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29: The Disappearance of Nicole Morin (ON)

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Episode 029: On July 30 of 1985, Nicole Morin, a vivacious 8-year-old girl vanished from her Etobicoke apartment building without a trace. This case is still unsolved. We talk about this unsolved case and a few others from the Toronto area around the same time that may or may not be connected. #FindNicole #NicoleMorin

If you have any information on Nicole Morin’s whereabouts, please contact:

 

Toronto Metropolitan Police Department 
416-808-2200 
OR The Royal Canadian Mounted Police 877-318-3576.  


 

All information may be submitted anonymously.
NCMEC #: RCMP8608792 
NCIC Number:  
M-974508409  


 

Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

 

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Writer / Creator, Researcher, Editor & Host: Mike Browne (@mikebrowne)
Original Music & Cohost: Scott Hemenway (@sdhpics)

Promo: 

Wining About Crime
Nordic True Crime

Sources:

https://globalnews.ca/video/2140896/nicole-morins-father-talks-daughters-disappearance  Art Morin talking on the 30th anniversary of Nicole’s disappearance 
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2547733276  CBC Police search near Barrie in 2014 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Alison_Parrott   
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/29ui8l/the_disappearance_of_nicole_morin/  
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1432545265  Murder of Sharin Morningstar Keenan 
https://www.missingkids.ca/  
http://missingchildren.wikia.com/wiki/Nicole_Louise_Morin  
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/41dfon.html  
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/wanted/dennis-melvin-howe  
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/canada-sharin-morningstar-keenan-9-toronto-23-january-1983.14192/  
https://globalnews.ca/news/3359324/sharin-morningstar-keenan-1983-murder/  

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28: Happy Face Killer – Part 2 – 7 More Murders and Aftermath (BC)

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Episode 028: In part 2 of 2 on the Happy Face Killer, Canadian born serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, we learn about 7 more murders of women across the United States, more Happy Face notes and about his Jesperson’s eventual capture, trial and his psychopathic public antics in the press and online. NOTE: Scott hates this guy passionately.

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Promo:

 

All Crime No Cattle

Sources:
http://murderpedia.org/male.J/j/jesperson.htm
http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Keith_Hunter_Jesperson
https://www.amazon.ca/Shattered-Silence-Untold-Killers-Daughter/dp/1599552388 
https://www.amazon.ca/Happy-Face-Murderer-Serial-Jesperson-ebook/dp/B019G6DR0S/
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/happy-face-killer-speaks-prison-talks-interview-murder-murderer-killings-take-lives-Jesperson-11441251
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29835159
https://www.truckdrivingjobs.com/faq/keith-hunter-jesperson-the-happy-face-murderer-on-the-road.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibL_QbQuEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98UOydYWWjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rInxdPCWSIo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Hunter_Jesperson
https://web.archive.org/web/20090831063452/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/jesperson/bodies_3.html
http://snapjudgment.org/my-fathers-keeper
https://web.ar

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27: Happy Face Killer – Part 1 – History & Taunja Bennett’s Murder (BC)

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Episode 027: Keith Hunter Jesperson is one of Canada’s most notorious exports to the United States. Born in Chilliwack British Columbia, Jesperson and his family emigrated to the US when he was a pre-teen. Early on he showed signs that have become signposts of the budding psychopath, cruelty to animals and a love of setting fires. Keith’s first kill was Taunja Bennett, 23, of Portland, Oregon. Another couple was convicted for the crime, but Jesperson’s ego wouldn’t let someone else take all the credit for his hard work, leading him to leave the first Happy Face note in a truck stop bathroom admitting to the crime. This episode covers his early life, first murder and another attempted murder very soon after.

 

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Promo:

 

Asian Madness Podcast

Sources:
http://murderpedia.org/male.J/j/jesperson.htm
http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Keith_Hunter_Jesperson
https://www.amazon.ca/Happy-Face-Murderer-Serial-Jesperson-ebook/dp/B019G6DR0S/
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/happy-face-killer-speaks-prison-talks-interview-murder-murderer-killings-take-lives-Jesperson-11441251
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29835159
https://www.truckdrivingjobs.com/faq/keith-hunter-jesperson-the-happy-face-murderer-on-the-road.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibL_QbQuEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98UOydYWWjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rInxdPCWSIo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Hunter_Jesperson
https://web.archive.org/web/20090831063452/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/jesperson/bodies_3.html
http://snapjudgment.org/my-fathers-keeper

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26: The Murder of Kimberly Proctor (BC)

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Episode 026: Kimberly Proctor was an animal loving grade 12 student from Langford, BC, just outside the provincial capital of Victoria. She was looking forward to seeing her graduation photos and sewing her prom dress with her grandmother. Kimberly did not arrive at her babysitting job on March 18, of 2010. Her parents were worried and began searching for her right away. This was out of character for Kimberly. They knew something was wrong. Just a short drive away, on the evening of the next day, a badly burned body was found on a walking trail under a bridge. Kimberly’s friends and family feared the worst, and rightly so. The body under the bridge turned out to be that of Kimberly Proctor. She had been brutally murdered. 

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Promos:

 

https://mensreapod.com/

 

https://killaforniadreaming.com/

 

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbxOBJKsySs (killer plan over text)
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/woman-s-charred-remains-found-on-vancouver-island-1.494298
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYOMKFIqjZY (colloid homicide inv continues)
http://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/intervention-may-have-altered-fate-of-teen-killers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMoHp4sJKn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdjt3IjTRcI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvrV7f6fAqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_5DX8xpg5I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEHGgodCx5M
http://kimberlyslaw.com/

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25: Swift Runner and the Wendigo (AB)

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Episode 025: Swift Runner was a well respected Cree hunter and trapper outside Edmonton in the 1800’s. In the 1870’s his family, as were many others, began to go hungry. Swift Runner turned to alcohol to drown his frustrations and his personality quickly changed. He also began speaking of encountering Wendigo, an evil cannibalistic spirit, taunting him. Swift Runner’s eventual crimes were shocking to all. BONUS: Rick Gibson eats a tesitcle or two.

 

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Sources:

https://www.glenbow.org/index.cfm
http://www.murderpedia.org/male.R/r/runner-swift.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Fiddler
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?BioId=41285
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Mounted_Police
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Saskatchewan
http://www.sicc.sk.ca/archive/heritage/ethnography/cree/origin/oral.html
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/cree/
http://www.prairieghosts.com/wendigo.html
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/mn-wendigo/
https://www.amazon.ca/Swift-Runner-Colin-Argyle-Thomson/dp/0920490409
https://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-Mysteries-Unexplained-Investigations-disturbing-ebook/dp/B005E07FNG/
https://www.amazon.ca/Wetiko-Legal-Principles-Anishinabek-Victimization-ebook/dp/B07B685Y4W/

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24: Rene Castellani – The Milkshake Murderer (BC)

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Episode 024: In 1965 Rene Castellani was the promotional manager for Vancouver’s premiere radio station CKNW. Castellani, a local celebrity, was well known for his on air pranks and stunts, earning him the nickname, “the dizzy dialer”. Castellani was also having an affair with a receptionist from the radio station. When his wife Esther challenged him Castellani denied the affair. Shortly after that Esther became very sick and doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with her. In July of 1965, Esther was dead.

 

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Sources:

https://www.amazon.ca/Dead-Ends-B-C-Crime-Stories/dp/0889773483/ Paul Willcocks Dead Ends : BC Crime Stories 

https://www.amazon.ca/Irrefutable-Evidence-History-Forensic-Science-ebook/dp/B009D173F2/ Irrefutable Evidence, A History of Forensic Science – Michael Kurland 

http://evelazarus.com/the-sensational-murder-of-esther-castellani/ 

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/radio-star-kills-wife-aresenic-laced-milkshakes-article-1.2249428 

http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/radio/cknw-am 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKNW 

http://www.pressreader.com/canada/vancouver-sun/20141004/281505044452227 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic 

https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/4976/index.do 

http://canlii.ca/t/1xd5m 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BowMac_sign 

https://www.straight.com/life/1051491/homeless-vancouver-bowmac-sign-faces-demolition-when-west-broadway-toys-r-us-shuts-down 

https://www.whitespot.ca/ 

 

 

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23: Elizabeth Wettlaufer’s Insulin Murders (ON)

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Episode 023: Between 2007 and 2016 RN Elizabeth Wettlaufer coldly murdered 8 elderly patients in her care at a number of long term care facilities in Ontario. She injected each of them with massive overdoses of insulin to commit the crimes, saying she believed God was telling her it was their time to die. Wettlaufer got away with the murders until her conscience got the better of her and she confessed to police in 2016.

 

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Sources: 

https://www.hrc.org/resources/the-lies-and-dangers-of-reparative-therapy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Wettlaufer

http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/sh/TBk79oWhpi/elizabeth-wettlaufer-nurse-senior-deaths/ 

https://www.equaldex.com/region/canada 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/an-in-depth-look-at-the-alleged-victims-of-an-ontario-nurse-1.3130605 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3QxsNCg6uQ (Confession) 

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/elizabeth-wettlaufer-case/  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6tRNs5hHFs (News with Family Reaction) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtpcDkvHneE (Fifth Estate Documentary) 

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22: The Calgary Brentwood 5 Murders (AB)

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Episode 022: On the morning of April 15, 2014, what was supposed to be a party to end a stressful winter semester at the University of Calgary wound up being the worst mass murder in the city’s history. In all, 5 young people were literally cut down, just as their lives were about to truly begin. The story behind the murders at the hands of, Matthew de Grood, the son of a respected Calgary Police Officer is an epic tragedy. BONUS: Mike’s mouth is full of marbles.

 

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Original Music & Cohost: Scott Hemenway (@sdhpics)

Shout out: Minds of Madness podcast

Sources: 

http://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/grood-matthew-de.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Calgary_stabbing
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/bmwd8w/my-friend-killed-five-people-in-my-home-but-i-wont-call-him-a-monster
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/bn3gg4/alberta-man-who-stabbed-five-students-to-death-at-a-house-party-thought-he-was-killing-werewolves
https://globalnews.ca/news/3343780/model-patient-matthew-de-grood-to-seek-reintegration-into-society-despite-concerns/
https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/bsd
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/matthew-de-grood-murder-trial-decision-1.3598671
https://globalnews.ca/video/2721520/father-of-matthew-de-grood-speaks-at-conclusion-of-trial
http://canlii.ca/t/grtgw

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21: The Frank, Hope and Meager Landslides (BC)

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Episode 021: Over a span of just over 100 years, western Canada played host to the 3 largest landslides that have been measured in modern times. Frank Slide in 1903 was named for the Alberta town that saw a sixth of it’s population buried under rock and debris from Turtle Mountain in the Crowsnest Pass between BC and Alberta, the Hope Slide just beyond Hope BC and finally, the Meager Slide, that occurred outside of Lillooet, BC. BONUS: Shitty seagulls.

 

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Sources:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Slide 

 

http://history.alberta.ca/frankslide/ 

 

http://www.crowsnest-highway.ca/index.htm 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Slide 

 

http://www.archivos.ca/?p=130 

 

https://www.hopestandard.com/home2/hope-in-history-the-hope-slide/ 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjXgVRLmMZ0 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aigd-_En5z0 

 

https://opentextbc.ca/geography/chapter/9-6-case-studies/ 

 

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lone-survivor-of-1966-crash-returns-to-killer-mountain/article1097966/  

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Meager 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Mount_Meager_landslide 

 

http://www.whistlerquestion.com/news/pemberton/meager-slide-one-year-later-1.1281960 

 

https://thetyee.ca/News/2010/08/12/MeagerLandslide/ 

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dbsteers/sets/72157624700543708 

 

 

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20: The Disappearance of Kimberly McAndrew (NS)

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Episode 020: On a warm August evening in 1989 19-year-old Kimberly McAndrew got off work early from her work at the Canadian Tire store at Quinpool Road in Halifax. She was never seen again and her family and police are still searching for clues in her disappearance. They even turned to a psychic investigator at one point and we share some audio from three of those sessions as well as our own speculations and connections.

 

    • If you have information on this case, please contact any of the following: 

 

    • Halifax Regional Police: 902-490-5333

 

    • Reference Case#: 2006-99031 

 

 

    • Crime Stoppers provides anonymous tipping 

 

 

    • Nova Scotia is still offering up to $150,000 as a reward for any information that leads to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for McAndrew’s disappearance. 

 

PROMO: Killafornia Dreaming

 

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Writer / Creator, Researcher, Editor & Host: Mike Browne (@mikebrowne)
Original Music & Cohost: Scott Hemenway (@sdhpics)

 

Sources:

 

http://www.deadmalls.com/malls/penhorn_mall.html 

 

http://www.gpposner.com/Renier-Kimberly.html (Psychic Recordings) 

 

https://thecellardoor.net/2016/02/05/did-a-serial-killer-stalk-the-streets-of-halifax-in-the-early-90s/ 

 

http://canlii.ca/t/1wfcq 

 

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/filled-with-emotions-after-search-in-shad-bay-n-s-1.1197684 

 

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1228725-kimberly-mcandrew-s-family-still-looking-for-answers-25-years-later 

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/kimberly-mcandrew-case

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