The Twisted Story of Sergeant John Wilson [replay]
3/13/20261 hr 3 min
A two-part series—A gripping, action-packed miniseries about a mountie who finds himself at the centre of a sordid love triangle.
Pieced together from a treasure trove of real love letters, forged letters and police and court memos, this series paints a vivid snapshot of Canada as World War I raged on.
— This series is a carefully selected replay from our archive, and was originally titled The Murderous Mountie.
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See the page for this episode at www.canadiantruecrime.ca/e...
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First 90 secondsKristi Lee· Host0:00
Hi, everyone. Quick note before we start: as I explained in yesterday's update, we'll be back with new episodes in April, so this is a specially selected replay from the archive. It's one of my favorite cases, and it has a pretty special origin story. A few years ago, my journalist friend Danielle Parody tipped me off about something fascinating sitting in the collections at Library and Archives Canada. It was a massive file connected to a strange love triangle that unfolded during the First World War. Inside were hundreds of pages of documents, love letters, forged letters, police notes, and court memos, all piecing together a story with multiple twists and turns that ended in a brutal murder. When I saw this treasure trove of archival material, I knew there was a story that had to be told, so we purchased scans of the entire file and handed them over to Toronto true crime author Nate Hendley, who I know would appreciate the rabbit hole. Nate combed through every page, added additional research from the news archives, and built the narrative that I then adapted into the podcast series you're about to hear, called The Murderous Mountie. There's a special presentation of some of these letters and notes on our website for you to look at. Link in the show notes. And because the story begins in Scotland, we hired Scottish voice actors