Edmonton: Gruesome Discovery in Septic Tank

Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast

Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins

History, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.5 • 992 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Charlie and Mavis McCloud are installing a new septic tank on their rural property in Canada. They found an old septic tank on the property and decided to use it. However, when they opened it, they found a human body inside. The body was wearing a gray wool sock and a brown shoe, and it appeared to be attached to a leg. In 1977, a couple in the small Canadian community of Tofield discovered a body in a septic tank. The body was wrapped in a yellow blanket and tied up with nylon, with no ID or indication of sex.

After a lengthy autopsy, it was determined that the person was a white or native man who had been brutally beaten, burned, sexually mutilated, and shot before being dumped in the septic tank. A man's body was discovered in a septic tank on a farm in Canada. The body was well preserved, and it was later determined that the man was male, had all of his teeth, and had recently had dental work done. The man's identity remains unknown.

In 1948 or 1949, a man known only as Sam was brutally murdered and his body was dumped in a septic tank on an abandoned farmhouse. The RCMP believe that Sam was a laborer and possibly a transient, and that the killer was someone local who knew him. The case remains unsolved and Sam's identity is still unknown. Find us ⁠online.⁠

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0:00.0	I'm going to Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
0:34.0	Oh, hmm,
0:37.0	Oh, hmm.
0:38.0	Oh, oh, oh, um,
0:44.0	Oh, 1977, Tofield, Alberta, Canada.
1:01.8	Charlie and his wife, Mavis, McLeod, decided today that they will be installing a new septic tank on their
1:08.4	rural property.
1:10.9	The sky was clear, the sun was bright, and the temperature was a warm 64.4
1:16.1	Fahrenheit or 18 degrees Celsius, a perfect day for such a project, or so the McLeod's thought.
1:27.0	Two years prior, an old farmhouse on the other side of the large property became abandoned
1:32.2	by its tenants.
1:34.5	To the McLeod's this served as the perfect place to search an old existing septic tank
1:39.4	for a pump.
1:41.5	There's no need to buy a fancy shiny new pump if they could salvage one not in use.
1:47.0	As Charlie removed the lid to this old septic tank, Mavis's eyes are quickly drawn to what looks like a gray wolf sock.
1:56.8	There was a brown shoe bobbing in the dark murky septic tank, and worse yet, it looked like it detached to a leg.
2:07.2	Any time before cell phones the couple knew they had her call the police
2:10.3	as quickly as possible.
2:13.0	When Mavis reached her house, she frantically called the emergency line to the Royal Canadian
2:17.6	Mounted Police, the R. C. M.P.
2:22.0	There's a body in the septic tank.
2:25.0	In a small Canadian community of Tofield,
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