Dark Poutine

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 158 – Twenty-three-year-old nurse and former beauty queen, Alexandra Wiwrachuk, thought the warm spring night in 1962 would be perfect for a walk down by the river before her midnight shift at Saskatoon’s City Hospital. Alexandra did not show up for work that night, and it was not until thirteen days later that children stumbled upon her broken body in a shallow grave. Someone had savagely beaten the young woman, brutally raped her and then buried her alive, leaving her to die. Nearly sixty years later, no one has ever been brought to justice in Alexandra Wiwcharuk’s murder.

Co-host: Carol Browne

Sources:
https://justiceforalex.com
http://alexandrawiwcharuk.net/index.html
https://www.facebook.com/alexandrawiwcharuk/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_murders_in_Canada
https://thestarphoenix.remembering.ca/obituary/alexandra-wiwcharuk-1074725458
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0068LY6BE/
Girl In Saskatoon – Doc 
Johnny Cash – The Girl in Saskatoon 

SASKATOON POLICE
Saskatoon Police Website
policeservice@saskatoon.ca
1-306-975-8300

SASKATOON CRIME STOPPERS
Crime Stoppers
1-800-222-8477

THE NIECES OF ALEXANDRA
Nieces Official Website
patty@alexandrawiwcharuk.net
1-866-794-1962   (toll free)
All calls private and confidential!

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Episode 157 – From the late 1920s until after the Second World War, Lila and William Young ran the Ideal Maternity Home and Sanitarium for Unwed Mothers at East Chester, Nova Scotia. The pair have been referred to as ‘baby farmers’ who sold healthy newborns to wealthy couples with the means to pay and left the less viable to die of starvation. Estimates are that more than 100 and as many as 400 to 600 babies may have died in their care. Many of these deceased infants were quietly buried in wooden butter boxes at various sites around the area, while it is believed that others may have been disposed of in the nearby Atlantic Ocean.

Co-host: Carol Browne

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_Maternity_Home
https://canadiancrc.com/Butterbox-Babies_Killers-Child-Trafficking-Canada/Butterbox_Survivors.aspx
https://canadiancrc.com/Butterbox-Babies_Killers-Child-Trafficking-Canada/Butterbox-Babies-Baby-killers-child-trafficking-selling-babies-Canada-adoption-story.aspx
https://murderpedia.org/female.Y/y/young-gladys-lila.htm
http://archive.macleans.ca/article/1995/1/9/maternal-damnation
https://www.amazon.ca/Butterbox-Survivors-Robert-Hartlen/dp/1551092905
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184030298/eva-margaret-nieforth
https://www.scribd.com/read/238627429/Deadly-Duos
https://www.scribd.com/read/350837071/True-Crime-Confidential-Volume-4-True-Crime-Confidential-4#b_search-menu_662236
https://www.scribd.com/read/230097379/Cold-North-Killers-Canadian-Serial-Murder
https://web.archive.org/web/20010606012612/http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/bhartlen
http://bastards.org/nova-scotiahttps://commons.allard.ubc.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=emeritus_pubs

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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), <http://canlii.ca/t/1sxk0>
R. v. Svekla, 2009 ABQB 181 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/22w61>
R. v. Svekla, 2009 ABQB 187 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/22xkx>
R. v. Svekla, 2009 ABQB 193 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/22zrg>
R. v. Svekla, 2010 ABQB 370 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/2b5xx>
R. v. Svekla, 2010 ABCA 390 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/2dz2f>
R. v. Svekla, 2011 ABCA 154 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/flk2b>
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/

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Episode 155: The holidays can be a notoriously hard time for people who either miss loved ones or have a hard time being around them so much. For those reasons, we take a break from all the murder and mayhem and try to bring you a little holiday cheer with a bit of a dark edge. This year, for our fourth Christmas, themed episode, we learn about the global depictions of Santa Claus, some dark Christmas traditions from around the world, and Krampus, the Christmas Demon.

See you in the new year!

Co-host: Carol Browne

Sources:
https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas
https://www.whychristmas.com/customs/fatherchristmas.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus
http://www.krampus.com/krampus-on-the-web.php
https://www.thethings.com/15-terrifying-christmas-stories-that-will-put-you-in-true-holiday-spirit-this-year/
https://carterhaughschool.com/10-spooky-ghost-stories-for-christmastime/ https://www.scaryforkids.com/christmas-stories/
https://litreactor.com/columns/20-ghost-and-horror-stories-for-christmas
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-do-ghost-stories-go-christmas-180961547/
https://carterhaughschool.com/10-spooky-ghost-stories-for-christmastime/ https://www.icelandairhotels.com/magazine/blog/icelands-13-yule-lads-mag
https://www.ranker.com/list/story-of-icelandic-yule-brothers/erin-wisti
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71999/9-facts-about-krampus-st-nicks-demonic-companion
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Enkidu
https://thecompanion.in/christmas-eclipse-festival-saturnalia/

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Episode 154 – Twenty-three year old Gordon Adrian Kralt had been the caretaker for a Bible camp on Vancouver Island when he went missing on Halloween in 1970. Gordon was found two weeks later, he had been brutally slain. Tracking down Gordie’s killer uncovered a career psychopath who was believed to have killed before.

Co-host: Carol Browne
Written by: Josina De Bree

Sources:
Regina v. Stewart, 1972 CanLII 1445 (BC CA), <http://canlii.ca/t/hv006>

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