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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 NSSable Island | Maritime Museum of the AtlanticThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834) by… | Poetry FoundationThe Mystery of the Mary Celeste. Part One: The Facts - Daily NauticaThe Mystery of the Mary Celeste. Part Two: Theories - Daily NauticaThe Mystery of the Mary Celeste. Part Three: the Rediscovery of the Cursed Ship - Daily NauticaSolved: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste | UCL News - UCL – University College LondonMary Celeste - The Arthur Conan Doyle EncyclopediaMary Celeste Monument – Diligent River, Nova Scotia - Atlas ObscuraMary Celeste | The Canadian EncyclopediaMary Celeste - Wikipedia6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries That Have Totally Been Solved | Cracked.comWeetabix Mary Celeste — YouTubeThe story of the “Mary Celeste” : Fay, Charles Edey : Internet ArchiveGhost ship : the mysterious true story of the Mary Celeste and her missing crew : Hicks, Brian, 1966 : Internet ArchivePhantom Ship , The : Henry Passmore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveThe Galley of Count Arnaldos, by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowColossal Squid ~ MarineBio Conservation Society Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 214: On November 25, 2011, neighbours around the four-plex at 51st Avenue and 47th Street in the town of Innisfail, Alberta heard a bang which shook their homes. Some said sounded like a gunshot, others said it sounded like someone dropping a heavy pile of wood. The dining room window of one the corner suites had been blown outward, glass was strewn throughout the yard. Police were called to the scene by a bystander inside the home and found a horrific scene. The home was full of smoke and debris. There at the dining room table, still in her wheelchair, first responders discovered the body of 23-year-old, Victoria (Vicky) Shachtay who’d died in what appeared to have been an explosion.Sources:Innisfail | The Canadian EncyclopediaR v Malley, 2015 ABCA 213 (CanLII), R v Malley, 2017 ABCA 186 (CanLII), Malley (Re), 2014 IIROC 10 (CanLII), Malley (Re), 2014 IIROC 29 (CanLII), Blast that killed Vicky Shachtay was a ‘targeted attack’: police | National PostStepfather told victim not to open Christmas gift that turned out to be bomb | CTV NewsFriends, family gather to remember Vicky Shachtay - MountainviewToday.caDisabled woman killed by parcel bomb — YouTubeA defining case | Royal Canadian Mounted PoliceBombing suspect arrested, police hold conference — YouTubeBrian Malley loses last appeal chance - MountainviewToday.caPipe bomb - WikipediaThe pipe bomb: a modern terrorist weapon - PubMedGUILTY - Canada - Vicky Shachtay, 23, paraplegic, killed by bomb, Innisfail, AB, 25 Nov 2011Financial advisor found guilty in blast that killed disabled woman — macleans.caBomb that killed paraplegic Innisfail mom Vicky Shachtay disguised to look like Christmas presents, Red Deer court told | Edmonton SunFriends, family gather to remember Vicky Shachtay - MountainviewToday.caCharges laid in bombing murder of Vicky Shachtay - MountainviewToday.caVictoria Shachtay’s caregiver testifies about moments before fatal explosionMysterious package killed Alberta mother | CBC NewsCanada ‘extremely lucky’ to face few bomb threats, attacks: RCMP - iPoliticsPresentation to Finance Committee Re: Disability Tax Credit Regarding Bill C-462 | Council of Canadians with DisabilitiesVicky Shachtay’s step-dad issues statement about her murder | CTV NewsInvestment Executive: Brian Malley ArticlesGlobal News: Victoria Shachtay | News, Videos & ArticlesRed Deer Advocate: Vicky Shacktay ArticlesVictoria-Shachtay | National PostUnsolved Murders. Help us solve a crime today. Homehttp://www.unsolvedcrimes.caA machinist in rural Ontario flipped the switch on a flashlight that arrived in the mail. Then it exploded | The Star16 years later, police still don’t know who killed Paavo Henttonen | News | toronto.comSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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 212: On the afternoon of January 27, 1993, the day before her 20th birthday, Sian Simmonds, a student who was working he way through school, was found dead in her basement suite in the Guildford neighbourhood of Surrey, B.C. She had been shot and bludgeoned. Neighbours had heard screams coming from her suite. Only days later, a man named David Schlender was arrested. Already on bail for the attempted murder of one of his cocaine dealers the year before, Schlender told police he’d been hired by another man, Brian West, to commit the murder in exchange for