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Criminal

Starlight Tours

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In January 2000, the bodies of two First Nations men were found frozen in a remote area of Saskatoon, Canada. It was a place where nobody walked, especially in the winter. And then, a man named Darrell Night came forward and said he had been dropped off by police on the outskirts of town, but he had made it back alive. We speak with former police officer Ernie Louttit and reporter Dan Zakreski about the deaths of Neil Stonechild, Lawrence Wegner, and Rodney Naistus, and “starlight tours” within the Saskatoon Police Service. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.3

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0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:31.0

We had a spate of freezing deaths in the month of January 2000 over the space of a couple of weeks.

0:39.0

We would get these sort of sadly typical news releases from the city police that went along the

0:46.1

lines of a 28 year old person found frozen. These were the general circumstances.

0:55.0

We aren't naming them because it's not a violent death, and that's just how they handled it.

1:01.0

Dan Sikresky is a reporter for the

1:03.5

CBC. In 2000, he worked for the Star Phoenix newspaper in

1:07.8

in Saskatoon, Canada.

1:09.5

So that particular month it was the post-Christmas newsroom doldrums.

1:15.0

So I was assigned to take a look at one of these freezing deaths.

1:19.4

There was a body found out by the city landfill, which is in sort of the southwest section of the city.

1:27.0

It's a relatively isolated for the city.

1:31.0

And I was assigned to put together sort of a best practices story on, you know, don't get drunk and try to walk home.

1:37.0

And develop a little bit of a feature on the individual who was frozen to try to put a human face on it. So I had begun to do my research. It started

1:47.0

off by first of all trying to find out the individual's name and it turned out to be a fellow named Lawrence Wagner who was a

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