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Episode 197: In our last episode we learned a bit about the life and depraved, early crimes of David Russell Williams, a 46-year-old decorated colonel and commander of the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) in Trenton, Ontario - one of the largest and busiest air force bases in Canada. The Canadian military’s rising star also had some dark secrets. Williams had been involved in dozens of instances of break, enter and theft of women’s undergarments in the communities in which he lived. The homeowners and police were unaware that many of these crimes had taken place. Many of the women presumed that their underwear had simply gone missing. They had no clue that they had been taken by someone who’s fantasy life had taken a very dark turn. Williams felt powerful in the homes, taking photos as he pleasured himself with the most private possessions of women he didn’t know. Russell would take their underwear home where, sexually aroused once again, he would take photos of himself as he modelled the items recalling his time in the homes of the women. The continued use of the garments thrilled Russell Williams and gave him a feeling of complete control.In September 2009, Russell’s insatiable cravings for yet another sexual thrill demanded he take things a step further. Williams sexually assaulted two Tweed women, forcibly confining them, fondling them as he snapped multiple photos of the terrified women after removing their clothes. While those events had been exciting for Williams, they were dry runs for what he would do next. In November, 2009, Russell Williams committed his first murder, that of Marie-France Comeau. Month's later, he killed Jessica Lloyd, but his inattention to the little details, eventually got him caught.Sources:Book, ”Camouflaged Killer” by David A. GibbRead Beyond Suspicion: Russell Williams A Canadian Serial Killer Online by Alan R Warren | BooksA New Kind of Monster by Timothy ApplebyJim Van Allen | ISN IncRussell Williams Case | The Canadian EncyclopediaRead Snakes in Suits Online by Dr. Paul Babiak and Dr. Robert D. Hare | BooksThe dark, depraved side of Russell Williams revealed in court - Macleans.caCPL Marie-France Comeau (1972-2009) - Find A Grave Memorial252 Raglan Street, Brighton, Ontario, Canada | HousecreepJessica Elizabeth Lloyd (1982-2010) - Find A Grave MemorialJessica Lloyd Obituary - Belleville, Ontario | John R. Bush Funeral HomeLloyd, Jessica – Canadian CrimeopediaBelleville honours Jessica Lloyd | CBC News62 Cosy Cove Lane, Tweed, Ontario, Canada | HousecreepRussell Williams’s wife knew he was a predator: victim - Macleans.caCol. Russell Williams timeline | CBC News“Russell Williams - Above Suspicion” episode from CBC program The Fifth EstateRussell Williams Case | The Canadian EncyclopediaRussell Williams | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderersDavid Russell Williams: The Kinky Killer Colonel — Obsession — Crime Library[Russell Williams (criminal) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Williams_(criminal))YouTube — The Russell Williams Arrest Press ConferenceRussell Williams - Full Murder ConfessionRussell Williams Confession Part 1Russell Williams Confession Part 2Russell Williams Confession Part 3Russell Williams interview transcriptDemi-victoire pour Laurie Massicotte contre Russell Williams | Radio-Canada.caLaurie Massicotte settles $7M lawsuit against convicted sex killer Russell Williams | CBC NewsMassicotte v. Williams, 2014 ONCA 792 (CanLII), M.E.H. v. Williams, 2012 ONCA 35 (CanLII), Family, friends of Jessica Lloyd mark decade since Russell Williams received life sentence | Globalnews.caMarie-France Comeau | News, Videos & ArticlesMarie-France Comeau news, opinion and analysis - Macleans.caSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 196 - In September of 2009, in Cosy Cove, a quiet, rural neighbourhood near Tweed, Ontario, an anonymous young woman sleeping in her home was brutally sexually assaulted by an unknown assailant who’d broken into her home. During the violent, two-hour sexual assault, as her 8 week old daughter slept in another room, the rapist snapped photos of the woman, before escaping into the night. Two weeks later, in the same small neighbourhood, the creeper struck again, sexually assaulting another woman, Laurie Massicotte. Her rapist also photographed her before fleeing. A neighbour Laurie’s, was suspected in the assault but he denied any involvement. He was later cleared when his DNA was not a match to that of the Laurie’s attacker. Police suspected the two sexual assaults were somehow connected as they were both so similar.Two months later, there was a murder. A year after that, another. When police discovered the identity of the perpetrator, the whole country was shocked.Sources:Book, ”Camouflaged Killer” by David A. GibbRead Beyond Suspicion: Russell Williams A Canadian Serial Killer Online by Alan R Warren | BooksA New Kind of Monster by Timothy ApplebyJim Van Allen | ISN IncRussell Williams Case | The Canadian EncyclopediaRead Snakes in Suits Online by Dr. Paul Babiak and Dr. Robert D. Hare | BooksThe dark, depraved side of Russell Williams revealed in court - Macleans.caCPL Marie-France Comeau (1972-2009) - Find A Grave Memorial252 Raglan Street, Brighton, Ontario, Canada | HousecreepJessica Elizabeth Lloyd (1982-2010) - Find A Grave MemorialJessica Lloyd Obituary - Belleville, Ontario | John R. Bush Funeral HomeLloyd, Jessica – Canadian CrimeopediaBelleville honours Jessica Lloyd | CBC News62 Cosy Cove Lane, Tweed, Ontario, Canada | HousecreepRussell Williams’s wife knew he was a predator: victim - Macleans.caCol. Russell Williams timeline | CBC News“Russell Williams - Above Suspicion” episode from CBC program The Fifth EstateRussell Williams Case | The Canadian EncyclopediaRussell Williams | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderersDavid Russell Williams: The Kinky Killer Colonel — Obsession — Crime Library[Russell Williams (criminal) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Williams_(criminal))YouTube — The Russell Williams Arrest Press ConferenceRussell Williams - Full Murder ConfessionRussell Williams Confession Part 1Russell Williams Confession Part 2Russell Williams Confession Part 3Russell Williams interview transcriptDemi-victoire pour Laurie Massicotte contre Russell Williams | Radio-Canada.caLaurie Massicotte settles $7M lawsuit against convicted sex killer Russell Williams | CBC NewsMassicotte v. Williams, 2014 ONCA 792 (CanLII), M.E.H. v. Williams, 2012 ONCA 35 (CanLII), Family, friends of Jessica Lloyd mark decade since Russell Williams received life sentence | Globalnews.caMarie-France Comeau | News, Videos & ArticlesMarie-France Comeau news, opinion and analysis - Macleans.ca Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 195: Hannah Buxbaum was found dead July 5, 1984 on a highway near London, Ontario after having been shot  by roadside bandits three times in the head as her husband Helmuth Buxbaum and their young nephew, Roy, in town from Vancouver for a visit watched helplessly. The bandits sped off with Hanna’s purse and police were called. No one could figure out why anyone would want to murder Hanna Buxbaum, who was as close to being a living saint that anyone could find. The press initially labelled the case ‘The Good Samaritan Murder’ until the true story unfolded. This story has so many twists and turns and crazy elements. The Buxbaums being millionaire owners of several nursing homes there were huge sums of money, cocaine, sex addiction, sex workers, double crossing, nuclear bunkers filled with tobacco and alcohol, people being dangled by their feet off 14th floor balconies, worries of rocket launcher attacks and courtroom spectacles. No less than a motley crew of 7 people were charged in the killing of the earnest, salt of the earth woman, until, finally, the truth came out.Sources:A cruel case of murder | Maclean’s | DECEMBER 2, 1985After 30 years, a son comes to terms with his father?s murder of his mother | Chatham Daily NewsThe killer I knew | National PostHelmuth Buxbaum, convicted in 1980s murder, dies in jail | CBC NewsEdward Greenspan - WikipediaSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 187: Between 1974 and 1976, a series of rapes and murders took place in and around the small town of Strathroy, in South Western Ontario, perpetrated by Christian Herbert Harold Magee. He sexually assaulted and murdered 3 women, and raped two others.Written by: Mathew StocktonSources:R. v. Magee, 1997 CanLII 2431 (ON CA), Mental Health Centre, Penetanguishene v. Magee, 2006 CanLII 16077 (ON CA), https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/118607/carried-away-by-alice-munro/9780307264862/excerpthttps://www.upi.com/Top_News/2006/01/16/Mad-Slasher-wants-to-apologize/19681137468884/?ur3=1https://truecrimerealtimepod.com/2020/05/26/28-londons-sordid-past-part-3-the-mad-slasher/https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=42563797&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjQ2NDAxNDg5MywiaWF0IjoxNjI1MjU1MzU3LCJleHAiOjE2MjUzNDE3NTd9.S7hmiBoeW8POhTzffvN8NTXF4vCsSSuHGQO5sEZ5xXMhttps://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/magee-christian.htmhttp://coldcase.lailafarrell.com/index.php/category/murderer/https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20051006/281608120825417Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 184: In Mississauga, Ontario in 1973 and early 1974, the discoveries of the murdered bodies of two young women, Constance Dickey, 19, and Neda Novak, 18, only months apart, left the community shaken. Both women, it appeared, had been abducted, sexually assaulted, then murdered and dumped by a yet unknown killer. On August 19, 1974, after being sexually assaulted and left for dead, a sixteen-year-old girl, Julia Sheldon, identified a twenty-four-year-old, married father of two named Henry Robert Williams as the man who’d brutally assaulted her. It soon became clear that Williams had also committed the two previous murders. Sources: Read Cold North Killers Online by Lee Mellor | Books Henry Robert Williams | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers “The Chemical Castration of Recidivist Sex Offenders in Canada: A Matte” by Matthew R. Kutcher The Castration Alternative | Canadian Journal of Criminology and Corrections Federal Probation - Google Play The Medium — Sept. 11th marks 30th anniversary of UTM’s only murder by Adrian Barek Police still looking for Oakville woman’s killer nearly 45 years later | Toronto.com The dark echoes of Adele Komorowski’s murder linger 45 years later | TheSpec.com 5 Worst Crimes Committed in Mississauga | insauga.com “It’s insanity” to free serial killer who assaulted girl in prison: Ex-detective – Cancrime Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 180 - On September 22, 2015, in Renfrew County, Ontario, 66-year-old Carol Culleton was murdered in her home by her one-time handyman. The man, who’d become obsessed with the recent widow before killing her, then stole Culleton’s car and drove to the home of an ex-girlfriend, Anastasia Kuzyk, 36, and shot Anastasia there with a shotgun as her sister fled the home. However, the killer was not done settling the scores he had cooked up in his head and then drove to the home of another ex-girlfriend, Nathalie Warmerdam, 48. As Nathalie’s son ran from their home, in fear of his life, he heard the gunshot that ended his mother’s life. The killer, Basil Borutski, 58, a former millwright, then fled, and a brief search ensued that ended in Borutski being taken into police custody. Later on, in a 5-hour long taped police interview, the killer admitted to what he’d done, laying the blame for his spree squarely on his victims. Sources: Ontario Provincial Police - What we do Borutski’s history from 1977 to 2011 - Infogram Borutski’s history with Kuzyk and Warmerdam - Infogram Borutski’s history with Culleton - Infogram Murder Sites — Driving Route YouTube - Basil Borutski full police interview YouTube - Basil Borutski and the Wilno Murders: Circle of Fear - The Fifth Estate YouTube - Secrets of… Why Didn’t We Know? Basil Borutski & The Wilno Murders (podcast) - the fifth estate Marchers say Basil Borutski guilty verdict was too little, too late | CBC News What the courts knew about Basil Borutski before he murdered 3 women | CBC News Search: Basil Borutski — Newspapers.com Basil Borutski | News, Videos & Articles — GlobalNews TOPIC: BASIL BORUTSKI TRIAL — CBC.ca R. v. Borutski, 2011 ONSC 3536 (CanLII) Borutski v. Borutski, 2011 ONSC 7099 (CanLII) R. v. Borutski, 2017 ONSC 7748 (CanLII) R. v. Basil Borutski, 2017 ONSC 7762 (CanLII) The Meaning of Life: A Study of the Use of Parole Ineligibility for Murder Sentencing | CanLII BBC Partners — Outlook: Singing for my murdered sister helps me heal Ending Violence Association of Canada Psychology Today — Dark Triad Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 175: Like any other region, Canada has its share of stories of fantastical creatures that may or may not exist. Dark Poutine has covered a few of them. In episode 25 we learned of Swift Runner, believed to be possessed by the cannibalistic spirit known as Wendigo, we talked about, Ogopogo, the giant serpent in Okanagan Lake in episode 113 and of course, in episode 131 we gave you a primer on Sasquatch aka Bigfoot in Western Canada and the USA. In this episode, you will learn about some of Canada’s lesser-known cryptids, The Loup-Garou, The Thunderbird, The Toronto Tunnel Monster and The Giant Spider Bat.  