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The Walrus True Crime

Feature / September 2017 / The Walrus True Crime

How Police Cracked Canada’s Largest Child Pornography Ring

August 22, 2017July 11, 2021 - by Robert Kolker

Inside the year-long effort to take down a criminal organization hiding in plain sight

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Illustration by Michael Byers
Feature / June 2017 / The Walrus True Crime

The Rise and Fall of Toronto’s Classiest Con Man

May 29, 2017November 25, 2020 - by Michael Lista

James Regan swindled his way through the city’s monied classes. The problem was, he seemed to believe his own lies

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Photo by Grant Harder
Feature / May 2017 / The Walrus True Crime

Forced Confessions

April 25, 2017April 6, 2020 - by Ben Travers

A Victoria homicide case puts the spotlight on police interrogations

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Illustration by Sam Island
Cannabis / January/February 2017 / The Walrus True Crime

The First Lady of Reefer Madness

December 22, 2016April 7, 2020 - by Melvyn Green

How a renowned Canadian feminist popularized our racist war on drugs

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Illustration by Ben Clarkson
Feature / June 2016 / The Walrus True Crime

What Happened the Night Tamra Keepness Disappeared From Her Regina Home?

June 24, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Jana G. Pruden

The years since her disappearance have exposed the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada

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Prison walls and guard tower
January/February 2016 / Memoir / The Walrus True Crime

Exit Wounds

December 17, 2015February 5, 2020 - by Edward Hertrich

A murderer tries to stay alive in Canada’s most notorious prison

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Illustration by Adrienne Kammerer
Feature / October 2015 / The Walrus True Crime

Breaking the Pig Farmer

October 14, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Lori Shenher

Inside the interrogation of Robert Pickton

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Man in hat under red lighting
Feature / September 2015 / The Walrus True Crime

Dr. Shock

September 19, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Richard Poplak

How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Alberta

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Photograph by Fabrice Strippoli
December 2013 / Memoir / The Walrus True Crime

When Paul Bernardo Stalked My Neighbourhood

November 11, 2013May 27, 2022 - by Stacey May Fowles

What it was like to grow up in a community that lived in fear of the Scarborough Rapist

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Illustration by Adrienne Kammerer
Feature / May 2013 / The Walrus True Crime

Trials and Error

April 29, 2013September 9, 2020 - by Julian Sher

Bad forensic evidence and junk science continue to send innocent people to jail

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