Date with Death - The Murder of James Shannon (BC)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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episode 085 - The day before Valentines Day in 2008, James Shannon, a nurse from Port Alberni, BC, met up with another man he'd met on the web site, Plenty of Fish. Although James was looking for love, the man he brought into his home brought something much more sinister. Days later, after not showing up for multiple shifts at work, James Shannon was found brutally murdered in his home. The man who committed the act, Kim Winslow Rothgordt, was claiming he'd been raped and was too intoxicated at the time to know what happened. The truth was nowhere near his claims.Photo credit: Phil Smith on Flickr per CC licenceSources:R. v. Rothgordt, 2014 BCSC 1215 (CanLII)Port Alberni on WikipediaMacLeans Magazine - Canada’s Most Dangerous Places 2018Port Alberni ‘a safe place to be’ despite crime rate, says RCMPThunder Bay Podcast - CANADALANDB.C. man convicted in second-degree murder of nurse in 2008 gets new trialGay Panic Defense on WikipediaBC judge says gay panic defence no longer valid Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Mike here, I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Dark Poutine early and
0:04.7	add free on Amazon Music, included with Prime. You're about to listen to a historical episode
0:10.8	of Dark Poutine. After episode 149, you will find Scott is no longer with the show.
0:16.9	In an effort to maintain continuity and offer listeners as many episodes as possible,
0:22.1	we are leaving the episodes in which he co-hosted intact. Thank you.
0:30.9	Welcome to Dark Poutine, a Mike Brown creator and host with me as usual as my good friend and co-host,
0:46.9	Scott Hemmanway. Say hello, Scott. Oh, hey, hey everybody. It's an early morning for us.
0:54.4	The early morning point dexter's got to work early point dexter. The views, information,
1:00.2	and opinions expressed during the Dark Poutine podcast are solely those of the producer and do not
1:05.4	necessarily represent those of curious cast. It's affiliate global news nor their parent company
1:10.5	chorus entertainment. Dark Poutine is not for the faint of harder squeamish.
1:14.9	Listener discretion is strongly advised. We're not experts on the topics we present nor we
1:19.8	journalists. We're two ordinary Canadians chatting about crime in the Dark Side history.
1:25.2	Let's get to it. Put on your tuk, grab yourself a double double, and an animo bar. It's time to
1:30.1	scarf down some dark poutine. And make it a really thin tuk because it's hot out there. Yep.
1:49.8	This is episode 85. We are 15 away from 100, my man. I know. Wow.
2:15.7	Wow. Your math is getting getting better as we get closer because I think there's less.
2:21.9	Just to be calculated. Yeah, yeah, it's not like it was 67. I was sure. Yeah.
2:29.6	Yeah. What's the what's left after I think it's 40 on with the show. While I was researching
2:39.9	other cases, I stumbled across this one. I'd planned another case for this week. But as I read
2:45.2	the extensive court documents on this case, I was pulled in and felt compelled to tell this story.
2:52.4	In this episode, we're covering the 2008 murder of respected Vancouver Island nurse named
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