Latest Episodes

Episode 156 - In 2006, Thomas George Svekla, 38, a man who’d been in and out of trouble since 16, became the focus of a murder investigation lead by the Project KARE task force. Svekla was a suspect in as many as twelve murders. He was only ever charged with two slayings, that of Theresa Innes and Rachel Quinney, but was designated a dangerous offender for his long history of violent offences. Co-host: Carol Browne Sources: R. v. Svekla, 2007 ABQB 557 (CanLII), R. v. Svekla, 2009 ABQB 181 (CanLII), R. v. Svekla, 2009 ABQB 187 (CanLII), R. v. Svekla, 2009 ABQB 193 (CanLII), R. v. Svekla, 2010 ABQB 370 (CanLII), R. v. Svekla, 2010 ABCA 390 (CanLII), R. v. Svekla, 2011 ABCA 154 (CanLII), Edmonton Journal - June 8, 2008 - Tom Svekla's Secret Life https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/edmonton-killer-gets-life-no-parole-for-17-years/article18452563/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 153 - Between 2002 and 2005, Charles Eli Kembo, a refugee from Malawi, murdered four people, his business partner, Arden Samuel, his stepdaughter, Rita Yeung, his girlfriend, Sui Yin Ma, and his wife, Margaret Kembo, whose body has never been found. He set up elaborate schemes to steal their identities, set up false bank accounts, insurance claims, and run up credit in his victims’ names.  Sources: R. v. Kembo, 2010 BCSC 914 (CanLII), https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kembo-guilty-of-4-murders-b-c-jury-1.911825 https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/33466/DiSanto_Julianne_M_2016_PhD.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=2 https://www.refworld.org/docid/467bb4921e.html https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/campaigns/immigration-matters/system.html#screening https://www.pressreader.com/canada/national-post-latest-edition/20100306/289579580900497 https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/serial-killer-charles-kembo-book_n_1070290 https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/serial-killer-charles-kembo-loses-appeal https://jezebel.com/meet-the-kids-author-who-is-also-a-serial-killer-5856417 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/murder-suspect-has-lengthy-list-of-offences/article4313841/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/predator-kembo-guilty-sentenced-to-life/article4388720/ https://www.straight.com/news/jury-finds-charles-kembo-guilty-four-counts-first-degree-murder http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kembo-guilty-of-4-murders-b-c-jury-1.911825 http://www.primetimecrime.com/Recent/Murder/Charles%20Kembo.htm https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/four-time-surrey-murderer-loses-conviction-appeal/ https://bc.ctvnews.ca/crown-says-kembo-killed-4-to-steal-identities-1.443147 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/serial-killer-charles-kembo-s-lawyer-calls-trial-bewildering-1.2625206 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 151 - On January at 10:30 p.m., a 911 operator took a call from a seemingly distraught sixteen-year-old girl. When Peel Police arrived at the Mississauga, Ontario home two teenage girls, Sandra, 16, and Beth, 15, led them upstairs to the bathroom where their mother, Linda Andersen, 43, lie face down, deceased in the tub. For almost a year the police believed Linda's death was a tragic accident, but they learned differently from a young man who could not keep a secret any longer. NOTE: Aliases used to protect the identities of young offenders. co-host: Carol Browne promo:Minds of Madness Sources: R. v. K.(C.)1 and K. (C.)2, 2005 ONCJ 462 (CanLII), R. v. K.(Cr.) and K.(Ct.), 2006 ONCJ 283 (CanLII), R. v. J.F., 2011 ONCA 220 (CanLII), R. v. J.F., 2013 SCC 12 (CanLII), [2013] 1 SCR 565, https://web.archive.org/web/20150120034422/http://nicholasguindon.com/f/C_K_Ruling.PDF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Linda_Andersen https://www.mississauga.com/news-story/3123956-man-who-aided-bathtub-girls-asks-for-more-time/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bathtub-girl-killer-gets-early-release-for-university-studies-1.854264 https://www.citynews1130.com/2014/04/09/from-murder-to-law-school-story-of-ontario-sisters-who-drowned-mom-now-a-movie/ https://www.thestar.com/search.html?q=bathtub%20girls&pagenum=2 https://www.newspapers.com/search/legacy/#query=bathtub+girls+mississauga&dr_year=2004-2020&offset=12&p_place=Canada https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/bathtub-girls-younger-of-two-sisters-who-killed-mom-in-2003-now-an-articling-student-for-toronto-criminal-lawyer Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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

