Year: 2020

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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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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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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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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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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Episode 140: On July 22, 2018, at around 10:00 pm, calls flooded Toronto‘s 911 call centre. There was a man on Danforth shooting at people in the streets and in the restaurants and cafes in Greektown. After the 16-minute rampage, 13 people were wounded, 10-year-old Julianna Kozis and 18-year-old Reese Fallon had been killed and the gunman had completed suicide. Even after two intensive investigations, one question remains – Why?

Sources:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4347334/toronto-danforth-shooting-timeline-map/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Toronto_shooting
https://www.torontopolice.on.ca/publications/files/20190621-danforth_shootings_findings_of_investigation.pdf
https://www.siu.on.ca/en/directors_report_details.php?drid=165
https://globalnews.ca/news/5416470/toronto-police-danforth-shooting-investigation/
|https://globalnews.ca/news/4346833/danforth-shooting-what-we-know-about-suspect/
https://globalnews.ca/?s=danforth+shooting
https://globalnews.ca/tag/julianna-kozis/
https://globalnews.ca/?s=reese+fallonhttps://globalnews.ca/?s=faisal+hussain
https://canadiantruecrime.ca/news/2018/4/24/canadian-crime-podcast-event
https://www.arbormemorial.ca/highland-scarborough/obituaries/reese-fallon/21923
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel
https://youtu.be/xmiM91Elbn8 
https://youtu.be/4mMgJML1pbY 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1igcEIdikZw
https://twitter.com/stilez/status/1021242759401779201?lang=en Trigger Warning: Shooting Video

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Episode 139: On September 27, 2017, when Dianna Mah-Jones failed to show up for her shift without calling in sick, her co-workers were concerned. Neither Dianna nor her husband, Richard Jones, was answering the phone. One of Dianna’s colleagues went to the couple’s home in Vancouver’s Marpole neighbourhood and discovered what appeared to be a bloody crime scene. Dianna and Richard lay dead inside the house, brutally murdered.

After a complex and intense investigation police had their suspect. He was an odd man, with an odder name and an ever more odd explanation for what he had done.

Sources:
R. v Kam, 2020 BCSC 893 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/j897x> 
Complete Vancouver police interrogation of Rocky Rambo Wei Nam Kam | Vancouver Sun
2017 Health Care Hero Vancouver Coastal: Dianna Mah Jones – BC Health Care Awards Thrill Killing
UBC Memoriam
Global News – Marpole Murders
Crime Scene Evidence Photos

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Episode 138 – On the afternoon of May 10, 1973, a stranger entered the CIBC branch on Main St in the small town of Kenora, Ontario. The man, claiming he had a bomb, demanded all the money in the bank. (Photo credit: Don Dutton, Toronto Star)

Sources:
CJRL Covers the Kenora Bank Robbery 10 May 1973
Devil’s Gap by Joe Ralko
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Paul_Higgins
https://www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/missing-disparus/case-dossier.jsf?case=2016065871&id=10
https://www.thestar.com/photos/toronto_star_photo_blog/2017/05/remembering-don-dutton-through-his-photos.html
https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/1067788  (gore warning)
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_Criminal_Sentencing/Cases/Robbery#Bank_robbery
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/bank-crime-statistics-2018.pdf/view
https://www.trentu.ca/indigenous/welcome/about-chanie-wenjack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Canadian_Imperial_Bank_of_Commerce_bank_robbery

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Episode 137 – At 9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 19, 1914, the worst coal mining disaster in Canadian history occurred at Hillcrest, Alberta, in the Crowsnest Pass region of western Canada.

Episode written by Josina de Bree

Sources:
Anderson, Frank. “Hillcrest Mine Disaster” (Triumph and Tragedy in the Crowsnest Pass. Diana Wilson, Heritage House Publishing, Surrey, BC, 2005)
http://www.crowsnest.bc.ca
http://www.crowsnest-highway.ca
http://www.hillcrestminedisaster.com
Archival Holding PR0740. Provincial Archives of Alberta. https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/Details.aspx?ObjectID=PR0740&dv=True&deptID=1
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war/canada/Canada3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_(Handel)
http://www.indsci.com/the-monitor-blog/carbon-monoxide-carbon-dioxide/
https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/hw193731
https://alchetron.com/Hillcrest-mine-disaster
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2466176980

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Episode 136 – In July of 1998, Keith Scott Black went missing. He was a respected Taekwondo instructor who had three schools near Kelowna., B.C., where he taught with his wife, Rhonda Petra Black. Rhonda was saying Keith had abandoned her, but Keith’s sister Sandy and the cops knew there was more to the story. After five long years the story came to a conclusion as the true story emerged as did Keith’s remains.

Sources:
R. v. Black, 2007 BCSC 1105 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/1s6zv> 
R. v. Steadman, 2008 BCSC 1613 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/21nmn>
http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx5MLf3sdRQ 

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