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Bloody clues found all over this small Canadian town - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: In January of nineteen eighty eight, the clerk of a
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  Speaker 1: sporting goods store in a small town in Canada looked
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  Speaker 1: up right as a man walked into a shop.
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  Speaker 2: Now, it was below freezing outside, but this man wasn't
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  Speaker 2: wearing a coat.
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  Speaker 1: He was just wearing sneakers, ripped pants, and a thin
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  Speaker 1: plastic rain poncho. This man quickly walked down the aisle
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  Speaker 1: and grabbed a pair of ski pants, and then he
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  Speaker 1: walked up.
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  Speaker 2: He paid for the.
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  Speaker 1: Pants in cash, and then very quickly hurried out of
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  Speaker 1: the store. But after this sort of strangely dressed man left,
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  Speaker 1: the clerk turned on the radio and he heard a
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  Speaker 1: breaking news report about a murder right up the road.
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  Speaker 1: our weekly uploads. Let's get into today's story. On the
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  Speaker 1: night of January eleventh, nineteen eighty eight, a sixty two
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  Speaker 1: year old man named Wilfred Gudreau ate a bowl of
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  Speaker 1: hot soup at his kitchen table in cappus Casing, which
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  Speaker 1: was a tiny lumbertown in northern Ontario, Canada. His fifty
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  Speaker 1: three year old girlfriend, a Got for Show, was sitting
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  Speaker 1: across from him, and she was visibly shivering because it
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  Speaker 1: was freezing cold inside of their house. Now, Wilfrid knew
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  Speaker 1: a Got probably wanted him to turn up the heat,
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  Speaker 1: but he absolutely was not going to do that because,
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  Speaker 1: as it was, their electric bill was already too high.
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  Speaker 2: So Wilfrid really hated spending money, but not because he
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  Speaker 2: didn't have any.
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  Speaker 1: Back when he was a kid, his family had been really,
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  Speaker 1: really poor, and so he'd picked up some really frugal
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  Speaker 1: habits that had just sort of stuck with him.
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  Speaker 2: So even now that he had a steady income as a.
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  Speaker 1: Mechanic and pretty comfortable savings, he still always tried to
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  Speaker 1: spend as little as possible. Plus, he wanted to retire
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  Speaker 1: soon and he was supporting a Got too, So as
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  Speaker 1: he sat there watching a Got continue to shiver, clearly
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  Speaker 1: trying to signal to him, like, come on, turn up
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  Speaker 1: the heat. Wilfrid finally did get up, but not to
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  Speaker 1: turn up the heat. Instead, he walked over to the
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  Speaker 1: living room and he grabbed a shawl off the couch
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  Speaker 1: and he brought it back and he handed it to
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  Speaker 1: a Gout. Then as a Got kind of scowled at him,
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  Speaker 1: Wilfrid just sat back down and continued eating his soup.
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  Speaker 1: Early the next morning, around seven to fifteen am, Wilfred
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  Speaker 1: woke up to an empty bed and the familiar sound
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  Speaker 1: of a Gut bustling around in the kitchen making breakfast
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  Speaker 1: and packing his.
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  Speaker 2: Lunch for work.
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  Speaker 1: And then a few minutes later he felt the blanket
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  Speaker 1: shift as a Gout crawled back into bed beside him.
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  Speaker 1: So Wilfrid and a Got had been together about twelve years,
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  Speaker 1: and these days they lived a pretty quiet life, which
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  Speaker 1: was pretty easy to do in kapus Casing, which was
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  Speaker 1: the kind of place where really nothing ever happened, and
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  Speaker 1: it's also where pretty much everybody knew everyone and where
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  Speaker 1: people didn't even bother locking their doors at night. And
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  Speaker 1: that suited Wilfrid just fine, because at one point his
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  Speaker 1: life had been anything but quiet. His relationship with a
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  Speaker 1: God had actually begun with a huge, dramatic scandal. That
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  Speaker 1: scandal had cost Wilfrid his marriage, most of his family,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of his self respect. So at this point,
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  Speaker 1: a simple life with a Got was exactly what he wanted. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Wilfrid lay in his bed just for a bit longer,
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  Speaker 1: listening to the wind howl outside and you know, feeling
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  Speaker 1: a Got next to him. But eventually he got up
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  Speaker 1: and he headed down the hallway in.
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  Speaker 2: Just his underwear. The sun was not up yet, so.
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  Speaker 1: The house was completely dark, but he made his way
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  Speaker 1: to the bathroom by memory, and when he got.
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  Speaker 2: There, he flipped on the light.
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  Speaker 1: He closed the door, and then walked over to the
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  Speaker 1: sink and he turned on the tap, and he had
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  Speaker 1: just begun shaving when he heard the door behind him
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  Speaker 1: creak open. Now Wilfrid instinctively figured it was a Got
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  Speaker 1: coming in to use the bathroom. Then he turned around
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  Speaker 1: and saw who was actually standing in the doorway. At
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  Speaker 1: the same time this was happening in the bathroom. Wilfrid
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  Speaker 1: and a Got's neighbor, Suzanne Grabble, was in her kitchen
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  Speaker 1: next door when she heard these loud crashes and shouting
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  Speaker 1: coming from a Got and Wilfrid's house. She ran to
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  Speaker 1: the window to look out, but it was too dark
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  Speaker 1: to see anything. It sounded like a Got was screaming
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  Speaker 1: Wilfrid's name over and over again, and so, assuming there
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  Speaker 1: had to be some sort of emergency, Suzanne grabbed her
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  Speaker 1: coat and just ran outside to see what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: But she'd only gone a few steps out of front
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  Speaker 1: door when she looked over and saw the door to
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  Speaker 1: Wilfrid and a God's house swing open and a man
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  Speaker 1: stepped out.
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  Speaker 2: And this man was definitely not Wilfrid.
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  Speaker 1: He was short and stocky and looked like he was
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  Speaker 1: maybe in his early thirties, and as he stepped down
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  Speaker 1: off the stoop, he turned and made eye contact with Suzanne,
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  Speaker 1: who immediately froze. Her heart was racing out of control,
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  Speaker 1: and she knew she was now in danger, but she
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  Speaker 1: didn't panic. She just turned and walked over to her car.
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  Speaker 1: She got in and then locked the doors, and then
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  Speaker 1: she just sat there and waited. Now the whole time
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  Speaker 1: that she did that, that she was just sitting in
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  Speaker 1: her car waiting this short, stocky, mid thirty something man
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  Speaker 1: actually just continued to stand there in front of Wilfred
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  Speaker 1: in a God's house, and he was just staring at
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  Speaker 1: her in the car. But after a little while he
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  Speaker 1: turned and walked over to the curb and he climbed
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  Speaker 1: into a blue pickup truck and he drove off without
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  Speaker 1: even turning on his headlights. The second he was gone,
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  Speaker 1: Suzanne rushed out of her car and ran back into
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  Speaker 1: her own house, and once she was inside, she immediately
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  Speaker 1: grabbed her home phone and she tried calling Wilfrid and
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  Speaker 1: a Gods number for their house next door, but the
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  Speaker 1: line just kept on ringing. Nobody answered, so she eventually
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  Speaker 1: hung up, and then she called the police. A dispatcher
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  Speaker 1: picked up her call, and just as Suzanne began describing
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  Speaker 1: what was going on Suzanne at her house, she heard
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  Speaker 1: this loud banging coming from her front door. Immediately, Suzanne
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  Speaker 1: thought that the short, stocky guy who drove off had
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  Speaker 1: come back for her, and so she was terrified. But
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  Speaker 1: then she heard a got calling her name from outside,
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  Speaker 1: so clearly it was her banging on the door, and
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  Speaker 1: so Suzanne she drops the phone, she runs over to
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  Speaker 1: the door, opens it up, and there was a got
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  Speaker 1: who had no coat on, and she looked equally terrified. Here,
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  Speaker 1: Suzanne grabbed a Got, she pulled her inside. She slammed
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  Speaker 1: the door, locked it behind her, and then she looked
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  Speaker 1: at a Got, like what's going on here? And a
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  Speaker 1: Got she's like, she's hat a wreath. She's clearly panicking here.
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  Speaker 1: But eventually she calms down and she looks at Suzanne
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  Speaker 1: and she says, something terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Has happened to Wilfrid.
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  Speaker 1: About twenty minutes later, a constable with the Ontario Provincial
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  Speaker 1: Police drew his revolver and pushed open the front door
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  Speaker 1: of Wilfred and a God's house. He was here because
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  Speaker 1: the police had just been told that a violent assault
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  Speaker 1: had just apparently occurred in this house.
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  Speaker 2: And so this officer was here to check it out.
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  Speaker 1: And so this officer, as soon as the door was open,
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  Speaker 1: he shouted inside that if anybody was in there, to
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  Speaker 1: come out with their hands up. And then when there
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  Speaker 1: was no response, he stepped through the doorway. As the
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  Speaker 1: officer went room by room making sure nobody was in
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  Speaker 1: the house, he noticed that it was very quiet and
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  Speaker 1: very clean, like the house was immaculate and nothing was
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  Speaker 1: out of place. It didn't look like anything had even
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  Speaker 1: happened in here until he got to the bathroom. When
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  Speaker 1: he looked in there, all he saw was blood. It
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  Speaker 1: was on the walls, it was on the floor, it
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  Speaker 1: was everywhere, on the toothbrushes, the toilet paper, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the whole room was splattered in blood, but most of
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  Speaker 1: the blood had pulled around the body of a man
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  Speaker 1: who was lying on the bathroom floor. The man was
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  Speaker 1: just wearing underwear, and he was on his back, and
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  Speaker 1: there was shaving cream on half of his face, and
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  Speaker 1: he was covered in at least a dozen stab wounds
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  Speaker 1: on his.
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  Speaker 2: Neck, on his chest, and on his arms.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the constable knew there was virtually no chance this
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  Speaker 1: man was still alive, but he obviously had to be sure,
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  Speaker 1: so he stepped into the bathroom. He crouched down next
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  Speaker 1: to the body, and he felt for a pulse, but
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't one.
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  Speaker 2: The body was still warm, though.
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  Speaker 1: So the constable pulled out his radio and he called
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  Speaker 1: it in, and he also asked for instructions because Kappus
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  Speaker 1: Casing did not see a lot of homicides, and the
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  Speaker 1: constable literally didn't know what he was supposed to do next.
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  Speaker 1: on January twelfth, nineteen eighty eight, Detective Wayne Furshett of
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  Speaker 1: the Ontario Provincial Police stepped off a plane at an
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  Speaker 1: airstrip near Capus, Casing, where he'd just been made lead
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  Speaker 1: detective on a murder case. This town was so small
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  Speaker 1: that the local police didn't have anyone who'd worked a
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  Speaker 1: homicide before, so Furshett had been flown in from Toronto
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  Speaker 1: to run this investigation because he did have homicide experience.
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  Speaker 1: He'd been briefed on the flight and already had a
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  Speaker 1: good sense of the case. So Wilfred Gudrou the victim
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  Speaker 1: was a sixty two year old mechanic, and he had
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  Speaker 1: been stabbed to death in his bathroom that morning and
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  Speaker 1: right afterwards. Nab had apparently seen this short stocky Caucasian
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  Speaker 1: man in his mid thirties walk out of Wilfrid's house
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  Speaker 1: and drive.
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  Speaker 2: Away in a blue pickup truck.
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  Speaker 1: So, assuming that man that was seen leaving the house
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  Speaker 1: was the killer, it seemed like he already had a
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  Speaker 1: pretty big head start here because he had a decent
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  Speaker 1: description of the number one suspect potentially the killer.
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  Speaker 2: He was also confident this had not.
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  Speaker 1: Been part of a robbery or just some random attack,
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  Speaker 1: because the first responders hadn't found any signs of a
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  Speaker 1: break in or robbery, and the house had been basically
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  Speaker 1: spotless aside from the bathroom, where pretty clearly the murder
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  Speaker 1: had taken place. So Forschett, you know, he couldn't possibly
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  Speaker 1: know if that guy who left the house, if that
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  Speaker 1: really was.
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  Speaker 2: The killer or not.
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  Speaker 1: However, there was one person he could turn to right
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  Speaker 1: now who could really help him figure out if this
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  Speaker 1: person could have been involved, because she'd actually been inside
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  Speaker 1: the house when Wilfrid was being murdered, and so very
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  Speaker 1: likely at least or maybe even knew that man that.
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  Speaker 2: Was seen exiting the house.
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  Speaker 1: Later that afternoon, Fochett sat in an interview room at
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  Speaker 1: the local police station, listening to Wilfred's girlfriend a Got
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  Speaker 1: walk him through her morning. Now, according to a God,
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  Speaker 1: she hadn't actually seen the attack. She hadn't seen the
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  Speaker 1: potential killer, like none of it, because when she heard
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  Speaker 1: this commotion in the house, she had just sort of
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  Speaker 1: instinctively jumped into a closet and hid, and she had
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  Speaker 1: stayed there until she heard the sound of whoever this
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  Speaker 1: was leaving and driving off. Now, Forchett was not totally
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  Speaker 1: alarmed by this story. I mean, people get scared and
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  Speaker 1: they protect themselves. But what did stand out to Forshett
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  Speaker 1: as a God told him this story was that she
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  Speaker 1: didn't cry once the whole time she was talking. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: she came off as almost weirdly calm. Now, for chet
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  Speaker 1: knew from experience this could definitely just be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a product of shock, but it also could be that
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  Speaker 1: she just wasn't that upset. So at some point for
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  Speaker 1: asked a Got about her relationship with Wilfrid, and she
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  Speaker 1: told him that by and large they'd been really happy together.
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  Speaker 1: They'd hardly ever argued, and when they did, it was
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  Speaker 1: just about Wilfrid being cheap.
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  Speaker 2: Because, as a Got.
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  Speaker 1: Went on to explain, Wilfrid would go to crazy lengths
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  Speaker 1: to save money, even just a few cents, even though
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  Speaker 1: he had plenty of money saved up. She said, Wilfred
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  Speaker 1: would even watch the TV with the lights off just
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  Speaker 1: to save money on electricity. He also insisted on reusing
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  Speaker 1: bathwater for the same reason, and then when he and
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  Speaker 1: got traveled, he made them sleep in the car rather
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  Speaker 1: than paying for a hotel. So for Chet, you know,
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  Speaker 1: after listening to this, he felt like he was getting
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  Speaker 1: a picture of a guy in Wilfrid who had strong
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  Speaker 1: opinions and really not a lot of flexibility. It did
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  Speaker 1: make for Schett wonder if maybe because of this personality
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  Speaker 1: type that he appeared to have, Wilfred, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: entirely possible he could have made some enemies along the way.
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  Speaker 1: And when he asked a God about that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when he asked her, you know, did Wilfrid have any enemies?
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  Speaker 1: Forchett immediately saw a Got's expression change. She went from
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  Speaker 1: being sort of weirdly calm to looking almost apprehensive, and
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  Speaker 1: she looked down at the table for a moment and
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  Speaker 1: then back up it for Chet, and then she just said,
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  Speaker 1: you know that she she didn't want to point fingers here,
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  Speaker 1: but there was some history that he needed to know.
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  Speaker 1: She told for Chett that before Wilfred was dating her
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  Speaker 1: a Got, Wilfred had actually been married for twenty years
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  Speaker 1: to Agot's own sister, Rachel Burshu. A Got said that
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  Speaker 1: she and Wilfred had had an affair and when her
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  Speaker 1: sister Rachel found out about it, it became a huge
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  Speaker 1: scandal that really tore the whole family apart. Rachel had
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  Speaker 1: divorced Wilfrid pretty much right away, and she was still
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  Speaker 1: very angry about it even now twelve years later. Like
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  Speaker 1: this was a deep, deep cut, and according to a Got,
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  Speaker 1: Wilfrid's son Paul had taken the whole thing really hard too,
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  Speaker 1: and he'd barely spoken to Wilfrid since the divorce until recently.
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  Speaker 1: This past Christmas. A God said Paul had come to
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  Speaker 1: Capus Casing.
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  Speaker 2: For a visit.
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  Speaker 1: It had been a pretty awkward couple of days, but
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  Speaker 1: she said that Paul and Wilfrid had actually really bonded
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  Speaker 1: in the end, and Paul seemed to have basically forgiven
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  Speaker 1: his father. Fourchett wrote all this down, but he wondered
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  Speaker 1: how sincere Paul's forgiveness really was. It was definitely suspicious timing.
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  Speaker 1: And on top of that, Paul was also in his
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  Speaker 1: early thirties, which was the exact age range as the
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  Speaker 1: suspected killer that guy who walked out of the house
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  Speaker 1: that was seen by the neighbor. And so now for
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  Speaker 1: Schett really wanted to speak to Paul and also Wilfrid's
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  Speaker 1: ex wife Rachel as soon as possible. But just as
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  Speaker 1: he was wrapping up the interview with a got an
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  Speaker 1: officer poked their head into the room and said they
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  Speaker 1: had just found something that Forchett needed to see right away.
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  Speaker 2: A half hour later, Fschet.
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  Speaker 1: Stood by the side of the road just a few
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  Speaker 1: miles from Wilfrid's house, looking down at a pair of
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  Speaker 1: bloody winter boots lying in the snow, and then behind
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  Speaker 1: for Shet a little ways up the road was a
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  Speaker 1: team of police officers who were working over this blue
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  Speaker 1: pickup truck that they had found abandoned behind a paper mill.
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  Speaker 1: These two clues, the boots and the truck, were actually
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  Speaker 1: just the latest in a trail of breadcrumbs that the
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  Speaker 1: killer had apparently left behind, because all day long, various
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  Speaker 1: reports had been coming in about this mysterious man who
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  Speaker 1: matched the killer's description.
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  Speaker 2: Around eight thirty am that.
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  Speaker 1: Morning, so about an hour after the murder, this mystery
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  Speaker 1: man had been spotted in downtown capus Casing wearing a
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  Speaker 1: rain poncho, ripped pants and no coat. He'd gone to
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  Speaker 1: a few different stores buying boots, a jacket, and ski pants,
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  Speaker 1: and he paid for everything in cash. Then, around noon,
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  Speaker 1: a police roadblock had stopped a taxi on its way
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  Speaker 1: out of town. The taxis passenger, who was a short,
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  Speaker 1: stocky man apparently in his thirties, had seemed really jumpy,
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  Speaker 1: so the officers had checked his ID and recorded his
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  Speaker 1: name before letting him through. Just then, Forschet's radio crackled
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  Speaker 1: and he answered it, and dispatch told him that they
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: had just finished running the plates on that abandoned blue
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: pickup truck. Then they had traced it to a man
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: from Timmins, which is a town about two hours south.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: The man's name was Richard Bouchet. It just so happened
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: that that was the same name as the jumpy taxi
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: passenger who'd been stopped by the police roadblock. Two days later,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: on January fourteenth, nineteen eighty eight, Detective Forchett sat at
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: a desk in the Kappus Casing police station reading the
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: file on Richard Bouchet, who is currently on the run
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: from police as the number one suspect in the murder
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: of Wilfred Gudrow, and Richard's file only made for Schett
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: feel more certain that he was his guy. First of all,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Richard was a Caucasian thirty three year old man sort
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: of fit the physical description, and he was also a
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: cocaine dealer with a side hustle of providing strippers to
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: local bars and hotels, and also he'd previously been arrested
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: for drug trafficking. However, there was one glaring problem, and
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: that was that so far, for Schett just could not
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: find any connection between.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Richard and Wilfred.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Like if Richard was the killer, why, how Like how
