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Episode 045: On April 12, 2016 after skipping school, which was allegedly uncharacteristic, 16-year-old Mekayla Bali disappeared from Yorkton, Saskatchewan. She has not been seen, definitively, since. "Mekayla is described as a Caucasian female, approximately 5'2" tall and weighs approximately 114 lbs, with blonde hair and blue eyes. She is known to change her appearance: she has red-ish hair which can be dyed blonde or other colours and she wears her hair down, pulled back, straight or wavy. She sometimes wears dark rimmed (teal) glasses and a teal/mint coloured infinity scarf. When Mekayla was reported missing she was 16-years-old; she has since turned 17-years-old. Mekayla also goes by the name Mekayla NIEBERGALL." from SaskCrimestoppers Sources: RCMP Missing Mekayla BaliInterpol Mekayla BaliRCMP VideoRCMP Press Conference April 2016RCMP Press Conference July 2016Our Story: Mekayla Bali: Missing Since Apr 12, 2016GloblalTV: ‘I feel that I have failed you’: mother asks for help finding Mekayla BaliReddit: Unresolved Mysteries / Mekayla Bali CaseCalgary Possible SightingAmber Alert CriteriaDaughterProject.caBringMekaylaBaliHome.comNighttime Podcast - Where is Mekayla Bali?True Crime Talk - Missing Mekayla Bali - Facebook Group Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 044 - On January 11, 2011 people walking along the road spotted a headless, bare torso floating in Cold Water Creek off Landslide Road in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. The man was later identified as 29-year-old Wesley Hallam. Three local men, well knonw to police, were quickly apprehended and charged with first degree murder and causing  idignity to human remains. After over five years of hard fought investigation and lengthy criminal proceedings the case was 'resolved', but the ending horrified Wesley's family, friends and many residents of The Soo, even the police. Sources: Sources: http://canlii.ca/t/gt2v7http://canlii.ca/t/gn040http://canlii.ca/t/flt1rhttp://canlii.ca/t/fwsm6http://canlii.ca/t/g8k9shttps://youtu.be/d2kqgX2KjTY Steel Town Down - Vice and W5 documentary http://yourlifemoments.ca/sitepages/obituary.asp?oid=458790http://northernhoot.com/murder-wesley-hallam-getting-away-murder/http://northernhoot.com/release-looming-hallam-family-untold-truth/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvbU0Bl0i-0 Press Conference http://northernhoot.com/remembering-wesley-hallam-if-when-you-wake-up-in-the-morning/https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/details-of-wesley-hallams-death-emerge-as-three-sentenced-to-jail-346246https://globalnews.ca/news/2875716/ontario-mother-receives-sons-remains-more-than-five-years-after-his-killing/https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/mitchell-apologizes-mearow-and-jocko-dont-346489https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/eric-mearow-to-stand-trial-on-weapons-charges-1017453https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/anatomy-of-a-knife-fight-346637 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 043 - After over 6 years of apparent harassment and a number of, what appeared to be violent assaults, Cindy James, a 44-year old nurse, went missing in May of 1989. On June 8, 1989, two weeks later, Cindy's family's greatest fears were realized. She was found dead near an abandoned home in Richmond B.C., a suburb of Vancouver. She appeared to have been drugged and strangled, with her hands and feet tied behind her back. A medical inquest into the cause of Cindy's death was inconclusive, leaving this one of the most talked about unsolved cases in Canadian history. Sources: http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Cindy_Jameshttp://thetroublewithjustice.com/2014/07/05/who-killed-nurse-cindy-james/http://melaniehack.blogspot.ca/2007/02/imagine-my-surprise-when-i-recently.htmlhttp://callingfoundation.org/blenheim-lodge/http://melaniehack.com/https://www.vancourier.com/news/vancouver-s-creepiest-unsolved-mysteries-1.1261787https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/57463c/cindy_james_is_found_dead_in_1989_after_6_12/https://web.archive.org/web/20140831003619/http://allthingscrimeblog.com/2014/01/08/who-killed-nurse-cindy-james/https://youtu.be/ljymSSBqflU Inquest Reporting https://youtu.be/sbrAggQE2EA More reporting with Cindy Audio Father Audio, Ozzie Kaban https://youtu.be/KPZ-G5bFEek A Current Affair https://unsolved.com/gallery/cindy-james/http://vancouvertrueborns.com/post/150657118691/perhaps-the-most-disturbing-story-related-to-thehttps://www.google.ca/maps/@49.1555492,-123.1365998,3a,75y,270h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sdPhy_f0fpau1uXVElN_szg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DdPhy_f0fpau1uXVElN_szg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D353.5272%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 042 - The man the world came to know as Harry Houdini, stunt performer, illusionist, magician was obsessed with magic and illusion from an early age. That obsession and drive to be better led him to become the most famous person ever to have practiced the magical arts. There was a darker thing driving Harry too. He wanted to prove the existence of an after life. This not only led him to years of heartache after the deaths of his parents. Harry made many enemies of would be spiritualists as he debunked them. Some say this is what led to the events in a Montreal dressing room that eventually caused the Great Houdini's demise. Web: https://darkpoutine.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkpoutine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/darkpoutinepod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkpoutine/  Email and PayPal tip jar: darkpoutinepodcast@gmail.com Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Writer / Creator, Researcher, Editor & Host: Mike Browne (@mikebrowne) Original Music & Cohost: Scott Hemenway (@sdhpics) Sources:https://www.thegreatharryhoudini.com/https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdinihttps://ladailymirror.com/2015/06/01/harry-houdini-an-interview-by-marcet-haldeman-julius-october-1925/http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42723 The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin by Harry Houdini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisoned_with_the_Pharaohshttps://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2014/10/harry-houdinis-rare-magic-books/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/death-of-houdini/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r8qr-p9z5g straitjacket escape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQfWw1m1Qos The Greatest: Houdini (1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ9lNRAjTQM How Houdini Died https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItDbVyT85kw Discovery Channel - Houdini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onG-ktpHiDM How Did Houdini Actually Die? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D50yh3WV-OQ Harry Houdini's Voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IczEq22-rPU The Final Houdini Seance (Full Audio) https://www.amazon.ca/Secret-Life-Houdini-Americas-Superhero-ebook/dp/B000MGAU66/ Book: The Secret Life of Houdini https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=houdini#https://librivox.org/author/4549?primary_key=4549&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_resultshttps://archive.org/search.php?query=1920%27s&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22audio%22&page=2https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-bDUVAOt69erDtFOJ/The%20Original%20Houdini%20Murder%20Theory_djvu.txthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_Crandonhttp://www.houdinifile.com/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

In the summer of 2014 a five year old and his grandparents went missing. Foul play was suspected right away and rightly so.

In the summer of 1959 a family of 7 was found murdered in Stettler, AB. Who committed the crime was the most shocking of all.

On September 2, 1998, in one of Canada's worst air disasters, SwissAir flight 111 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean just off Peggy's Cove, NS.

The small town of Berwick, N.S. was horrified by the death of a local street person. The circumstances surrounding his death were even more horrendous..

Mike and Scott banter about MIke's recent trip and Mike chats with Jack Luna of Dark Topic

In early July, 2010, Lyle and Marie McCann, retirees, beloved grandparents and great-parents packed up their RV and SUV in St. Albert, Alberta to head west to BC and visit more family. They were never seen again.