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Episode 168 - On the evening of July 28, 2010, Nadine Anne Taylor, a 29-year-old woman in Halifax, Nova Scotia, left the Convoy Avenue apartment in Fairview she shared with her boyfriend, Gene. Nadine, who did not have a telephone, told Gene she needed to make a call, left her home and walked a nearby payphone to make a call. She was never seen alive again.  Sources and Further Reading: [CANADA - Canada - Nadine Taylor, 29, Halifax NS, 28 July 2010] [Police locate human remains | Halifax] R. v. Laffin, 2013 NSSC 135 (CanLII), R. v. Laffin, 2013 NSSC 136 (CanLII), [Global News SEARCH: Steven Elliot Laffin] [Steven Laffin | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers] [Obituary of Nadine Anne Taylor | J Albert Funeral Home] [Fears grow for missing Halifax woman | CBC News] [Fact Sheet - Prostitution Criminal Law Reform: Bill C-36, the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act] [Stepping Stone Nova Scotia | Sex Worker Support] [51 Weyburn Road - Dartmouth, NS - Google Maps] [Luminol - Wikipedia] [R.I.P Nadine Taylor - Facebook Group] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 165: On the afternoon of July 24, 2015, the RCMP were called by the residents of 192 Pleasant Grove Road, outside of Charlottetown in Prince Edward Island. They said that the night before there had been a fight between a man, Joel Lawrence Clow, 46, and a woman, Clow’s 40-year-old on an off-again girlfriend and mother of one, Traci Lynn Lynch. Responding officers knew they would be investigating a domestic dispute, they’d dealt with Traci and Joel before. Things became more serious when cops discovered Traci, deceased on Clow’s property. Sources: R v. Clow, 2017 PESC 9 (CanLII), R v. Clow, 2017 PESC 10 (CanLII), R v. Clow, 2017 PESC 12 (CanLII), R v Clow, 2019 PECA 5 (CanLII), Trial - Day 1 Trial - Day 2 Trial - Day 3 Trial - Delay Trial - Day 4 Trial - Day 5 Trial - Day 6 Trial - Day 7 Trial - Day 7b Trial - Day 8 How This P.E.I. Program Helps Women Take Back Control After Leaving Abusive Relationships | CBC News | Ethical Editor Belvedere Funeral Home - Traci Lynch Obituary Clow / Lynch Timeline - CBC Why People Stay - The Hotline Ending Violence Association of Canada Domestic Violence and Abuse - HelpGuide.org Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 162: In July of 2013, on a busy summer night in downtown Toronto, police received several calls about a man on a streetcar brandishing a knife and threatening passengers and the transit operator. After an encounter with police lasting only 50 seconds, 18-year-old Sammy Yatim had been shot nine times and later died from his wounds. As videos of the incident surfaced, many people were outraged, claiming that the police had used excessive force and calling for the head of the officer who had pulled the trigger. Co-host: Carol Browne Promo:Ignorance Was Bliss Sources: Global News | Search - Sammy Yatim Toronto Police shoot Sammy Yatim on TTC streetcar - Markus Grupp YouTube Enhanced audio/video - Shooting of Sammy Yatim by Toronto Police Const. Forcillo on July 27, 2013 - YouTube TTC surveillance camera 1 - YouTube TTC surveillance camera 2 - YouTube TTC surveillance camera 3 - YouTube TTC surveillance camera 4 - YouTube The Killing of Sammy Yatim | Toronto Life Sammy’s Fight Back for Justice - Home | Facebook Shooting of Sammy Yatim - Wikipedia Special Investigations Unit — News Release James Forcillo bail decision | Bail | Appeal Reasons for the sentence of James Forcillo | Murder | Crime & Violence James Forcillo parole decision | Parole | Probation Officer Police Encounters With People in Crisis 2014 | Emergency Department | Mental Health Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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

