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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.caINQUIRY CALLED INTO WRONGFUL CONVICTION OF DAVID MILGAARD | News and Media | Government of SaskatchewanCommission of the Inquiry Into the Wrongful Conviction of David MilgaardDavid Milgaard - Innocence CanadaReference re Milgaard (Can.) - SCC CasesR. v. Milgaard, 1971 CanLII 792 (SK CA), R. v. Fisher (L.E.), 1999 SKQB 88 (CanLII), Justice Miscarried by Helena Katz - Ebook | ScribdShrunk by J. Thomas Dalby, PhD, Editor, Lorene Shyba, PhD, Editor - Audiobook | ScribdWrongful Convictions in Canada | PDF | Miscarriage Of Justice | LawDavid Milgaard - WikipediaDavid Milgaard was innocent of Gail Miller murder and rape - SaskToday.caMilgaard inquiry: Don’t judge us: CopsSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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.Promo:Podcast by ProxySources:21 Feb 1976, Page 1 - Fort Lauderdale News at Newspapers.comKiller of 2 Police Officers Executed in Florida - The New York TimesOntario Police Memorial Foundation — Donald R. IrwinFHP MEMORIAL — Phillip A. Black (1936-1976)In the Blink of an Eye - Essayhttps://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/i-had-nothing-the-world-i-left-no-longer-existedJesse Tafero - Case Chart - Grassroots Investigation Project by Claudia Whitman Sponsored by Equal Justice USAJesse Tafero - Case Summary - Innocence Project by Claudia Whitman sponsored by Equal Justice USAJesse Tafero - WikipediaExoneree, Center on Wrongful Convictions: Northwestern Pritzker School of LawTafero v. State, 223 So. 2d 564 | Casetext Search + CitatorJesse Tafero | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderersJesse Tafero - WikipediaJessie Joseph Tafero, Petitioner-appellant, v. Louie L. Wainwright, Respondent-appellee, 796 F.2d 1314 (11th Cir. 1986) :: JustiaHome - The Sunny CenterThe Joys of Forgiveness on Death Row | Sunny Jacobs | TEDxGalway — YouTube‘Exonerated’ blurs facts about death penalty caseFormer death row couple: ‘Life turned out beautifully’ | Family | The GuardianTIPS LEAD TO CAPTURE OF PAROLED MURDERER – Sun SentinelFugitive’s prosthetic leg gives him away | The Seattle TimesWALTER RHODES JR v. HARDEE CI WARDEN FLORIDA PAROLE COMMISSION SECRETARY FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS | FindLawRhodes v. Fla. Parole Comm’n, CASE NO. 8:13-cv-1424-T-36AEP | Casetext Search + CitatorPhillip 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 CrimeSunny Jacobs: Life BeyondStretch of I-95 honors 2 fallen troopers TRANSLATE with x English ArabicHebrewPolishBulgarianHindiPortugueseCatalanHmong DawRomanianChinese SimplifiedHungarianRussianChinese TraditionalIndonesianSlovakCzechItalianSlovenianDanishJapaneseSpanishDutchKlingonSwedishEnglishKoreanThaiEstonianLatvianTurkishFinnishLithuanianUkrainianFrenchMalayUrduGermanMalteseVietnameseGreekNorwegianWelshHaitian CreolePersian TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster PortalBackSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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 EastSources:Homicides | Charlottetown Police ServicesPEI Crime Stoppers - HomicidesCharlottetown police reopen 1980s murder case | CBC NewsSkimpy underwear connected to 1988 murder | CBC NewsCharlottetown police release sketch of possible Byron Carr killer | SaltWireByron Carr murder accomplice identified by police | CBC News2013, John Carr interview | CBC.ca‘Give this family closure’: Police still working to solve 30-year-old Byron Carr murder | CBC NewsUnsolved Case Files Canada: Murder of Byron Carr After Sexual Encounter With Another MaleCold case, warm memories: Byron Carr’s friends, family want his 1988 P.E.I. murder solved | SaltWireOn the hunt | SaltWireBrad MacConnell Named New Chief of Police | Charlottetown Police Servicesr/PEI: Byron Carr r/UnresolvedMysteries: Byron CarrCANADA — Canada — Byron Carr, 36, Schoolteacher — Nov’ 88 | WebsleuthsReader’s Digest: Canada’s Most Notorious Cold CasesPublic Attitudes toward Homosexuality — Tom W. SmithTIMELINE | Same-sex rights in Canada | CBC NewsLesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights in Canada | The Canadian EncyclopediaLGBT+ Pride 2021 Global Survey points to increasingly positive attitudes in Canada toward LGBT+ individuals | IpsosR. v. MacDonald, 2004 CanLII 9284 (ON CA), Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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 neel19/02/1930 : Affaire NEEL Auguste et OLLIVIER Louis – Saint-Pierre et Miquelon : Ephéméridesaffaire néel - Histoire des îles St Pierre et MiquelonSaint Pierre and Miquelon - WikipediaL’Île-aux-Marins - WikipediaCanada’s top court says voluntary extreme intoxication a defence in violent crimes | Globalnews.caR. v. Brown, 2022 SCC 18 (CanLII), the dive spell: Saint Pierre Island: site of the only guillotine execution in north americaLa Veuve de Saint-PierreHistory of the Guillotine8 Things You May Not Know About the Guillotine - HISTORYThe Paris Review - The Bloody Family History of the GuillotineLouis XVI - WikipediaDoes the head remain briefly conscious after decapitation (revisited)? - The Straight DopeExploring The French Instrument Of Death: The Guillotine | Thought CatalogGuillotine by Robert Frederick Opie - Ebook | ScribdExecution by Geoffrey Abbott - Ebook | ScribdThe Widow of Saint-Pierre - WikipediaSt. Pierre, a Tiny Pin Point of France and Al Capone’s Prohibition Haunt: Canadian Odyssey on the Looney Front — Part 10 | HuffPost LifeSept. 10, 1977: Heads Roll for the Last Time in France | WIRED5 really cool things about Saint-Pierre and Miquelon - Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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 | ReverbNationR. v. Nuttall, 2016 BCSC 1404 (CanLII), R. v. Nuttall, 2018 BCCA 479 (CanLII), Korody v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015 FC 1398 (CanLII), Friends of John Nuttall say he was a great friend, but was also troubled | Globalnews.ca3 Jul 2013, 4 - The Province at Newspapers.com3 Jul 2013, 3 - Times Colonist at Newspapers.com4 Jul 2013, 4 - The Vancouver Sun at Newspapers.comCKNW — NUTTALL & KORODY VideoVancouver Sun — Raw: Alleged terrorists Nuttall, Korody talk about Canada Day plotVancouver Sun — Raw: John Nuttall, accused in B.C. terror case, speaks with undercover officerYou searched for korody - BC Civil Liberties AssociationBC Civil Liberties AssociationVancouver Sun — An alleged terrorist’s Surrey suite is revealed 97a AveCanadian Press — B.C. couple walk free after entrapment ruling in terror caseBC Terror Trial Reveals Gong Show RCMP InvestigationExclusive W5 interview: Terror plotters claim they were groomed by Mounties and were relieved bombs were fakeW5: Undercover RCMP anti-terror investigation — YouTubeSurrey Suite, BB TV — YouTubeTerror trial video shows second thoughts — YouTubeCanada Day crowd at B.C. legislature was target in thwarted bomb plot, police say — Victoria Times ColonistNuttall and Korody, couple accused in Victoria legislature bomb plot, remain free after B.C. Court of Appeal ruling - BC | Globalnews.caRCMP spent $1M on Victoria terror plot investigation, including $90K on Nuttall and Korody - BC | Globalnews.caRCMP entrapment of B.C. couple in legislature bomb plot was ‘travesty of justice,’ court rules | CBC NewsSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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

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 SurveyTwitter - Chris Rutkowski Facebook Page - Chris Rutkowski, WriterBlog - Chris Rutkowski Report a UFO in Canada - The Canadian UFO SurveyReport a Canadian UFO Sighting — The Nighttime PodcastThe Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System (CADORS)UFO sightings: Canada’s defence minister briefed | CTV NewsThematic Guides - Unidentified Flying Objects - Library and Archives CanadaWhat does Canada do with reports of UFO sightings? — The Big StorySupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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 RadioFormer Arizona Governor says he saw a UFO during the 1997 Phoenix Lights - Wikinews, the free news sourceThe Canadian UFO Report by Chris A. Rutkowski, Geoff Dittman - Ebook | ScribdParaResearchers Of Ontario - Welcome To Our Space On The WebSimeon Perkins Records