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True Crime Island

Episode 87 - The Greyhound Bus Murder

True Crime Island

Cambo

True Crime

4.7971 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s the 30th of July 2008 Manitoba, Canada. Tim McLean is returning home on a Greyhound Bus from summer work on the carnival circuit. He would not leave the bus alive. This is the case of the Greyhound Bus murder.

Transcript

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When you're, when, when, when, you're, when,

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when, you, when,

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you, when, It's the 30th of July 2008, Manitoba, Canada.

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Tim McClain is returning home on a Greyhound bus from summer work on the Carnival Circuit. He would not

0:25.1

leave the bus alive. This is the case of the Greyhound bus murder. Hi, I'm your host Campbell, grab a beer and pull up a deck chair.

0:44.0

This is True Crime Island, another True Crime Podcast. When you're, when.

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when.

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When.

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When.

1:00.0

When. When you're, when. Hi Islanders how are you this week I have a case that you may know about. Not only the brutality of

1:26.7

the murder will shock you but the justice dealt out after will give you the

1:31.2

Cambo rage for sure. So let's get stuck into it. Now it's the

1:36.7

30th of July 2008 Manitoba Canada. The victim tonight is Tim McClain. He was born on the 3rd of October 1985, so he was 22 at the time.

1:50.0

He was on Greyhound bus number 1170 that he boarded at 1230 a.m. in Edmonton, Alberta to get back home to his home, his place in Winnipeg.

2:02.4

It travelled via the Yellowhead Highway through Saskatchewan.

2:08.3

Saskatchewan, he had been working as a carny during the summer carnival season.

2:15.0

Now this is a long trip in a car.

2:19.0

Even if you go the best route, it's about 14 hours or 1,300 kilometers, which is about 800 miles.

2:27.1

Now on this Greyhound bus number 1170, it's almost a day between Edmonton and Winnipeg.

2:35.0

Now that's a long way to go in a bus, but it seems to be cheap.

2:40.0

Even now, the fair is only about a hundred bucks.

2:43.0

Now Tim was a fan of the insane clown posse,

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