She's Gone is a new podcast that tells the story of four women's lives, deaths and the criminal cases that followed, hosted by Bre McAdam Saskatoon Star Phoenix criminal justice reporter.Subscribe now for free on Apple Podcasts or wherever yo

Gangs of Montreal: Who controls the underworld?

Feb 3rd, 2020 37m 39s

On the morning of October 9, 2015, five full-patch Hells Angels members filed into a heavy-security courtroom at a specially-built courthouse in north-end Montreal.They were among 100 Quebec Hells Angels arrested in sweeping raids in 2009 and

Gangs of Montreal: Taking down the Rizzutos

Dec 16th, 2019 32m 45s

The morning of Nov. 22, 2006 was cold and overcast.Cars were pulling up to the back entrance of the Montreal headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Westmount, just west of downtown.Inside the cars were some of the most powerfu

Gangs of Montreal: Vito Rizzuto, Global Superboss

Dec 9th, 2019 27m 26s

In this episode we take a closer look at Vito Rizzuto, the man who ran the Montreal mafia for decades.While the New York crime families are more famous, the Montreal mob under Rizzuto had an international reach.Besides drug smuggling, it ra

Gangs of Montreal: The biker war

Dec 2nd, 2019 39m 30s

It was summer vacation, and a group of boys was playing in front of the Saint-Nom-de-Jésus school in Montreal's east-end neighbourhood of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.At 12:40 p.m. on Aug. 9, 1995, a man got into his Jeep parked across the tree-line

Gangs of Montreal: Rise of the street gangs

Nov 25th, 2019 25m 38s

Montreal's street gangs have grown from groups of teenagers banding together in the 1980s for protection to, at one point, being the Montreal police department’s top crime-fighting priority.They work with other criminal gangs to traffic drugs

Gangs of Montreal: The West End Gang and the robbery of the century

Nov 18th, 2019 23m 30s

It was snowing in Montreal on the night of Nov. 13, 1984.West End Gang leader Frank Ryan, better known by his nickname, "Dunie", was at one of his usual hangouts, Nittolo's Garden Inn, a seedy restaurant and motel in west-end Notre-Dame-de-Gr

Gangs of Montreal: Kings of coke

Nov 11th, 2019 21m 41s

Montreal's underworld has gotten rich — very rich — from sneaking cocaine into the city by car, by air, by boat, and inside people, packages and shipping containers.In this episode we go back to the 1980s, when cocaine really took off in Mont

Gangs of Montreal: How it all began

Nov 4th, 2019 22m 11s

It was pure coincidence but the Hells Angels opened their first Canadian chapter in Quebec just seven weeks before Nicolo Rizzuto took control of the Montreal Mafia. Those events in 1977-78 kickstarted a violent decades-long struggle to contr

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Coming soon: The Dark North

Sep 10th, 2019 3m 7s

The Dark North is a new podcast about crime in Canada. Each season will focus on a different city. Season 1 examines the struggle for control of Montreal's underworld, hosted by Montreal Gazette crime reporter Paul Cherry.Learn more about your