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Criminal

The Midnight Slider

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 2013, a small boat called The Midnight Slider was found floating empty in the waters off of Isle Madame in Nova Scotia. "Murder is not something that occurs in this neck of the woods very often," says Jake Boudrot, editor of the The Reporter, "There's always been a tradition of taking care of families, watching out, looking out for one another." 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

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:24.9

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

0:32.1

Around here you know that you don't steal from lobster fishermen, you don't steal from any fishermen, and there are consequences.

0:40.0

There's a small island in Canada in Nova Scotia called Isle Madame where fishermen are up and out on the ocean at 4 a.m.

0:49.0

pulling up traps full of lobsters, millions of dollars worth of lobster. You need a license to fish for

0:56.2

them and the licenses are very expensive, hundreds of thousands of dollars.

1:01.2

Someone who has a license that can set 250 traps can stand to make close to $500,000 in the run of a year,

1:11.2

give her a take.

1:12.4

It's quite lucrative and a lot of people's livelihoods rely on that and

1:18.3

that's really driving the economy and been the cornerstone of it for quite some time.

1:24.0

Everybody knows somebody who's involved with lobsters.

1:28.0

Oh, absolutely, yeah. They're either related or married into it or they just know them, you know.

1:35.0

Everybody knows who lobster fishermen are.

1:38.0

This is Jake Boudreau.

1:40.0

He's the editor of the reporter, a newspaper in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia.

1:45.3

He grew up on Isle Madam, and he says it's a place where many of the people that live there

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