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Back to SearchPictou Sadist: The Murder of Trina Campbell
Episode 381
Episode 381: In December 1987, 12-year-old Trina Campbell, a Métis girl from Brampton, Ontario, was abducted and murdered by Douglas Robert Worth, a violent ex-convict known as the “Pictou Sadist.” D…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Twice and Again: The Walpole Island Murders
Episode 380
Episode 380: The tragic saga of an indigenous man named Stephen Kiyoshk is one of Canada’s most haunting tales of crime, retribution, and the complexities of the justice system. Spanning nearly three…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Mystery of Jerome, the Legless Man of Sandy Cove
Episode 379
Episode 379: In the annals of Canadian folklore and unsolved mysteries, few stories have endured as hauntingly and stubbornly as that of Jerome, the silent, legless man who appeared from out of nowhe…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Fredericton’s Last Execution: The Murder of Norman Burgoyne
Episode 378
Episode 378: Fredericton, New Brunswick, in the sultry summer of 1949, was a community caught between the relief of peacetime and the tensions of post-war hardship. Along the margins of this tidy cit…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Canadian Thelma and Louise: Rose Turford and Carolyn Stevens
Episode 377
Episode 377: Joyce Carolyn Stevens, the daughter of a preacher from Houston, Texas, and Rose Marie Turford, a Canadian nurse and suburban mother, became infamous as the real-life “Thelma and Louise.”…
Published on 3 months ago
The 2021 London Truck Killings: The Afzaal Family
Episode 376
Episode 376: On June 6, 2021, Nathaniel Veltman, 20, deliberately drove his truck into the Afzaal family, Pakistani immigrants, as they walked along the road in London, Ontario. The attack killed fou…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Blood Ties: The Murder of Johnathon Madden
Episode 375
Episode 375: On a bleak November afternoon in 2003, Toronto’s east end became the unlikely stage for a crime so brutal and bizarre that, even years later, it defies belief. The victim was 12-year-old…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Foreseeable: The Killing of Melissa Rae Blommaert
Episode 374
Episode 374: On a frigid February night in 2020, the quiet streets of Calgary’s Bowness neighbourhood became the scene of a tragedy that would send shockwaves through the city and beyond. Melissa Rae…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Canadian Crimes of H.H. Holmes: The Pitezel Murders
Episode 373
Episode 373: In the shadowy annals of North American crime, few names evoke as much dread as H.H. Holmes, a master manipulator, a conman, and a predator who thrived in the chaos of a rapidly changing…
Published on 4 months ago
Two Flavours of Justice — Part 2: The Murder of Darcy Manor and The Trials of Glen Race
Episode 372
Episode 372: In the spring of 2007, Glen Douglas Race’s violent odyssey escalated from a regional nightmare in Nova Scotia to an international manhunt that spanned two countries and left a trail of d…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago