(Are you listening, Stephen Harper?) On February 13, 2014, Loretta Saunders, a pregnant 26-year old Inuk woman, went missing. Sadly, on February 26, her body was found in a wooded median along a New Brunswick highway. Police have not revealed how Loretta was killed, only that it’s a part of the evidence in the first-degree […]
“The ‘uncanny’ … arouses dread and horror;” – Sigmund Freud Occasionally, there are cases so eerie that they give us chills and provoke feelings of the uncanny. In the mysterious case of Elisa Lam, a conundrum of the strange and familiar makes us believe something sinister. Sigmund Freud stated that we see the effect of the […]
“Every breath you take And every move you make Every bond you break, every step you take I’ll be watching you” – The Police Sting’s breathy tribute to unrequited love or ‘stalking’ as we know it today. Sting wrote the song in 1983 when he was divorcing his wife. It won ‘Song of the Year’, […]
Highly prolific during her short life, Cuban artist, Ana Mendieta left behind an extraordinary body of work including her beautiful Siluetas – a series of earth-body sculptures where she imprinted or outlined her silhouette into or onto the natural elements. Hauntingly foreboding in their gesture, these works recall sites of mourning and the tracings of a […]
-December 24, 2013 It was Christmas Eve. I was staying with my friends, Doug, Suzanne and their son Aidan, in a quiet neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta. The house, nestled in the hills of Bridgeland, boasts panoramic views of the Rocky Mountains and downtown skyline. As we celebrated into the night, inside the home of another […]
One starry winter night, you stumble down the walk, drunk, in a city on the Saskatchewan prairies. The cops pick you up; drive you to the edge of town; and dump you off. Rubber tires recede, crunching on bitter snow. The wind howls, stalking and taunting its prey. You are miles from anywhere with no […]
“…[C]riminals are an exception among civilised people and women are the exception among criminals… As a double exception, then, the criminal woman is a monster.” – Cesare Lomroso. Italian Criminologist, 1893 The public’s fascination with women who murder is palpable, if not dangerously obscene. Apart from its statistical rarity, female killers (or those accused) fascinate us […]
What sort of monster wears a clown suit and keeps the bodies of teenage boys in the crawl space of his home? Throughout history, humans have grappled with the question of what drives a person to acts of unspeakable evil. We want to know, because despite their evil acts, serial killers hide amongst us in […]
In a sensationalist plot where consumerism meets science fiction meets true crime, Jodi Arias emerges as the perfect fembot (or flesh dress) who obediently shaved her parts, donned superhero briefs and bent over tirelessly for her man. Their perverse game met a brutal end when Arias murdered lover Travis Alexander. As Arias awaits sentencing, her […]
“When pigs fly, wrongful convictions will be dust in the wind.” Too cynical? Perhaps. The story I’m about to tell you will shock some, but not those who follow wrongful convictions. Hopefully, it will shed some light on the precarious dance between a media who wants “its dirt” and law enforcement who wants “its perp.” […]
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