The Murder of Richard Oland

Richard Oland

Richard Oland was born in 1941 to the affluent Oland family. The second born son to Phillip and Mary Oland. The Oland family is considered "old money", and the area they live is the highest income per capita in Canada. They own Moosehead Breweries, founded in 1867 and they have owned and operated the brewery for 6 generations.

Richard Oland was a businessman and former Vice President of Moosehead Breweries. He studied at the University of New Brunswick focussing on biochemistry, later obtaining a Certificate in Brewing Technology. By 1980 he was Vice President of the company, but a falling out resulted in him leaving the company in 1981.

Striking out on his own, Richard founded 3 companies Kinghurst Estates Limited, Brookville Transport Limited, and Far End Corporation. He became a successful businessman with his fortune near $37 million.

Murder

In July 2011, Richard Oland's body was discovered in his office at Far End Corporation`s Canterbury street in Uptown Saint John`s office by his personal assistant. He was bludgeoned to death, and the crime scene told a brutal tale.

Described by investigators as one of the bloodiest crime scenes of his career, Richard had over 45 wounds on his hands, neck, and head. Six of the wounds were on his hands, likely as he tried to defend himself from attack.

After Richard was struck, he fell to the floor where the attack continued. His skull was fractured in multiple places, eyesockets "cracked like an eggshell", and a concave area spanning 10 cm long and 7 cm wide was bashed into his skull.

Every single wall in Richards office had blood spatter on it, as well as his computer, desk, chair, filing cabinets, and an empty pizza box in the garbage can. Police analysts stated that the attacker would have a significant amount of blood on his or her person.

Police analysts also discovered that some of Richards wounds were from blunt force and some were caused by a blade of some sort. Either two weapons were used, or, as Police believe, a hatchet or drywall hammer was used. No weapons were found at the crime scene, and none entered as evidence in the later trial.

Did Granger Taylor travel to Space?

Granger Taylor was born in Duncan, BC in 1948. At an early age, he showed an aptitude for mechanics, by late teens he gained a reputation for being able to fix nearly anything. Tragedy struck Granger's life at an early age when his father drowned in a freak accident. He lived with his mother and stepfather for the rest of his life.

Granger was a mechanical prodigy, often described as a genius when it came to mechanics. Even though he dropped out of school in grade 8, he continued to astonish friends and family with his mechanical aptitude.

Granger grew to be a large man, standing 6'3 and weighing around 240 lbs. He was shy, and because of his size and personality, he gained the nickname "Gentle Ben". His demeanor often made him the target of bullying.

In his early 20s, Granger found an old abandoned steam engine, neglected and rotting a few kilometers from his parents home. He made his way through dense forest and was able to drag this engine back home. Keep in mind that this engine had been there since the Great Depression, and it had roots and trees growing through it.

His home became known as the "Sleepy Hollow Museum" due to the old tractors and engines and such in various states of restoration that were located there. Working on the steam engine for 2 years at his home, Granger was able to restore the steam engine to its former glory and in 1973 the Province of British Columbia purchased it and it now is on display at the BC Forest Discovery Center in Duncan, BC.

The Boozing Barber, Gilbert Paul Jordan

A string of murders occurred in Vancouver between 1965 and 1988, but at the time, people didn't even realize that they were murders. Gilbert Paul Jordan killed between 8 and 10 women during this time, but rather than a more "traditional" method of killing, Gilbert Paul Jordan, nicknamed "The Boozing Barber", murdered with alcohol.

Born in Vancouver on December 12, 1931, Gilbert was an alcoholic and high school drop out by the age of 16. By 21, he had already been convicted of theft, assault, car theft, and possession of heroin.

Gilbert Paul Jordan had a lengthy criminal record starting in 1952 and included rape, assault, abduction, drunk driving, car theft and eventually, murder. During one of his many incarcerations, Gilbert learned the barber's trade and opened the Slocan Barber Shop in Vancouver's Downtown East Side. He inherited a small sum of money and invested in the stock market and made a lot of money. Enough to open his barber shop, keep him absolutely pickled in alcohol ...and afford a good lawyer.

Reportedly drinking 50oz of vodka per day, in addition to alcohol, Gilbert was also addicted to drunken sex. His targets were most often First Nations women from Vancouver's Downtown East Side. He would find them in bars and buy them drinks, or pay them for sex and invite them to drink with him.

Cody Legebokoff - Canadian Teen Serial Killer

One of Canada's youngest serial killers, Cody Legebokoff was convicted of killing 4 women in the Prince George, BC area. One of his victims, Loren Donn Leslie aged 15 is one of the official Highway of Tears victims.

Originally from Fort St. James, Cody moved to Prince George after he graduated from Fort St. James secondary school. His friends described him as athletic and friendly and were quite shocked to find out about his crimes.

In November of 2010, RCMP officers pulled over a pickup truck suspected of speeding. Two officers approached the vehicle to speak with the driver. That driver was Cody Legebokoff. Immediately the officers noticed that Cody had blood smears on his face and chin, and a quick look into the cab of the truck revealed a pool of blood on the floor.

RCMP detained Cody and searched the vehicle, finding a bloody wrench and multitool, a monkey backpack and a wallet that contained a children's hospital card with the name Loren Leslie on it. When the officers asked Cody about the blood on his face, Cody said that he was hunting deer and had clubbed one to death. Poaching deer would be more accurate.

He had clubbed the deer because, in his words "I'm a redneck, it's what we do for fun".

RCMP called a Wildlife Conservation Officer with tracking skills who was able to track Cody's tire tracks. They made a horrifying discovery when the Wildlife Officer tracked Cody's movements, not to the body of a bleeding deer, but to the body of 15-year-old Loren Donn Leslie.

RCMP were later able to connect Cody Legebokoff to other murders through DNA, making him one of Canada's youngest serial killers.

Cody Legebokoff was convicted in 2014 of murdering Jill Stacey Stuchenko, aged 35, mother of five, found in a gravel pit outside Prince George.

Cynthia Maas, aged 35 found in a park a month after going missing. Cynthia had brutal injuries including a broken jaw and cheekbone as well as injuries consistent with someone ruthlessly stomping on her.

Natasha Montgomery, aged 25, went missing and her body was never found, but her DNA was found in Cody's apartment, and on an axe that Cody owned.

Lastly was Loren Leslie, aged 15, was legally blind, with no vision in one eye and about 50% in the other. She allegedly met Cody online at a social media site Nexopia where Cody went by the handle "1CountryBoy".

Cody was tried for 4 counts of 1st-degree murder. During his trial, Cody said that he was "involved" in the killings but that the actual murders were carried out by a drug dealer and his accomplices that he referred to only as "X, Y, and Z". The court did not believe his version of events and denied his attempt to change the charge to the lesser 2nd-degree murder charge.

On September 11, 2014, Cody Legebokoff was found guilty on all 4 counts of 1st-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years with no parole. The judge also added his name to the National Sex Offender Registry due to the sexual acts and degradation of the bodies he committed as part of the murders.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Glen Parrett said of Cody Legebokoff, "He lacks any shred of empathy or remorse, he should never be allowed to walk among us again".  Court Justice Glen Parett also stated that all four of the murders were committed during a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault.

He added that without the luck of the RCMP officer that had a hunch and pulled Cody over for suspected speeding, they may not have caught Cody for some time, "the grief and horrors we heard from the families may well have been simply a precursor…". Cody was 20 years old when he was caught, with no indication that he would have stopped. His list of victims could have been
substantially longer.

To add insult to injury, Cody Legebokoff could apply for parole through Canada's "Faint Hope Clause" after 15 years in jail. Even though the Clause was amended so that people who commit multiple murders could not apply, Cody's murders occurred before the Clause was changed.

Even after overwhelming evidence including DNA pointing to Cody as the murderer of these 3 women and one girl, Cody never took responsibility for his crimes at trial. He had maintained that Mr "X, Y, and Z" actually murdered those women. He even went so far as to admit that he had hit Loren Leslie "twice at the max" with that bloody pipe wrench found in his car, but that he did not kill her.

Cody appealed his sentence in 2015, but the BC Court of Appeals upheld his original conviction.

Although Cody was 19 at the time of the murders, he is not Canada's youngest serial killer. Peter Woodcock was 17 when he raped and murdered 3 children in Toronto, but he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Even so, Peter Woodcock spent the rest of his life behind bars and killed another inmate during his incarceration.

I don't think that Cody would have stopped killing. The prosecution in his case alleges that the 3 women were sex trade workers and Cody used them to get cocaine. You don't just all of a sudden stop using cocaine. Eventually, Cody would need another fix and his M.O. was to use prostitutes to get what he wanted. In at least 3 cases Cody murdered those women.

Which makes me wonder, did he murder other women that we don't know about? I'm not a psychologist but in most cases, don't murderers build up to killing? Starting with abuse and assault and eventually graduating to murder. I would not be shocked if he had more victims.

Loren is a bit of an enigma to me. She was much younger than Cody's other victims, and she was not a sex trade worker. Just a kid. Try to imagine that. A nearly blind child that was wearing a monkey backpack.

It is important to remember that Cody's other victims however you feel about sex trade workers are still people. By all accounts, all of his victims were good people and had families who loved them, and children that miss them.

Criminals and murderers often target sex trade workers because they believe that they will not be missed, or at least won't be noticed missing till long after the crime is committed. This is an unfortunate fact, one of the main reason why the infamous pig farmer Robert "Willie" Pickton was able to murder 49 women and not be caught for so long.

Loren Leslie is listed as an official Highway of Tears victim by E-PANA, RCMP`s task force investigating the missing and murdered women on Highway 16 in BC. This makes Cody Legebokoff another serial killer, like Bobby Jack Fowler, that used this highway as his hunting grounds.

How many more are there?

Thanks for reading. See you next time.

I find myself staying up late reading about true crime and Canadian mysteries. My body runs almost entirely on caffeine!

If you like what you are reading and would like to support me and this site, consider buying me a coffee and click the button below so I can keep the posts coming!

Buy me a coffee

For an inside look at how the FBI developed criminal profiling, check out the book Mindhunter, which follows John E. Douglas's career in the FBI where he created the basis of the FBI's criminal profiling techniques including his interviews with serial killers including Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, and Charles Manson. Click the link below to get your own copy of this fascinating look inside the FBI's investigations into these cases and more.

Audiobooks.com has a really cool promotion going on right now, click the link below and get a one month trial from audiobooks.com and a free book!

I find myself using Amazon quite a bit for my various book and hobby needs. Click the banner ad below for a free trial of Amazon Prime.

Bobby Jack Fowler - Highway of Tears Serial Killer?

Born June 12, 1939, Bobby Jack Fowler was a habitual criminal almost right from the womb. Originally from Texas, Bobby would "rabbit around" as he would call it, moving between Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Texas, Oregon, South Carolina, Arizona, Tennessee, Washington State, and British Columbia.

In Bobby's lifetime, he racked up a long criminal record in the United States including attempted murder, sexual assault, kidnapping, attempted rape, and assault. If Bobby saw something he wanted he would take it, regardless of consequence.

A drug addict and violent criminal, Bobby Jack Fowler was a transient construction worker, often working as a roofer. Moving frequently in old beat up cars he would spend his free time in bars and motels, and often picked up hitchhikers. Bobby believed that women who hitchhiked or women he picked up in bars wanted to be sexually assaulted.

In 1969 he was arrested for murdering a man and woman in Texas but was able to get off with only discharging a firearm within city limits. In '69 he also spent time in a Tennessee prison for attempted murder and sexual assault. In the words of an investigator, "he tied [a woman] up, beat the hell out of her with her own belt, covered her with brush and left her to die.

Although Bobby Jack Fowler was never convicted of murder, he is a suspect or person of interest in approximately 16 murders in the US and Canada.

Bobby Jack Fowler

In 1974 Bobby Jack Fowler worked for a roofing company in Prince George and would often travel Highway 16, the infamous Highway of Tears. RCMP believe he could be responsible for 10 murders along this Highway, while other estimates put it closer to 20. Some of the evidence that point to Bobby is circumstantial at best, but he was in the area at the time of some of the murders and they did follow his M.O.

In June of 1995, Bobby was arrested in Newport, Oregon after a woman jumped out of a second story window in the Tides Inn. Nude, bleeding and with a rope still tied to her ankle, the woman was able to escape from Bobby and get to the police to tell then what Bobby did to her. In January of 1996, he was convicted of Kidnapping in the 1st Degree, Attempted Rape in the 1st Degree, Sexual Abuse in the 1st Degree, Coercion, Assault in the Fourth Degree, and Menacing. He was sentenced to 195 months with the possibility of parole.

In 2006 Bobby Jack Fowler died in Oregon State Penitentiary of lung cancer at the age of 66.

In 2012 RCMP named Bobby Jack Fowler a suspect in a murder on the Highway of Tears in 1974. In August 1974 16-year-old Colleen MacMillen went missing from 100 Mile House, BC. Going out that fateful night, she told her little brother Shawn "Don't tell mom I'm hitchhiking". She was never seen alive again.

Colleen MacMillen

One month later Colleen's body was found around 50 kilometers from her home at 100 Mile House. RCMP also found Colleen's blouse, but DNA technology was non-existent so no tests could be done at that time.

Even though they had been unable to do any DNA testing the RCMP collected and stored Colleen's blouse safely enough that evidence collected years later could still be used in court. In 2007 they looked at the blouse again and were able to find a small sample of DNA from an unknown male, but it was not a match to any sample in RCMP databases.

In 2012, 38 years after Colleen went missing,  DNA technology had advanced to the point that smaller and smaller samples could be tested. RCMP were able to get a DNA profile from a small fragment of DNA collected from Colleen's blouse.

They then submitted that sample to Interpol, whose extensive database included samples from multiple countries, in the faint hope that there would be a match. Police were surprised to find that Interpol got a match in their database, and that DNA matched violent US criminal Bobby Jack Fowler.

Although Bobby had an extensive criminal record in the United States, he was unknown to RCMP. There were no criminal records, nor any record that he entered the country. I guess in the 70's security was pretty lax between our two countries. I personally remember being able to enter Alaska from BC and only having to show my BC Drivers Licence to the border guard. Note that is singular, there was only one guard and I don't remember him writing my name down or license number or anything. Post 9/11, things have changed considerably.

After further investigation into Bobby Jack Fowler, RCMP suspect that he was also responsible for the murder of Pamela Darlington and Gale Weys, two other murdered women on the "official" Highway of Tears victim list.

Although the task force formed by the RCMP to investigate the Highway of Tears, named E-PANA, only has 18 people on its official list, some groups have put the number of missing and murdered women along this highway closer to 40, and the list continues to grow.

Jennifer Esson and Kara Leas

Bobby Jack Fowler is also linked to two double homicides in Oregon. Sheila Swanson and Melissa Sanders in Oregon 1992, were last seen making a call from a payphone near the Beverly Beach State Park, their bodies found 6 months later. In January 1995, Jennifer Esson and Kara Leas were last seen walking in Newport, Oregon. Their strangled bodies found a month later. That was 6 months before he kidnapped and sexually assaulted the woman that jumped out the second story motel window, ultimately leading to Bobby Jack Fowler being arrested and convicted.

US Law Enforcement believes that Bobby Jack Fowler may have killed 20 people or more and have compared him to the cold-blooded serial killer Ted Bundy.

It is important to know that while Bobby Jack Fowler is suspected of being a serial killer, he was never actually convicted of murder, but he did operate for a time along the Highway of Tears. He is likely not "The Highway of Tear's serial killer". Bobby was in custody for some of the murders or was known to be in a different area for others. A scary thought is that he may be just ONE of the serial killers that hunt along the Highway of Tears.

But guess what! Next week I'll tell you the story of Cody Legebokoff, who has the distinction of being Canada's youngest serial killer, and guess where he was based out of?

Prince George, BC. The start of the Highway of Tears.

For more information on the Highway of Tears, read "Obstruction of Justice: The Search for Truth on Canada's Highway of Tears" by Ray Michalko. Click the link below to view it at Amazon.

Thanks for reading. See you next time.


Your visits and reads greatly support me and this site. If you would like to help support this site, even more, click the link below to buy me a coffee and keep me up researching more of the worst Canada has to offer. See you next time.

Buy me a coffee

For an inside look at how the FBI developed criminal profiling, check out the book Mindhunter, which follows John E. Douglas's career in the FBI where he created the basis of the FBI's criminal profiling techniques including his interviews with serial killers including Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, and Charles Manson. Click the link below to get your own copy of this fascinating look inside the FBI's investigations into these cases and more.

Audiobooks.com has a really cool promotion going on right now, click the link below and get a one month trial from audiobooks.com and a free book!

I find myself using Amazon quite a bit for my various book and hobby needs. Click the banner ad below for a free trial of Amazon Prime.

Terry Driver - The Abbotsford Killer

The world in 1995 was quite different than what it is today. Cell phones were huge monstrosities that no one really used. The first Toy Story movie wouldn't be released until late in the year. Music was still listened to mainly on the radio, and in 1995 the Billboard Top Songs that year were Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio and Boombastic by Shaggy.

In Abbotsford, BC, on October 14, 1995, Tanya Smith aged 16, and Misty Cockerill aged 15 decided to go to a party at a friends house. After the party was over, they weren't ready for the night to end, so they decided to walk a short distance to another friends house who was having another party. Their path took them close to the Abbotsford Hospital.

While walking to that second party, a man, who possibly was listening to their conversation, jumped out from behind some bushes brandishing an aluminum baseball bat.

Murder in Port Essington! The Murder Case of Loretta Chisholm

Port Essington was a town located on the Skeena River between Prince Rupert and Terrace. Founded in 1871, it has always been a small community.  In 1926 Port Essington had only approximately a few hundred people at most living there. Now, Port Essington is a ghost town.

Port Essington 1915

Loretta Chisholm was a young schoolteacher working in Port Essington in 1926. Described as a very well respected teacher, Loretta was "a real lady". On Sunday, May 23, 1926, Loretta decided to take a walk before breakfast and before she went to church, but people became alarmed when she did not come back in time for breakfast. Port Essington was still a pretty wild territory, and people had warned Loretta about going for walks alone. Not because she might run into foul play, but because she might run into a wolf or bear. Little did they know, young Loretta ran into an animal of the human variety. After a short search was organized, searchers found Loretta.

Loretta Chisholm was murdered that Sunday in 1926. She was only 21 when she fell victim to a brutal attack. She was viciously beaten. Her face was battered and jaw was broken, her chest had been crushed, she sustained significant internal injuries, and moss stuffed down her throat in an attempt to silence her cries.

Joeseph Sankey, a First Nations man, was arrested under suspicion of murdering Loretta. He was arrested within 2 hours of searchers finding Loretta's body. He had been seen walking in the same direction as Loretta shortly after she had passed a boat captain and other witnesses.

Amanda Todd

In honor of World Mental Health Day, I would like to tell you the story of Amanda Todd. Amanda Todd was a young girl living in Port Coquitlam, BC. A victim of bullying, Amanda committed suicide in 2012 at the age of 15.

In 2009-2010, Amanda had used video chat to meet new people, often getting complimented on her good looks. One individual she chatted with over the course of about 1 year eventually convinced her to send him a topless picture. He later blackmailed her, saying that he would post the picture online and on friends Facebook page unless she gave him a "show".

Who Killed Ramona Wilson?

Smithers is a small town in northern British Columbia, nestled along the long stretch of Highway 16. This places the close-knit community right in the middle of the infamous Highway of Tears.

The Highway of Tears is the portion of Highway 16 from Prince George to Prince Rupert, stretching 720 kilometers. When driving this highway, people are treated to a beautiful landscape that changes from lower flat fields and farmland to towering mountains. Another thing you will notice along this highway is how isolated it is. You can often be driving for an hour or more between towns.

Ramona Wilson was a bright young first nations girl, aged 16, living with her mother and other siblings in Smithers, BC.  Ramona was a typical teenager, she had a part-time job at a local restaurant and liked hanging out with her friends. Her mother Matilda said her daughter loved writing poetry and reads them often when she thinks of her. Even after all this time, Matilda still finds it hard to speak about her daughter.

The Somerton Man

The case of the Somerton Man is a curious one indeed. With many questions and few answers. While this is not a Canadian case, it is so strange I wanted to share it with everyone.

The Somerton Man is also known as the Tamam Shud case, due to a piece of paper with this phrase written on it found on the body of an unknown man on Somerton Beach in the town of Glenelg, which is just south of Adelaide, Australia.

The body of the Somerton Man was found 6:30 am, December 1, 1948. The man had no identification, nothing on him to point to who this man was. Even the tags of his clothing had been removed, making even trying to get an identification through his suit difficult. He also did not have a hat or wallet which was unusual for the time period.  No identification could even be made through dental records

He was found in a sitting position leaning up against the seawall, with his legs crossed. Almost like he had been sleeping when he passed. An unlit cigarette was found on the right collar of his coat. A search of his person revealed an unused second-class rail ticket from Adelaide to Henley Beach, a bus ticket that may or may not have been used, a comb, a half-empty pack of gum, a pack of matches, and a pack of cigarettes that contained cigarettes from a different brand. A more in-depth search of his clothing found a secret pocket sown in his pants that contained a small piece of paper that looked to be from a book, with the phrase "Tamam Shud" written on it. Tamam Shud was later discovered to be a phrase in Persian that means "finished" or "ending".

The Beast of British Columbia

 

Clifford Robert Olsen Jr. 

 

Clifford Robert Olsen started his life of crime at a young age. In his early days at school, he would get into fights, often getting beaten up. He later decided to take up boxing so he could "get even", and he did, by seeking out the other boys to even the score. Constantly with a chip on his shoulder, Clifford was a petty thief. He would even steal produce from backyards and sell them.

Clifford later dropped out of school after grade 8 and was arrested by the age of 17 for a break and enter. By the time he was 42, he had over 90 convictions and had escaped from police custody 7 times. His crimes included obstructing justice, possession of stolen property, possession of firearms, forgery, false pretenses, fraud, parole violation, impaired driving, theft, break and enter and theft, armed robbery, escape from lawful custody, rape, buggery, gross indecency, and first-degree murder.

When he had married his wife, Joan Hale, Clifford had already killed 3 children. Christine Weller, and Colleen Marian Daignault, both 13 and from Surrey, and Daryn Todd Johnsrude, 16, from Coquitlam. Just days after his wedding he abducted and killed Sandra Wolfsteiner, 16, of Langley. Within a month of killing Sandra, he killed 13-year-old Ada Anita Court of Burnaby.

In July 1981, he killed had killed six children. Simon Partington aged 9, and Terri Lyn Carson aged 15, both from Surrey. Judy Kozma aged 14 and Raymond King aged 15, from New Westminster. Sigrun Arnd aged 18, a German tourist and Marie Louise Chartrand aged 17, from Maple Ridge.

Clifford was arrested Aug. 12, 1981, after trying to abduct two female hitchhikers. He was taken in for questioning and after a few days was arrested for the murder of Judy Kozma, aged 14.

Canada's Missing Child: Michael Dunahee

Michael Dunahee

Michael Dunahee was almost 5 years old when he disappeared from a playground in Victoria, BC March 24, 1991. His mother Crystal was participating in football practice and Michael and his father Bruce were watching with the other spectators.

The Dunahee family arrived at Blanchard Park Elementary School around 12:30 in the afternoon, and soon after arriving young Michael asked his mother if he could play in the school's playground. Crystal said that Michael could play in the playground while she was at practice because he would be easily visible to her and Bruce.

Crystal told him "OK, you can go to the park, wait there and don’t leave with anybody, just wait there and daddy will come and get you.". When they looked at the playground moments later, Michael was gone. Crystal later stated that "something wasn't quite right " and continues to carry the guilt for not trusting her instincts that day.

Blanchard Park Elementary School. The playground is in the lower left.

Where's Maddy?

Madison Scott

Hogsback Lake, around 20 kilometers away from Vanderhoof BC, is a cozy camping area with a dock on the lake. It was a popular area for young people to have parties due to the camping areas and isolation. It is far enough away that the noise of a party wouldn't bother anyone living nearby who might call the RCMP and get the party shut down.

The weather on May 27, 2011, was crisp, near 10 degrees Celcius, when young Madison Scott went to a campsite party at Hogback Lake. Madison went with her friend Jordie with the intention of attending the party then camping overnight to avoid driving under the influence as there was alcohol at this get-together.

The party at Hogsback Lake was around 50 people, and according to reports, near the end of the night some people showed up that were not known to most people and the mood of the night soured. Around this time most people decided to leave rather than stay the night at the campground.

Hogsback Lake

What Happened to Maddy?

Canadian True Crime

Mysteries and true crime have been an interest of mine for years now. Watching TV shows and seeing how the "bad guys" get caught on whatever TV crime drama clone happens to be on held my interest for a time. Until I started reading about the real stuff. Real life mysteries and criminal cases sucked me in like nothing else.

I started researching criminal cases. Unsolved crimes, missing people and just plain strange cases. What I found seemed to be a never-ending rabbit hole. The more I read and the more shows I watched, there was always more.

The sad thing with real-life mysteries is that there doesn't seem to ever be an end to them. Often there isnt a happy ending. There is always a new case. Always another missing person, abduction or murder. Even in my sleepy little town, there are mysteries in the shadows if you look hard enough. Sometimes they aren't hidden in the shadows at all.

As I researched I noticed something. And that was a lack of sites or blogs that report on cases within Canada. Most of the cases I found online focused south of the border. The Canadian true crime cases don't seem to get nearly the publicity as they should, In my eyes, for Canadian audiences.

Some cases I will write about are so strange or interesting I will have to share them with you even if they did not happen in Canada, but you will notice a Canadian theme to this blog. Some of these cases will be unsolved, and I truly believe that somewhere, someone has the tip that solves the case.