Mike Browne

Episode 223: On Friday, February 20, 1976, while on vacation in Florida OPP Corporal Donald R. Irwin, 39, a father of three from Kitchener, Ontario, went on a ride along with his good friend Florida State Trooper, Philip Black, also 39-years-old. Irwin was in civilian clothing and unarmed. At around 7:15 a.m. they checked an old Camaro parked in a rest area on I-95, north of Pompano Beach, Florida. Moments later, both officers were dead, and the five people who’d been in the Camaro had fled in Black’s cruiser. 

Walter Norman Rhodes Jr., 26, 29-year-old, Jesse Joseph Tafero, Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs, 28, Tafero’s wife and two children, Jacobs’ 9-year-old son, Eric, and the couple’s 10-month-old daughter, Christina, were apprehended at a road block after having kidnapped another man, and stolen his Cadillac from a retirement home after abandoning Black’s cruiser. Rhodes’ life was spared as he pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against the other two. Jacobs and Tafero were both sentenced to die in Florida’s electric chair, but was justice really served. The case eventually unravelled but not before Tafero had his date with Old Sparky in 1990.

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Sources:

21 Feb 1976, Page 1 – Fort Lauderdale News at Newspapers.com

Killer of 2 Police Officers Executed in Florida – The New York Times

Ontario Police Memorial Foundation — Donald R. Irwin

FHP MEMORIAL — Phillip A. Black (1936-1976)

In the Blink of an Eye – Essay

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/i-had-nothing-the-world-i-left-no-longer-existed

Jesse Tafero – Case Chart – Grassroots Investigation Project by Claudia Whitman Sponsored by Equal Justice USA

Jesse Tafero – Case Summary – Innocence Project by Claudia Whitman sponsored by Equal Justice USA

Jesse Tafero – Wikipedia

Exoneree, Center on Wrongful Convictions: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Tafero v. State, 223 So. 2d 564 | Casetext Search + Citator

Jesse Tafero | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

Jesse Tafero – Wikipedia

Jessie Joseph Tafero, Petitioner-appellant, v. Louie L. Wainwright, Respondent-appellee, 796 F.2d 1314 (11th Cir. 1986) :: Justia

Home – The Sunny Center

The Joys of Forgiveness on Death Row | Sunny Jacobs | TEDxGalway — YouTube

‘Exonerated’ blurs facts about death penalty case

Former death row couple: ‘Life turned out beautifully’ | Family | The Guardian

TIPS LEAD TO CAPTURE OF PAROLED MURDERER – Sun Sentinel

Fugitive’s prosthetic leg gives him away | The Seattle Times

WALTER RHODES JR v. HARDEE CI WARDEN FLORIDA PAROLE COMMISSION SECRETARY FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS | FindLaw

Rhodes v. Fla. Parole Comm’n, CASE NO. 8:13-cv-1424-T-36AEP | Casetext Search + Citator

Phillip Black and Donald Irwin murders 2/20/1976 Broward County, FL *Shot to death by Walter Rhodes, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison; It is, actually, a complicated case* | Bonnie’s Blog of Crime

Sunny Jacobs: Life Beyond

Stretch of I-95 honors 2 fallen troopers

 

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Episode 222: On Sunday, November 12,1988 beloved 36-year-old high school teacher named Byron Carr was found by his family dead in the bedroom of his home in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He’d been strangled to death and stabbed. Byron’s wallet had been stolen, and ominously on his wall, written in pen, were the words “I will kill again.” Investigators revealed that Byron was a closeted gay man, and had been involved in a consensual sexual encounter with an as yet unidentified man prior to his death. It is presumed that it was this man who killed Byron. No one has ever been brought to justice in Byron’s death.

Anyone with any information regarding this crime, no matter how insignificant it may seem, is asked to call the Bell Aliant sponsored Byron Carr Hot Line 1-877-566-3952 or PEI Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-TIPS.

Promo: Crimes from the East

Sources:

Homicides | Charlottetown Police Services

PEI Crime Stoppers – Homicides

Charlottetown police reopen 1980s murder case | CBC News

Skimpy underwear connected to 1988 murder | CBC News

Charlottetown police release sketch of possible Byron Carr killer | SaltWire

Byron Carr murder accomplice identified by police | CBC News

2013, John Carr interview | CBC.ca

‘Give this family closure’: Police still working to solve 30-year-old Byron Carr murder | CBC News

Unsolved Case Files Canada: Murder of Byron Carr After Sexual Encounter With Another Male

Cold case, warm memories: Byron Carr’s friends, family want his 1988 P.E.I. murder solved | SaltWire

On the hunt | SaltWire

Brad MacConnell Named New Chief of Police | Charlottetown Police Services

r/PEI: Byron Carr

r/UnresolvedMysteries: Byron Carr

CANADA — Canada — Byron Carr, 36, Schoolteacher — Nov’ 88 | Websleuths

Reader’s Digest: Canada’s Most Notorious Cold Cases

Public Attitudes toward Homosexuality — Tom W. Smith

TIMELINE | Same-sex rights in Canada | CBC News

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights in Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia

LGBT+ Pride 2021 Global Survey points to increasingly positive attitudes in Canada toward LGBT+ individuals | Ipsos

R. v. MacDonald, 2004 CanLII 9284 (ON CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/1h09c>

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Episode 221: On the morning of December 31, 1888, in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, friends found 61-year-old fisherman François Coupard dead in his fishing shack. Someone had brutally slain Coupard and had mutilated his body horribly after his murder. A quick investigation led to two men, Auguste Neel and Louis Ollivier, trying to flee to Newfoundland on a stolen fishing boat. The pair later admitted their roles in the murder and were tried and convicted. Ollivier was sentenced to 10 years at hard labour, while Neel, against whom the evidence was more solid, received a death sentence, which was carried out on August 24, 1889. This execution was the first and last in North America using a guillotine to do the deed.

Sources:

ExecutedToday.com » auguste neel

19/02/1930 : Affaire NEEL Auguste et OLLIVIER Louis – Saint-Pierre et Miquelon : Ephémérides

affaire néel – Histoire des îles St Pierre et Miquelon

Saint Pierre and Miquelon – Wikipedia

L’Île-aux-Marins – Wikipedia

Canada’s top court says voluntary extreme intoxication a defence in violent crimes | Globalnews.ca

R. v. Brown, 2022 SCC 18 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/jp648 >

the dive spell: Saint Pierre Island: site of the only guillotine execution in north america

La Veuve de Saint-Pierre

History of the Guillotine

8 Things You May Not Know About the Guillotine – HISTORY

The Paris Review – The Bloody Family History of the Guillotine

Louis XVI – Wikipedia

Does the head remain briefly conscious after decapitation (revisited)? – The Straight Dope

Exploring The French Instrument Of Death: The Guillotine | Thought Catalog

Guillotine by Robert Frederick Opie – Ebook | Scribd

Execution by Geoffrey Abbott – Ebook | Scribd

The Widow of Saint-Pierre – Wikipedia

St. Pierre, a Tiny Pin Point of France and Al Capone’s Prohibition Haunt: Canadian Odyssey on the Looney Front — Part 10 | HuffPost Life

Sept. 10, 1977: Heads Roll for the Last Time in France | WIRED

5 really cool things about Saint-Pierre and Miquelon – Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Episode 220: 

The attention grabbing headline of the the article in The Province newspaper on the morning of July 3, 2013 screamed, “RCMP foil Canada Day bomb plot”, the subheading read, “VICTORIA: Two British Columbians allegedly hatch scheme to blow up legislature.” Since March of that year, RCMP had been engaged in what they called Project Souvenir, a complex and expensive sting operation to gather evidence against two Surrey residents, John Stuart Nuttall, 38, and his common-law wife, Amanda Marie Korody, 29. The RCMP alleged that the pair were Islamist extremist bent on blowing up BC’s legislature buildings in Victoria and killing as many innocent Canadians as possible on Canada Day that year. On the morning of July 1, the couple had apparently placed three pressure cooker bombs strategically near concrete planters on the west and east sides of the Provincial legislature buildings. 