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: in the world could these two guys be connected. The
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: two men lived hours away from each other, they didn't
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: seem to share any friends or business connections or really
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: any mutual people at all. So to Foreshet it sort
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: of left two possibilities. Either they were linked by someone
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: or something that maybe Wilfrid had kept secret, or someone
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: else had hired Richard to kill Wilfrid. So now, while
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the local police focused on just finding Richard, for Chett
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: was trying to figure out who in Wilfrid's circle might
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: have wanted wilfrid debt. By this point, for Schett had
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: already questioned Wilfrid's ex wife, Rachel, and she definitely did
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: seem very bitter about the divorce, but she said that
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: she actually really didn't keep up much with Wilfrid these days,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and that she couldn't even begin to guess who might
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: have killed him, because, according to her, Wilfrid was like
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the most boring man on earth and she had no
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: idea who would want to do this to him. For
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Schett thought this was actually kind of an odd thing
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: to say about your ex husband who slept with your sister. However,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Rachel was not the only person on Forshett's list that
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: had a grudge against Wilfrid, because Wilfrid's adult son Paul
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: had been so mad at Wilfrid he'd basically barely spoken
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: to his father in the past decade except for just
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: this past Christmas, when Paul had visited Wilfrid and stayed
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: at his house, and that visit had taken place just
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: three weeks before Wilfrid was murdered, which struck for Schett
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: as awfully convenient timing for Paul to have had this
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: sudden change of heart, and Paul's visit would have given
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Paul the chance to lo in the layout of Wilfrid's house.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: He would have seen Wilfrid's routine, how he moved around
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: and when Wilfrid was alone, all information a killer would
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: need to know before attempting to kill someone. Now, Paul
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: did not live in the area, so Fourchett had actually
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: scheduled a call with him for that afternoon to talk
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: all this through. And when Fourchett glanced at his watch,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: he actually saw it was time dope. He picked up
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the phone and he dialed Paul's number. When Paul answered
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: right away, Foschett noticed that his voice was a little
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: bit shaky and also pretty much immediately Paul said, you know,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: unprompted that he very likely didn't have anything useful to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: say because he hadn't been close to his dad in years.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: So Forchett just asked him about his recent visit to
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: see his dad this past Christmas, and Paul would confirm that, yes,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: that visit had happened, But he said that despite it
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: being a good visit, you know, for the two of them,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: he claimed he couldn't really remember anything that they'd even
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: talked about. It was all just kind of a blur.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: For Sett did not believe this for a second. I mean, theoretically,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: this was like a meeting for the ages. This is
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: a father and son who've been estranged for over a
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: decade and they're having this life changing meeting where they're
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: gonna reconcile. And apparently they did and you don't remember
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: what you spoke about. He just got the feeling that
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Paul was trying to say as little as possible here,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: like he was afraid that sharing too much might get
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: him in trouble. For Schett continued to question Paul for
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: a bit longer. He asked him about his memory of
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: his father's affair and of his knowledge.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Of his father's finances.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Now, for Schett knew from speaking to a God that Wilfred,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: despite being incredibly cheap, did have apparently quite.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: A bit of money saved up.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: But for Schett wanted to know if Paul knew about it,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: because if Paul thought his dad had cash that theoretically
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: could go to him in the form of an inheritance.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Well that was a reason to make amends after all
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: these years, or maybe even reason to commit murder. But
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Paul said he actually just figured his dad was broke
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: and always had been, because it just sort of explained
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: why he was so cheap, because he didn't have much money.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: That's the least what Paul thought, and so he said
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: he didn't expect his dad to leave him anything. This
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: answer made for Sheett wish they were doing this interview
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: in person because over the phone, Forshett couldn't watch Paul's
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: body language as he talked about his father's money, so
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: he couldn't tell if maybe Paul was lying when he
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: said he didn't know that his dad had money, but
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: either way, Paul clearly was not giving him anything particularly
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: useful at this point, and so now Forchhett was starting
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: to think that the only person who could tell him
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: if Richard had killed Wilfred and why was Richard himself.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: The police just had defined him first. Two days later,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: on the night of January sixteenth, nineteen eighty eight, Detective
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Forchett climbed out of his car in front of the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Timmins Police Station and hurried up the steps into the building.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: After four long days in northern Ontario, he was tired
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: of the extreme cold and was just ready.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: To go home.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: But this murder case just kept getting more complicated. Until recently,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Furschett had pretty firmly believed that his primary suspect, Richard Bouche,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: had been hired to murder Wilfrid Gudreau. Wilfrid's ex wife
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Rachel and his adult son Paul were the top suspects
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, people who might have hired
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: a hitman, since they both had really good reasons to
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: hate Wilfrid. And then also Wilfrid's girlfriend, a Got had
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: been so calm in her interview, so she was also
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: in the.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: List as well, and she was also present at the
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: time of the murder.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: But then Fourchett had gotten access to Wilfrid's bank statements.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: And they'd made him reconsider everything.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Wilfrid did have a lot of money saved up, that
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: was true, just like how God had said, but his
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: bank account had been steadily draining over the past few months.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: His bank statements showed big withdrawals spaced out and regular intervals,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: and Furshett had no idea where the money had gone,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: which made him wonder if Wilfrid had been mixed up
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: in something like drugs, or sex workers or gambling. Any
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: one of those could explain the random chunks of money
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: coming out of his account. But more than that, they
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: could theoretically explain Wilfrid's hidden connection to Richard, that sort
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: of secret connection that maybe they had. And if those
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: two did know each other, then maybe no one had
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: hired Richard after all. Maybe Richard had killed Wilfrid over
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: something that was just between the two of them, like
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: an unpaid loan or a deal that went bad. But
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: now Foshet actually had a chance to find out himself,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: because that afternoon, the Timmins police had finally tracked Richard
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: down and arrested him, and Forshett had made the two
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: hour drive from Kapas Casing to Timmins so we could
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: interviewed Richard himself. Once inside, Fourchett spoke to the officer
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: at the station's front desk, and then quickly they had
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: someone take for Schet back to Richard's holding cell, and
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: when they got there, Fourchett found Richard inside the cell,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: slumped over on the bench, looking exhausted and maybe strung out.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: His clothes were really dirty, he smelled terrible, and.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: His eyes were completely bloodshot.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Fourchett entered the cell and sat down across from him,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and as aggressively as he could, started laying out the facts.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: He told Richard that on the morning of the murder,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: like right after it happened, Wilfrid's neighbor had seen Richard
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: leaving the crime scene and they would be able to pick.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Him out of a lineup for sure.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: This neighbor also saw Richard's blue pickup truck, which had
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: been found abandoned near a pair of bloody boots that
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: were in Richard's size. Forchett's that the lab was still
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: testing the blood, but he was fairly confident that it
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: was going to come back as Wilfrid's.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Forchhett told Richard.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: That with all this evidence, there really was not a
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: jury anywhere in Canada that wouldn't convict him, so if
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Richard wanted any chance of a lighter sentence, he had
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: to come clean right now. But Richard didn't seem to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: care at all about Forchett's threats. He just kind of
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: laid there, glaring at the floor and refusing to say
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: a word. A few days later, Fourchett was back at
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the Kapus Casing police station, walking a constable through a
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: script that he had written out. Now, Forchett still didn't
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: actually know for sure if Richard really was the killer,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: but assuming he was, Forshett didn't know why he didn't.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: He still was sort of torn on the issue, like
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: did Richard Bouchet kill him for personal reasons or was
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Richard hired by somebody else. However, despite being torn between
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: these two ideas, Forchett had sort of landed on a
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: theory and a way to test it too. His plan
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: was actually really simple. The constable that he was talking
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: to right now was going to call the person for
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Schet suspected, and the constable was going to try to
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: trick them into incriminating themselves. Now, for Shet couldn't do
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: this himself because the suspect would definitely recognize his voice
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and so this wouldn't work that way. So once the
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: constable was all prepped for, Schett picked up the phone,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: dialed the number, and then handed the phone to the constable,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: and when the suspect answered, the constable just launched into
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the script that Forshett had given them. He told the
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: suspect he was a concerned friend, but he couldn't share
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: his name. He had to be anonymous, and he said
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: he was only calling for one reason. He knew what
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the suspect had done. What he wanted was just to
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: hear exactly what the suspect had told the police.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: That was it, just to help them.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: The line went quiet for a second and everybody just
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: kind of held their breath as they waited to see
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: what happened. But finally the suspects spoke and they said
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: they hadn't told the police anything and that they had
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: enough money to make sure nobody else did either. And
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: when Frischet heard that comment about having enough money here
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: he knew his theory had been right, because there was
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a mastermind, somebody behind Wilfrid's murder and they had just
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: given themselves away. Based on witness testimony and recorded evidence,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: this is what police believe happened to.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Wilfrid Goodreau.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: On the afternoon of September eighteenth, nineteen eighty seven, So
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: this is four months before Wilfrid was killed. The mastermind
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: behind Wilfrid's murder, the eventual Mastermind sat in a diner
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: in Timmins waiting for someone to arrive. They knew that
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: meeting with this person was going to be a very
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: big risk, but they were tired of feeling angry and
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: they wanted Wilfrid to pay. Eventually, the Mastermind saw a
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: man in his thirties and to the restaurant, and after
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: they made eye contact, this man walked over and slid
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: into the booth across from the Mastermind, and then over lunch,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the two of them talked through all the details of
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the Mastermind's plan. Four months later, on the morning of
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: January twelfth, nineteen eighty eight, basically in the middle of
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the night, the Mastermind was laying awake in bed, literally
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: shaking with nervous anticipation. Their heart was racing because this
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: was it. Tonight was the night their plan was going
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: to be carried out, which meant they were finally going
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: to get the money they deserved.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Out of Wilfrid.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: And so the Mastermind, as they were laying there, eventually
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: noticed what time it was and knew at any moment it.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Was about to start.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: And sure enough, just then they heard the sound of
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: somebody walking in through the door that led into their house.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Commas can be to mind simply climbed out of bed,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: walked into a bedroom closet, and closed the door. And
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: that's because the mastermind was Wilfrid's own girlfriend, a Got Brashow.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: She gotten fed up with how cheap Wilfrid was, and
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: she wanted his money all to herself, and in fact,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: she'd already started taking it before he was dead. For
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: months before the murder, she had been the one moving
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: money from Wilfrid's account to her own without him ever noticing.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Just sort of.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Ironic for a guy that was so focused on protecting
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: his money. Detective Brishett had honed in on a God
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: when he learned about the missing money and realized that
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: a Got would have had access to Wilfrid's bank accounts.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: A Got had hired Richard to be her hit man,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: and she had been introduced to him by her niece,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: who happened to own one of the bars that Richard
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: provided exotic dancers to, and a Got actually paid Richard
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the money from Wilfrid's own savings, so Wilfrid basically paid
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: for his own murder I got for show and Richard
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Bouchet were both charged with first degree murder. However, Richard
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: would take his own life before the trial. As for
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: a Goot, she was convicted and she spent twenty years
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: in prison before being released on parole in two thousand
• 31:14
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• 31:25
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• 31:27
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• 31:35
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