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Episode 191: On the evening of July 30, 2008, Tim McLean, a 22-year-old Canadian carnival barker was returning home to Winnipeg riding a Greyhound bus when he was viciously stabbed, beheaded, and cannibalized by another passenger about 18 km west of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. After arriving on scene, RCMP watched for hours as the perpetrator, Vince Li, 40, desecrated Tim’s body inside the bus after the driver and remaining passengers had fled, powerless to stop the man’s frenzy. Less than a year later, Vince Li was found not criminally responsible (NCR) for Tim McLean’s slaying, but held in a Manitoba psychiatric institution from which he was released just 6 years later.Sources:Cold Facts of the Case – Tim’s LawYouTube — R.I.P Tim McLean - July 30, 2008 Greyhound Bus TragedyYouTube — TIMOTHY MCLEAN KILLING (CAROL DE DELLEY INTERVIEW) AFTERMATH OF MURDER: SURVIVOR STORIESJustice served with the absolute discharge of Vince Li – The ManitobanBOOK: Shrunk — Crime and Disorders of the Mind by LoreProceed with Extreme Caution: The Not Criminally Responsible Defence | CanLIIVincent Li found not criminally responsible for murder - Winnipeg Free PressDocumentCloud — Manitoba Criminal Code Review Board decisionTimeline of decisions in the case of Vince Li - Winnipeg | Globalnews.caVince Li Archives - Dying WordsYouTube — Vince Li — “Please, kill me.”YouTube — The Fifth Estate — Bus 1170 : Vince Li and the Greyhound Bus Murder (2011)Killing of Tim McLean - WikipediaVince Li | News, Videos & Articles | Globalnews.caLooking back at the Greyhound bus beheading a decade down the road | Globalnews.caNot Criminally Responsible Reform Act (backgrounder) — Canada News CentreNot Criminally Responsible Reform Acthttp://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/16395/etd9553_TMiller.pdfTalk:Killing of Tim McLean - WikipediaHow to Be a Juggalo: 12 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow FunA Conversation With Vince Li - Steinbachonline.comVince Li, man who beheaded Greyhound bus passenger, seeks absolute discharge | CBC NewsR.I.P Tim McLean — Facebook GroupMCLEAN TIMOTHY - Obituaries - Winnipeg Free Press PassagesTimeline to the Greyhound bus killing | CBC NewsVince Weiguang Li | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderersSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 190: Old Mike Todor’s body was found in his east end Regina home in the spring of 1955. He’d lain there for more than 14 months and had been beaten to death. Someone had killed him, but who? Elizabeth “Tootsie” LaFleche, Mike’s 30-something-year-old wife, who’d been living with a friend for months, was telling a lot of stories about what had become of Mike. None of the tales made a lot of sense. After police found Mike’s body, a number of arrests were made, charges were laid and several trials held, but thanks to Tootsie’s lies, the real facts of the case may never be known.Sources:R. v. Dyck, 1956 CanLII 197 (SK CA), BOOK — Trail of blood: A Canadian Murder Odyssey by Frank JonesHistory of the Death Penalty in CanadaSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 189: Starting in 1963 and stretching over the next seven years, a militant French separatist group called the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorized La Belle Province. Their aim was to overthrow the Quebec government and leave Canada creating an independent Marxist- Leninist Quebec state. By 1970 the group had committed more than 200 violent criminal and terroristic acts including, bombings and high profile kidnappings. The group’s activities ultimately claimed the lives of eight people, including a Quebec provincial cabinet minister, and injured many more, before then Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, finding himself out of options, enacted the 1914 War Measures act to stem the violence of the October Crisis of 1970.Sources:Timeline of the Front de libération du Québec - WikipediaCBC Archives — What is the FLQ?Web Archive | McGill.ca — October Crisis 1970October Crisis - Canada’s Human Rights HistoryFLQ (FRONT DE LIBERATION DU QUEBEC) - SEVEN YEARS OF TERRORISM | Office of Justice ProgramsThe Making of the October Crisis: Canada’s Long Nightmare of Terrorism at the Hands of the FLQ by D’Arcy JenishRead Hostages Online by Gordon Kerr | BooksRead Terror Threat Online by Dwight Hamilton and Kostas Rimsa | BooksRead The Night Canada Stood Still Online by Robert Wright | BooksRead Trudeaumania Online by Robert Wright | BooksRead October Crisis: 50 Years After A Bloody Spasm That Nearly Tore Canada ApartDEMOCRACY VERSUS TERRORISM: FLQ TERRORISM IN QUEBEC, A CASE STUDY on JSTORThe Terrorist Activities of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) - The Beginning of a New EraPierre Vallières (1937-1998) - The Beginning of a New EraFront de libération du Québec (FLQ) | The Canadian EncyclopediaTHE FLQ: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION by Lorne WestonThe FLQ Crisis – VALOUR CANADASummary · Task Force on Kidnapping: The Department of External Affairs’ Files on the October Crisis · Canada Declassified« Front de libération du Québec (FLQ)» : tous nos articles | Le DevoirPierre Laporte - WikipediaJames Cross - WikipediaFrançois Schirm — WikipédiaEdmond Guénette — WikipédiaCommission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted PoliceRoyal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP - WikipediaOctober Crisis: Who was Pierre Laporte, really? | Montreal GazetteLa police connaissait les ravisseurs de Cross et Laporte | Radio-Canada.caGlobal News — Search: FLQCanada - The Trudeau years, 1968–84 | BritannicaRegina v. Vallieres, 1969 CanLII 1000 (QC CA), Regina v. Vallieres, 1973 CanLII 1418 (QC CA), R. v. Cossette-Trudel, 1979 CanLII 2876 (QC CQ), The Quiet RevolutionChronology of the October Crisis, 1970, and its Aftermath - Quebec HistoryMessage of the FLQ to the Nation 1963YouTube — Trudeau: Just watch meJust watch me - WikipediaSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 188: In early October of 1994, during a bizarre, nearly simultaneous sequence of murder / suicides, in Quebec, and across the Atlantic in Switzerland, 53 members of the Order of the Solar Temple were found dead in burned out buildings. The deaths fulfilled what the cult’s leaders claimed was the group’s “final transit” or return to Unity with God required before the impending end of the world. Even though it appeared to be over, more cult members were yet to die. Over a year later, in December of 1995, sixteen members of the cult died in France. More than a year after that, in march 1997, another five cult members died in Quebec bringing the death toll to 74. The cult’s two founders, Luc Jouret and Joseph Di Mambro, were among the dead in 1994, however, some fear there may be future related mass murder / suicides by followers still practicing in secret.Sources:Cult Education Institute :: The Order of the Solar TempleOrder of the Solar Temple - Wikipedia12 Disturbing Secrets Of The Order Of The Solar Temple CultThe Cult of the Sun and the Cult of the Dead in Egypt on JSTORRead Doomsday Cults: The Devil’s Hostages Online by Alan R. Warren | BooksRead Killer Cults Online by Stephen Singular | BooksRead Cults that Kill Online by Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar | BooksRead Rampage Online by Lee Mellor | BooksGlass: Akhnaten - Album by Philip Glass, Dennis Russell Davies | Spotify“Our terrestrial journey is coming to an end”: the last voyage of the Solar Temple(PDF) The Magic of Death: The Suicides of the Solar Temple | Massimo Introvigne - Academia.eduCBC Archives — The madness begins for the Solar Temple cultCBC Archives — Solar Temple cult leader Joseph Di Mambro confirmed deadMichel Tabachnik - WikipediaSwiss conductor acquitted of sect killings - SWI swissinfo.chJoseph Di Mambro | Article about Joseph Di Mambro by The Free DictionaryHistory Canada: October 4,1994: An international cult tragedy begins – RCI | EnglishCult Intervention :: Cult Education InstituteHomeopathy | HealthLink BChttps://infosect.freeshell.org/infocult/phenomene/English/HTML/doc0008.htm Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 187: Between 1974 and 1976, a series of rapes and murders took place in and around the small town of Strathroy, in South Western Ontario, perpetrated by Christian Herbert Harold Magee. He sexually assaulted and murdered 3 women, and raped two others.Written by: Mathew StocktonSources:R. v. Magee, 1997 CanLII 2431 (ON CA), Mental Health Centre, Penetanguishene v. Magee, 2006 CanLII 16077 (ON CA), https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/118607/carried-away-by-alice-munro/9780307264862/excerpthttps://www.upi.com/Top_News/2006/01/16/Mad-Slasher-wants-to-apologize/19681137468884/?ur3=1https://truecrimerealtimepod.com/2020/05/26/28-londons-sordid-past-part-3-the-mad-slasher/https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=42563797&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjQ2NDAxNDg5MywiaWF0IjoxNjI1MjU1MzU3LCJleHAiOjE2MjUzNDE3NTd9.S7hmiBoeW8POhTzffvN8NTXF4vCsSSuHGQO5sEZ5xXMhttps://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/magee-christian.htmhttp://coldcase.lailafarrell.com/index.php/category/murderer/https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20051006/281608120825417Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 186: Twenty years ago, on the morning of September 11, 2001, as the world watched in horror, 19 radical Islamist al-Qaeda terrorists launched a group of coordinated attacks using four commuter planes as weapons, hitting several preplanned targets in the eastern United States. Two of the airliners were flown deliberately into each of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane smashed into the U.S. Pentagon. A fourth plane believed to have been bound for the U.S. Capitol building crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers aboard the flight fought back against the terrorists who’d taken over the flight.Among the 2977 people who died as a direct result of the attacks, 24 of those were Canadian. As with many other countries, Canada stepped up to help in the immediate aftermath. What follows are details of the initial attacks and then some of the stories from that day and its aftermath.Sources and Further Reading:National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United StatesNot a drill – Canada’s air force on 9/11 | Globalnews.caOperation Support - WikipediaOperation Yellow Ribbon - WikipediaCasualties of the September 11 attacks - WikipediaPublic Safety Canada — Remembering September 11thThe Government of Canada’s response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11CANADA AND 9/11: BORDER SECURITY IN A NEW ERATHE VIEWS OF CANADIAN SCHOLARS ON THE IMPACT OF THE ANTI-TERRORISM ACTThe Cost of 9/11The Day Canadians Opened Their Homes To AmericansThe Anti-Terrorism Act and Security Measures in Canada: Public Views, Impacts and Travel ExperiencesHalifax airport employee remembers ‘grateful’ passengers and crew stranded on 9/11 | Globalnews.caNew York thanks Gander, NL for help on 9/11 with piece of World Trade Center | Globalnews.ca9/11 Canadian victims | Globalnews.caBrian Williams Memory September 11: Why Our Memory May Change | TimeRCMP officer kept stranded air passengers safe on 9/11 | Royal Canadian Mounted PoliceFront row for history: Doc reveals fates of the ‘9/11 Kids’ at school with George W. Bush | Globalnews.ca9/11 and Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia‘Global National’ celebrates 20 years in TV special: ‘Disruption: 20 Years of Global National’ - National | Globalnews.caCan Watching Media Cause Symptoms of Trauma or PTSD? — Counselling & Therapy Services - The Juniper CenterSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 185: RCMP officers arrived at the Blackman family residence on Spuraway Avenue in Coquitlam, B.C.’s Ranch Park subdivision in the early morning hours of January 18th, 1983. A neighbour had called 911after hearing screams and then witnessing what appeared to be a domestic argument next door that escalated into a shooting. Inside the eerily silent home as the cold winter rain fell, the responding officers found a horrific and bloody scene; six members of the Blackman family were dead.The deceased were Richard Blackman, 50, his wife, Irene Blackman, 49, their daughter, Roberta Lynn Davies, 28, Roberta’s husband, John Iowerth Davies, 39, Karen Dale Rhodes, 25, another of the Blackman’s daughters, and the youngest of the Blackman children, 16-year-old son, Rick Blackman. Just outside the home, police had detained a young man, 22-year-old, Bruce Alfred Blackman, another of Irene and Richard’s sons. Bruce, who’d been picked up as police arrived, was acting bizarrely, telling the RCMP officers that he was the Antichrist and that the world was going to end on January 31.Sources:Blackman v. British Columbia (Review Board), 1995 CanLII 3437 (BC CA), Blackman v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 1993 CanLII 2620 (BC CA), British Columbia Review Board - Decision on Bruce Alfred Blackmanhttps://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/arc_oic/0332_1983https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/arc_oic/1122_1991Violence and Schizophrenia by Heidi J. Wehring and William T. CarpenterCorrelates of Future Violence in People Being Treated for Schizophrenia | American Journal of PsychiatrySchizophrenia: Warning Signs of Violence | HealthLink BCA Voice out of Nowhere eBook : Booth, Janice Holly: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreBruce Alfred Blackman | Amok Wiki | FandomPolice layed six charges of first-degree murder Tuesday against… - UPI ArchivesAuthor Janice Holly Booth — Book: A Voice out of NowhereLittle Known Details Behind Mass Murder Case Revealed in New Book, A Voice out of NowhereSomeone I love has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. How can I help? | Here to HelpSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 184: In Mississauga, Ontario in 1973 and early 1974, the discoveries of the murdered bodies of two young women, Constance Dickey, 19, and Neda Novak, 18, only months apart, left the community shaken. Both women, it appeared, had been abducted, sexually assaulted, then murdered and dumped by a yet unknown killer. On August 19, 1974, after being sexually assaulted and left for dead, a sixteen-year-old girl, Julia Sheldon, identified a twenty-four-year-old, married father of two named Henry Robert Williams as the man who’d brutally assaulted her. It soon became clear that Williams had also committed the two previous murders. Sources: Read Cold North Killers Online by Lee Mellor | Books Henry Robert Williams | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers “The Chemical Castration of Recidivist Sex Offenders in Canada: A Matte” by Matthew R. Kutcher The Castration Alternative | Canadian Journal of Criminology and Corrections Federal Probation - Google Play The Medium — Sept. 11th marks 30th anniversary of UTM’s only murder by Adrian Barek Police still looking for Oakville woman’s killer nearly 45 years later | Toronto.com The dark echoes of Adele Komorowski’s murder linger 45 years later | TheSpec.com 5 Worst Crimes Committed in Mississauga | insauga.com “It’s insanity” to free serial killer who assaulted girl in prison: Ex-detective – Cancrime Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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