Mike Browne

233: Falling Stars: The Belcher Island Murders

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Episode 233: During the harsh winter of 1941, as World War II raged elsewhere, closer to home, a tragedy occurred on the remote, ice-covered island archipelago in Hudson Bay called the Belcher Islands. After witnessing a dramatic meteor shower, a tribal group of Inuit people believed the world was ending. Inspired by a copy of the New Testament Bible translated into Inuit syllabics by Anglican missionaries, 27-year-old Charlie Ouyerack, self-professed shaman of the tribe, claimed he was the second coming of Jesus Christ. Charlie determined his friend, Peter Sala, a skilled hunter and navigator, to be God. Their cult, Charlie, Peter, Peter’s sister Mina and their followers, labelled any deniers as satanic heretics, eventually leading to the brutal murders of nine people within the group.

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232: Washed Away: The 1929 Newfoundland Tsunami

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Epidsode 232: The strongest earthquake ever recorded in eastern Canada, measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale, occurred at 5:02pm Newfoundland time on the 18 of November in 1929. It was felt as far west as Ottawa and as far south as New York City. The quake, centred around 250 km south of Newfoundland along the southern edge of the Grand Banks caused a massive sub-ocean landslide. Two and a half hours after the quake a series of tsunami waves smashed into Newfoundland’s isolated Burin Peninsula devastating property, upending the fishery and causing 28 deaths.

Sources:

The Tsunami of 1929

The 1929 Magnitude 7.2 “Grand Banks” earthquake and tsunami

1883 Rossi-Forel Scale of Earthquake Intensity

Report a felt earthquake

View of The Newfoundland Tsunami of November 18, 1929: An Examination of the Twenty-eight Deaths of the “South Coast Disaster” | Newfoundland & Labrador Studies

90 years later, a tsunami in southern Newfoundland still brings vivid memories | CBC News

A disastrous tsunami’s lethal legacy in Newfoundland – Macleans.ca

1929 Grand Banks earthquake – Wikipedia

The Wake by Linden MacIntyre – Ebook | Scribd

Newfoundland Tsunami – Water – SOS! Canadian Disasters – Library and Archives Canada

CBC News Indepth: The South Shore disaster: Newfoundland’s Tsunami

GEOSCAN Search Results: Fastlink

Get prepared for an earthquake – Province of British Columbia

THE ASSESSMENT OF GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS IN NEWFOUNDLAND: AN UPDATE

Dominion of Newfoundland – Wikipedia

Newfoundland and Labrador – Wikipedia

Welcome to Newfoundland and Labrador – Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1920 – Dec 1939

Get prepared for an earthquake – Province of British Columbia

Surviving A Tsunami—Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan

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231: Die by the Sword: The Life and Murder of Gerald Bull

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Episode 231: Gerald Vincent Bull was a smart cookie from North Bay, Ontario. He graduated from the University of Toronto at 20, got a master’s degree at age 21, and at 22 earned a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering from the University of Toronto’s newly created Institute of Aerodynamics.

Magazines touted him the ‘boy rocket scientist’. Nations sought him for his innovative ideas regarding long range artillery, ballistics and other military related endeavours. He was charged several times with breaching arms embargoes, even spending time in prison, a sore spot for the proud scientist. Eventually he became involved in Iraq’s ‘Project Babylon’ in which he was asked personally by then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to build a Supergun which would launch weapons into space, giving Hussein the capability of bombing targets 1000’s of kilometres away. This obviously worried Iraq’s neighbours in the Middle East.

Before the project was completed Gerald Bull was assassinated, shot five times outside his apartment building in Brussels, Belgium. A lot of nations hated Gerald Bull and some, no doubt, wanted him dead, but it remains a mystery who was behind his killing. It isn’t clear who actually pulled the trigger in the murder of Gerald Bull, most likely it was someone either within, or acting on behalf of, one of those governments who’d felt threatened by Bull’s activities and alliances.

Sources:

Gerald Bull – Wikipedia

Gerald Bull | The Canadian Encyclopedia

The tragic tale of Saddam Hussein’s ‘supergun’ – BBC Future

Superguns 1854–1991 by Steven J. Zaloga, Jim Laurier – Ebook | Scribd

Bull’s Eye: The Assassination and Life of Supergun Inventor Gerald Bull eBook : Adams, James: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Strange Crime by Editors of Portable Press – Ebook | Scribd

Three in the Back, Two in the Head by Jason Sherman – Ebook | Scribd

Ready the Cannons! by William Gurstelle – Ebook | Scribd

Who Killed Gerald Victor Bull | PDF | Mossad | Central Intelligence Agency

Gerald Bull │ Super Gun │ History Documentary │ YouTube

NYT — Gerald Bull — Wayback Machine

Israel to kill in U.S., allied nations – UPI.com

Doomsday Gun (TV Movie 1994) – IMDb

CBC Archives — Who killed Gerald Bull?

Gerald Bull

The Man Behind Iraq’s Supergun – The New York Times

Dr. Gerald Bull: Scientist, Weapons Maker, Dreamer – People – CBC Archives

THE GUNS OF SADDAM – The Washington Post

A Brief History of the HARP Project

Gerald Bull, 62, Shot in Belgium; Scientist Who Violated Arms Law – New York Times

Remarks by President Biden on a Successful Counterterrorism Operation in Afghanistan | The White House

The Mossad

Mossad | History & Functions | Britannica

Was Gerald Bull murdered by the Mossad? | CBC.ca

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230: The Chambermaid Murders – Belva Russell, Jane Woolley and Edith Authier

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Episode 230: Over a period of 22 months, between January 1969 and January 1971, 3 women in Southwestern Ontario were brutally murdered in 3 different towns. These women’s names were Isobella “Belva” Russell, Edith Authier, and Jane Wooley.

Police solved the case of the third victim, Belva Russell, a matter of weeks after the crime. The perpetrator, Gerald Thomas Archer was convicted and imprisoned. There were obvious similarities between all three crimes. For several reasons the initial investigators on the cases missed them. Gerald Thomas Archer got his freedom in 1985, when he was 65. He was a drifter and passed away in 1995. Five years after Archer’s death, his family made police aware of new information. Through DNA, were police able to connect him to the murders of Edith Authier, and Jane Wooley. 

Gerald Thomas Archer, had been a serial killer and had walked free for the last ten years of his life.

Promo: 

Evidence Locker Podcast

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Thomas_Archer

https://www.facebook.com/vintagelondon/photos/a.449810945145208/1187331708059791/

https://www.facebook.com/vintagelondon/photos/a.449810945145208/822774754515490/

https://www.facebook.com/vintagelondon/photos/a.661428090650158/668089943317306/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48417869/the-windsor-star/

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kTM_AAAAIBAJ&pg=5456%2C768541

https://www.retrosuites.com/

https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/1967-detroit-riots

The home of Hugh Smith in 1971. 53 Wellington Street, Chatham.

The downtown Chatham Hotel in 1935. Where Belva Russell worked in 1971.

The Rankin Hotel in 1965. Where Belva and Reginald first stopped for a drink on the fateful night.

 

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229: Lonely Monster: Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen (Part 3)

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Episode 229: In our last episode we learned about the life and first two murders of British serial murderer Dennis Andrew Nilsen. He was arrested after police discovered human remains he’d flushed down the toilet at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a Suburb of North London. In this episode we’ll learn about Nilsen’s next twelve murders, what happened after his arrest and the aftermath of his crimes. A number of Nilsen’s victims remain unidentified to this day.

As Dennis Nilsen was a necrophile, some of the information we are about to share are intense and may be very disturbing to some. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Sources:

How Serial Killers “Cool Off” Between Murders | Psychology Today Canada

Dennis Nilsen’s house where he dismembered and cooked victims sold with gruesome warning – Mirror Online

Strangled, chopped up and burnt: The Sheffield man slayed by evil serial killer Dennis Nilsen | Doncaster Free Press

Sheffield man’s brutal murder to feature in new TV drama about serial killer Dennis Nilsen | The Star

The Real ‘Des’: The Dennis Nilsen Story: what happened to Carl Stotter? | HELLO!

– Memoires of a Heroinhead –

Dennis Nilsen – Wikipedia

Dyno-Rod Local Drains & Plumbing Experts | Fixed-Price | 24/7

Killing For Company: Masters, Brian: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Dinner, Drinks & Death ; The True Story of Dennis Nilsen by Alan R. Warren – Ebook | Scribd

A Plague of Murder by Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson – Ebook | Scribd

Watch Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes | Netflix Official Site

The Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen Story

Reddit — Dennis Nilsen

Spotify Playlist – Nilsen’s Favourite Tunes

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228: Lonely Monster: Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen (Part 2)

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Episode 228: In our last episode we learned about the final killing and capture of British serial murderer Dennis Andrew Nilsen after police discovered human remains he’d flushed down the toilet at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a Suburb of North London, England. After his capture, the enigmatic Muswell Hill Murderer, or Kindly Killer, as he would come to be called, was more than happy to discuss his crimes. In this episode we’ll learn more about the killer’s life, his other crimes and what possibly led to the murders of 15 young men and boys, one of them a young Canadian student, Kenneth Ockendon Jr.

Sources:

Dennis Nilsen – Wikipedia

Dyno-Rod Local Drains & Plumbing Experts | Fixed-Price | 24/7

Killing For Company: Masters, Brian: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Dinner, Drinks & Death ; The True Story of Dennis Nilsen by Alan R. Warren – Ebook | Scribd

A Plague of Murder by Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson – Ebook | Scribd

Watch Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes | Netflix Official Site

The Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen Story

Reddit — Dennis Nilsen

Dennis Nilsen – Nick Davies

Tommy – Album by The Who | Spotify

Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen And His Career In The Army

I Struck Up a Friendship with the Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen. Then I Edited His Memoirs.

The Argus — Serial killer Dennis Nilsen’s impact on Brighton survivor

A murderer among us: I was Dennis Nilsen’s boss | The Spectator

Dennis Nilsen and Bleep: What Really happened to Des’ dog?

The Big Read: Dennis Nilsen – The Scottish nobody who became the archetypal serial killer | HeraldScotland

An honest lack of answers | The Psychologist

Psychopathic Serial Killers – Dennis Nilsen – Psychopaths In Life

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227: Lonely Monster: Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen (Part 1)

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Episode 227: On the 8th of February, 1983, complaints about the plumbing at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a suburb in London, England led to the discovery of human remains. The remains were traced to the flat of a tenant in the home named Dennis Andrew Nilsen, 37, a civil servant, former police officer and veteran of the British military. In Nilsen’s home police found grisly evidence of many more murders. The enigmatic Muswell Hill Murderer, or Kindly Killer, as he would come to be called, is believed to have killed 15 young men and boys, one of them a Canadian named Kenneth Ockendon Jr. 

Listener discretion is strongly suggested

Sources:

Dennis Nilsen – Wikipedia

Dyno-Rod Local Drains & Plumbing Experts | Fixed-Price | 24/7

Killing For Company: Masters, Brian: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Dinner, Drinks & Death ; The True Story of Dennis Nilsen by Alan R. Warren – Ebook | Scribd

A Plague of Murder by Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson – Ebook | Scribd

Watch Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes | Netflix Official Site

The Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen Story

Reddit — Dennis Nilsen

Dennis Nilsen – Nick Davies

Tommy – Album by The Who | Spotify

Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen And His Career In The Army

I Struck Up a Friendship with the Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen. Then I Edited His Memoirs.

The Argus — Serial killer Dennis Nilsen’s impact on Brighton survivor

A murderer among us: I was Dennis Nilsen’s boss | The Spectator

The Big Read: Dennis Nilsen – The Scottish nobody who became the archetypal serial killer | HeraldScotland

An honest lack of answers | The Psychologist

Psychopathic Serial Killers – Dennis Nilsen – Psychopaths In Life

Mike Browne’s – Dennis Nilsen Spotify playlist

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226: Blueprint for Murder, and the Architecture of Grief

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On a hot, sunny Saturday afternoon on the 15th of August 1914, in a house near Spring Green, Wisconsin one of the worst mass killings in the state’s history occurred when 7 people were axed to death, immolated, and the house they were in burnt down.

It was a case that on its own would have made headlines – but it wasn’t just any house that was burnt – it was the world-famous architectural treasure named Taliesin that was left in rubble, a house created by the internationally renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The victims were Wright’s partner Martha Borthwick, and two children, her 9-year-old Martha, and 11-year-old John. Also slain were gardener David Lindblom, draftsman Emil Brodell, builder Thomas Brunkner, and Bruckner’s 13-year-old son Ernest.

Promo: True Consequences

Sources:

https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/05/01/murder-in-the-blueprints-of-frank-lloyd-wright/

https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/taliesin

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28519/taliesin-tragedy

https://la.curbed.com/2015/10/28/9906764/sowden-house-george-hodel-black-dahlia

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/wright-mare-massacre-frank-lloyd-home-article-1.1591522

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86086068/1912-01-04/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1912&index=0&rows=20&words=Frank+Lloyd+Wright&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=Wisconsin&date2=1912&proxtext=Frank+Lloyd+Wright&y=18&x=12&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/carlton-julian.htm          

https://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2017/04/murder-at-taliesin.html

https://www.taliesinpreservation.org/

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225: Tragedy x2: Gail Miller and David Milgaard (Part 2)

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Episode 225: In our last episode we learned that in Saskatoon, on the morning of January 31, 1969, a 12-year-old girl on the way to school stumbled upon the body of Gail Miller, a 20-year-old nurse’s aide, lying in the snow in an alley. Gail had been raped, murdered and discarded in the snow by her killer. As there had been a number of sexual assaults in the city, police were under enormous pressure to solve the murder and soon their attention turned to 16-year-old David Edgar Milgaard. He’d been in the neighbourhood and at a home nearby the alley where Gail’s body lay on the morning of the murder. Witnesses later claimed he’d seen blood on David’s clothing and gave other incriminating information to police. Milgaard was subsequently arrested and charged with Gail’s murder.

Exactly a year after the murder, Milgaard was convicted of the murder and sentenced to a term of life in prison — justice, it appeared, had been served. We’ll find out, that was not the case at all. After serving 23 hellish years in prison, David Milgaard, who’d always maintained his innocence, was finally exonerated by DNA evidence that pointed to another man as Gail Miller’s killer, a man named Larry Earl Fisher.

Sources:

Saskatoon.ca |

INQUIRY CALLED INTO WRONGFUL CONVICTION OF DAVID MILGAARD | News and Media | Government of Saskatchewan

Commission of the Inquiry Into the Wrongful Conviction of David Milgaard

David Milgaard – Innocence Canada

Reference re Milgaard (Can.) – SCC Cases

R. v. Milgaard, 1971 CanLII 792 (SK CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/g7c3z >

R. v. Fisher (L.E.), 1999 SKQB 88 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/g95sx >

Justice Miscarried by Helena Katz – Ebook | Scribd

Shrunk by J. Thomas Dalby, PhD, Editor, Lorene Shyba, PhD, Editor – Audiobook | Scribd

Wrongful Convictions in Canada | PDF | Miscarriage Of Justice | Law

David Milgaard – Wikipedia

David Milgaard was innocent of Gail Miller murder and rape – SaskToday.ca

Milgaard inquiry: Don’t judge us: Cops

Man convicted of notorious murder dies at Abbotsford prison – Abbotsford News

A Mother’s Story – Joyce Milgaard

Donald Marshall Jr. – Dark Poutine – True Crime & Dark History

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224: Tragedy x2: Gail Miller and David Milgaard (Part 1)

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Episode 224: In Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on the morning of January 31, 1969, a 12-year-old girl on the way to school stumbled upon the body of Gail Miller, a 20-year-old nurse’s aide, lying in the snow in an alley. Gail had been raped, murdered and discarded in the snow by her killer. As there had been a number of sexual assaults in the city, police were under enormous pressure to solve the murder and soon their attention turned to 16-year-old David Edgar Milgaard. He’d been in the neighbourhood and at a home nearby the alley where Gail’s body lay on the morning of the murder. Witnesses later claimed he’d seen blood on David’s clothing and gave other incriminating information to police. Milgaard was subsequently arrested and charged with Gail’s murder.

Exactly a year after the murder, Milgaard was convicted of the murder and sentenced to a term of life in prison — justice, it appeared, had been served. We’ll find out, that was not the case at all. After serving 23 hellish years in prison, David Milgaard, who’d always maintained his innocence, was finally exonerated by DNA evidence that pointed to another man as Gail Miller’s killer.

Sources:

Saskatoon.ca

INQUIRY CALLED INTO WRONGFUL CONVICTION OF DAVID MILGAARD | News and Media | Government of Saskatchewan

Commission of the Inquiry Into the Wrongful Conviction of David Milgaard

David Milgaard – Innocence Canada

Reference re Milgaard (Can.) – SCC Cases

R. v. Milgaard, 1971 CanLII 792 (SK CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/g7c3z >

R. v. Fisher (L.E.), 1999 SKQB 88 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/g95sx >

Justice Miscarried by Helena Katz – Ebook | Scribd

Shrunk by J. Thomas Dalby, PhD, Editor, Lorene Shyba, PhD, Editor – Audiobook | Scribd

Wrongful Convictions in Canada | PDF | Miscarriage Of Justice | Law

David Milgaard – Wikipedia

David Milgaard was innocent of Gail Miller murder and rape – SaskToday.ca

Milgaard inquiry: Don’t judge us: Cops

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