The Cook Family Massacre and Alberta's Last Man Hanged (AB)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

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🗓️ 15 September 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Episode 040 - On the morning of Sunday, June 28, 1959,RCMP made a grisly discovery in the garage adjacent to a small home in Stettler, Alberta. Raymond Cook, his wife, Daisy Mae and their five children were found dead and stuffed into a homemade grease pit. Raymond's son from a previous marriage, Robert Raymond Cook, was the only suspect. He went on to become Alberta's last man hanged in November of 1960.Sources:http://www.rcmpgraves.com/buffalo/mysterybutnomercy.htmlhttp://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/hanged/cook.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=yNn2j9kJit0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Raymond_Cookhttp://robertcook.ca/http://legalarchives.ca/project/last-man-hanged/http://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/cook-robert-ray.htmhttps://www.pressreader.com/canada/edmonton-journal/20130628/281569468307256http://amok.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_Raymond_Cookhttps://www.reddeeradvocate.com/uncategorized/cook-shouldnt-have-been-hanged-documentarian/http://www.fortsaskatchewanrecord.com/2014/11/06/notorious-hangings-in-the-forthttp://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/how-to/explore-learning-and-education/discovering-albertas-court-records/interesting-cases/criminal-regina-cook.htmlhttps://mysteriesandmore.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-work-of-justice-trials-of-robert.htmlhttp://mysteriesandmore.blogspot.com/2018/01/robert-raymond-cook-facing-execution.htmlhttps://edmontonsun.com/2015/09/26/alberta-filmmaker-questioning-capital-punishment-after-making-doc/wcm/35e8b61d-6cfa-43f2-8820-97b135426fe4https://www.reddeerexpress.com/columns/robert-cook-murders-recounted-in-play/https://www.amazon.ca/The-Boy-ebook/dp/B00CLVLIZW/oolibook-20https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-boy-by-betty-jane-hegerat/article599379/https://www.stettlerindependent.com/community/stettler-students-hear-story-of-cooks-infamous-hanging/https://www.therichest.com/shocking/15-psychos-who-punished-their-siblings-in-unimaginable-ways/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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