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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

Episode 205: In this Away Game we are off to post World War One Germany where in the early 1920s, a brutal serial killer, Fritz Haarmann, killed at least 27 young men and boys. Many of his crimes, it appears, were committed to impress his lover, a man named Hans Grans. Although Haarmann admitted it was he who murdered and dismembered the victims, he claimed that ultimately, in a few cases, it was Grans who chose who was to die.Sources:Weimar Republic - HISTORYList of German serial killers - WikipediaAuthor & Radio Host | Alan R. WarrenButcher of Hanover: Fritz Haarmann by Alan R. WarrenSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 204: Between 1957 and 1964 in Montreal, Quebec, experiments were undertaken that compromised and invaded people’s minds, their agency to make decisions for themselves removed and their brains mucked about in, both physically and psychologically. These barbaric, Orwellian experiments often involved mind expanding drugs like LSD, sensory deprivation, shock treatments and periods of sleep induced for weeks at a time as well as other treatments that could easily be called torturous. They were sponsored by the most notorious branch of the United States government, the CIA, the Canadian government as well as other shadowy organizations with funding coming even from the Rockefellers. The goals behind the research, it seems were to develop brainwashed, zombie-like ‘recruits’ who would do the bidding of these groups without question or conscience getting in the way and to develop new methods of psychological torture to aid in enemy interrogation. All of it took place right here in Canada. The research was overseen by Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, an eminent and well-respected psychiatrist at McGill University’s, Allan Memorial Institute with unwitting Canadian psychiatric patients used as Guinae pigs. The project was called MK-ULTRA.Sources:D. Ewen Cameron, M.D., F.R.C.P.C.Donald Ewen CameronDonald Ewen Cameron | The McClaughry’s BlogCIA MKULTRA / Mind Control Collection - The Black VaultMKULTRA files : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet ArchiveThe Most Dangerous Game : Josh Shore, Paul Shore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveThe Curious Career of Dr. Ewen CameronPsychological Warfare | RANDMind Control & MK-ULTRAMK Ultra Project - Commission on Assisted DyingGeorge Cooper Report Ewen Cameron, 1986 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveMK Ultra: CIA mind control program in Canada (1980) - The Fifth Estate — YouTubeBrainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada - The Fifth Estate — YouTubeCIA Mind Control Survivors Seek Restitution From Canadian GovernmentSAAGA — Survivors Against Government AbuseBrainwashed | CBC Podcasts | CBC ListenRavenscrag, Montreal - WikipediaAllan Memorial Institute - WikipediaProject MKULTRA - McGillDeclassified: Mind Control at McGill | The McGill TribuneReader CIA Brainwashing McIntoshMontreal MKULTRA Experiments | The Canadian EncyclopediaThe toxic legacy of Canada’s CIA brainwashing experiments: ‘They strip you of your soul’ | Canada | The GuardianVictims of CIA’s MKUltra Mind Control Program Are Fighting Back | GaiaMind Wars by Marie D. Jones | GoodreadsThe Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control by John D. Marks | GoodreadsPoisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer | GoodreadsMaisonneuve | Distant RelativesTrudeau government gag order in CIA brainwashing case silences victims, lawyer says | CBC NewsBrainwashed: The echoes of MK-ULTRA | CBC NewsSocial Media and the BrainUS claims Russia planning ‘false-flag’ operation to justify Ukraine invasion | Russia | The GuardianSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 203: On May 7, 1992, after the McDonald’s restaurant on Kings Road near Keltic Drive in Sydney River, Nova Scotia, closed for the night and the overnight crew was coming in and the evening crew was leaving. Three young men, armed with a shovel handle, knives and a .22 calibre pistol robbed the establishment. They beat, stabbed and shot 4 of the restaurant workers, killing three, Jimmy Fagan, 27, Donna Warren, 22, and Neil Burroughs Jr., 29, and critically wounding 20-year-old, Arlene MacNeil, who was permanently disabled both physically and mentally, requiring round the clock care until her death in 2018. The crime’s brutality brought unwelcome international media attention to the small town, especially when the truth came out. To almost everyone’s surprise, days after the murders, it quickly became evident that the brutal crime had been committed by three, fairly well-liked young men from the area. They’d robbed the place for its cash, making off with a tiny fraction of what they had assumed would be in the restaurant’s safe.Sources:Sydney River McDonald’s murders - WikipediaR. v. Muise, 1992 CanLII 4046 (NS SC), R. v. MacNeil, 1993 CanLII 4442 (NS SC), R. v. MacNeil, 1993 CanLII 4449 (NS SC), R. v. Wood, 1993 CanLII 4535 (NS SC), R. v. Muise (No. 1), 1993 CanLII 4555 (NS SC), R. v. Muise, 1994 NSCA 198 (CanLII), R. v. Wood, 1994 NSCA 239 (CanLII), R. v. MacNeil, 1995 NSCA 10 (CanLII), Twenty years of heartache | The Chronicle HeraldN.S. McDonald’s killer granted full parole | CBC NewsMcDonald’s killer Darren Muise ‘financially secure’ and ‘living a good life’ on parole: documents - Halifax | Globalnews.caMcDonald’s murderer ‘financially secure’ and ‘living a good life’: parole documents | CTV NewsDerek Wood, convicted in McDonald’s murders, denied day parole | CBC NewsWood v Warden (Atlantic Institution), 2017 CanLII 67340 (NB CA), Derek Anthony Wood and the Sydney River McDonald’s Murders - Christopher di Armani.comSydney River McDonald’s killer loses appeal | SaltWireOne of three men convicted in McDonald’s murders awarded unescorted absences   - Halifax | Globalnews.ca24 Sep 2000, 28 - The Winnipeg Sun at Newspapers.comMurder at McDonald’s: The Killers Next Door eBook : Jessome, Phonse: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 202: Mathew Charles Lamb was a troubled and disturbed youngster. He was born in Windsor, Ontario, unwanted, to a teenage mother and bounced from one relative’s home to another, never having close relationships with any of them. To him they were merely his keepers. The rules they laid out for him to follow were bothersome to him. Young Matt was incorrigible. He became violent early on, many of the other kids in his family and in the neighbourhood were terrified of him. After a number of run ins with local police and several violent incidents involving firearms, one including a shootout with police, Mathew Lamb was jailed  in the Kingston Pen for the first time — he was just 16. At 18 years old, only days after an early release, Mathew Charles Lamb, went on a shooting spree in Windsor, killing two strangers and wounding two more.Sources:City Of WindsorCanada’s Most Dangerous Places 2020 - Macleans.caThe Windsor Star - Google News Archive SearchMathew Charles Lamb | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderersRead Watching the Devil Dance Online by William Toffan | BooksMathew Charles Lamb - WikipediaHouse of Commons Debates, 30th Parliament, 2nd … - Canadian Parliamentary Historical ResourcesNew Book Documents Canada’s First Spree Killer and Windsor Native Matthew Lamb | 519 MagazineBook - The Psychopath TestAbout: Mathew Charles Lamb Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 201: On October 14, 2007, after a gruelling 20-hour journey from Poland, Robert Dziekanski, arrived at the YVR airport’s international terminal in Richmond, B.C. Dziekanski, who spoke nor read any English, was unable to read the signs directing him to what he should do next or where he should go. The confused man spent ten hours in the airport wandering around the secure customs area. His mother was waiting for him with a friend only a few meters away in the public waiting area. Had the two been able to connect this story would have had a very different conclusion, but they did not. She left the airport, frustrated, hours before her son’s final moments.Sources:Commissioner’s Statement - Incident at Vancouver Airport - Canada.caReport Following a Public Interest Investigation into a Chair-Initiated Complaint Respecting the Death in RCMP Custody of Mr. Robert Dziekanski | Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMPBraidwood InquiryBraidwood Commission ReportVancouver Sun — YVR Robert Dziekanski 2007 Taser incident — YouTubeVancouver Airport Tragedy - Canada — YouTube (song)Rundel v. British Columbia – Braidwood Commission, 2009 BCSC 814 (CanLII), Taser International, Inc. v. British Columbia, 2010 BCSC 1120 (CanLII), R. v. Bentley, 2013 BCSC 1125 (CanLII), R. v. Bentley, 2013 BCSC 1364 (CanLII), R. v. Millington, 2014 BCSC 756 (CanLII), R. v. Millington, 2015 BCSC 143 (CanLII), R. v. Bentley, 2015 BCCA 251 (CanLII), R. v. Robinson, 2015 BCSC 433 (CanLII), R. v. Millington, 2015 BCSC 515 (CanLII), R. v. Rundel, 2015 BCSC 1090 (CanLII), R. v. Millington, 2015 BCSC 1380 (CanLII), R. v. Millington, 2015 BCSC 1426 (CanLII), R. v. Robinson, 2015 BCSC 1535 (CanLII), R. v. Millington, 2016 BCCA 293 (CanLII), R. v. Robinson, 2017 BCCA 6 (CanLII), Criminal Law: Perjury | CanLII ConnectsFinal report from Braidwood Commission finds Taser use unjustifiedOsoyoos First Nation Mountie still trying to clear his name 12 years after the Robert Dziekanski died - APTN NewsMother of Robert Dziekanski dies during visit to Poland | Watch News Videos OnlineBlamed and Broken: The Mounties and the Death of Robert Dziekanski eBook : Petrovich, Curt: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreCBA British Columbia - In Memoriam: Thomas BraidwoodCoroner’s ReportSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 200: The story we are about to tell is a harrowing tale of child neglect that leaves a young boy badly scarred for life. In December of 1990, after being overlooked by his family who were on their way to Paris for a Christmas visit, Kevin McCallister is left on his own in the family’s large Winnetka, Illinois home. There the 7-year-old not only has to care for himself, but has to do his best fend off two serial burglars, a team known as the Wet Bandits, attempting to break into the McCallister residence. Leaving Kevin McCallister with lifelong issues due to the effects of post traumatic stress, and later problems with addiction.Sources:An inaccurate Film Dramatization of Actual Events671 Lincoln Ave, Winnetka, IL 60093 - realtor.com®Bill Breakdown: How Much Kevin McCallister’s Dad Spent In Home Alone | Sideshow CollectiblesAll Injuries Sustained In Home Alone - Assessed By A Real Doctor - ThrillistHome Alone | Home Alone Wiki | FandomKevin McCallister | Home Alone Wiki | FandomSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 199: In all the recent photos I could find of Melissa Ann Shepard, she looks like an ordinary, little old lady. But Melissa, Millie to some, has a criminal record a mile long, including convictions for fraud, impersonation and forgery. But, she is best known for, luring men via the internet, drugging them and taking control of all aspects of their lives. Melissa also caused the death of one of her husbands in Nova Scotia, was suspected in another’s death and at least two more men came close to dying.Sources:Melissa Ann Shepard - WikipediaCBC News Indepth: Melissa Ann FriedrichMelissa Friedrich | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderersHRP News — High Risk Offender Notification | Halifax.caInternet Black Widow Melissa Ann Shepard arrested in Halifax | CBC NewsThe internet black widow: Is this Canada’s most dangerous woman? - BBC NewsHow a smitten man came face to face with the ‘Internet Black Widow’ - The Globe and MailThis 80-year-old ‘Black Widow,’ who lured lonesome old men to horrible fates, is out of prison again - The Washington PostNational Film Board of Canada — Why Women Kill‘Internet Black Widow’ Melissa Ann Weeks charged with attempted murder in N.S. | Globalnews.ca‘Black Widow’s’ ex-boyfriend warns men as she gets out of prison: ‘Watch out’ | Globalnews.caP.E.I.’s infamous ‘Black Widow’ facing attempted murder charges | SaltWireVictims of ‘Internet Black Widow’ concerned over her release in N.S. | CTV NewsPrison for Women’s Invisible Minority | Journal of Prisoners on PrisonsUnknown Gender History: Melissa Friedrich (Weeks), “The Internet Black Widow” of Nova Scotia - 2012Unknown Gender History: Black Widow Serial KillersAlex Strategos: ‘Millie Weeks’, AKA Melissa Friedrich, The Internet Black Widow - InquisitrMelissa Ann Shepard : Internet Black Widow (2012) - the fifth estate — YouTubeMelissa-Ann-Shepard | National PostRead Webs of Black Widows Online by Pete Katz | BooksRead Lady Killers Online by Tori Telfer | BooksRead The Craigslist Killer Online by Crystal Majkowski | BooksTrue Crime: Canadian Monsters: 25 Horrific Canadian Serial Killers eBook : Keller, Robert: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreRaw Video: ‘Internet Black Widow’ appears in court — YouTubeOnline Dating and Dating App Safety Tips | RAINNSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine