Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

True crime, legends, folklore, dark history and other creepy topics from the perspective of real Canadians. Support the show: https://buymeacoffee.com/darkpoutine

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History is a history podcast hosted by Dark Poutine / Curiouscast, with 441 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dark Poutine / Curiouscast hosts Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History, a history show with 441 episodes published.

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  Episode #432

  Not Justice: Lynching Louie Sam

  Aug 17, 202656 min

  Episode 432: In February 1884, a Scottish storekeeper named James Bell was shot dead in his cabin along Telegraph Road in Washington Territory, just south of the Canadian border. Within days, a fifteen-year-old Semá:th boy named Louie Sam was arrested on suspicion of murder and placed in lawful Canadian custody on Sumas Prairie. He never made it to trial. On the night of February 27, a mob of seventy armed and disguised men crossed the international boundary from Washington Territory into British Columbia, took Sam from his cell, and hanged him from a roadside tree 169 paces north of the border. No one else was ever charged for Louie Sam’s lynching, and the investigation into Bell’s death seems to have stopped with Sam’s death. Sources: Deadly Neighbours — Chad Reimer (Caitlin Press, 2022) The Lynching of Louie Sam — Keith Thor Carlson, BC Studies No. 109, Spring 1996 The Lynching of Louie Sam — John Vaillant, The Walrus, December 2008 Lynching Information — Tuskegee University Archives An American Mob Crosses the Canadian Border and Lynches Louie Sam — HistoryLink.org Our Territory — Sumas First Nation Sq'éwlets: A Stó:lō–Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley Daily Colonist (Victoria, BC), February–March 1884 — britishcolonist.ca BC Historical Newspapers — British Columbian (New Westminster) 1884, UBC Open Collections Whatcom Reveille, February–March 1884 — Jeffcott Collection, Western Washington University Archives Mesachie and Louie Sam — Chilliwack Progress, October 8, 1958 — Newspapers.com Washington State Expresses Regret Over 1884 Lynching of Canadian Teen — CBC News, 2006 Plain Injustice — Literary Review of Canada, 2022 Louie Sam — Wikipedia PDF of The Lynching of Louie Sam by Keith Thor Carlson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Episode #431

  Street of Tears — The Crimes of Shawn Cameron Lamb

  Aug 10, 202659 min

  Episode 431: In the fall of 2011, the first of three indigenous women disappeared from a stretch of Winnipeg's West End that those who worked there called the Street of Tears. Their families searched, put up posters, and made phone calls that went nowhere. The man believed responsible had been known to police for decades. His criminal record ran to 109 convictions. He was already on their radar when the final woman disappeared. This is the story of Tanya Nepinak, Carolyn Sinclair, and Lorna Blacksmith. Sources: Shawn Lamb coverage index — CBC News Tanya Jane Nepinak — CBC News Shawn Lamb sentenced to 20 years for two slayings — CBC News Police paid killer Shawn Lamb $1,500 for information — CBC News Winnipegger speaks about life on streets, alleged assault by convicted killer Shawn Lamb — CBC News Shawn Lamb gets statutory release — CBC News Convicted killer Shawn Lamb must stay at halfway house — CBC News Shawn Lamb pleads guilty to killing 2 women — Global News Landfill search progressing for Ashlee Shingoose; Tanya Nepinak family hopeful — Global News Parole Board grants Indigenous Winnipeg killer Shawn Lamb statutory release — APTN News Statement on Brady Road Landfill Search for Ashlee Shingoose and Planning for Tanya Nepinak — Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs NFSC Calls for Justice and Accountability Following Statutory Release of Shawn Lamb — National Family and Survivors Circle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

