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Episode 188: In early October of 1994, during a bizarre, nearly simultaneous sequence of murder / suicides, in Quebec, and across the Atlantic in Switzerland, 53 members of the Order of the Solar Temple were found dead in burned out buildings. The deaths fulfilled what the cult’s leaders claimed was the group’s “final transit” or return to Unity with God required before the impending end of the world. Even though it appeared to be over, more cult members were yet to die. Over a year later, in December of 1995, sixteen members of the cult died in France. More than a year after that, in march 1997, another five cult members died in Quebec bringing the death toll to 74. 

The cult’s two founders, Luc Jouret and Joseph Di Mambro, were among the dead in 1994, however, some fear there may be future related mass murder / suicides by followers still practicing in secret.

Sources:

Cult Education Institute :: The Order of the Solar Temple

Order of the Solar Temple – Wikipedia

12 Disturbing Secrets Of The Order Of The Solar Temple Cult

The Cult of the Sun and the Cult of the Dead in Egypt on JSTOR

Read Doomsday Cults: The Devil’s Hostages Online by Alan R. Warren | Books

Read Killer Cults Online by Stephen Singular | Books

Read Cults that Kill Online by Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar | Books

Read Rampage Online by Lee Mellor | Books

Glass: Akhnaten – Album by Philip Glass, Dennis Russell Davies | Spotify

“Our terrestrial journey is coming to an end”: the last voyage of the Solar Temple

(PDF) The Magic of Death: The Suicides of the Solar Temple | Massimo Introvigne – Academia.edu

CBC Archives — The madness begins for the Solar Temple cult

CBC Archives — Solar Temple cult leader Joseph Di Mambro confirmed dead

Michel Tabachnik – Wikipedia

Swiss conductor acquitted of sect killings – SWI swissinfo.ch

Joseph Di Mambro | Article about Joseph Di Mambro by The Free Dictionary

History Canada: October 4,1994: An international cult tragedy begins – RCI | English

Cult Intervention :: Cult Education Institute

Homeopathy | HealthLink BC

https://infosect.freeshell.org/infocult/phenomene/English/HTML/doc0008.htm

 

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Episode 187: Between 1974 and 1976, a series of rapes and murders took place in and around the small town of Strathroy, in South Western Ontario, perpetrated by Christian Herbert Harold Magee. He sexually assaulted and murdered 3 women, and raped two others.

Written by: Mathew Stockton

Sources:

R. v. Magee, 1997 CanLII 2431 (ON CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/6h5f>

Mental Health Centre, Penetanguishene v. Magee, 2006 CanLII 16077 (ON CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/1n8bq>

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/118607/carried-away-by-alice-munro/9780307264862/excerpt

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2006/01/16/Mad-Slasher-wants-to-apologize/19681137468884/?ur3=1

https://truecrimerealtimepod.com/2020/05/26/28-londons-sordid-past-part-3-the-mad-slasher/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=42563797&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjQ2NDAxNDg5MywiaWF0IjoxNjI1MjU1MzU3LCJleHAiOjE2MjUzNDE3NTd9.S7hmiBoeW8POhTzffvN8NTXF4vCsSSuHGQO5sEZ5xXM

https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/magee-christian.htm

http://coldcase.lailafarrell.com/index.php/category/murderer/

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20051006/281608120825417

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Episode 186: Twenty years ago, on the morning of September 11, 2001, as the world watched in horror, 19 radical Islamist al-Qaeda terrorists launched a group of coordinated attacks using four commuter planes as weapons, hitting several preplanned targets in the eastern United States. Two of the airliners were flown deliberately into each of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane smashed into the U.S. Pentagon. A fourth plane believed to have been bound for the U.S. Capitol building crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers aboard the flight fought back against the terrorists who’d taken over the flight.

Among the 2977 people who died as a direct result of the attacks, 24 of those were Canadian. As with many other countries, Canada stepped up to help in the immediate aftermath. What follows are details of the initial attacks and then some of the stories from that day and its aftermath.

Sources and Further Reading:

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Not a drill – Canada’s air force on 9/11 | Globalnews.ca

Operation Support – Wikipedia

Operation Yellow Ribbon – Wikipedia

Casualties of the September 11 attacks – Wikipedia

Public Safety Canada — Remembering September 11th

The Government of Canada’s response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11

CANADA AND 9/11: BORDER SECURITY IN A NEW ERA

THE VIEWS OF CANADIAN SCHOLARS ON THE IMPACT OF THE ANTI-TERRORISM ACT

The Cost of 9/11

The Day Canadians Opened Their Homes To Americans

The Anti-Terrorism Act and Security Measures in Canada: Public Views, Impacts and Travel Experiences

Halifax airport employee remembers ‘grateful’ passengers and crew stranded on 9/11 | Globalnews.ca

New York thanks Gander, NL for help on 9/11 with piece of World Trade Center | Globalnews.ca

9/11 Canadian victims | Globalnews.ca

Brian Williams Memory September 11: Why Our Memory May Change | Time

RCMP officer kept stranded air passengers safe on 9/11 | Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Front row for history: Doc reveals fates of the ‘9/11 Kids’ at school with George W. Bush | Globalnews.ca

9/11 and Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia

‘Global National’ celebrates 20 years in TV special: ‘Disruption: 20 Years of Global National’ – National | Globalnews.ca

Can Watching Media Cause Symptoms of Trauma or PTSD? — Counselling & Therapy Services – The Juniper Center

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Episode 185: RCMP officers arrived at the Blackman family residence on Spuraway Avenue in Coquitlam, B.C.’s Ranch Park subdivision in the early morning hours of January 18th, 1983. A neighbour had called 911after hearing screams and then witnessing what appeared to be a domestic argument next door that escalated into a shooting. Inside the eerily silent home as the cold winter rain fell, the responding officers found a horrific and bloody scene; six members of the Blackman family were dead.

The deceased were Richard Blackman, 50, his wife, Irene Blackman, 49, their daughter, Roberta Lynn Davies, 28, Roberta’s husband, John Iowerth Davies, 39, Karen Dale Rhodes, 25, another of the Blackman’s daughters, and the youngest of the Blackman children, 16-year-old son, Rick Blackman. Just outside the home, police had detained a young man, 22-year-old, Bruce Alfred Blackman, another of Irene and Richard’s sons. Bruce, who’d been picked up as police arrived, was acting bizarrely, telling the RCMP officers that he was the Antichrist and that the world was going to end on January 31.

Sources:

Blackman v. British Columbia (Review Board), 1995 CanLII 3437 (BC CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/1ddr0 >

Blackman v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 1993 CanLII 2620 (BC CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/1dbks >

British Columbia Review Board – Decision on Bruce Alfred Blackman

https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/arc_oic/0332_1983

https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/arc_oic/1122_1991

Violence and Schizophrenia by Heidi J. Wehring and William T. Carpenter

Correlates of Future Violence in People Being Treated for Schizophrenia | American Journal of Psychiatry

Schizophrenia: Warning Signs of Violence | HealthLink BC

A Voice out of Nowhere eBook : Booth, Janice Holly: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Bruce Alfred Blackman | Amok Wiki | Fandom

Police layed six charges of first-degree murder Tuesday against… – UPI Archives

Author Janice Holly Booth — Book: A Voice out of Nowhere

Little Known Details Behind Mass Murder Case Revealed in New Book, A Voice out of Nowhere

Someone I love has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. How can I help? | Here to Help

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Episode 184: In Mississauga, Ontario in 1973 and early 1974, the discoveries of the murdered bodies of two young women, Constance Dickey, 19, and Neda Novak, 18, only months apart, left the community shaken. Both women, it appeared, had been abducted, sexually assaulted, then murdered and dumped by a yet unknown killer. On August 19, 1974, after being sexually assaulted and left for dead, a sixteen-year-old girl, Julia Sheldon, identified a twenty-four-year-old, married father of two named Henry Robert Williams as the man who’d brutally assaulted her. It soon became clear that Williams had also committed the two previous murders.

Sources:

Read Cold North Killers Online by Lee Mellor | Books

Henry Robert Williams | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

“The Chemical Castration of Recidivist Sex Offenders in Canada: A Matte” by Matthew R. Kutcher

The Castration Alternative | Canadian Journal of Criminology and Corrections

Federal Probation – Google Play

The Medium — Sept. 11th marks 30th anniversary of UTM’s only murder by Adrian Barek

Police still looking for Oakville woman’s killer nearly 45 years later | Toronto.com

The dark echoes of Adele Komorowski’s murder linger 45 years later | TheSpec.com

5 Worst Crimes Committed in Mississauga | insauga.com

“It’s insanity” to free serial killer who assaulted girl in prison: Ex-detective – Cancrime

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Episode 183 – Early on a cold morning on January 7, 1922, two Montreal city Public Works Department employees, on their way to their works shed, discovered the body of a man laying on the frozen ground near the corners of Coolbrook and Snowden Street. The man, who’d been shot was later identified by a Catholic Priest named Adélard Delorme as his half-brother, Raoul Delorme. When police investigated they were surprised that their evidence pointed to one, very unusual suspect. This case would become important, not only for the oddity of its perpetrator and the groundbreaking forensics used to break the case but also for its shocking outcome.

Sources:

My version of the Delorme case : Farah-Lajoie, Georges

Delorme v. Sisters of Charity of Quebec, 1922 CanLII 656 (QC CQ)

1868-1996 – The Delorme Affair – Interactive Investigator

L’affaire Delorme — On ne juge pas un prêtre

Acquittement de l’abbé Joseph-Adélard Delorme d’une accusation de meurtre

Georges Farah-Lajoie — Wikipédia

Newspapers.com — Search: Adelard Delorme

L’affaire Delorme 1922: un procès qui souleva les passions – Instantanés

Georges Farah-Lajoie | Mémoires des Montréalais

History of Forensic Science in Canada | Famous Canadian Crimes: The Delorme Affair

Rigorous Science – Canada’s History

Cassock and the Crown: Canada’s Most Controversial Murder Trial – Jean Monet – Google Books

Scribd | For I Have Sinned Online by John Glatt | Books

La soutane et la couronne : le procès du siècle : l’affaire Delorme : Monet, Jean, 1932

Biographie – DEROME, WILFRID (baptisé Joseph-Wilfrid) – Volume XVI (1931-1940) – Dictionnaire biographique du Canada

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Episode 182: This is a story of two talented people whose final interaction would lead to the death of one of comedy’s rising stars and a notorious place in Hollywood history for the other.

On March 5, 1982, after an all too brief but stellar career in film and television, actor and comedian John Belushi, 33, was found dead in his bungalow at the infamous Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Investigators soon discovered that a Canadian woman, Catherine Evelyn or Cathy Smith, was the last person with the star and had been the person who had supplied and shot him up with the fatal overdose that killed him.

Sources:

United States of America and Smith, Re, 1984 CanLII 3510 (ON SC), <https://canlii.ca/t/gcj9l>

Re United States of America and Smith, 1983 CanLII 1817 (ON SC), < https://canlii.ca/t/g1981 >

1984 CanLII 1913 (ON CA) | Re United States of America and Smith | CanLII

‘I Killed John Belushi’ — Secrets Of Tragic Comic’s Star-Studded Death!

Chasing Dragon by Smith Cathy, Signed – AbeBooks

Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi Online by Bob Woodward | Books

Read California Babylon Online by Kristan Lawson and Anneli Rufus | Books

The Death of John Belushi at the Chateau Marmont

Gone 25 years, Belushi’s impact still felt

Cathy Smith – Wikipedia

Cathy Smith, who admitted to killing John Belushi, was a woman of mystery – The Globe and Mail

Gordon Lightfoot here. Singer/songwriter for over 50 years whose work has been performed by everyone from Elvis to Barbra. AMA! : IAmA

The Tragic Real-Life Story Of John Belushi

The Weight – Remastered – song by The Band | Spotify

Sundown – song by Gordon Lightfoot | Spotify

High and Dry – song by Gordon Lightfoot | Spotify

Flash Of Fire – song by Hoyt Axton | Spotify

Addictions Treatment Helplines in Canada | Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction

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Episode 181 – The region in the South Nahanni River played host to several unexplained and disturbing occurrences in the first half of the twentieth century. Between1905 and 1945, in the remote and rugged wilderness in the lower west corner of Mackenzie Mountains in the Northwest Territories and other unexplained events, there were at least 44 people who went missing under mysterious circumstances.

Most unsettling of all were the four bodies that were found during that time in three separate incidents. All of the corpses had been decapitated, and their heads were never recovered, earning the area the ominous nickname, the Valley of the Headless Men. No one knows who was responsible for these horrific mutilations or what became of the other missing people.

Sources:

Secrets of the Nahanni: The Valley of Headless Men – The Outdoor Journal

The Lore Behind the Mystery of Canada’s Nahanni National Park

The Valley of Headless Men. The spectacular scenery of the Nahanni… | by L Hall | Chameleon | Medium

Nahanni National Park Reserve – Wikipedia

Valley of Mystery — Pierre Berton | Maclean’s | March 15, 1947

Parks Canada — Nahanni National Park Reserve

Mysteries of the Nahinni Park Reserve in Canada — StrangeOutdoors.com

Did giants roam Canada’s Northwest Territories — or do they still? | CBC News

The Valley of the Headless Men: UnresolvedMysteries

Legends of the Nahanni Valley

Legends of the Nahanni Valley by Hammerson Peters

Serial Killer Quarterly Vol.1 No.3 “Unsolved in North America” — Scribd

Read The Dangerous River Online by R. M. Patterson | Books | Scribd

Read Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Weird Canada Online by Bathroom Readers’ Institute | Books | Scribd

Read Strange but True Online by John Robert Colombo | Books | Scribd

The Strangest Northerns: The Valley of the Beasts – Dark Worlds Quarterly

The Willows, The Wendigo, and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood: Annotated and Illustrated Tales of Murder, Mystery, Horror, and Hauntings eBook: Blackwood, Algernon, Kellermeyer, M., Kellermeyer, M.: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Canada is a huge country. Most of it is unfit for human habitation. – Vox

This Is How Empty Canada Really Is (PHOTOS) | HuffPost Canada News

Geography | The Canada Guide

Largest Countries in the World by Area – Worldometer

Table 24.1 Population, by province and territory, selected years, 1861 to 2009

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Episode 180 – On September 22, 2015, in Renfrew County, Ontario, 66-year-old Carol Culleton was murdered in her home by her one-time handyman. The man, who’d become obsessed with the recent widow before killing her, then stole Culleton’s car and drove to the home of an ex-girlfriend, Anastasia Kuzyk, 36, and shot Anastasia there with a shotgun as her sister fled the home. However, the killer was not done settling the scores he had cooked up in his head and then drove to the home of another ex-girlfriend, Nathalie Warmerdam, 48. As Nathalie’s son ran from their home, in fear of his life, he heard the gunshot that ended his mother’s life.

The killer, Basil Borutski, 58, a former millwright, then fled, and a brief search ensued that ended in Borutski being taken into police custody. Later on, in a 5-hour long taped police interview, the killer admitted to what he’d done, laying the blame for his spree squarely on his victims.

Sources:

Ontario Provincial Police – What we do

Borutski’s history from 1977 to 2011 – Infogram

Borutski’s history with Kuzyk and Warmerdam – Infogram

Borutski’s history with Culleton – Infogram

Murder Sites — Driving Route

YouTube – Basil Borutski full police interview

YouTube – Basil Borutski and the Wilno Murders: Circle of Fear – The Fifth Estate

YouTube – Secrets of… Why Didn’t We Know? Basil Borutski & The Wilno Murders (podcast) – the fifth estate

Marchers say Basil Borutski guilty verdict was too little, too late | CBC News

What the courts knew about Basil Borutski before he murdered 3 women | CBC News

Search: Basil Borutski — Newspapers.com

Basil Borutski | News, Videos & Articles — GlobalNews

TOPIC: BASIL BORUTSKI TRIAL — CBC.ca

R. v. Borutski, 2011 ONSC 3536 (CanLII)

Borutski v. Borutski, 2011 ONSC 7099 (CanLII)

R. v. Borutski, 2017 ONSC 7748 (CanLII)

R. v. Basil Borutski, 2017 ONSC 7762 (CanLII)

The Meaning of Life: A Study of the Use of Parole Ineligibility for Murder Sentencing | CanLII

BBC Partners — Outlook: Singing for my murdered sister helps me heal

Ending Violence Association of Canada

Psychology Today — Dark Triad

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Episode 179 – On April 19, 2018, in the village of Victoria Gracia, a community close to Pucallpa in Peru’s central Amazon region of Ucayali, a man got off his motorcycle. He walked toward the home of Olivia Arevalo Lomas, an 81-year-old shaman and respected elder in her community. The man was irate over a debt owed to him by the woman’s son. After firing a warning shot that drew a crowd of neighbours, the elderly healer came out of her house. After a bit of yelling back and forth, the man gunned the woman down with two shots from his pistol, killing her in broad daylight.

The man, later identified as Sebastian Paul Woodroffe, a 41-year-old British Columbian in Peru as an Ayahuasca researcher, was pursued by villagers who publicly lynched him. A cellphone recorded his killing, and the user later posted the video to Facebook. Woodroffe’s body was buried in a shallow grave. Two Peruvian men were later arrested for Woodroffe’s slaying.

What led this man, known to his friends as a gentle, helpful soul, to such a brutal crime?

Sources:
[Descent into darkness | CBC News]
[Blurred Vision: A Shaman’s Murder Exposes the Dark Side of Ayahuasca]
[The Cull of Personality Ebook – Kevin Tucker — Black and Green Press]
https://retreat.guru
[Preparing for Ayahuasca Ceremony – The Uncensored Guide]
[Ayahuasca, dimethyltryptamine, and psychosis: a systematic review of human studies]
[Sebastian Woodroffe — YouTube Channel]
[Sebastian Woodroffe — Facebook]
[Improving  On Addiction Help | Indiegogo — Sebastian Woodroffe]
[Sebastian Woodroffe – VICE]
[Global News — SEARCH: Sebastian Woodroffe]
[Sebastian Woodroffe video | CBC.ca]
[YouTube — Murder investigation in the jungle – The Fifth Estate]
[Hallucinogenic Plants and Their Use in Traditional Societies – An Overview | Cultural Survival]
[(PDF) 📄 The Consumption of Psychoactive Plants in Ancient Global and Anatolian Cultures During Religious Rituals: The Roots of the Eruption of Mythological Figures and Common Symbols in Religions and Myths]
[Ayahuasca Retreat Peru, Traditional Retreat Center in the Amazon of Peru]
[Tragedy in Pucallpa: the Death of Maestra Olivia Arévalo – Temple of the Way of Light]
[Peruvian mob kills Canadian man accused of killing respected shaman | Daily Mail Online]
[Terence McKenna – Self Transforming Elf Machines – YouTube]
[“Machine Elves” or “DMT Elves”: A Spirit World Journey | DoubleBlind Mag]
[Canadian lynched in Peru after being accused of shaman’s death | Peru | The Guardian]
[All evidence shows B.C. man lynched in Peru had shot and killed Indigenous healer: prosecutor | CBC News]
[Woodroffe remembered by neighbours as ‘spiritual, loving, kind and polite’ – Comox Valley Record]
[Briton Unais Gomes killed by Canadian Joshua Andrew Freeman Stevens in Peru | Daily Mail Online]
[The Canadian Man Who Killed a British Guy at an Ayahuasca Retreat in Peru Speaks Out]

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