GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

60. The Death of Lucas Shortreed

Stories that are unsolved are terrible, there is no denying it.  As we have said many times in the past on our show, we wonder how people can possibly live with themselves when they take a life.  On October 10th, 2008 that is precisely what happened.  A young man, 18 years of age, was walking home on a country road when he was struck by a vehicle and left for dead on the side of the road.  It took 14 years for arrests to be made in this case, but currently it looks like there may be light at the end of a long tunnel for the family, at least in terms of answers.  This week we cover what happened in 2008, what happened in between and what is currently happening now within the case. 
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59. The Disappearance of Elisa Lam

On February 19th, 2013 a body would be found inside a large cistern on the roof of the Stay on Main hotel in downtown Los Angeles in the United States of America.  Now, over 9 years later, many would say that there are plenty of mysteries and unanswered questions surrounding the case.  This death has been called back to in pop culture many times over the years and in fact bore a lot of similarities to the horror movie Dark Water which actually came out many years before the death, in 2005.  This week we will talk about the girl at the center of the story, the hotel itself, the video that was later released to the public, The Elevator Game and some of the theories that have popped up over the years. 
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58. The Unsolved Murder of Sonia Varaschin

Murder in a small town is something that is supposed to be rare.  However, when it does happen generally the cases do not remain open for too long because in a setting like that, most everyone knows one another and there are clues, eye witnesses and mistakes.  This week we are going to look at a case though that took place in Orangeville, Ontario in 2010.  At that time, the population was roughly 27 thousand people.  Now, 12 years later, sadly, this case remains open.  To this day, very little information is known as to what happened, including the details surrounding how a young nurse died.  Today, we will look at what details there are on the case in the hopes of helping to find some answers.  GBNF on PatreonGBNF on FacebookGBNF on XGBNF on InstagramGBNF on YouTubeGBNF on TikTok
 
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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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