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Sunday, July 14, 2019

Jesse Galganov - Missing Canadian Hiker

Jesse Galganov

Jesse Galganov is a bright young man who intended to go to med school in Philadelphia after taking a year off of school to travel the world. Jesse is a dual citizen of the US and Canada and lived with his mother in Montreal.

Jesse's plan was to go backpacking throughout South America and Southeast Asia, with his first stop being Peru where he would hike the famous Santa Cruz trail. Jesse was an experienced traveler and hiker, and it was a dream of his to hike this trail. At points, this trail can reach 15000' above sea level and isn't for novice hikers.

On September 24, 2017, Jesse left Montreal and headed to his first stop in Peru. Jesse texted his mom Alisa on September 28 and told her that he was leaving to hike the Santa Cruz trail and wouldn't be able to text her for a few days, but he said that he would be sure to text her by October 2nd.

Alisa became alarmed when Jesse did not text her by the 2nd and quickly notified the authorities of her son's disappearance.


Unfortunately, to this date, Jesse's whereabouts are unknown.

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

The Longest Sentence in Ontario History - Dellen Millard

Dellen Millard

Dellen Millard was born in Toronto, 1985. He was the only son of wealthy parents, and as an adult, he was set to take over his father's successful aviation repair business. At 14 years old he was the youngest in Canada to take solo flights in one day in a helicopter and an airplane. He seemed to have everything going for him, but inside him lurked an evil that would eventually claim 3 lives.

Even though Dellen's potential was bright, he chased the thrill of living dangerously. He dropped out of college and started doing drugs, progressing to harder and harder drugs. Dellen would fund drug and alcohol-fueled parties. His lifestyle attracted people who wanted to live that "gangsta" life.
Mark Smich

Enter Mark Smich, a thug and wannabe rapper. With awesome lyrics like:
"Blues clues, talk to the cops and die on the news. Peace bitch". Mark was also a petty criminal and drug dealer who would turn out to be Dellen's sidekick and lapdog.

Friday, April 19, 2019

Peter Woodcock - Canada's Youngest Serial Killer



The story of the child murderer and serial killer Peter Woodcock is not for the faint of heart. If reading about subjects like this makes you squeamish, please don't read any further.

Peter Woodcock was born in Peterborough, Ontario in 1939. His mother was a young 17-year-old factory worker and she had difficulty with the child. He would not eat and cried constantly. At a month old his mother gave him up for adoption.

Peter continued to cry all the time and would screech whenever someone approached him. He would be bounced around between temporary foster homes, to prevent him from forming an attachment to any particular family until a more permanent home could be found.

By his first birthday, he was still terrified of people and his speech was described as strange whining animal noises. He suffered abuse in these early days at the hands of his temporary foster parents, having had to go to the hospital for a neck injury at 2 years old after a beating.

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Elizabeth Wettlaufer



When a family member has to go into assisted living, or "end of life" care, you trust that the caregivers looking after your loved ones have their best interests at heart. Chances are if your end of life caregiver was Elizabeth Wettlaufer, your end of life would come sooner than expected.

Elizabeth Wettlaufer was a registered nurse in Southern Ontario that admitted to murdering 8 seniors and attempting to murder 6 others during the years of 2007 and 2016. She would inject lethal doses of insulin into her victims, ensuring a prolonged complicated death.

Her first known crimes began when she worked as a nurse at Caressant Care in Woodstock, Ontario. She would admit to injecting two of the patients, Clotilde Adriano and Albina Demedeiros with insulin but at this point, she didn't know the correct amount for a lethal dosage. They would later pass, but it was not connected to the overdose of insulin.

Friday, March 22, 2019

Wayne Boden - The Vampire Rapist


In 1967, Montreal was booming. People from all over the country had traveled to Montreal for the 1967 Expo. In 1969 was the year of a violent race-related riot at Sir George Williams University, where students accused staff of unfair grading due to the race of the students. It resulted in nearly 100 people arrested after students set fire to the university's computer and burned documents and punch cards.

This was the backdrop at the time a predator named Wayne Boden, also known as the Vampire Rapist, stalked the young women of Montreal. In the late 60s, Montreal had about 1 homicide per week. Wayne Boden was counting on his victims to blend in with the other murders happening around the city at the time.

Unfortunately, the civilian attention span when it came to the murders in Montreal was fairly short. It almost became like just statistics and not the reality that these were real people.

In July 1968 Norma Vaillancourt, a 21 year old teacher was found dead in her apartment after she had failed to show up for work. She had been strangled and raped, and her body bore vicious bite marks on her breast. The police decided not to release the information on the bite marks to the public. Unfortunately, all persons of interest were ruled out and investigators hit a dead end.

In October of 1969, a woman named Shirley Audette was found dead at the rear of an apartment complex. In the alley that went from the side of the apartment to the rear of the building, her fully clothed body was found at the bottom of the fire escape. The manner of death wasn't readily apparent to the first on the scene.

Friday, March 8, 2019

Who is Bruce McArthur?



In 2010, the LGBT community in Toronto began to fear that there might be a predator in their midst. Described as an LGBT enclave, Church and Wellesley is known as Toronto's gay village. Protective of their people, they noticed that young men were going missing and no one knew what was going on. Did they move? Did something bad happen?

The LGBT people in Church and Wellesley demanded an investigation into their missing people. In 2012, after years of petitioning the police to figure out what was happening, Toronto Police Services started an investigation they called Project Houston.

Originally started as an investigation into the disappearance of Skandaraj "Skanda" Navaratnam, who went missing in September 2010. Project Houston began due to a post on a "Cannibal" website where a poster admitted to killing and eating a man in Toronto, 2010. This info was later dismissed, Riverdale park was searched with friends of Navaratnam and cadaver dogs, but there were no leads.

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Missing Family from Prince George

The Jack Family





In 1989 the Jack family, a family of 4, of the Cheslatta Carrier Nation went missing from Prince George BC. Ronald and Doreen Jack are the parents of Russell, age 9, and Ryan, age 4. All four of them seemingly vanished that year in 1989.

On August 2, 1989, Ronald called his mother in Burns Lake to tell her that he and his wife Doreen had got jobs at a logging camp. And that is the last time anyone has seen or heard of the Jack family.

Ronald had said that he met a man at a local bar who told him about the jobs available at the camp, but time was an issue and they would have to leave right away if they were to take advantage of the opportunity. As a young family where money was tight, Ronald was excited about his luck meeting this man that provided the information.