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Episode 183 - Early on a cold morning on January 7, 1922, two Montreal city Public Works Department employees, on their way to their works shed, discovered the body of a man laying on the frozen ground near the corners of Coolbrook and Snowden Street. The man, who’d been shot was later identified by a Catholic Priest named Adélard Delorme as his half-brother, Raoul Delorme. When police investigated they were surprised that their evidence pointed to one, very unusual suspect. This case would become important, not only for the oddity of its perpetrator and the groundbreaking forensics used to break the case but also for its shocking outcome. Sources: My version of the Delorme case : Farah-Lajoie, Georges Delorme v. Sisters of Charity of Quebec, 1922 CanLII 656 (QC CQ) 1868-1996 - The Delorme Affair - Interactive Investigator L’affaire Delorme — On ne juge pas un prêtre Acquittement de l’abbé Joseph-Adélard Delorme d’une accusation de meurtre Georges Farah-Lajoie — Wikipédia Newspapers.com — Search: Adelard Delorme L’affaire Delorme 1922: un procès qui souleva les passions - Instantanés Georges Farah-Lajoie | Mémoires des Montréalais History of Forensic Science in Canada | Famous Canadian Crimes: The Delorme Affair Rigorous Science - Canada’s History Cassock and the Crown: Canada’s Most Controversial Murder Trial - Jean Monet - Google Books Scribd | For I Have Sinned Online by John Glatt | Books La soutane et la couronne : le procès du siècle : l’affaire Delorme : Monet, Jean, 1932 Biographie – DEROME, WILFRID (baptisé Joseph-Wilfrid) – Volume XVI (1931-1940) – Dictionnaire biographique du Canada Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 182: This is a story of two talented people whose final interaction would lead to the death of one of comedy’s rising stars and a notorious place in Hollywood history for the other. On March 5, 1982, after an all too brief but stellar career in film and television, actor and comedian John Belushi, 33, was found dead in his bungalow at the infamous Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Investigators soon discovered that a Canadian woman, Catherine Evelyn or Cathy Smith, was the last person with the star and had been the person who had supplied and shot him up with the fatal overdose that killed him. Sources: United States of America and Smith, Re, 1984 CanLII 3510 (ON SC), Re United States of America and Smith, 1983 CanLII 1817 (ON SC), 1984 CanLII 1913 (ON CA) | Re United States of America and Smith | CanLII ‘I Killed John Belushi’ — Secrets Of Tragic Comic’s Star-Studded Death! Chasing Dragon by Smith Cathy, Signed - AbeBooks Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi Online by Bob Woodward | Books Read California Babylon Online by Kristan Lawson and Anneli Rufus | Books The Death of John Belushi at the Chateau Marmont Gone 25 years, Belushi’s impact still felt Cathy Smith - Wikipedia Cathy Smith, who admitted to killing John Belushi, was a woman of mystery - The Globe and Mail Gordon Lightfoot here. Singer/songwriter for over 50 years whose work has been performed by everyone from Elvis to Barbra. AMA! : IAmA The Tragic Real-Life Story Of John Belushi The Weight - Remastered - song by The Band | Spotify Sundown - song by Gordon Lightfoot | Spotify High and Dry - song by Gordon Lightfoot | Spotify Flash Of Fire - song by Hoyt Axton | Spotify Addictions Treatment Helplines in Canada | Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 181 - The region in the South Nahanni River played host to several unexplained and disturbing occurrences in the first half of the twentieth century. Between1905 and 1945, in the remote and rugged wilderness in the lower west corner of Mackenzie Mountains in the Northwest Territories and other unexplained events, there were at least 44 people who went missing under mysterious circumstances. Most unsettling of all were the four bodies that were found during that time in three separate incidents. All of the corpses had been decapitated, and their heads were never recovered, earning the area the ominous nickname, the Valley of the Headless