Northern Dark: True Canadian Crime
Northern Dark: True Canadian Crime is a documentary-style true crime podcast that explores Canada’s most haunting criminal cases. From mass shootings and serial killers to cold cases and local tragedies, each episode offers a gripping, respectful deep dive into the darkest corners of Canadian history.With powerful storytelling, immersive research, and atmospheric sound, Northern Dark brings you the stories behind the headlines—and the lives forever changed by violence.Whether it’s the Danforth Shooting, the Highway of Tears, or crimes you’ve never heard of, this is true crime with a Canadian voice.New episodes released weekly. Listener discreti...
Episodes
ND EP: 13 - Dawson College Shooting: Montréal’s Day of Terror
On September 13th, 2006, Dawson College in Montréal became the scene of one of Canada’s most shocking school shootings.A 25-year-old gunman opened fire in the cafeteria, killing 18-year-old Anastasia De Sousa and wounding 19 others. In just…
ND EP: 12 - York Region Under Siege: The Suburban Crime Wave in Canada
York Region, Ontario has been shaken by a series of violent crimes — home invasions, arson, carjackings, kidnappings, and shootings — that have left families terrified and communities on edge.In this special episode of Northern Dark: True C…
ND EP:11 - The Toronto Van Attack
DescriptionOn April 23, 2018, a bright spring afternoon in Toronto turned to horror. A white rental van mounted the sidewalk on Yonge Street, killing 11 innocent people and injuring 15 more in just 25 minutes.This episode of Northern Dark: …
ND EP:10- The École Polytechnique Massacre
On December 6, 1989, a gunman entered Montreal’s École Polytechnique and opened fire, targeting women in a brutal attack that shook Canada to its core. Fourteen women lost their lives, and countless others were forever changed. This episode…
ND EP: 9 - Christine Jessop Murder: How DNA Freed Paul Morin
In 1984, nine-year-old Christine Jessop was abducted and murdered in Queensville, Ontario. Her neighbor, Paul Morin, was wrongfully convicted based on faulty forensic evidence. Nearly a decade later, DNA testing proved his innocence and cha…
ND EP: 8 - The Murder of Ashlee Shingoose
The Murder of Ashlee ShingooseOn March 11, 2022, twenty-nine-year-old Ashlee Shingoose went missing in Winnipeg. For nearly three years she was known only as Buffalo Woman—until DNA confirmed her identity. This episode follows her story, he…
ND EP: 7 - The Disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan
On the morning of May 2, 2025, in the rural community of Lansdowne Station, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, six-year-old Lilly Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack vanished near their home. What began as a frantic local search quickly es…
ND EP: 6 - Thirteen Hours of Terror: Nova Scotia Mass Shooting
On April 18–19, 2020, the quiet community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, became the epicenter of a thirteen-hour rampage that claimed 22 lives across multiple towns.Disguised as a police officer and driving a replica RCMP cruiser, Gabriel Wort…
ND EP: 5 - The Murder of Ramona Wilson
Sixteen-year-old Ramona Wilson never made it to her friend’s graduation dance. Ten months later, her remains were discovered in the woods behind the Smithers airport — the same area her mother had begged police to search.In this episode, we…
ND EP: 4 - The Vanishing of the Jack Family
Episode 4: The Vanishing of the Jack FamilyAugust 2nd, 1989 — Prince George, British Columbia A young Indigenous family of four accepts a late-night job offer from a mysterious stranger. Hours later, they vanish without a trace. No witnesse…
ND EP: 3 - Quadeville: Summer of Fear
A peaceful village in Ontario is shaken by horror in June 2025. When a young child is found brutally assaulted in the woods near Quadeville, a town of just 200 people, the community rallies in grief, outrage, and determination. In this epis…
ND EP: 2 - The Disappearance of Nicole Morin
She was eight years old. On a summer morning in 1985, she left her 20th-floor apartment to go swimming—and vanished without a trace. In this episode, we retrace the biggest missing-child investigation in Toronto’s history, the leads it spaw…
ND EP: 1 – The Danforth Shooting
On July 22, 2018, a warm summer night in Toronto’s Greektown was shattered by one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history. In this premiere episode of Northern Dark, we examine the events of that night, the class-action lawsuit that…