of a packed house of energetic Dark Poutine listeners Mike and Scott went through a brief retrospective of some highlights from some of the most popular of the first 99 shows. The case covered in the second half of the show is the disappearance of Madison Scott, from Vanderhoof B.C. on the morning of May 28, 2011. Madison attended a party with friends and opted to stay alone in her tent at the Hogsback Lake Recreation Area after everyone else had gone. Madison was gone the next morning with her cellphone and keys, but her tent, truck and personal belongings were still there. She's not been seen or heard form since.
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Sources:
[Help Find Madison Scott]
[Telegraph Wilderness Trail, Vanderhoof, British Columbia, Canada, BC]
[Disappearance of Maddy Scott - Wikipedia]
[The Mysterious disappearance of Madison Scott - UnresolvedMysteries]
[R. v Charlie, 2017 BCSC 2187 (CanLII)]
[Madison Scott’s Mother Comments on BrainScratch Searchlight - YouTube]
[FRO’s b-day]
[http://www.vanderhoof.ca/]
[Recreation Sites and Trails BC - Hogsback Lake]
[Help find Maddy - YouTube] Somebody knows something - audio clip

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Remembrance Day 2019: Ardenne Abbey Massacre Nov 11, 2019

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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 structures that have stood since 1766. Over two days, June 7 and 8, 1944, 18 Canadian POW's, belonging to the North Nova Scotia Highlanders and the Sherbrooke Fusiliers were murdered by men reporting to Waffen-SS Brigadeführer Kurt "Panzer" Meyer, who was later charged and convicted of war crimes for his hand in these and other murders of Canadian POWs at the hands of his troops.

Sources:
[Ardenne Abbey massacre - Wikipedia]
[Abbaye d’Ardenne - Veterans Affairs Canada]
[12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend - Wikipedia]
[(PDF) Kurt Meyer on Trial: A Documentary Record]
[D-Day veteran’s harrowing tale of advancing deep behind Nazi lines - YouTube]
[WarHistoryOnline - The Ardenne Abbey Massacre]
[The 1942 Dieppe Raid - Veterans Affairs Canada]
[WarMuseum.ca - A Chronology of Canadian Military History - Canada at D-Day, 1944]
[Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt “Panzer” Meyer]
[The 12th SS by Hubert Meyer]
[World War II: 12th SS Hitlerjugend Panzer Division Fought in Normandy]
[Guerres et violences à l’abbaye d’Ardenne]

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The Legend of Bloody Jack Krafchenko (MB) Nov 04, 2019

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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, Manitoba. During the daytime robbery the bank's manager, H.M. Arnold was shot once and killed by the fleeing bandit. After a few days Krafchenko was apprehended in nearby Winnipeg. Before he was to go on trial for his life, he escaped from prison again, using his as yet undiscovered cache of riches as leverage to bribe his own lawyer, a prison guard and two other men into assisting him.
Sources:
R. v. Krafchenko, 1914 CanLII 618 (MB QB), <http://canlii.ca/t/gcjth>
R. v. Hagel, 1914 CanLII 769 (MB QB), <http://canlii.ca/t/g9b96>
R. v. Lakes, 1988 CanLII 3343 (BC SC), <http://canlii.ca/t/22wf1>
Manitoba History: The Story of “Bloody Jack” Krafchenko
Memorable Manitobans: John “Bloody Jack” Krafchenko (1881-1914)
Winnipeg Police Service - Bloody Jack
Settling the West: Immigration to the Prairies from 1867 to 1914 | Pier 21
Finding ‘Bloody Jack’ beyond the perimeter – Spectator Tribune
West End Dumplings: The Toronto Street hideout of “Bloody Jack” is for sale!
John Larry “Bloody Jack” Krafchenko (1881-1914) - Find A Grave Memorial
Self-incrimination - Wikipedia
Canada Evidence Act
Bloody Jack: Dennis Cooley, Douglas Barbour: 9780888643919: Books - Amazon.ca
Ben Bertram
Full text of “Vulcan Advocate”
Running With Dillinger: The Story of Red Hamilton and Other Forgotten Canadian Outlaws
Catalog / Sears, Roebuck and Company. Spring 1910 (no.120)

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Halloween History & Canadian Ghost Stories Oct 28, 2019

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Episode 097 - In this, the second anniversary episode of Dark Poutine, the guys talk about origins of some Hallowe'en traditions and history, personal Hallowe'en tales and ghost stories from every Canadian Province and Territory.

