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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 154 - Twenty-three year old Gordon Adrian Kralt had been the caretaker for a Bible camp on Vancouver Island when he went missing on Halloween in 1970. Gordon was found two weeks later, he had been brutally slain. Tracking down Gordie’s killer uncovered a career psychopath who was believed to have killed before. Co-host: Carol Browne Written by: Josina De Bree Sources: Regina v. Stewart, 1972 CanLII 1445 (BC CA), Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 130 - On March 29, 1975, pretty and popular, 16-year-old Sharron Prior left her home in the Montreal, QC, neighbourhood where she lived with her mom and siblings. She was off to a pizza joint only 5 short blocks away. Sharron was found days later, raped and murdered in another neighbourhood across the river. Her murder has never been solved. Her mom, Yvonne, still holds hope that one day she will see Sharron's killer brought to justice. Sources & Further Reading http://www.sharronprior.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/4790700762/ http://www.truecrimediary.com/index.cfm?page=cases&id=49 https://defrostingcoldcases.com/the-point-st-charles-nightmare-the-1975-murder-of-sharron-prior/ http://sharronprior.blogspot.com/ https://www.crave.ca/en/tv-shows/sur-les-traces-dun-tueur-en-serie Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 125 - On cold December night just before Christmas in 1974, the 14-year-old son of Moncton, NB restauranteur, Cy Stein was kidnapped from the family home by two masked gunman. By just before 5:00am the kidnapping came to and end, but two city of Moncton police officers had then gone missing. Their fate would not be known for two more days, and the outcome was not positive. Sources: Regina v. Hutchison, 1975 CanLII 1280 (NB CA) Ambrose v. The Queen, 1976 CanLII 201 (SCC), [1977] 2 SCR 717 More sources and further reading at darkpoutine.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Hamilton was shocked by the murders of a woman and her children in 1976. Respected City hall employee, Jon George Rallo, the father of the two children and husband of the murdered woman was responsible.

A look at one of Canada's most famous cases of wrongful conviction.

After going missing for three days shoeshine boy Emanuel Jaques body was found in early Auguts 1977. What happened to him shook Toronto to its core.

On Spetember 5, 1970, Dale Merle Nelson snapped killing 8 Creston BC residents then lead cops on a tense 48 hour manhunt.

This episode covers the life and crimes of Canadian pyschopath, Peter Demeter.