Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History
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True crime, legends, folklore, dark history and other creepy topics from the perspective of real live Canadians.
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More than Meets the Eye: The Murder of Barbara Stoppel
Barbara Gayle Stoppel, a 16-year-old waitress, was tragically murdered on December 23, 1981, in the women's washroom of Ideal Donut Shop in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was strangled with a twine, and despite being found alive, she succumbed to her injur… -
The Life of the Grey Fox: Bill Miner, Train Robber
Ezra Allen Miner, more commonly known as Bill Miner, was an infamous American stagecoach and train robber born in Michigan in 1846. Bill Miner's criminal career included an early arrest on April 3, 1866, for robbery, leading to a three-year sentence … -
Murders in Meadowvale: Robert Grewal, Joseph Manchisi and Rene Charlebois
Douglas Donald Moore, known in Meadowvale, Ontario, as a drug supplier for young teens, gained notoriety in Mississauga for killing three young men before taking his own life in his jail cell while awaiting trial on 11 charges for sexual assaults on… -
Moved by the Spirit: The Murder of Mercy Babcock Hall
In a home in Shediac, New Brunswick, on February 13, 1805, Amos Babcock, driven by delusions of divine mission, subjected his family to a horrifying ordeal. He gathered his wife, children and sister, Mercy, instilling fear with his erratic behaviour … -
Road Trip: Reckless Rust — The Death of Halyna Hutchins (Part 2)
On October 21, 2021, a tragic accident occurred on the set of the low-budget old-west movie Rust, filmed on a New Mexico ranch. Wife, mother and Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, was fatally shot, and writer/director Joel Souza, 48, was injured. I… -
Introducing... Crime Beat | Out of the dark
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Away Game: Reckless Rust — The Death of Halyna Hutchins (Part 1)
On October 21, 2021, a tragic accident occurred on the set of the low-budget old-west movie Rust, filmed on a New Mexico ranch. Wife, mother and Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, was fatally shot, and writer/director Joel Souza, 48, was injured. I… -
Away Game: More to the Puzzle — Somerton Man Updates
In Mike's first book, Murder, Madness and Mayhem, he wrote about an unknown man whose body was found on Somerton Park beach near Adelaide, Australia, by two trainee jockeys who’d been out with their horses on the morning of December 1, 1948. Lying in… -
Apex Predator: The Murder of Kim Hallgarth
Kimberly Lynn Hallgarth was the 33-year-old mother of one and involved with former CFL football player Joshua Joseph Boden when. she was found brutally murdered at her residence in Burnaby, British Columbia, in March 2009. Her death was covered exte… -
Three on the Tracks: Kenny Novak, David Burrows and Terry Burt
On Friday, July 10th, 1970, around 7 a.m., near Ludlow, Maine, 45 kilometres from the border with Canada, the crew aboard a northbound Bangor & Aroostook Railway train noticed something lying on the tracks ahead. They thought at first it might be tra…