wiping an outstanding drug debt. The investigation of Brian West led to another man, Josephakis Charalambous, the Simmonds’ family doctor who had hired West to murder Sian. Eighteen months before her murder, Sian and her older sister Katie had filed grievances with the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons alleging sexual assault by Charalambous. Rather than face censure by the College and risk losing his substantial annual income, Charlambous had sought to silence the girls. As the truth came out about the doctor, his carefully constructed facade of the community minded healer came tumbling down revealing an ugly pattern of violence and predatory behaviour toward young women and girls.Sources:Betrayal of trust | Maclean’s | DECEMBER 12, 1994R. v. West, 1997 CanLII 3157 (BC CA), R. v. Charalambous, 1997 CanLII 3363 (BC CA), Mountie Seduced My Wife. I Want a New Trial — PressReader.comCharalambous v. Canada (Attorney General), 2009 FC 1082 (CanLII), Charalambous v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015 FC 1045 (CanLII), Charalambous v. Canada (Attorney General), 2016 FCA 177 (CanLII), Charalambous v. Attorney General of Canada, 2017 CanLII 1337 (SCC), Doctor denied day parole 27 years after hiring hitman to kill teen | Vancouver SunScandalous Case had Public Riveted — PressReader.comDocumentary pays tribute to parents of murdered children - New West RecordFamily Physician Hired a Hit Man to Silence Her…Permanently - Medical BagServing Life 25-One Guard’s Story — ScribdDr. Death M.D. by David Pietras - Ebook | ScribdDoctors Who Kill by Carol Anne Davis - Ebook | ScribdFatal Prescription: A Doctor without Remorse by John Griffiths | GoodreadsMedical Ethics | The Canadian EncyclopediaAbout CAVEATSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 211: On January 27, 1896, in the tiny community of Bear River, Nova Scotia, popular fourteen-year-old Annie Kempton was brutally murdered in her home while her parents were out of town. The crime, papers said, was the worst ever seen in the province up to that point and there was an outcry for swift justice on the heels of the slaying. Two days after the crime, Peter David Wheeler, 26, an immigrant, was arrested and charged with the murder. In July of that year, Wheeler was found guilty of the crime and after his trial, made a confession that some have come to see as coerced. He was hanged less than 8 months after the murder in the middle of the night as a crowd was allegedly on their way from Bear River to lynch him.Sources:Nova Scotia Archives - Admiral Digby MuseumPlace-names of the Province of Nova Scotia : Brown, Thomas J : Internet ArchiveIn search of justice for Peter and Annie | The Chronicle HeraldBear River Historical Society | Nova Scotia, CanadaPeter Wheeler, Murder of Annie… - Admiral Digby Museum | FacebookJustice Denied - Atlantic BooksStories of our Local CharactersThe Lynching of Peter Wheeler by Debra Komar - Ebook | ScribdMaritime Murder: Deadly Crimes from the Buried Past eBook : Vernon, Steve: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreGraveyard Tour | Fall For Bear RiverAnnie Kempton (1881-1896) - Find a Grave MemorialFolksongs from Southern New Brunswick : Creighton, Helen, 1899- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveBear River tragedy retold in ‘Annie Kempton’ | SaltWireSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 210: In the summer of 2003, Ardeth Wood, a 27-year-old PhD candidate studying philosophy at the University of Waterloo, was enjoying a well needed break at her parent’s home in the Orleans neighbourhood of Ottawa. In the early afternoon of August 6, 2003, wanting to take advantage of a beautiful, warm summer day Ardeth borrowed her brother’s bike to go for a ride. Ardeth never came home.Ardeth’s disappearance triggered one of the largest searches in Ottawa’s history up to that point covering the almost 200 kilometres of bike paths around the capital city and its suburbs. Five days later, Ardeth’s body was discovered. She’d been drowned on purpose and then hidden by her killer in a densely wooded area along the banks of Green’s Creek. Police had no suspects. Fearing for their own safety, many of the residents of Ottawa were terrified to use the parks and bike paths for some time even with increased police patrols. It would be more than two years before charges were laid against the man accused of Ardeth’s murder.Sources and Further Reading:The Disappearance of Ardeth Wood An Anthology of True Crime by Pete Dove - Ebook | ScribdArdeth Wood - WikipediaMurder She Solved - The Pathway Predator - Dailymotion VideoArdeth WOOD | Obituary | Ottawa CitizenArdeth Mary Margaret Wood (1975-2003) - Find a Grave MemorialThe value of virginity? « knitnut.netUniversity of Waterloo — September 10, 2003: Scholarship remembers murdered gradA Mother’s Grief – The Healing Power of Forgiveness | Nourished Motherhood BlogArchived Ardeth RememberedArchived A death that touched an entire cityArdeth Wood murder resonates 10 years later | CBC NewsInterview with Colum Wood — YouTubeGlobal study on homicideKristen Gilchrist (2010) “Newsworthy” Victims?, Feminist Media Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2010.514110Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 209:Daleen Kay Bosse, was a 26-year-old, wife and mother of Cree heritage and member of the Onion Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan near Saskatoon. On May 18, 2004, after a night out with friends Daleen did not return home. Her family grew worried. When she still hadn’t come home the next day Jeremiah, Daleen’s husband, contacted police, who, initially did not respond with much enthusiasm, telling Jeremiah and Daleen’s concerned parents to wait; that she would probably either come home or check in soon. Daleen’s family organized searches themselves and two weeks later Daleen’s car was found abandoned, but there was no sign of the missing woman. It would be more than four years later that Daleen’s family would find out what had happened to their missing loved one. Daleen had been murdered by a man named Douglas Richard Hales, who, during a Mr. Big sting, had admitted to killing the woman and the led police to Daleen’s charred remains.Sources:Onion Lake – Cree NationThe Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan | Details — Treaty 6The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan | Details — Frog Lake MassacreFrog Lake Massacre - WikipediaSACP | Missing Persons DatabaseDaleen Bosse Obituary (2008) - Saskatoon StarPhoenixNWAC - Daleen’s StoryFamily hires investigator to help locate daughterMMIWG & Violence Prevention • Native Women’s Association of CanadaHome Page - Final Report | MMIWGR v Hales, 2014 SKQB 411 (CanLII), Highlights from the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, 2015 | CanLIIMan says he killed woman because she laughed when he couldn’t perform sexually | Philippine Canadian InquirerDouglas Hales guilty of 2nd degree murder of Daleen Bosse | CBC NewsGUILTY - Canada - Daleen Bosse, 26, Saskatoon, Sask, 18 May 2004Muskego Family Gets Some Closure - First Nations Drum NewspaperMother recalls trauma of daughter’s disappearance, murderDaleen Bosse | News, Videos & ArticlesKristen Gilchrist (2010) “Newsworthy” Victims?, Feminist Media Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2010.514110The Different Stories of Cree Woman, Daleen Kay Bosse (Muskego) and Dakota-Sioux Woman, Amber Tara-Lynn Redman: Understanding Their Disappearances and Murders through Media Re-Presentations and Family Members’ NarrativesNews camera allowed in Saskatchewan court for first time - J-SourceSaskatchewan man found guilty of killing Onion Lake Cree Nation woman, 25 - APTN NewsKarina Wolfe case echoes Daleen Bosse murder | 650 CKOMFinding Dawn by Christine Welsh - NFBDouglas Hales’ appeal decision, Nov 23 2015 — YouTubeHales appeal dismissed. - Free Online LibraryTasha Beeds – Walking With Our Sisters2021 National Action PlanHome • National Family and Survivors CircleSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 208: On Feb 4, 1880, just past midnight 5 members of the Donnelly family (A mother and father, two sons, and a niece) we brutally murdered by a mob in their homes just outside of Lucan, Ontario, in Biddolph township. A crime that happened 142 years ago this month, but it is one that had its roots in the distant past, and that has echoed into the future in Canada right up to today.  The family and their story became legendary, and often shocks people into the realization of how dark, and unforgiving life in early Canada could be. Numerous books, songs, tv shows, plays, and films have been made about the murders. There is even a Craft Beer brand in Ontario called The Black Donnelly’s Brewing Company, will illustrations of the family on their bottles. If you grew up in Ontario the massacre was actually part of the school curriculum. This is a case of victim blaming on a huge scale. Myths and legends sprung up about the family — perhaps somewhat to appease the guilty conscience of society. Even up to the early 1980’s if you went to Lucan people would say ‘we don’t talk about the Donnellys’Sources:[The Vigilante Massacre | Maclean’s | June 1, 1950][Heaven and Hell on Earth: The Massacre of the”Black Donnellys”][Black Donnellys - Wikipedia][History | Lucan Museum]Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 207: After World War II, Canada’s economy rose. Work was much easier to come by than during the depression. Even though he’d been able to secure decent employment, family man and world war veteran with movie star good looks, Edwin Alonzo Boyd, was bored. He’d had his share of trouble already and was feeling the itch again. In the fall of 1949, he robbed his first bank. This crime kicked off events that would lead to one of the most infamous Canadian criminal gangs of the era. Over just a few years, The Boyd Gang, named for their charismatic de facto leader, Edwin, robbed numerous banks broke out of one of Canada’s toughest prisons, not once but twice. To some, they were folk heroes. However, public sentiment turned firmly against them after members of the gang, Steve Suchan and Lennie Jackson, murdered Toronto Police Department Sergeant of Detectives Edmund “Eddie” Tong and severely wounded his partner Roy Perry.Sources:Regina v. Boyd, 1953 CanLII 88 (ON CA), Edwin Alonzo Boyd: Life and Crimes of Canada’s Master Bank Robber by Nate HendleyFatal Intentions by Barbara Smith - Ebook | ScribdLine of Fire by Edward Butts - Ebook | ScribdJohn J. Robinette by George D. Finlayson - Ebook | ScribdThe Desperate Ones by Edward Butts - Ebook | ScribdNow You Know Canada’s Heroes by Doug Lennox - Ebook | ScribdLost Rivers — Don JailHistoricist: Titillating and Terrorizing Toronto - Torontoist — ArchivedGeocities — BOYD GANGToronto’s Infamous ‘Boyd Gang’ - CBC ArchivesCBC Archives — Suchan and Jackson hanged back to backEdwin Alonzo Boyd | The Canadian EncyclopediaToronto Feature: The Boyd Gang | The Canadian EncyclopediaWHAT THE BOYD GANG FIASCO CAN TEACH US — Macleans Magazine — 1952ExecutedToday.com » 1952: Lennie Jackson and Steve Suchan, of the Boyd GangSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 206: Starting on the evening of June 29 and going into the early morning of June 30, 2002, Lisa Marie Young, a 21-year-old indigenous woman, was celebrating with friends in her hometown, Nanaimo, B.C. It was not only Canada Day long weekend, but also her friend Dallas’s birthday. The group went to several nightclubs and then attended a pair of house parties outside the city. Lisa left the party with a man the group had met just that evening. There were several frantic texts from Lisa shortly after her departure indicating she was afraid. Lisa Marie Young has not been heard from since. The man she was seen with while leaving the party was later identified as a local 27-year-old man named Christopher William Adair. Adair now refuses to speak to police and has left the country. Nanaimo RCMP presume Lisa has been murdered and her remains have never been found. In the days before the recording of this podcast, an anonymous donor contacted advocates for Lisa offering $50,000 reward to locate her remains. It’s time to bring Lisa home. Someone knows where she is. Maybe you can help.When she went missing, Lisa Marie Young was 21 years old. She was 5’4” (163 cm) tall and weighed 115 pounds (52 kg). She had long dark brown hair, brown eyes. Lisa has a tattoo of a band of flowers with a heart in the middle that circles her upper right arm. She was wearing a black skirt, black top, black high boots and a silver hoop necklace.If you have any tips or information regarding Lisa Marie Young’s disappearance, please call RCMP Corporal Markus Muntener directly at 250-754-2345#BringLisaHomePromoDealing Justice - PodcastSources & Further ReadingDisappearance of Lisa Marie Young - WikipediaNative Women’s Association of Canada — Lisa’s StoryNative Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC)YouTube — Lisa Marie Young — Nanaimo Crime StoppersMcColl Magazine - Lisa Marie Young, Missing WomenLisa Marie Young Help Find Lisa Missed by family and loved ones from Nanaimo+ Since June 30, 2002Lisa’s Song by Allison Crowe — MP3Island Crime PodcastLisa Marie Young: Reward offered for location of missing Nanaimo woman | CTV NewsLisa Marie Young — Facebook GroupMain | Lil’ Red Dress ProjectFinal Report | MMIWGMMIWG2S Inquiry — Master List of Report RecommendationsMMIW — Calls for JusticeFamily seeks closure 10 years after daughter’s disappearance | Ha-Shilth-Sa NewspaperCase 26: Lisa Marie Young - Casefile: True Crime PodcastThe Disappearance of Lisa Marie Young — True Crime FilesThe Disappearance of Lisa Marie Young - Part I - Canada Day Weekend : UnresolvedMysteriesThe Disappearance of Lisa Marie Young - Part II - The Man in the Red Jaguar : UnresolvedMysteriesThe Disappearance of Lisa Marie Young - Part III - The City Without Pity - Conclusion : UnresolvedMysteriesCSO - Search Traffic/Criminal By Participant Name — Christopher William AdairSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine