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Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

Dark Poutine / Curiouscast

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

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74:20

Murder in Shell Lake: The Peterson Family Slayings (SK)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/12/02

Episode 102 - On the morning of August 15, 1967, in what was one of the most heinous random crimes ever to have happened in Canada, 9 members of the Peterson family of Shell Lake Saskatchewan were found gunned down in their modest farmhouse. Jim and Evelyn Peterson and 7 of their 9 children lay dead with no rhyme or reason for the crime. A madman was on the loose on the prairies. Sources & Further Reading:[Newspapers.com search - Canada / 1967-2019 / Shell Lake]Marking 50 years since the Shell Lake

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75:10

Who Killed Dana Bradley? (NL)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/11/25

Episode 101 - On the evening of December 14, 1981, 14-year-old, St. John's, Newfoundland, resident and grade 9 student, Dana Bradley, disappeared while hitchhiking home from a friend's house close to Village Mall. She was seen getting into a car with an unknown male, that drove off. She was found dead in woods outside the city 4 days later. She'd been sexually assaulted and murdered. To this day Dana's murder has not been solved and her case remains open. Anyone with information about Dana’s murder

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62:07

Live in Vancouver: The Disappearance of Madison...

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/11/18

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

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79:58

Remembrance Day 2019: Ardenne Abbey Massacre

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/11/11

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

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68:32

The Legend of Bloody Jack Krafchenko (MB)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/11/04

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

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75:42

Halloween History & Canadian Ghost Stories

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/10/28

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 - CanadaLlewellyn’s Sabat Essentials: SamhainThe Book of Halloween 1919 by Ruth Edna KellyForbes.com - Soul CakesSoul Cakes - RecipeTrick or Treating OriginsHallowe'en in CanadaUNICEFHaunted HalifaxCanada Post - Ghostly

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82:17

Broken Arrow: Bomber 075 & the Lost Nuke (BC)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/10/21

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

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88:00

NCR: The Death of Brian Smith & Life of Jeffrey...

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/10/14

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

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79:07

Part 2 - Murder Most Pointless - Lynn Duggan & Patti...

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/10/07

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

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74:58

Part 1 - Murder Most Pointless - Lynn Duggan & Patti...

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/09/30

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

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66:36

Collateral Damage - The Bombing of Flight 108 (QC)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/09/23

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

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83:21

The .410 Murders - Denean Worms & Brenda Hughes (BC)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/09/16

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,

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80:09

Miscarried Justice – The Murder of Sandy Seale &...

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/09/09

Episode 090 - On evening in late May of 1971 police responded to reports of a young black male, Sandy Seale, having been stabbed in Sydney, Nova Scotia's Wentworth Park. A 17-year-old indigenous man, named Donald Marshall Jr., son of the Mi'kmaq Grand Chief who'd been at the scene, and injured himself, was later charged with the crime. After spending almost 12 years in prison Marshall was exonerated by a fresh RCMP investigation after new evidence was presented to Marshall by a friend. Donald

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63:33

Billionaire’s Daughter: The Kidnapping of Cynthia...

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/09/02

Episode 089 - Four days before Christmas in 1990 a North Vancouver woman named Cynthia Kilburn was kidnapped from her home. A threatening ransom note asking for $8.5 million was found pinned to the door of her home; her two children, 4-year-old twins, were found bound, but unharmed, in an upstairs bathroom. Unknown to most of her neighbours, Cynthia is the daughter of the philanthropic BC billionaire businessman and Canada's fourth richest man, Jim Pattison. The kidnappers knew who they had, but

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69:42

Away Game: Burke and Hare - The Anatomy Murderers

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/08/26

Episode 088 - Over a ten month period, starting in late 1827, a pair of Irish born serial killers William Burke and William Hare killed 16 people, for fun and for profit in Edinburgh, Scotland. The corpses of their victims, twelve women, three men and one child, were taken to Surgeon's Square and sold off to anatomist Dr. Robert Knox, for use in his anatomy classes. Sources:BurkeandHare.comThe Anatomy Murders by Lisa RosnerDr. Heinrich Von Staden’s The Discovery of the BodySanjib Kumar Ghosh’s

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73:13

The Murder of Amber Kirwan (NS)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/08/19

Episode 087 - On the morning of October 9, 2011, 19-year-old Amber Kirwan failed to show up for an arranged ride home after leaving a local billiards hall in New Glasgow, N.S. After a massive search for almost a month Amber's body was found in a shallow grave in the nearby village of Heathbell. The man eventually charged and convicted of the crime had a surprising background. Should he have been in the community at all? Sources:R. v. Falconer, 2016 NSCA 22 (CanLII) http://canlii.ca/t/gp1bxPictou

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70:03

The Altona School Shooting of 1902 (MB)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/08/12

Episode 086 - In October of 1902 the small, quiet Mennonite community of Altona, Manitoba was shaken by violent events at the hands of one of their own. The teacher at their one room school opened fire on three school trustees after an argument, wounding all three. He then returned to the school and shot three students, all daughters of the trustees he'd shot earlier.Sources:Spectator Tribune ArticleNewspapers.comSchool Shootings in Canada at WikipediaA Pictorial History of AltonaWinnipeg Free Press

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68:14

Date with Death - The Murder of James Shannon (BC)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/08/05

episode 085 - The day before Valentines Day in 2008, James Shannon, a nurse from Port Alberni, BC, met up with another man he'd met on the web site, Plenty of Fish. Although James was looking for love, the man he brought into his home brought something much more sinister. Days later, after not showing up for multiple shifts at work, James Shannon was found brutally murdered in his home. The man who committed the act, Kim Winslow Rothgordt, was claiming he'd been raped and was too intoxicated at the

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74:22

Emanuel Jaques - The Shoeshine Boy Murder (ON)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/07/29

Episode 084 - July 28, 1977 was a hot summer day on the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets in what was then Toronto's seedier area. Three boys were shining shoes of passersby for change. After a day of work with little profit a tall, friendly stranger arrived with two pairs of shoes he needed shined. Claiming he had more lucrative work elsewhere he lured one to the younger boys, 12-year-old Emanuel Jaques, away. Emanuel was never seen alive again and the horrifying circumstances around his death

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Dark Poutine - Trailer

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History ·

2019/07/26

True crime, legends, folklore, dark history and other creepy topics from the perspective of real live Canadians. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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