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

Episode 127 - On the morning of October 20, 2003, in North York, a quiet neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Raymond Zhang and Sherry Xu awakened to find their only child, 9-year-old, Cecilia was missing. She had clearly been abducted. There were no ransom demands or clear motives for her kidnapping. All efforts to find the girl were fruitless, until a Scarborough man stumbled across a body in a ravine late in March 2004. Sources and further reading: Agreed Statement of Facts (PDF) Raymond Zhang - Victim Impact Statement (PDF) Sherry Xu - Victim Impact Statement (PDF) CBC Zhang Case Background CBC Zhang Case Background (more) Cecilia Zhang search at Newspapers.com https://missingkids.ca/ https://protectchildren.ca/ https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/gazette/child-abduction https://www.canadasmissing.ca/pubs/2019/index-eng.htm web.archive.org - ceciliazhang.org Globe and Mail - RIP Cecilia, Happy Birthday Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 116 - The last time Heather Thomas's dad Pat saw his ten year old daughter alive was on the afternoon of October 1, 2000 when she went outside to play around their Cloverdale, BC, townhouse complex. After one the largest searches in RCMP history to that point, it was a hitchhiker who found Heather's body floating facedown in Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Park. Heather had been murdered and the community was shocked when they found out it had been one of their own who had done the terrible deed. Sources and Further Reading: R. v. Ertmoed, 2006 BCCA 365 (CanLII), R. v. Ertmoed, 2002 BCSC 806 (CanLII), R. v. Ertmoed, 2002 BCSC 1848 (CanLII), [vLex - R. v. Ertmoed (S.R.), (2006) 229 B.C.A.C. 168 (CA)] [vLex]- R. v. Ertmoed (S.R.), [2002] B.C.T.C. 1847 (SC)]  [Ertmoed gets life for murdering little girl - The Globe and Mail] [The Cloverdale Market | Your Weekly Treasure Hunt] [Resources & Research: Abducted then Murdered Children – protectchildren.ca] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/85-002-x1998009-eng.pdf https://www.protectchildren.ca/pdfs/C3P_AMC_PreliminaryFindings_en.pdf  “Heather” by Pete Cross from the Behind the Yellow Tape blog [5 Oct 2000, 20 - The Vancouver Sun at Newspapers.com] [6 Oct 2000, 3 - Surrey Leader at Newspapers.com] [23 Oct 2000, 1 - The Province at Newspapers.com] [30 Oct 2000, 21 - The Province at Newspapers.com] [4 Nov 2000, 1 - The Vancouver Sun at Newspapers.com] [5 Nov 2000, 12 - The Province at Newspapers.com] [7 Nov 2000, 1 - The Vancouver Sun at Newspapers.com] [7 Nov 2000, 19 - The Windsor Star at Newspapers.com] [8 Nov 2000, 3 - Surrey Leader at Newspapers.com] [17 Nov 2000, 5 - Surrey Leader at Newspapers.com] [30 Aug 2002, 6 - The Province at Newspapers.com]() [The Life of a Curious Girl: Heather Thomas] [Surrey child killer applies for early parole under faint-hope clause that has since been repealed – Surrey Now-Leader] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

A Port Alberni nurse found dead in his home after days of missing work after murdered by another man claiming he'd been raped.

Fred Fulton and Verna Decarie were found burally murdered in the Minto NB home. Their 22 year old neighbour and only suspect in the case had disappeared.

Episode 082 - On the morning of December 6, 2009, Ottawa paramedics and police responded to what sounded like a frantic 911 call placed by a man at a residence in the Bayshore area. The man was screaming that his wife was not breathing. Upon arriving they found the owner of the home, 33-year-old Donna Jones, deceased on a makeshift mattress on the basement floor. Donna's injuries and her time of death did not match the story that her husband Mark Peter Hutt was telling. Investigators would uncover a brutal history of abuse and torture ultimately leading to a heinous murder. WARNING: This podcast includes graphic descriptions of violent domestic abuse and murder. Sources: R. v. Hutt, 2013 ONSC 2267 (CanLII) CBC - Mark Peter Hutt police interview Canada.com - Trial Coverage Canada.com - More Trial Coverage Psychology Today - How the brain works against abuse victims Ottawa Citizen - Articles by Chloe Fedio and Andrew Seymour Domestic Abuse Resources in Canada: http://endingviolencecanada.org Canada's Department of Justice Canada's Treatment Programs for Men Who Abuse Their Partners Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine