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146
October 19, 2020
The Redpath Mansion Mystery
Episode 146: On June 13th 1901, Ada Mills Redpath and her son Jocelyn Clifford Redpath were killed in their mansion in on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal. Ada had been shot to the back of the head. Clifford has a gunshot wound to his the temple. The police were not called. A coroner’s inquest the next day declared the deaths a murder-suicide. Ada and Clifford were buried June 15th without any further investigation.
Written By: Josina De Bree
Sources:
https://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/redpath/home/indexen.html
https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/the-m-naghten-rule.html
https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/about-epilepsy-basics/what-epilepsy
https://www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/epilepsy-auras
https://www.cureepilepsy.org/for-patients/what-are-the-phases-of-seizures-of-epilepsy/
Denton A, Tellez-Zenteno JF. A patient with epilepsy charged with kidnapping, unlawful confinement, and assault causing bodily harm after seizures: Deficiencies in the legal system. Epilepsy Behav Rep. 2020;13:100361. Published 2020 Mar 21. doi:10.1016/j.ebr.2020.100361
Dougall, L. (2019) The Summit House Mystery; Or, The Earthly Purgatory. Good Press. Original work published 1905.
Reuber M, Mackay RD. Epileptic automatisms in the criminal courts: 13 cases tried in England and Wales between 1975 and 2001. Epilepsia. 2008 Jan;49(1):138-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01269.x. PMID: 17727668.
Shih JJ, LeslieMazwi T, Falcao G, Van Gerpen J. Directed aggressive behavior in frontal lobe epilepsy: video-EEG and ictal spect case study. Neurology. 2009;73(21):1804-1806. doi:10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181c2933f
Devinsky, Orrin. “Postictal psychosis: common, dangerous, and treatable.” Epilepsy currents vol. 8,2 (2008): 31-4. doi:10.1111/j.1535-7511.2008.00227.x
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145
October 12, 2020
Lust, Greed and Anger: The Slaying of Gang Yuan
Episode 145: This episode contains disturbing and graphic details of the 2015 murder of Chinese millionaire, Gang Yuan, in West Vancouver at the hands of his soft-spoken cousin Li Zhao. The crime’s unthinkable and twisted aftermath is horrendous.
Sources:
Pre-Trial Voire Dire
R. v Zhao, 2020 BCSC 1322 (CanLII),
BC v. Child 3, 2019 BCCA 171 (CanLII),
Mother 1 v Solus Trust , 2019 BCSC 200 (CanLII),
963 King Georges Way, West Vancouver | Dana Inman - 360hometours.ca
961 King Georges Way - Real Estate tour video (renumbered address)
961 King Georges Way - Realtor Listing
3333 The Crescent
Pym Island
NY Times Article
National Post Article 2014
HBICtv: Ultra Rich Asian Girls - Wikipedia
HBICtv: YouTube
GlobalNews - Conviction Article
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144
October 5, 2020
Perseverance, Prosecution & Peace: The Murder of Paula Gallant
Episode 144: On the evening of December 27, 2005, in my home province of Nova Scotia, Jason McCrae, husband of a beloved educator, artist, sister and mother named Paula Anne Gallant, reported her missing. Paula failed to return to her home in Timberlea after a shopping trip to nearby Halifax. The next day, Paula’s body was found locked in the trunk of her car in the parking lot of the school where she taught the third grade. The cause of Paula’s death was not immediately evident, nor was it apparent how she had come to be in the trunk of her vehicle.
Sources:
https://www.scribd.com/document/49878324/Statement-of-Facts-R-v-Jason-Wayne-MacRAE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Ann_Gallant
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304180629/http://paulagallant.com/
http://silentwitnessnovascotia.ca/paula-anne-gallant/
https://www.victimsweek.gc.ca/stories-experience/r3.html
https://caperfrasers.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/paula-gallant-murder-2/
https://canadianwomen.org/the-facts/gender-based-violence/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/macrae-strangled-wife-over-700-debt-1.1054417
https://haligonia.ca/regan-relieved-closure-coming-for-family-of-paula-gallant-34003/
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2010/08/18/husband_charged_five_years_after_wifes_murder.html
https://damianpenny.com/2011/03/03/justice-at-last-for-paula-gallant/
https://pictouadvocate.com/tag/paula-gallant/
https://globalnews.ca/news/70852/have-you-met-mr-big/
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/ca/special-reports/women-of-influence-2015/lana-kenny-48909.aspx
https://www.metro.us/macrae-sentenced-life-in-prison-no-parole-for-15-years/
https://dubyadubya.wordpress.com/tag/leslie-conrad/
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/halifax-ns/paul-kenny-9135535
https://www.capebretonpost.com/news/local/paula-gallants-husband-says-he-killed-her-in-argument-over-700-gambling-debt-4474/
http://thans.ca/paula-gallant-memorial-modified-art-therapy-project/
http://musingsbygina.blogspot.com/2007/08/not-so-merry-after-all.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20130701012300/http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ns/news-nouvelles/releases-communiques/Aug1810_133158-eng.htm
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143
September 28, 2020
No Justice for Rebecca Middleton
Episode 143: On the island paradise Bermuda in the early morning hours of July 3, 1996, a group of friends were riding in a car headed toward Ferry Reach Park, on the northeastern edge of the island. The vehicle’s occupants were startled when the car’s headlights illuminated a form lying in the middle of the dark and isolated road. They pulled the car over and got out to investigate. The group presumed at first it was an injured dog, but as they approached, they realized that this was a nearly naked and bloodied teenage girl. She was seventeen-year-old, Rebecca Middleton from Belleville, Ontario. Although alive when the strangers found her, Rebecca died from her injuries before authorities could get to her. Rebecca's story and aftermath have become the basis for one of the darkest moments in Bermuda's history.
Sources:
https://www.amazon.ca/Kill-Me-Once-Twice-Playground-ebook/dp/B07933SB3S/
https://web.archive.org/web/20060714193555/
http://rebeccamiddleton.org/index.html
https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/7662753-middleton-murder-accused-deported-from-bermuda/
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/06/29/rebecca-middleton-remembered-20-years-after-her-murder-in-bermuda.html
http://michellesaysso.blogspot.com/2007/05/forget-your-trip-to-bermuda.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/blair-s-wife-asks-bermudian-court-to-reopen-case-of-slain-canadian-1.668711
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Rebecca_Middleton
http://www.royalgazette.com/letters-to-the-editor/article/20180702/in-memory-of-rebecca
http://www.royalgazette.com/news/article/20160704/bermuda-remembers-rebecca-middleton
http://www.royalgazette.com/letters-to-the-editor/article/20171019/embarrassing-that-mundy-gets-executive-treatment
http://www.royalgazette.com/crime/article/20171013/mundy-returns-to-jamaica
http://www.royalgazette.com/letters-to-the-editor/article/20160704/spare-thought-rebecca-middleton
http://www.royalgazette.com/news/article/20160704/bermuda-remembers-rebecca-middleton
http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140409/COMMENT03/140409756
http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140915/NEWS/140919824
https://youtu.be/lVYhEdSaTEU ID Documentary
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142
September 21, 2020
The Murder of Grant De Patie
Episode 142: On a chilly, cloudy winter night in early 2005 at a gas station in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, a 24-year-old gas station attendant named Grant de Patie was brutally slain by a callous young man over just $12 and 30 cents worth of gas.
Sources:
R. v. Pratt, 2006 BCSC 1198 (CanLII),
R. v. Pratt, 2007 BCCA 206 (CanLII),
https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/driver-from-2005-vehicle-dragging-death-in-maple-ridge-dies/
https://globalnews.ca/news/5080921/grant-de-patie-killer-darnell-pratt-dies/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%27s_Law
https://globalnews.ca/news/5342451/bc-late-night-workers-grants-law/
https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/plaque-will-honour-grant-and-worker-safety/
https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/03/21/im-a-little-numb-killer-of-b-c-gas-station-attendant-grant-de-patie-dies/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/death-of-toddler-mauled-by-rottweilers-was-accidental-inquest-rules/article960766/
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141
September 14, 2020
Dangerous Offender: The Crimes of Jake Green (SK)
Episode 141 - In late June 1993, police were called to a possible stabbing at a residence in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. In one of the bedrooms, Kenneth John Ladubec, 46, lay dead in a massive pool of blood. His killer was Jacob Leroy Andrew Green, 16, the son of Kenneth's live-in girlfriend. Green was tried as a young offender and found guilty of manslaughter.
After Jake's release, all seemed relatively okay. Underneath his cool exterior simmered a rage that would surface again in 1999 when, after a breakup, Jake stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Lesli Yaremko and her parents, Sharon and Terry.
Sources:
https://moosejaw.ca/
Welcome To Moose Jaw - Canada's Most Notorious City
R. v. G. (J.L.), 1994 CanLII 4627 (SK CA),
R. v. J.L.A.G., 2002 SKQB 289 (CanLII),
https://app.vlex.com/#vid/681138249 Dangerous Offender Application
https://app.vlex.com/#vid/r-v-green-j-681449913 2004 Appeal
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/regina-leader-post/20100626/284223756774309
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/saskatoon-starphoenix/20100628/282789237698833
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_offender
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-753.html
http://criminalnotebook.ca/index.php/Requirements_for_a_Dangerous_Offender_Designation
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/hghrsk-ffndrs-hndb/index-en.aspx
https://www.defencegroup.ca/blog/crime/what-are-dangerous-offenders/
https://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/research/r125-eng.shtml
https://www.macleans.ca/canadas-most-dangerous-places-2020/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412652-moose-jaw-murders-and-other-deaths
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140
September 7, 2020
The 2018 Danforth Shooting
Episode 140: On July 22, 2018, at around 10:00 pm, calls flooded Toronto's 911 call centre. There was a man on Danforth shooting at people in the streets and in the restaurants and cafes in Greektown. After the 16-minute rampage, 13 people were wounded, 10-year-old Julianna Kozis and 18-year-old Reese Fallon had been killed and the gunman had completed suicide. Even after two intensive investigations, one question remains - Why?
Sources:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4347334/toronto-danforth-shooting-timeline-map/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Toronto_shooting
https://www.torontopolice.on.ca/publications/files/20190621-danforth_shootings_findings_of_investigation.pdf
https://www.siu.on.ca/en/directors_report_details.php?drid=165
https://globalnews.ca/news/5416470/toronto-police-danforth-shooting-investigation/
|https://globalnews.ca/news/4346833/danforth-shooting-what-we-know-about-suspect/
https://globalnews.ca/?s=danforth+shooting
https://globalnews.ca/tag/julianna-kozis/
https://globalnews.ca/?s=reese+fallonhttps://globalnews.ca/?s=faisal+hussain
https://canadiantruecrime.ca/news/2018/4/24/canadian-crime-podcast-event
https://www.arbormemorial.ca/highland-scarborough/obituaries/reese-fallon/21923
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel
https://youtu.be/xmiM91Elbn8
https://youtu.be/4mMgJML1pbY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1igcEIdikZw
https://twitter.com/stilez/status/1021242759401779201?lang=en Trigger Warning: Shooting Video
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138
August 31, 2020
The Marpole Murders: Dianna Mah-Jones and Richard Jones
Episode 139: On September 27, 2017, when Dianna Mah-Jones failed to show up for her shift without calling in sick, her co-workers were concerned. Neither Dianna nor her husband, Richard Jones, was answering the phone. One of Dianna's colleagues went to the couple's home in Vancouver's Marpole neighbourhood and discovered what appeared to be a bloody crime scene. Dianna and Richard lay dead inside the house, brutally murdered.
After a complex and intense investigation police had their suspect. He was an odd man, with an odder name and an ever more odd explanation for what he had done.
Sources:
R. v Kam, 2020 BCSC 893 (CanLII),
Complete Vancouver police interrogation of Rocky Rambo Wei Nam Kam | Vancouver Sun
2017 Health Care Hero Vancouver Coastal: Dianna Mah Jones - BC Health Care Awards Thrill Killing
UBC Memoriam
Global News - Marpole Murders
Crime Scene Evidence Photos
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138
August 24, 2020
The 1973 Kenora Bank Robbery Mystery (ON)
Episode 138 - On the afternoon of May 10, 1973, a stranger entered the CIBC branch on Main St in the small town of Kenora, Ontario. The man, claiming he had a bomb, demanded all the money in the bank. (Photo credit: Don Dutton, Toronto Star)
Sources:
CJRL Covers the Kenora Bank Robbery 10 May 1973
Devil's Gap by Joe Ralko
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Paul_Higgins
https://www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/missing-disparus/case-dossier.jsf?case=2016065871&id=10
https://www.thestar.com/photos/toronto_star_photo_blog/2017/05/remembering-don-dutton-through-his-photos.html
https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/1067788 (gore warning)
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_Criminal_Sentencing/Cases/Robbery#Bank_robbery
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/bank-crime-statistics-2018.pdf/view
https://www.trentu.ca/indigenous/welcome/about-chanie-wenjack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Canadian_Imperial_Bank_of_Commerce_bank_robbery
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137
August 17, 2020
The Hillcrest Mining Disaster
Episode 137 - At 9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 19, 1914, the worst coal mining disaster in Canadian history occurred at Hillcrest, Alberta, in the Crowsnest Pass region of western Canada.
Episode written by Josina de Bree
Sources:
Anderson, Frank. “Hillcrest Mine Disaster” (Triumph and Tragedy in the Crowsnest Pass. Diana Wilson, Heritage House Publishing, Surrey, BC, 2005)
www.crowsnest.bc.ca
www.crowsnest-highway.ca
www.hillcrestminedisaster.com
Archival Holding PR0740. Provincial Archives of Alberta. https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/Details.aspx?ObjectID=PR0740&dv=True&deptID=1
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war/canada/Canada3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_(Handel)
http://www.indsci.com/the-monitor-blog/carbon-monoxide-carbon-dioxide/
https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/hw193731
https://alchetron.com/Hillcrest-mine-disaster
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2466176980
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