  I Don't Know Why: Phil Hartman’s Murder

  Aug 3, 20261h 12m

  Episode 430: On the morning of May 28, 1998, police were called to a home on Encino Avenue in Encino, California. Inside the master bedroom, they found Phil Hartman — one of the most versatile performers in the history of North American television — shot three times at close range while he slept. His wife, Brynn, had pulled the trigger sometime around 2:30 in the morning, then driven to a friend's house and confessed. By the time police arrived, she was back in the bedroom. She never came out. Phil Hartman was 49 years old and born in Brantford, Ontario. He had just wrapped his fourth season of NewsRadio. He had a film opening in July. Behind the public face of a thriving career was a marriage under years of sustained pressure — addiction, relapse, escalating volatility, and a final argument that ended in the worst possible way. The motive was listed as unknown. It remains unknown. Sources: Los Angeles County Coroner Case Report, Investigator's Report, Autopsy Report & Toxicology — Case No. 98-03785 Hartman's Death: The Police Version — Time, June 3, 1998 Reaction & Sanctions — NPR, May 28, 1998 Disturbing Details Found In Phil Hartman's Autopsy Report — Grunge, 2024 The Last Days of Phil Hartman — ABC News / 20/20, 2019 Phil Hartman — People Magazine, 1998 Jon Lovitz Blames Andy Dick for Hartman's Death — CBS News, 2007 Phil Hartman Wrongful Death Lawsuit / Zoloft — Salon, 1999 Birgen Hartman on her father's Simpsons legacy — The Hollywood Reporter, 2022 Brantford to honour Phil Hartman with mural — CBC News, 2024 Phil Hartman — Canada's Walk of Fame Phil Hartman — Brantford Walk of Fame You Might Remember Me: The Life and Times of Phil Hartman — Mike Thomas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Episode #429

  Part 2 — Justice Prolonged: The Murder of Christine Jessop

  Jul 27, 20261h 5m

  Episode 429: In January 1995, DNA testing excluded Guy Paul Morin, the man convicted of the 1984 murder of Christine Jessop, from the crime. The Ontario Court of Appeal set aside his conviction, and Morin was released. The man whose semen was recovered from Christine Jessop's underwear in 1984 remained unidentified. A public inquiry led by Justice Fred Kaufman spent 10 months examining how an innocent man had been convicted twice. It produced 1,380 pages and 119 recommendations. The real killer remained unnamed for another twenty-five years — until a detective named Steve Smith, a Texas laboratory, and a forensic genealogist pulled a family tree apart and found a killer at the end of it. Sources Report of the Kaufman Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin — Full text (netk.net.au) The Canadian Encyclopedia — Guy Paul Morin Case Innocence Canada — Guy Paul Morin case file Toronto Life — "Inside the Hunt for Christine Jessop's Real Killer" (January 2022) CBC News — "Toronto police identify killer in cold case of 9-year-old Christine Jessop" (October 15, 2020) CBC News — "Calvin Hoover's family 'devastated' to learn police believe he killed Christine Jessop" (October 22, 2020) CBC News — "The answer to the mystery of Christine Jessop's murder leaves killer's ex-wife with painful questions" (February 2021) CBC News — "The science behind why police now believe they have the right suspect in Christine Jessop's murder" (October 2020) Global News — "Who was Calvin Hoover? The man Toronto police say killed 9-year-old Christine Jessop in 1984" (October 2020) Blue Line Magazine — "Out of the Cold: Toronto Police Solve 1984 Jessop Murder With New Science" (January 2021) RCMP — National DNA Data Bank of Canada: 20 Years and Growing Game of Crimes Podcast — "Detective Steve Smith Cracks a 36-Year Old Cold Case" (March 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Episode #428

  Part 1 — Justice Prolonged: The Murder of Christine Jessop

  Jul 20, 20261h 5m

  Episode 428: On October 3, 1984, nine-year-old Christine Jessop stepped off a school bus in Queensville, Ontario, and walked toward home. She was never seen alive again. Her body was found on New Year's Eve, fifty-six kilometres away. She had been sexually assaulted and stabbed. What followed was one of the most consequential criminal proceedings in Canadian history — and the quiet destruction of a man who lived next door. This is Part One of a two-part series. Sources: Kirk Makin, Redrum the Innocent (1992) — Viking Canada. Report of the Kaufman Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin — Full text (netk.net.au) The Canadian Encyclopedia — Guy Paul Morin Case Innocence Canada — Guy Paul Morin case file Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions — Guy Paul Morin Library of Parliament — Wrongful Convictions in Canada (2020) Bruce MacFarlane — "Wrongful Convictions: The Effect of Tunnel Vision and Predisposing Circumstances in the Criminal Justice System" (2006) Federal Prosecution Service — Chapter 5: Jailhouse Informers Federal Prosecution Service — Chapter 8: DNA Evidence The Canadian Encyclopedia — Morin Inquiry Report Kaufman Report — Wikipedia summary Globe and Mail — "Morin Informant Named Dangerous Offender" (2007) CBC Digital Archives — Guy Paul Morin acquitted Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation Williams Treaties — Government of Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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