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Sometimes the obvious suspect is not the offender.

Only months after what some saw as heroic acts, a young viral video star is accused of the murder of a much loved New Jersey lawyer.

After a deliberately set inferno three bodies are found inside the charred remains of a family home. The man responsible would spin a fatastical web of lies that RCMP were left to unravel.

Taylor Van Diest was found beaten near train tracks in Armstrong BC on Halloween 2011. She later died in hospital and RCMP went on the hunt for her killer.

This is the story of the robbery and slaying of three security officers and the wounding of another at the hands of a co-worker.

Episode 049 - On the evening of November 8, 2010 a woman called 911 in a panic. She claimed that intruders had entered her house, tied her up, took her family's cash before shooting her parents. Police responded finding Jennifer's mother Bich Ha Pan, dead of multiple gunshot wounds. Jennifer's father had escaped the house and was bleeding from wounds of his own. Police found Jennifer bound but unharmed upstairs. What at first appeared to be a random house invasion, turned out to be far more cold blooded. Sources:R. v. Pan, 2013 ONSC 7865 (CanLII),  Jennifer Pan Interrogation Video 10 hours 34 minutes Global News Articles tagged Jennifer Pan TorontoLife: Jennifer Pan's Revenge article Tiger Parenting article Reid Technique police interrogation tactic Eric Carty Death article Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Dark Poutine celebrates halloween and their first anniversary by telling scary stories with friends around a campfire.

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

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