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Episode 213:Toronto theatre magnate and enigmatic millionaire Ambrose J. Smalldisappeared without a trace on December 2, 1919, only a day after having made a lucrative deal to sell his ownership interests in his chain of theatres including the Grand Opera House in Toronto. People interested in the case suspected one of two theories were the most likely for the tycoon’s abrupt disappearance — either Small had run off and had into hiding under his own steam, or someone had abducted and very likely killed him. This case has become one of Canada’s oldest mysteries as more than 100 years later, there is yet no answer as to Small’s ultimate fate.Sources:Ambrose Small Case | The Canadian EncyclopediaCanada West | The Canadian Encyclopedia$1,750,000 in 1919 → 2022 | Inflation CalculatorBiography – SMALL, AMBROSE JOSEPH – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian BiographyDisappearance of Ambrose Small - WikipediaThe Doe Network: Ambrose Small - 1891DMONThe Mysterious Disappearance of Ambrose J. Small | Grand Theatre LondonWhat Really Happened to Ambrose Small? | Maclean’s | January 15, 1951How the mystery of Ambrose Small became Toronto’s most captivating cold case | The StarThe Mystery Of Ambrose J. Small, The Missing Millionaire - Ripley’s Believe It or Not!Ambrose Small, Toronto’s most sensational mysteryThe Grand Mystery of Ambrose SmallAmbrose Small, The Ghost of the Grand TheatreInvestigations following the finding of these human bones near Humber… News Photo - Getty ImagesAMBROSE SMALL: CANADA’S COLDEST CASE CLOSED!The Missing Millionaire by Katie Daubs | Penguin Random House CanadaCanadian Mysteries of the Unexplained: Investigations Into the Fantastic, the Bizarre and the DisturbingWild Talents by Charles Fort - Ebook | ScribdMysteries of Ontario by John Robert Colombo - Ebook | ScribdGhost Stories of Canada by John Robert Colombo, Jillian Hulme Gilliland - Ebook | ScribdSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 189: Starting in 1963 and stretching over the next seven years, a militant French separatist group called the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorized La Belle Province. Their aim was to overthrow the Quebec government and leave Canada creating an independent Marxist- Leninist Quebec state. By 1970 the group had committed more than 200 violent criminal and terroristic acts including, bombings and high profile kidnappings. The group’s activities ultimately claimed the lives of eight people, including a Quebec provincial cabinet minister, and injured many more, before then Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, finding himself out of options, enacted the 1914 War Measures act to stem the violence of the October Crisis of 1970.Sources:Timeline of the Front de libération du Québec - WikipediaCBC Archives — What is the FLQ?Web Archive | McGill.ca — October Crisis 1970October Crisis - Canada’s Human Rights HistoryFLQ (FRONT DE LIBERATION DU QUEBEC) - SEVEN YEARS OF TERRORISM | Office of Justice ProgramsThe Making of the October Crisis: Canada’s Long Nightmare of Terrorism at the Hands of the FLQ by D’Arcy JenishRead Hostages Online by Gordon Kerr | BooksRead Terror Threat Online by Dwight Hamilton and Kostas Rimsa | BooksRead The Night Canada Stood Still Online by Robert Wright | BooksRead Trudeaumania Online by Robert Wright | BooksRead October Crisis: 50 Years After A Bloody Spasm That Nearly Tore Canada ApartDEMOCRACY VERSUS TERRORISM: FLQ TERRORISM IN QUEBEC, A CASE STUDY on JSTORThe Terrorist Activities of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) - The Beginning of a New EraPierre Vallières (1937-1998) - The Beginning of a New EraFront de libération du Québec (FLQ) | The Canadian EncyclopediaTHE FLQ: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION by Lorne WestonThe FLQ Crisis – VALOUR CANADASummary · Task Force on Kidnapping: The Department of External Affairs’ Files on the October Crisis · Canada Declassified« Front de libération du Québec (FLQ)» : tous nos articles | Le DevoirPierre Laporte - WikipediaJames Cross - WikipediaFrançois Schirm — WikipédiaEdmond Guénette — WikipédiaCommission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted PoliceRoyal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP - WikipediaOctober Crisis: Who was Pierre Laporte, really? | Montreal GazetteLa police connaissait les ravisseurs de Cross et Laporte | Radio-Canada.caGlobal News — Search: FLQCanada - The Trudeau years, 1968–84 | BritannicaRegina v. Vallieres, 1969 CanLII 1000 (QC CA), Regina v. Vallieres, 1973 CanLII 1418 (QC CA), R. v. Cossette-Trudel, 1979 CanLII 2876 (QC CQ), The Quiet RevolutionChronology of the October Crisis, 1970, and its Aftermath - Quebec HistoryMessage of the FLQ to the Nation 1963YouTube — Trudeau: Just watch meJust watch me - WikipediaSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 184: In Mississauga, Ontario in 1973 and early 1974, the discoveries of the murdered bodies of two young women, Constance Dickey, 19, and Neda Novak, 18, only months apart, left the community shaken. Both women, it appeared, had been abducted, sexually assaulted, then murdered and dumped by a yet unknown killer. On August 19, 1974, after being sexually assaulted and left for dead, a sixteen-year-old girl, Julia Sheldon, identified a twenty-four-year-old, married father of two named Henry Robert Williams as the man who’d brutally assaulted her. It soon became clear that Williams had also committed the two previous murders. Sources: Read Cold North Killers Online by Lee Mellor | Books Henry Robert Williams | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers “The Chemical Castration of Recidivist Sex Offenders in Canada: A Matte” by Matthew R. Kutcher The Castration Alternative | Canadian Journal of Criminology and Corrections Federal Probation - Google Play The Medium — Sept. 11th marks 30th anniversary of UTM’s only murder by Adrian Barek Police still looking for Oakville woman’s killer nearly 45 years later | Toronto.com The dark echoes of Adele Komorowski’s murder linger 45 years later | TheSpec.com 5 Worst Crimes Committed in Mississauga | insauga.com “It’s insanity” to free serial killer who assaulted girl in prison: Ex-detective – Cancrime Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 146: On June 13th 1901, Ada Mills Redpath and her son Jocelyn Clifford Redpath were killed in their mansion in on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal. Ada had been shot to the back of the head. Clifford has a gunshot wound to his the temple. The police were not called. A coroner’s inquest the next day declared the deaths a murder-suicide. Ada and Clifford were buried June 15th without any further investigation. Written By: Josina De Bree Sources: https://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/redpath/home/indexen.html https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/the-m-naghten-rule.html https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/about-epilepsy-basics/what-epilepsy https://www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/epilepsy-auras https://www.cureepilepsy.org/for-patients/what-are-the-phases-of-seizures-of-epilepsy/ Denton A, Tellez-Zenteno JF. A patient with epilepsy charged with kidnapping, unlawful confinement, and assault causing bodily harm after seizures: Deficiencies in the legal system. Epilepsy Behav Rep. 2020;13:100361. Published 2020 Mar 21. doi:10.1016/j.ebr.2020.100361 Dougall, L. (2019) The Summit House Mystery; Or, The Earthly Purgatory. Good Press. Original work published 1905.  Reuber M, Mackay RD. Epileptic automatisms in the criminal courts: 13 cases tried in England and Wales between 1975 and 2001. Epilepsia. 2008 Jan;49(1):138-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01269.x. PMID: 17727668. Shih JJ, LeslieMazwi T, Falcao G, Van Gerpen J. Directed aggressive behavior in frontal lobe epilepsy: video-EEG and ictal spect case study. Neurology. 2009;73(21):1804-1806. doi:10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181c2933f Devinsky, Orrin. “Postictal psychosis: common, dangerous, and treatable.” Epilepsy currents vol. 8,2 (2008): 31-4. doi:10.1111/j.1535-7511.2008.00227.x Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 133 - Throughout the 1970s and '80s serial pedophile Westley Allan Dodd molested dozens of children in the Pacific Northwest. Although caught for his crimes more than once Dodd never did any real prison time. Feeling invincible, Westley's fantasies became more violent and depraved until the fall of 1989 when he crossed the line between child predator to multiple murder. On Labour Day weekend in Vancouver, WA. park Westley murdered two brothers, 11- and 10-year-old Cole and William Neer and nonchalantly walked out of the park undetected. Not satisfied with a single victim, Westley craved another kill and on October 29, 1989, he murdered 4-year-old Lee Iseli after kidnapping him from a Portland OR. playground. The Vancouver Child Killer's ultimate undoing was his still unchecked desire for yet another victim. Sources and Further Reading: Dodd's Uncensored Diary Driven to Kill by Gary C. King  Allan Dodd – Last Interview before Execution Most Evil – Westley Allan Dodd Real Detectives - Season 1, Episode 2 "Malice"  Serial Murder and Media Circuses by Dirk C. Gibson Serial Murderers and their Victims TIME: Lessons of the Gruesome Case Behind One of America's Last Legal Executions by Hanging  When You Meet a Stranger by Westley Allan Dodd Dodd, Westley Allan - Dr. Mike Aamodt - Radford University Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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 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), R. v. Ertmoed, 2002 BCSC 806 (CanLII), R. v. Ertmoed, 2002 BCSC 1848 (CanLII), [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] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

In late 1990 billionaire businessman Jim Pattison's daughter was kidnapped and the family terrorized as she was held for ransom.

In epsiode 64 we learn of the bizarre behaviour and terrible crimes of David Alexander Snow.