Speaker 1: Okay, round two. Name something that's not boring.
Speaker 2: Laundry, a book club, computer solitaire.
Speaker 1: Huh ah, Sorry, we were looking for Chumbuck Casino. Chum,
Speaker 1: that's right. Chumbuckcasino dot com as over one hundred casino
Speaker 1: style games joined today and play for free for your
Speaker 1: chance to redeem some serious prizes. Chum, Chumbucasino dot com.
Speaker 1: Noord my law eighty plus terms the conditions of plusy
Speaker 1: Websy Retails, Lucky Land Casino, asking people what's the weirdest
Speaker 1: place you've gotten lucky?
Speaker 3: Lucky?
Speaker 1: In line at the deli, I guess, ah, in my
Speaker 1: dentist's office more than once. Actually do I have to say?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: You do? In the car before my kid's PTA meeting? Really?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Excuse me? What's the weirdest place you've gotten lucky?
Speaker 3: I never win?
Speaker 2: And tell well, there you have it.
Speaker 1: You could get lucky anywhere playing at lucky landslots dot
Speaker 1: com play for free right now? Are you feeling lucky?
Speaker 2: No, we're just necessary boy. Where we're gona be?
Speaker 1: My long eighteen plus terms and conditions of plusy Websay
Speaker 1: b Loop traadian.
Speaker 2: You are now listening to True Murder the most shocking
Speaker 2: killers in true crime history and the authors that have
Speaker 2: written about them. Gasey, Bundy, Dahmer, The Nightstalker DTK. Every
Speaker 2: week another fascinating author talking about the most shocking and
Speaker 2: infamous killers in true crime history. True Murder with your
Speaker 2: host journalist and author Dan.
Speaker 3: Zufanski, Good Evening, porta Peak, Nova Scotia, Canada, located in
Speaker 3: Colchester County, is a rural seaside community about eighty miles
Speaker 3: north of Halifax on the e coast of Canada. It
Speaker 3: has about one hundred residents living there in the winter
Speaker 3: and maybe two hundred and fifty in the summer months.
Speaker 3: Property owners advertised cottages for rent there as private beachfront property.
Speaker 3: Nestled on the Bay of Fundy, the area is known
Speaker 3: for its bass fishing and its numerous hiking trails. The
Speaker 3: Bay of Fundy is a bay between the Canadian provinces
Speaker 3: of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion
Speaker 3: touching the U. S State of Maine. The Bay of Fundy,
Speaker 3: on the southern coast of New Brunswick is famous for
Speaker 3: the highest hides in the world. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
Speaker 3: or the RCMP, are Canada's Federal and National Police Service
Speaker 3: and are the police for Porta Peak and all other
Speaker 3: small communities in the surrounding counties. You may have heard
Speaker 3: them referred to sin as mounties. A detachment is a
Speaker 3: section of the RCMP which polices a local area. There
Speaker 3: are fifty three detachments in Nova Scotia, with the nearest
Speaker 3: to Porta Peak being Truro which is twenty five miles away,
Speaker 3: and the Enfield Detachment fifty eight miles away from Porta Peak.
Speaker 3: Of some of the communities in the area of Porta
Speaker 3: Peak the RCMP service include Deebert, Wentworth, Millbrook, Glenholme, Onslow,
Speaker 3: Hilden and Schuberenacticity. Gabriel Wartman was a fifty one year
Speaker 3: old denturist with a successful practice with two offices, one
Speaker 3: in Dartmouth and one in Halifax, where he regularly lived.
Speaker 3: He'd been married twice before and owned several properties in
Speaker 3: Porta Peak and other places. He was said by some
Speaker 3: neighbors to be a millionaire with a drinking problem. Others
Speaker 3: then encountered him while working found him mild mannered, and
Speaker 3: one person even called him jovial. Due to the coronavirus pandemic,
Speaker 3: and with the government enforced increasing travel, work and personal restrictions,
Speaker 3: Whartman was not allowed to work at his clinics, so
Speaker 3: he was staying at his cottage in port A Peak
Speaker 3: with his longtime common law wife, who he also worked
Speaker 3: with at his clinics. Wartman grew up in neighboring New Brunswick,
Speaker 3: and in nineteen eighty six, when he graduated high school,
Speaker 3: his yearbook entry included Gabe's future may include being an
Speaker 3: RCMP officer. He attended the University of New Brunswick and
Speaker 3: Fredericton in the late eighties. A fellow student there said,
Speaker 3: Gabriel always had a sadness about him. I don't know
Speaker 3: what his life later life, adult life was like, but
Speaker 3: I can tell you that at university people weren't nice
Speaker 3: to him. He was a little different, but he was
Speaker 3: beautiful and he really had a deep heart. But he
Speaker 3: was the brunt of everybody's jokes. After university, Warpman began
Speaker 3: his career as a denturist and ran the Atlantic Denture
Speaker 3: Clinic in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, as well as one in
Speaker 3: the Halifax area. He divided his time between the two clinics.
