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This is Christy, and welcome to Canadian True Crime, Episode 22, Andrea Giesbrick.

There is a trigger warning for this episode.

The themes of this case include multiple references to stillbirth, pregnancy termination and deceased newborns.

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This story takes place in Manitoba, one of the southern provinces of Canada right in the horizontal centre of the country. Together with the provinces

of Saskatchewan and Alberta, Manitoba is part of an area of Canada commonly known as the prairies,

because they're flat and partially covered by prairie or grasslands. When people generally think of the

prairies, they think of plains, forest and wheat,

because this area is well known for farming as well as mining and oil.

Manitoba's capital and largest city is Winnipeg, also the eighth largest city in Canada.

Winnipeg has a nickname, Winterpeg.

The city is known for being extremely cold, so cold that in the winter, the cold is so hard on a car's engine and battery that they have to be charged with a block heater to help

them to start.

At the end of 2013, there was a particularly

bad cold snap, and the Manitoba Museum reported that Winnipeg's temperatures were actually colder

than the surface of Mars. At the time, the official ground temperature was minus 29 degrees Celsius,

or minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit. when you factored in the wind chill it ended up being closer to minus 50 degrees Celsius or minus

58 degrees Fahrenheit my pal Jack Luna from Dark Topic podcast lives nearby and told me that at the time he remembered that it physically burned to go outside.

Their phones started shutting down and even lighting a fire hardly kept them warm at all.

The following year, on Monday, October the 20th, 2014, another chilling discovery would be made in Winnipeg.

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