February 2022 – Dark Poutine

209: MMIW: The Murder of Daleen Kay Bosse

December 9, 2024February 28, 2022 by Mike Browne

Episode 209: Daleen Kay Bosse, was a 26-year-old, wife and mother of Cree heritage and member of the Onion Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan near Saskatoon. On May 18, 2004, after a night out with friends Daleen did not return home. Her family grew worried. When she still hadn’t come home the next day Jeremiah, Daleen’s husband, contacted police, who, initially did not respond with much enthusiasm, telling Jeremiah and Daleen’s concerned parents to wait; that she would probably either come home or check in soon. Daleen’s family organized searches themselves and two weeks later Daleen’s car was found abandoned, but there was no sign of the missing woman. It would be more than four years later that Daleen’s family would find out what had happened to their missing loved one. Daleen had been murdered by a man named Douglas Richard Hales, who, during a Mr. Big sting, had admitted to killing the woman and the led police to Daleen’s charred remains.

Sources:

Onion Lake – Cree Nation

The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan | Details — Treaty 6

The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan | Details — Frog Lake Massacre

Frog Lake Massacre – Wikipedia

SACP | Missing Persons Database

Daleen Bosse Obituary (2008) – Saskatoon StarPhoenix

NWAC – Daleen’s Story

Family hires investigator to help locate daughter

MMIWG & Violence Prevention • Native Women’s Association of Canada

Home Page – Final Report | MMIWG

R v Hales, 2014 SKQB 411 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gfrdx >

Highlights from the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, 2015 | CanLII

Man says he killed woman because she laughed when he couldn’t perform sexually | Philippine Canadian Inquirer

Douglas Hales guilty of 2nd degree murder of Daleen Bosse | CBC News

GUILTY – Canada – Daleen Bosse, 26, Saskatoon, Sask, 18 May 2004

Muskego Family Gets Some Closure – First Nations Drum Newspaper

Mother recalls trauma of daughter’s disappearance, murder

Daleen Bosse | News, Videos & Articles

Kristen Gilchrist (2010) “Newsworthy” Victims?, Feminist Media Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2010.514110

The Different Stories of Cree Woman, Daleen Kay Bosse (Muskego) and Dakota-Sioux Woman, Amber Tara-Lynn Redman: Understanding Their Disappearances and Murders through Media Re-Presentations and Family Members’ Narratives

News camera allowed in Saskatchewan court for first time – J-Source

Saskatchewan man found guilty of killing Onion Lake Cree Nation woman, 25 – APTN News

Karina Wolfe case echoes Daleen Bosse murder | 650 CKOM

Finding Dawn by Christine Welsh – NFB

Douglas Hales’ appeal decision, Nov 23 2015 — YouTube

Hales appeal dismissed. – Free Online Library

Tasha Beeds – Walking With Our Sisters

2021 National Action Plan

Home • National Family and Survivors Circle

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208: The Donnelly Family Massacre

December 9, 2024February 21, 2022 by Mike Browne

Episode 208: On Feb 4, 1880, just past midnight 5 members of the Donnelly family (A mother and father, two sons, and a niece) we brutally murdered by a mob in their homes just outside of Lucan, Ontario, in Biddolph township. A crime that happened 142 years ago this month, but it is one that had its roots in the distant past, and that has echoed into the future in Canada right up to today. The family and their story became legendary, and often shocks people into the realization of how dark, and unforgiving life in early Canada could be. Numerous books, songs, tv shows, plays, and films have been made about the murders. There is even a Craft Beer brand in Ontario called The Black Donnelly’s Brewing Company, will illustrations of the family on their bottles. If you grew up in Ontario the massacre was actually part of the school curriculum. This is a case of victim blaming on a huge scale. Myths and legends sprung up about the family — perhaps somewhat to appease the guilty conscience of society. Even up to the early 1980’s if you went to Lucan people would say ‘we don’t talk about the Donnellys’

Sources:

[The Vigilante Massacre | Maclean’s | June 1, 1950]

[Heaven and Hell on Earth: The Massacre of the”Black Donnellys”]

[Black Donnellys – Wikipedia]

[History | Lucan Museum]

