GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

57. The Murders of Nancy and Daniel Benoit

Over a three day period from June 22nd to June 24th of 2007 a tragedy occurred that was on a magnitude that we don’t see very often.  Not because of what happened perhaps, because sadly those circumstances do exist on a near daily, if not daily basis, in the world around us.  However, the part of the story that makes this stand out from the others was WHO was committing the acts in question.  It is not so often that we see someone who is a public figure, someone who lives in the public eye every day commit acts like the ones that we are going to talk about today.  Over those three days, the man in question would murder his son, his wife and then take his own life.  The story runs deep and to set the scene we are going to go WAY back because of the theories and the things that are believed to have played  apart here.  We are going to discuss the life and final days of a man who is known by fans of professional wrestling and true crime all over the world. 
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56. The Kidnapping and Return of Elizabeth Smart

So many of our episodes cover the loss of people or the loss of life and either offer up a sad ending or a story that has yet to be finished.  This week we are going travelling south of the border to The United States and we are going to cover a case that starts out so similar to many of the cases that we have covered and yet, one that has a happy ending.  At the age of 14 a young girl was kidnapped right out of her own home and from a room that she shared with her sister.  The family fought hard, never gave up hope and never gave up on trying to find their beloved daughter.  About nine months after she was abducted all of the hard work and effort paid off and the young girl was discovered about 29 kilometres from her home.  Now, she is an advocate for missing persons and victims of sexual assault. 
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55.The Matricide of ”Linda Andersen” - The Bathtub Girls

I think that most people can have empathy with someone that says “woe is me” on some level.  I think that most people can understand growing up and feeling as though life was unfair or that life was depressing.  Those are generally pretty common feelings, especially when we are children growing up and we see other people who perhaps have things that we don’t have or a life that we don’t have.  On January 18th, 2003 though two sisters would take those feelings to an entirely different and sadistic level when they would complete a plot that led to what is believed to have been the first ever matricide in Canada by two sisters.  The names in this case are fictional because names are protected under The Youth Criminal Justice Act, but the story is very real.  The worst part of the murder that we are about to discuss is that everything was premeditated and the two sisters almost got away with it. 
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54. Peter Woodcock - Canada’s Youngest Serial Killer

David Michael Kreuger is best known by his birth name, Peter Woodcock and he is known as Canada’s youngest serial killer.  By the time that his life ended in 2010 he was known as a serial killer, a child rapist and was also diagnosed as a psychopath.  Peter is known for crimes that actually took place many, many years apart as he would initially be incarcerated for three murders of young children in Toronto in the late 1950s.  However, one of the most jarring things about Peter was that he also would commit murder in 1991 on his very first day of unsupervised release from the institution that he had been held in. 
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53. The 1971 Kingston Penitentiary Riot

Kingston Penitentiary was a maximum security prison in Canada that was located in Kingston, Ontario and is located between King Street West and Lake Ontario.  Kingston Pen as it’s referred to was built between 1833 and 1834 and officially opened on June 1st, 1835 as the Provincial Penitentiary of the Province of Upper Canada.  At the time that Kingston Pen closed down it was one of the oldest prisons in continuous use in the world.  Kingston Pen was eventually replaced by Millhaven Institution.  Before it was closed down as a full maximum security prison, in 1971 it would be the site of a riot that lasted for four days and that riot would result in the deaths of two inmates and the destruction of most of the prison itself.  There were hostages taken, there were inmates beaten to death and nearly to death and there was a whole hell of a lot to the story. 
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52: The Murder of Derek Grain

On Halloween morning of 1980, a 39 year old man who was residing for a brief period of time in Bristol, England was found lying dead in a pool of his own blood on Brandon Hill. He had only been in Bristol for two months at the time of his death. As the investigation into the murder started it was discovered that the murder was bloody, brutal and incredibly savage. The man had been known to be quite the drinker, but he was not known to be the type to get involved in drama or fights while he was out at the bar. So, what happened in this case? How was the man murdered? Why was the man murdered? Who committed this heinous crime?
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51. The Quebec City Stabbings

Halloween is a holiday that is based around people getting to dress up and become something or someone else. Sometimes that means dressing up as a character from your favourite movie, show or video game. Sometimes that means taking on and dressing up as an entirely new persona and becoming someone or something that you perhaps wish was closer to the true you. On October 31st, 2020 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada though a man dressed up in a kimono and took to the streets in a much more sinister way. He would kill two innocent bystanders at random and he would injure five others and would later say that it wasn’t him at all that committed those murders. No, in fact he would blame “bad Carl” for committing the indecencies that were committed on that night. Did this man and his defense team successfully prove that he was not criminally responsible for the things that he did?
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50. The Murder of Taylor Van Diest

On October 31st, 2011 in Armstrong, British Columbia, a young lady was preparing to enjoy Halloween one more time with her friends as she realized that they were all getting older and they were all going to be headed in life’s many directions in the very near future. Halloween was her favourite day of the year. Taylor Van Diest would dress up as a zombie and then leave home at 5:50pm. About ten minutes into her walk, around 6pm, she would send her boyfriend the last text message that she would ever send. It read simply “Being Creeped”. What happened and what was the fallout from this case that would take seven years to fully resolve itself?
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49. Lynne Harper and Steven Truscott

On June 9th, 1959 a 12-year-old-girl would disappear in Clinton, Ontario, about 80 kilometres northwest of London, Ontario from nearby the Royal Canadian Air Force Base. Seemingly the last person to see her alive would be a young man who was also a classmate of hers at The Air Vice Marshal Hugh Campbell School. The two had gone for a ride oh his bicycle. When the young girl did not return home, the young boy would in fact become a suspect in her disappearance. On June 11th, two days after she had gone missing, tragically her body would be found and on June 12th, the young man would be arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Police felt that this was an opened and closed case. Was the easy answer the right one in this case or were there going to be questions in this case that still exist today, 63 years later?
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48. Elizabeth Wettlaufer - Part 4

Between June 25th of 2007 and August of 2014 many people would have their lives changed or ended at the hands of someone who was entrusted with improving their quality of life as they got older. Elizabeth Wettlaufer would eventually be charged and convicted of eight counts of first degree murder, four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault. All of these crimes were committed against people who had been placed in her care as a nurse. How, and why, did she commit the crimes that she committed and what can we learn from this case? Hello, and welcome to episode 48 of Gone, But Never Forgotten. The Crimes and Conviction of Elizabeth Wettlaufer.
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