Tracy Latimer
Canadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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The story of a farming family who find themselves in a heartbreaking situation, in what would become one of the most controversial court cases in Canadian history.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. As you might have noticed, I release episodes on the first and the 15th of each month. |
| 0:10.2 | This will be my last episode for 2018. I've decided to take off the January the first episode so I can |
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| 1:07.7 | This podcast contains coarse language, adult themes, and content of a violent and disturbing nature. |
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| 1:35.2 | The town of Wilkie is a small rural community of about 1,300 people in the province of Saskatchewan, |
| 1:41.1 | situated about an hour and a half drive west of its largest city, Saskatoon. |
| 1:47.8 | The town is named after Mr. Daniel Robert Wilkie, who was the president of the Imperial Bank of Canada, and the town's website describes it as a friendly town with tree-lined |
| 1:54.4 | streets providing a safe and healthy environment for all ages. Being a prairie province, one of the things Saskatchewan is well |
| 2:03.5 | known for is grain farming, and this is the story of a wheat farming family who live just outside |
| 2:10.5 | the town of Wilkie. The 1200-acre Latimer family farm grows canola and wheat and was bought in 1948 by Bill and May Latimer. |
| 2:23.3 | They had seven kids, three that May had with her first husband who died, and then four more that she had with her second husband, Bill Latimer. |
| 2:40.2 | The second youngest child was Robert, who was born in 1953. |
| 2:48.0 | Robert was described by his older half-sister as a high-spirited little boy, but he was always kind. |
| 2:48.9 | I don't remember him ever hurting anyone. |
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