Matthew Charles Lamb: The Oak Ridge Experiment [2]
Canadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
[Part 2 of 2] The shocking conclusion to the story of 18-year-old Matthew Charles Lamb, the infamous Oak Ridge Experiment at Penetanguishene and one heartbroken author’s quest for truth.
The intention of this episode is to take a look back at a shocking crime in the context of a very different era of Canadian history.
Recommended resources:
Watching the Devil Dance: How a Spree killer Slipped through the Cracks of the Criminal Justice System 2020, Will Toffan
F-Ward: Oak Ridge Mental Hospital documentary,1971, Director Heinz Avigdor
Psychiatric treatment or torture? The Oak Ridge Experiment, documentary 2021, The Fifth Estate
This month, Canadian True Crime has donated to the Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime, who offer support, research and education to survivors, victims and their families.
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| 0:52.0 | This is part two of a two-part series. Where we left off, it was |
| 0:57.2 | 1967 and 19-year-old Matthew Charles Lamb had been found not guilty by reason of insanity. |
| 1:05.1 | He had taken to a Windsor street with a shotgun leaving several young people with |
| 1:10.8 | life-changing injuries and two dead. Edith Chikovsky and Andrew |
| 1:16.8 | Woolick both around 20 years old. As with many spree killings, Matthew Lamb's motives were baffling, and his targets were unlucky people in the wrong place at the wrong time, gunned down for no apparent reason at all. |
| 1:34.0 | When he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, |
| 1:38.0 | he was sent to the notorious Oakridge facility |
| 1:41.0 | for the criminally insane and penitanguasine Ontario. Oak Ridge |
| 1:44.1 | facility for the criminally insane in Penitanguecine, Ontario, located about a four and a half hour drive |
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