Dark Roast & Dark Crimes

Fifteen-year-old Tina Fontaine vanished from a Winnipeg youth shelter in August 2014. Days later her body was found in the Red River, and police have treated it as a homicide. Despite an arrest and trial, no one has been convicted. In this episode, we recount Tina’s life, the events of that summer, and what questions still haunt her case.   https://buymeacoffee.com/DarkRoast. DarkCrime S...

Content warning: This episode includes discussion of violence and sexual assault. In this episode, we head to the Miramichi region of  New Brunswick , where one escaped inmate turned everyday life into a months-long nightmare. We walk through the full, verified timeline behind the man known as  “The Monster of the Miramichi” : the early crime that landed him in prison, the 1989 esca...

In late 2015, 30-year-old mother of three Jaimee Lee Miller was reported missing from the Barrie, Ontario area after family and friends last had contact with her in mid-October. Months later, on March 16, 2016, her remains were discovered in a wooded area off Gill Road in Springwater Township, north of Barrie. Police and the Office of the Chief Coroner determined her death was a homicide, and a jo...

In this episode of  Dark Roast & Dark Crimes , Keltee tells the story of  Theresa Allore , a 19-year-old college student who vanished from the Eastern Townships of Quebec in November 1978. Months later, Theresa was found in a rural creek — and what followed was decades of unanswered questions, investigative missteps, and a family refusing to let her name fade into the background. We’...

On Mother’s Day weekend in 2009, 36-year-old Mi’kmaq mother of five Tanya Jean Brooks vanished in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The next afternoon, her body was found in a narrow window well at the former St. Patrick’s-Alexandra School — and the case has remained unsolved ever since. In this episode of Dark Roast & Dark Crimes, Keltee walks through Tanya’s life, the last known sightings, the early inv...