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Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

Bad Apples: Edwin Alonzo Boyd and his Gang

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

Curiouscast

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Episode 207: After World War II, Canada’s economy rose. Work was much easier to come by than during the depression. Even though he’d been able to secure decent employment, family man and world war veteran with movie star good looks, Edwin Alonzo Boyd, was bored. He’d had his share of trouble already and was feeling the itch again. In the fall of 1949, he robbed his first bank. This crime kicked off events that would lead to one of the most infamous Canadian criminal gangs of the era. Over just a few years, The Boyd Gang, named for their charismatic de facto leader, Edwin, robbed numerous banks broke out of one of Canada’s toughest prisons, not once but twice. To some, they were folk heroes. However, public sentiment turned firmly against them after members of the gang, Steve Suchan and Lennie Jackson, murdered Toronto Police Department Sergeant of Detectives Edmund “Eddie” Tong and severely wounded his partner Roy Perry.Sources: Regina v. Boyd, 1953 CanLII 88 (ON CA), Edwin Alonzo Boyd: Life and Crimes of Canada’s Master Bank Robber by Nate Hendley Fatal Intentions by Barbara Smith - Ebook | Scribd Line of Fire by Edward Butts - Ebook | Scribd John J. Robinette by George D. Finlayson - Ebook | Scribd The Desperate Ones by Edward Butts - Ebook | Scribd Now You Know Canada’s Heroes by Doug Lennox - Ebook | Scribd Lost Rivers — Don Jail Historicist: Titillating and Terrorizing Toronto - Torontoist — Archived Geocities — BOYD GANG Toronto’s Infamous ‘Boyd Gang’ - CBC Archives CBC Archives — Suchan and Jackson hanged back to back Edwin Alonzo Boyd | The Canadian Encyclopedia Toronto Feature: The Boyd Gang | The Canadian Encyclopedia WHAT THE BOYD GANG FIASCO CAN TEACH US — Macleans Magazine — 1952 ExecutedToday.com » 1952: Lennie Jackson and Steve Suchan, of the Boyd Gang Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We are ordinary Canadian schmucks chatting about crime and the dark side of history. Let's get to it.

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dark Poutine. Now, toasted. Look at you pulling out the madman reference. Yeah. I only saw like two

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of those at Pithode. Really? Yeah, because I was working in an advertising agency when it came out

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and it was just a little bit too like work. Yeah, I like that show.

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After World War II, Canada's economy was on the rise. Work was much easier to come by than it

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