Rene Castellani - The Milkshake Murderer (BC)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

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True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Episode 024: In 1965 Rene Castellani was the promotional manager for Vancouver's premiere radio station CKNW. Castellani, a local celebrity, was well known for his on air pranks and stunts, earning him the nickname, "the dizzy dialer". Castellani was also having an affair with a receptionist from the radio station. When his wife Esther challenged him Castellani denied the affair. Shortly after that Esther became very sick and doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. In July of 1965, Esther was dead. CONTENT WARNING: Dark Poutine is not for the faint of heart or squeamish. Our content contains mature themes, coarse language and may include graphic descriptions of violent crimes. Listener discretion is strongly advised. Web: http://darkpoutine.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkpoutine/Twitter: https://twitter.com/darkpoutinepodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkpoutine/ Email and PayPal tip jar: darkpoutinepodcast@gmail.comPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Writer / Creator, Researcher, Editor & Host: Mike Browne (@mikebrowne)Original Music & Cohost: Scott Hemenway (@sdhpics) Sources: https://www.amazon.ca/Dead-Ends-B-C-Crime-Stories/dp/0889773483/ Paul Willcocks Dead Ends : BC Crime Stories https://www.amazon.ca/Irrefutable-Evidence-History-Forensic-Science-ebook/dp/B009D173F2/ Irrefutable Evidence, A History of Forensic Science – Michael Kurland http://evelazarus.com/the-sensational-murder-of-esther-castellani/ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/radio-star-kills-wife-aresenic-laced-milkshakes-article-1.2249428 http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/radio/cknw-am https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKNW http://www.pressreader.com/canada/vancouver-sun/20141004/281505044452227 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/4976/index.do http://canlii.ca/t/1xd5m https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BowMac_sign https://www.straight.com/life/1051491/homeless-vancouver-bowmac-sign-faces-demolition-when-west-broadway-toys-r-us-shuts-down https://www.whitespot.ca/ 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.
0:30.2	Welcome to Dark Poutine. I'm Mike Brown creator and host with me as usual. It's my good friend
0:36.5	and co-host Scott Hemmanway. Say hello Scott. How do you find ladies and gentlemen?
0:42.4	Find ladies and gentlemen and gentlemen. I'm being, I'm trying to be more regal in this episode.
0:49.6	Regal? Yeah. Pip pip. Tell me who. Oh, you're you're a Brit. Ladies and gentlemen. Is that because
0:56.6	there's another British baby? Do you follow the royals at all? No, but I have been made aware
1:03.4	thanks to TV of this suburb. The televisal? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Just shave your head,
1:11.3	William. All right, let's get to it. Dark Poutine is not for the faint of heart or squeamish.
1:16.8	As our content contains mature themes, harsh language, and graphic descriptions of violent crimes,
1:22.0	listener discretion is strongly advised. We're not journalists or experts on any of the topics we
1:27.7	present. We're just two regular Canadians who are interested in the dark side of Canada and
1:31.9	Canadian history. Yeah. Here regular Canadians even regular. Put on your tuk. Grab yourself a double
1:38.5	double in a Nymobar. It's time to scarf down some dark Poutine.
2:01.2	Welcome to episode 24 of dark Poutine. It's spring time outside. It was warm here today. Holy
2:08.1	crap. We got up to 29 according to my car. Oh wow. Yeah, it was fantastic. That is very, very
2:14.3	warm. Those down on Celsius for you folks. I think sometimes Americans think we're fair and
2:20.0	hyped up here. And so it's probably how we get the reputation of being all like, oh,
2:24.2	Canada's just all ice. It's probably because of that. Maybe there could be because we're like,
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