UFO sighting October 12, 1796 | Queens County MuseumCanadian DND Report: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)Canada’s UFOs: The search for the unknown - Library and Archives Canadahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Magnet_(UFO)Wilbert Smith on UFOs Project Magnet and his Contacts with the Boys from Topside — YouTubePentagon UFO videos - WikipediaDocuments | NAVAIR - FOIACivil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System — CADORS: Report 2016P1783Credible UFO Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian Government Documents RevealUFO sightings: Canada’s defence minister briefed | CTV Newshttp://www.psican.orghttp://pararesearchers.orgList of artificial objects leaving the Solar System - WikipediaUS10144532B2 — Craft using an inertial mass reduction device — Google PatentsWalker ‘stunned’ to see ship hovering high above sea off Cornwall | Science | The GuardianNINA HAGEN 1985 “Gods Of Aquarius” (English) IN EKSTASY — YouTubeSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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? | CNIBDocumentary What Happened to Holly Bartlett Seasons | Accessible Media Inc.Podcast What Happened to Holly Bartlett Podcast | Accessible Media Inc.Sights Unseen — YouTubeHolly Elizabeth Bartlett 1978-2010 - Macleans.caHolly Bartlett witness changes key details in death investigation | CBC NewsReview to be held into blind woman’s death: Halifax police | Globalnews.caExternal review confirms 2010 death of Holly Bartlett was accidental - Halifax | Globalnews.caPolice handling of Holly Bartlett’s death criticized in review | CBC NewsReview of Investigation Into The Death of Holly Bartlett | PDF | Polygraph | VictimologyHolly Bartlett’s unlikely journey | City | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COASTPolice announce independent review into Holly Bartlett’s death | News | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COASTTelling Holly’s Bartlett’s story, again | Arts + Culture | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COASTHolly Bartlett’s family is angry with Halifax policeWhat happened to Holly Bartlett? : UnresolvedMysteriesHolly Bartlett: Autopsy & Clothing - Album on ImgurImgur: Map, based on police reportHome | CNIBNEADS - Financial Aid DirectoryJAWS® – Freedom ScientificSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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 - WikipediaUncertain Justice by F. Murray Greenwood, Beverley Boissery - Ebook | ScribdKilling Women by Wilfrid Laurier University Press - Ebook | ScribdThe History of Gibbeting by Samantha Priestley - Ebook | ScribdLa destinée de la Corriveau « Histoire du QuébecLégende de la Corriveau – Voyage à travers le QuébecLes anciens Canadiens - Philippe Aubert de GaspéIl était cent fois La Corriveau : anthologie : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchivePressReader.com - Macabre DiscoveryCanadian Mysteries of the Unexplained: Investigations Into the Fantastic, the Bizarre and the DisturbingBiography – CORRIVEAU, MARIE-JOSEPHTE, La Corriveau – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian BiographyThe Legend of La Corriveau: Québécois Folklore and The Politics of Nation-Making in Canada by Leslie SavathLa Corriveau: A woman victim of Society? by Isabelle ParentView of From Vilified to Victorious: Reconceiving La Corriveau in Anne Hébert’s La Cage | Studies in Canadian LiteratureLa Corriveau | The Canadian EncyclopediaThe Hanging Cage That Held An Infamous Québec Murderess - Atlas ObscuraCanadian Urban Legends: La Corriveau of Quebec City | NUVOA Shrine for Marie-Josephte Corriveau and for all women who are victims of domestic violence - UBC Library Open CollectionsA Shrine for Marie-Josephte Corriveau - KooZA/rchClassic French-Canadian Folktales: Volume I (English Edition; Annotated) eBook : Beaugrand, Honore, Frechette, Louis-Honore, Peters, Hammerson: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreCage of la Corriveau on display in Lévis | CBC NewsLa Corriveau: The Gibbet of Quebec — YouTubeFrench Mourning in the 1700s - Geri WaltonSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine