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Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

Murder in Shell Lake: The Peterson Family Slayings (SK)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

Curiouscast

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Episode 102 - On the morning of August 15, 1967, in what was one of the most heinous random crimes ever to have happened in Canada, 9 members of the Peterson family of Shell Lake Saskatchewan were found gunned down in their modest farmhouse. Jim and Evelyn Peterson and 7 of their 9 children lay dead with no rhyme or reason for the crime. A madman was on the loose on the prairies. Sources & Further Reading:[Newspapers.com search - Canada / 1967-2019 / Shell Lake]Marking 50 years since the Shell Lake murders, Canada’s worst random mass killing[Victor Ernest Hoffman | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers][CBC Player | Shell Lake Mass Murder][Newsroom : Inquest in the death of Victor Hoffman announced][Madera Tribune 21 August 1967 — California Digital Newspaper Collection][Shell Lake murders | Revolvy][After their release, most mentally ill offenders left unchecked - The Globe and Mail][Shell Lake Massacre - Phyllis Peterson - ExtraOrdinary Lives - YouTube][Goodreads - Shell Lake Massacre by Peter Tadman][Village of Shell Lake » Oasis of the Parklands][Veterans’ Land Act | The Canadian Encyclopedia][What is ECT?][A Brief History of Electroconvulsive Therapy | Psychology Today Canada] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Mike here, I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Dark Poutine early and

0:04.7

add free on Amazon Music, included with Prime. You're about to listen to a historical episode

0:10.8

of Dark Poutine. After episode 149, you will find Scott is no longer with the show.

0:16.9

In an effort to maintain continuity and offer listeners as many episodes as possible,

0:22.1

we are leaving the episodes in which he co-hosted intact. Thank you.

0:30.1

You're welcome.

0:42.4

Those darn loons are around every week. They are? Well, they are fond of the show.

0:48.4

Apparently. They're avid listeners, my, with their little bird headphones.

0:54.4

Welcome to Dark Poutine. I'm Mike Brown, creator and host with me as usual.

0:58.0

My good friend and co-host Scott Hemmanway say hello Scott.

1:01.6

Hello Scott and hello to all of you gorgeous folks. Very nice. Now let's listen to our disclaimer.

1:08.4

The views, information and opinions expressed during the Dark Poutine podcast are solely those

1:13.5

of the producer and do not necessarily represent those of curious cast. It's affiliate global news

1:18.8

nor their parent company, chorus and entertainment. And here's another disclaimer. Just in case you

1:23.8

didn't get it from the first one, you can't have too many. No, for a lot of different reasons.

1:30.6

Dark Poutine is not for the faint of harder squeamish listener discretion is strongly advised.

1:35.8

We are not experts on the topics we present nor are we journalists. We're two ordinary Canadians

1:43.0

chatting about crime and the dark side of history. That's it. We're not reporters.

1:48.6

Oh hell no. We are not. Oh good god no. What a disservice we would be doing to journalists. Exactly.

1:55.6

We were. Exactly. We're just trying to tell a story. Yeah. Put on your two. Grab yourself a double,

2:00.8

double and in the Nymel bar is time to scarf down some dark Poutine.

2:18.3

Now speaking of mistakes, oh before we begin, I want to make a correction. Oh. A couple of

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