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207: Bad Apples: Edwin Alonzo Boyd and his Gang

December 9, 2024February 14, 2022 by Mike Browne

Episode 207: After World War II, Canada’s economy rose. Work was much easier to come by than during the depression. Even though he’d been able to secure decent employment, family man and world war veteran with movie star good looks, Edwin Alonzo Boyd, was bored. He’d had his share of trouble already and was feeling the itch again. In the fall of 1949, he robbed his first bank. This crime kicked off events that would lead to one of the most infamous Canadian criminal gangs of the era. Over just a few years, The Boyd Gang, named for their charismatic de facto leader, Edwin, robbed numerous banks broke out of one of Canada’s toughest prisons, not once but twice. To some, they were folk heroes. However, public sentiment turned firmly against them after members of the gang, Steve Suchan and Lennie Jackson, murdered Toronto Police Department Sergeant of Detectives Edmund “Eddie” Tong and severely wounded his partner Roy Perry.

Sources:

Regina v. Boyd, 1953 CanLII 88 (ON CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/g1k34>

Edwin Alonzo Boyd: Life and Crimes of Canada’s Master Bank Robber by Nate Hendley

Fatal Intentions by Barbara Smith – Ebook | Scribd

Line of Fire by Edward Butts – Ebook | Scribd

John J. Robinette by George D. Finlayson – Ebook | Scribd

The Desperate Ones by Edward Butts – Ebook | Scribd

Now You Know Canada’s Heroes by Doug Lennox – Ebook | Scribd

Lost Rivers — Don Jail

Historicist: Titillating and Terrorizing Toronto – Torontoist — Archived

Geocities — BOYD GANG

Toronto’s Infamous ‘Boyd Gang’ – CBC Archives

CBC Archives — Suchan and Jackson hanged back to back

Edwin Alonzo Boyd | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Toronto Feature: The Boyd Gang | The Canadian Encyclopedia

WHAT THE BOYD GANG FIASCO CAN TEACH US — Macleans Magazine — 1952

ExecutedToday.com » 1952: Lennie Jackson and Steve Suchan, of the Boyd Gang

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206: MMIW: Nanaimo Girl Gone — Lisa Marie Young

December 9, 2024February 7, 2022 by Mike Browne

Episode 206: Starting on the evening of June 29 and going into the early morning of June 30, 2002, Lisa Marie Young, a 21-year-old indigenous woman, was celebrating with friends in her hometown, Nanaimo, B.C. It was not only Canada Day long weekend, but also her friend Dallas’s birthday. The group went to several nightclubs and then attended a pair of house parties outside the city. Lisa left the party with a man the group had met just that evening. There were several frantic texts from Lisa shortly after her departure indicating she was afraid. Lisa Marie Young has not been heard from since. The man she was seen with while leaving the party was later identified as a local 27-year-old man named Christopher William Adair. Adair now refuses to speak to police and has left the country. Nanaimo RCMP presume Lisa has been murdered and her remains have never been found. In the days before the recording of this podcast, an anonymous donor contacted advocates for Lisa offering $50,000 reward to locate her remains. It’s time to bring Lisa home. Someone knows where she is. Maybe you can help.

When she went missing, Lisa Marie Young was 21 years old. She was 5’4” (163 cm) tall and weighed 115 pounds (52 kg). She had long dark brown hair, brown eyes. Lisa has a tattoo of a band of flowers with a heart in the middle that circles her upper right arm. She was wearing a black skirt, black top, black high boots and a silver hoop necklace.

If you have any tips or information regarding Lisa Marie Young’s disappearance, please call RCMP Corporal Markus Muntener directly at 250-754-2345

#BringLisaHome

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Sources & Further Reading

Disappearance of Lisa Marie Young – Wikipedia

Native Women’s Association of Canada — Lisa’s Story

Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC)

YouTube — Lisa Marie Young — Nanaimo Crime Stoppers

McColl Magazine – Lisa Marie Young, Missing Women

Lisa Marie Young Help Find Lisa Missed by family and loved ones from Nanaimo+ Since June 30, 2002

Lisa’s Song by Allison Crowe — MP3

Island Crime Podcast