The Murder of Victoria Shachtay
Canadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
A 23 year old quadriplegic single mother receives a package disguised as a Christmas gift on her doorstop. What happened next, and the story behind who sent this mysterious package, would stun the small community of Innisfail.
* Clarification: Please note that Evan Shielke was a FORMER volunteer firefighter at the time of the incident. The media incorrectly chose to focus on this aspect when reporting on him, but he clarified with me that he actually hadn't volunteered for ten years. He greatly respects what firefighters do and wants to avoid anyone thinking the misreporting came from him.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast may contain coarse language, adult themes, and content of a violent and disturbing nature. |
| 0:09.7 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:28.8 | This is Christy. Welcome to Canadian True Crime, Episode 25, The Murder of Victoria Shack Day. |
| 0:38.7 | Innesphale is a small town of almost 8,000 residents situated in central Alberta. |
| 0:44.6 | It's a historic town dating back to the late 1800s, pioneering times, |
| 0:50.4 | as it provided a resting spot for those travelling between what was then called Fort Calgary and Fort Edmonton. |
| 0:52.9 | It's situated about halfway between the two cities, although closer to Calgary. |
| 0:58.9 | These days, it's known for having a modern-day country lifestyle, a quaint historic village, |
| 1:04.6 | lots of farms, a livestock auction, and town entertainment courtesy of the Danes Rodeo Ranch. |
| 1:12.1 | It's just an ordinary, quiet prairie town. |
| 1:20.9 | It was the morning of Friday, November 25, 2011. |
| 1:26.5 | Young volunteer firefighter Evan Shilke was at home when at about 9 a.m. |
| 1:32.5 | He suddenly heard a loud bang. He looked up and saw glass flying out of the window of his |
| 1:38.4 | neighbor's house, two doors down. He didn't really know his neighbor, but had seen her around. He knew she was a young woman in a |
| 1:46.9 | wheelchair in her early 20s and that a little girl lived there too. It was a tope and brown |
| 1:53.4 | fourplex next to an elementary school and they lived on the ground floor apartment. But that was all he knew. |
| 2:02.5 | His firefighter and emergency training kicked in and he ran over to the multiplex house and found the front |
| 2:07.4 | door open. A woman was standing in the front doorway, screaming and crying. Evan was the first |
| 2:13.8 | person to enter the house and raced past broken glass and debris. He looked around |
| 2:19.4 | at first thinking it might have been some sort of gas-related accident in the kitchen, but what |
| 2:24.7 | he saw made him instantly realize it was something far more serious. Evan could smell gunpowder, |
| 2:32.6 | and a feeling of horror came over him. |
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