Canadian CrimeCast: Coast to Coast True Crime

Imagine waking up at two in the morning to the sound of fists pounding on your front door. You stumble out of bed, pull back the curtain — and the entire sky is orange. Sixty feet of flame, roaring out of your barn, so close you can feel the heat through the glass.That's what happened to Marilyn and Earl Snedden on the night of July 3rd, 2002. A pair of truck drivers had spotted the glow from the highway and raced to their door.And that was only the beginning.Over the next eleven weeks, sixteen fires would burn across the farm country surrounding Almonte, Ontario — a quiet community of about forty-two hundred people, roughly fifty kilometres west of Ottawa. Known, if it was known for anything, as the birthplace of James Naismith, the man who invented basketball.The fires caused over a million dollars in damage. They killed livestock. They exhausted a volunteer fire department already running on fumes. And they terrorized an entire community of farmers who began sleeping in their overalls with shotguns by the bed.Residents started calling the arsonist "The Ghost," because no one could see him. No one could catch him. He struck at will — evening, night, sometimes broad daylight — and vanished.When the truth finally came out, it was worse than anyone had imagined. Because the Ghost wasn't a stranger. He was one of the most respected men in town. A man who had spent thirty years of his life fighting fires.This is the story of Gilmour "Gib" Drummond. And this is the summer he burned it all down.Send us Fan Mailwww.canadiancrimecast.com

It's just after midnight on March 19th, 1998. Two Brink's guards push through the south entrance of Calgary's North Hill Shopping Centre, bags heavy with cash — $385,000 bound for the CIBC branch inside.They don't know it yet, but two men are already waiting for them inside the darkened bank. Men dressed in fake security uniforms. Men armed with AK-47 assault rifles, military-grade tear gas, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.What happens next will shatter the silence of that empty mall — more than eighty-eight shots fired in a point-blank gunfight — and launch an investigation that would stretch from Calgary to Ottawa, from the barracks of Canada's elite military units to the docks of Cherbourg, France, and deep into the violent world of South African white supremacists.This is the story of a decorated soldier, a self-styled spy, and the most spectacular armoured car robbery attempt in Canadian history.Send us Fan Mailwww.canadiancrimecast.com

It was a warm Wednesday evening in August. The kind of evening that makes people on Prince Edward Island linger outside a little longer, tending their gardens, watching the light settle over the fields, and itting on porches as the day fades into dusk.The kind of evening where the doors stay unlocked.In a brown bungalow on a hill along St. Mary’s Road, about ten kilometres east of the town of Montague, a sixty-eight-year-old man named Brent McGuigan was sitting in his rocking chair in the kitchen. He was talking with his son, Brendon, who was thirty-nine. Brent’s wife, Marie, was in the next room. And down the road, Brendon’s wife, Kim, was home with their three children, waiting for him to come back and make popcorn.It was August 20th, 2014. A little after nine o’clock in the evening.Neither Brent nor Brendon McGuigan would survive the next few minutes. I’m your host Ryan Dell. This is Canadian CrimeCast: Coast to Coast True Crime. Today’s story takes us to rural Prince Edward Island — Canada’s smallest province — where a forty-four-year-old grudge, a lifetime of obsession, and a nine-month sentence from 1970 all converged into one of the most shocking acts of violence the Island has ever seen.This is the story of Brent and Brendon McGuigan.Send us Fan Mailwww.canadiancrimecast.com

It was a warm Saturday in May. The kind of afternoon that feels like summer, even though summer hasn't officially arrived yet. The kind of afternoon that makes a twelve-year-old girl feel safe pedalling her bicycle along a familiar highway, heading home.Her name was Monica Jack. And on May 6th, 1978, she left Merritt, British Columbia, and began riding north on Highway 5A — a two-lane road that hugs the eastern shore of Nicola Lake, a long, blue body of water nestled in the hills of the B.C. Interior, about three hours east of Vancouver.She never made it home.  She fell victim to a serial rapist and murderer who had a penchant for young girls.I'm your host Ryan Dell. This is Canadian CrimeCast: Coast to Coast true CrimeToday's story spans forty years, two provinces, a seventeen-year wait for remains to be found, and one of the most elaborate undercover police operations in Canadian history.This is the story of Monica Jack.  Send us Fan Mailwww.canadiancrimecast.com

It's 3:13 in the afternoon on March 11, 2022.  A security camera on Victoria Street in downtown Kamloops, British Columbia captures a man walking along the sidewalk. He's wearing a green hooded jacket, a jade-coloured toque, and heavy hiking boots. Slung over one shoulder is a brown leather satchel. In his right hand, a black cloth shopping bag. He is not rushing. His pace is described later, by the judge who reviewed the footage, as a stroll. He is early for his appointment with his friend and lawyer and taking his time.He looks down at the watch on his left wrist.He walks out of the camera's frame.That is the last image ever captured of Mohd Abdullah alive.What happened next, in a fire-damaged law office on Victoria Street, was not a sudden argument that got out of hand. It was not a crime of passion. It was not an accident.It was a plan. Written on a cue card. With tools bought from a Home Depot. And the with the help of two unsuspecting people.I'm Ryan, and this is Canadian CrimeCast — Coast to Coast True Crime. This is one of the most meticulously documented murder cases in recent British Columbia history, and justice got every detail right.  This is the murder of Mohd Abdullah.Send us Fan Mailwww.canadiancrimecast.com