HeyJaredDark Roast: Caffeine Casefiles Podcast
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Episode 28 - The Babes in the woods (opens the original)
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Welcome Back Casefilers! Grab your hot coffee and favourite flannel for this week’s episode! In January 1953, a groundskeeper clearing brush near Beaver Lake in Vancouver’s Stanley Park made a grisly discovery: the skeletal remains of two young children, covered with a woman’s fur coat. The children had been bludgeoned with a hatchet and left in the woods, their bodies arranged side by side with their soles facing each other. For nearly seventy years, they were known only as the “Babes in the Wo
Episode 27 - The Vanishing of Kenley Matheson (opens the original)
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Welcome Back Casefilers! Today I’m kicking off with one of Nova’s Scotia’s haunting unsolved mysteries! Spooky season ( for some of us) has started ! The air is getting crisper, the leaves are changing and suddenly it’s time for leggings and flannel over tank tops and shorts. So grab your favourite hot cup of caffeine, get comfy and let’s dive in…. In September 1992, twenty-year-old Kenley Matheson was just two weeks into his first semester at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. A quiet
The Hunting of Rasheem Carter (opens the original)
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☕EPISODE 26 : THE HUNTING OF RASHEEM CARTER “Mom, there’s three truckloads of white men trying to kill me.” Those were the last words 25-year-old Rasheem Carter spoke to his mother before he disappeared. He was a father. A welder. A chef. A son. He went to the police for help. He was turned away. One month later, his partial remains were found scattered in the woods - head severed, teeth missing. Local authorities said no foul play was involved. The DA says the community knows what happened. No
Episode 25 - The Price of Freedom (opens the original)
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In this special deep-dive episode, we journey into one of the darkest chapters of American history—the era of emancipation—and uncover the true crime stories that history books often forget. We begin with John Reed , a free Black man in 1820s Pennsylvania who fought for his life when kidnappers broke into his home in the dead of night. The handcuffs and rope found on his attackers told the story—but would the courts believe him? Then, the harrowing tale of Solomon Northup , a free Black musician
Episode 24 - The House On Lake Simcoe (opens the original)
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For more than a century, it stood on the shores of Lake Simcoe—a place families were told would provide care, compassion, and protection for society’s most vulnerable. Instead, the Huronia Regional Centre became a place of silence, suffering, and systemic abuse that remained hidden for generations. In this episode of Dark Roast Caffeine Casefiles , we travel to Orillia, Ontario, to uncover the devastating history of one of Canada’s largest and longest-running institutions for people labeled “int
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