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Tina Michelle Fontaine was an Indigenous girl who had  a tough go right from the beginning. As she had run away before when 15-year-old Tina disappeared on August 9, 2014 the authorities did not treat it with much urgency at all. Tina’s family was worried sick and wanted more activity. It was not until it was too late that  the investigation began in earnest. Tina’s body was found wrapped in a duvet and floating in Winnipeg's Red River more than a week later. Her death and the subsequent acquittal of the only suspect in Tina’s slaying are cited by some as catalysts for the national inquiry that was called to look into the massive amount of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada. Sources and more information: R. v. Cormier, 2010 ABCA 162 (CanLII), [Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine by Joanna Jolly] [Public Reports – Manitoba Advocate] Place Where it Feels Like Home: The Story of Tina Fontaine - PDF [Global News SEARCH: Tina Fontaine] [Newspapers.com search: Tina Fontaine] [CBC news topic tag Raymond Cormier trial] [21 Feb 2018, N3 - The Gazette at Newspapers.com] [27 Aug 2014, 10 - National Post at Newspapers.com] [26 Sep 2014, 7 - National Post at Newspapers.com] [BBC World Service - Assignment, Canada’s Red River Murders] [Tina Fontaine’s 911 call | CBC.ca] [Tina Fontaine | Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women - CBC.ca] [Cormier speaks of last time he saw Fontaine in video shown to court - YouTube] [Tina Fontaine: The life and the legacy | APTN InFocus - YouTube] [Raymond Cormier found not guilty in death of Tina Fontaine  | Globalnews.ca] [Bear Clan Patrol Inc - Home | Facebook] [Drag The Red! Public Group | Facebook] [Red River Women - BBC News] [Pair sentenced to 9 years in beating death of Tina Fontaine’s dad | CBC News] [Raymond Cormier spoke of wanting to have sex with Tina Fontaine days before her death, Crown tells court | CBC News] [Tina Fontaine, 15, found in bag in Red River | CBC News] [MMIW Final report] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

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. Come see us at CrimeCon in Orlando from May 1-3, 2020. Use POUTINE2020 when buying your tickets. 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] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 98 - After a life long career as a notorious thief, safe cracker, international bank robber and jail break artist in 1913, charismatic Bloody Jack Krafchenko made his final score; the bank in his home town of Plum Coulee, Manitoba. During the daytime robbery the bank's manager, H.M. Arnold was shot once and killed by the fleeing bandit. After a few days Krafchenko was apprehended in nearby Winnipeg. Before he was to  go on trial for his life, he escaped from prison again, using his as yet undiscovered cache of riches as leverage to bribe his own lawyer, a prison guard and two other men into assisting him. Sources: R. v. Krafchenko, 1914 CanLII 618 (MB QB), R. v. Hagel, 1914 CanLII 769 (MB QB), R. v. Lakes, 1988 CanLII 3343 (BC SC), Manitoba History: The Story of “Bloody Jack” Krafchenko Memorable Manitobans: John “Bloody Jack” Krafchenko (1881-1914) Winnipeg Police Service - Bloody Jack Settling the West: Immigration to the Prairies from 1867 to 1914 | Pier 21 Finding ‘Bloody Jack’ beyond the perimeter  – Spectator Tribune West End Dumplings: The Toronto Street hideout of “Bloody Jack” is for sale! John Larry “Bloody Jack” Krafchenko (1881-1914) - Find A Grave Memorial Self-incrimination - Wikipedia Canada Evidence Act Bloody Jack: Dennis Cooley, Douglas Barbour: 9780888643919: Books - Amazon.ca Ben Bertram Full text of “Vulcan Advocate” Running With Dillinger: The Story of Red Hamilton and Other Forgotten Canadian Outlaws Catalog / Sears, Roebuck and Company. Spring 1910 (no.120) Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 086 - In October of 1902 the small, quiet Mennonite community of Altona, Manitoba was shaken by violent events at the hands of one of their own. The teacher at their one room school opened fire on three school trustees after an argument, wounding all three. He then returned to the school and shot three students, all daughters of the trustees he'd shot earlier. Sources: Spectator Tribune Article Newspapers.com School Shootings in Canada at Wikipedia A Pictorial History of Altona Winnipeg Free Press Article Murder and Madness in a Mennonite Village Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

In this episode we tackle the Falcon Lake UFO event in May of 1967, one of Canada's most investigated sightings.

Mike and Scott banter about MIke's recent trip and Mike chats with Jack Luna of Dark Topic