Speaker 3: He was featured in a twenty fourteen CTV news story
Speaker 3: crediting him with helping provide dentures to a cancer survivor
Speaker 3: whose medical coverage wouldn't cover the cost. He didn't grow
Speaker 3: up to be an RCMP officer like his yearbook entry predicted,
Speaker 3: but his biggest hobby became buying RCMP cars at auctions
Speaker 3: and restoring them. He also collected police memorabilia and even
Speaker 3: had acquired an official RCMP uniform. By fall of two
Speaker 3: thousand and nineteen, he now had purchased his fourth former
Speaker 3: police car and bought roof lights and siren for the
Speaker 3: car through an online auction, whereas he and his friends
Speaker 3: then installed it. He then had an official looking RCMP
Speaker 3: police decal created by his neighbor and drinking buddy, Peter
Speaker 3: Allan Griffin, who in two thousand and seventeen was convicted
Speaker 3: of cocaine trafficking and weapons charges linking him with the
Speaker 3: La Familia drug cartel in Mexico. Whartman told some friends
Speaker 3: that the restored ARCMP car project was to be a
Speaker 3: type of tribute to fallen officers. Others he told if
Speaker 3: things went bad and he needed to get out of town,
Speaker 3: he wouldn't be stopped in a police car. What some
Speaker 3: friends thought Wharpman was referring to was related to the
Speaker 3: coronavirus crisis. Whartman had felt it necessary in light of
Speaker 3: the ongoing declared pandemic, the stockpile food, firearms, and eight
Speaker 3: hundred dollars worth of gasoline. He also bought two handguns
Speaker 3: and two semi automatic rifles illegally. Warman was charged with
Speaker 3: assaulting a fifteen year old mail in Dartmouth in October
Speaker 3: two thousand and one, when he was thirty three years old.
Speaker 3: Warman pled guilty to the single charge in October two
Speaker 3: thousand and two and received a conditional discharge, meaning that
Speaker 3: he wouldn't have a criminal record if he completed nine
Speaker 3: months of probation and paid a fifty dollars fine. He
Speaker 3: completed his probation successfully. In twenty ten, Wharman was investigated
Speaker 3: on claims he threatened his parents, Paul and Evelyn Whartman,
Speaker 3: but no charges were laid. Paul Whortman's brother Glynn, phoned
Speaker 3: Paul to tell him that Gabriel was threatening to come
Speaker 3: to Monkton and shoot and kill them. Whartman reported the
Speaker 3: incident to the nearest RCMP detachment, and as a resultant
Speaker 3: officer interviewed Gabriel, who flatly denied his father's claims. No
Speaker 3: charges came as a result of the complaint. Paul Whartman
Speaker 3: told others later that he was also beaten by Gabriel
Speaker 3: during a vacation in Cuba, but never reported it. In
Speaker 3: May twenty eleven, RCMP and TRURO received an anonymous email
Speaker 3: that stated that Whartman had a cash of illegal guns
Speaker 3: and wanted to kill a cop. That email tip was
Speaker 3: saved in Nova Scotia's RCMP records, but was removed after
Speaker 3: two years, as per their policy. In twenty thirteen, a
Speaker 3: neighbor of Whartman's called police to report that he had
Speaker 3: assaulted his wife and had illegal guns. Whartman's wife at
Speaker 3: the time, Lisa, would not make a complaint, and subsequently
Speaker 3: there were no charges. The neighbor moved after Whartman became
Speaker 3: more and more threatening to her over her call to
Speaker 3: the ARCA. Whartman owned six properties and had a serious
Speaker 3: dispute for years with his uncle Glynn, over a property
Speaker 3: that Whartman refused to sign off his part ownership to,
Speaker 3: even after his uncle had paid him for it. The
Speaker 3: property was eventually sold to a woman named Lisa McCully.
Speaker 3: In late March, Whartman transferred money from his bank account
Speaker 3: to a Brinx facility. On March thirtieth, twenty twenty, he
Speaker 3: removed four hundred and seventy five thousand dollars in one
Speaker 3: hundred dollars bills. He picked up the money driving one
Speaker 3: of his police cars. Airing on CBS the night of
Speaker 3: April fourteenth in the US and Canada from the producers
Speaker 3: of Law and Order was the new crime drama FBI
Speaker 3: Most Wanted. In the seventh episode, which aired was featured
Speaker 3: a leading character named Gabriel Clark, a small town cop
Speaker 3: of assessed with his girlfriend, who goes on a murder
Speaker 3: spree dressed in his police uniform, inevitably killing three police
Speaker 3: officers and a civilian. As the man hunt for the
Speaker 3: killer cop gets close, he sets his farmhouse and then
Speaker 3: himself on fire. The audience learns that Gabriel Clark went
Speaker 3: on the killing spree because he was treated unfairly when
Speaker 3: he reported corrupt cops on the force. Evening of April eighteenth,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, Whartman and his common law wife attended a
Speaker 3: small gathering nearby their cottage. There they argued about a
Speaker 3: video call Wharpman had made earlier with a female friend.
Speaker 3: They left the party after arguing about the call, but
Speaker 3: it seemed that they had resolved the matter, so Whartman's
Speaker 3: wife went to bed. He soon woke her up, saulted her,
Speaker 3: put one of her hands in a handcuff, and dragged
Speaker 3: her to one of his Arcian Pea cars and put
Speaker 3: her in the back seat along some containers of gasoline.
Speaker 3: When he went back into the house, she managed to
Speaker 3: slip the cough off her wrist and escaped from the
Speaker 3: car by sliding through the plexiglass divider between the front
Speaker 3: and back seats. She fled into the woods, where she hid.
Speaker 3: Whartman had destroyed her cellphone. Whartman, using his gas reserve,
Speaker 3: set on fire as cottage, a warehouse on the property,
Speaker 3: and three vehicles, including two of his former police cars.
Speaker 3: Whartman may have been looking for his wife when he
Speaker 3: went to the home of neighbors Greg and Jamie Blair,
Speaker 3: who he shot and killed while their children ten and
Speaker 3: twelve were in the home. Whartman then set their house
Speaker 3: on fire, but the two children managed to escape. To
Speaker 3: the home of workmen's closest neighbor, forty nine year old
Speaker 3: elementary school teacher Lisa McCully. The children hid together in
Speaker 3: mccully's basement and called nine to one one, where they
Speaker 3: were connected with a civilian dispatcher at the RCMP's operational
Speaker 3: communication CeNSE in Truro. McCully was murdered when she went
Speaker 3: outside to investigate. At ten pm, RCMP received a nine
Speaker 3: to one to one call about a shooting in rural
Speaker 3: Porta Peak, and when officers arrive at ten twenty five,
Speaker 3: they find several dead bodies outside on the road and
Speaker 3: in houses, with several buildings burning. They found victims in
Speaker 3: seven separate locations, some of them as police went from
Speaker 3: house to house to look for the suspect and check
Speaker 3: on residents. That prompted a massive emergency response, including helicopters,
Speaker 3: Emergency Task Force officers and other forces. The search led
Speaker 3: to multiple buildings that were being consumed by fire and
Speaker 3: a series of seven murder scenes. Nine of the victims
Speaker 3: were neighbors of wartmen, Aaron Tuck, forty five years old,
Speaker 3: his seventeen year old daughter Emily, and his partner, forty
Speaker 3: year old Joline Oliver were shot and killed by Whartman.
Speaker 3: John Joseph Zal and his wife Elizabeth Joann Thomas's home
Speaker 3: was burned down by Whartman. They were later found dead inside.
