Case Updates & Feedback: 2021 [2]
Canadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Podcast recommendation:
Order of cases covered:
- Alloura Wells / Toronto's Gay Village
- Ezekiel Stephan
- Richard Oland
- The Donnellys
- Loretta Saunders
- Sara & Taliyah
- The Brentwood Five (Calgary Stabbings)
- Erin Chorney
- Michelle Barnoski
- Reena Virk
- Paul Bernardo
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, I'm back again with the case updates episode part two. |
| 0:07.7 | Today I'll be going over significant updates to all the other cases the show covered before |
| 0:13.0 | 2020, like Richard Olland, Allura Wells, Ezekiel Stephan, Erin Chorney and more, |
| 0:19.1 | plus a report about Paul Bernardo's latest parole hearing which just happened in June. |
| 0:24.9 | Again, if you're a supporter on Patreon or Supercast, make sure you're listening to the ad-free version right now because it is a slightly extended version. |
| 0:33.8 | And as always, see the show notes for the list of things I'll be talking about today. |
| 0:44.5 | Episode 72, The Death of Alura Wells. |
| 0:49.2 | Alura was the 27-year-old trans woman who ended up experiencing homelessness in Toronto. As you remember, |
| 0:56.8 | her remains were found by a hiker and she wasn't identified for a few months and ended up being |
| 1:02.1 | grouped in with the people who disappeared from Toronto's gay village, which led to the arrest |
| 1:07.7 | of serial killer Bruce MacArthur. Now, Allura wasn't one of his victims, and it's still unknown how she died, but her case |
| 1:16.1 | and the botched-up missing persons investigation really highlighted how some missing person's |
| 1:21.7 | cases have been treated by Toronto police, particularly those involving vulnerable groups like |
| 1:27.4 | the LGBTQ plus community or racialized people. Toronto police, particularly those involving vulnerable groups like the LGBT |
| 1:28.2 | plus community or racialized people, and Alura was both. |
| 1:33.7 | Now, there haven't been any updates on this case per se, but as a result of this snowball, which |
| 1:40.5 | involved this case, which led to the arrest of Bruce MacArthur, an independent review was |
| 1:45.9 | ordered to examine exactly how the Toronto Police Force handled these missing persons cases. |
| 1:52.2 | Former Judge Gloria Epstein conducted the review and released her report in April of this year, |
| 1:58.4 | finding that there were serious flaws in how Toronto police handled these |
| 2:03.0 | cases and stating that they could have done better. She referred to the fact that men of color |
| 2:08.7 | had been going missing from the gay village for a while, but the police really only took it |
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