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Canadian True Crime

Donnellys Debrief with author Nate Hendley

Canadian True Crime

Kristi Lee

Canadian True Crime, History, Crime, Crime Case, Serial Killer, True Crime, Murder, Psychological, True-crime, Society & Culture

4.75K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This is a conversation with Nate Hendley - who researched and wrote the episode, and criminologist Dr Lee Mellor. 

Also in this audio is me, Jordan from Nighttime, and Aaron from The Generation Why.


Look out for early, ad-free release on CTC premium feeds: available on Amazon Music (included with Prime), Apple Podcasts, Patreon and Supercast.

 

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See the page for this episode at www.canadiantruecrime.ca/episodes


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone. Don't worry, the next episode is coming along as per the schedule, so this is just a little bonus.

0:09.3

I hope that you enjoyed the Donnellys. I've been getting a lot of good feedback about Nate Henley's research,

0:15.5

and quite a few descendants of the family have also messaged me. It's been super interesting. I've also been hearing

0:22.6

about some of the crazy stories that have morphed about this case throughout the years, well, the

0:28.3

decades. In any event, I first covered this case last summer as part of a live show I did in

0:34.8

Toronto with some friends. We invited Nate Henley up to talk about some

0:39.7

other things related to the case and then we were joined by criminologist Lee Meller, who joined

0:45.7

us to talk about the case from his unique and educated perspective. Also in this audio,

0:52.0

you'll hear me, Jordan from Nighttime, and Aaron from the Generation Y.

0:57.7

So enjoy this little bonus audio, and I'll see you soon with the next episode.

1:02.9

It is one of the craziest and most complicated cases I've ever covered, and it will be a three-parter.

1:10.7

See you soon.

1:12.9

So you know this case inside out, Nate. The first question I want to ask you is,

1:17.6

I've always, like every time I've ever heard of this story, I've heard it referred to as the

1:20.8

Black Donnellys, but it looks as though in present day there's a move to refer to it simply as

1:26.1

the Donnellys. What's the reason for the name change? Well, the name changed, day there's a move to refer to it simply as the Donnellys. What's the reason for the name change?

1:29.9

Well, the name change, like there's been sort of this historic thing.

1:33.9

Part of it is just simply like the Donnellys is sort of, you know, more descriptive,

1:38.7

just simply this is the family, this is the Donnellys.

1:41.7

The actual term, like there's an article here from London Free Press, 1880, and it talks

1:49.5

about origin of the term blackfeet, and it has a quote from here.

1:54.1

A gentleman explained to me that the term blackfeet is more applicable to the Donlays themselves

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