GBNF: A True Crime Podcast

On October 18th of 1945 an 18-year-old girl went missing when she was headed to a school dance at the Technical High School in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada. Her disappearance would quickly turn into a murder case and the case itself and the story around it would actually span nearly fifty years. This week we talk about the disappearance, the grizzly discovery of the body, the confession and th...

On November 8th, 2001 a woman was sentenced to life imprisonment because the Justice believed that she had a lack of remorse for the murder that she had committed. The Justice also refused to set a fixed term on how long the woman had to wait to apply for parole and actually insisted that her papers be marked “never to be released”. This was the first time that a woman was sentenced to life in pri...

I was a clear, brisk spring day in Woodstock, Ontario. A Wednesday, a day like many others that had come and were expected to still be in the future. An eight year old girl was on her way home from school to her brand new house where she lived with her mom, Tara and her brother Daryn. She had just started the painstaking process of getting her room together just how she wanted it the night before....

In 1992 one of the worst mass murders in Canadian history took place in Yellowknife, the capital of Northwest Territories, in Canada. In the midst of what was already a violent clash between management and workers, a lockout and strike, nine men who were working as replacement workers died when their rail car hit a bomb. The end result was that a man would confess and then take back his confession...

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Thompson, Manitoba has been at the top of or very nearly the top of the Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index for many many years. The CSI does not only look at the number of crimes or crimes per capita, the CSI assigns numbers to crimes with a higher number placed on crimes that are punishable with longer prison sentences. That is the way that we measure the severity of crime occurring in an are...

In the early hours of August 8th, 1982 a pizza would be shared between a couple and a young lady at 2269 rue Dorion in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The young lady was living with the couple and helping them by babysitting their child at times. She was known as a rather reserved 19-year-old girl and sharing in that pizza would be the last time that she would be seen by anyone. Was this a case of a tar...

On Sunday, September 27th of 2015 in Vaughan, Ontario a tragedy that would be completely avoidable and murderous, no matter how you look at it, occurred. A family was out for a drive, enjoying a beautiful day in the early fall in Southern Ontario. An entire family was torn apart in a moment because of the idiotic decision of one man. One man decided that he was ok to drive, even though he was not...

On July 18th, 2018 a University of Iowa student would disappear, seemingly without a trace while she was home for the summer in her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. For a month, police and everyone else were at a complete and utter loss as to what had happened to this young lady and there seemed to be no leads, no evidence and no trace of where, how and who else was involved in the disappearance. She s...

Imagine having a night out on the town that included having a blast at a local nightclub and visiting two house parties. That sounds like a great night to many people. Unfortunately for one young 21-year-old indigenous woman that kind of night would wind up being the last known night in her young life. She would leaver her parents home around 11pm in Nanaimo BC and she would sadly never be seen by...

On November 8th, 2010, a young woman would return to her family home in Markham, Ontario and later that evening the entire family would come under siege as armed gunman would enter the home. The family had no idea how these attackers had managed to gain access to the home and in the attack the family matriarch would be murdered and the patriarch would be injured. It would slowly come to light that...

Between 2010 and 2017 at least eight men would go missing in and around Toronto’s Gay Village that would end up being a part of this case. Those eight disappearances, and their connection, for whatever reason, would fly under the radar of police who seemed to view most of these as just missing men who probably had reasons to go missing. Even though the community at large was certain that there was...

A total of eight men went missing from the Church and Wellesley area of Toronto. This area is known because it really does fall in the heart of the LGBT-oriented enclave within Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The investigation into the disappearances has come under intense scrutiny over the years and would eventually lead to the arrest, charge and guilty plea of a 66 year old, self employed man from Tor...

Bruce McArthur is a name that you likely know if you know a lot about True Crime in Canada. Bruce is known as the oldest known serial killer in Canadian history. This week, in part one, we will take a look at the early years of Bruce McArthur and the things that happened along the way to the crimes that he is more well known for. The interesting thing that you will discover is that the years that...

On the evening of May 3rd, 2007 a three year old girl went missing from her bed during the night while her family was on vacation at a resort in Praia da Luz in Portugal. This case has been described as the most heavily reported missing person case in modern history and to this day, 15 years later her whereabouts still remain unknown. German prosecutors believe that the young girl is certainly dea...

September 3rd, 1985 was a cool fall day in Saint John, New Brunswick. It was the day after Labour Day and everyone was transitioning into back to school, back to work and back to cooler temperatures. In Saint John it was a very popular time as The Atlantic National Exhibition was taking place. The ANE is an annual fair that features art, crafts, horticulture, livestock exhibits, family entertainme...

On February 1st, 2010 a man received a call that his estranged wife had fallen from an overpass in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His wife and him had separated approximately a year before that call and they were embroiled in incredibly difficult divorce and custody proceedings regarding their two young children, 2 year old Connor and 10 month old Jayden. Unfortunately the day was fixing to get a lot...

On February 2nd, 1999 at the address of 11553 Wellington Street, a rural street about 7km north of St. Thomas, Ontario emergency services were called as there was a fire in the farmhouse. When they arrived at the address they found a fire that was local to the living room of the house and they tragically found a man and a woman inside the building and they were both deceased. This however was not...

In April of 2006, in Medicine Hat, Alberta part of a family would be found murdered in their home. Marc Richardson, 42, Debra Richardson, 48, and Tyler Jacob Richardson, 8, were dead and their older daughter was missing. There was fear that the daughter had perhaps been kidnapped or taken to another location. The truth though was far worse than that.  GBNF on Patreon GBNF on Facebook GBNF on X GBN...

Most missing person cases centre around one person or perhaps at most, 2 or 3 people, but in the case that we are discussing today that is not the case. This case centres around six boys that all disappeared at the same time, in the same place. This case took place in 1995, it turned 27 years of age in March of 2022 and to date this case is still confusing, perplexing and crazy to anyone that know...

In the last episode we started to look at the descent into crime of Eric Clinton Kirk Newman, better known by Luka Rocco Magnotta. If you have not yet had a chance to listen to part 1, I highly suggest that you take the time to do so before diving into episode 2. In the last episode we looked a bit at Luka’s past and some of the things that may have led to the heinous crime that we are going to di...

If I say the name Eric Clinton Kirk Newman to you, odds are that unless you are really and truly a lover of True Crime, that name doesn’t ring a bell for you. However, when Eric Newman legally changed his name, he changed it to something that is much more known in the casual true crime world and also known by almost every person that was alive at the time that he committed his crimes, and especial...

Mekayla Bali was a 16-year-old who had been living in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada with her mom, her aunt, her maternal grandmother and two younger siblings. April 12th, 2016 was a very busy day for young Mekayla and on this episode we will lay out everything that she did, everywhere that she was seen and then talk about what could have possibly happened to Mekayla and some of the theories that a...

Mark Twitchell was born on July 4th 1979 in Edmonton, Alberta. He dreamed of making it in Hollywood, namely making blockbuster movies. As such, he graduated from The Radio and Television Arts program at The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in 2000. He would however wind up being more known for things that were not done behind the camera. He would instead become known for an assault, a murd...

On April 1st, 2014 two Dutch students disappeared while hiking along the El Pianista trail in Panama. The two young women had travelled from The Netherlands to Panama to help within some local communities, volunteer with local children and learn a little bit of Spanish while also relaxing and taking in the sights. After being in Panama for just over two weeks the two girls ventured out for a hike...