The Pacific Junction Murders [2]
4/17/202653 min
[Part 2 of 2] With the infant recovered and the suspects in custody, the investigation only grows more disturbing. Shifting stories, buried secrets, and mounting evidence collide in a dramatic courtroom showdown — the first ever kidnapping trial in the province of New Brunswick and the last double hanging in Canada.
— This two-part series is a carefully selected replay from our archive, originally titled "The Lake Family Murders". We'll be back with new episodes in late April.
*Additional content warning: this series includes the death of a young child. Please take care when listening.
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First 90 secondsEric Crosbie· Soundbite0:00
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Kristi Lee· Host0:11
This is part two of a two-part series. [somber music] Where we left off, Philip Lake and his common-law wife, Bertha Ring, had been murdered at their New Brunswick home in the morning hours of January 6th, 1936. Their toddler, Jackie, was left to die of exposure outside, and their tiny shack was set on fire. Their four-month-old baby, Betty, wasn't found, and it was assumed that her remains were consumed by the flames. Earlier that evening, several locals had seen 19-year-old Arthur Banister walking in the area with his .22 caliber rifle. When the RCMP went to the Banister home with a mitten found along the trail, his 20-year-old brother, Daniel Banister, identified it as belonging to him, but said he'd loaned it to Arthur. And then investigators discovered a baby at the Banister home that, at first, their 40-year-old mother, Mae Banister, insisted was hers. But she soon changed her story and said her 15-year-old daughter, Francis, brought the baby home after rescuing it from a house fire. It seemed likely that