Men. No one knows who was responsible for these horrific mutilations or what became of the other missing people. Sources: Secrets of the Nahanni: The Valley of Headless Men – The Outdoor Journal The Lore Behind the Mystery of Canada’s Nahanni National Park The Valley of Headless Men. The spectacular scenery of the Nahanni… | by L Hall | Chameleon | Medium Nahanni National Park Reserve - Wikipedia Valley of Mystery — Pierre Berton | Maclean’s | March 15, 1947 Parks Canada — Nahanni National Park Reserve Mysteries of the Nahinni Park Reserve in Canada — StrangeOutdoors.com Did giants roam Canada’s Northwest Territories — or do they still? | CBC News The Valley of the Headless Men: UnresolvedMysteries Legends of the Nahanni Valley Legends of the Nahanni Valley by Hammerson Peters Serial Killer Quarterly Vol.1 No.3 “Unsolved in North America” — Scribd Read The Dangerous River Online by R. M. Patterson | Books | Scribd Read Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Weird Canada Online by Bathroom Readers’ Institute | Books | Scribd Read Strange but True Online by John Robert Colombo | Books | Scribd The Strangest Northerns: The Valley of the Beasts - Dark Worlds Quarterly The Willows, The Wendigo, and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood: Annotated and Illustrated Tales of Murder, Mystery, Horror, and Hauntings eBook: Blackwood, Algernon, Kellermeyer, M., Kellermeyer, M.: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store Canada is a huge country. Most of it is unfit for human habitation. - Vox This Is How Empty Canada Really Is (PHOTOS) | HuffPost Canada News Geography | The Canada Guide Largest Countries in the World by Area - Worldometer Table 24.1 Population, by province and territory, selected years, 1861 to 2009 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 180 - On September 22, 2015, in Renfrew County, Ontario, 66-year-old Carol Culleton was murdered in her home by her one-time handyman. The man, who’d become obsessed with the recent widow before killing her, then stole Culleton’s car and drove to the home of an ex-girlfriend, Anastasia Kuzyk, 36, and shot Anastasia there with a shotgun as her sister fled the home. However, the killer was not done settling the scores he had cooked up in his head and then drove to the home of another ex-girlfriend, Nathalie Warmerdam, 48. As Nathalie’s son ran from their home, in fear of his life, he heard the gunshot that ended his mother’s life. The killer, Basil Borutski, 58, a former millwright, then fled, and a brief search ensued that ended in Borutski being taken into police custody. Later on, in a 5-hour long taped police interview, the killer admitted to what he’d done, laying the blame for his spree squarely on his victims. Sources: Ontario Provincial Police - What we do Borutski’s history from 1977 to 2011 - Infogram Borutski’s history with Kuzyk and Warmerdam - Infogram Borutski’s history with Culleton - Infogram Murder Sites — Driving Route YouTube - Basil Borutski full police interview YouTube - Basil Borutski and the Wilno Murders: Circle of Fear - The Fifth Estate YouTube - Secrets of… Why Didn’t We Know? Basil Borutski & The Wilno Murders (podcast) - the fifth estate Marchers say Basil Borutski guilty verdict was too little, too late | CBC News What the courts knew about Basil Borutski before he murdered 3 women | CBC News Search: Basil Borutski — Newspapers.com Basil Borutski | News, Videos & Articles — GlobalNews TOPIC: BASIL BORUTSKI TRIAL — CBC.ca R. v. Borutski, 2011 ONSC 3536 (CanLII) Borutski v. Borutski, 2011 ONSC 7099 (CanLII) R. v. Borutski, 2017 ONSC 7748 (CanLII) R. v. Basil Borutski, 2017 ONSC 7762 (CanLII) The Meaning of Life: A Study of the Use of Parole Ineligibility for Murder Sentencing | CanLII BBC Partners — Outlook: Singing for my murdered sister helps me heal Ending Violence Association of Canada Psychology Today — Dark Triad Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 179 - On April 19, 2018, in the village of Victoria Gracia, a community close to Pucallpa in Peru’s central Amazon region of Ucayali, a man got off his motorcycle. He walked toward the home of Olivia Arevalo Lomas, an 81-year-old shaman and respected elder in her community. The man was irate over a debt owed to him by the woman’s son. After firing a warning shot that drew a crowd of neighbours, the elderly healer came out of her house. After a bit of yelling back and forth, the man gunned the woman down with two shots from his pistol, killing her in broad daylight. The man, later identified as Sebastian Paul Woodroffe, a 41-year-old British Columbian in Peru as an Ayahuasca researcher, was pursued by villagers who publicly lynched him. A cellphone recorded his killing, and the user later posted the video to Facebook. Woodroffe’s body was buried in a shallow grave. Two Peruvian men were later arrested for Woodroffe’s slaying. What led this man, known to his friends as a gentle, helpful soul, to such a brutal crime? Sources: [Descent into darkness | CBC News] [Blurred Vision: A Shaman’s Murder Exposes the Dark Side of Ayahuasca] [The Cull of Personality Ebook - Kevin Tucker — Black and Green Press] https://retreat.guru [Preparing for Ayahuasca Ceremony - The Uncensored Guide] [Ayahuasca, dimethyltryptamine, and psychosis: a systematic review of human studies] [Sebastian Woodroffe — YouTube Channel] [Sebastian Woodroffe — Facebook] [Improving  On Addiction Help | Indiegogo — Sebastian Woodroffe] [Sebastian Woodroffe - VICE] [Global News — SEARCH: Sebastian Woodroffe] [Sebastian Woodroffe video | CBC.ca] [YouTube — Murder investigation in the jungle - The Fifth Estate] [Hallucinogenic Plants and Their Use in Traditional Societies - An Overview | Cultural Survival] [(PDF) 📄 The Consumption of Psychoactive Plants in Ancient Global and Anatolian Cultures During Religious Rituals: The Roots of the Eruption of Mythological Figures and Common Symbols in Religions and Myths] [Ayahuasca Retreat Peru, Traditional Retreat Center in the Amazon of Peru] [Tragedy in Pucallpa: the Death of Maestra Olivia Arévalo - Temple of the Way of Light] [Peruvian mob kills Canadian man accused of killing respected shaman | Daily Mail Online] [Terence McKenna - Self Transforming Elf Machines - YouTube] [“Machine Elves” or “DMT Elves”: A Spirit World Journey | DoubleBlind Mag] [Canadian lynched in Peru after being accused of shaman’s death | Peru | The Guardian] [All evidence shows B.C. man lynched in Peru had shot and killed Indigenous healer: prosecutor | CBC News] [Woodroffe remembered by neighbours as ‘spiritual, loving, kind and polite’ – Comox Valley Record] [Briton Unais Gomes killed by Canadian Joshua Andrew Freeman Stevens in Peru | Daily Mail Online] [The Canadian Man Who Killed a British Guy at an Ayahuasca Retreat in Peru Speaks Out] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 178: On the evening of January 29, 2017, a young man, armed with a pistol and a rifle concealed inside a guitar case, entered the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, a mosque in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood of the historic city. Just over 40 people were inside the mosque at the time. Just before 8:00 pm, the man entered the prayer hall and began firing and, within two minutes, had killed 6 and seriously injured 5 other worshippers. After the shootings, the killer walked out of the building, hopped into his car and drove off. Less than 20 minutes later, the perpetrator, a 27-year-old, Canadian-born student of anthropology and political science at Laval University, surrendered to police, admitting he was the shooter. The motive? Islamophobia. Sources: [CCIQ – Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec] R. c. Bissonnette, 2019 QCCS 354 (CanLII), Bissonnette c. R., 2020 QCCA 1585 (CanLII), [YouTube - Alexandre Bissonnette’s interrogation (en Français)] [YouTube - Alexandre Bissonnette’s FULL interrogation (en Français) 3 hour 8 minute] [YouTube - La déclaration des parents d’Alexandre Bissonnette] [Les parents d’Alexandre Bissonnette jugent sa peine très sévère | Radio-Canada.ca] [Alexandre Bissonnette’s parents speak out about their son | Global News] [Open Letter From Raymond Bissonnette | Murder | Criminal Justice] [‘I had to do something’: Mosque shooter said he acted to prevent terrorism | Montreal Gazette] [Remembering the Québec City mosque attack: Islamophobia and Canada’s national amnesia] [Court reduces sentence for Quebec City mosque attacker | Courts News | Al Jazeera] [Alexandre Bissonnette: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com] https://twitter.com/justintrudeau/status/825438460265762816?lang=en [Alexandre Bissonnette’s parents ask Prime Minister to stop calling their son a terrorist | CTV News] [Islamophobia.org] [Islamophobia: Understanding Anti-Muslim Sentiment in the West] [Islamophobia in Canada - Wikipedia] [Read Fear of a Muslim Planet Online by Arsalan Iftikhar | Books] [Cyber Racism and Community Resilience: Strategies For Combating Online Race Hate | Scribd] [Naming The Gunman Glorifies His Crimes, Not Naming Him Could Undermine The Truth : NPR Public Editor : NPR] [NO NOTORIETY]() [What is the government doing about Islamophobia in Canada? Here’s what we know - National | Globalnews.ca] [Pourquoi les peines consécutives font-elles débat? | Radio-Canada.ca] [Quebec City mosque shooting - Wikipedia] [London, Ontario truck attack - Wikipedia] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 177: On July 3, 1979, a pair of typical Montreal teenagers, Chantal Dupont, 15 and her friend, Maurice Marcil, 14, went missing as they walked home from a concert. Their loved ones had no idea what had happened to them. A week later they heard the news they dreaded. The bodies of Chantal and Maurice were discovered in different spots along the banks of the St. Lawrence River. The details of how the pair ended up in the water and the events leading up to their murders are horrifying. Sources: R. v. Guerin, 1984 CanLII 3533 (QC CA), R. c. Guérin, 1987 CanLII 1063 (QC CA), [PressReader.com - Normand Guérin et Gilles Pimparé] [PressReader.com - Bridge Murders Timeline] [Pillar 111 – The 1979 murders of Maurice Marcil and Chantal Dupont | WHO KILLED THERESA?] [The Bridge Murders – To Err is Human, to Forgive, Divine –   Crime Website] [La force du pardon | Michèle Ouimet | La Presse - Archived] [La Rage | Michèle Ouimet | La Presse - Archived] [L’innocence perdue | Michèle Ouimet | La Presse - Archived] [Le deuil | La Presse | Michèle Ouimet | La Presse] [Même après 38 ans, le meurtrier Gilles Pimparé restera en prison | Radio-Canada.ca] [Le Pardon (film) — Wikipédia] [Dossier de presse] [Dupont (Chantal) - La Mémoire du Québec] [La force du pardon - La Presse+] [Montreal killer asks for parole for the sixth time] [L’un des pires criminels du Québec veut sa liberté | TVA Nouvelles] [Pimparé «est encore dangereux», selon le frère d’une victime | TVA Nouvelles] [Dossier de presse - *Ces parents qui ont pardonné l’impardonnable*] [Coolopolis: The unspeakably horrific Jacques Cartier Bridge murders] [Le pont du suicide Jacques-Cartier - Blogue de Montréal hanté] [Le Pardon de Denis Boivin – Voyage à travers le Québec] [Ideomotor phenomenon - Wikipedia] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 176: On the night of November 13, 1974, In the sleepy community of Amityville on the coast of Long Island, New York, a 23-year-old man named Ronald (Butch) DeFeo Jr. came running into a local bar. He was distraught and claiming his whole family, his mother and father and 4 siblings, had been murdered in their home, a large Dutch Colonial house located at 112 Ocean Avenue. However, it was later determined it was Butch himself who’d annihilated his family. A year later, Butch was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder and received an equal number of sentences of 25 years to life in prison for slaughtering his family as they slept. A month after Butch DeFeo’s conviction, the Lutz family, Kathy, George and their three kids moved into the property having purchased it for a steal, $80,000. But, after only 28 days in the house, the Lutz family fled. They claimed they’d been chased out by relentless psychic torture inflicted on them by some unseen presence; they thought demonic, who’d made life in the house impossible. A 1977 book on the case by author Jay Anson titled The Amityville Horror, and subsequent film in 1979 introduced the story to an international audience and has become one of the most well-known, most covered and at the same time, controversial tales of hauntings and demonic possession in history. Sources: [The Amityville Horror Website: Hosted By George Lutz - ARCHIVED] [The Amityville Murders—The Story Behind the Haunted House and Murders - ARHIVED] [The Real Amityville Horror: The Tragic Murder of the Ronald De Feo Family - ARCHIVED] [The Amityville Files - America’s Most Famous Haunted House Controversy] [Ronald DeFeo: The Original 911 Call Transcripts of the Murders] [The Real ‘Amityville Horror’: Chilling Facts About the Crime and Haunted House - Biography] [Slain Family Drugged, Police on L:I..Report - The New York Times] [Ronald DeFeo - Murders, Movie & Family - Biography] [Reel or Real? The Truth Behind Two Hollywood Ghost Stories | Skeptical Inquirer] [Inside the ‘Amityville Horror’ house today, Long Island’s most notorious mansion - New York Post] [Morgan Knudsen - Entityseeker Paranormal Research & Teachings] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 175: Like any other region, Canada has its share of stories of fantastical creatures that may or may not exist. Dark Poutine has covered a few of them. In episode 25 we learned of Swift Runner, believed to be possessed by the cannibalistic spirit known as Wendigo, we talked about, Ogopogo, the giant serpent in Okanagan Lake in episode 113 and of course, in episode 131 we gave you a primer on Sasquatch aka Bigfoot in Western Canada and the USA. In this episode, you will learn about some of Canada’s lesser-known cryptids, The Loup-Garou, The Thunderbird, The Toronto Tunnel Monster and The Giant Spider Bat.  Source: [Loup-Garou | The Canadian Encyclopedia] [The Werewolf of Quebec City — CANADIANA] [Le loup-garou du Kamouraska (1766-1767) – Patrimoine, Histoire et Multimédia] [Les Loups-Garous du Québec – Werewolves of Quebec  | Julian Peters comics] [Thunderbird | New Cryptozoology Wiki | Fandom] [Thunderbird: a symbol of power, strength and nobility - Ecstatic Trance Postures] [Thunderbird- A Canadian Legend] [Toronto Tunnel Monster | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom] [The Toronto Tunnel Monster | Cryptozoology News Articles & Investigations] [Toronto Urban Legends: The Real Toronto Underground] [Strange Encounters with Bizarre Tunnel-Dwelling Monsters | Mysterious Universe] [A guide to the secret tunnels hidden beneath Toronto] [Little people (mythology) - Wikipedia] [What Lies Beneath: Toronto and The Tunnel Monster of Cabbagetown] [ParaResearchers Of Ontario - Toronto Tunnel Monster] [The Creepy Cabbagetown Monster Lurking in Toronto’s Underground] [Cryptids of Canada and Other Toronto Urban Legends We Bet You Didn’t Know About - Mary-am Suites] [C.H.U.D. (1984) - IMDb] [Myths & Monsters - DIBAAJIMOWIN] [memegwesi (na) | The Ojibwe People’s Dictionary] [Mysteries of Canada – Canada History and Mysteries] [Stranger Things: Four-in-Five Canadians believe] [Giant Canadian Spiderbat | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom] [North American House Hippo - YouTube] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 174 - Between 1974 and 1980, a group of three mask-wearing Canadian outlaws named Stephen Reid, Patrick (Paddy) Mitchell, and Lionel Wright, in well-planned, precisely timed and carefully executed heists, robbed at least 140 banks and armoured cars in Canada and the United States making off with a total of more than $15 million in cash, gold and other valuables. Sources: [The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang | The Atavist Magazine] [Stephen Reid fonds - Search Research Collections] [Inside Time by Jason Young - NFB] [Paddy Mitchell’s Blog - A blog behind bars] [Read This Bank Robber’s Life Online by Patrick Mitchell | Books - Scribd.com] [The Stopwatch Gang: notorious bank robber, celebrated author dies – RCI | English] [Lionel Wright | Today in Ottawa’s History] [Stephen Reid - ABC BookWorld] [Obituary: Stephen Reid - Ottawa Citizen] [Stephen Reid’s 10 toughest prisons in North America] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine