The Dark Divide

A true-crime podcast that takes a seat, dangles its legs over the edge and stares into the abyss.

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7 hours ago

Mary Kreiser has been missing since October 1987, when she failed to show up to her daughter's house for Thanksgiving dinner. After being reported to the RCMP, further investigation would discover that the 49-year-old mother of five was last seen at a Petro Canada gas station over an hour away from her home the previous month. A proud member of Bigstone Cree Nation, it was completely unlike her to be out of touch and even though the RCMP has never officially named a suspect in the case, her family has a strong feeling that they know exactly who was involved in Mary's disappearance.
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7 days ago

When 19-year-old Phyllis Jepleting of Nakuru, Kenya failed to get in touch with family during Christmas break while away at university, they immediately knew something was wrong. As authorities worked out a timeline for her last known whereabouts, suspicion would fall upon her boyfriend, Ezra, who had been the last person to see Phyllis alive. 
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Friday Dec 06, 2024

48-year-old Trina Hunt would seemingly vanish from her Port Moody home on January 18th, 2021. When her husband Iian returned home from work that day, he reported the suspicious disappearance. For weeks, police rescue crews and hundreds of volunteers would search the area for the missing woman, with no sight or sign of her. Finally, the investigation would switch to a homicide case when her body was discovered in Hope, two months later. Trina's murderer still has not been brought to justice, but the details of her last known whereabouts and the strange story that Iian Hunt told authorities would have the court of public opinion already sure of who was guilty. 
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Friday Nov 22, 2024

Tim Bliefnick made headlines back home in Quincy, Illinois after sharing a funny answer during an appearance on Family Feud in 2020. But this wouldn't be the last time that his name and face would be on national television. Just two years later, Rebecca and Tim Bliefnick would file for divorce. By 2023, Becky Bliefneck would be murdered and Tim would become the main suspect in the case. The once innocent game show moment would become evidence in the court of public opinion, causing everyone to wonder if there was more truth to this harmless joke that now seemed haunting.
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Thursday Oct 31, 2024

It was August 2006 when Leicester police were called to the home of Jason Moore after a 999 call reported there had been a brutal stabbing. Upon arrival, they discovered a scene reminiscent of something straight out of horror film: two men covered in blood, with one of them wearing a five-bladed glove just like the fictional antagonist, Freddy Krueger. The community would be held in suspension at such a horrifying example of imitation. How much blame does art carry when it comes to imitation in life, and when does obsession become insanity? 
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Wednesday Oct 30, 2024

In December 2006, Kelly Morrisseau of Sagkeeng First Nation was a pregnant mother of three when a passerby discovered her near death in Gatineau Park. It had been 15 years since the Morrisseau family experienced a similar tragedy, when her aunt Kelly had been kidnapped and murdered. Through the cruelty of a nightmare they had all been through before, leads and details would surface, but once again, any sense of closure or justice quickly slipped through their fingers. How could this be happening again?
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Friday Oct 25, 2024

It was the middle of July 1991 when nineteen-year-old Glenda Morrisseau of Sagkeeng First Nation went missing right from her own doorstep. Weeks would go by with no sign of her, until her body was discovered in a scrapyard near her home, displaying a ruthless scene of brutality and violence. After 33 years, the Morrisseau family still holds tight to the hope that Glenda's killer will be found and justice will finally be served. 
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Monday Sep 30, 2024

The morning of July 12, 1976 started out the same as any other easygoing summer day at California State Fullerton. The sunrise had barely finished when gunshots rang out, piercing the quiet of the campus library. Within five minutes, the worst mass murder in Orange County would be committed by Edward Charles Allaway. Skeptics would doubt his claims of delusional vengeance, leading to vital conversations of sanity and justice. Why had Edward planned to kill so many people he barely knew, and how much does the why even matter?
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Monday Apr 15, 2024

When 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd failed to show up for work, it immediately set off alarm bells for everyone who knew how responsible and reliable she was. Upon further inspection, two sets of footprints in the snow would show Jessica's shoes walking away from her home towards the property line, vanishing once met with tire tracks. Someone had taken her. And this was yet another event on a growing list of break-ins, burglaries and even assault in small Ontario towns once untouched by major crime. What was first disregarded as some deranged creep on the loose had escalated to kidnapping and possibly even murder. But the last thing the authorities expected was for their investigation to lead them right to the Royal Canadian Air Force, and specifically, Colonel David Russell Williams. Could this really be their guy? How was it possible that a decorated pilot and respected commander was one of the most dangerous and deadly men Canada has ever seen?
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All music is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution.Measured Paces by Kevin MacLeod via incompetech.comThere Are Many Different Kinds of Love and Cylinder Four by Chris Zabriskie via chriszabriskie.com
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*A special thanks to Camouflaged Killer by David A. Gibb, Maclean's Magazine, Explorations in Forensic Psychology by Margo C. Watt, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Way of Ninja, The Peterborough Examiner & The Toronto Star for information that allowed this episode to be possible. 
 
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Blind Bet - Philip Markoff

Friday Dec 01, 2023

Friday Dec 01, 2023

Philip Markoff appeared to have it all: a shiny academic record, a beautiful fiancé and a successful medical career in the making. But beneath the exterior of his perfect life was a hidden thirst for power, a greedy sense of entitlement and a financial debt that left him feeling desperate. Using Craigslist to meet women and steal his way back to freedom, Philip would eventually end up with blood on his hands. And while the Boston Homicide Unit was solving the murder of Julissa Brisman as fast as technology could go, Philip was already looking for his next victim with no plans to stop. Would they figure out who this young man on the security footage was in time, before he killed again? 
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All music is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution.Measured Paces by Kevin MacLeod via incompetech.comThere Are Many Different Kinds of Love, Cylinder Four & Two by Chris Zabriskie via chriszabriskie.com
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*A special thanks to The Patriot Ledger, Boston Herald, 48 Hours: Classified for Murder, Vanity Fair: Killer@Craigslist, Murder Made Me Famous S3E1 & Associated Press for information that allowed this episode to be possible.
 
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