Year: 2020

Episode 125 – On cold December night just before Christmas in 1974, the 14-year-old son of Moncton, NB restauranteur, Cy Stein was kidnapped from the family home by two masked gunman. By just before 5:00am the kidnapping came to and end, but two city of Moncton police officers had then gone missing. Their fate would not be known for two more days, and the outcome was not positive.

Sources:
Regina v. Hutchison, 1975 CanLII 1280 (NB CA)
Ambrose v. The Queen, 1976 CanLII 201 (SCC), [1977] 2 SCR 717

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Episode 124 – Women and girls, many indigenous have been going missing in the area of Northern British Columbia’s Highway 16 since 1969. The route has become known as the Highway of Tears. Many have been found deceased and still others have just vanished. In this episode we cover the murders of Jill Stuchenko, Natasha Montgomery, Cynthia Maas and Loren Leslie. All four were killed over a span of 14 months by a violent and cold blooded monster with a baby face, a serial killer named Cody Alan Legebokoff of Prince George, B.C.

Sources and Further Reading:
[2013 BCSC 2178 (CanLII) | R. v. Legebokoff | CanLII]
[2014 BCSC 315 (CanLII) | R. v. Legebokoff | CanLII]
[2014 BCSC 1636 (CanLII) | R. v. Legebokoff | CanLII]
[2014 BCSC 1746 (CanLII) | R. v. Legebokoff | CanLII]
[2016 BCCA 386 (CanLII) | R. v. Legebokoff | CanLII]
[Legebokoff interview 2 by PGCitizen | Free Listening on SoundCloud]
[goodreads.com – Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid]
[Global News – SEARCH: Legebokoff]
[Legebokoff Trial | Prince George Citizen]
[Legebokoff evidence | Prince George Citizen]
[Who is Cody Alan Legebokoff?  | Globalnews.ca]
[Families of Legebokoff victims give emotional statements at sentencing hearing]
[HighwayofTears.org]
[Home – Highway of Tears Film]
[“Knocking on Heaven’s Door” (cover) by Natasha Montgomery – YouTube]

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Episode 123 – Born during the Great Depression, Ken Leishman was a stylish, good looking guy with a Clark Gable moustache. A married father of 7, he was adventurous, smart, charismatic, creative and enterprising. He used his skill as a small aircraft pilot to earn cash first as a fly in mechanic on prairie farms, then as a king cookery salesman. 

Ken was also deeply in debt, his sales business was failing and he craved an even more lavish lifestyle. To get what he wanted Ken wasn’t above stealing it, but often got caught going back for more. After flying all the way to Toronto to rob banks on two separate occasions Ken was dubbed the Flying Bandit after getting caught during his second failed bank robbery.

After Ken’s release, he had an even more elaborate heist in mind – making off with a few hundred pounds of gold bullion in what would be the greatest gold theft in Canadian history.

Sources:
[Bandit – A portrait of Ken Leishman by Wayne Tefs] 
[Lost: Unsolved Mysteries of Canadian Aviation by Shirlee Smith Matheson] 
[In the Mind of a Mountie – Google Play]
[This Was Manitoba: Kenneth Leishman – The Flying Bandit (UPDATED)]
[Ottawa Citizen – Ken Leishman – Google News Archive Search]
[Newspapers.com search – Ken Leishman + Canada]
[Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit – video dailymotion]
[Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit – YouTube]
[Court Briefing for 1966 trial of Ken Leishman et al, Winnipeg Gold Heist]
[The Flying Bandit – Winnipeg Free Press]
[Canada history: Mar.1, 1966: the Great Winnipeg Gold Heist – RCI | English]
[The Flying Bandit – Winnipeg Free Press]
[The ‘flying bank robber’ died hard | Maclean’s | DECEMBER 29, 1980]

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Episode 122 – This is for or the deceased victims, the injured, the families, the friends and Bluenosers everywhere who are hurting after the shooting rampage that shook the little province of Nova Scotia to its core on April 18 and 19, 2020. 

