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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 suggestedSources:Dennis Nilsen - WikipediaDyno-Rod Local Drains & Plumbing Experts | Fixed-Price | 24/7Killing For Company: Masters, Brian: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreDinner, Drinks & Death ; The True Story of Dennis Nilsen by Alan R. Warren - Ebook | ScribdA Plague of Murder by Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson - Ebook | ScribdWatch Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes | Netflix Official SiteThe Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen StoryReddit — Dennis NilsenDennis Nilsen – Nick DaviesTommy - Album by The Who | SpotifySerial Killer Dennis Nilsen And His Career In The ArmyI 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 survivorA murderer among us: I was Dennis Nilsen’s boss | The SpectatorThe Big Read: Dennis Nilsen - The Scottish nobody who became the archetypal serial killer | HeraldScotlandAn honest lack of answers | The PsychologistPsychopathic Serial Killers – Dennis Nilsen – Psychopaths In LifeMike Browne's - Dennis Nilsen Spotify playlistSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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 ConsequencesSources:https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/05/01/murder-in-the-blueprints-of-frank-lloyd-wright/https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/taliesinhttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28519/taliesin-tragedyhttps://la.curbed.com/2015/10/28/9906764/sowden-house-george-hodel-black-dahliahttps://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/wright-mare-massacre-frank-lloyd-home-article-1.1591522https://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=1https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/carlton-julian.htmhttps://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2017/04/murder-at-taliesin.htmlhttps://www.taliesinpreservation.org/Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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 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: CopsMan convicted of notorious murder dies at Abbotsford prison – Abbotsford NewsA Mother’s Story - Joyce MilgaardDonald Marshall Jr. – Dark Poutine – True Crime & Dark HistorySupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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