Dark Poutine

Episode 050 – In the early morning hours shots ring out at the Hub Mall inside the TD Canada Trust ATM vestibule at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Police attend to find three G4S security guards dead, one man critcally wounded. Another guard, Travis Brandon Baumgartner, was also missing, as was the armoured truck they’d arrived in and over $360,000 in cash. It quickly became evident that Baumgartner weas no victim and the manhunt was on.

Sources:
Hub Mall
Global News articles tagged Travis Baumgartner
@Leetrav on Twitter
W5 Documentary – Armed and Dangerous
Travis Baumgratner entry at Muderpedia

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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

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Episode 048 – All Canadians are taught to observe the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year with a moment of silence and thoughtful reflection about those who made great sacrifice so we could enjoy the freedoms we do today. This episode marks the 100th anniversary of the signing of the armistice to end hostilities in the Great War, World War 1. Here we commemorate the brave men and women who have donned a uniform in service of our country, including medal winners and every day soldiers, like Mike’s grandfather, Private Courtney Tremaine Browne.

Sources:
In Flanders Fields poem
Canadian National War Museum
Legion.ca – Remembrance Day
Veterans Affairs Canada – Remembrance Day
The Five Causes of World War 1 – simplified
85th in France and Flanders
Passchedale Audio
Victoria Cross Recipients WW1
Margaret McDonald
Private George McLean
Keep the Home Fires Burning – John McCormack 1917
Search: Personnel Records of the First World War

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Episode 047 – In 1890 an enigmatic character and member of the Katezie indigenous tribe, Slumach, was charged and convicted of the murder of a man named Louie Bee. It was believed that Slumach may have been protecting a massive gold find near Pitt Lake outside of Maple Ridge, BC. After Slumach was hanged for his crime. The legend of his unclaimed gold grew. For over a century many have tried and failed to find Slumach’s cursed treasure. A few have died trying.

Sources: Slumach.ca Slumach’s Curse (video) Curse of the Lost Gold Mine – 1994 (video) Lost Mines Found – questionable  (video) About Sturgeon Pitt Lake’s Lost Gold Mine B25 Bomber story and photos Supposed coordinates of bomber

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Epsiode 046: To celebrate our Halloween 2018 and Dark Poutine’s first anniversary we dive into the paranorma. Mike and Scott share some of their own supernatural stories. Celebrating with us around the campfire telling their own spooky tales are a few of our friends from the podcasting community from all over the world.

Joining us are:

All Crime No Cattle from Fort Worth, Texas
Left Behind Podcast from Nova Scotia
Point Blank: A true Crime Podcast from Australia
36 Times – Canadian True Crime from Nova Scotia
Writing About Crime from Manitoba
The Asian Madness Podcast from Taiwan
Occultae Veritatis from Saskatchewan
Ignorance Was Bliss from Salem, MA
The Nighttime Podcast from Nova Scotia
Minds of Madness from Ontario

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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 Bali Interpol Mekayla Bali RCMP Video RCMP Press Conference April 2016 RCMP Press Conference July 2016 Our Story: Mekayla Bali: Missing Since Apr 12, 2016 GloblalTV: ‘I feel that I have failed you’: mother asks for help finding Mekayla Bali Reddit: Unresolved Mysteries / Mekayla Bali Case Calgary Possible Sighting Amber Alert Criteria DaughterProject.ca BringMekaylaBaliHome.com Nighttime Podcast – Where is Mekayla Bali? True Crime Talk – Missing Mekayla Bali – Facebook Group

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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/gt2v7 http://canlii.ca/t/gn040 http://canlii.ca/t/flt1r http://canlii.ca/t/fwsm6 http://canlii.ca/t/g8k9s https://youtu.be/d2kqgX2KjTY Steel Town Down – Vice and W5 documentary http://yourlifemoments.ca/sitepages/obituary.asp?oid=458790 http://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-346246 https://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-346489 https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/eric-mearow-to-stand-trial-on-weapons-charges-1017453 https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/anatomy-of-a-knife-fight-346637

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Episode 043 – After over 6 years of apparent harassment and a number of, what appeared to be violent assaults, Cindy James, a 44-year old nurse, went missing in May of 1989. On June 8, 1989, two weeks later, Cindy’s family’s greatest fears were realized. She was found dead near an abandoned home in Richmond B.C., a suburb of Vancouver. She appeared to have been drugged and strangled, with her hands and feet tied behind her back. A medical inquest into the cause of Cindy’s death was inconclusive, leaving this one of the most talked about unsolved cases in Canadian history.

Sources:

http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Cindy_James http://thetroublewithjustice.com/2014/07/05/who-killed-nurse-cindy-james/ http://melaniehack.blogspot.ca/2007/02/imagine-my-surprise-when-i-recently.html http://callingfoundation.org/blenheim-lodge/ http://melaniehack.com/ https://www.vancourier.com/news/vancouver-s-creepiest-unsolved-mysteries-1.1261787 https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/57463c/cindy_james_is_found_dead_in_1989_after_6_12/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140831003619/http://allthingscrimeblog.com/2014/01/08/who-killed-nurse-cindy-james/ https://youtu.be/ljymSSBqflU Inquest Reporting https://youtu.be/sbrAggQE2EA More reporting with Cindy Audio Father Audio, Ozzie Kaban https://youtu.be/KPZ-G5bFEek A Current Affair https://unsolved.com/gallery/cindy-james/ http://vancouvertrueborns.com/post/150657118691/perhaps-the-most-disturbing-story-related-to-the https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.1555492,-123.1365998,3a,75y,270h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sdPhy_f0fpau1uXVElN_szg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DdPhy_f0fpau1uXVElN_szg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D353.5272%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

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Episode 042 – The man the world came to know as Harry Houdini, stunt performer, illusionist, magician was obsessed with magic and illusion from an early age. That obsession and drive to be better led him to become the most famous person ever to have practiced the magical arts.

There was a darker thing driving Harry too. He wanted to prove the existence of an after life. This not only led him to years of heartache after the deaths of his parents. Harry made many enemies of would be spiritualists as he debunked them.

Some say this is what led to the events in a Montreal dressing room that eventually caused the Great Houdini’s demise.

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Original Music & Cohost: Scott Hemenway (@sdhpics)

Sources: https://www.thegreatharryhoudini.com/ https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini https://ladailymirror.com/2015/06/01/harry-houdini-an-interview-by-marcet-haldeman-julius-october-1925/ http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42723 The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin by Harry Houdini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisoned_with_the_Pharaohs https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2014/10/harry-houdinis-rare-magic-books/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/death-of-houdini/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r8qr-p9z5g straitjacket escape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQfWw1m1Qos The Greatest: Houdini (1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ9lNRAjTQM How Houdini Died https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItDbVyT85kw Discovery Channel – Houdini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onG-ktpHiDM How Did Houdini Actually Die? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D50yh3WV-OQ Harry Houdini’s Voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IczEq22-rPU The Final Houdini Seance (Full Audio) https://www.amazon.ca/Secret-Life-Houdini-Americas-Superhero-ebook/dp/B000MGAU66/ Book: The Secret Life of Houdini https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=houdini# https://librivox.org/author/4549?primary_key=4549&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results https://archive.org/search.php?query=1920%27s&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22audio%22&page=2 https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-bDUVAOt69erDtFOJ/The%20Original%20Houdini%20Murder%20Theory_djvu.txt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_Crandon http://www.houdinifile.com/

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Episode 041 – In 2014 on a warm summer morning, Calgary mother, Jennifer O’Brien, went to pick up her 5-year-old son, Nathan, from his grandparents’. When she walked in the bloody scene she found, shocked even the most seasoned Calgary Police Service members. 

Kathy and Alvin Liknes and their grandson were nowhere to be found. A suspect was quickly identified, Douglas Garland, of Airdrie, Alberta. The trio was never seen alive again, nor were their bodies recovered. Polce were certain they had been murdered.

The mountain of evidence linking Garland to the crime, however, revealed a conniving mind, seething with resentment. Garland, after being shutout of a partnership in a product that went nowhere, had been planning murder for years.

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