The pair were taken into custody in the hallway of a hotel in Delta, B.C. where they had used a room, wired by cops for video and sound, where they had built their bombs and spoken openly about their plot to kill Canadians. But, as the truth came out, evidence revealed that Nuttall and Korody were not even remotely the devious threats to national security they’d been said to be and that the RCMP had in fact, according to court findings, entrapped the pair. The bombs had been inert, made using intentionally flawed designs and materials handed to the couple by the RCMP themselves during the more than one million dollar operation to bust them.

Sources:

John Nuttall | ReverbNation

R. v. Nuttall, 2016 BCSC 1404 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gsq89 >

R. v. Nuttall, 2018 BCCA 479 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/hwnvs >

Korody v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015 FC 1398 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gpfvp>

Friends of John Nuttall say he was a great friend, but was also troubled | Globalnews.ca

3 Jul 2013, 4 – The Province at Newspapers.com

3 Jul 2013, 3 – Times Colonist at Newspapers.com

4 Jul 2013, 4 – The Vancouver Sun at Newspapers.com

CKNW — NUTTALL & KORODY Video

Vancouver Sun — Raw: Alleged terrorists Nuttall, Korody talk about Canada Day plot

Vancouver Sun — Raw: John Nuttall, accused in B.C. terror case, speaks with undercover officer

You searched for korody – BC Civil Liberties AssociationBC Civil Liberties Association

Vancouver Sun — An alleged terrorist’s Surrey suite is revealed 97a Ave

Canadian Press — B.C. couple walk free after entrapment ruling in terror case

BC Terror Trial Reveals Gong Show RCMP Investigation

Exclusive W5 interview: Terror plotters claim they were groomed by Mounties and were relieved bombs were fake

W5: Undercover RCMP anti-terror investigation — YouTube

Surrey Suite, BB TV — YouTube

Terror trial video shows second thoughts — YouTube

Canada Day crowd at B.C. legislature was target in thwarted bomb plot, police say — Victoria Times Colonist

Nuttall and Korody, couple accused in Victoria legislature bomb plot, remain free after B.C. Court of Appeal ruling – BC | Globalnews.ca

RCMP spent $1M on Victoria terror plot investigation, including $90K on Nuttall and Korody – BC | Globalnews.ca

RCMP entrapment of B.C. couple in legislature bomb plot was ‘travesty of justice,’ court rules | CBC News

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Episode 219 BONUS: In this episode we hear from several Dark Poutine listeners, and in one case, a family member of a listener, who are sharing their experiences and feelings around their own UFO encounters. Mike also shares his own experience as a youth, and at the end of the show Mike and Mathew talk about their recent visit to The Extraterrestrial Highway, Rachel, Nevada and the back Gate of Area 51.

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Episode 219: In the first of two episodes released this week, Mike interviews Chris Rutkowski. Chris A. Rutkowski is a science writer who has devoted much time to investigating and studying reports of UFOs, writing about case investigations, and offering his insights into the broad UFO phenomenon publishing the annual Canadian UFO Report. Chris has authored numerous books on UFOs and two of his previous books, Abductions and Aliens and The Canadian UFO Report, were national bestsellers. He was recently referred to in a 2021 report to the Canadian Minister of Defense on UFOs in Canada as the person to which the government hands over reports of UFOs. He lives just outside Winnipeg.

Sources:

The Canadian UFO Survey

Twitter – Chris Rutkowski

Facebook Page – Chris Rutkowski, Writer

Blog – Chris Rutkowski 

Report a UFO in Canada – The Canadian UFO Survey

Report a Canadian UFO Sighting — The Nighttime Podcast

The Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System (CADORS)

UFO sightings: Canada’s defence minister briefed | CTV News

Thematic Guides – Unidentified Flying Objects – Library and Archives Canada

What does Canada do with reports of UFO sightings? — The Big Story

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Episode 218: The history of humanity is rife with stories of unexplained things in the skies above us. Handed down first verbally and pictographically by way of depictions painted on cave walls and then in written accounts, there are scores of stories about strange lights and objects in the sky. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, as human technology has improved, we have been able to better document and disseminate information about these sightings. Over the next two episodes, we have a look at unidentified flying objects, more commonly called UFOs. In this first episode we’ll take a brief look at the phenomena itself, the stigma surrounding it and recent admissions by governmental officials of the existence of these objects. As well, we will peek at some of the stories from right here in Canada that we haven’t already covered. I have had to pick and choose some of the more interesting and detailed reports, as there are more than 1000 reports per year and the database of reports in Canada alone is massive. 

Sources:

Chris Hadfield on exploring Mars and the growing conversation about UFOs | CBC Radio

Former Arizona Governor says he saw a UFO during the 1997 Phoenix Lights – Wikinews, the free news source

The Canadian UFO Report by Chris A. Rutkowski, Geoff Dittman – Ebook | Scribd

ParaResearchers Of Ontario – Welcome To Our Space On The Web

Simeon Perkins Records UFO sighting October 12, 1796 | Queens County Museum

Canadian DND Report: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)

Canada’s UFOs: The search for the unknown – Library and Archives Canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Magnet_(UFO)

Wilbert Smith on UFOs Project Magnet and his Contacts with the Boys from Topside — YouTube

Pentagon UFO videos – Wikipedia

Documents | NAVAIR – FOIA

Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System — CADORS: Report 2016P1783

Credible UFO Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian Government Documents Reveal

UFO sightings: Canada’s defence minister briefed | CTV News

http://www.psican.org

http://pararesearchers.org

List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System – Wikipedia

US10144532B2 — Craft using an inertial mass reduction device — Google Patents

Walker ‘stunned’ to see ship hovering high above sea off Cornwall | Science | The Guardian

NINA HAGEN 1985 “Gods Of Aquarius” (English) IN EKSTASY — YouTube

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Episode 217: In the early hours of March 27, 2010, Holly Bartlett, 31, was found unconscious and badly injured under the A. Murray MacKay bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 350 metres away from her home. She died the next day in a Halifax Hospital.

Holly, a grad student at Dalhousie University, was fiercely independent despite her disability. She had been completely blind since she was thirteen years old. Holly’s autopsy indicated she’d imbibed alcohol and that she had sustained “blunt force injury to the head (…) attributable to a fall” and that the manner of death was accidental. Police did a brief investigation determining that after cabbing home from a night out with a friend, Holly became disoriented and lost due to the combination of her alcohol consumption and her blindness.

Somehow, Holly had wandered down two steeply graded streets away from her home and toward the harbour, had made her way through a hole in a chain link fence, down a steep embankment, and fell 7 metres off a concrete abutment under the bridge across Halifax harbour. They called Holly’s death accidental. Holly’s family and friends in the Justice for Holly group were not satisfied and pressed for further investigation into her death. 

Sources:

What Happened to Holly Bartlett? | CNIB

Documentary What Happened to Holly Bartlett Seasons | Accessible Media Inc.

Podcast What Happened to Holly Bartlett Podcast | Accessible Media Inc.

Sights Unseen — YouTube

Holly Elizabeth Bartlett 1978-2010 – Macleans.ca

Holly Bartlett witness changes key details in death investigation | CBC News

Review to be held into blind woman’s death: Halifax police | Globalnews.ca

External review confirms 2010 death of Holly Bartlett was accidental – Halifax | Globalnews.ca

Police handling of Holly Bartlett’s death criticized in review | CBC News

Review of Investigation Into The Death of Holly Bartlett | PDF | Polygraph | Victimology

Holly Bartlett’s unlikely journey | City | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST

Police announce independent review into Holly Bartlett’s death | News | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST

Telling Holly’s Bartlett’s story, again | Arts + Culture | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST

Holly Bartlett’s family is angry with Halifax police

What happened to Holly Bartlett? : UnresolvedMysteries

Holly Bartlett: Autopsy & Clothing – Album on Imgur

Imgur: Map, based on police report

Home | CNIB

NEADS – Financial Aid Directory

JAWS® – Freedom Scientific

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Episode 216: In Quebec, on April 15, 1763, after a supposed confession and hasty trial by an English military tribunal, 30-year-old Marie-Josephte Corriveau was convicted of murdering in brutal fashion her second husband, Louis-Étienne Dodier, and was sentenced to death. She was hanged with haste, three days later. Her body was then put on display in a form-fitting metal cage and placed at a crossroad where for the next five weeks, she stood as a warning to others considering domestic homicide as an answer to an unhappy marriage. When her cage disappeared locals believed that the Devil himself had come and taken Marie-Josephte to hell. It said that La Corriveau‘s spectre haunts the crossroads still.

Sources:

Marie-Josephte Corriveau – Wikipedia

Uncertain Justice by F. Murray Greenwood, Beverley Boissery – Ebook | Scribd

Killing Women by Wilfrid Laurier University Press – Ebook | Scribd

The History of Gibbeting by Samantha Priestley – Ebook | Scribd

La destinée de la Corriveau « Histoire du Québec

Légende de la Corriveau – Voyage à travers le Québec

Les anciens Canadiens – Philippe Aubert de Gaspé

Il était cent fois La Corriveau : anthologie : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

PressReader.com – Macabre Discovery

Canadian Mysteries of the Unexplained: Investigations Into the Fantastic, the Bizarre and the Disturbing

Biography – CORRIVEAU, MARIE-JOSEPHTE, La Corriveau – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography

The Legend of La Corriveau: Québécois Folklore and The Politics of Nation-Making in Canada by Leslie Savath

La Corriveau: A woman victim of Society? by Isabelle Parent

View of From Vilified to Victorious: Reconceiving La Corriveau in Anne Hébert’s La Cage | Studies in Canadian Literature

La Corriveau | The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Hanging Cage That Held An Infamous Québec Murderess – Atlas Obscura

Canadian Urban Legends: La Corriveau of Quebec City | NUVO

A Shrine for Marie-Josephte Corriveau and for all women who are victims of domestic violence – UBC Library Open Collections

A Shrine for Marie-Josephte Corriveau – KooZA/rch

Classic French-Canadian Folktales: Volume I (English Edition; Annotated) eBook : Beaugrand, Honore, Frechette, Louis-Honore, Peters, Hammerson: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Cage of la Corriveau on display in Lévis | CBC News

La Corriveau: The Gibbet of Quebec — YouTube

French Mourning in the 1700s – Geri Walton

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Episode 215: Mary Celeste, formerly Amazon, was an American registered, Nova Scotia built brigantine that was found abandoned on December 4, 1872, some 740 km off the Azores, Portugal. The fate of the 10 people aboard remains a mystery almost 150 years later.

Sources:

Fisherman’s Memorial | Lunenburg NS

Sable Island | Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834) by… | Poetry Foundation

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste. Part One: The Facts – Daily Nautica

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste. Part Two: Theories – Daily Nautica

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste. Part Three: the Rediscovery of the Cursed Ship – Daily Nautica

Solved: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste | UCL News – UCL – University College London

Mary Celeste – The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia

Mary Celeste Monument – Diligent River, Nova Scotia – Atlas Obscura

Mary Celeste | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Mary Celeste – Wikipedia

6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries That Have Totally Been Solved | Cracked.com

Weetabix Mary Celeste — YouTube

The story of the “Mary Celeste” : Fay, Charles Edey : Internet Archive

Ghost ship : the mysterious true story of the Mary Celeste and her missing crew : Hicks, Brian, 1966 : Internet Archive

Phantom Ship , The : Henry Passmore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Galley of Count Arnaldos, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Colossal Squid ~ MarineBio Conservation Society

 

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