Speaker 3: Don Madson, a long time care home worker, and her
Speaker 3: husband Frank Gulanchin, were also shot and killed. Joy and
Speaker 3: Peter Bond were also shot and killed. They lived less
Speaker 3: than a half a mile away from Whartman's loghouse, so
Speaker 3: it seems a small party gathering had ended and those
Speaker 3: that were there previously had gone back home and wherever
Speaker 3: the party originally was Warmon may have returned to that address,
Speaker 3: first killed the occupants, and then proceeded to those people's
Speaker 3: homes who had been there earlier in the evening, or
Speaker 3: he hadn't returned to the party and was instead simply
Speaker 3: looking for his wife to kill her and anyone else
Speaker 3: that might think to harbor her. Forty two year old
Speaker 3: Corey Ellison from Truro was in port A Peak visiting
Speaker 3: his father and brother that Saturday night. Clinton and Corey
Speaker 3: Ellison heard a gunshot and saw the glow of a
Speaker 3: fire sometime after ten pm, and so his brother Corey
Speaker 3: went out to investigate Clinton and his father hadn't heard
Speaker 3: from his brother Corey after his original call to confirm
Speaker 3: he was near where the fire was, and so Clinton
Speaker 3: went out looking for him. He soon found his brother
Speaker 3: Corey's dead body lying on the road. Elson said he
Speaker 3: ran into woods when he saw someone he thought was
Speaker 3: the killer walking nearby with a flashlight, and spent the
Speaker 3: next several hours there shaken and frightened, hiding in the woods,
Speaker 3: hearing the continued sound of gunshots. That night, RCMP discovered
Speaker 3: two men that claimed they saw a man driving what
Speaker 3: looked to them like a police car who had drove
Speaker 3: alongside them and opened fire on the pair, wounding one
Speaker 3: of them. Police by this time had identify Wartmont as
Speaker 3: the likely killer, but given his cottage and property was
Speaker 3: on fire and they believed there being only one way
Speaker 3: out of the community and they had it secured. Whartman
Speaker 3: they felt was either on foot and couldn't get too far,
Speaker 3: or was already possibly dead in one of the fires,
Speaker 3: they thought he might have killed himself. At eleven thirty five,
Speaker 3: RCMP's message on Twitter was for residents to stay inside
Speaker 3: and lock their doors. Police then set up a search
Speaker 3: perimeter of one point two miles, believing Wartmont would have
Speaker 3: no possible way now out of port A Peak overnight,
Speaker 3: the RCMP did not give any updates via Twitter for
Speaker 3: eight hours, and it was confusion later by a by
Speaker 3: RCMP whether Wartmont was the driver of the police car
Speaker 3: the two witnesses reported. RCMP claimed that at one point
Speaker 3: in the evening Whartman had exchanged gunfire with police, and
Speaker 3: an overnight fire was reported in Wentworth, twenty six miles
Speaker 3: north of Porta Peak. Police believed Whartman was acting alone
Speaker 3: was over Officers patrolled the streets and helicopters flew overhead,
Speaker 3: but residents in the area were fearful that the shooter
Speaker 3: might go through the woods and attempt to enter their homes.
Speaker 3: RCMP found victims in seven separate locations, some of them
Speaker 3: as police went house to house to look for the
Speaker 3: suspect and check on residents. At ten thirty five, Whartman
Speaker 3: had already left the Porta Peak area through a field
Speaker 3: and made it to Deebert, thirteen miles away from Porta Peak.
Speaker 3: He arrived at a building in the Deebert Industrial Park
Speaker 3: at eleven ten and spent the night somewhere in Deebert
Speaker 3: RCMP and other law enforcement continued to search residents and
Speaker 3: properties throughout the night as fires continued and citizens shuddered
Speaker 3: in their homes in fear of a deadly menace. Most
Speaker 3: of those residents not knowing what in the world had
Speaker 3: just happened. Workmen left Deebert near six a m. And
Speaker 3: drove on Highway four to a house where he knew
Speaker 3: the occupants. There, he executed Federal Corrections officers Sean McLeod,
Speaker 3: a second cousin of Peter Allen Griffin, and MacLeod's partner
Speaker 3: in Lanna Jenkins. He then set their home on fire.
Speaker 3: Their neighbor, Tom Bagley, and airport firefighter for thirty years,
Speaker 3: heard an explosion and came over to help. He was
Speaker 3: shot and killed by Whartman. He then set the house
Speaker 3: on fire around the same time about seven am, Whortman's
Speaker 3: common law wife emerged from hiding in the woods and
Speaker 3: made it to a neighbor's house, where he calls nine
Speaker 3: one one. ARCMP arrived and she tells him that Whartman
Speaker 3: is wearing an RCMP uniform, has several guns, including two
Speaker 3: handguns and a military firearm, and is driving his near
Speaker 3: identical RCMP police car and provides them with a photo
Speaker 3: of the car. She told police that he also liked
Speaker 3: to carry a police issue yellow vest in the front
Speaker 3: seat of his car to pass himself off as a cop.
Speaker 3: She told police that Wartman wasn't a police officer want
Speaker 3: to be. He didn't like police officers and thought he
Speaker 3: was much better than them. The RCMP release at be
Speaker 3: on the lookout for or BOLO to all RCMP officers
Speaker 3: in Nova Scotia with the photo of Wartman, a photo
Speaker 3: of his police car, and a warning that he was
Speaker 3: wearing a police uniform. The RCMP at eight am posted
Speaker 3: on Twitter for the public that the Porta Peak situation
Speaker 3: involved an active shooter. At almost nine am, they post
Speaker 3: Whartman's photo and state that he is to be considered
Speaker 3: armed and dangerous. If you see him, do not approach.
Speaker 3: He's described as a white man, bald, six foot two
Speaker 3: to six foot three with green eyes. The RCMP's decision
Speaker 3: not to use ready alert to notify residents was that
Speaker 3: the RCMP may have been afraid of sending an alert,
Speaker 3: in part because it could have put officers in jeopardy
Speaker 3: with armed members of the public looking to protect themselves,
Speaker 3: and also because their communications might have been paralyzed by
Speaker 3: having everyone in the public calling in about every police
Speaker 3: car they saw, so likely it was an extremely difficult
Speaker 3: tactical decision that was made. At nine forty three, Wharptman
Speaker 3: encounter sixty five year old Lillian Hyslop walking on the
Speaker 3: along the Highway four in Wentworth and shoots and kills her.
Speaker 3: At nine forty eight, Whartman drives to the Glenholm area,
Speaker 3: where the residents at the house recognize him but don't
Speaker 3: answer the door, and he leaves. They call RCMP afterwards.
Speaker 3: At ten oh four, our MP tweet for people to
Speaker 3: avoid void Highway four in Glenholm as a shooter is
Speaker 3: in the area. At ten oh eight, Whartman pulls over
Speaker 3: a car in Deebert and kills nurse Christian Beaton, mother
Speaker 3: of a three year old who is pregnant. He continues
Speaker 3: on Highway four and pulls over another motorists fifty five
Speaker 3: year old nurse Heather O'Brien, and shoots and kills her
Speaker 3: in her car. At ten seventeen, RCNP on Twitter posts
Speaker 3: a photo of Whartman's almost identical police car, providing the
Speaker 3: car's external displayed number and stating for the first time
Speaker 3: that the killer, Whartman, is dressed as an RCNP officer
Speaker 3: in driving a police car. At ten twenty five, Wartman
Speaker 3: stops at Millbrook at their fire station and takes off
Speaker 3: his jacket and puts on his reflective vest, then continues
Speaker 3: driving through the community of Hilden. At ten thirty, RCMP
Speaker 3: tweeted that the shooting saw suspect was in the dee
Speaker 3: Bert in central Onslow area. About ten forty two RCMP
Speaker 3: officers showed up to a hall in Onslow being used
Speaker 3: as a registration center for evacuees from the man hunt
Speaker 3: and fired several shots at the building they had apparently
Speaker 3: mistaken the RCMP cruiser parked and an officer outside guarding
Speaker 3: the fire hall for Whartman, and fired numerous times at
Speaker 3: the officer, missing him but peppering the fire station with
Speaker 3: bullets as frightened police and evacuees inside scrambled for cover
Speaker 3: after hearing the gunshots outside. By that time, Whartman was
Speaker 3: in Millbrook, about eight miles from Onslow. At ten forty nine,
Speaker 3: Constable Heidi Stephenson, a twenty three year RCMP veteran officer
Speaker 3: and Constable Chad Morrison were to be working in Enfield.
Speaker 3: Morrison was to meet up with Stevenson in nearby Shubenacadi,
Speaker 3: and when he spotted workman Whartman's car, he thought it
Speaker 3: was her. Morrison found out otherwise when Whartman pulled up
Speaker 3: beside him and opened fire, wounding him, but Morrison managed
Speaker 3: to escape when shortly after Wharpman spotted Stevenson's car he
Speaker 3: rammed into her car head on. He got out and
Speaker 3: shot Stevenson, then dragged her out of the car and
Speaker 3: shot her again, then took her gun and ammunition. Joey Weber,
Speaker 3: father of three, had gone out heading to shoe Beninacady
Speaker 3: to run a family errand a witness of some of
Speaker 3: the actual murder ind or of the car Whartman's set ablaze.
