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At the outset of World War II, a number of Canadian citizens of German and Italian decent, as well as Jews who were immigrating to Canada, fleeing Europe were rounded up and put into internment camps. After the Japanese attack on the United States in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, on 6 December, 1941, North Americans were afraid. The Second World War had come far too close to home. Just over a month after the Pearl Harbour attack, a process began which saw the mass internment of Japanese Canadians from 1942 until 1949. Many of the detainees, including women and children, had been born in Canada. The country they’d grown up to love had uprooted them from their homes, seized their properties and taken away their rights and freedoms.

Episode 229: In our last episode we learned about the life and first two murders of British serial murderer Dennis Andrew Nilsen. He was arrested after police discovered human remains he’d flushed down the toilet at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a Suburb of North London. In this episode we’ll learn about Nilsen’s next twelve murders, what happened after his arrest and the aftermath of his crimes. A number of Nilsen’s victims remain unidentified to this day. As Dennis Nilsen was a necrophile, some of the information we are about to share are intense and may be very disturbing to some. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Episode 228: In our last episode we learned about the final killing and capture of British serial murderer Dennis Andrew Nilsen after police discovered human remains he’d flushed down the toilet at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a Suburb of North London, England. After his capture, the enigmatic Muswell Hill Murderer, or Kindly Killer, as he would come to be called, was more than happy to discuss his crimes. In this episode we’ll learn more about the killer’s life, his other crimes and what possibly led to the murders of 15 young men and boys, one of them a young Canadian student, Kenneth Ockendon Jr.Sources:Dennis Nilsen - WikipediaDyno-Rod Local Drains & Plumbing Experts | Fixed-Price | 24/7Killing For Company: Masters, Brian: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreDinner, Drinks & Death ; The True Story of Dennis Nilsen by Alan R. Warren - Ebook | ScribdA Plague of Murder by Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson - Ebook | ScribdWatch Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes | Netflix Official SiteThe Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen StoryReddit — Dennis NilsenDennis Nilsen – Nick DaviesTommy - Album by The Who | SpotifySerial Killer Dennis Nilsen And His Career In The ArmyI Struck Up a Friendship with the Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen. Then I Edited His Memoirs.The Argus — Serial killer Dennis Nilsen’s impact on Brighton survivorA murderer among us: I was Dennis Nilsen’s boss | The SpectatorDennis Nilsen and Bleep: What Really happened to Des’ dog?The Big Read: Dennis Nilsen - The Scottish nobody who became the archetypal serial killer | HeraldScotlandAn honest lack of answers | The PsychologistPsychopathic Serial Killers – Dennis Nilsen – Psychopaths In LifeSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 227: On the 8th of February, 1983, complaints about the plumbing at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, a suburb in London, England led to the discovery of human remains. The remains were traced to the flat of a tenant in the home named Dennis Andrew Nilsen, 37, a civil servant, former police officer and veteran of the British military. In Nilsen’s home police found grisly evidence of many more murders. The enigmatic Muswell Hill Murderer, or Kindly Killer, as he would come to be called, is believed to have killed 15 young men and boys, one of them a Canadian named Kenneth Ockendon Jr. Listener discretion is strongly suggestedSources:Dennis Nilsen - WikipediaDyno-Rod Local Drains & Plumbing Experts | Fixed-Price | 24/7Killing For Company: Masters, Brian: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreDinner, Drinks & Death ; The True Story of Dennis Nilsen by Alan R. Warren - Ebook | ScribdA Plague of Murder by Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson - Ebook | ScribdWatch Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes | Netflix Official SiteThe Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen StoryReddit — Dennis NilsenDennis Nilsen – Nick DaviesTommy - Album by The Who | SpotifySerial Killer Dennis Nilsen And His Career In The ArmyI Struck Up a Friendship with the Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen. Then I Edited His Memoirs.The Argus — Serial killer Dennis Nilsen’s impact on Brighton survivorA murderer among us: I was Dennis Nilsen’s boss | The SpectatorThe Big Read: Dennis Nilsen - The Scottish nobody who became the archetypal serial killer | HeraldScotlandAn honest lack of answers | The PsychologistPsychopathic Serial Killers – Dennis Nilsen – Psychopaths In LifeMike Browne's - Dennis Nilsen Spotify playlistSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

On a hot, sunny Saturday afternoon on the 15th of August 1914, in a house near Spring Green, Wisconsin one of the worst mass killings in the state’s history occurred when 7 people were axed to death, immolated, and the house they were in burnt down.It was a case that on its own would have made headlines - but it wasn’t just any house that was burnt - it was the world-famous architectural treasure named Taliesin that was left in rubble, a house created by the internationally renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The victims were Wright’s partner Martha Borthwick, and two children, her 9-year-old Martha, and 11-year-old John. Also slain were gardener David Lindblom, draftsman Emil Brodell, builder Thomas Brunkner, and Bruckner's 13-year-old son Ernest.Promo: True ConsequencesSources:https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/05/01/murder-in-the-blueprints-of-frank-lloyd-wright/https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/taliesinhttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28519/taliesin-tragedyhttps://la.curbed.com/2015/10/28/9906764/sowden-house-george-hodel-black-dahliahttps://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/wright-mare-massacre-frank-lloyd-home-article-1.1591522https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86086068/1912-01-04/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1912&index=0&rows=20&words=Frank+Lloyd+Wright&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=Wisconsin&date2=1912&proxtext=Frank+Lloyd+Wright&y=18&x=12&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/carlton-julian.htmhttps://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2017/04/murder-at-taliesin.htmlhttps://www.taliesinpreservation.org/Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 223: On Friday, February 20, 1976, while on vacation in Florida OPP Corporal Donald R. Irwin, 39, a father of three from Kitchener, Ontario, went on a ride along with his good friend Florida State Trooper, Philip Black, also 39-years-old. Irwin was in civilian clothing and unarmed. At around 7:15 a.m. they checked an old Camaro parked in a rest area on I-95, north of Pompano Beach, Florida. Moments later, both officers were dead, and the five people who’d been in the Camaro had fled in Black’s cruiser. Walter Norman Rhodes Jr., 26, 29-year-old, Jesse Joseph Tafero, Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs, 28, Tafero’s wife and two children, Jacobs’ 9-year-old son, Eric, and the couple’s 10-month-old daughter, Christina, were apprehended at a road block after having kidnapped another man, and stolen his Cadillac from a retirement home after abandoning Black’s cruiser. Rhodes’ life was spared as he pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against the other two. Jacobs and Tafero were both sentenced to die in Florida’s electric chair, but was justice really served. The case eventually unravelled but not before Tafero had his date with Old Sparky in 1990.Promo:Podcast by ProxySources:21 Feb 1976, Page 1 - Fort Lauderdale News at Newspapers.comKiller of 2 Police Officers Executed in Florida - The New York TimesOntario Police Memorial Foundation — Donald R. IrwinFHP MEMORIAL — Phillip A. Black (1936-1976)In the Blink of an Eye - Essayhttps://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/i-had-nothing-the-world-i-left-no-longer-existedJesse Tafero - Case Chart - Grassroots Investigation Project by Claudia Whitman Sponsored by Equal Justice USAJesse Tafero - Case Summary - Innocence Project by Claudia Whitman sponsored by Equal Justice USAJesse Tafero - WikipediaExoneree, Center on Wrongful Convictions: Northwestern Pritzker School of LawTafero v. State, 223 So. 2d 564 | Casetext Search + CitatorJesse Tafero | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderersJesse Tafero - WikipediaJessie Joseph Tafero, Petitioner-appellant, v. Louie L. Wainwright, Respondent-appellee, 796 F.2d 1314 (11th Cir. 1986) :: JustiaHome - The Sunny CenterThe Joys of Forgiveness on Death Row | Sunny Jacobs | TEDxGalway — YouTube‘Exonerated’ blurs facts about death penalty caseFormer death row couple: ‘Life turned out beautifully’ | Family | The GuardianTIPS LEAD TO CAPTURE OF PAROLED MURDERER – Sun SentinelFugitive’s prosthetic leg gives him away | The Seattle TimesWALTER RHODES JR v. HARDEE CI WARDEN FLORIDA PAROLE COMMISSION SECRETARY FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS | FindLawRhodes v. Fla. Parole Comm’n, CASE NO. 8:13-cv-1424-T-36AEP | Casetext Search + CitatorPhillip Black and Donald Irwin murders 2/20/1976 Broward County, FL *Shot to death by Walter Rhodes, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison; It is, actually, a complicated case* | Bonnie’s Blog of CrimeSunny Jacobs: Life BeyondStretch of I-95 honors 2 fallen troopers TRANSLATE with x English ArabicHebrewPolishBulgarianHindiPortugueseCatalanHmong DawRomanianChinese SimplifiedHungarianRussianChinese TraditionalIndonesianSlovakCzechItalianSlovenianDanishJapaneseSpanishDutchKlingonSwedishEnglishKoreanThaiEstonianLatvianTurkishFinnishLithuanianUkrainianFrenchMalayUrduGermanMalteseVietnameseGreekNorwegianWelshHaitian CreolePersian TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster PortalBackSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 205: In this Away Game we are off to post World War One Germany where in the early 1920s, a brutal serial killer, Fritz Haarmann, killed at least 27 young men and boys. Many of his crimes, it appears, were committed to impress his lover, a man named Hans Grans. Although Haarmann admitted it was he who murdered