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Feature / January/February 2018 / The Walrus True Crime

How Canada’s Health Care System Helped Create a Killer

December 18, 2017February 5, 2020 - by Martin Patriquin

Johnathan Townsend’s family knew he was a danger. Nobody listened

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Justice / The Walrus True Crime

The Deadly Racism of Thunder Bay

December 11, 2017August 7, 2021 - by Robert Jago

A series of stalled police investigations reveals a city that’s indifferent to Indigenous lives

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The Laan family, at brother Paul Laan’s wedding. Kathrine Laan, Walter Laan, David Laan, Paul Laan and Ron Allen are highlighted
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Cottage Country Murder: Family Linked to Disappearance of Seniors Fights Release of Police Documents

October 13, 2017November 27, 2019 - by Zander Sherman

Members of Laan family oppose release of information to the public

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Feature / November 2017 / The Walrus True Crime

Cottage Country Murder

September 15, 2017February 5, 2020 - by Zander Sherman

Police have dragged the lake. They’ve dug up property. They’ve brought in dogs. But after twenty years, they still can’t find the bodies of the four missing seniors in Muskoka

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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 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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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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Society

The Jolly Millionaire

May 27, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Dean Jobb

When a Ponzi scheme artist moved to rural Nova Scotia

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Feature / July/August 2014

The Trials of Philip Halliday

July 25, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Noah Richler

Did an out-of-work fisherman from Digby knowingly smuggle one and a half tons of cocaine into Spain?

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On the Margins of Freedom

April 12, 2011April 7, 2021 - by Atif Rafay

An essay by a Canadian convicted of murder

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