Source: [Loup-Garou | The Canadian Encyclopedia] [The Werewolf of Quebec City — CANADIANA] [Le loup-garou du Kamouraska (1766-1767) – Patrimoine, Histoire et Multimédia] [Les Loups-Garous du Québec – Werewolves of Quebec  | Julian Peters comics] [Thunderbird | New Cryptozoology Wiki | Fandom] [Thunderbird: a symbol of power, strength and nobility - Ecstatic Trance Postures] [Thunderbird- A Canadian Legend] [Toronto Tunnel Monster | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom] [The Toronto Tunnel Monster | Cryptozoology News Articles & Investigations] [Toronto Urban Legends: The Real Toronto Underground] [Strange Encounters with Bizarre Tunnel-Dwelling Monsters | Mysterious Universe] [A guide to the secret tunnels hidden beneath Toronto] [Little people (mythology) - Wikipedia] [What Lies Beneath: Toronto and The Tunnel Monster of Cabbagetown] [ParaResearchers Of Ontario - Toronto Tunnel Monster] [The Creepy Cabbagetown Monster Lurking in Toronto’s Underground] [Cryptids of Canada and Other Toronto Urban Legends We Bet You Didn’t Know About - Mary-am Suites] [C.H.U.D. (1984) - IMDb] [Myths & Monsters - DIBAAJIMOWIN] [memegwesi (na) | The Ojibwe People’s Dictionary] [Mysteries of Canada – Canada History and Mysteries] [Stranger Things: Four-in-Five Canadians believe] [Giant Canadian Spiderbat | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom] [North American House Hippo - YouTube] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 162: In July of 2013, on a busy summer night in downtown Toronto, police received several calls about a man on a streetcar brandishing a knife and threatening passengers and the transit operator. After an encounter with police lasting only 50 seconds, 18-year-old Sammy Yatim had been shot nine times and later died from his wounds. As videos of the incident surfaced, many people were outraged, claiming that the police had used excessive force and calling for the head of the officer who had pulled the trigger. Co-host: Carol Browne Promo:Ignorance Was Bliss Sources: Global News | Search - Sammy Yatim Toronto Police shoot Sammy Yatim on TTC streetcar - Markus Grupp YouTube Enhanced audio/video - Shooting of Sammy Yatim by Toronto Police Const. Forcillo on July 27, 2013 - YouTube TTC surveillance camera 1 - YouTube TTC surveillance camera 2 - YouTube TTC surveillance camera 3 - YouTube TTC surveillance camera 4 - YouTube The Killing of Sammy Yatim | Toronto Life Sammy’s Fight Back for Justice - Home | Facebook Shooting of Sammy Yatim - Wikipedia Special Investigations Unit — News Release James Forcillo bail decision | Bail | Appeal Reasons for the sentence of James Forcillo | Murder | Crime & Violence James Forcillo parole decision | Parole | Probation Officer Police Encounters With People in Crisis 2014 | Emergency Department | Mental Health Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 161 - On a warm July day in 1986, 11-year-old Alison Parrott was lured from her Toronto home by a man on the phone claiming to be a sports photographer who wanted to take photos of the young athlete. Two boys discovered Alison’s body in a heavily wooded section of Kings Mill Park two days later. She had been bound, raped and strangled to death. It would take a decade before science caught up to the point where her killer could be brought to justice. Co-Host: Carol Browne Sources: R. v. Roy, 2003 CanLII 4272 (ON CA), [Exhibit A - Killer in a Box] [Alison Parrott: Leader of the pack  | Globalnews.ca] [YouTube - Crime Beat TV Show - Alison Parrott] [Murder of Alison Parrott - Wikipedia] [The horror of child murders | Maclean’s | AUGUST 11, 1986] [Parrott’s Killer Convicted | The Canadian Encyclopedia] [FindAGrave.com - Alison May Campbell Parrott] [GIRL FOLLOWED RULES, BUT KILLER WON GAME - Chicago Tribune] [Jury convicts Roy in Alison Parrot murder | CBC News] [News Article - Toronto Star Ottawa Bureau] [Staring down evil - The Globe and Mail] [Why millions in Crime Stoppers rewards go unclaimed | The Star] [Girls who went missing in Ontario: Solved and unsolved cases | The Star] [Colin Pitchfork - Wikipedia] [Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System | Royal Canadian Mounted Police] [What is ViCLAS – What is ViCLAS] [Stay Alert Stay Safe PSA#3 - YouTube] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 160 - Elena Tchoudakova was a beautiful, outgoing and vibrant 23-year-old Russian woman attending Interior Design at Toronto’s Ryerson University. In January of 1995 Elena was discovered in her apartment, she’d been brutally beaten to death and left in her bathub. There were a number of suspects with means and motive but only one with opportunity. Co-host: Carol Browne Sources: [The Russian Princess Case: MacDonald, Bruce: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store] R. v. Ho, 1999 CanLII 3823 (ON CA), [50 Cambridge Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Housecreep] [Tchoudakova : Toronto Public Library] [Interactive: Toronto homicides since 1990 | The Star] [Can a theatre program help rehabilitate Ontario prisoners? | The Star] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine