You are tuned to the Nighttime Podcast, focused on the fringe of Canada.

Welcome back to a two-part collaboration between nighttime and the Canadian True Crime podcast.

In part one of this series, Christy Lee's narration brought us through some very dark places.

We heard an abridged telling of Canada's disgraceful history with its treatment of indigenous people

and how this treatment created a social environment

in which the indigenous became vulnerable, both in terms of their culture and their personal

safety. From there, we learned about Loretta Saunders, an inuk woman from Happy Valley

Goose Bay, whose personal experiences led to her relocating to Halifax and focusing

her educational pursuits on the issue of Canada's missing and murdered indigenous women and

girls. From there, we heard the story of the senseless and brutal series of events

that led to Loretta Saunders' name being added to the very list of cases

she hoped her work would reduce. This horrible story is one that I've been watching unfold

since February of 2014 when my local news sources began reporting on a missing woman. As the missing

person's case became a murder case,

and the murder led to two convictions,

the totality of it all contained more cruelty, tragedy, and emotion

than I nor Christy at Canadian True Crime could ever hope to describe.

We, like most of you listening, were on the outside. With our

phones and our laptops as a vantage point, we could only look on in disbelief as a near

endless series of news updates provided the public with a play-by-play account of the Saunders'

family's encounter with such unimaginable darkness. To really

understand a story such as this, we need to hear from someone with a much less comfortable view.

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