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Sunday, April 5, 2020

The Unsolved Murders of Barry and Honey Sherman

Barry and Honey Sherman

Barry Sherman was a shrewd businessman. An incredibly intelligent man, in 1958 Barry entered the University of Toronto's Engineering Science program when he was only 16, saying he chose that program because he was told it was one of the hardest. He would remain the youngest person to be accepted into that program until 2016. He graduated from that program with honors and continued on to complete a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from MIT.

In 1974 Barry formed Apotex. Using money secured from the sale of his uncle's business, Barry started a pharmaceutical empire. By 2016 Apotex would be one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Canada, employing over 10,000 people in 2016, and made the Sherman's one of the most wealthy families in Canada.

Saturday, January 4, 2020

David Shearing and the Wells Gray Park Murders

David Shearing

Imagine taking your family on an epic 2 week camping holiday. It will be awesome! You are able to pick up an old motorhome and a small boat to pack on the roof. Three generations of your family will be going on this trip, and you are really looking forward to it.

This is what the Bentley had planned in the summer of 1982. George, 66, and Edith Bentley, 59, their daughter Jackie Johnson, 40, son-in-law Bob, 44, and grandchildren Janet, 13, and Karen, 11 all traveled from their home in Kelowna to Wells Gray Provincial Park, roughly a 3 and a half-hour drive.

After the 2 weeks passed, Bob failed to return from work. This set off some red flags for his co-workers because, in his 20 years of employment, Bob had never missed a day of work. His worried co-workers called the RCMP who began a search for the missing family.

Friday, October 25, 2019

Léopold Dion - The Monster of Pont Rouge


Canada has a reputation worldwide as being a polite nation filled with kind and good-natured people, but it may surprise people (or not, depending on how much of this blog you have read) to know that we have our share of sick and depraved criminals.

Take, for example, the case of Leopold Dion. Leopold was a serial rapist and murderer active in the mid-'60s in Quebec.

Thursday, September 26, 2019

The Strange Disappearance of Atsumi Yoshikubo


Atsumi Yoshikubo

The Northern Lights are a natural phenomenon that is a wonder to behold, and one of the best places to see them is in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Yellowknife attracts a large number of tourists during the winter season, who are drawn to catch a glimpse of the beautiful lights.

Japanese tourists constitute a large number of the people visiting Yellowknife to see the Northern Lights. Estimated roughly 20% of the tourists coming to Yellowknife are from Japan. One such tourist was Atsumi Yoshikubo, a licenced psychiatrist who, in October of 2014 decided to visit Yellowknife to see the Northern Lights.

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.