Douglas Garland
Canadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This episode is about the heinous and senseless murders of Alvin and Kathy Likness and their grandson, five-year-old Nathan O’Brien, who were snatched one night from their beds by a psychopathic man with a criminal past. The crime shocked the province of Alberta and made national news.
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| 0:00.0 | Theoretically, Douglas Garland would be 129 years old before he can apply for parole. |
| 0:07.8 | He'll serve his sentences for the murders of Alvin and Kathy Litness and Nathan O'Brien one after the other. |
| 0:14.9 | Justice David Gates called Garland's crimes a case of cunning, cruel, abduction, torture, and murder. It's been pivotal, it's been |
| 0:23.4 | brutal, it's been difficult. I think people are going to feel some sense of relief in the |
| 0:29.2 | outcome now, but it's a story that's going to stick with Calgarians for a long time yet. |
| 0:45.6 | Welcome to the Canadian True Crime podcast, Episode 4, Douglas Garland. |
| 0:46.9 | This is Christy. |
| 0:53.4 | This podcast contains coarse language, adult themes, and content of a violent and disturbing nature. |
| 0:55.7 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:02.1 | I wanted to tell you about another true crime podcast that you'll absolutely love if you haven't already heard about it. It's called They Walk Among Us and it's dedicated to UK true crime. |
| 1:08.2 | It's one of my favourite podcasts ever and is huge in the UK and probably the US. |
| 1:13.9 | But I was randomly looking at my podcast category in iTunes Canada and discovered that my |
| 1:19.6 | podcast rates a bit higher than theirs, which was a huge surprise to me. So maybe there's a bunch |
| 1:25.3 | of Canadian listeners who haven't really discovered it yet. |
| 1:28.4 | So if you haven't listened to it, make sure you check it out. It's called They Walk Among |
| 1:32.6 | Us. I'll post a link to the Canadian True Crime Facebook page. |
| 1:37.2 | Speaking of social media, I'm now on Twitter. If you are too and wanted to follow me, |
| 1:42.2 | it's at Canadian TC pod. |
| 1:44.8 | You probably won't remember that, so I'll post a link in the show notes and on my Facebook page too. |
| 1:50.1 | And as per last time, I'll do my thank yous after the episode. |
| 2:08.5 | It was Sunday, June 29, 2014, in a neighbourhood in South West Calgary, Alberta. |
| 2:11.0 | A couple were holding an estate sale. |
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