Live Show Tickets Contest

Sources:
HauntedPlaces.org - Canada
Llewellyn’s Sabat Essentials: Samhain
The Book of Halloween 1919 by Ruth Edna Kelly
Forbes.com - Soul Cakes
Soul Cakes - Recipe
Trick or Treating Origins
Hallowe'en in Canada
UNICEF
Haunted Halifax
Canada Post - Ghostly Stamps
McLean's - Ghost Stories
Smithsonian - Lake Minnewanka
The Young Teazer
Stingy Jack

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Broken Arrow: Bomber 075 & the Lost Nuke (BC) Oct 21, 2019

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Episode 096 - Just before midnight of Valentine's Day 1950, a Convair B36 bomber on maneuvers was lost somewhere over British Columbia. Twelve of the 17 crew survived. Also aboard was a Mark IV nuclear weapon, aka a Fat Man, just like the one dropped on Nagasaki Japan. Although, the bomb itself was jettisoned, it is unclear what became of the lead box containing the plutonium core to make the weapon active. This core, which would still be deadly today, may still lay on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean or in the wilds of BC, near where the plane was eventually found, if it exists at all.

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NCR: The Death of Brian Smith & Life of Jeffrey Arenburg (ON/NS) Oct 14, 2019

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Episode 095 - On a summer evening in 1995 sportscaster and former NHL hockey player Brian Smith, 54, was shot by a stranger as he exited the CJOH studios in Ottawa, Ontario after a day's work. The two me had never met, but the gunman, a man named Jeffrey Arenburg from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia was convinced that the murder of the beloved sportscaster would bring attention to his plight, and perhaps, put a stop to his thoughts being stolen and broadcast by Smith's TV station. Arenburg, who'd suffered from paranoid delusions for years, and had been in and out of court and hospitals, was found NCR, not criminally responsible, for the murder.

Sources:
Brian Smith - Wikipedia
Jeffrey Arenburg - Wikipedia
Ottawa Citizen Articles about Jeffrey Arenburg at Newspapers.com
Not Criminally Responsible : Jeffrey Arenburg - The Fifth Estate (YouTube)
Not Criminally Responsible assessments - lawfacts.ca
Stats on verdicts of not criminally responsible in Canada
The Legacy of a Story: Double-Narrative of Jeffrey Arenburg and Brian Smith
UNITED STATES v. ARENBURG
Bill 68 2000 in memory of Brian Smith
Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act 2014
CBC - What does NCR mean?
Jeffrey Arenburg, killer of sportscaster Brian Smith, dead of heart attack
Brian's Law ruled constitutional
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Part 2 - Murder Most Pointless - Lynn Duggan & Patti Ducharme (BC) Oct 07, 2019

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Episode 094 - Part 2 of 2: After the murder of Lynn Duggan in her North Vancouver apartment, to escape the heat, prime suspect, an ex-VPD officer, Brock Graham ran away to Campbell River, B.C. He moved in with mother of four Patti Ducharme, in late 1995. All seemed well at first but soon the cracks in Brock's personality began to show.

In March of 1996, Brock brutally murdered Patti Ducharme after an argument. He ran back to the Lower Mainland where he was apprehended, charged and convicted for Patti's killing.

Brock continued to refuse to acknowledging that he'd killed Lynn Duggan even while in jail for Patti's murder with nothing to lose. In 2004, Brad Duggan, Lynn and Cheryl's brother, had the first of two restorative justice meetings with Brock Graham. This is where the case to solve Lynn's murder finally takes a turn.

Sources:
More Cheryl Duggan Interviews - © Dark Poutine 2019
The Duggan family private files and archives on the case
R. v. Graham, 1998 CanLII 5116 (BC CA), <http://canlii.ca/t/1dxnc>
Newpapers.com (searches for Brock Graham, Lynn Duggan and Patti Ducharme)
Cop: Forty-Three Years In The Royal Canadian Mounted Police by Bill Sharp
Photo © Mike Browne

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Part 1 - Murder Most Pointless - Lynn Duggan & Patti Ducharme (BC) Sep 30, 2019

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Episode 093 - Part 1 of 2: On the evening of June 17, 1993, after a day of worry, Cheryl Duggan, went to her 34-year-old twin sister Lynn's apartment in North Vancouver, BC. Cheryl soon discovered a grisly crime scene, and Lynn Duggan was never again seen alive again. The prime suspect, an ex-VPD officer, named Brock Graham who Lynn had dated only 3 times, was the main suspect from day one in the minds of the Duggan. Eventually the police came to agree, but Graham was not talking. In 1996, before the Duggan family could find justice for Lynn, Brock Graham, would kill again. This time in Campbell River, BC, where a mother of four named Patti Ducharme, who happened to be Brock's live in girlfriend was found brutally murdered in her home in much the same way authorities believed Lynn Duggan had been.

Sources:
Cheryl Duggan Interviews - © Dark Poutine 2019
The Duggan family files and archives on the case
R. v. Graham, 1998 CanLII 5116 (BC CA), <http://canlii.ca/t/1dxnc>
Newpapers.com
Cop: Forty-Three Years In The Royal Canadian Mounted Police by Bill Sharp
Photo © Mike Browne

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Collateral Damage - The Bombing of Flight 108 (QC) Sep 23, 2019

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Episode 092 - On the morning of September 9, 1949, a DC-3 Canadian Pacific passenger plane, CP Flight 108, on a routine small hop flight up the St. Lawrence River crashed into the remote forest of Sault-au-Cochon, Quebec. All 23 aboard, 19 passengers and 4 crew, were killed instantly. Thanks to eyewitness reports of an explosion and first responders reporting the odour of dynamite, it was quickly determined that the crash was the result of sabotage. A Quebec City jeweller, J. Albert Guay quickly became the main suspect, his wife, Rita Morel, had been on the plane and determined to be the sole target. She'd recently discovered his affair with the teenage beauty Marie-Ange Robitaille. Guay also took a $10,000 travellers insurance policy out on his wife the day he bought her plane ticket to the ill fated flight. The other 22 killed were merely collateral damage so one man could get what he wanted.

Guay was quickly picked up with his two unlikely accomplices, a wheelchair bound watchmaker and his 44 year old sister, who'd been smitten with Guay. They were charged with multiple counts of murder. As the three were tried a story of betrayal, infidelity and greed emerged shocking the nation. All three were hanged for their participation in what was, up to that point, the third worst air disaster in Canadian history.
Sources:
Crash of a Douglas C-47-DL near Saint Joachim: 23 killed
CBC: To murder his wife, he killed 22 more: The Sault-au-Cochon plane crash of 1949
Roger Lemelin in MacLeans Magazine - My Friend Guay 1951
Douglas DC-3C (CF-CUA c/n 4518) Canadian Pacific Airlines
VICE She Was the Last Woman Executed In Canada. She May Have Been Innocent
New Yorker 1953 article by EJ Kahn - It Has No Name
Newpapers.com search for Albert Guay

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The .410 Murders - Denean Worms & Brenda Hughes (BC) Sep 16, 2019

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Episode 091 - In early October 1984, Denean Worms, 19, went missing after a night out with friends. Denean's nude body was found 6 different ays later in a nearby gravel pit. She'd been raped, shot twice in the head with a .410 shotgun and tossed aside. There were no real suspects until late December 1984. Brenda Hughes, just 16, was found raped and murdered in her own home by her family returning from church. She too had been shot twice in the head by a .410 shotgun. A 22-year-old local man, Terrance Wayne Burlingham, was arrested and tried for the heinous crimes. Convicting him was not a straight forward undertaking.
Sources:
R. v. Burlingham, 1990 CanLII 484 (BC CA), <http://canlii.ca/t/1d7bf>
R. v. Burlingham, 1991 CanLII 2146 (BC CA), <http://canlii.ca/t/1d8wb>
R. v. Burlingham, 1993 CanLII 6884 (BC CA), <http://canlii.ca/t/23288>
R. v. Burlingham, 1995 2 SCR 206, 1995 CanLII 88 (SCC), <http://canlii.ca/t/1frk6>
Sinclair and the Scope of the Right to Counsel
Robert D. Keppel's Signature Murders: A Report of the 1984 Cranbrook, British Columbia Cases
VicNews.com - article
AbbyNews.com - article
newspapers.com - search for Terrance Wayne Burlingham
Contest Giveaway thanks to Eve Lazarus

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