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Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

The Murder of Diana Russell (Part 1)

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

Curiouscast

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Episode 235: On February 22, 2002, a vehicle was found in the ditch off the Trans-Canada highway near Boston Bar, B.C. The car was registered to 61-year-old mother, grandmother and recent great-grandmother, Diana Russell, who was nowhere around the car. RCMP obtained a key to Diana’s Kelowna townhouse and went inside finding the woman partially clothed body underneath some mattresses and furniture. She’d been hogtied, raped, beaten and strangled. Police quickly determined that Ronald Leal Fowler, 31, was a person of interest in the murder. Fowler, father of one of Diana’s grandchildren after a brief relationship with Diana’s eldest daughter, Fowler was later dramatically captured in Vancouver. He was then charged and in 2006 was convicted of first degree murder. Diana Russell's daughter Valerie MacPherson kindly shared her writings about her family's pain around the time of the murder and the twenty years since. In part 2 we will hear from Diana's grandson, Collin Lucksinger, as he shares first hand his thoughts and feelings around Diana's murder. Sources: Facebook — Biography of Diana Russell Search Castanet News - Ronald Fowler 2006 BCSC 1215 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII 2006 BCSC 1214 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII 2005 BCSC 1876 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII 2005 BCSC 1875 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII 2005 BCSC 1874 (CanLII) | R. v. Fowler | CanLII CN BC: Drug Experts Differ Over Blackouts - Rave.ca Femicide RamsReef — Twitch 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 putine early and add free on Amazon music included with prime.

0:10.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses.

0:15.4

I love walking with the dog for long periods of time, hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm.

0:21.0

So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath.

0:26.9

And you get to the top and you're like, and then you can see the breath.

0:30.4

But then your nose is still freezing to top.

0:33.6

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:48.6

Welcome back to a dark putine.

0:52.1

I am Michael Brown. That's right. That's my full name.

0:56.5

That's the legal one.

0:58.0

And across the table from you is Matthew Stockton.

1:02.5

Hello.

1:03.3

How are you today, Matthew?

1:05.2

Very focused on this episode.

1:07.3

Good. Me too. I feel...

1:09.5

I want to do a good job for Valerie and Colin.

1:11.9

I do too. They have been so kind. Let's carry on.

1:16.8

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1:24.5

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1:28.4

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1:34.8

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1:38.0

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