Speaker 3: Joey Weber is shot and killed by Whartman. He then
Speaker 3: steals his SUV tracker and continues his murderous journey. At
Speaker 3: eleven oh six, RCMP post on Twitter that the shooter
Speaker 3: is traveling south on Highway one oh two, but there
Speaker 3: was some confusion in Truro. RCMP office descended on a
Speaker 3: Sobey's grocery store forty miles away an RCMP dispatcher had
Speaker 3: called the Truroa Police department to report that their suspect,
Speaker 3: Gabriel Whartman, was spotted at a grocery store in truro
Speaker 3: The municipal police force quickly asked all units to respond
Speaker 3: and assist RSMP at the store. At that point, Whartman
Speaker 3: was still believed to be driving a silver Chevy Tracker.
Speaker 3: As RCMP had advised on Twitter a few minutes earlier,
Speaker 3: he has multiple weapons, the RCMP dispatcher warned Trureau police
Speaker 3: at eleven twelve am. Officers from TRUROAU reported back a
Speaker 3: few minutes later to say that the only thing they
Speaker 3: found at the grocery store was an RCMP emergency response team.
Speaker 3: Whartman then travels to an acquaintance of his, a fifty
Speaker 3: year old genturist, Gina Goulay. He shoots and kills her
Speaker 3: and steals her Masda Thie. At eleven twenty three, Warpman,
Speaker 3: driving the Mazda three, stops at a gas station and
Speaker 3: then filled the gas up. At eleven twenty six, two
Speaker 3: RCMP tactical officers arrive at the same station to refuel.
Speaker 3: One very observant officer recognized warman, and before the gunman
Speaker 3: could respond, he was shot dead by the RCMP officer.
Speaker 3: Police found several firearms in the back seat of the
Speaker 3: Mazda he was driving. The firearms included a rifle, another
Speaker 3: firearm described only as a semi automatic with the selector
Speaker 3: switch on fire, a pistol with one round of ammunition
Speaker 3: in the chamber, an empty magazine in one of the
Speaker 3: guns of which the hammer was cocked and safety was off,
Speaker 3: as well as boxes of ammunition and a green metal
Speaker 3: ammunition can in the front seat. Stevenson's police issued nine
Speaker 3: men elimited pistol was also among the firearms. Paula Henrana
Speaker 3: left her work near the gas station in Enfield Sunday
Speaker 3: morning because she was concerned with the safety of her
Speaker 3: step granddaughter, who lived in Porta Peak. She pulled over
Speaker 3: to the side of the road when she saw dozens
Speaker 3: of police officers decked out in black vests surround the suv.
Speaker 3: One officer was on one knee on top of the
Speaker 3: vehicle and had his assault rifle pointed into the car
Speaker 3: through the sun roof. Several others were laying down on
Speaker 3: their stomachs on the pavement with their rifles at the
Speaker 3: ready and appeared to be aiming at the front door
Speaker 3: of the Big Stop gas station. Overhead, she saw a
Speaker 3: helicopter fly by. Sirens blared in the distance. Over an
Speaker 3: hour earlier, at ten point fifteen am, Nova Scotia Provincial
Speaker 3: Emergency Management officials had contents acted the RCMP to offer
Speaker 3: them the use of the public emergency alerting system that
Speaker 3: would alert people via their phones and televisions. RCMP and
Speaker 3: government officials were still in the process of preparing the
Speaker 3: alert when they got the news that Wartman had been
Speaker 3: shot and killed. News broke nationally about the mass killings
Speaker 3: after April twentieth, with more and more details being revealed
Speaker 3: as RCMP investigated fully twenty three dead, including the killer,
Speaker 3: three wounded, sixteen crime scenes, Porta Peak and Nova Scotia
Speaker 3: residents were traumatized. The nation was shocked and desperate for information.
Speaker 3: Because of the coronavirus lockdown, journalists and their news agencies
Speaker 3: were slower to gather information and even get the correct
Speaker 3: tally of the total dead. The Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Speaker 3: attempted to instruct the Canadian media not to print the
Speaker 3: mass murderer's name and photo, so as not to give
Speaker 3: him the infamy that he would certainly receive As a result,
Speaker 3: the Prime Minister responded with an immediate plan to ban
Speaker 3: fifteen hundred types of semi automatic weapons for sale in Canada. However,
Speaker 3: of the four guns Wharpman had in his possession, none
Speaker 3: were obtained legally, and three of them originated in the US.
Speaker 3: The fifth gun that Wartman had was Constable Heidie Stevenson's
Speaker 3: stolen revolver. The gun controlled debate will renew with this case,
Speaker 3: regardless they did not have a license. But the debate
Speaker 3: over access to retired police cars and equipment is just starting.
Speaker 3: Maybe decommissioned or former police materials should not be permitted
Speaker 3: to be owned or sold at all. At the very least,
Speaker 3: look alike police vehicles should have to be registered with
Speaker 3: the local police department and in this case the RCMP.
Speaker 3: Are there not serious questions in retrospect as to red
Speaker 3: flags for police or anybody. When someone other than a
Speaker 3: police officer wants to restore a police car making it
Speaker 3: look authentic, I would have asked what is the purpose
Speaker 3: behind it? And especially now we can see that owning
Speaker 3: one of these vehicles could become an ideal vehicle an
Speaker 3: ideal vehicle for those with plans to murder. Whatever is decided, though,
Speaker 3: the discussion should be had because if this killer did
Speaker 3: not have an authentic looking police car, committing this carnage
Speaker 3: would not have been as easy and certainly not as
Speaker 3: desirable and dramatic a way for a psychopathic killer to
Speaker 3: conduct an incredible and historic mass murder. Two police cars
Speaker 3: sat at his cottage, One RCMP car sat at his
Speaker 3: denturist office in Halifax. He had bought another at auction
Speaker 3: and fall of two thousand and nineteen. The RCMP knew
Speaker 3: at the beginning of the attacks that Whartman had three
Speaker 3: police vehicles. What they didn't know was that he had
Speaker 3: a fourth police car until Wharpman's common law wife told
Speaker 3: them the next morning. After coming out of hiding. There
Speaker 3: were cries from Canadian journalists in the public for a
Speaker 3: federal inquiry as to what happened and the RCMP response
Speaker 3: to the mass murder. The RCMP were criticized immediately for
Speaker 3: not using the Nova Scotia Ready alert system and instead
Speaker 3: relying on Twitter alone to warden residence. As details emerged,
Speaker 3: Canadian journalists began discovering even more disturbing elements surrounding the
Speaker 3: rampage that took twenty two lives. They found out about
Speaker 3: the RCMP's failure to rest, let alone contain Warpmen in
Speaker 3: the area that they thought they courted off the first
Speaker 3: night after he had killed thirteen already. They discovered the
Speaker 3: RCMP's failure to warn people even on Twitter by not
Speaker 3: offering details about the killer driving a police car wearing
Speaker 3: a police uniform until a little over an hour before
Speaker 3: Warpman was ultimately shot. As part of their immediate and
Speaker 3: ongoing investigation, Arcy and PI found an acquaintance who said
Speaker 3: Wharpman had been in domestic conflicts in the past. John Hudson,
Speaker 3: who had known Warpman for about eighteen years, said he
Speaker 3: was sometimes openly controlling and jealous of his longtime girlfriend.
Speaker 3: I didn't see him hitting her anything like that, he said,
Speaker 3: but I know they fought. Hudson recalled the bonfire party
Speaker 3: about ten years previous, when an argument between the two
Speaker 3: left the woman locked out of their home in port
Speaker 3: A Peak. I was with her trying to get her
Speaker 3: stuff out of there. He said, people been drinking and
Speaker 3: it was a crazy night and he didn't want her
Speaker 3: to leave, but he wouldn't let her in the house.
Speaker 3: At one point, Warpman removed the tires from the woman's
Speaker 3: vehicle and threw them in the ditch to prevent her
Speaker 3: from leaving. So I went to get her clothes, and
Speaker 3: he said to me, I don't want anybody in my house.
Speaker 3: If you come in my house, I'm just telling you
Speaker 3: I've got guns in here. Reporter Paul Polango, an author
Speaker 3: of three books regarding the RCMP, wrote in McClain's magazine
Speaker 3: that his investigation uncovered ample evidence regarding the four hundred
Speaker 3: and seventy five thousand dollars withdrawal from Brinks that indicated
Speaker 3: that Gabriel Whartman was an RCMP agent. Newspapers reported that
Speaker 3: Whartman was friends with certain Hell's Angels and had at
Speaker 3: least one gangland connection, and then some speculated part of
Speaker 3: the reason for the rampage was involved with Whartman's role
Speaker 3: with RCMP and the conditions of that undercover work for them,
Speaker 3: that being that eventually Whartman would have to testify against
Speaker 3: those he gathered evidence about. Polango provides plenty of evidence
Speaker 3: support his assertions and makes a compelling argument the RCMP however,
Speaker 3: denied publicly that Wartman had any involvement at all with
Speaker 3: the RCMP and deny unequivocally he was an agent. There'll
Speaker 3: be more for journalists and authors to find, but likely
Speaker 3: there'll be no definitive answers to so many questions. Twenty
Speaker 3: two killed, three wounded, and RCMP psychological autopsy was conducted
Speaker 3: and concluded that Warman was an injustice collector, holding on
Speaker 3: to grudges for perceived slights, insults, or bad business dealings.
Speaker 3: There were three categories of his victims, those he targeted
Speaker 3: for past injustices, those targets of his rage, and random
Speaker 3: victims along the path. I know there'll be more to
Speaker 3: be said, also regarding the heroic behavior of Lisa McCully,
Speaker 3: who helped protect Greg and Jamie Blair's two small children,
Speaker 3: Sean MacLeod and Alana Jenkins, firefighter neighbor Tom Bagley who
Speaker 3: came to help when he heard an explosion and it
Speaker 3: was shot for his efforts, and Joey Weber outrunning a
Speaker 3: family errand, and it seems was a witness to certain
Speaker 3: moments of ARCMP Heidie Stevenson's murder and or the torching
Speaker 3: of the two police cars. As a result, he was
Speaker 3: murdered and his SUV tracker stolen. According to Western University
Speaker 3: criminology professor Michael Aren't filled. He says, it also remains
Speaker 3: to be seen what effect the COVID nineteen lockdown had
Speaker 3: on the mass shooting, and you can't separate the two
Speaker 3: in terms of victimology. When else in history can people
Speaker 3: be predictably be found in their residence all at the
Speaker 3: same time. So, even if we believe he was an
Speaker 3: RCMP agent, he was going to be found out by
Speaker 3: those he was informing on, and so he went on
Speaker 3: a final killing rampage. It doesn't explain all his police
Speaker 3: car and police memorabilia interest. For years previous to this
Speaker 3: murderous rampage. The pandemic and its government orders to stay
Speaker 3: at home did offer an incredible opportunity for Whartman to
Speaker 3: know exactly where all his potential targeted victims were, with
Speaker 3: couples together and even three members of a family all
Speaker 3: at home together. But did Whartman actually see the CBS
Speaker 3: FBI Most Wanted episode with the Gabriel Clark character with
Speaker 3: all the incredible parallels to Wharpman's eventual murders arsons and
Speaker 3: revenge on police. There seems to be too many coincidences
Speaker 3: not to and only four days previous to his murderous rampage.
Speaker 3: Many infamous serial killers have used some form of ruse
Speaker 3: involving their impersonation of police to control their victims to
Speaker 3: rape and kill them. This killer used the near identical
Speaker 3: police card to evade capture to try to kill Constable
Speaker 3: Chad Morrison and ultimately kill Constable Heidi Stevenson and others
Speaker 3: On Sunday. Two people Wharpman knew wouldn't let him in
Speaker 3: their home and they were spared. They would have been
Speaker 3: numbers twenty three and twenty four. It was extremely good fortunate.
Speaker 3: The RCMP officer that had just arrived at the gas
Speaker 3: station in Enfield was very observant recognized Whartman, despite that
Speaker 3: Workman had stolen the MAS to three and was getting
Speaker 3: gas and not driving a police car as reported in
Speaker 3: the original Bolo or the Stolen sv Tracker that RCMP
Speaker 3: had just recently tweeted, Wartman was now driving. Warman was
Speaker 3: heavily armed and had proven that he would kill police
Speaker 3: and any bystanders if given the chance, and he wasn't
Speaker 3: hesitant in lighting fires using gasoline. The RCMP officer shot
Speaker 3: Wartman dead at the busy gas station before he could
Speaker 3: respond with his own gunfire. We can only imagine the
Speaker 3: furner carnage if he hadn't. Gabriel Whartman is to be
Speaker 3: considered a mass murderer, which is, by definition, the murder
Speaker 3: of more than four people in a short period of
Speaker 3: time and in a small geographical area without a cooling
Speaker 3: off period. The cooling off period is the key factor
Speaker 3: in classifying someone as a serial killer other than the
Speaker 3: mass murderer. RCMP have pondered, as well as journalists as
Speaker 3: to what exactly Gabriel Whartman did between the hours of
Speaker 3: eleven PM to almost six AM. I wonder as well.
Speaker 3: I know from interviewing authors on this program for over
Speaker 3: ten years, and from my own experiences corresponding with psycho
Speaker 3: killer Sidney Chierhus, that a psychopathic pathic killer like Whartman
Speaker 3: was likely able to fall asleep in his car and
Speaker 3: get some well needed rest that night, for all the
Speaker 3: murderous plans he had for the next day, and with
Speaker 3: that true murder, listeners