This is not who Nova Scotians are. This will not define us. 
#NovaScotiaStrong

The deceased are:
Lisa McCully
Greg Blair & Jamie Blair
Peter Bond & Joy Bond
John Zahl & Elizabeth Joanne Thomas
Dawn Madsen & Frank Gulenchyn
Jolene Oliver, Aaron Tuck & Emily Tuck
Corrie Ellison
Sean McLeod & Alanna Jenkins
Tom Bagley
Lillian Hyslop
Heather O’Brien
Kristen Beaton & baby Beaton
RCMP Cst. Heidi Stevenson
Joey Webber
Gina Goulet

Call the Nova Scotia RCMP tip line at 902-720-5959 with any information you have that can assist. Leave a detailed voicemail and an investigator will return your call.

[Share your condolences  – Government of Nova Scotia, Canada]
[Stronger Together NS Public Group | Facebook]
[RCMP, Nova Scotia (@RCMPNS) | Twitter]
[GLOBAL NEWS – Nova Scotia shooting | News, Videos & Articles]
[RCMP release detailed timeline of 13-hour shooting rampage – YouTube]
[Nova Scotia Remembers – YouTube]

Official list of sites to donate to help the families of the fallen:
[Heart Colchester – Heart Colchester]

Other Links:
[Familiar Stranger – YouTube]
[Caribbean Baseball Goodwill Tours]

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Episode 120 – For ages people have been drawn to Niagara Falls, the most famous group of waterfalls in North America, and maybe the world. As many as 20 million people per year visit to view the awesome power of nature as tens of millions of liters of water spectacularly pour over the falls every minute. There have been many accidental deaths, but there have been many drawn to the torrents for other darker reasons. Some come to end their own lives and others, the daredevils, to try to prove their ingenuity and courage can beat the falls. Some have failed in the attempt.

NOTE: There will be talk of suicide in this episode.

Sources and more information:
[Niagara: A History of the Falls by Pierre Berton]
[The River of Lost Souls: What We Might Learn From Niagara Falls Suicides by Michael Clarkson]
[Welcome to Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada | City of Niagara Falls, Canada]
[Niagara Falls,  Ontario,   Canada – World Waterfall Database]
[Niagara Falls – Niagara Falls Tourism Information]
[Facts About Niagara Falls | Live Science]
[Niagara Falls Facts & Information]
[On the Meaning  of Niagara – Brocku.ca]
[Daredevil Exhibit – Things to do | Niagara Falls Canada]
[Daredevils of Niagara Falls]
[List of objects that have gone over Niagara Falls – Wikipedia]
[Niagara Falls without water, 1969]
[Sounds of Niagara Falls • Niagara Whirlpool • Horseshoe Falls • American Falls • Bridal Veil Fall – YouTube]
[WNED PBS Documentaries | Daredevils of Niagara Falls | PBS]
[Daredevils of Niagara Falls]
[Niagara River – Life & Death on the river: Accidents & Rescues]
[Ed Delahanty Obituary]
[Stunters & Daredevils]

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Tina Michelle Fontaine was an Indigenous girl who had  a tough go right from the beginning. As she had run away before when 15-year-old Tina disappeared on August 9, 2014 the authorities did not treat it with much urgency at all. Tina’s family was worried sick and wanted more activity. It was not until it was too late that  the investigation began in earnest. Tina’s body was found wrapped in a duvet and floating in Winnipeg‘s Red River more than a week later.

Her death and the subsequent acquittal of the only suspect in Tina’s slaying are cited by some as catalysts for the national inquiry that was called to look into the massive amount of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada.

