Raymond Laroche

Canadian True Crime

Kristi Lee

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Additional content warning: This case is about the death of a baby, and there is mention of domestic violence and animal abuse. Please take care when listening.

After the disappearance of a baby in Windsor in 1990, lurid headlines on both sides of the Detroit River quickly turned the baby’s teen parents into sordid celebrities.

The intention of this episode is to take a look back at a shocking crime sensationalized through headlines, how it captured public attention and inspired vigilante justice. It also reveals the stark differences between Canadian and American news coverage that played a pivotal role in the way this crime—and the stories about this crime—played out.

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0:00.0	Canadian True Crime is a completely independent production funded mainly through advertising.
0:04.4	You can listen to Canadian True Crime ad free and early on Amazon music included with Prime,
0:09.5	Apple Podcasts, Patreon and Supercast.
0:12.6	The podcast often has disturbing content and coarse language.
0:16.3	It's not for everyone.
0:17.3	Please take care when listening.
0:19.3	Hi everyone and welcome back to Canadian True Crime. I hope you're well. Today's case took place in the
0:25.8	Canadian border city of Windsor, Ontario, which lies directly across from the US city of Detroit, Michigan. The two cities are separated only by a
0:36.2	river about 2 kilometers wide. This story centers around the 1990 disappearance of a seven-month-old baby and how lurid
0:45.7	headlines on both sides of the Detroit River quickly turned the baby's teen
0:50.6	parents into s into sorted celebrities.
0:53.8	It's also a story about how the stark differences
0:56.9	between Canadian and American news coverage
0:59.8	played a pivotal role in the way this crime and the stories about this crime played out.
1:06.4	An additional content warning. This case is about the death of a baby and there is
1:12.1	brief mention of domestic violence and
1:14.6	animal abuse please take care when listening and with that it's on with the show.
1:36.0	July 17, 1990 was a hot one in Windsor, Ontario, not record-breaking hot like it had been two years earlier when the temperature broke just above 40 degrees Celsius, a heat record that holds to this day.
1:43.0	No, that Tuesday morning in 1990, it was 23 degrees, partly cloudy and a little muggy,
1:51.0	a typical summer morning for Canada's southern most major city.
1:56.0	In the Western neighborhood of Sandwich at about 9 a.m.
2:01.0	19 year old Raymond La Roche and his 15 year old girlfriend Sandra
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