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Morbidology

118: Nathan O'Brien & Alvin & Kathryn Liknes

Morbidology

Morbidology

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In June of 2014, a woman in Calgary, Canada, went to her parents’ home to pick up her young son who had been dropped off the night before for a sleepover. When she arrived, however, she found that the home was eerily silent and, in the driveway, she found drag marks and a sinister looking red liquid.

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Today's sponsor is Hidden Compass. It's an amazing award-winning women-led media company

0:10.0

that is turning storytellers and explorers into heroes and championing a new age of discovery.

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Hidden Compass have a digital magazine, podcast and even a speaker series. In the November

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of this year, they're launching a modern exploration society, one that is global and

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I'm your host, Emily G. Thompson, author of Unsolved Child Murders, called Uncovered,

1:33.5

Mysteries Uncovered, and co-author of Unsolved Murders, tree primed cases Uncovered.

1:39.4

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1:49.2

In June of 2014, a woman in Calgary, Canada, went to her parents' home to pick up her young son,

2:01.0

who had been dropped off the night before, first sleepover. When she arrived, however,

2:06.0

she found that the home was eerily silent and in the driveway, she found drag marks on the

2:11.9

sinister looking red liquid.

2:25.8

It was around 10 a.m. on Monday the 30th of June 2014, when police in Calgary,

2:31.5

Canada were called by a woman who said that she was scheduled to pick up her five-year-old son

2:36.3

from her parents' home. However, when she arrived at their home in the 100th block of 38A

2:42.8

Avenue, South West, neither her parents or her son were there, she said that evidence at the home

2:49.8

suggested that some things as spacious could have taken place.

2:54.6

Five-year-old Nathan O'Brien had been dropped off by his mother, Jennifer O'Brien,

2:58.7

at the home of her parents, 66-year-old, Alvin Lyckness, and 53-year-old Catherine Faye Lyckness.

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