and dismembered the victims, he claimed that ultimately, in a few cases, it was Grans who chose who was to die.Sources:Weimar Republic - HISTORYList of German serial killers - WikipediaAuthor & Radio Host | Alan R. WarrenButcher of Hanover: Fritz Haarmann by Alan R. WarrenSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 201: On October 14, 2007, after a gruelling 20-hour journey from Poland, Robert Dziekanski, arrived at the YVR airport’s international terminal in Richmond, B.C. Dziekanski, who spoke nor read any English, was unable to read the signs directing him to what he should do next or where he should go. The confused man spent ten hours in the airport wandering around the secure customs area. His mother was waiting for him with a friend only a few meters away in the public waiting area. Had the two been able to connect this story would have had a very different conclusion, but they did not. She left the airport, frustrated, hours before her son’s final moments.Sources:Commissioner’s Statement - Incident at Vancouver Airport - Canada.caReport Following a Public Interest Investigation into a Chair-Initiated Complaint Respecting the Death in RCMP Custody of Mr. Robert Dziekanski | Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMPBraidwood InquiryBraidwood Commission ReportVancouver Sun — YVR Robert Dziekanski 2007 Taser incident — YouTubeVancouver Airport Tragedy - Canada — YouTube (song)Rundel v. British Columbia – Braidwood Commission, 2009 BCSC 814 (CanLII), Taser International, Inc. v. British Columbia, 2010 BCSC 1120 (CanLII), R. v. Bentley, 2013 BCSC 1125 (CanLII), R. v. Bentley, 2013 BCSC 1364 (CanLII), R. v. Millington, 2014 BCSC 756 (CanLII), R. v. Millington, 2015 BCSC 143 (CanLII), R. v. Bentley, 2015 BCCA 251 (CanLII), R. v. Robinson, 2015 BCSC 433 (CanLII), R. v. Millington, 2015 BCSC 515 (CanLII), R. v. Rundel, 2015 BCSC 1090 (CanLII), R. v. Millington, 2015 BCSC 1380 (CanLII), R. v. Millington, 2015 BCSC 1426 (CanLII), R. v. Robinson, 2015 BCSC 1535 (CanLII), R. v. Millington, 2016 BCCA 293 (CanLII), R. v. Robinson, 2017 BCCA 6 (CanLII), Criminal Law: Perjury | CanLII ConnectsFinal report from Braidwood Commission finds Taser use unjustifiedOsoyoos First Nation Mountie still trying to clear his name 12 years after the Robert Dziekanski died - APTN NewsMother of Robert Dziekanski dies during visit to Poland | Watch News Videos OnlineBlamed and Broken: The Mounties and the Death of Robert Dziekanski eBook : Petrovich, Curt: Amazon.ca: Kindle StoreCBA British Columbia - In Memoriam: Thomas BraidwoodCoroner’s ReportSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 200: The story we are about to tell is a harrowing tale of child neglect that leaves a young boy badly scarred for life. In December of 1990, after being overlooked by his family who were on their way to Paris for a Christmas visit, Kevin McCallister is left on his own in the family’s large Winnetka, Illinois home. There the 7-year-old not only has to care for himself, but has to do his best fend off two serial burglars, a team known as the Wet Bandits, attempting to break into the McCallister residence. Leaving Kevin McCallister with lifelong issues due to the effects of post traumatic stress, and later problems with addiction.Sources:An inaccurate Film Dramatization of Actual Events671 Lincoln Ave, Winnetka, IL 60093 - realtor.com®Bill Breakdown: How Much Kevin McCallister’s Dad Spent In Home Alone | Sideshow CollectiblesAll Injuries Sustained In Home Alone - Assessed By A Real Doctor - ThrillistHome Alone | Home Alone Wiki | FandomKevin McCallister | Home Alone Wiki | FandomSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 194: On June 25, 1950,  after months of increasing tension, the Korean War or what has been called Canada’s forgotten war, began when North Korean troops invaded South Korea. Countries, including Canada, belonging to the newly formed United Nations jumped in quickly to defend democratic South Korea from the the communist forces from the north. Canada contributed the third largest number of soldiers among UN countries to the war. More than 26,000 Canadians served in the conflict on land, at sea and in the air. Over the next three years of the conflict there were 516 Canadians killed, another 1042 were wounded, 33 became prisoners of war and 16 soldiers are still missing in action. Lest we forget.Sources:Veterans Affairs Canada — Land of the Morning CalmWhat is The Memory Project? — The Memory ProjectSeeking the families of Canadian Army soldiers missing in Korea — Canada.caRegister to find your missing military family member — Canada.ca“We really didn’t think we would survive,” Mike Czuboka, Korean War “Extraordinary Hero” award recipient shares his story - 580 CFRA - Omny.fmGerald Edward Gowing - Veterans Affairs CanadaThe Kims: Leaders’ Biographies - North Korea: Introductory Sources - LibGuides at Cornell UniversityRead Korea Online by John Melody and John M. Rockingham | BooksRead Deadlock in Korea Online by Ted Barris | BooksRead Triumph at Kapyong Online by Dan Bjarnason | BooksRead The Korean War Online by Michael Hickey | BooksRead Reluctant Neighbor: Canada, the U.S.A. and the Korean Crisis Online by Darryl Hurly | BooksRead Everyday Heroes Online by Jody Mitic | BooksRead Canadian Foreign Policy: 1945-2000 Online by Arthur E. Blanchette | BooksSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine