NCR: The Death of Brian Smith & Life of Jeffrey Arenburg (ON/NS)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

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🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Episode 095 - On a summer evening in 1995 sportscaster and former NHL hockey player Brian Smith, 54, was shot by a stranger as he exited the CJOH studios in Ottawa, Ontario after a day's work. The two me had never met, but the gunman, a man named Jeffrey Arenburg from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia was convinced that the murder of the beloved sportscaster would bring attention to his plight, and perhaps, put a stop to his thoughts being stolen and broadcast by Smith's TV station. Arenburg, who'd suffered from paranoid delusions for years, and had been in and out of court and hospitals, was found NCR, not criminally responsible, for the murder. Sources:Brian Smith - WikipediaJeffrey Arenburg - WikipediaOttawa Citizen Articles about Jeffrey Arenburg at Newspapers.comNot Criminally Responsible : Jeffrey Arenburg - The Fifth Estate (YouTube)Not Criminally Responsible assessments - lawfacts.caStats on verdicts of not criminally responsible in CanadaThe Legacy of a Story: Double-Narrative of Jeffrey Arenburg and Brian SmithUNITED STATES v. ARENBURGBill 68 2000 in memory of Brian SmithNot Criminally Responsible Reform Act 2014CBC - What does NCR mean?Jeffrey Arenburg, killer of sportscaster Brian Smith, dead of heart attackBrian's Law ruled constitutionalCome see Dark Poutine's live show at the Vancouver Podcast Festival at the RIO Theatre at 10:00pm on November 9, 2019! Get your tickets here! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:30.5	Well there you go. This is episode 95. Holy shit we're knocking on a hundred store. Yeah and
2:46.9	this is one that I hope will make people think about some things. It's a topic that is very
2:53.3	divisive at times. Oh, oh shit. Okay. We're going to present it in a way that we hope is true to
3:00.1	everybody in the story. Okay. All right. Okay. Curious. And this is another one that I have a lot
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