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Episode 169: On the evening of Christmas Day in 2017, upon gaining access to an Oak Bay, British Columbia apartment, police discovered a bloody crime scene. In the suite were the bodies of six-year-old Chloe Berry and her four-year-old sister, Aubrey Berry. They had been murdered in their beds. First responders also discovered Andrew Berry, Chloe and Aubrey’s father, naked, seriously injured and bleeding in the apartment's bathtub. He had penetrating injuries to his left chest and throat. First responders took Andrew by ambulance to Victoria General Hospital for treatment. He’d eventually have a rather tall tale to tell about what had taken place that day. Sources: R. v Berry, 2019 BCSC 2362 (CanLII), [Global News - SEARCH - Andrew Berry] [Oak Bay News - SEARCH - Andrew Berry] [Search Results | Times Colonist - Andrew Berry] [Oak Bay Police Note - Twitter] [Photo exhibits from Andrew Berry murder trial - BC | Globalnews.ca] [Mom of slain Oak Bay sisters supports recent changes to Canada’s Divorce Act  | Globalnews.ca] [Chloe & Aubrey Berry Bursary Fund - Victoria Foundation] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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), United States v. Burns, 2001 SCC 7 (CanLII), [2001] 1 SCR 283, [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 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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), R. v. A.C., 2003 BCPC 508 (CanLII), R. v. Cran and Rao, 2004 BCSC 1635 (CanLII), R. v. Cran, 2005 BCSC 171 (CanLII), R. v. J.S., 2005 BCPC 556 (CanLII), R. v. Cran, 2006 BCCA 464 (CanLII), [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] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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), Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 153 - Between 2002 and 2005, Charles Eli Kembo, a refugee from Malawi, murdered four people, his business partner, Arden Samuel, his stepdaughter, Rita Yeung, his girlfriend, Sui Yin Ma, and his wife, Margaret Kembo, whose body has never been found. He set up elaborate schemes to steal their identities, set up false bank accounts, insurance claims, and run up credit in his victims’ names.  Sources: R. v. Kembo, 2010 BCSC 914 (CanLII), https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kembo-guilty-of-4-murders-b-c-jury-1.911825 https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/33466/DiSanto_Julianne_M_2016_PhD.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=2 https://www.refworld.org/docid/467bb4921e.html https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/campaigns/immigration-matters/system.html#screening https://www.pressreader.com/canada/national-post-latest-edition/20100306/289579580900497 https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/serial-killer-charles-kembo-book_n_1070290 https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/serial-killer-charles-kembo-loses-appeal https://jezebel.com/meet-the-kids-author-who-is-also-a-serial-killer-5856417 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/murder-suspect-has-lengthy-list-of-offences/article4313841/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/predator-kembo-guilty-sentenced-to-life/article4388720/ https://www.straight.com/news/jury-finds-charles-kembo-guilty-four-counts-first-degree-murder http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kembo-guilty-of-4-murders-b-c-jury-1.911825 http://www.primetimecrime.com/Recent/Murder/Charles%20Kembo.htm https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/four-time-surrey-murderer-loses-conviction-appeal/ https://bc.ctvnews.ca/crown-says-kembo-killed-4-to-steal-identities-1.443147 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/serial-killer-charles-kembo-s-lawyer-calls-trial-bewildering-1.2625206 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 145: This episode contains disturbing and graphic details of the 2015 murder of Chinese millionaire, Gang Yuan, in West Vancouver at the hands of his soft-spoken cousin Li Zhao. The crime’s unthinkable and twisted aftermath is horrendous. Sources: Pre-Trial Voire Dire R. v Zhao, 2020 BCSC 1322 (CanLII), BC v. Child 3, 2019 BCCA 171 (CanLII), Mother 1 v Solus Trust , 2019 BCSC 200 (CanLII), 963 King Georges Way, West Vancouver | Dana Inman - 360hometours.ca 961 King Georges Way - Real Estate tour video (renumbered address) 961 King Georges Way - Realtor Listing  3333 The Crescent Pym Island NY Times Article National Post Article 2014 HBICtv: Ultra Rich Asian Girls - Wikipedia HBICtv: YouTube GlobalNews - Conviction Article Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 142: On a chilly, cloudy winter night in early 2005 at a gas station in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, a 24-year-old gas station attendant named Grant de Patie was brutally slain by a callous young man over just $12 and 30 cents worth of gas. Sources: R. v. Pratt, 2006 BCSC 1198 (CanLII), R. v. Pratt, 2007 BCCA 206 (CanLII), https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/driver-from-2005-vehicle-dragging-death-in-maple-ridge-dies/ https://globalnews.ca/news/5080921/grant-de-patie-killer-darnell-pratt-dies/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%27s_Law https://globalnews.ca/news/5342451/bc-late-night-workers-grants-law/ https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/plaque-will-honour-grant-and-worker-safety/ https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/03/21/im-a-little-numb-killer-of-b-c-gas-station-attendant-grant-de-patie-dies/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/death-of-toddler-mauled-by-rottweilers-was-accidental-inquest-rules/article960766/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 139: On September 27, 2017, when Dianna Mah-Jones failed to show up for her shift without calling in sick, her co-workers were concerned. Neither Dianna nor her husband, Richard Jones, was answering the phone. One of Dianna's colleagues went to the couple's home in Vancouver's Marpole neighbourhood and discovered what appeared to be a bloody crime scene. Dianna and Richard lay dead inside the house, brutally murdered. After a complex and intense investigation police had their suspect. He was an odd man, with an odder name and an ever more odd explanation for what he had done. Sources: R. v Kam, 2020 BCSC 893 (CanLII),   Complete Vancouver police interrogation of Rocky Rambo Wei Nam Kam | Vancouver Sun 2017 Health Care Hero Vancouver Coastal: Dianna Mah Jones - BC Health Care Awards Thrill Killing UBC Memoriam Global News - Marpole Murders Crime Scene Evidence Photos Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 136 - In July of 1998, Keith Scott Black went missing. He was a respected Taekwondo instructor who had three schools near Kelowna., B.C., where he taught with his wife, Rhonda Petra Black. Rhonda was saying Keith had abandoned her, but Keith's sister Sandy and the cops knew there was more to the story. After five long years the story came to a conclusion as the true story emerged as did Keith's remains. Sources: R. v. Black, 2007 BCSC 1105 (CanLII),   R. v. Steadman, 2008 BCSC 1613 (CanLII), http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx5MLf3sdRQ  Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine