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The Quebec City Mosque Massacre & Islamophobia in Canada
Episode 178
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 Saint…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
The Jacques Cartier Bridge Murders: Chantal Dupont and Maurice Marcil
Episode 177
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 ide…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
AWAY GAME: The Defeo Family Murders - Horror in Amityville
Episode 176
Episode 176: On the night of November 13, 1974, In the sleepy community of Amityville on the coast of Long Island, New York, a 23-year-old man named Ronald (Butch) DeFeo Jr. came running into a local…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Creepy Creatures and Canadian Cryptids
Episode 175
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 Runne…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
The Stopwatch Gang
Episode 174
Episode 174 - Between 1974 and 1980, a group of three mask-wearing Canadian outlaws named Stephen Reid, Patrick (Paddy) Mitchell, and Lionel Wright, in well-planned, precisely timed and carefully exe…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
La Train d’Enfer - The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster
Episode 173
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 ma…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Prohibition: Canadian Rum Runners & Bootleggers
Episode 172
Episode 172 - To curtail social ills like alcoholism, family violence, and other unsavoury behaviours, religious and puritanical proponents of the Temperance Movement demonized alcohol throughout the…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Tangled Web: The Shootings of Alfred and Rosemary Podgis
Episode 171
Episode 171 - Rosemary Podgis, 56, and her husband Alfred, 58, were found in a Pennsylvania Ravine. They had been fatally shot in their Loch Arbour, New Jersey home over the Fourth of July weekend in…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Slippery as an Eel: The Tale of Ernest Cashel
Episode 170
Episode 170 - In November of 1902, a rancher named Issac Belt from Haynes Creek near Red Deer, Alberta, had gone missing. Investigating officers had gone to Belt’s ranch to question a young man calli…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Worst Case Scenario: The Murders of Chloe and Aubrey Berry (BC)
Episode 169
Episode 169: On the evening of Christmas Day in 2017, upon gaining access to an Oak Bay, British Columbia apartment, police discovered a bloody crime scene. In the suite were the bodies of six-year-o…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago