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Episode 178: On the evening of January 29, 2017, a young man, armed with a pistol and a rifle concealed inside a guitar case, entered the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, a mosque in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood of the historic city. Just over 40 people were inside the mosque at the time. Just before 8:00 pm, the man entered the prayer hall and began firing and, within two minutes, had killed 6 and seriously injured 5 other worshippers. After the shootings, the killer walked out of the building, hopped into his car and drove off. Less than 20 minutes later, the perpetrator, a 27-year-old, Canadian-born student of anthropology and political science at Laval University, surrendered to police, admitting he was the shooter. The motive? Islamophobia. Sources: [CCIQ – Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec] R. c. Bissonnette, 2019 QCCS 354 (CanLII), Bissonnette c. R., 2020 QCCA 1585 (CanLII), [YouTube - Alexandre Bissonnette’s interrogation (en Français)] [YouTube - Alexandre Bissonnette’s FULL interrogation (en Français) 3 hour 8 minute] [YouTube - La déclaration des parents d’Alexandre Bissonnette] [Les parents d’Alexandre Bissonnette jugent sa peine très sévère | Radio-Canada.ca] [Alexandre Bissonnette’s parents speak out about their son | Global News] [Open Letter From Raymond Bissonnette | Murder | Criminal Justice] [‘I had to do something’: Mosque shooter said he acted to prevent terrorism | Montreal Gazette] [Remembering the Québec City mosque attack: Islamophobia and Canada’s national amnesia] [Court reduces sentence for Quebec City mosque attacker | Courts News | Al Jazeera] [Alexandre Bissonnette: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com] https://twitter.com/justintrudeau/status/825438460265762816?lang=en [Alexandre Bissonnette’s parents ask Prime Minister to stop calling their son a terrorist | CTV News] [Islamophobia.org] [Islamophobia: Understanding Anti-Muslim Sentiment in the West] [Islamophobia in Canada - Wikipedia] [Read Fear of a Muslim Planet Online by Arsalan Iftikhar | Books] [Cyber Racism and Community Resilience: Strategies For Combating Online Race Hate | Scribd] [Naming The Gunman Glorifies His Crimes, Not Naming Him Could Undermine The Truth : NPR Public Editor : NPR] [NO NOTORIETY]() [What is the government doing about Islamophobia in Canada? Here’s what we know - National | Globalnews.ca] [Pourquoi les peines consécutives font-elles débat? | Radio-Canada.ca] [Quebec City mosque shooting - Wikipedia] [London, Ontario truck attack - Wikipedia] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 177: On July 3, 1979, a pair of typical Montreal teenagers, Chantal Dupont, 15 and her friend, Maurice Marcil, 14, went missing as they walked home from a concert. Their loved ones had no idea what had happened to them. A week later they heard the news they dreaded. The bodies of Chantal and Maurice were discovered in different spots along the banks of the St. Lawrence River. The details of how the pair ended up in the water and the events leading up to their murders are horrifying. Sources: R. v. Guerin, 1984 CanLII 3533 (QC CA), R. c. Guérin, 1987 CanLII 1063 (QC CA), [PressReader.com - Normand Guérin et Gilles Pimparé] [PressReader.com - Bridge Murders Timeline] [Pillar 111 – The 1979 murders of Maurice Marcil and Chantal Dupont | WHO KILLED THERESA?] [The Bridge Murders – To Err is Human, to Forgive, Divine –   Crime Website] [La force du pardon | Michèle Ouimet | La Presse - Archived] [La Rage | Michèle Ouimet | La Presse - Archived] [L’innocence perdue | Michèle Ouimet | La Presse - Archived] [Le deuil | La Presse | Michèle Ouimet | La Presse] [Même après 38 ans, le meurtrier Gilles Pimparé restera en prison | Radio-Canada.ca] [Le Pardon (film) — Wikipédia] [Dossier de presse] [Dupont (Chantal) - La Mémoire du Québec] [La force du pardon - La Presse+] [Montreal killer asks for parole for the sixth time] [L’un des pires criminels du Québec veut sa liberté | TVA Nouvelles] [Pimparé «est encore