GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

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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47. Elizabeth Wettlaufer - Part 3

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 the vulnerable who had been placed in her care as a nurse. Why did she commit the crimes that she committed? How did she commit the crimes that she committed? What can we, as a society, learn from this case about how we treat and take care of our vulnerable seniors?
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46. Elizabeth Wettlaufer - Part 2

Between June 25th, 2007 and August of 2014 Elizabeth Wettlaufer would commit crimes against numerous people as she worked in Southwestern Ontario as a nurse within long-term care homes. She would have a position that enabled her access to many medications and many patients and she used that power and responsibility to rack up a list of crimes that would lead to her eventually pleading guilty to eight counts of first degree murder, four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault. Who were the people that she treated with complete and utter disregard? Who were the victims of one of the worst serial killers in Canadian history? This week we will tell you their stories to the best of our ability.
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45. Elizabeth Wettlaufer - Part 1

If you asked someone what they know about serial killers they will most likely mention Jack The Ripper or Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy and then perhaps branch out from there. In Canada, when you talk to people about serial killers, we have Clifford Olson, Robert Pickton and Paul Bernardo that immediately spring to mind for most. However, one thing that stands out when most people talk about serial killers is that a lot of the most prolific ones are males. You don’t often hear too much about female serial killers. Some will say that that is because the stories are not usually all that “interesting” so to speak. One of Canada’s most prolific serial killers is a name that most people know, but their memories only really trigger when the name is mentioned. Elizabeth Wettlaufer was found guilty of murdering eight people and attempting to murder six others.
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44. The Grizzly Murder of Theresa DeCourcy

On October 18th of 1945 an 18-year-old girl went missing when she was headed to a school dance at the Technical High School in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada. Her disappearance would quickly turn into a murder case and the case itself and the story around it would actually span nearly fifty years. This week we talk about the disappearance, the grizzly discovery of the body, the confession and the subsequent fallout of the confession nearly fifty years later.
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43. The Sick Story of Katherine Knight

On November 8th, 2001 a woman was sentenced to life imprisonment because the Justice believed that she had a lack of remorse for the murder that she had committed. The Justice also refused to set a fixed term on how long the woman had to wait to apply for parole and actually insisted that her papers be marked “never to be released”. This was the first time that a woman was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility for parole in Australian history.
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42. The Kidnapping and Murder of Tori Stafford

I was a clear, brisk spring day in Woodstock, Ontario. A Wednesday, a day like many others that had come and were expected to still be in the future. An eight year old girl was on her way home from school to her brand new house where she lived with her mom, Tara and her brother Daryn. She had just started the painstaking process of getting her room together just how she wanted it the night before. She had decorated the room with posters and toys that showed off her true loves in life, Disney princesses, bratz dolls and high school musical. That evening she was going to spend the evening with her dad, Rodney, and then watch a movie with some of her friends. Unfortunately though, those plans were not going to be fulfilled as every parent’s worst nightmare came true on April 8th, 2009.
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41. The Giant Mine Murders

In 1992 one of the worst mass murders in Canadian history took place in Yellowknife, the capital of Northwest Territories, in Canada. In the midst of what was already a violent clash between management and workers, a lockout and strike, nine men who were working as replacement workers died when their rail car hit a bomb. The end result was that a man would confess and then take back his confession. The bomb was deliberately planted and nine men lost their lives as a direct result of that.
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