GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

There are many times in a child’s life that a parent feels are very important points in time.  Learning to speak, learning to walk, starting school, the venture into teenaged life and so many others.  For any parent, that moment when you watch your son or daughter venture off to post-secondary school for the first time, that is an incredibly important and proud moment.  When one particular young w...

Mystery is one of the things that we see incredibly often within the true crime world.  Even when we find answers to stories, there are often even more questions presented that never get answered.  That is what makes it appealing to so many people I believe.  If you want a mystery, you can find one in most true crime stories and if you want a case that you can chase and hypothesize about forever,...

Each time that we get to this point in a series on a killer, it is my favourite part.  It is hard to read and research about the crimes that people committed and the lives that people ruined.  With Paul Bernardo the list is extensive.  He raped so many young women.  He at least took part in the murders of three women and think of the mental torment that he has caused for families of his victims an...

Last week we started our in depth look at the life and crimes of Paul Bernardo.  Paul is one of the most known serial killers in Canadian history and his crimes are crimes that stick in the minds of anyone who was alive at the time that he was committing them.  Last week, in episode 65 we talked about Paul’s childhood and we talked about Paul’s crimes that he committed as The Scarborough Rapist. ...

It is almost like within the true crime world there are categories for the men and women that are found guilty of being serial killers.  We have the serial killers that are given more publicity, we have serial killers that are largely unknown and unheard of and then we also have some serial killers that just seem to grab the attention of the public at large.  It could be fascination, it could be i...

Often times as we are growing up people tell us things like “it could always be worse” or they tell us that we are exaggerating our situations, but the reality is that sometimes there are stories going on like the one that we are going to talk about today.  In the past we have talked about people in positions of power of people who have jobs that we entrust our children to, but this week we are go...

True Crime gives us many examples of the anti-hero.  The character that we find ourselves possibly rooting for, even though they do not possess or show the traits that are common in a hero. The anti-hero is not idealistic and certainly often works outside the boundaries of morality.  Many of us think of people like Gary Plauché who killed his son’s kidnapper and molester in 1984.  This week we are...

On April 4th of 1991 a young, 20-year-old woman was stopping at a payphone to call her fiancee to let him know that she was too tired to meet up for their plans and that she was instead going to head home for the night to rest and sleep.  While she was still on the phone with her boyfriend she would be grabbed and kidnapped.  This case had some interesting turns along the way and is still technica...

If you have ever taken a psychology class or really, if you are a fan of true crime, at some point in your life you have probably come across The Bystander Effect.  The Bystander Effect is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim of a crime when there are other people present.  They believe instead that someone else must have called autho...

Stories that are unsolved are terrible, there is no denying it.  As we have said many times in the past on our show, we wonder how people can possibly live with themselves when they take a life.  On October 10th, 2008 that is precisely what happened.  A young man, 18 years of age, was walking home on a country road when he was struck by a vehicle and left for dead on the side of the road.  It took...

On February 19th, 2013 a body would be found inside a large cistern on the roof of the Stay on Main hotel in downtown Los Angeles in the United States of America.  Now, over 9 years later, many would say that there are plenty of mysteries and unanswered questions surrounding the case.  This death has been called back to in pop culture many times over the years and in fact bore a lot of similaritie...

Murder in a small town is something that is supposed to be rare.  However, when it does happen generally the cases do not remain open for too long because in a setting like that, most everyone knows one another and there are clues, eye witnesses and mistakes.  This week we are going to look at a case though that took place in Orangeville, Ontario in 2010.  At that time, the population was roughly...

Over a three day period from June 22nd to June 24th of 2007 a tragedy occurred that was on a magnitude that we don’t see very often.  Not because of what happened perhaps, because sadly those circumstances do exist on a near daily, if not daily basis, in the world around us.  However, the part of the story that makes this stand out from the others was WHO was committing the acts in question.  It i...

So many of our episodes cover the loss of people or the loss of life and either offer up a sad ending or a story that has yet to be finished.  This week we are going travelling south of the border to The United States and we are going to cover a case that starts out so similar to many of the cases that we have covered and yet, one that has a happy ending.  At the age of 14 a young girl was kidnapp...

I think that most people can have empathy with someone that says “woe is me” on some level.  I think that most people can understand growing up and feeling as though life was unfair or that life was depressing.  Those are generally pretty common feelings, especially when we are children growing up and we see other people who perhaps have things that we don’t have or a life that we don’t have.  On...

David Michael Kreuger is best known by his birth name, Peter Woodcock and he is known as Canada’s youngest serial killer.  By the time that his life ended in 2010 he was known as a serial killer, a child rapist and was also diagnosed as a psychopath.  Peter is known for crimes that actually took place many, many years apart as he would initially be incarcerated for three murders of young children...

Kingston Penitentiary was a maximum security prison in Canada that was located in Kingston, Ontario and is located between King Street West and Lake Ontario.  Kingston Pen as it’s referred to was built between 1833 and 1834 and officially opened on June 1st, 1835 as the Provincial Penitentiary of the Province of Upper Canada.  At the time that Kingston Pen closed down it was one of the oldest pris...

On Halloween morning of 1980, a 39 year old man who was residing for a brief period of time in Bristol, England was found lying dead in a pool of his own blood on Brandon Hill. He had only been in Bristol for two months at the time of his death. As the investigation into the murder started it was discovered that the murder was bloody, brutal and incredibly savage. The man had been known to be quit...

Halloween is a holiday that is based around people getting to dress up and become something or someone else. Sometimes that means dressing up as a character from your favourite movie, show or video game. Sometimes that means taking on and dressing up as an entirely new persona and becoming someone or something that you perhaps wish was closer to the true you. On October 31st, 2020 in Quebec City,...

On October 31st, 2011 in Armstrong, British Columbia, a young lady was preparing to enjoy Halloween one more time with her friends as she realized that they were all getting older and they were all going to be headed in life’s many directions in the very near future. Halloween was her favourite day of the year. Taylor Van Diest would dress up as a zombie and then leave home at 5:50pm. About ten mi...

On June 9th, 1959 a 12-year-old-girl would disappear in Clinton, Ontario, about 80 kilometres northwest of London, Ontario from nearby the Royal Canadian Air Force Base. Seemingly the last person to see her alive would be a young man who was also a classmate of hers at The Air Vice Marshal Hugh Campbell School. The two had gone for a ride oh his bicycle. When the young girl did not return home, th...

Between June 25th of 2007 and August of 2014 many people would have their lives changed or ended at the hands of someone who was entrusted with improving their quality of life as they got older. Elizabeth Wettlaufer would eventually be charged and convicted of eight counts of first degree murder, four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault. All of these crimes were committ...

Between June 25th of 2007 and August of 2014 many people would have their lives changed or ended at the hands of someone who was entrusted with improving their quality of life as they got older. Elizabeth Wettlaufer would eventually be charged and convicted of eight counts of first degree murder, four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault. All of these crimes were committ...

Between June 25th, 2007 and August of 2014 Elizabeth Wettlaufer would commit crimes against numerous people as she worked in Southwestern Ontario as a nurse within long-term care homes. She would have a position that enabled her access to many medications and many patients and she used that power and responsibility to rack up a list of crimes that would lead to her eventually pleading guilty to ei...

If you asked someone what they know about serial killers they will most likely mention Jack The Ripper or Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy and then perhaps branch out from there. In Canada, when you talk to people about serial killers, we have Clifford Olson, Robert Pickton and Paul Bernardo that immediately spring to mind for most. However, one thing that stands out when most people talk about serial...