True Crime Real Time

True Crime Real Time

This show explores some of the more difficult to solve cases in the Southern Ontario (Canada) area, which remain unresolved to this day. Join your host as she explores the community and facts surrounding each case. Each case features a unique site visit description and various interviews with either friends, family members, law enforcement or specialists. Follow us on Instagram @truecrime_realtime_podcast. Tips on any of the cases can be emailed to: truecrimerealtimepodcast@gmail.com

Episodes

December 24, 2022 29 mins
Monday, December 22, 1975, was a busy day in Dartmouth, a small eastern Canadian city bordering the Atlantic Ocean. The weather was getting colder, and the nights were at their longest. It had snowed a bit that day, but it was relatively mild for the time of year. Cpl. Eric Spicer had a shift starting at midnight on the 23rd, but there were lots to do before. He was reprising his role as Santa Claus at the annual police club's Chil...
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A tragic, violent event took the life of a gregarious mom of 6 one early fall morning almost 50 years ago in the small quaint city of Brantford. No arrests or charges were ever made for her murder. Who could have killed this fun and hardworking woman? This is episode 45, Dina Belanco's story.

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June 13, 2022 73 mins
It was the wee hours of the morning; mostly everyone was asleep. It was cold and snowy, and no one was around to witness a young woman's horrible and heinous death in the parking lot behind a building in a fairly residential area. But it was a death six years in the making and could have been prevented. And although changes were made to the system in Ontario because of what happened to our victim, it was a hefty price to pay.

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One .32 calibre revolver, two general areas, and three 70-year-old unsolved murders taking place on the 13th day of the month. Was there a for hire murder association whose killers only killed on the 13th operating in the area in the 1950s?

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Crime Article & Sources will be listed on the website, as well as additional photos: https://truecrimerealtimepod.com/

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Jessica was the quintessential small-town girl. Quiet, timid, nice and respectful. She wanted to live her life, have a family and grow old with someone special. Her dreams were seemingly cut short in August 1996. This is part 2 of Jessica Estabrooks’ story, Mr. Big.

For this episode, I’ve had the opportunity to speak to both previous owners, Dawn & Tony of the Domino’s pizza where Shane and Jessica both worked. At the time Dawn and...
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Let me set the stage for you. Today we’re travelling to the southern part of the province of New Brunswick, a small Canadian province the hugs the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. A place where you can take a deep breath and instantly relax as you inhale the salt air. A place where you can glimpse the aurora borealis at the right time of the year. A place surrounded by friendly people…most of the time. Specifically, we’re travelling to...
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April 6, 2021 43 mins
A heinous act followed by solid police work. A trial filled with a litany of labels against the victim, leading and tickling conscious or unconscious bias and unjust stereotypes, holding a mirror up to the Canadian populace. Coast to coast outrage, would the Canadian justice system change? This is episode 40, the Yellowhead Inn, Cindy Gladue's story.

Cindy met Bradley the evening before. On this evening she, Bradley, and his co-work...
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January 18, 2021 29 mins
"I don't think he left that house alive" ~ Dee.

It was the end of August, the last day in fact, and Cory's day started like any other...at the gym. He was in a good mood and joking around; he'd lost a few pounds and was going to need to double down on some eating to gain that weight back. But, by the next day, he'd be missing, and the one person he was last with would keep a closed mouth. What happened to Cory Westcott?

Nelson Polic...
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December 6, 2020 51 mins
True Crime Real Time Podcast and Beyond the Rainbow: True Crimes of the LGBT Podcast are presenting this special collaboration on the life, death, and justice of Alexandra Flanagan. A tragedy that struck Barrie Ontario. Her killer alluded justice for several years, and it looked as though the case was going cold. But as they say with still waters, the river runs deep. A lot of work was happening to ensure justice would be served.

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Robert Wagner, known as Robbie to his friends and family, is fondly remembered. He was an enterprising and intelligent young man who found himself down a path that may have unknowingly lead to his brutal murder.

About 3 weeks before he was viciously struck down, Robbie confided in his brother-in-law that he didn't have much time left in this world. And he didn't. By mid-January, his life would end.

The case is cold, but the Major c...
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November 19, 2020 38 mins
She told her husband Alan that she was going to the store to get some candy. She grabbed her gray leather purse, put on her blue leather shoes and her fur-lined denim jacket, the style at the time, and then said goodbye to her husband and three small kids on the chilly October day as she left her house on foot with her shoulder-length brown hair swaying behind her. Little did they know, this would be the last time they would see he...
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Where it all started; Paris, Ontario. Although nowhere near the sophistication and glory that its namesake evokes, a beautiful little town none the less.
Its main street hugs the side of the Grand River that runs through it. And, dotted along the river are trendy restaurants and bars. In addition to the charming shops, dentists, insurance brokers, and financial institutions is a cute boutique hotel, each room styled after a famous a...
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September 10, 2020 37 mins
In April and May of 2019, we produced a two-part series into the disappearance of 25-year-old Brantford, ON Woman, Mary Hammond. Her case is the oldest open unsolved case in Brantford.
Mary was a down to earth, fun, young woman, with her whole ahead of her. Her and her boyfriend of 4 years, Larry, had just gotten married in May of that year.
We had the opportunity to speak with Mary’s niece, Brenda, for this case update episode.

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August 21, 2020 28 mins
About 140 km northeast of Hamilton is a small body of water name "mud lake," which is immediately encircled by swampy land, a rarely travelled road, and minimal residents. This area is surrounded by folklore, a place where people can disappear without a trace, lost to annals of time. But folklore and reality can sometimes bear no commonality. This is episode 33 of True Crime Real-Time, Mud Lake, an update to Monica Chisar's story.

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August 3, 2020 57 mins
Hear the story from the family that is actively looking for her, the struggle to get help from their local police, and what you can do to help bring Ashley Morin Home.

$20,000 Dollar Reward to Help bring her home.

Exclusive interview with Janine Morin, Ashley's sister and Krista Fox, family spokesperson, conducted by the Occultae Veritatis Podcast. https://www.ovpod.ca/

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It was March of 1902. A little over a year since Winston Churchill made his maiden speech. A few months since Theodore Roosevelt renamed the executive mansion as the white house. Three months since the first Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Wilhelm Rontgen for his invention of the x-ray. And, just around the time when many Canadian soldiers were returning from fighting in the Boer war. But James Quirk wasn't one of those retur...
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On a bright spring day in May of 1974, on the side of a highway in the mountains of British Columbia, a small child of four tiredly walked several feet behind her mother and stepfather, barefoot, dirty and crying, dragging her teddy bear behind her on the gravel shoulder of the Trans-Canada Highway.

A passerby, Robert, would pull over and give the family a ride to Vancouver, set them up in a hotel, and get the child's stepfather a ...
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Brantford has had its ups and downs, like every other city, and with its highs also comes its lows. Over the next series of mini-sodes, we will be looking at these different lows suffered by the victims and the city. Some will be historical, going back to confederation day, and some will be recent, but all will be within the Brantford Census metropolitan area.
This episode recounts the tragic tale of 15-year-old Elisha Mercer. Who'...
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“This gentleman’s fantasies involving torture, dismemberment, and cannibalism with respect to his victims is also consistent with the diagnosis of sexual sadism, as is a history of post-mortem sexually related activities. […] This gentleman’s history suggests to me that this gentleman could be [..] managed on a medium secure unit, with respect to both aggressive behaviour and elopement risk.” ~ Dr. Phillip Klassen

About a month afte...
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About 200 km west of Toronto, lies the smaller city of London, On, nicknamed forest city and its surrounding areas. This city has been connected to major metropolitan areas by freeways and highways since 1956, yet still separated and urban. The city is beautiful and surrounded by nature. But London has a dark and haunted past. We will be exploring a part of this dark and sordid past over a series of epsiodes. Travel with me today t...
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