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The Dark Between Tides

by The Dark Between Tides

A familiar shore. An unsettling story. Join Mara and Julian for gripping true crime from Nova Scotia and the Maritime provinces, alongside the eerie legends that cling to this coast. Mara guides the story; Julian brings the questions, surprising connections, and occasional wit. Together they follow the clues, untangle the court cases, and remember the people whose lives matter beyond the headlines. From historic piracy to modern investigations, every episode takes the story one turn at a time.Contact: [email protected]

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Episodes

  1. Cassidy Bernard: The Silence That Stopped the Causeway

    A mother cannot reach her daughter. Days later, Cassidy Bernard is found dead at home in Cape Breton, her infant twins alive beside her. Her family’s demand for answers reaches the Canso Causeway—and the investigation eventually leads into a criminal organization that does not exist. Mara follows...

  2. Desmond: A Warning in Separate Files

    Aaliyah Desmond arranges a ride to tutoring. That ordinary plan brings the stakes of this story home. Mara and Julian remember Shanna, Brenda, and Aaliyah, then follow medical history, family concerns, and firearms records that different people held apart. The inquiry’s findings reveal why a...

  3. Halifax, Valentine's Day: The Plot That Was Stopped

    A one-way flight to Halifax and an anonymous warning move toward the same deadline: Valentine’s Day 2015. Mara and Julian follow the online conspiracy, the response in Timberlea, and arrests at the airport that interrupt a planned attack on the Halifax Shopping Centre. Sometimes the most...

  4. Loretta Saunders: The Journey Without Her

    Loretta Saunders goes to collect rent. Days later, her car and possessions turn up in Ontario without her. Mara and Julian follow the route back toward the Maritimes, the guilty pleas, and thirty-five pages found during a jail-cell search. They remember the Inuk student close to graduation…

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  5. Taylor Samson: The Last Recorded Arrival

    Taylor Samson takes a short walk to a Halifax apartment. An account says he never arrived. Messages and surveillance tell a different story. Mara and Julian follow the investigation, a defence investigator’s extraordinary conduct, an overturned first conviction, and a second trial. The later...

  6. Pat Stay: Five Seconds, Two Case Files

    Five seconds in a Halifax nightclub. Years of court proceedings. Mara and Julian remember Dartmouth battle rapper Pat Stay, follow the murder conviction and life sentence, and unpack the separate Tyler Keizer case whose conviction was overturned in June 2026. Two cases, different evidence,...

  7. Portapique: The Cruiser That Wasn’t Police

    What happens when danger looks exactly like help? Mara and Julian follow the 2020 Nova Scotia mass casualty through two timelines: the perpetrator’s movements and the warning about his replica police cruiser. Names, survival, missed information, and the continuing questions after the inquiry make...

  8. The Ship That Burned Twice

    A fast privateer, a British pursuit, and an explosion before the boarding boats can reach her. Then the Young Teazer begins to burn again in the stories told around Mahone Bay. Mara and Julian follow the wartime disaster, the wreckage brought ashore, and the eerie legend that still changes how…

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  9. The Trunk That Came Back Alone

    Maggie Vail and her little daughter Ella May disappear. Their trunk comes back alone. Mara and Julian follow the clothes, witnesses, aliases, and disputed experiments that helped investigators reconstruct a journey near Saint John. Behind a respectable appearance lies a devastating crime—and a...

  10. The Captain Who Would Not Drown

    A captain jumps into the Atlantic with a wooden hatch. Behind him, two sailors have been killed and his ship has been taken. Mara and Julian follow John Stairs’s extraordinary survival, an escape complicated by insurance and naval service, and a courtroom ending that separates Edward Jordan’s…

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  11. Introducing The Dark Between Tides

    A familiar shore. An unsettling story. Meet Mara and Julian, your co-hosts for true crime from Nova Scotia and the Maritime provinces, alongside the eerie legends that cling to this coast. From a captain surviving piracy to modern investigations and the warning that stops a planned attack, each...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A familiar shore. An unsettling story. Join Mara and Julian for gripping true crime from Nova Scotia and the Maritime provinces, alongside the eerie legends that cling to this coast. Mara guides the story; Julian brings the questions, surprising connections, and occasional wit. Together they follow the clues, untangle the court cases, and remember the people whose lives matter beyond the headlines. From historic piracy to modern investigations, every episode takes the story one turn at a time.Contact: [email protected]

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A familiar shore. An unsettling story. Join Mara and Julian for gripping true crime from Nova Scotia and the Maritime provinces, alongside the eerie legends that cling to this coast. Mara guides the story; Julian brings the questions, surprising connections, and occasional wit. Together they follow...

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