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The Canadian Gothic

the Murder of Tess Richey - 2 - My Sister Tessie (with Varina Richey)

The Canadian Gothic

Curiouscast

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

After spending a Friday night out with a friend, 22 year old Tess Richey failed to return home. The out of character disappearance would lead to nation wide news coverage, and serve as the opening scenes for one of Canada’s most heartbreaking series of events. In this episode of Nighttime we are joined by Tess’ sister Varina Richey, who will share an inside look at a family living through every families worst nightmare. Our story is the murder of Tess Richey Links referenced in the episode: Varina Richey on twitter - https://twitter.com/theonlyvarina Tess Richey Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYz9wIOfoZM Tess Richey wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Tess_Richey Credits: Musical Theme: Shadowpasser by Vox Somnia https://soundcloud.com/voxsomnia Contact: Website: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/NightTimePod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NightTimePod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimepod Email: NightTimePodcast@gmail.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/nighttimepodcast Premium Feed: https://www.patreon.com/Nighttimepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello listeners Jordan here. I just want to let you know that you can listen to nighttime early and add free on Amazon music

0:07.0

Include it with Prime

0:12.0

You are tuned to the nighttime podcast focused on the fringe of Canada.

0:17.0

Welcome back to a planned two-part series covering the murder of Tess Ritchie.

0:29.2

In the last episode we were joined by Karen Lieberman, a Toronto-based journalist with global news.

0:36.0

During our time with Karen, she shared her experiences reporting on both Tessa's senseless murder

0:42.0

and the trial against her killer,

0:44.8

Kalin Schlader. But tonight we're going to get even closer to this heartbreaking

0:50.2

story. As we heard Karen describe, this story heavily features a band of

0:56.1

Ritchie women who've been steadfast in their support of Tess

0:59.7

throughout every tragic twist in turn. Tess, the youngest of five sisters, had each one of them

1:06.4

rallying around her and her mother Christine as they were pulled through every family's

1:11.2

worst nightmare.

1:15.0

Starting with the search for Tess, into the search for her killer,

1:17.0

and throughout the entire trial,

1:19.0

the Ritchie Women has stood shoulder to shoulder,

1:22.0

wearing Tessus beads, and demanding justice.

1:25.0

Tonight, in this episode of nighttime, we're going to be given an inside look at this tragedy

1:31.0

by someone who's living through it. Our guest is

1:34.8

Tess's eldest sister Verena Ritchie and our topic, the murder of her sister

1:40.8

Tessie.

1:54.6

Vrena, I'll let you introduce yourself in a moment, but I want to set it up like this is my Twitter account I think I follow two or 300 people and they're from they're from all walks of life so I have you know

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