Month: July 2019

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 divided the city.

Sources:
Book – OUTRAGED, by Robert J Hoshowsky
Newspaper.com
Wikipedia – Emanuel Jaques
Global News – 40 years Later
Court Case – R. v. Woods, 1980 CanLII 2928 (ON CA)
Court Case – Regina v. Betesh, 1975 CanLII 1451 (ON CJ)
Facts about child molestation

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

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Episode 083 – The village of Minto, New Brunswick was rocked by the events occurring in April 2005 when a grisly murder scene was discovered at 358 Slope Road. Edlerly but active residents, Fred Fulton, known for his love of playing and listening to country music and his kind, wife Verna Decarie lay dead, butchered in their small rural home.

The village got it’s second blow when it became clear that one of their own, a 22-year-old neighbour of Fred and Verna’s, named Gregory Allen Despres was sought as a person of interest in the murders. He was on the run.

Bringing justice to this case would not prove an easy task in spite of a heap of evidence.

Sources:
R. v. Despres, 2008 NBQB 99 (CanLII) http://canlii.ca/t/1vz0x
R. v. Despres, 2007 NBQB 154 (CanLII) http://canlii.ca/t/1rb00
Wikipedia – Gregory Despres
SFGate Article
Global News articles about Shepody Healing Centre in NB

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Episode 082 – On the morning of December 6, 2009, Ottawa paramedics and police responded to what sounded like a frantic 911 call placed by a man at a residence in the Bayshore area. The man was screaming that his wife was not breathing. Upon arriving they found the owner of the home, 33-year-old Donna Jones, deceased on a makeshift mattress on the basement floor. Donna’s injuries and her time of death did not match the story that her husband Mark Peter Hutt was telling. Investigators would uncover a brutal history of abuse and torture ultimately leading to a heinous murder.

WARNING: This podcast includes graphic descriptions of violent domestic abuse and murder.

Sources:
R. v. Hutt, 2013 ONSC 2267 (CanLII)
CBC – Mark Peter Hutt police interview
Canada.com – Trial Coverage
Canada.com – More Trial Coverage
Psychology Today – How the brain works against abuse victims
Ottawa Citizen – Articles by Chloe Fedio and Andrew Seymour

Domestic Abuse Resources in Canada:
http://endingviolencecanada.org
Canada’s Department of Justice
Canada’s Treatment Programs for Men Who Abuse Their Partners

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Episode 081 – in the late 1920 and early 1930’s a group called the Aquarian Foundation, led by a self-professed spiritual guru who called himself Brother XII set up just south  of Nanaimo B.C. Brother XII drew wealthy followers to his cult with his promises of salvation through a coming apocalypse. As we’ve seen many times since the lust for power, sex and money corrupted the group, who, after scandals and cruel treatment turned on Brother XII.

He and a female follower, he claimed to be his wife, absconded with some of the treasure that the group had amassed. However, many believe there are still millions of dollars worth of Brother XII’s gold hidden somewhere in the area.

Photo from the collection of Melody Wilson-Claridge

Sources:
Wikipedia – Brother XII and De Courcy Island
The Brother XII Affair
Books by Brother XII on Amazon
BrotherXII.com  and the book Brother XII by John Oliphant
CBC – The Dream of Brother XII
Global – Brother XII’s Gold
Atlas Obscura entry about Brother XII
Theosophy.org – About Theosophy
Book – Canadian Mysteries of the Unexplained
Documentary – The Canadians: Brother Twelve

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Episode 080 – The tenth Prime Minister of Canada, William Lyon MacKenzie King, was instrumental in Canada’s growth from a mere British colony to an independent nation within the Commonwealth. He saw the country through World War 2 and helped to create some of the social policies that continue to make Canada one of the greatest countries in the world to live.

MacKenzie King had his dark side too as is evidenced in his extensive diaries. His government oversaw the internment of 22,000+ who were either Canadians with Japanese heritage or Japanese nationals. His thoughts and decisions based on racial ideals will be shocking to some.

King’s beliefs in the after life and spiritualist practices are probably the most bizarre. Driven by loneliness, Canada’s longest serving Prime Minister believed he was able to communicate with the spirits of dead relatives, in particular his mother. He also claimed to have interacted with the spirits of other dead politicians, Leonardo da Vinci and even his own deceased dog.

Photo Credit / Mention de source :
Paul Horsdal. Library and Archives Canada, C-055544

Sources:
Wikipedia – William Lyon MacKenzie King
Library and Archives Canada – Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King
Diary Entry – MacKenzie King meets Adolph Hitler
Harper Memorial (Sir Galahad)
Video – From the Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King (2017)
OpenTextBC article on Japanese Internment in Canada
Japanese Canadian Internment | Narrated by David Suzuki
Mental Floss – Was Canada’s Longest-Serving PM Also Its Strangest?
Book – King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny
Book – Unbuttoned: A History of Mackenzie King’s Secret Life

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