Dark Poutine

Episode 435:InNovember 1944, theImperial Japanese Armybegan launchingpaper balloonsfrom the coast of Honshu — each one carrying incendiary and anti-personnel bombs, designed to ride the jet stream across the Pacific and set fire to the forests of North America. They called the programFu-Go

Episode 434:On the morning ofFebruary 25th, 2005,Crystal Taman, a forty-year-old dental assistant, wife, and mother of three, left her home inEast St. Paul, Manitobaon her way to work. She never arrived. Stopped at a red light onHighway 59at thePerimeter Highway, her ...

Episode 433:OnAugust 16, 1995, Avis Ottey came home to her townhouse in Scarborough, Ontario, expecting to find her daughters packing for the future. Instead, she found nineteen-year-oldMarsha Otteyand sixteen-year-oldTamara “Tami” Otteymurdered in the basement.

Marsha was just two days away fr...

Episode 432:InFebruary 1884, a Scottish storekeeper namedJames Bellwas shot dead in his cabin alongTelegraph Road in Washington Territory, just south of the Canadian border. Within days, a fifteen-year-old Semá:th boy namedLouie Samwas arrested on suspicion of murder and placed in law...