Dark Poutine

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), < [http://canlii.ca/t/fx9dc] >
R. v. Laffin, 2013 NSSC 136 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/fxb17] >
[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]

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Episode 167: On July 13, 1994, just after 2:00 am, police responded to a 911 call from Sebastian Burns, 18. Sebastian and his friend, Atif Rafay, also 18, claimed they had discovered ‘some kind of break in’ and multiple deaths at  Atif’s family home in Bellevue, Washington. A bloody crime scene awaited the first responders. All three of the victims, Tariq and Sultana, Atif’s parents and his sister, Basma, had been bludgeoned to death. Right away, something felt off to the Bellevue Police, who focused their attention on the pair of young men who’d reported the crime. But did they get it right?

Sources:
United States of America v. Burns, 1997 CanLII 3271 (BC CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/1dzl0>
United States v. Burns, 2001 SCC 7 (CanLII), [2001] 1 SCR 283, <https://canlii.ca/t/523r>
[168 Wn. App. 734, STATE V. RAFAY]
[Rafay Burns Appeal Site]
[Sebastian Burns 911 Call – YouTube]
[On the Margins of Freedom | The Walrus]
[Written In Blood – CBS News]
[Confessions of Murder ; Exposing the False Confessions Created from the Mr. Big Stings by Alan R. Warren | eBooks – Scribd]
[The wrongful convictions of Sebastian Burns and … – En Vero]
[Give Them Enough Rope – Shawn Blore]
[YouTube – Sebastian Burns Pre-Sentence Statement Part 1 of 6]
https://fuqrafiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WMFuqraWash.pdf

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In the early morning hours of November 17, 2001, officers from the Vancouver Police were dispatched to the Second Beach area of Stanley Park. Several callers to 911 indicated that there had been some kind of  altercation and a group of man had badly beaten another man.

Two VPD constables arrived at the Second Beach parking lot within minutes of being called to find a distraught man frantically providing CPR to a bloodied man on the ground. The man on the ground was naked except for socks and shoes. Police assessed the man’s condition and immediately called for an ambulance. The paramedics from the BC Ambulance Service arrived quickly, but determined that it was too late.

Aaron Zane Donald Webster, 42-year-old and a  member of Vancouver’s gay community, was dead. He had been brutally beaten with a blunt instrument and his killers had skittered off into the night leaving Aaron to die. Aaron’s death would be come to be recognized as Canada’s most well-known and notorious cases of ‘gay bashing’.

Guest Host: Mathew Stockton (Steve the dog’s dad)

Sources:
R. v. J.S., 2003 BCPC 442 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/1g7d2>
R. v. A.C., 2003 BCPC 508 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/1hd4j>
R. v. Cran and Rao, 2004 BCSC 1635 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/1jfdp>
R. v. Cran, 2005 BCSC 171 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/1jr5n>
R. v. J.S., 2005 BCPC 556 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/1m420>
R. v. Cran, 2006 BCCA 464 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/1ps4p>
[Wright, N. (2011). Murder in the park : civic identity-making and space in Vancouver. University of British Columbia.]
[Aaron Webster | Xtra Magazine]
[The murder that changed us | Xtra Magazine]
[Ten Years After Aaron Webster’s Death, What’s Changed? | The Tyee]
[Stanley Park Rawlings Trail, Gay Vancouver Cruising Areas]
[Stanley Park | City of Vancouver]
[Search – Aaron Webster – 2001 – Newspapers.com]
[Aaron Webster – CHF BC]
[Aaron Webster Housing Co-operative – Original Site – Community Land Trust]
[QMUNITY — BC’s Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Resource Centre]
[Pflag Canada]

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It’s 2021. It’s been a hell of a year and Dark Poutine is still ticking along. That said, I need a quick break for my sanity and to do some behind the scenes work to freshen up some of the elements the show. Dark Poutine will be returning on April 19, 2021, with the same level of careful research and compassionate, personal story telling with new guest hosts, a shiny new logo and some new music. See you in a month, so until then, don’t forget to be a good egg and not a bad apple.

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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), < https://canlii.ca/t/h4g38 >
R v. Clow, 2017 PESC 10 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/h4g39 >
R v. Clow, 2017 PESC 12 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/h5jd3>
R v Clow, 2019 PECA 5 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/hxmb0 >

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

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Episode 164: On July 12, 1997, in the town of Kitimat, British Columbia, after months of tension, tempers boiled over, and a violent altercation took place between a mad man and four young men. Three of the men, Michael Mauro and Mark Teves, both 20 and 21-year-old David Nunes were dead, and another, 20-year-old Donny Oliveira, was barely clinging to life after a local man named Kevin Louis Vermette allegedly blasted away at the group with a sawed-off shotgun before disappearing into the brush. He is still on the loose almost 24 years later.

Co-host: Carol Browne

Sources:

Suspected BC murderer: Vermette still on the loose | Dawson Creek Mirror

$25,000 reward in Kitimat triple murder cold case set to expire  | Globalnews.ca

Wanted by the RCMP: Kevin  Louis  Vermette | Royal Canadian Mounted Police

B.C. town rescinds $25,000 reward for info on 1997 triple-murder. Some donors want their money back | National Post

A hockey game gets rowdy, and other Kitimat police files this week – Kitimat Northern Sentinel

Wanted man who fled B.C. city 16 years ago may be alive: RCMP – The Globe and Mail

Experienced outdoorsman flees into forest after killing 3 young adults and injuring another with a shotgun. Police believe he may still be alive. : UnresolvedMysteries

Fifteen years on, the questions remain – Terrace Standard

America’s Most Wanted Fans – Kevin Vermette

KEVIN LOUIS VERMETTE | Wanted For Murder (July 1997, Kitimat, BC)

Wanted by the RCMP – Kevin Louis VERMETTE

CANADA’S MOST WANTED: These killers are on the run; have you seen them? | Toronto Sun

America’s Most Wanted – Season 22 Episode 32: May 23, 2009 – Metacritic

Community Profile – District of Kitimat

Unsolved Mysteries – Board With Everything

amw.com | Kevin Vermette – Fugitive

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Episode 163: In New Brunswick, in the fall of 1922 a convicted double murderer named Bennie Swim was hanged for the murder of the woman he loved, his first cousin Olive and her husband, Harvey Trenholm. Bennie didn’t die the first time, so the authorities hanged him again.

Co-host: Carol Browne
Promo: Murderish

Sources:

The Ballad of Benny Swim (original) – Mike Q – YouTube

Hanged Twice_Benny Swim

Bennie Swim | Cases | Crime and Punishment | Projects | Faculty of Arts | UNB

ExecutedToday.com » 1922: Benny Swim, “dead as a door-nail” (or not)

The Carleton County Man Who Was Hung Twice ”Benny Swim”

Benny “Bennie” Swim (1899-1922) – Find A Grave Memorial

The Life of a Screw – Douglas E. Arch

Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada: Poplak, Lorna

HistoricPlaces.ca – HistoricPlaces.ca

Harvey Dixon Trenholm (1883-1922) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Olive M (Swim) Trenholm (1905-1922) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Benny Swim (1899-1922) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

William Guy Carr – Wikipedia

This Week in New Brunswick History

http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/canada.html

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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

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Episode 161 – On a warm July day in 1986, 11-year-old Alison Parrott was lured from her Toronto home by a man on the phone claiming to be a sports photographer who wanted to take photos of the young athlete. Two boys discovered Alison’s body in a heavily wooded section of Kings Mill Park two days later. She had been bound, raped and strangled to death. It would take a decade before science caught up to the point where her killer could be brought to justice.

Co-Host: Carol Browne

Sources:
R. v. Roy, 2003 CanLII 4272 (ON CA), < [https://canlii.ca/t/drk] >
[Exhibit A – Killer in a Box]
[Alison Parrott: Leader of the pack  | Globalnews.ca]
[YouTube – Crime Beat TV Show – Alison Parrott]
[Murder of Alison Parrott – Wikipedia]
[The horror of child murders | Maclean’s | AUGUST 11, 1986]
[Parrott’s Killer Convicted | The Canadian Encyclopedia]
[FindAGrave.com – Alison May Campbell Parrott]
[GIRL FOLLOWED RULES, BUT KILLER WON GAME – Chicago Tribune]
[Jury convicts Roy in Alison Parrot murder | CBC News]
[News Article – Toronto Star Ottawa Bureau]
[Staring down evil – The Globe and Mail]
[Why millions in Crime Stoppers rewards go unclaimed | The Star]
[Girls who went missing in Ontario: Solved and unsolved cases | The Star]
[Colin Pitchfork – Wikipedia]
[Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System | Royal Canadian Mounted Police]
[What is ViCLAS – What is ViCLAS]
[Stay Alert Stay Safe PSA#3 – YouTube]

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Episode 160 – Elena Tchoudakova was a beautiful, outgoing and vibrant 23-year-old Russian woman attending Interior Design at Toronto’s Ryerson University. In January of 1995 Elena was discovered in her apartment, she’d been brutally beaten to death and left in her bathub. There were a number of suspects with means and motive but only one with opportunity.

Co-host: Carol Browne

Sources:
[The Russian Princess Case: MacDonald, Bruce: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store]
R. v. Ho, 1999 CanLII 3823 (ON CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/1f9wr>
[50 Cambridge Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Housecreep]
[Tchoudakova : Toronto Public Library]
[Interactive: Toronto homicides since 1990 | The Star]
[Can a theatre program help rehabilitate Ontario prisoners? | The Star]

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