dangereux», selon le frère d’une victime | TVA Nouvelles] [Dossier de presse - *Ces parents qui ont pardonné l’impardonnable*] [Coolopolis: The unspeakably horrific Jacques Cartier Bridge murders] [Le pont du suicide Jacques-Cartier - Blogue de Montréal hanté] [Le Pardon de Denis Boivin – Voyage à travers le Québec] [Ideomotor phenomenon - Wikipedia] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 173 - On July 6, 2013, in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, an unattended 73-car freight train carrying crude oil rolled down a grade and derailed downtown, multiple tank cars exploded, resulting in a massive fire. More than 30 buildings in the town's core were destroyed, and, sadly, forty-seven people lost their lives. Sources: [Ville Lac-Mégantic - Une ville à coeur ouvert] [Déraillement mortel d’un train à Lac-Mégantic - Ville Lac-Mégantic] [Balado Découverte - Le Marcheur d’étoiles | Circuit touristique de Lac-Mégantic] [Cinq clés pour comprendre la tragédie de Lac-Mégantic | Radio-Canada.ca] [10 of Canada’s worst train accidents - Macleans.ca] [Firefighter watched ghost train barrel past him moments before Lac-Mégantic derailment | CBC News] [Rail at center of Quebec town tragedy and heart of its recovery | Reuters] [Lac-Megantic’s resilience tested after ‘le train d’enfer’ - CentralMaine.com] [Summary of Railway Investigation Report R13D0054 - TSB Canada] [Railway Investigation Full Report R13D0054 - TSB Canada] [Lac-Mégantic MMA Train Accident - 6 July 2013 - YouTube] [Audio: Train engineer and railway company talk as Lac-Mégantic burns - The Globe and Mail] [Lac-Mégantic engineer Thomas Harding’s firing ruled illegal - Montreal | Globalnews.ca] [YouTube - Angry Lac Megantic residents seek answers - Global News] [YouTube - Lac-Mégantic News Conference - Investigation Report Release] [YouTube - Lac-Mégantic engineer calls released] [YouTube - Tragédie Lac Mégantic - Pierre Duquet] [YouTube - Incendie à Lac-Mégantic - username Nitrof Taz] [Wayback Machine - Montreal Gazette - Lives lost: Remembering Lac-Mégantic’s victims] [Global News Search - Lac-Mégantic] [Lac-Mégantic rail disaster - Wikipedia] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 146: On June 13th 1901, Ada Mills Redpath and her son Jocelyn Clifford Redpath were killed in their mansion in on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal. Ada had been shot to the back of the head. Clifford has a gunshot wound to his the temple. The police were not called. A coroner’s inquest the next day declared the deaths a murder-suicide. Ada and Clifford were buried June 15th without any further investigation. Written By: Josina De Bree Sources: https://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/redpath/home/indexen.html https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/the-m-naghten-rule.html https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/about-epilepsy-basics/what-epilepsy https://www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/epilepsy-auras https://www.cureepilepsy.org/for-patients/what-are-the-phases-of-seizures-of-epilepsy/ Denton A, Tellez-Zenteno JF. A patient with epilepsy charged with kidnapping, unlawful confinement, and assault causing bodily harm after seizures: Deficiencies in the legal system. Epilepsy Behav Rep. 2020;13:100361. Published 2020 Mar 21. doi:10.1016/j.ebr.2020.100361 Dougall, L. (2019) The Summit House Mystery; Or, The Earthly Purgatory. Good Press. Original work published 1905.  Reuber M, Mackay RD. Epileptic automatisms in the criminal courts: 13 cases tried in England and Wales between 1975 and 2001. Epilepsia. 2008 Jan;49(1):138-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01269.x. PMID: 17727668. Shih JJ, LeslieMazwi T, Falcao G, Van Gerpen J. Directed aggressive behavior in frontal lobe epilepsy: video-EEG and ictal spect case study. Neurology. 2009;73(21):1804-1806. doi:10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181c2933f Devinsky, Orrin. “Postictal psychosis: common, dangerous, and treatable.” Epilepsy currents vol. 8,2 (2008): 31-4. doi:10.1111/j.1535-7511.2008.00227.x Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 130 - On March 29, 1975, pretty and popular, 16-year-old Sharron Prior left her home in the Montreal, QC, neighbourhood where she lived with her mom and siblings. She was off to a pizza joint only 5 short blocks away. Sharron was found days later, raped and murdered in another neighbourhood across the river. Her murder has never been solved. Her mom, Yvonne, still holds hope that one day she will see Sharron's killer brought to justice. Sources & Further Reading http://www.sharronprior.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/4790700762/ http://www.truecrimediary.com/index.cfm?page=cases&id=49 https://defrostingcoldcases.com/the-point-st-charles-nightmare-the-1975-murder-of-sharron-prior/ http://sharronprior.blogspot.com/ https://www.crave.ca/en/tv-shows/sur-les-traces-dun-tueur-en-serie Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 106 - This week we take on the case of a morphine addicted, syphilitic, Scottish Canadian physician with a lust for murder and a blackmail. Dr. Thomas Neill Cream used his intelligence, medical training, relative good looks and higher station to leave a trail of death in Canada, the United States and Victorian London. Only years after Jack the Ripper's reign of terror mysteriously ended, Dr. Cream picked up Jack's mantle poisoning at least four more sex workers in the poorest area of London. The Lambeth Poisoner may have gotten away with the crimes were it not for his own big mouth. Come see us at CrimeCon in Orlando from May 1-3, 2020. Use POUTINE2020 when buying your tickets. Sources and Further Reading: [Dr Thomas Neil Cream - Crime Library on truTV.com] [Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Dr. Thomas Neill Cream] [Murder by Gaslight: The Lambeth Poisoner] [Canada’s History - The Evil Deeds of Dr. Cream] [Dr. Thomas Neill Cream | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers] [The CRIMES OF DR. CREAM | Maclean’s | September 15, 1931] [The Lambeth Poisoner | Crime Magazine] [The Lambeth Poisoner: London’s Deadly Doctor] [Metropolitan Police letter and photographs of Dr Neill Cream, England, 1890-1907 | Science Museum Group Collection] [Doctor death - New York Daily News] [The man who would be Jack the Ripper - The Scotsman] [The gentleman from Chicago - Cashman, John - Internet Archive] [History of tuberculosis - Wikipedia] [A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream] [Monsters of Medicine] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

The bombing of CP Air flight 108, in September 1949, remains one of the most heinous acts undertaken in Canadian criminal history.

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. Web: https://darkpoutine.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkpoutine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/darkpoutinepod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkpoutine/  Email and PayPal tip jar: darkpoutinepodcast@gmail.com Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Writer / Creator, Researcher, Editor & Host: Mike Browne (@mikebrowne) Original Music & Cohost: Scott Hemenway (@sdhpics) Sources:https://www.thegreatharryhoudini.com/https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdinihttps://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_Pharaohshttps://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_resultshttps://archive.org/search.php?query=1920%27s&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22audio%22&page=2https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-bDUVAOt69erDtFOJ/The%20Original%20Houdini%20Murder%20Theory_djvu.txthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_Crandonhttp://www.houdinifile.com/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 017: In the late 60's a sadistic serial murderer named Wayne Boden stalked and killed at least 3 women in Montreal, Quebec. He was given the ...

Episode 014: In keeping with the rules of Dark Poutine, this episode is about famed Canadian wrestler and infamous murderer Chris Benoit, also known as ...