Dark Poutine

Episode 109 – In a 16 month span over 1926 and 1927, in nine U.S. states and one Canadian province, 21 women and an infant were murdered by a sadistic serial predator and necrophile that became known as the Dark Strangler. The monster, named Earle Leonard Nelson, seemed to move too fast for police to catch up to. Eventually one of history’s most notorious killers was apprehended and and brought to justice in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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Sources and further reading:
[Harold Schecter’s, Bestial – GoodReads.com]
[Michael Newton’s, The Dark Strangler – GoodReads.com]
[Winnipeg Police Service – The Strangler]
[Earle Leonard Nelson | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers]
[Meet Earle Nelson, The “Gorilla Man,” Once America’s Worst Serial Killer]
[Beastly man began landlady killing spree in SF – The San Francisco Examiner]
[Congenital Syphilis – NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders)]
[15 Facts About The Gorilla Man, Earle Nelson | TheRichest]
[The Grisly Gorilla Man Murders of Earle Leonard Nelson]

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Episode 108 – On August 6, 2011, Carol Nora King went missing from her home in the tiny village of Herschel, Saskatchewan. That same day she was to make an official statement to Rosetown, SK., about ongoing harassment and stalking she had been suffering at the hands of her former boyfriend, Joseph ‘David” Caissie. King was found dead in an abandoned farmyard three weeks later, but it was not until an undercover RCMP sting, 5 years later, that her killer was finally caught. 

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Sources and further reading:
R. v Caissie, 2018 SKQB 279 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/hvrxq] >
R v Caissie, 2019 SKQB 3 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/hx4db] >
[Closing arguments at David Caissie murder trial focus on reliability | Saskatoon StarPhoenix]
[Watch: A timeline of the Joseph ‘David’ Caissie trial | The Province]
[Joseph ‘David’ Caissie appeals 1st-degree murder conviction in Carol King’s death – Saskatoon | Globalnews.ca]
[Joseph ‘David’ Caissie guilty of killing Carol King in 2011 – Saskatoon | Globalnews.ca]
[How do Mr. Big sting operations work – Saskatoon | Globalnews.ca]
[Conflicting testimony at Joseph ‘David’ Caissie’s murder trial | Country 104]
[Mr. Big sting admissibility ruling to come down in Joseph ‘David’ Caissie’s murder trial | Country 105]
[‘She feared for her life’: sister details events leading up to Carol King’s death  | Globalnews.ca]
[‘Everywhere we went he was behind us’: Accused murderer harassed Carol King month before she died, sister says  | CTV  News]
[Carol King Obituary – Herschel, Saskatchewan | Legacy.com]
[R v B (KG) – Wikipedia] 
[KGB Statement – Recanting domestic assault charges]

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Episode 107 – In June of 1993, 9-year-old Cindy Young found her mother, Brenda, deceased on the floor of their St. John’s, Newfoundland apartment. Brenda Marie Young, 26, and a mother of two was brutally murdered while her children slept. Almost immediately, police had focused on a suspect, Brenda’s boyfriend, 28-year-old Randy Druken. But, in this case, things are not always as simple as they first appear.

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End of episode promo for Deadly Misadventures hosted by Justin from Generation Why and Tyler from The Minds of Madness.

Sources and Further Reading:
[Police interviewing children tend to ask ‘largely inappropriate’ questions which could lead to wrongful convictions: study | National Post]
[Randy Druken says he’s innocent – CBC] 
R. v. Druken (R.J.), 1995 CanLII 10478 (NL SC), < [http://canlii.ca/t/g08x0] >
R. v. Druken (R.J.), 1994 CanLII 10500 (NL SC), < [http://canlii.ca/t/g0900] >
R. v. Druken (R.J.), 1995 CanLII 10537 (NL SC), < [http://canlii.ca/t/g08t1] >
[The Lamer Report] 
[#wrongfullyconvictedwednesday Randy Drunken – Toronto Defence Lawyers]
[Randy Druken – Innocents Database of Exonerations]
[3 Nov 1994, 4 – The Gazette at Newspapers.com]
[Randy Druken back in St. John’s court today | Provincial | News | SaltWire]
[Fisherman’s Road: ‘What kind of sick bastard would kill and rape their mother’]
[PressReader.com – Drug Addict Wins 2M in Wrongful Conviction Case]
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/crown-drops-3-charges-against-randy-druken-1.727346

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Episode 106 – This week we take on the case of a morphine addicted, syphilitic, Scottish Canadian physician with a lust for murder and a blackmail. Dr. Thomas Neill Cream used his intelligence, medical training, relative good looks and higher station to leave a trail of death in Canada, the United States and Victorian London. Only years after Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror mysteriously ended, Dr. Cream picked up Jack’s mantle poisoning at least four more sex workers in the poorest area of London. The Lambeth Poisoner may have gotten away with the crimes were it not for his own big mouth.

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Sources and Further Reading:
[Dr Thomas Neil Cream – Crime Library on truTV.com]
[Casebook: Jack the Ripper – Dr. Thomas Neill Cream]
[Murder by Gaslight: The Lambeth Poisoner]
[Canada’s History – The Evil Deeds of Dr. Cream]
[Dr. Thomas Neill Cream | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers]
[The CRIMES OF DR. CREAM | Maclean’s | September 15, 1931]
[The Lambeth Poisoner | Crime Magazine]
[The Lambeth Poisoner: London’s Deadly Doctor]
[Metropolitan Police letter and photographs of Dr Neill Cream, England, 1890-1907 | Science Museum Group Collection]
[Doctor death – New York Daily News]
[The man who would be Jack the Ripper – The Scotsman]
[The gentleman from Chicago – Cashman, John – Internet Archive]
[History of tuberculosis – Wikipedia]
[A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream]
[Monsters of Medicine]

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Episode 105 – Holiday Special – On Christmas Eve in 1988, after killing two security guards, gunmen burst into the Los Angeles offices of the Nakatomi Corporation in Century City at the newly opened Nakatomi Plaza building. The 30 plus hostages were all attendees of the Nakatomi Christmas party happening on the 30th floor. What at first appeared to be a terrorist incident was found out to be FAKE NEWS. Iit was actually an elaborate heist, led by German born criminal mastermind Hans Grüber. What Grüber and his group did not count on was the heroism of one partygoer, John McLane, who almost singlehandedly foiled the plan. The whole thing comes off like the plot of an action movie  

Sources and Further Reading:
[Breaking News – Shots Fired at Nakatomi Plaza]
[Hans Gruber – Wikipedia]
[John McClane – Wikipedia]
[Fox Plaza (Los Angeles) – Wikipedia]
[Nakatomi Plaza]
[Timeline of Events]

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Episode 104 – On August 18, 1976 two boys found the body of a 5-year-old girl in a duffle bag floating in a waterway between St Catharines and Hamilton, Ontario. That same day, 29-year-old Sandra Rallo and her two children, Jason, 6, and Stephanie, 5, were reported missing by Sandra’s father, Doug Pollington. The evidence pointed directly at Sandra’s husband and father to the children, Hamilton City Hall manager, Jon George Rallo. Although Rallo claimed innocence, the evidence mounted against him, resulting in three charges of first degree murder for the senseless slayings of his family.

Sources and Further Reading:
Regina v. Rallo, 1978 CanLII 2427 (ON CA), <http://canlii.ca/t/htv3n>
[SECRETS: Jon Rallo revealed | TheSpec.com]
https://www.pressreader.com/@Mike_Browne.1/collection/jon-rallo
[Newspapers.com – Jon Rallo / 1976-2019 / Canada]
[Debates (Hansard) No. 96 – June 4, 2014 (41-2) – House of Commons of Canada]
[Hansard Transcripts 1996-Apr-18 | Legislative Assembly of Ontario]
[August 1976: Hamilton’s Rallo family murdered | TheIFP.ca]
[Clairmont: Victims’ family struggling to keep killer Lovie away | TheSpec.com]
[Opinion | Hamilton murderers Jon Rallo, George Lovie sharing a house together]
[Killer Jon Rallo to get day parole  | Globalnews.ca]
[David Sweet Column: Helping victims find peace – David Sweet]
[Blast Furnace Canada Blog: John Rallo FREE?]

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Episode 103 – In this episode we’re heading to the Inuvik area of the Northwest Territories, near Fort McPherson. Along the Rat River in the summer of 1931 a stranger was first seen by two indigenous men canoeing on the river. He was a stranger who, save for a short visit to town for supplies, kept to himself. The man was later accused of interfering with the traps of other hunters and trapping without a license. When RCMP went to investigate hell broke loose, culminating in attempted murder of one RCMP constable and the murder of another at the hands of the man. The man, known by the alias Albert Johnson, lead RCMP on a six week chase across the frozen tundra before he was taken down. His true identity remains a mystery.

Sources:
[The Hunt For The Mad Trapper – Myth Merchant Films]
[The Mad Trapper of Rat River by Nash Neary]
[Goodreads.com – The Mad Trapper of Rat River by Dick North]
[Who was the Mad Trapper of Rat River? | Maclean’s | OCTOBER 1 1955]
[Goodreads.com – The Mad Trapper: Unearthing a Mystery by Barbara Smith]
[NWT and Y History project – may.htm]
[The RCMP Hunt for the Mad Trapper – The Wop May Chronicles]
[Constable Millen’s Cairn – PWNHC | CPSPG]
[CBC – Mad Trapper not a Canadian, scientific tests discover]
[GlobalTV – Northern Mysteries- The Mad Trapper Albert Johnson]
[Albert Johnson, “The Mad Trapper of Rat River” | The Canadian Encyclopedia]
[Mackenzie River]
[The RCMP Hunt for the Mad Trapper – The Wop May Chronicles]

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Episode 102 – On the morning of August 15, 1967, in what was one of the most heinous random crimes ever to have happened in Canada, 9 members of the Peterson family of Shell Lake Saskatchewan were found gunned down in their modest farmhouse. Jim and Evelyn Peterson and 7 of their 9 children lay dead with no rhyme or reason for the crime. A madman was on the loose on the prairies.

Sources & Further Reading:
[Newspapers.com search – Canada / 1967-2019 / Shell Lake]
Marking 50 years since the Shell Lake murders, Canada’s worst random mass killing
[Victor Ernest Hoffman | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers]
[CBC Player | Shell Lake Mass Murder]
[Newsroom : Inquest in the death of Victor Hoffman announced]
[Madera Tribune 21 August 1967 — California Digital Newspaper Collection]
[Shell Lake murders | Revolvy]
[After their release, most mentally ill offenders left unchecked – The Globe and Mail]
[Shell Lake Massacre – Phyllis Peterson – ExtraOrdinary Lives – YouTube]
[Goodreads – Shell Lake Massacre by Peter Tadman]
[Village of Shell Lake » Oasis of the Parklands]
[Veterans’ Land Act | The Canadian Encyclopedia]
[What is ECT?]
[A Brief History of Electroconvulsive Therapy | Psychology Today Canada]

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Episode 101 – On the evening of December 14, 1981, 14-year-old, St. John’s, Newfoundland, resident and grade 9 student, Dana Bradley, disappeared while hitchhiking home from a friend’s house close to Village Mall. She was seen getting into a car with an unknown male, that drove off. She was found dead in woods outside the city 4 days later. She’d been sexually assaulted and murdered. To this day Dana’s murder has not been solved and her case remains open.

Anyone with information about Dana’s murder should contact the  [RCMP] at 709-772-5400 or call the anonymous  [Crime Stoppers] tip line at 1-800-222-8477.

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Sources and further reading:
[CBC – 2016 – New DNA Evidence] 
[Newfoundland and Labrador – Wikipedia]
[Man claims he witnessed Dana Bradley murder | The Western Star]
[An Alternate History of the Dana Bradley Murder Investigation — The Indy]
[Hitching a Ride: Darrin Mcgrath: 9781894463447: Books – Amazon.ca]
[Murder of Dana Bradley | Revolvy]
[Group Looking for Evidence – The Telegram]
[Some Dana Bradley murder suspects cleared with new DNA | The Telegram]
[Dana Bradley Murder – Original CBC Report from  1982 – YouTube]
[The Unresolved Murder of Dana Bradley : UnresolvedMysteries]
[Breaking their silence | Provincial | News | Truro News]
[The Telegram – St. John’s Newspaper – Dana Bradley Series]
[No justice for Dana | Local | News | The Telegram]
[Civilians dig up Dana Bradley cars, no evidence inside say RCMP]
[PressReader.com – RCMP opens up on Dana Bradley Bradley case]
[Search: dana Bradley | The Telegram]
[Dana Bradley’s face a constant reminder | The Compass]
[Justice for Dana Bradley – Home | Facebook]
[St. John’s missing women cases shrouded in mystery, more than 3 decades later]
[The Ghost Of Dana Bradley – YouTube]

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Episode 100 – This episode was recorded live at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver on November 9, 2019 as part of 2019 Vancouver Podcast Festival. In front of a packed house of energetic Dark Poutine listeners Mike and Scott went through a brief retrospective of some highlights from some of the most popular of the first 99 shows. The case covered in the second half of the show is the disappearance of Madison Scott, from Vanderhoof B.C. on the morning of May 28, 2011. Madison attended a party with friends and opted to stay alone in her tent at the Hogsback Lake Recreation Area after everyone else had gone. Madison was gone the next morning with her cellphone and keys, but her tent, truck and personal belongings were still there. She’s not been seen or heard form since.

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Sources:
[Help Find Madison Scott]
[Telegraph Wilderness Trail, Vanderhoof, British Columbia, Canada, BC]
[Disappearance of Maddy Scott – Wikipedia]
[The Mysterious disappearance of Madison Scott – UnresolvedMysteries]
[R. v Charlie, 2017 BCSC 2187 (CanLII)]
[Madison Scott’s Mother Comments on BrainScratch Searchlight – YouTube]
[FRO’s b-day]
[http://www.vanderhoof.ca/]
[Recreation Sites and Trails BC – Hogsback Lake]
[Help find Maddy – YouTube] Somebody knows something – audio clip

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