Sources and more information:
R. v. Cormier, 2010 ABCA 162 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/29qjl>
[Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine by Joanna Jolly]
[Public Reports – Manitoba Advocate]
Place Where it Feels Like Home: The Story of Tina Fontaine – PDF
[Global News SEARCH: Tina Fontaine]
[Newspapers.com search: Tina Fontaine]
[CBC news topic tag Raymond Cormier trial]
[21 Feb 2018, N3 – The Gazette at Newspapers.com]
[27 Aug 2014, 10 – National Post at Newspapers.com]
[26 Sep 2014, 7 – National Post at Newspapers.com]
[BBC World Service – Assignment, Canada’s Red River Murders]
[Tina Fontaine’s 911 call | CBC.ca]
[Tina Fontaine | Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women – CBC.ca]
[Cormier speaks of last time he saw Fontaine in video shown to court – YouTube]
[Tina Fontaine: The life and the legacy | APTN InFocus – YouTube]
[Raymond Cormier found not guilty in death of Tina Fontaine  | Globalnews.ca]
[Bear Clan Patrol Inc – Home | Facebook]
[Drag The Red! Public Group | Facebook]
[Red River Women – BBC News]
[Pair sentenced to 9 years in beating death of Tina Fontaine’s dad | CBC News]
[Raymond Cormier spoke of wanting to have sex with Tina Fontaine days before her death, Crown tells court | CBC News]
[Tina Fontaine, 15, found in bag in Red River | CBC News]
[MMIW Final report]

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In a tragedy that shook Canada and the rest of the hockey playing world, just before 5:00pm on April 6, 2018, the team bus of the Humboldt Broncos Junior Hockey team smashed into a semi that had just blown through a stop at the intersection of Saskatchewan highways 35 and 335. Of the the 29 people on the bus that day, only 13 survived. The truck driver walked away unharmed, and was later charged with and convicted of 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death and 13 more counts of dangerous driving causing injury. 

One player, 21-year-old defenseman Logan Boulet, had signed his donor card only 5 weeks before the crash and his death. His thoughtful gift saved the lives of six organ recipients. Logan’s selfless actions led droves of other Canadians to sign their donor cards, creating what has been called the #LoganBouletEffect. This remains the largest number of donors pledging their organs from a single event; 100,000 in the first three weeks. To keep the effect going his family helped to create Green Shirt Day in 2019, observed on April 7, the anniversary of Logan’s passing. 

Sources and Further Reading:
[Humboldt Broncos]
[Humboldt Broncos bus crash – Wikipedia]
[9 Apr 2018, NP1 – The National Post at Newspapers.com]
[Home – Green Shirt Day]
[Green Shirt Day – Home | Facebook]
[Green Shirt Day (@GreenShirtDay) | Twitter]
[Green Shirt Day (@greenshirtday) • Instagram photos and videos]
[Report On Intersection Review | Government of Saskatchewan]
[ER doctor recalls Humboldt Broncos crash response – YouTube]
[Rod Stewart pays tribute to Humboldt Broncos | Globalnews.ca]
[Logan Boulet taken off life support, organs donated  | Globalnews.ca]
[COVID-19 forcing Green Shirt Day campaign changes | Global News]
[Agreed statement of facts – Humboldt Broncos bus crash]
[Guilty plea in Humboldt Broncos bus crash  | Globalnews.ca]
[Driver in Humboldt crash wasn’t distracted | CBC News]
[Adam Herold Legacy Foundation]
[SEARCH: Global News Humboldt – YouTube]
[Swift Current Broncos bus crash – Wikipedia]
R v Sidhu, 2019 SKPC 19 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/hzbj5] >

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Episode 117 – In this away game Mike and Scott explore the wacky world of the origins of Hollow Earth movement. We hear about Captain John Cleves Symmes Jr‘s desires for an expedition to the hole in the North Pole, Cyrus Reed Teed‘s Hollow Earth cult in Florida and Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd‘s supposed secret journey into the hidden world filled with fanatical creatures and advanced aliens within the Antarctic continent.

NOTE: Scott’s audio is a little wonky as he had to record on location to maintain social distance.

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Sources and Further Reading:
[Flat-Earth martyr or victim? ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes dies in DIY rocket crash – National | Globalnews.ca]
[At the Earth’s Core (novel) – Wikipedia]
[Journey to the Center of the Earth – Wikipedia]
[goodreads.com – Hollow Earth: by David Standish]
[Hollow Earth – Wikipedia]
[The Philosophical transactions of the Royal society of London, from their commencement in 1665, in the year 1800]
[King Koresh | Sun | Stars]
[Fantastically Wrong: The Legendary Scientist Who Swore Our Planet Is Hollow | WIRED]
[Cyrus Reed Teed (1839-1908) – Find A Grave Memorial]
[John Cleves Symmes Jr. – Wikipedia]
[The Project Gutenberg eBook of Symmes’s Theory Of Concentric Spheres, by A Citizen of the United States.]
[The Earth is Hollow]
[Symzonia, Voyage of Discovery Index]
[Phantom of the Poles Index]
[Richard E. Byrd – Wikipedia]
[Admiral Richard B. Byrd’s, Diary Feb. Mar. 1947]
[Real footage of Admiral Richard E Byrd’s secret expedition part 2 the Russian leaks]
[Admiral Byrd’s North Pole Flight to “Agartha” (diary audiobook) – YouTube]
[The Inner Earth Realm of Agartha | Compass | Earth]
[The Hollow Earth Is Filled With Giants, Germans, and A Little Sun – Atlas Obscura]
[World Top Secret – Our Earth is Hollow !!! Decrypt | North Pole | South Pole]
[ADMIRAL BYRD’S SECRET JOURNEY BEYOND THE-POLES (Tim R. Swartz)]

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Episode 116 – The last time Heather Thomas‘s dad Pat saw his ten year old daughter alive was on the afternoon of October 1, 2000 when she went outside to play around their Cloverdale, BC, townhouse complex. After one the largest searches in RCMP history to that point, it was a hitchhiker who found Heather’s body floating facedown in Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Park. Heather had been murdered and the community was shocked when they found out it had been one of their own who had done the terrible deed.

Sources and Further Reading:

R. v. Ertmoed, 2006 BCCA 365 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/1p21p] >
R. v. Ertmoed, 2002 BCSC 806 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/1hbwd] >
R. v. Ertmoed, 2002 BCSC 1848 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/59tb] >
[vLex – R. v. Ertmoed (S.R.), (2006) 229 B.C.A.C. 168 (CA)]
[vLex]- R. v. Ertmoed (S.R.), [2002] B.C.T.C. 1847 (SC)] 
[Ertmoed gets life for murdering little girl – The Globe and Mail]
[The Cloverdale Market | Your Weekly Treasure Hunt]
[Resources & Research: Abducted then Murdered Children – protectchildren.ca]
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/85-002-x1998009-eng.pdf
https://www.protectchildren.ca/pdfs/C3P_AMC_PreliminaryFindings_en.pdf 

“Heather” by Pete Cross from the Behind the Yellow Tape blog

[5 Oct 2000, 20 – The Vancouver Sun at Newspapers.com]
[6 Oct 2000, 3 – Surrey Leader at Newspapers.com]
[23 Oct 2000, 1 – The Province at Newspapers.com]
[30 Oct 2000, 21 – The Province at Newspapers.com]
[4 Nov 2000, 1 – The Vancouver Sun at Newspapers.com]
[5 Nov 2000, 12 – The Province at Newspapers.com]
[7 Nov 2000, 1 – The Vancouver Sun at Newspapers.com]
[7 Nov 2000, 19 – The Windsor Star at Newspapers.com]
[8 Nov 2000, 3 – Surrey Leader at Newspapers.com]
[17 Nov 2000, 5 – Surrey Leader at Newspapers.com]
[30 Aug 2002, 6 – The Province at Newspapers.com]()

[The Life of a Curious Girl: Heather Thomas]
[Surrey child killer applies for early parole under faint-hope clause that has since been repealed – Surrey Now-Leader]

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