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

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

Episode 134 - On the morning of October 22, 2014, an armed terrorist murdered Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, one of three honour guards at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario. Immediately after that, the man shot his way into the Parliament Buildings but was quickly neutralized by security service officers inside our nation's capital. Further Reading and Sources: Nathan Cirillo https://globalnews.ca/news/1630945/nathan-cirillo-soldier-and-dog-rescuer https://truepatriotlove.com/ http://www.standonguardfund.com/ https://globalnews.ca/news/6067053/nathan-cirillo-five-year-anniversary/ https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/nathan-cirillo-obituary?pid=179271124 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nathan-cirillo-tributes-pour-in-for-young-father-photographed-by-tourists-moments-before-fatal-9812599.html https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/cpl-nathan-cirillo-mourned-at-funeral-in-hamilton-1.2814727 https://youtu.be/fWtNKJ22a8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWC5XyjKCO0 GLOBAL: Ottawa Shooting: Who tried to save Nathan Cirillo's life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVFesFLnbm0 GLOBAL: Nathan Cirillo's family delivers statement on his tragic death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FfnZgVeaKI  https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-story-of-the-strangers-who-tried-to-save-cpl-nathan-cirillo/ https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/remembering-cpl-nathan-cirillo/ https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/2014/10/28/letter-to-the-son-of-corporal-nathan-cirillo.html https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-man-who-comforted-cpl-nathan-cirillo-in-his-last-moments-is-haunted-by-the-parliament-hill-shooting https://www.insideottawavalley.com/news-story/4948067-cpl-nathan-cirillo-mourned-as-kid-at-heart-/ https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2014/10/22/soldier_fatally_shot_on_parliament_hill_identified_as_nathan_cirillo_of_hamilton.html https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/22/soldier_slain_at_war_memorial_remembered_as_compassionate.html https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/12/21/slain_soldiers_cirillo_vincent_named_newsmaker_of_the_year.html https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/11/15/facebook-shuts-down-fake-profile-with-cpl-nathan-cirillos-photos-to-contact-women.html https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/remembering-cpl-nathan-cirillo-five-years-after-he-was-killed-1.4649966 VIDEO and AUDIO  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjZG099WJm4 3 cameras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrGqoISd-do Gunfire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cev1D4c1tqU EXCLUSIVE: Parliament Hill gunman shot 31 times https://youtu.be/v4wfzWJ2Hwo How Kevin Vickers managed to subdue Ottawa gunman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu5XX-OTunc Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers receives a standing ovation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OABF6RrNH6c RAW Ottawa shooting aftermath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1H98uSBIfw Ottawa shooting: CCTV shows suspect arriving at parliament - BBC News Radicalization Information https://www.ltai.info/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130703015057/https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/nsci-ecsn/rad/youth-jeune-eng.pdf https://www.scribd.com/book/323301024/What-You-Need-to-Know-About-ISIS-Terror-Religion-War-the-Caliphate-TERRORISM https://theglobalcoalition.org/en/ The Shooter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f5m-wjA6kA Video made by Parliament Hill shooter http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/michael-zehaf-bibeau-addict-drifter-walking-contradiction/ http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/michael-zehaf-bibeau-buried-in-libya http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/photos-emerge-nathan-cirillo-shooting-zehaf-bibeau-war-memorial http://canlii.ca/t/gf5kg http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/6-things-we-learned-about-michael-zehaf-bibeau-and-parliament-hill-shooting-1.2984759 https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/11/10/rcmp-hits-wall-in-search-for-origin-of-michael-zehaf-bibeaus-gun.html https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/24/parliament_gunman_bought_car_used_in_attack_for_650.html https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/24/what_propelled_michael_zehafbibeau_on_path_to_radicalization.html More Related Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_shootings_at_Parliament_Hill,_Ottawahttps://youtu.be/iqOrmnBp_nA Rushing to Cpl. Cirillo's aid http://www.canada.com/health/loved+ottawa+lawyer+describes+trying+save+nathan+cirillo+with+video/10318953/story.html https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/pblc-rprt-trrrsm-thrt-cnd-2018/index-en.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Canada https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/pblc-rprt-trrrsm-thrt-cnd-2018/index-en.aspx https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/odds-dying-terrorist-attack-zeeshan-ul-hassan-usmani https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/01/08/ottawa_shooting_hero_kevin_vickers_to_be_named_ambassador_to_ireland.html Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Tina Michelle Fontaine was an Indigenous girl who had  a tough go right from the beginning. As she had run away before when 15-year-old Tina disappeared on August 9, 2014 the authorities did not treat it with much urgency at all. Tina’s family was worried sick and wanted more activity. It was not until it was too late that  the investigation began in earnest. Tina’s body was found wrapped in a duvet and floating in Winnipeg's Red River more than a week later. Her death and the subsequent acquittal of the only suspect in Tina’s slaying are cited by some as catalysts for the national inquiry that was called to look into the massive amount of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada. Sources and more information: R. v. Cormier, 2010 ABCA 162 (CanLII), [Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine by Joanna Jolly] [Public Reports – Manitoba Advocate] Place Where it Feels Like Home: The Story of Tina Fontaine - PDF [Global News SEARCH: Tina Fontaine] [Newspapers.com search: Tina Fontaine] [CBC news topic tag Raymond Cormier trial] [21 Feb 2018, N3 - The Gazette at Newspapers.com] [27 Aug 2014, 10 - National Post at Newspapers.com] [26 Sep 2014, 7 - National Post at Newspapers.com] [BBC World Service - Assignment, Canada’s Red River Murders] [Tina Fontaine’s 911 call | CBC.ca] [Tina Fontaine | Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women - CBC.ca] [Cormier speaks of last time he saw Fontaine in video shown to court - YouTube] [Tina Fontaine: The life and the legacy | APTN InFocus - YouTube] [Raymond Cormier found not guilty in death of Tina Fontaine  | Globalnews.ca] [Bear Clan Patrol Inc - Home | Facebook] [Drag The Red! Public Group | Facebook] [Red River Women - BBC News] [Pair sentenced to 9 years in beating death of Tina Fontaine’s dad | CBC News] [Raymond Cormier spoke of wanting to have sex with Tina Fontaine days before her death, Crown tells court | CBC News] [Tina Fontaine, 15, found in bag in Red River | CBC News] [MMIW Final report] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

In a tragedy that shook Canada and the rest of the hockey playing world, just before 5:00pm on April 6, 2018, the team bus of the Humboldt Broncos Junior Hockey team smashed into a semi that had just blown through a stop at the intersection of Saskatchewan highways 35 and 335. Of the the 29 people on the bus that day, only 13 survived. The truck driver walked away unharmed, and was later charged with and convicted of 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death and 13 more counts of dangerous driving causing injury.  One player, 21-year-old defenseman Logan Boulet, had signed his donor card only 5 weeks before the crash and his death. His thoughtful gift saved the lives of six organ recipients. Logan’s selfless actions led droves of other Canadians to sign their donor cards, creating what has been called the #LoganBouletEffect. This remains the largest number of donors pledging their organs from a single event; 100,000 in the first three weeks. To keep the effect going his family helped to create Green Shirt Day in 2019, observed on April 7, the anniversary of Logan’s passing.  Sources and Further Reading: [Humboldt Broncos] [Humboldt Broncos bus crash - Wikipedia] [9 Apr 2018, NP1 - The National Post at Newspapers.com] [Home - Green Shirt Day] [Green Shirt Day - Home | Facebook] [Green Shirt Day (@GreenShirtDay) | Twitter] [Green Shirt Day (@greenshirtday) • Instagram photos and videos] [Report On Intersection Review | Government of Saskatchewan] [ER doctor recalls Humboldt Broncos crash response - YouTube] [Rod Stewart pays tribute to Humboldt Broncos | Globalnews.ca] [Logan Boulet taken off life support, organs donated  | Globalnews.ca] [COVID-19 forcing Green Shirt Day campaign changes | Global News] [Agreed statement of facts - Humboldt Broncos bus crash] [Guilty plea in Humboldt Broncos bus crash  | Globalnews.ca] [Driver in Humboldt crash wasn’t distracted | CBC News] [Adam Herold Legacy Foundation] [SEARCH: Global News Humboldt - YouTube] [Swift Current Broncos bus crash - Wikipedia] R v Sidhu, 2019 SKPC 19 (CanLII), Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

In our 100th episode we take a look back before talking about the disappearance of Madison Scott from Vanderhoof BC in May of 2011.