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Episode 127 - On the morning of October 20, 2003, in North York, a quiet neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Raymond Zhang and Sherry Xu awakened to find their only child, 9-year-old, Cecilia was missing. She had clearly been abducted. There were no ransom demands or clear motives for her kidnapping. All efforts to find the girl were fruitless, until a Scarborough man stumbled across a body in a ravine late in March 2004. Sources and further reading: Agreed Statement of Facts (PDF) Raymond Zhang - Victim Impact Statement (PDF) Sherry Xu - Victim Impact Statement (PDF) CBC Zhang Case Background CBC Zhang Case Background (more) Cecilia Zhang search at Newspapers.com https://missingkids.ca/ https://protectchildren.ca/ https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/gazette/child-abduction https://www.canadasmissing.ca/pubs/2019/index-eng.htm web.archive.org - ceciliazhang.org Globe and Mail - RIP Cecilia, Happy Birthday Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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 More sources and further reading at darkpoutine.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 121: In this episode we examine 3 different Canadian legends. First we look at Demon Isle a phantom island somewhere in or near the Gulf of St Lawrence. This is where French noblewoman Marguerite de Roberval was marooned by an evil uncle to star in her very own tale of demons, love, loss and survival in New France in the 1500's. Then we're off to Moncton, New Brunswick, one of the most haunted cities in the Maritimes, and the the story of Rebecca's Grave, the resting place of a supposed witch who was executed, buried upside down and concrete was poured over her tomb. Finally we hear the story of Chasse-Galerie in, or in English The Flying or Witched Canoe, one of the most famous Québecois folktales. Isle of Demons [Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic Index] [Dale Gilbert Jarvis: Marguerite de Roberval and The Isle of Demons] [Stranded on the Isle of Demons | Mysterious Universe] [Phantom island - Wikipedia] [Mystery of the phantom islands solved: Lands that disappeared on ancient maps are explained as mistakes, mirages and myths | Daily Mail Online] [How to Put a Fake Island on the Map - Atlas Obscura] [Dale Gilbert Jarvis: The Phantoms of Fishot Island, on Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula] Rebecca Lutes, The Moncton Witch [Rebecca’s Concrete Grave] [NB - Haunted Locations] [Rebecca Lutes Gravesite - YouTube] [New Brunswick’s 7 Most Haunted Places - Huddle] [Local Haunts – The Greater Moncton Paranormal Society] [Rebecca’s Grave | Flickr] [Do you know the story of Rebecca’s Grave? | Bobsroom Dot Com] [GCR0WN Haunted Tour of Moncton (Unknown Cache) in New Brunswick, Canada created by Energizer Bunny] [Great Canadian Ghost Stories: Legendary Tales of Haunting from Coast to Coast: Smith, Barbara: 9781771512794: Books - Amazon.ca] [Rebecca’s Grave Investigation - YouTube] Flying Canoe in Quebec [French Canadian Legends - The Witched Canoe] [The Century Magazine, August 1892, pp. 496-501] [Chasse-galerie - Wikipedia] [Forteresse: Chasse Galerie] [Histoire Canada - Histoire Canada] [La légende du canot d’écorce par Robert Doucet - ONF] [Claude Dubois-  Chasse-galerie - YouTube] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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), [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] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 110 - In Nisku, Alberta, on August of 2010 the family of 20-year-old Amber Alyssa Tuccaro became concerned when a phone call with her brother ended abruptly and she she stopped answering texts and calls after that. She’d been hitchhiking into the close by city of Edmonton and was planning to be back soon. She never returned. After a botched police investigation, Amber’s remains were found in 2012 south of where she’d last been seen in Leduc County. Her case remains unsolved despite the RCMP having audio of the possible perpetrator by way of Amber’s last phone call, that had been recorded. Come see us at CrimeCon in Orlando from May 1-3, 2020. Use POUTINE2020 when buying your tickets. Sources and further reading: [Amber Tuccaro recording - YouTube] [Amber Tuccaro’s unsolved murder - YouTube] [RCMP Project KARE confirms identity of human remains | CTV News] [RCMP looking into Amber Tuccaro case tip but caution against ‘erroneous information’ - Edmonton | Globalnews.ca] [WAYBACK MACHINE: January 2014 - Project Kare - HOME] [‘A pain you can’t describe’: New tip has Amber Tuccaro’s family fearing false hope | The Star] [Historical Homicide Files - Royal Canadian Mounted Police] [Police investigating man’s claim that his father may be responsible for several missing persons, including Amber Tuccaro] [‘Not our best work’: RCMP apologize for handling of Indigenous woman’s death] [The Murder of Amber Tuccaro | Hue and Cry] [Justice for AMBER Tuccaro - Home | Facebook] [Amber Tuccaro | RED POWER MEDIA] [Windspeaker.com] [Report says RCMP investigation into Amber Tuccaro’s disappearance was ‘wholly inadequate’ - APTN NewsAPTN News] [Ending Violence Against Native Women | Indian Law Resource Center] [Amber Tuccaro’s unsolved murder: Do you recognize this voice? | CBC News] [MMIW — Native Womens Wilderness] [Sacred MMIWG / FFADA sacrées - Home | Facebook] [The Truth Sharing Podcasts (Partage des vérités)] [Home Page - Final Report | MMIWG] [Background on the inquiry] [Experience Fort Chipewyan | Fort McMurray Tourism] [Missing persons | Royal Canadian Mounted Police] [Tip received on Amber Tuccaro’s homicide file | Royal Canadian Mounted Police] [Remains of Amber Alyssa Tuccaro located  | Globalnews.ca] [RCMP lacked ‘urgency and care’ searching for Amber Tuccaro - APTN NewsAPTN News] [Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women] [RCMP Edmonton - Police Locate Human Remains of Corrie OTTENBREIT near Leduc - Gateway Gazette] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 108 - On August 6, 2011, Carol Nora King went missing from her home in the tiny village of Herschel, Saskatchewan. That same day she was to make an official statement to Rosetown, SK., about ongoing harassment and stalking she had been suffering at the hands of her former boyfriend, Joseph 'David" Caissie. King was found dead in an abandoned farmyard three weeks later, but it was not until an undercover RCMP sting, 5 years later, that her killer was finally caught.  Come see us at CrimeCon in Orlando from May 1-3, 2020. Use POUTINE2020 when buying your tickets. Sources and further reading: R. v Caissie, 2018 SKQB 279 (CanLII), R v Caissie, 2019 SKQB 3 (CanLII), [Closing arguments at David Caissie murder trial focus on reliability | Saskatoon StarPhoenix] [Watch: A timeline of the Joseph ‘David’ Caissie trial | The Province] [Joseph ‘David’ Caissie appeals 1st-degree murder conviction in Carol King’s death - Saskatoon | Globalnews.ca] [Joseph ‘David’ Caissie guilty of killing Carol King in 2011 - Saskatoon | Globalnews.ca] [How do Mr. Big sting operations work - Saskatoon | Globalnews.ca] [Conflicting testimony at Joseph ‘David’ Caissie’s murder trial | Country 104] [Mr. Big sting admissibility ruling to come down in Joseph ‘David’ Caissie’s murder trial | Country 105] [‘She feared for her life’: sister details events leading up to Carol King’s death  | Globalnews.ca] [‘Everywhere we went he was behind us’: Accused murderer harassed Carol King month before she died, sister says  | CTV  News] [Carol King Obituary - Herschel, Saskatchewan | Legacy.com] [R v B (KG) - Wikipedia]  [KGB Statement - Recanting domestic assault charges] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Dana Bradley was murdered on December 14, 1981 in St John's, NL. Her slayign remains unsolved.

In our 100th episode we take a look back before talking about the disappearance of Madison Scott from Vanderhoof BC in May of 2011.

Two Cranbrook BC girls murdered in 1984 in similar ways horrified the small town over 3 months before the perpetrator was caught.