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Tickets are on sale now. head on over to badmagicproductions. com and buy your ticket to drink Kle with us What comes to mind when you think about Canada May it was hockey or maple syrup Celine Deion Ketchup chips Beautiful natural landscapes,yan Gosling, Tim Hortononss, Niagara Falls Or maybe it's the Mountys The Royal Canadian Mount of Police, long time symbol of Canadian law enforcement I imagine that you, like me, if you think of them, conjure up an image of them in their traditional uniform wearing their scarlet red wool tunic a wide brimmed brown felt stets and hat High brown leather riding boots, dark blue riding breeches with a bold yellow stripe Burnning down the outer lakes enduring symbol of Canadian courage competence and justice. Usually, but not Dear God not today Whatever it is that comes to mind, when you think of Canada, it probably is not biker gangs, drugs and gun smuggling, and a recent mass shooting deadlier than all but five mass shootings in US history One that went on for roughly thirteen hours Today we deep dive into the tragic and what the fuck was happening twenty twenty Nova Scotia attacks an event that would have gotten a lot more media coverage hadad it not coincided with the beginning of the COVID pandemic? This is the fascinating story of one man who snapped to a degree very, very few people ever had before. A man who also should have been stopped far earlier than he was, but wasn't thanks to the greatest series of law enforcement blunders I think I've ever heard about Another crazy tale on this week's, whyy can't more people go quietly and not take others with them if they insist on exiting stage left before the end of their life's play True crime addition of time Sck This is Michael McDonald and you're listening to Time Suck Well, happppy Monday, Wlcome or welcome back to the Cult of the Curious. I'm Dan Cummins, the master sucker. Faith healer tankering around with harnessing the power of Satan to heal you Don'tock until you try it. And you are listening to time suck Hail Nimrod, Hail, Lucifina, praise be to good boy jangles and glory, be to triple M And it is June already I mean, not for some of you space lizards. Listen to this early, but even for you It's almost you Good news We're surviving. Some of us are even thriving U really good news Not a single one of you is dead right now. N fucking one of you I think But I kind of hope at least one of you is know that I really think about it because that would mean that this podcast is being listened to by at least one ghost or zombie orr perhaps a ghoul or something I'll take any of those options. I'll even take demon. actuallyctually, I prefer demon. If you're a demon And you listen to this podcast Please send me an email As opposed to I don't know, revealing yourself to me in my room at night or fucking something coming out fromont of my bed trying to strangle me. That sounds terrible Uh spepeaking of terrible I cannot believe this tragedy did not get so much more media attention than it did And and again, it's because it happened to go down when the, you know world was being consumed by pandemic fears, but still it's just it's a fucking insane story U This story would have been a huge, huge media sensation had it not happened to coincide with the pandemic. And maybe it was covered much more in Canada than it was here in the U.S. but I don't remember hearing about this thing M at all. justust barely like a blip in the nse It is a very unusual example of a mass shooting because the shooter in this instance did not kill all of his victims in one place. He went to a whole bunch of places, one right after another in quick succession with some sleep, randomly thrown into the middle of it O more than thirteen hours, creating so much confusion and pain, so many fires set. So many people who were probably shot before they even had the chance to process what was actually happening Let let's get into this Before we really dig into the details about the tragic events that took place in twenty twenty. They're so outrageous. They re like a big budget thriller in not real life There are a few things we need to have a base understanding of that mind, hereere's how we're going to tackle today's topic I do want to start by talking to you about your uncle again Nancy Have you called anyone yet Or are you just gonna to tell yourself that the reason he's always the oldest guy to roll a rink, usually by decades is because he just has an exceptional love for and special relationship with roller skates Your stubborn denial Discusust me, Nance, it really fucking does that out of the way again. We're going to learn a little bit about the history of the RCMP, which stands for, of course, really cool mommy puss No it doesn't. That was just the weirdest, creepiest thing I could come up with quickly. that starts with the letters RCMP. RCMP stands for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Maybe it also stands for a really cool m momy voice. I don't know what kind of acronyms you're thring around in your personal life We're going to start with a little bit about their history, how they function across Canada. Then we're going to set the scene further by examining the culture and overall ethos in Nova Scotia. And then right before we jump into our time suck timeline, we'll learn more about our shooters Excuse me, talking about the perpetrator of this kind of violence is, you know, is tricky on the one hand. Learn about the shooter's history. will give us a better perspective on the crime and maybe some understanding of the why behind their violence But on the other hand, too much attention to the perpetrator can come across as given infamy or perceived glory even to somebody who's committed these atrocities could, you know, lead to others wanting to commit copycat crimes In this case I do believe some of the personal history is very relevant. as I do here with all the dirt bags we cover And that it also doesn't excuse or mitigate any responsibility for the volence that occurred And also, while he'll get I guess some more infamy This dead fucking loser won't get any glory here because he certainly doesn't deserve any I don't think my take provides fuel for copycat crime fire because I consistently think these assholes are pathetic cowards and losers Anybody can take a fucking loaded gun and kill unarmed defensess people. Just like anybody could throw a fucking baby into a fire or tape a bomb to a puppy Do doesnn't take skill or intelligence, or any kind of specialness to do super evil shit Mostly just takes in a moral disregard for human life, a sociopathic pathic lack of empathy a pathetic kind of victim mentality that allows you to think that just because you were abused or mistreated by some people, that somehow gives you the right to not only abuse but outright murder other people who in all likelihood never did shit to you. or at least not enough to warrant their killings Once we're all on the same page as far as context goes for this, then we'll head into our time suck timeline And finally, after we learn what happened that April, we'll talk about the aftermath of the investigation and the conspiracy theories that have sprung up around it. So now let's saddle up. Len about the history of the mountainies The law enforcement agency That would Eventually bring this guy down, maybe maybe not quite as quick as they should have the history of the RCMP is nearly as old as the history of Canada as a nation is eighteen sixty seven, Canada became a self governing dominion under the British North America Act U Uniting its colonies into one federal country And then the very next year, the Dominion police were formed as a first federal police force jurisdiction over the entirety of Canada built from the Western Frontier constabulary, which had been in existence since eighteen sixty four However, the Northwest territories didn't quite yet have provincial status and they were too large for the small dominion police to cover So In eighteen seventy three Parliament passed an act that allowed for the creation of the North West Mounted pololice The original intention. was for the NWMP to be used only for a decade or two. as the Canadian government further developed and expanded that eventually a bunch of dudes on horses would no longer be needed to patrol a big rural wild west kind of area They would be replaced by foot patrols and later officers and automobiles However, the NWMP developed in such a popular Western institution, they were so romanticized in a sense, felt so especially, I don't Canadian. that the government in Ottawa decided not to phase them out long after the frontier conditions they were designed to provide law enforcement for had ceased to exist So the NWMP quite unexpectedly emerged as a national police force in nineteen nineteen as the Royal Canadian mounted police. Now, of course they're not all mounted today. Most of them are not But the name has remained Legislation in nineteen twenty came into effect and absorbed the Dominion police into the RCMP, added federal policing in Eastern Canada to the RCMP's duties and also move the RCMP headquarters to Ottawa from Reina since nineteen twenty, the RCMP has been the policing agency for the Canadian Federal government. closest U S. equivalent would be something like the FBI or the DEA That's not really entirely accurate because the RCMP sometimes ofentimes also handles local policing efforts Really, the RCMP is kind of like the FBI, the US. Marshals, state police and local police all rolled into one in many jurisdictions But that doesn't mean that local police don't exist in many places in Canada. Major cities like Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary, they have their own independent locally run police departments, such as the Toronto Police Service In cities like these, you won't see the RCMP handling local nine hundred and eleven calls or routine patrols. in a bunch of small towns and midsized cities The local municipality will often contract with the RCE MP ' their local police force In these areas, the RCMP performs the exact same day to day duties as a standard city police department is one of the main reasons that the RCMP has become so synonymous with Canadian law enforcement, they're fucking everywhere Back in nineteen twenty eight, the federal government started to lease the mounties out to the provincial lower level governments at a loss The deal was that the federal government would subsidize the cost of policing at sixty percent if a province used the RCMP. The only ask for this subsidy was if needed, the RCMP could be called on by the federal government to assist with federal investigations or national emergencies Out of the ten Canadian provinces, eight chose to disband their police and utilize the RCMP instead Ontario and Quebec declined The Ontario Proincial Police and the Satee du Quebec Both strong established institutions blocked contract mounties from their provinces. In Novacotia, where our tragedy took place, there are ten local municipal police forces in larger towns and cities like Halifax and a lot of the small towns. where our killer was killing there was only the RMCP O arts u RC my gosh, this acronym RC MB. I want to flip it around And it would be on the RCMP to bring down the shooter But now let's look more broadly at Nova Scotia Nova Scotia, one of Canada's provvinces on the east coast of the country and continent is a part of the Maritimes region. a region that includes Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island The land is the ancestral home of the Mik Mak people who name the area, Mik Magi. Today, First Nations people make up just five percent of the population and also randomly at least to me Nova Scotia has the largest Scottish Gaelic speaking population outside of Scotland itself. I didn't know there was any Scottish Gaelic speaking populations in the world actually. It's the only place in North America. where Scottish Gaelic has been continuously spoken as a community language since the late eighteenth century I guess that makes sense because Nova Scotia is Latin for New Scotland Here are some other random facts, some history about Nova Scotia. It's been called Canada's ocean playground because of Aroximately thirteen thousand three hundred kilometers slash eight thousand two hundred and sixty four miles of coastlinine So much ocean. Nova Scotia also home to twelve twelve whale species including the incredibly rare and endangered North Atlantic rightite whale. fifty thousand tons of lobster roughly are hauled from Nova Scotia's waters every year. Historically, Nova Scotia's industry has been tied to the sea They are also over twenty three thousand kilometers Over fourteen thousand miles of roads in Nova Scotia, and many of them are small, rural and unpaved. So many roads for the shooter to sneak around on certainly helped him avoid capture Also Uh, Halifax has about half of the province's population. approximately five hundred and forty five thousand people Nearly one point one million live in the entire province Outside Halifax, Nova Scotia is considered to be incredibly rural as is most of Canada residents sometimes called Nova Scotians but have also sometimes referred to as Blue nosers. since seventeen sixties. term that likely refers to early Nova Sotian sailors be out in the cold weather and get a fucking blue nose. or from early settlers who would eat a lot of blue potatoes and herring. Italian navigor explorer John Cabbott became the first documented European to sail along Nova Scotia's coast Way back in fourteen ninety seven French colonists established the first permanent European settlement manyany, many years later, in sixteen oh five at Port Royal. which became known as Acadia The British followed and obtained control of the region between seventeen ten and seventeen fifty eight Establishing Halifax as the new capitol in seventeen forty nine So it's been around for a while Nova Scotia was one of the founding four provinces to join the Confederation with Canada in eighteen sixty seven And for the entirety of its existence, Most of Nova Scotia has been seen as being pretty Fucking backwards by a lot of people Q deeliverance banjo music Yeah the Cult Canadian Mckumentary series trailer park wasys. that's set in Nova Scotia The fictional Sunny Vale trarailer Park, which is specifically located in Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia, based on real people and places in Nova Scotia. Mike Clatttenberg, the creator is from the suburbs of Halifax and he and the actors drew inspiration from the Let'd say the culture of local chronically unemployed and other unflattering archetypes specific to rural, maritime, Eastern Canada. fucking love Trailer Park Pways. R Can you not throw your dirty old pest jugs around, please Andad, G some more piss jokes Oh excellent. I you right on, man I mean there's got toa be a better system than this pain in jugs You're gonna make Barb, hh? Barba doesn't care buubs, it's an empty lot. It's toreid up in the open. Just guys throwing fucking piss in the bushes around the trailer park A lot of the ethos of the Trailer Park Boys is about constantly committing dumb crimes, drinking too much, getting arrested a lot. You know, not doing shit to raise your kids properly etcetera And I will say the shooter's childhood does read like a collection of darker trailer Park boys episodes in some ways Nova Scotia also has a reputation for being very welcoming For any place to live also has a long history with motorcycle biker gangs As of twenty twenty one, there were fourteen known outlaw motorcycle gangs operated in Nova Scotia Infamous Hell's Angels hitman, David Wolf Carroll is from Nova Sotia was once the leader of the Halifax thirteenth Tbe, motorcycle Cub gang. The Hell's Angels still have a large presence in the area Even though their official chapter was shut down by law enforcement, there's a bunch of support clubs for them there Other notable MCs include the Highlanders. The Red deevils, the niners, the gatekeepers, Bacus In recent decades, it seems that these clubs have made most of their money in cocaine trafficking, extortion and weapon smuggling. And the Nova Scotia masker shooter connected for sure to some of these scary fucking dudes Just about one hundred and thirty kilometers slash eighty miles from Halifax is the small unincorporated community of Porta Pic where the attacks originated and the shooter was living It'its right near the mouth of the Porta Pic River. near the Bay of Fundy Puort of Pic Beach Road, PR is the only official way in and out of this little community TBR is a winding gravel road that runs from highway to or as the locals call it, the paved highway far more for more, excuse me, for more than a kilometer down to the waterfront There's about fifty dwellings in the neighborhood, including many trailers and shacks majority are seasonal During the summer, about two hundred and fifty people might call Porta Pick home, but that number drops to around one hundred during the winter. B industry in Porto Pick had been pickling Sad cousin of Harry and send it to market down the coast in Boston. But a bony fish like Shad couldn't compete with Maty Apparently succulent scraud as the appetites of Bostonians began moving up the food chain after the First World War I've never heard of squad before I gotta say I do love a flaky white fish and they look fucking' delicious Now the big market for Shad is as bait for loobster And Chhad Nearly as good as a shot or scrot Both names suck, by the way. They sound like venial diseases U Sh are super duper bony local native legend is that they used to be porcupines. And an old local fisherman's poem is When the Lord made Sad, the devil was mad. For it seems such a feast of delight. So to poison the scheme, he jumped in the stream and stuck in the bones out of spite There was once a large dance hall on PBR. busy enough to need a parking lot that could hold two hundred and fifty cars. It closed in nineteen seventy five and left a pretty big hole in the area when it came to fun community shit for locals to do Currently, there are no commercial licensense bars or pubs in Porta Pic back in twenty twenty, there was the Black Bear Lodge Black Bear Lodge was a large three thousand two hundred square foot building named after a wild bear that the owner had nurtured as a cub and still handfed toostitos to Right out of the bag Whenever the bear turned up in the yard banner touting Miller genuine draft hung behind the bar, framed by two diagonally mounted five horsepower outboard boat motors Dusty taxidermid headad of a moose So Canadian with a modest rack of antlers oversaw everything from its high spot above The bar sat only six people A bubble gun machine stood for those who might want to chew after the brew off the side there was a small blackboard, the red leas's bar, often written in chalk. Along its walls, the warehouse was decorated with minikes and dirt bikes and other collectibles. O in a corner, sat the owners pride and joy a replica Captain America model Harley Davidson from the classic nineteen sixty nine movie Easy Rider. And why am I talking so much about this weird little hole in the wall bar Because the owner of Black Bear Lodge and four other properties in Porta Pick time of the shootings. was fifty one year old Gabriel Warpman. And that was the man. he is the man who would start a thirteen hour killings spree that would leave twenty two people dead in another three injurred And now before we dive into the timeline of the actual shooting Let get a feel for who Gabriel was parents Paul and Evelyn Wortman married on december sixteenth, nineteen sixty seven. Gabriel was born on july fifth, nineteen sixty eight, less than seven months after his parents marriage Scandalous Clearly the devil lived in the Wman home For premarital fucking was afoot. For shame Paul and his four brothers, Neil, Glnn, Allen and Krit grew up in what's been described as an abusive household Paul was the second oldest, one of Paul's brothers. His older brother Neil, told Global News a series of stories about his father and his abusive ways He said, I soiled my shorts. He made me put the soiled shorts on my head inside out and told me to start knocking on doors and neighbors to show them what I had done becausecause I refused to go, he beat me instead. Let's fucking insan Imagine shitting your pants as a kid Right, You're already humiliated Clearly an accident And then your dad's like, huh You see your pants Fuckking what Well, you got to wear on your head now Wear your sit on your head I gotta do this I gotta make you understand how serious this is. Wear your fucking shit on your head like a hat. They go show the neighbors. They need to know They need to know they lived to next to a honest God shit had Would' it be great if monsters were real like creatures in the closet or under the bed type monsters, but they only attack people for doing terrible things like that likeike their role was to collectively give humanity a lot of incentive to be nice And when he did something like makeake your son, wear his own shit on his head They ruthessly attack you Unsurprisingly, after growing up in a home like that, Gabe's dad Paul also became an abusive father He was reportedly both physically and verbally abusive to his wife, Evelyn and their son Gabriel mayaybe sexually as well. Family members have told stories that include Paul Bern and Gabriel's favorite blanket in front of him when he was just two years old because he'd become too attached to it. and also forcing Gabriel to shoot the family dog at the age of ten. I'm fucking kidy That' on fucking candy. Right, Miles O of Dad was mad because he'd also become too attached to the dog. Enough, Gabriel It times if I told you to stop pet that dog so much playlaying fetch with it Oh, now you're learning to cuddle up in bed with you? not in my house. Now raising some pussy I will not have an emotionally well adjusted child living under my roof and a happy dog as well I'm a miserable fuck who hates myself and I want you to hate yourself too So shoot the fucking dog or I'll shoot I really do hate so many people in this world, just truly I just sometimes I think that if I was given the opportunity J just a murder around I't know seventy to eighty percent of the world's popul I just think the remaining, you know twenty, thirty percent would just be so much happier Actually, I should probably take that back. That's exactly the kind of mentality that turns somebody into a mass shooter Let me say I would like to seriously punish seventy to eight percent of the world's population. with maybe a little with a lot of spanking. L lotad of fucking hard bare bottom spanking with paddles follow up spanking if necessary And maybe some people who, you know, just refuse to come to reason? Well, maybe those people get spanged to death. I should probably move on Gabe's dad Paul was an industrial salesman who moved the family around a lot, both Canada and the U.S, sometimes leaving gay with his grandparents, other times taking them along And u is fucinking weird In nineteen seventy, Evelyn had a second child, son named Jeff who they just quietly and quickly put up for adoption somethingomething Gabe did not learn about until he was forty years old. Gabe would meet Jeff in twenty ten is the story there. Did Paul just not want Jeff because he wasn't actually the father D did not want him because he hated kids? Did't want his wife getting detached to another one I don't know Two of Paul's brothers would join the RCMP And once Paul took a fourteen year old gave to see his uncles in a big ceremony, he became obsessed with the RCMP For a while, he wanted to join the ranks. sometometimes he also wanted to kill members of the ranks. but he also like collected a lot of their stuff, collected uniforms, collected reepplica, vehicle, badges, all kinds of stuff for many, many years And now let's let's learn a little bit more about Gabe's childhood before we move on to his adult years His uncle Neil, when interviewed following Gabe' shooting Rampage by the Mass casualty Commission, this commission assembled by the Canadian goovernment to try and figure out why Gabe did what he did and how the RCMP had fucked up so badly and trying to stop him They found that when gay was a young boy, quote Neil said He would trade with younger children and cheat them Neil didn't specify what gave traded But he thought he did that to boost his ego. and he also said that Gabe used to draw attention to himself by quote, making explosives as a little boy. take heads off of matches, bind them with an elastic, throw them on the sidewalk and watch them explode And As time went by and he got older, he became more sophisticated right up to the point where he could make a pipe bom Neil heard that Gabe actually once blew the window out of his mom's car with one of his pipe bumps He said the game's dad Paul dark influence on him, not a good dude The gay watched his dad beat the shit out of strangers in public over nothing, mostly road rage, it seems, on multiple occasions. he also frequently bragged about stealing and often stole in front of him Neil said quote Paul had a coat that he sewed, I don't know how many pockets inside that coat. Long, long coat Go to the grocery store, filling with steakakes and things like that, high priced items. It's all he was always into something like that Gabe's uncle Chris also talked to the commission And he said of his nephew He was always kind of a strange little guy Never known to have a friend He had a difficult upbringing likeike I said before, his father and mother you'd have to meet them He could describe them he'd have to meet them They're they're very bizarre, very strange And as a result, Gabriel was too You know, there's a lot ofysfunction, There's a ofysfunction in the family in total But his is really bad Just as father is just U. Maybe he shouldn't have been a father is the best thing to say. You know what I mean and give Gabriel credit. He never had a child and he knew He had no intention of ever having a child. He knew Chris would go on to recount a time when Gabe was just seven years old And his dad Paul put a loaded gun in his hands and told him to shoot him with it The fuck. so many people are so dysfunctional. Uncle Chris referred to his nephew as a career criminal who was just like his dad That quote, the apppple didn't far far the apple didn't fall F far from the tree girlfriend Gave Did when he was in his maybe late teens, early twenties, interviewed by the commission only identified by the initials of E E Paul confided in her that he had been sexually abused as a young child by both his father and one of his uncles She didn't specify which uncle. Another girl he dated, identified only by the initials of BD desescribe Paul as a high function alcoholic Paul was also directly interviewed by the Commission He denied abusing gay, physically or sexually But it did say gay was raised in a violent home and that he yelled at him a lot Also said that when Paul was around thirty years old, he apologized for abusing him growing up. He said that He said that right after he said he hadn't abused him. I never abused him. I never abuse him So then when he was like, I don't know, thirty, I apologizeed to him for abusing him a lot growing up. Not gonna lie, Paul doesn't come across as very bright. in his interview He seems about as dumb as a fucking bag of rocks. Gab, according to Paul, didn't really care for his dad's apology beat the sh out of him. Wh the family was on a big vacation down in Cuba He said, quote He straddled me on some kind of a picnic bench or something and started pounding the hell out of me I was actually unconscious. I don't know how much he hit me after that, but I remember waking up and there was a a couple of a staff we're pulling him away. And then he was in a rage like he was going to fight them And then the manager comes out. and I just everybody realize this is out of hand. So that was that. And then a bit later he added, my face was pretty smashed up, lost a bit of vision in one of my eyes. There's no scars on my face L loveve how he was trying to find this over lining h in not at the end. I mean, yeah Yeah, I can't see it in my my left eye Dam there beatating to death in front of my family. But, you know, No scars, so no foul. As far as I'm conern Gab's uncles heard about this Uncle Glenn said, Paul and Evelyn, Gabriel and Lisa, that was his longtime girlfriend, common law wife, Lisa there, were together in Cuba and they had an argument, of course Gabriel was drinking And Gabriel took a turn, got violent. You beat the living shit out of Paul Paul didn't even defend himself. He just took it said, I deserve this. and he did deserve it He beat living shit out of him. I love that story And again does feel Like ge was raised by characters from the trailer park, boys. This is our fault, Ricky? No, no way, boys I mean It's a bit of a shame, but They were just too fucking stupid to survive. How's all Tommy the animal came in when you think about it It Dumb Rins Stupid birds, crazyquirrels, pork picks, get hit by cars and pork ps over controlled population the things that are fucking stupid Falls to pond I mean, those guys basically just caked themselves over and fucked up. It's not our problem. Survival of the fitness boys. Survival of the fitness boys fucking love these guys Uncle Glenn also told investigators that on the evening of Tuesday, june first, twenty ten, a decade before the mass shooting Gabe told him he was going to drive from Nova Scotia to his parents' place in New Brunswick and kill him Glenn said he helped talk him out of it, getet to agree that they weren't worth it Several of Gabe's uncles would recall this and recall talking to Gabe when he was set on shooting both his parents dead. I'll talk more about this in a bit, get a little bit ahead of myself Despite what some of his uncles have said, it does seem like Gabe had some friends in high school U H a little A former friend and publisher of a Maine newspaper remembered mr. Wartman from those days. He wrote shortly after Gabe's death about how the two of them used to quote shoot his machine gun air pellet or BB gun I can't remember which behind his house Quite a rare air gun for the eighties mr. Wartman's high school girlfriend, who wished to stay anonymous, when interviewed by the New York Times, said she was shocked by the news as the man she hadd grown up with was kind. and quote always looking out for the underdog She said he was always so happy, just never angry Finally, she said that during high school he was known as the wheelie King for the wheelies, he would often do on his dirt bike Rac and pass to school A Aain I think the trailer park boys. Oh, there's a there's the Winie King boys nineteen ninety six, when Gay was eighteen, he started studying at the University of New Brunswick His peers there would describe him not nearly as fondly as a few kids from high school They said he was arrogant, argumentative, and obnoxious Basically a real prick Uh Also, three major things happened All Gay was a student at the university there that we know of And I will tell you all about them right after today's first of two Mit S showow sponsor breaks. 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I promise you, you will not regret it Tickets are on sale now and going fast, so get on over to badmagicroductions. com and get yours today Thanks listen to our sponsors And now let's check out the three major things that happened while gay was a student at college there that shed some added insight and his character. The first notable thing is that during this time, Gabe started going on smuggling runs between Canada and the US. Typically, these runs were for cigarettes and alcohol, but may have also sometimes included other items like guns smuggling runs would become a lifelong endeavor of his Also at UNB, Gabe lived in Bridges's House This dorm, this residence hall home to a hundred male students where apparently he failed to make friends with a single One of them Every one of those students who were tracked down and interviewed fucking hated this guy his house said that Gabe would do things like piss on the shared bathroom floor just to be a dick. U This leads to the second important incident from his university days. Every April, Bridgees house would give out the Chuck Crosby award otherwise known as the quote asshole of the Year awward Not speaking highly of Chuck there to the biggest, most unliked loser in residence 'srazy that they had an actual award for that U I love it. Historically this award was used to keep residents in line with their behavior and actions like you didn't want to get it. You know, you might hear somebody say something like, donon't leave your fucking trash in the common spaces You're going get the Crosby This award was handed out during a major party was something that residents look forward to all year Yeah, I bet I bet they typically raz the shit out of whoever won that bad boy choosing Gabriel Wartman for the Chuck Crosby. Not a wise move He deserved it. I'm sure he did But he was not a good sport about it. He was fucking furious He aggressively complained to the administration, a lobbying university to put an end to his public humiliation In the end, the university terminated the award. they it sounds like they made them peopleople apologize to Gabe and that made everyone hate Gabe that much more His housemates, other students actually exploded in anger. They smashed windows and Bridgess house, smashed shower stalls and bathrooms. a bunch of valuable items were ripped off of the walls, as roughly four hundred students rampaged, just a drunken rampage through the campus protesting this cancellation. It was called a riot in the news. It actually was published in news wires across Canada The final major final major event that happened during Gavees time at U andB. was the deep friendship he made with a newew Brunswick lawyer named Tom Evans A man twice his age, nineteen years older than him Some sources say that Tom Evans was a longtime family friend Others seem to kind of indicate that he just happened to meet Tom when he's at school U Whever, whichver You know, of those is the truth. I guess doesn't really matter during that time period, he and Gaye became very close. Like very, very close It is alleged that Evans and Wartman had a sexual and perhaps even romantic relationship Pause our look into Gay Wortman to learn a bit more about his buddy, Tom Evans Evans was u reey dud According to one source, the twenty twenty two book twenty two Murders Investigating the Massacres, Cover upp and obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia by Paul Polongo. He was an enthusiast and gun aficionado who had been convicted of careless use of a firearm for shooting at sket targets near a children's Bible camp Never mind convictions for tax evasion and selling liquor to miners In nineteen eighty six, Evans filed a complaint with the police that a nineteen year old male prostitute whom he had regularly hired for sex had assaulted him The young man was acquitted According toanda to Palongo's book, quote In nineteen eighty nine, the New Brunswick papers were full of stories regarding the arrest of five South Americans on a conspiracy to break a pair of Colombians out a jail The two men had the unfortunate luck crashed landing their plane packed with five hundred kilos of cocaine at an airport just outside of Fredrickon Colombian cartel that own the cocaine had sent the five men to Canada to either spring him or kill him as Colombian drug cartels are want to do Two of the five men represented by a deliciously shady, betteretter callall sl type by the name of Tom R. Evans In nineteen ninety, Evans was convicted of plying a seventeen year old boy with alcohol, less than half his age. quote, seducing him against his will So raping him three years in jail, never practice law again. Seven years after Evans was convicted of that sexual assault, Wortman purchased a Frederickon apartment building, where that assault occurred according to provincial mortgage court documents Wan then allowed Evans to continue to live in the apartment for free in exchange for collecting rent from other tenants paying the bills and doing some maintenance work Tom Evans would remain close with Gabe Wortman until Evans's death in two thousand nine, at which point he would leave everything to Gabe in his will will And that included cash, real estate, a Ruger mini fourteen semi automatic rifle onene of the guns Wartman would use during his rampage. People who knew both men have said the pair traveled frequently to the United States together and then smuggled cigarettes, alcohol, and probably other illegal items such as guns. Back across the border using a sailboat, Evan's own one that Wartmen inherited Wartman's uncle Glenn, who shared an apartment with Evans when the pair first met, said that he knew Evans was a bad influence and that at one point he tried to warn his nephew's pares saying, quote I said to his parents, Get Gabriel the hell away from Tom Evans He'll only get him in trouble So strange pairing these two Now back to Gabriel after graduating from UNB. Gabe's first post college job was working as a mortician Pretty creepy in hindsight After a little while, he switched his profession to becoming a denturist some close to him say it was a O only because there wasn't enough money in being a mortician And Gay was apparently very financially motivated So what is a denturist acccording to Denturist d. org It is a dental health carere professional who provides dentred care directly to the public dentist is an indepeent self regulated professional Denturists are recognized as being experts in the provision of complete and partial dentures directly to the public. I would define an interest Qite a bit more simly as A person who builds fake chompers for real mouths I mean that's the just, right In the early two thousands after becoming a dentist, Gabe moved to Porta Pick opens a denture clinic right in town At that time, Gabe met and began a relationship with a woman named Lisa Banfield Maybe bisexual, I don't know Lisa would later be interviewed by investigators who were part of the same m mass casualty commission that interviewed Gabe's uncles. And she would say that she thought Gabe did not like women quote because of his mother Because growing up, his mother really wasn't there for him at all likeike she, she was battered from Paul and abused But yet she enabled a lot of the abuse to go on. She witnessed it Banfield added that according to Gabe, his mother Evelyn, quote, didn't protect him from Paul at all I mean, at times, even Gabriel would tell me that in school, like if he did something, he would tell Evelyn and say, you know, don't tell And he called them Evelyn and Paul. byy the way, he never called them mom or dad And she would tell on him all the time knowing that he was going to get beaten or whatever. And then she said she was sorry, but she kept doing it every time, so he couldn't trust her He never trusted anybody What he said, his whole life We never trust that anybody was what he said his whole life Lisa said that as a result of this, Gabe quote had no respect for women, no respect for his father It is always interesting When these guys and we've come across this so many fucking times They like serial killers, mass shooters, they're typically men and they're typically guys with mommy issues. And so often like dad'll be abusive Mom will protect them, but they'll mostly then be mad at momom which is a really fucking weird take. notot that, you know, what she's doing in the situation is good, but You should definitely be mostly mad at Dad in this situation since he's I don't know, the guy doing the fucking beatie Right isn't that fucking worse than not protecting somebody for being beaten Neither are good But the one person isn't actively going out of their way to just fucking hurt people. I guess it just I don't know, somehow just easier for a lot of guys to be mad at Mommy U interestnterestingly in hindsight, right after Gabe moved town, number of small fires started popping up in a number of commercial spaces Boy who love making bombs Apparently still love to See some destructive heat At the time, Gaye was obsessed with acquiring property, particularly in Port of Pick. He was never charged with any type of arson desespite being strongly suspected in many, but he did buy at least two of the burn properties at a very reduced price on october twenty ninth two thousand one And that same day, the now thirty three year old man attacked a fifteen year old boy who was standing at the bus stop out in front of his new property Not on his property, just next to it Gabe allegedly yelled, You're too close to my building. And then he started punching and kicking this kid The boy told a reporter for Global News, quote, Then he had a friend who came over from around the corner hit me with a crowbar Then the two men stopped to my head and all over my body. Shit K was charged with assault, his first criminal conviction outside of a nineteen ninety seven speeden ticket. Wartman plleed guilty to a minor assault, the judge approved the plea bargain, gave him a conditional discharge, and placed him on probation for nine months. Find a meer fifty bucks Absur fucking the crazy soft punishments for violence will just never cease to annoy me. There' two more incidents from Gay Wartman's past, I should mention I methodically walk you through his twenty killing ramp page, minute by minute, hour by hour In june of twenty ten, Gabriel Wartman met his brother, his half brother, Jeff Samuelson, not his half brother, sorry, full brother Full biological brother. Jeff Samuelson, the kid who had been placed up for adoption back in nineteen seventies shortly after his birth, as I'd mentioned acccording to author Paulongo, quote The occasion was a birthday party for their father Paul Worfman, a man mr. Samelson had met only a few months earlier after spending years trying to track down his birth parents. But instead of a feel good gathering And the beginning of a new relationship, the Port of Pic reunion quickly dissolved into an ugly fight between Mis. Wortman and his elderly father over title to a property according to a number of people at the party P police recalled after the dentist threatened to kill his father Halifax Police invvestig a gave for making death threats and being in possession of illegal weapons But then strangely never pressed any charges Following this incident gave cut ties with his parents completely and permanently He would hang up on them if they called And he told his girlfriend, Lisa to not speak with him either And then finally, there was an incident in twenty eleven when he threatened to kill an arms or yeah RCMP. officer It sounds like the police learned about the threat thanks to some tips from family members who asked not to be identified. On may third of that year, warning about Gabe's threat to kill an officer was distributed to law enforcement agencies in Nova Scotia through a criminal intelligence service Nova Scotia bulletin Sergeant Pure would write the following day in a report I feel that this is a viable threat to police. I I contacted the perpetrator's father, Paul Wortartman and Monkckton, asked him if he has seen or spoken to his son lately Paul advised that he saw his son early in the year at a hotel in Monctton where property was signed over to the perpetrator The Wartman family is very dysfunctional, and Paul advised that he and his wife have not seen nor spoken to the perpetrator since the hotel meeting Paul advised that he is very concerned about his son's mental state. The perpetrator is a heavy drinker. He is extremely intelligent and very wealthy, and even though Paul does not associate with his son, Paul feels that the perpetrator still has weapons in the Porta Pic cottage Officer spoke with Gabe after that. than again, no charges filed. U and okay I think we have a pretty good picture of what Nova Scotia is like now and who Gay Wartman was before he would make national and global headlines Dude had a lot of ang prone to violence, was raised in violence had a very dysfunctional upbringing and current family situation, may have been confused as to his sexual preferences seriously about killing people And then in twenty twenty, he fucking snapped Holy shit did he ever Let's look at exactly how timee suck timeline Trap on those boots, soldier We're marching down a time suck timeline Saturday, april eighteenth, twenty twenty. Early evening. Canada's been in a lockdown to the COVID d to, the COVID nineteen pandemic for about two weeks Shit has just gotten really weird for Nova Scotia and the rest of the world Everyone's more stressed out than normal Right? We're all wondering what's coming next How deadly is this virus How crazy are people around us going to get Will the stores be shut down? Will we be able to buy enough food to survive This might sound dramatic to a lot of you, but I remember around here, a lot of people get real apocalyptic during those early weeks very quickly getting very paranoid. Pople literally getting into physical fights at the grocery store over toilet paper and eggs and milk I remember having a hard time finding ammo because it quickly sold out all around town. Early this evening, Gabriel Wman has a unnamed local woman over his Black Bear lodge and the two are drinking heavily fooling around This is a woman who is not gave' longte girlfriend slash common law wife, Lisa Banfld, but someone he apparently had an on again, off again relationship with, not nam and sources. Gab allegedly has this woman talked into combining two of his favorite things. A strip tease and dressing up like somebody in the RCMP quite the Saturday night, right? a lot of hall Luafina She was given him a strip teas, wearing an RCMP uniform while also laying on top of a replica RCMP patrol vehicle that he owned carb been made to look like a nearly perfect copy of a patrol car complete with a light bar, insignia decals, its own fake fleet number two, eight, B one, one Is that how you expected this tragic night to begin me neither Sounds like you should' been pretty fucking happ about how his life was going thating At around nine PM The local Nova Scotia, RCMP office posted to their Twitter account at RCMPNS The tweet was decorated with a gift depicting a sleepy, great tabby cat lying on a bed and waving good night It's Saturday and our hashtag nine PM routine is complete That means we get to relax for the evening and sleep in tomorrow Are you done with your hashtag lockup When you are, share this post. More than a year earlier, the RCMP had begun promoting hashtag nine PM routine, a program actually developed in twenty seventeen. by the Pasco County Sheriff's Department of Florida At nine PM every night, the Mounty sent out a tweet or a Facebook post encouraging people to avoid becoming victims of crime by locking and securing their cars, homes and garages at night This was not something that they had just started due to the pandemic It is unclear exactly what happened between Gabe partying at his bar was lady friend at nine PM But around nine PM Gavee drunk by the sounds of it, got into an argument with and then violently assaulted his living girlfriend Lisa Banfield She'd gone to bed early that night and then he had woken her up dragged her out of bed, pushed her into the back of a decommissioned RCMP vehicle, right that same replica cruiser that he had just been used for the strip teas a few hours earlier fucking crazy turn of events But again, he's drunk and according to a lot of people, dude had a bad and unpredictable temper. He just never knew what might set him off He handcuffed Lisa in the back of the cruiser told her that if she tried to escape he was going to kill Most police cruisers, the front and back are separated by plexiglass and the back doors do not open from the inside And this replica is legit Lisa went underwrite a memoir titled First Survivor About her relelationship with Gabe and also this Fateful Night So let's hear about how this rampage began to unfold in her words She said We don't know how long I was in bed when I heard him return from the warehouse I heard a weird whshing sound What's he doing? I pretended to be asleep when Gabriel opened my door? If I ignored him, maybe he would just leave me alone But he didn't He stood over my bed and began screaming at me, Get up off the blanket, exposing my naked body. I was alarmed, but tried once again to redirect him as I pulled the covers back up and told him to go to bed This time he persisted and kept yelling at me to get up He was in a mood And he wanted to fight was not going to be good Without warning, he took my laptop from my bedstand and smashed it on the floor. Gabriel, what are you doing? I screamed Furious, I hadn't moved as he had commanded, he grabbed my cell phone and did the same thing But this time crushed it under the weight of his boot Something within him snapped. He yanked the blankets off me and grabbed me by my hair, forcing me to the floor. He got on top me and started choking me My instincts took over and I tried to stay calm. Gabriel, it's okay, I'm sorry I said Get up, he ordered me. I'm done I was trying to talk him down. Gabriel, what's wrong? What's happening He wasn't having any of it Oh, you stubborn bitch, he said. You got a little Beula and Gilly and you. They pulled me up by my hair I tried criling my head to ease the excruciating tension of my scalp As I stood up, he kicked me in the stomach, sending me backward onto the corner post to my bed The solid log post of the Amish pine frame offered no flex as I felt and heard my lower back crack I dropped to the floor wincing in pain and lost my breath Stunned, I froze. I wanted the beating to stop Get up. He barked at me again. I tried, but it was so painful Before he could hit me again, I found my inner strength and used the bed post to get up as he demanded Still naked, I brace myself before he hit me again Dressed healed. If He open up my closet door, I grab whatever I could get on quickly parotites and a thin black top Let me get my purse. I need my purse, I said You don't need your purse, he yelled Grabb me by the right wrist It tied something around it. I think it was from a bathrobe belt in my closet. I'm not sure, but it was a soft material You couldn't think clearly or process what was happening Let's not forget my gun. I need my gun? he said in a calm, matter of fact way He dragged me around the house We went through the kitchen to his bedroom Be careful, it's slippery, I heard him say kidding me I thought beat the shit out of me. Now you're worried I might slip past the open safe that contains sixty thousand dollars without taking any of it He was in his own zone as he entered his bedroom He grabbed his black handgun, tucked in a nook of the adjoining sunroom. We walked down to the landing by the front door where he picked up a jerry can of gas and threw it into our sunken living room. I put my bare feet into my sneakers when in a calm eerie robot state, he said Turn around And as I did, flames erupted. It was surreal I knew he had lost his mind. Gabriel would never damage the home he took so much pride and created I had to get free. I had to run, still tether by the rope belt or whatever it was, we moved from our deck to the driveway. He doused our white decommissioned car with gasoline but didn't light it. instead of screaming at him I tried to stay calm and offered him a way out Gabriel's okay I said soothingly, even though it was anything but okay Gabriel, I'll tell them I accidentally started the fire. I'll take the blame. It'll be okay. please, please, Gabriel, don't do this It's too late, he said You'll never look at me the same way. pulled me to the road as the flames engulfed our home I dug my heels into the gravel, trying to slow his pace. Gabriel, please don't do this. We can get through this, I pleaded It's too late Lisa. You told me if I ever hit you again, you'd leave He said I dropped to the ground and tried to kick him away. He ripped my sneakers off, threw them in the opposite direction on the road You can't run now, you little bit, she said I didn't know how to stop him. He'd gone too far and needed help. E end of the night, I'm going to die, he said coldly You won't die as long as you don't run away from me His eyes darkened, stark and distant. I didn't see Gabriel anymore It was like there was no light in them Forcing me to my bare feet, he dragged me across the road to the entrance of the woods cried out in pain pass back to the warehouse, adrenaline kicked in. I thought if I could just get out of my unzipped coat and run, I could escape He wanted me to go in front of him I knew this path as well as him, but in the dark I struggled to get my bearings I reacted instinctively, shifting my shoulder. I got out of my coat and fled. I couldn't see anything. I tripped over some kind of root I tried to hide, but he had a flashlight so he found me instantly and grabbed me. My stomach churned as he confirm my worst nightmare He's going to kill my family My back throbbed. He ignored my moans as he thrust me forward I didn't cry. I stayed silent so as not to anger him further As soon as we came to the driveway, he released me. Don't move H eye said it all. I watched in horror as he poured gasoline on all our cars, the White Ford F one hundred fifty and his backhoe He calmly unlocked all the dead bolts and opened the warehouse doors Once we were inside, he grabbed a set of handcuffs from behind the bar Givem me your hands, he said Gabriel, you don't have do this, please, I begged. He cuffed my left wrist. Give me your other wrist He was on a mission he couldn't be stopp We're going to burn down the Dartmouth C clinic and then we're going to Marines, he said God if He's going to kill my family, just kill me now. I dropped to my knees and covered my face with my hands. A shot rang in my ears. I'd never heard a gun shot up close It ricoet off to cement to the right of me Givem me your other hand He demanded Gabriel, please don't, I said hysterically. I'm not going to tell you again. He said, Give me your other hand. and then another blast at the floor on the left side of me Terrified that my head would be his next target, my entire body numbed I lost hope Perhaps exasperated by my refusal to move, Gabriel grabbed my arm and pushed me into the back seat of the Repplica pololice cruiser, slamming the car door as he walked away He tossed guns into the front seat, passenger side panicked At least I had to use of my hands, but I needed those these cuffs off I struggled to free my left wrist without success There were no door handles in the back seat, so I kicked at the partition in the front seat kicking with my bare feet while he was out of sight, The Plexig gllass didn't break or crack. I thought if I'm to survive, if I am to survive I will need to use my hands and get this cuff off I felt confined and restrained Desperate I kept clawing to get the handcuffs off my left wrist. My skin was breaking beneath the metal of the cuff to escape. I stopped moving when I saw him come in from the outside He didn't even look at me as he went upstairs to the loft apartment. almost trance like, my body stilled I retreated to the innermost safety of prayer. Miraculously, I finally ripped free of the cuffs. My left wrist bled from the fresh claw marks. I still have the scars as a lifelong reminder of my terror and survival Fight or flight Both I reached around the window divider on the passenger side, but the plexiglass didn't budge I tried the other side and suddenly gave way. By the grace of God, there was just enough of an opening for me to get through I crawled into the front seat and opened the driver's side door, and then I ran for my life Knowing he was still up in the loft, I bolted straight for the woods to my right. There was no windows on that side, so Gabriel wouldn't see me I managed to get through our property line to where I saw a truck on our neighbor's property. I didn't want to involve anyone else. So I went to the truck there the back door and it was unlocked. I jumped in and quickly looked around for something warm to wear Dome light came on and I freaked out that he was going to see me But within seconds the light dimmed. I was freezing. As I reached around, I felt nothing but tools. Then I saw a neon vest, but I definitely didn't want that My heartbeat was racing beyond my breath. I couldn't stay here. If he lit fire to all of our vehicles, what if he did the same thing to this one? I thought? I jumped out and dashed into the woods. The spinly trees whipped about my face and head as I tried to move deeper into the forest. I was terrified that every branch cracking beath my weight would give me away craw to my hands and knees in order to get through them tie on my wrist trailed behind me and kept catching on twigs and branches. I pulled it off. With no light but the moon, I kept moving and my bare feet wincing in pain, explosions like firecrackers filling the night air My ears were hypersensitive to every unfamiliar sound, and I dragged my body for what seemed like forever Finally, I came upon a falling tree trunk with big roots. Thank you God. I crouch like an animal in its hollowed opening Gabe luckily did not notice her escape. before he set the warehouse on fire and burned it to the ground She will hide in the woods by that tree trunk all night you know, wearing little clothing And the next day, Manfil will tell police that her common law spouse had devolved from a quote, loving, kind and generous man when they'd first met into a moody and violent partner who since two thousand three had routinely assaulted her She said, quote, In the past, he was abusive and I would appease him and say whatever I could to make it stop. She told the RCMP she didn't report the abuse because quote, she didn't want to get him in trouble. in hindsight, I wish I would have because maybe this wouldn't have happened Vanfield, then fifty one years old, just like Gabe, described other beatings at the cottage, saying her spouse's explosive anger was typically triggered by small disputes Before this last assault, she said the last time she'd experienced domestic violence at his hands was three years earlier So weird, right He had been relatively calm for three years And then holy shit did he just fucking snap W was he worried The lady who had stripped for him was going to tell Lisa and then she was going to leave him Lisa unsurprisingly will be asked by numerous investigators if she had any inkling Uh the gay was going to go on this shooting spree She has consistently denied that she had any idea he would ever do such a thing She knew obviously that he was violent. She had been the recipient of that violence, witnessed him be violent towards others, heard him say plenty of crazy shit over the years heard him talk about, you know, threatening to carry out violence against various members of his and her family for years, but mass shooting She claims He never said anything that would indicate he was thinking about doing that She said, regarding these other victims I had absolutely no idea about his intentions or his reasons for killing any of them The only hint she seems to have ever given as to what made him snap was COVID. She said he was paranoid during COVID talked like a crazy person But she hasn't to my knowledge specifically said Crazy things. He was saying Okay after setting most of his shit on fire Maybe looking around for Lisa U but maybe not. 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H hope you heard some deals you liked And now let's return to the night of april eighteenth, twenty twenty Saturday night Gabriel Wortman snapped in rural Nova Scotia and drove over to his neighbors' in a cop car wearing a cop uniform and heavily armed. Greg and Jamie Blair live just up the road with their two young sons, ages ten and twelve Greg and Jamie, were well liked in the small community Friends and family called Jamie Chicken, some sort of endearing nickname, I guess The couple ran a business together, selling and installing propane and natural gas equipment across much of Nova Scotia It was just days before Greg's forty sixth birthday and the couple had just paid off their mortgage Earlier that evening, the Blairres had hosted two por to picked neighbors over for dinner With new COVID nineteen restrictions in place They'd eaten steak and potatoes on a table set up in the garage with the doors open allowing the cool spring air in plans to burn some brush. They cleared earlier in the day, makeake a little bonfire to close out a solid Saturday But then that all change when Gabriel Wartman arrived at the property and shot Greg on the deck of the house. And I should add, no one has come forward to say that this couple and Greg were on bad terms even remotely so. The boys are playing video games when they heard Jamie or excuse me, the boys were playing video games when they and their mother Jamie all heard Greg yell What the fuck are you doing with the gun Right after that, from just outside the house, they hear a single gunshot and then hear a body hit the deck. In an instant, Greg has been killed, mirror steps from his front door Jamie then grabbed the boys pushed them down the hallway. Then they all ran down into the boys' bedroom where Jamie, you shut the door, called nine hundred eleven at ten hundred one PM She was the first person to alert the RCMP to a problem in Porto Pic She stayed on the line while shielding her sons from the gunman to the other side you know, who was on the other side of the bedroom door, you know, very quickly The boy's half brother twenty seven year old Tyler Blair, who was not there that night, will later say, My two little brothers hid behind the bed and Jamie put her back up against the interior door of their bedroom. He just shot right through it For whatever reason Gabe never entered the room after shooting Jamie dead through the door And Tyle later went to the house to collect some of Greg and Jamie's things He said he found at least eight bullet holes through that bedroom door He said, quote And there's one that actually went through the mattress of the bed where my little brothers were hiding and probably missed them by about a foot Right? How fucking terrifying for those kid after witnessing their mother die and after hearing their family dog be killed and the family cat be shot to death in the living room. and also, you know, they've just heard their fucking dad be shot to death The young boys soon realized the gunman was trying to set the house on fire The older boy found logs from the wood stoves strown across the floor. The propane stove was on with hot dog and hamburger buns thrown on top near the flaming elements bolts through the woods toowward their nearest neighbor's house, the home of Lisa McCulley to seek help Lisa McCulley was a forty nine year old elementary school teacher who was very involved with her church and the kind of person you could call if you were in trouble She moved herself and her two kids to Porta Peak, or Porta Pe excuse me to be closer to nature when she was not playing guitar She was spending her free time hiking yoga or just playing with her kids The fifth Eate Canadian Investigative documentary series that airs on CBC obtain some footage of Lisa playing her guitar and singing with her kids not long before she died. I know. A man so sad Earlier this evening, she'd enjoyed the saltwater air during her nightly ritual at this time, which was a peaceful walk along the shore She love living in this area She actually lived directly across from the Wman's garage though dense spruce trees usually block v the view of anything beyond the driveway and the metal gate he normally kept locked She noticed the flames from his garage burning. left her two kids home after she put them into bed to see if she could go help in any way Right, So extra set. She literally died going to help the neighbor who would kill her Carly she wasn't wored about Again, the two apparently had no bad blood between them, atl at least none that she knew about Gabe saw Lisa approaching, shot and killed her around ten o eight PM while driving away from the Blair property. guessing she walked right up to him thinking he was a cop She was fearless She was your classic mama bear. She was so protective of everyone, said her sister, Jenny Kirststy. Krirsted said it was a reassuring heread said it was reassuring to learn from the police that her sister had at least died instantly. Aarently she had been shot in the head The Blair children arrived at the McCull's and were led in by Lisa's kids just a little while later. All four children then hid in the basement, under the stairs and called nine hundred and eleven at ten sixteen PM A RCMP dispatcher tried to keep them calm told him to wait for someone come rescue them These kids would be alone in the house, would not be evacuated from more two hours the fuck. Why did it take the RCMP that long to get them out of there? That's a question a lot of people have had. shortly after Gab killed again. There was a third call place to the RCMP U Andrew and Kate McDonald A couple who lived up the road jumped in their car to get a closer look at Gabe's garage fire and called nine hundred and eleven around ten twenty five. In a statement to a police private investigator hired by some of the family's victims to try and find out what exactly happened that night. Family's infuriated by the RCMP The response to the tragedy, Andrew said that while driving to see what was going on, he and Kase spotted an RCMP vehicle, parked in front of his neighbors, Frank and Don Gillichin's blue house at the top of Orchard Beach Drive. He said he told the dispatcher that it appeared that an RCMP officer was already on the scene But he found it strange that the car was empty and the roof lights were not on Andrew and Kate continued down the road towards the fire. As they got closer, they realized it was coming from Gabavee's garage. Andrew said he thought about calling Gabe and telling him, but then remembered Gabe did not have a cell phone Andrew and Gabe were friendly. They've been neighbors for nearly a decade And who said that they would have a beer together now and then, talk about working on cars and motorcycles After seeing the fire, Andrew and Kate turned around, went back up the road, still on the phone with nine hundred eleven where the operator was trying to transfer them to the fire department. They stopped in front of the Gillichinans or Ginchens, excuse me, house noticice somebody was now in the cruiser Over the cop car and through the kitchen window, the whole kitchen lit up on fire fast, Andrew said like fast. So we kind of thought something's wrong Not very often you see two fires at once and like, why is there a police officer here? he said It didn't make sense. But Andrew said the dispatcher didn't tell him what had been going on despite two other previous nine hundred and eleven calls, having in placed, letting the RCMP know that there was a fucking gunman in this neighborhood, killing people and burning shit Months later, Andrew told a private investigator that he was still frustrated, infuriated that he and his wife had never been warned about the danger He said, So there's twenty some minutes before we called and they should have told us to get the fuck out of there, but they didn't Why didn't the dispatcher know to tell us to get out of there because people are getting shot Great question All the details of this came out, basically nobody was happy with how the RCMP or yeah RCMP handled this. Essentially, it appears like that they flat out had not been prepared for something like this And we're used to do mostly sleepy non emergency police work and got complacent and just completely fucked this. And who said that he and his wife, Kate started to drive back towards her house. and then they noticed somebody in uniform was in that RCMP car And that person started to drive towards them. The car pulled up beside the couple and he said, I rolled down the window to tell the RCMP officer that one, we're not lighting the fires and two, we're on the phone with nine hundred eleven Andrew said that was when he saw Gabe Worman was in the car. that he was wearing the uniform, and Gabe started to fire on them with a handgun He said, we ducked quickly and I got shot in my forehead went through my arm My wife was okay, but at that point I saw Gabe. I saw his gun, hit a laser side in the gun, and thank God he did. becausecause if not, I wouldn't have seen the handgun at all because it was dark Despite being hit twice, one bullet through the shoulder, the other grazed his forehead and you manage to drive away then around ten twenty six he encountered the first actual RCMP officer uncene I told the RCMP officer right away, it's my neighbor Gabe. Andrew said. I told him he had an RCMP car I knew he had those cars, but I'd never seen them badged So that's when I first told him, it was him in the car The constable he told us to would then immediately relay that information over his police radio. So now the police Definitely fucking no. that a guy dressed like a mounty driving a car looks identical to one of their cars is for sure, shooting people and burning shit in this area And still they do not put out a safety bulletin They don't warn fucking anybody, not even other officers what is happening By this point, And who said there were now three officers on scene, the first to whom he had told the information, the second who checked his gunshot wounds to make sure he was okay, and a third who took him and his wife to the end of the road to wait for help Bking up a little bit directly after killing Lisac McCully and two other neighbors. Gabe drove his police cruiser south to the home of Stillmore neighbors seventy year old Joy Bond and her husband's seventy year old or seventy four year old, excuse me, Peter Bond. at about ten ten PM Jooy and Peter had moved in two thousand seven to their retirement home in Porta Pic Joy had grown up in Bay New Brunswick. We worked at a local sardine plant there One day, she saw a truck driver waiting by himself to unload a delivery, thoughtought he was cute, offered him some dinner while he waited. And that led to a marriage spanning more than four decades adorable The Bond's old children say that after forty years of being apart for long stretches of time due to Peter's job as a truck driver, the couple were doing everything in retirement together. They were closer than ever, even more adorable We don't know exactly when Joy and Peter were killed The RCMP would not find their bodies for about sixteen more hours They died inside their home though We don't have many details about another couple and their child that Gabe killed either shortly before or shortly after the bonds. thirty nine year old Jool Lene Oliver and forty five year old Eron Tuck had moved with their eleven year old daughter Emily Maye to the area in twenty fourteen into a house they'd inherited from Eron's father. Joolene and Aaron both struggled pretty heavily with mental health problems and alcoholism. They lived off the grid in their small home. they were very hermity But there are also great people who love seventeen year old Emily immensely Who doesn't have some fucking problems Eron and Emily, it'sent more than a decade together restoring a nineteen seventy seven Ford Pinto that was going to be hers on our eighteenth birthday, which was right around the corner She loved working on cars so much, she planned on a career as a welder When Emily had some problems in school, Jolene thought learning to play the fiddle might help her out, so she got her some lessons. And the fiddle became a huge passion forily. Both the Bonds and the Oliver slash Tucks knew Gabe as a neighbor Just like with the Bonds, Gabe shot Eron, Jolene, and Emily in their home also did not set fire to their house, not to either of these houses Emily Tuck was still alive at ten o three PM It was the time she sent her last text message to a friend before Gabe arrived and before she knew she was in danger family's bodies also would not be found until the late afternoon of the next day after these additional five murders. Gabrie traced his route and drove north past his bllazing warehouse and the Blair McCully Homes toward Don and Frank Galyinchian's house. Gelnn Chin's house U More neighbors, right? More neighbors he had zero known problems with Just like he fucking decided to kill everybody in hisighborhood sixty five year old Don Matson And sixty seven year old Frank Gynchon had moved to Porto Pic just a year earlier couple had just built a dream retirement home with Frank doing a lot of the renovations himself They were looking forward to a quiet life where they could enjoy nature, spend a lot more time with family But then Gab entered their home, shot and killed them both and set fire to their fucking dream home. so that nobody else in their family could ever happen it. Matt has spent just over two decades working at the Hillsdale Terrace long term care home in Osa, Ontario until her retirement in twenty nineteen Her former boss, Spotsy Dublin would tell CBC News The residents there held a special place in Matson's heart. She showed them the kindness and respect she had for them When she came into the building, her residents were her family. She treated them exactly like they were her family and like they were her best friends, said Dublin. She was like a beam of sunshine Madson worked in the home's food service department. She and her husband, Galinchin, had dreamed of retiring in Nova Scotia and spent years saving up for a home they wanted there During Madson's last year at the home said Dublin and the couple were apart, with Kalinchen working to fix up the place they hoped to finally enjoy when Madson retired. She worked so hard be able to have that home they had wanted for their retirement. And now that they're together, this would happen Dublin said. R just more great people, sensselty killed by a guy who had truly become the definition of a dangeed gunman I wonder if he chose all these people because he just knew they were good people and likely to come out unarmed, talk to an officer Even if that officer was their neighbor, a guy as far as they knew was not an officer, but there were people who would be easy kills for him Shortly after they died, as I went over earlier, some other nearby neighbors, Andrew and Kate McDonald who lived on Porta Pic Beach Rad, ended up driving over to investigate the fires and Andrew got shot but survived directly after shooting Andrew now, Gabe turned south down Porta Peak Beach Road away from Highway two and the responding RCMP members. So within thirty minutes of the first fatality in Porta Pick, the RCMP has received three nine hundred and eleven calls about an active shooter situation Additionally, Jamie Blair, the Blair and McCully children, and Andrew and Kate McDonald had all identified Gabriel Wtman by his first name and provided other identifying characteristics such as that he was a neighbor and a dentrist These callers each said that Gabe had a police car and Andrew at the very least, said he was dressed up as a mounty. So they provided tons of identifying information, right? They also like said that who this guy was Gabe, one of their neighbors is the dentrist. But important information from these nine hundred and eleven calls not be passed on to responding officers. or captured within text based incident logs produced by call takers and dispatchers Why the fuck Would the RCMP be so dismissive regarding the clear information coming from Port of Pick community members that the perpetrator is driving a fully marked car, you know, police car Best up like a fucinking cop local dentist None of that shit gets properly logged or communicated For some reason, a priority was placed on determining whether all RCMP vehicles in Nova Scotia were accounted for at that time to rule out the possibility that any of those vehicles was involved in the critical incident instead of just, you know, taking the witness's word at face value. and getting an important bllz out In short, they just didn't seem to believe eyewitness accounts. absurd and embarrassing After shooting Andrew McDonald in his car, again, back to that now, Gabe drove to two hundred ninety three Porta Pic Beach Road, the home of fifty eight year old Joanne Thomas and sixty nine year old John Zol Now approximately ten twenty eight PM. Still less than thirty minutes since the first murder and approximately ninety minutes since Gabe woke up his common law wife Lisa and started abusing her Joanne and John had moved to PBR Uh, you know, that place the place on the PBR Road from New Mexico in January of twenty seventeen after purchasing their dream home. Joanne retired early from a career in health services. John was a U.S. Navy veteran serve his country as a Russian linguist They've been married for thirty four years. friendriends and family said they truly love each other. More fantastic people Both have been active in multiple projects involving helping the homeless in both Albuquerque and Nova Scotia They become involved in volunteering in their community in Nova Scotia pretty much immediately after their arrival They were always looking for ways to improve the lives of others They've been instrumental in revitalizing a laundry project at their church in Turro, Nova Sotia They made the project more than just a place for the homeless to do laundry. They ensured that those using the service had home baked treats good conversation, that they knew that other people cared about them Joanne also served as a board member for TREY. Tuma recovery for exxploited youth Their house was immediate neighbororss with another property that was owned by Gabriel Wardman Gabe entered their home, shot and killed John and Joanne before also setting fire to their house quickly killed again. forty two year old Corey Ellison and his brother, Clinton Ellison, also in his forties We're visiting their father, Richard Ellison. Richard, not a dick. Good dude The three men had heard gunshots around ten thirty PM stepped outside to see what was going on They saw flames and smoke. Corey decided to go see if he could help Cy called his dad to let him know that a neighboring warehouse was on fire, another one of Gabe's warehouses at ten thirty six PM Why the fuck is he burning so much of his own shit J so no else can have it He took some photos of the fire with his cell phone. After leaving the Thomas slash Zal residence, Gabe had driven his reepplica cruiser down a trail through the woods on his property from the southern portion of Porta Pick Beach Road to his warehouse at one hundred thirty six Orchard Beach dririve Remember, despite all the miles and miles of roads in Nova Scotia that I mentioned earlier, this is a neighborhood with only one official road out and there are now officially RCMP on the scene. They've been there for almost five excuse me, fifteen minutes But still zero fucking warning to the community has been issued They're not setting up proper roadblocks No one who has spoken with the police had been told that you know, shooters is going berserk At approximately ten forty PM now, Gab encounters Corey Ellison just south of the driveway of his warehouse and fatally shoots him. The shots that killed Corey were heard and reported by the Blair and McCulle children who were still on their call with nine hundred and eleven Friends and family say that Cory was thoughtful, a kind person who went out of his way to help others. He was also legally blind That didn't keep him from his passions with sports and outdoor activities. He loved fishing, archery, shooting sports, the NFL and music And he died attempting to help a neighbor in trouble after shooting Corey person he is killed in less than forty five minutes, by the way. Gabe drove down a dirt track that was known in the community as the Blueberry Field Road at around ten forty PM. driving in an unmarked driving along excuse me, an unmarked unofficial road that runs alongide a bllueberry field And withithin five minutes, he had access Highway two and then drove east towards Great Village Meanwhile, at ten forty four PM, RCMP staff serergeant Brian Redhill began to give directions to secure the perimeter Officer Red Hill instructed Officer Chris Grund who was on routes to steal off Highway two at Hillview Lane, east of Porta Pick. However, at about the same time, officer Jordan Carroll and Officer Jeff Campbell were also radioing in that they were approaching Porta Pick from the West And there was evidently a bunch of confusion. As to you know, which officers officer Red Hill was directing his instruction to So they just keep fucking this up No containment point would be established on highway two east of Puorto Pic until just after midnight twelve oer one AM april nineteenth beforefore that at ten forty eight PM, offfficer Colford broadcast by police radio information provided by Miss McDonald that there might be an alternative route out of Porta pick However, the broadcast was not hurt by members then traveling toward the scene, nor by. RCMP dispatch nor by any supervisors who've been engaged by this point? Just fucking par for the course. Honestly, what the fuck is happening? It feels like and I know it's easy to judge all this from my computer years after the fact But this feels like this was all of these officers first in the job The replica RCMP Cruiser was captured on video surveillance camera in Great Village ten fifty one PM Great village about ten kilometers or six miles from port to pick ten fifty five PM. Clinton Ellison was concerned that his brother hadn't returned home So he goes outside to look for him, discovers his brother's dead body He's concerned the killer still in the area. RCMP Imediate Action Rapid Depployment IARD responders. They observe light from a flashlight around this time from south of them on Orchard Beach Drive. They suspected this person later determined to be Clinton Ellison was the perpetrator The members took up defensive positions on the lawn of the McNilly residence. Mr. Ellison turned off his flashlight, fled into the woods, fearing the shooter was hunting him The IARD responders began to follow him, but then having lost sight of him and then concerned about the possibility of an ambush, they just give up None of this is making the RCMP looking remotely competent. They can't even track down the wrong fucking guy when he runs off from them. He starts run away and they're like, it's too dangerous to follow him It's dark out there, scary. U So far, they literally could not have fucked all this up more than they did. It's just giving strong like Kystone cops vibes After receiving a call from Clinton from the woods, his father, Richard Ellison, phones nine hundred eleven at ten fifty nine PM Almost exactly an hour after the shootings began He reported that multiple fires and explosions were occurring on Orchard Beach Drive, and that his older son had just contacted him to say that his younger son, Cory had been shot. eleven ten PM now Gabe's Repica RCMP Cruiser is captured by surveillance footage again later recovered by the RCMP Eering the Dubert business park He had hit his vehicle behind a welding shop And he'll just stay here overnight himself from Shed ey All this wanting murdering Pyromania really tuckking him out, I guess. baby boy needed some sleepy sleep. L, what'nappy poo Five minutes later U, the RCMP stops actively searching for gay. stating that they have no further indication of his likely location This is what a few sources say I want to think this is incorrect but I'm not sure that it is. I mean, it does kind of feel on brand. All right, ladies and gentlemen Let's get some sleep Too dark out there to find any shooters All the best law enforcement professionals know that you can't find people at night It's hard because it's hard to see him, you know what I So How about we just look again tomorrow and just hope that you know, he doesn't kill anybody. In the meantime, let's just get some good sleep Have a nice old Bcky Get some scamy eggs, mayaybe some ao bars St over eleven thirty two PM The RCMP communicated with the public through Twitter This is their first tweet their first tweet, right? It merely states that they are dealing with a quote Firearms complaint Ustatement of the fucking century. They do not mention the RCMP uniform and replica police vehicleetails. they don't mention the fires, they don't mention any of the murders that'll mention the possible likely identity of the shooter who has been named U They don't fuck mention the fact that they haven't caught or located an active shooter It's a firearms compain That's what they're And people are advised in the area to remain in their homes because of the firearms complaint. Well done mounties. Well done twelve twenty five AM, april nineteenth now early Sunday morning, late Saturday night. RCMP officer Chris Grun uses Lisa McNullally's car to finally drive those poor four hiding traumatized kids to the Great Village firehole. where a waiting area has been established for ambulances and other non police emergency responders. Poor fucking kids alone for hours after the pnts were shot at five forty three M jumping ahead now. Gay Wartman leaves his hiding place behind the welding shop after getting that shut eye Right? J just stretches out. Okay, let's go get some more fire and murder done Almost an hour later, at six thirty AM, his common lie wife Lisa Banfield finally feels safe enough to leave her hiden spot in the woods near Gabe' warehouse She seeks help at a nearby house calls police tells him about Wortman's reepplica Cruiser uniform assault, right? It's fucking definitely this guy. I live with him. It is Gay Wortman. this is the address, this is the car. These are the guns, all the fucking details Five minutes later, RCMP officers arrive and talk with Lisa They perform a cursory medical exam, describe her as having no visible serious injuries, although she was in a quote state of terror and had a distraght disheveled appearance She was having trouble walking because the lower back pain suffered as a result from the perpetrator's assault on her was mildly hypothermic She again describes Gabes Rplica Cruiser. says, you know, this is what Gab is driving. This is what he's wearing. This is what he looks like These are his guns. Every fucking detail you could possibly need This is where his properties are located And apparently she also told him that he had all sorts of replica uniforms, notot just RCM paced up, but fire responder uniforms, you know, all kinds of things. He'd been collecting shit or first respoondnder uniforms like firefight, excuse me. but he hadd been collecting all kinds of shit for as long as she had known him it was weir Also at six hundred forty five AM, Gabe arrives at the home of Alana Jenkins and Seaan McCLeod on Hunter Road in Wentworth. This is about forty kilometers or twenty four miles from where he had hid overnight, alsoso about that same distance from Port to Pick. So he has not traveled far at all actually He is still very much in the same area, driving the same fucking car Wear in the same clothes thirirty six year old Allana Jenkins and forty four year old Seaan McCleode, both longtime employees of Correctional Service Canada Alan of work at the Nova Institution for Women, Menturo And Sean worked at the Spring Hill Institution. Alana was heavily involved with Stain. Francis, Xavier University and their forensic psychology program. So something very near and dear to her heart loved helping to mentor students there. She would find time to balance her demanding job, being a correctional officer and a correional manager with volunteering and making time for friends and family as well Seaan's brother says that on the day Sean was not at work. You could typically find him outside hunting dirty while loobs are fishing or just relaxing in the river behind their house. He loved his time in the kitchen, cooking and baking everything and anything as well Sean's brother also said that Sean and Alana were both constant doing whatever they could to make life a little easier for those around them uh They were a father and stepmother to two daughters, both of whom would go on to say that they were tremendous parents Shan's daughter Amelia McCeod has said, quote, I wouldn't be who I am without him Like I grew up going fishing, hunting, like he taught me everything They were really carrying selfless, loving fun More good people so many good people And just like the others, they were also familiar with Gabe Seaan had met Gabe through a friend and portred a pick, bothoth he and Alana had socialized with Gabe on a number of times in the past And again, no one has come forward to say that there was any bad blood between them Their family doesn't know why Gab would have targeted them U or what he did during the three hours apparently, he spent in their house following killing them And I know I keep beating this drum But that is what is so especially insane about all this. It doesn't appear at all that he was targeting people he felt wrong by or had vendettas against But he was targeting people he knew Gabe entered the Jenkins McLeodd home shot one of their pet dogs in addition to shooting and killing both Alana and Sean. Dude was killing so many fucking' pets, too. J just didn't give a shit. He then stayed as I referenced at their home for just over three hours. Nobody knows why before stealing Sean's wallet and then setting their house on fire The house completely burned to the ground, destroying most evidence to the point where there is no way to determine a definitive time of death for Alana Arhaan. At seven fifty five AM that morning, while Gabe is just taking his time chilling the Jenks McLeod home, the mounties confirm that the replica RCMP of his is not in fact among the vehicles currently found at Gabriel's properties in Porta Pic. Great work guys. Holy shit great work determining that the car numerous witnesses have said he's fucking driving around in isn't still sitting at his house and not being driven. Inredible. Promotions for everyone at eight hundred two AM A second RCMP public communication about all this is released on Twitter It reads You know to shut off his bubbles Iss rope covers shit Cimals try hold on you Then a minute later, another tweet went out, said Listen, Randy Whispering winds is shut. they're coming Shithwks, Brandy. Big ones Sooping down shitting on people Dragonark to a big shit nest And then finally, two minutes later, you boys have loaded up with double barrel shear machine gun The barrels are pointing in your own heads Wait now, those were all quotes from a drunken officer Ley from the Tiler Park booys No, the real RCMP tweet was Public communication number two april nineteenth, twenty twenty eight o two AM. U Hashtag R C M P N S remains on scene in hasashtag Porta Pic This is an active shooter situation. Residents in the area stay inside your homes and lock your doors. Call nine hundred eleven if there is anyone on your property. You may not see the police, but we are there with you. Hashhtag port to pick Glad they fucking fin mentioned an act shoot. What didn't they mention They didn't mention He has been seen in uniform. that he's driving a car that looks like one of theirs Pretty important fucking details twoo minutes later Be on the lookout, Bolo notice is sent out to RCMP members, stating that the perpetrator is potentially using fully marked for Turus car number two eight B eleven and could be anywhere in the province I remember that the first witnesses to the violence told officers that Gabe was dressed like a mounty, driving a car that looked like a mounty cruiser. And yet this is the first time the information being shared to other law enforcement officers Officer Bruce Briers broadcast a message to all our CMP members quote, We' arere looking for a potentially white fully marked PC twenty eight Bravo eleven. Please wear your hard body armor, the rest of the duration of your shift today just in the event you come across this vehicle still seems hesitant. to accept that the writing on the wall is in fact real Corporal Heidi Stevenson ask RCMP Operational Communication. if a media release Details of the reepplica crruiser should be issued to the public at eight forty four AM. Ten minutes later, a third tweet is releas It includes a photograph of Gabe does not provide info about the replica cruiser or say he's in uniform. Thank you fucking idiots Tweet read, public communication number three, april nineteenth, twenty twenty eight fifty four AM Twitter fifty one year old Gabe Wortman is the suspect in our active shooter investigation in Hashtag Porta Pic. There are several victims. He's considered armed and dangerous. If you see him call nine hundred eleven, do not approach. He's described as a white man, bald, six two to sixty three with green eyes phhoto attached Uh nine twelve AM A similar social media message posted by the RCMP on Facebook Right just says a lot of the same details eight fifty AM seventy year old Tom Bagley left his home on foot for his usual morning walk along Hunter Road Tom had enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy at the age of fifteen He'd signed on for ten more years with them at the age of just seventeen. He went on to serve on ships, including the HMCS St. Laurentte. Our Staint Lawurerence, the HMCS Marjorie and the ship he was the most passionate about the HMCS butot of vventure. After leaving the Navy, Tom began his career as a crash rescue firefighter at the Halifax International Airport, where he would remain for thirty one years. During that time, he also volunteered at both the Efield Volunteer Fire Hall and the Elmmsdale Volunteer Fire haall for approximately twenty years of service Just an outstanding human being Tom had tyypo negative blood was recognized by the Canadian Red Cross for donating over fifty times. H community said that Tom was known for his kindness, his compassion and skill as a storyteller As Tom approached the burning McLeodd Jenkins home just a quarter of a mile from his own, Gabe Wartman Sot and killed him Joey McBerney calls the Oxford RCMP detachment to express concern that he couldnot get a hold of his neighbors, Seaan McLeodd and Alana Jenkins at nine nineteen AM attachment phone line, not staffed at that moment And Miss mr. McBerney's call is Put through to nine hundred eleven mister McBerney informs the RCMP. U nine hundred eleven operator that Seaan McCleod knows Gabe Worman and that he is aware of the events in Porta Pick and explained his connection to Greg Blair, one of Gabe's victims from the night before The nine hundred and eleven call taker replied that he would pass along the info and that mrter McBerney might get a call back This call was not logged on the RCMP's incident activity lock And the info shared by Mr. McBerney was not dispatched to the command post or to respondent members. Another head scratchy move. After you eat a Sunday breakfast onn april nineteenth, sixty five year old Lillian Campbell Heislop put on her safety vest and got ready for her regular morning walk. from her home near the corner of Highways four and two hundred forty six down to Old Station Road. About ten kilometers or six miles there in back Lillian and her husband, Michael had retired to Wentworth in twenty fourteen About a thirty minute drive from Porta Pick Lillian had worked as a nurse at White Horse General Hospital and later for the Yukon Gvernment in its Health Services branch. She also sang Alto in the church choir. Lillily and Michael raceed sled dogs before retirement. were very involved in the mushing community Michael had once managed a Yukon quest a thousand mile international sled doog race that runs from or excuse me, runs every February from Fairbanks, Alaska to White Horse. In later years, both he and Leine volunteered at the race. which could take ten to sixteen days to complete over exceptionally rugged terrain Neither Lily nor Michael were aware of what was going on with Gabriel Wortman that morning in large part because the RCMP had done an absolute shit job warning anyone of the danger in their midst Around nine thirty four AM, Gabe either drove across the highway or made a U turn, stopped near Lydam, took Aim at her head with his laser sight Fucking blaster killing her instantly Just killing as many people as possible She was his sevententh victim in about eleven and half hours now. Mararyianne and Reginal Jay were Lillian's neighbors, Marianne looked out her window, saw an RCMP car slowly turning around, heading south toward Turo Then she noticed a body lying on the side of the highway. Recognizing the clothing, she realized it was Lilian Maryianne ran outside to the side of the road, quickly concluded her friend was dead ran back in the house called nine hundred eleven to report the incident The nine hundred eleven call placed at nine thirty five AM Despite the potential danger, Maryianne and Reginald remained on highighway four with Lillian's body until an RCMP member arrived on the scene Oh and also, the RCMP does not send out a new alert evenven though they have been given new information that the dude in the squad car is continuing to murder people According to the inquiry report into law enforcement and incompetence that would come months later nine hundred forty AM is when the RCMP command group fully grasped that Wman had a skcaed port to pick that he was driving a very realistic replica RCMP cruiser and that he wasilling and threatening community members in the Wentworth area Holy fuck these guys Clearly not a group of geniuses By real slow. By nine forty AM, a draft tweet describing the replica RCMP cruiser, including a photograph of the vehicle had been prepared by the Strategic commommunications unit and forwarded to Staff Sergeant McCallllum for approval. McCum did not reply likely because he was responding to the Wentworth Homicide dispatch, or maybe he was fucking busy enjoying some delightful Tim Horton cinnamon sugar timbs. which are definitely not just regular old donoughnut holes Gi it a name rebrand The request the request for approval excuse me was forwarded to actcting Inspector Halliday at nine forty five AM approv granted nine forty nine AM However tweet then not posted For another fucking' half hour Not until ten seventeen AM Okay, they were busy, all right Those Tim Horton's appppleitters are't gonna eat themselves godamn There has still been no official alerts for public safety beyond some mostly unhelpful shitty social media posts. At nine forty seven AM, the RCMP corp or excuse me RCMP corpal, Rodney Peterson actually crosses ps with Gabe while driving in the opposite direction at the intersection of highighway four and Plaines Road Peterson broadcast his sighting on the radio And thenen This is insane afterfter seeing thisy after Cross and passast him travels for more than a kilometer further north down the road beforefore he finds a spot that he feels like it's a good place to turn around He carefully turns around And they drive south on the highway to try and catch Worpon. and is unsuccessful because he's a long ways away now And because officer Peterson is a fucking idiot. Dude, had he never heard of like a three point turn before What was he fucking worried, you know, he can' makeutney it'sillegal This is infuriating I take back what I said earlier about how easy it is to point fingers from my computer years later Sometimes it's very easy because it's just blatant that people fucking suck at their jobs. And these mountys fucking suck at their jobs After seeing Oicer Peterson pulls off the highway onto the property of Adam and Carool Fisher at nine forty nine AM Fishers hit and called police, not realizing how unhelpful that would be. because apparently, all of the mounties worked in Nova Scotia at this point in time were sharing the same brain I bring this somebody toss into a garbage Candada fraat party the night before And then it had been puked on and had cheap beer dumped on it all night Actually the fishers had recogned Wortman thanks to seeing the recent RCMP Facebook post about the active shooting A few minutes later after just chilling, my officer dipped shit, look for a super convenient stretch of fucking highway to turn around on Gabe drove away without incident. ten AM now thirty three year old Kristen Beaton, a continuing care assistant with the Victorian Order of Nurses wasout visiting patients on her regular schedule She and her husband Nick have been keeping tabs on the shootings happening several miles away in nearby Port of Pick Saturday night. but had assumed it was over because no announcement of ongoing danger had been made. When they woke up Sunday morning So Krista went off to work This is so avoidable Kristen was newly pregnant withith her second child. She and her husband were planninged to tell their family the following week when she was going on vacation Their three year old son was going to wear a shirt that was going to let everybody know Kristen Parker Hond to CV in a gravel pull out on the south side of Plaines Rad. just southeast of the Dbert Bus Park. This pullout was frequently used by the Victorian Order of Nurses staff to do paperwork or make phone calls while making their home health rounds Gabe drove up to the same pullout. slowed his vehicle. position his replica cruiser right next to her vehicle Wortman then fatally shot Kristen through her driver's side window shot in the head She might not have ever seen the man who killed her and her unborn child. Gay would kill again very quickly fififty five year old Heather O'Brien, also a member of the Victorian Order of Nurses have been a licensed practical nurse for seventeen years Heather grew up in Nova Sotia, loved her community. She was mother to four adult children that she and her husband in thirty five years Teddy had raised in Heather's childhood home Heather was a hometown girl and proud of it, a familiar face in the community. Many of her patients had watched her grow up She literally been around watching her grow up and now she's caring for them in their retirement years She was active in her community. She loved to play cribage on Monday nights at the local Lgion I'd like to spend time with any of her twelve grandchildren on the weekends She was not working the morning of april nineteenth, but she was bringing coffee over to one of her daughter's houses she's just a nice person. Just trying to be helpful Just a polite and kind Canadian While driving, she's on the phone with her friend and colleague, Leona Allen, discussing the ongoing manhunt and killings she seemed to think that the guy must have been caught. or wasn't in the area anymore because there had not been a recent dire warning Unfortunately, Heather was just thirty seconds behind Gabriel Wkmann when he shot Kristen Beaton pulled over on the side of the road told her that she saw what she believed to be a police cruiser and heard a gunshot Gabe then spun around in the pullout. pull his replica cruiser up next to Heather's car out of his vehicle shot Heather through the head shot her through her driver's side window Her vehicle then rolled southeast along the shoulder of planainess road for approximately sixty meters meters, about two hundred feet before coming to a stop in a wooded ditch on the south side of the road. Leona heard Heathers scream and the call end Leona immediately tried phoning her back, but her call went unanswered. My got At ten two AM, Lenona called nine hundred eleven to report that her friend. who is in De Bbert in her car only a little over twenty miles or almost twenty five kilometers away from Porta Pick when she said She quote, heard gunshots and there was a police vehicle. and then that's all I could hear was her scream Other witnesses also called nine hundred and eleven to report these recent two fatalities Meanwhile, Gabe Wortman just keeps on trucking. drives away towards Highway four now T minutes later even at ten seventeen AM More than twelve hours. after Jamie Blair's initial nine hundred eleven call providing info about the Rplica pololice decaled crruiser, the RCMP finally alerts the public via Twitter that Wartman was in fact definitely driving a replica cruiser Over the following hour and a half, the RCMP actually issued eight tweets They post several Facebook messages and issue an email media release Right? Finally go hard on getting the word out Between ten forty and ten forty nine AM Gaveis spotted driving west on Hway two near Brookfield by numerous people Officers Chad Morrison and Heidi Stehvenson were in the area where Wartman had been spotted two are going to meet up continontinue the search. Officer Morrison pulled the side of the highway to wait for Oicer Stevenon And then Gay pulled his car right up alongside officer Morrison while he's waiting catch him and then he catches him off guard He fires three shots at the officer, injuring but not killing him Morrison then drives away and survives also manages to hit the emergency alert in his car And I feel fucking terrible for Zffer But I am also surprised. like, wouldn't you be on the highest fucking alert in these moments and looking for other cruisers You know, and if you see another cruiser approach wondering, Ohh my God is this him? Have your gun ready? be you ready to crouch? I don't know So weird all of this. Officer Heidi Stevenson continues towards Morrison and Wartman's last known location now. Stevenson was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Gring up, she was an active member of the four H Club, built deep community roots She fell in love with rugby during college, who go on to coach rugby as a way to inspire girls and give back to her community. She had been with the RCMP for twenty three years, wore many different hats during that time, including representing the RCMP across the continent as part of the musical ride A job she took without even knowing how to ride a horse, which was required Many of her roles were community focused, and she was known to dedicate herself completely so she could be the best possible role model As Wartman drove away from Morrison after shooting him He now spots Stevenson approaching She's about five hundred meters or just over a quarter of a mile away He turns to intercept her, veering both cars into the guardrails of the ramp onto Highway two where they then collide on the Schubenace Cloverleaf ramp. After crashing, Heidi exchanges gunfire with Wartman before and after she exits her vehicle. In this exchange, Gabe sustains a wound to his forehead from bullet fragments from Stevenson's firearm does gun her down at close range takes her pistol and ammo This story is insane. goodood on her for at least trying to take this motherfucker out, right? She died a hero Gabe, the fucking terminator apparently, not done killing yet A driver, thirty six year old Joey Webber came across the two crashed police cars on the Clover Laf. He pulls over, exits his silver two thousand seven fort escape. Starts turning over to help Joey also born and bred Nova Scotia boy His father owned a forestry business that used horses to haul wood. Through working for his dad from a young age, he became a gifted horseman with an innate ability to work with draft horses So he loved racing at Scotia Speed worldorld also. He had worked his way up from Thunder and lightightning class to hobby class while always carrying the Number seventy five on his car. You enjoy the competition and the Camaradery. Joe and his partner had four daughters. the youngest of which will be born on Christmas dayay twenty twenty eight months after ay B Wortman's murderous rampage Wortman used his gun to force Joey Weber into the back of his replica cruiser where he then shoots and kills him. Gabe takes a few items out of the cruiser before setting it and Heidi Stehvenson's carars on fire He loved Burn shit He then proceeds to drive away in Joey Webber's SUV ten fifty five AM now Gabe left the Cover Laf, driving south on H highway two twenty four in Joey Webber's SUV He passes fifty four year old Gina Gouleet's home, makes a U turn, drives back to her residence parks behind her house, where the SUV was partly obscured from the road, and then quickly breaks the glass and a side door to enter the home Ggina was also a professional dentrist and a two time cancer survivor. She lived in, loved rural Nova Scotia She'd been a denturist there for twenty seven years. And like so many other victims she knew Gabe. She'd met him through the province's relatively small, denturous community including going to a ongoing education activities with him. Gina was a person who created fun, wherever she went, friends said her daughter, Amelia said that Gina led a life of fulfillment and that you might find Gina on the beach in Cuba, or on the riverbank with a fishing rod At her cottage with a dog, spending time with her family dancing salsa in her living room join the company of her horse Always with a smile on her face She was notorious for running her car on fumes. a little funny quirk of hers, neighbor said, If you were going with Jean in the car somewhere, she always had to stop for gas In the morning of april nineteenth, Gina was texting with her adult daughter, Amelia about what Gabe Wortman was doing very concerned because she knew Gabe. ew end out she knew that he knew where she lived. Another local dentist had warned Gina to keep her doors locked But Amelia reassured her mom that quote, there's no way he could get that far without being caught. Yeah She agreed to keep her phone closed in case her mom called aroundround ten fifty eight AM Gina did call her daughter. This is heartbreaking. Butilia later explained that their cell phone rang twice When you picked it up, the caller hung up Amelia tried to phone her mom back multiple times but received no answ She and her husband David grew increasingly alarmed and then left the house and drove towards Gina's home Mom didn't answer of course, because Gay Wartman had entered her house. She shot Ginger, Gina's protective German shhepherd twice Once in the face, shattering teeth and her jaw another time in the back. Butjangles hates this motherfucker. ude love to shoot dogs as much as they love to shoot people. Ginger would actually survive the gruesome injuries after surgery Gina sadlely would not Gina was hiding in her ens suite bathroom when Wartman kicked down the door and shot her in the head just like he had almost everyone else L lot of headshots He then took his items out of Joey Weber's forort escape and then drove off with him in Gina's Grey Mazda three. At the time, the RCMP emergency response team had left the Schubenakadi Clover Laf at approximately eleven AM in pursuit on Highway two hundred twenty four either during the period in which Gabe was inside Gina's home or sometime shortly thereafter U ERT members drove southbound, southbound past the residence, they did not see Joey's SUV parked behind Gina's home He is still one step ahead of everybody eleven fourteen AM now Mr. Michael Bennett, the emergency management offffice's incident commander called Mr. Glenn Mason, the civilian manager of the RCMP emergency management section to advise that the emergency Management Office Incident command was prepared and ready to use alert ready on request by the RCMP RCMP Operational Communication Center staff, the command group, and the executive leadership told the commission that, on april nineteenth They weren't aware that Alert ready. was a mechanism by which info could be shared directly with the public during a critical isn't How the fuck did they not know that They were so unprepared for something like this ever happening. At eleven sixteen AM, Gabe pulled into the Elmsdale Petro Canada station, right this gas station parked at pump number seven He was captured on video surveillance at this location. almost simultaneously Officers Andrew Ryan, Jason Barnhill and Brent Kelly of the H Division emergency resesponse team parked their vehicle at pump number eight Same goddamn gas station The three constables exit their ERT vehicle just as Gabe picking up the fuel hose at pump number seven, still dressed like a mounty by the way with a bleeding fucking head wound All three ERTam members are dressed in tactical gear. They're right by each other R by each other After replacing the fuel hose, Gabe, he sees these guys. They don't see him He gets back into his minds at three. Pulls forward, turn sharply to his right, making a one hundred and eighty degree turn to pull up to pump number five now After a brief pause at that pump, I guess he decides nah it's too risky. And he drives out of the parking lot without ever having gotten g fuel His approximate time of departure from the Petro Canada Station eleven seventeen five seconds AM, forty four seconds after arrival After leaving the gas station, he heads south on highighway one hundred two to Efield none of the ERT members have still noticed him. You would think that everybody would be taking a real close look at anybody justust like aount, especially somebody bleeding from the head eleven twenty four AM Gabe arrives at the endfield. This is fucking tragic, but just darkly the comedy is' so fucking dark, but just these cops what for fuck's sake How do you keep fucking up so many times in a row att eleven twenty four AM Gave arrives at the Efield big stop gas station from highighway two. afterfter turning off highway one hundred two And fielded big stop surveillance videos show that Gabe initially pulled in next to pump seven, then drove around to pump five less than thirty seconds later U RCMP police dog service member, offfficer Craig Hubley, traveling with emergency response team member offfficer Ben McLeodd, parked there unmarked RCMP SUV at pump six. As he's exiting his vehicle, Huley notices a lone man slouching over in the driver's seat of the grreay vehicle on the other side of the pump. He recognizes W and finally From the photographs, he reviewed that morning. Also has a beding head Same head wound. again he'd had when those other three officers did notice him. These two are now about fifteen feet apart As Huley draws his pistol and points it a Gabe She shouts, It's him. He then sees Wortman react by, quote, jerking back while seated and immediately raising a silver colored pistol in his direction with his right hand Both Hubley and McCLod later testified that they were following their training, shooting multiple rounds in a short period of time to ensure the threat presented by the perpetrator was addressed Gabe seemems to be beat them to to the punch. beat them both to the punch still shooting himself in the head just before they fired on him However An autopsy later will reveal that the immediate cause of death was the multiple bullets fired by Hule and McLleeod causing lethalam damage to the perpetrator's internal organs Really? Not the headshot Feels like the corner just wanted to give the RCMP a win here Fuly broadcast Wartman's death on the ERT radio channel, att eleven twenty seven AM At eleven forty, RCMP issued its last tweet about the mass casualty, stating that the perpetrator was, quote in custody That's one way to put it I mean,'s fucking dead, you could mention that he' fucking dead. With that nearly thirteen hours after the first nine hundred eleven call Gate Wortman's terrifying rampage finally comes to an end Wermman had left awake of destruction He had set multiple fires injured a number of people, harmed and killed animals, ripped apart families with the senseless murders of twenty two innocent people In the aftermath of april eighteenth and nineteenth, twenty twenty, there were more questions and answers. Why did Gabriel Wertman do what he did? Why did it take the Royal Canadian Mount of pololice so fucking long to stop him Let's get out of the timees suuck timeline. turn our attention to what happened next Good job, soldier. You've made it back. barely. It is still unclear what Gavee's motivations were For the rampage, you know, he went on as I have alluded to But also it seems like the RCMP have tried to keep as much information from the public as possible So maybe they do know, but it just haven't said Maybe the answer would make them look even worse than they already do In the immediate aftermath of the twenty two murders committed by Gay Wortman, the RCMP came into harsh criticisms and public or harsh under Harsh criticism public scruty of course The Mass casualty Commission I've referenced wasas a joint provincial and federal inquiry assembled to investigate the shootings in Port of Pic, Nova Scotia to try and get some answers theirir final three thousand page report. named Turning the Tides togetherogether was released in twenty twenty three. Findings include officers deployed as first responders had little idea what they were arriving to The RCMP nonetheless, quote, failed to publicly share accurate and timely information worsening the tragedy re obvious Don't really need a commission to determine that As one example of incompetence, the RCMP issued mobile phones given to officers had no data abilities You couldn't use them for data you couldn't use him to like, you know, look on social media couldn't use didn't have lights on them. So officers unfamiliar with the area. weren't able to use these phones to navigate with had to use their personal phones instead to navigate in the dark Despite the first three emergency calls, identifying the shooter by name, saying he was driving a near perfect replica of an RCMP vehicle, offfficers on the ground never given that info and instead assumed the shooter was driving a decommissioned vehicle with old decals. Right? It's a big old basic human communication fuck up Already aware of some of the murders and burning buildings, the RCMP tweeted that they were responding to a firearm complaint, as I mentioned, a message the commission said quote, in no way conveyed the threat presented by the perpetrator at the time. Obviously pololice did not send out another message to the public until the next morning. didid have access to an emergency alert system in place but senior RCMP officers told the commission they didn't think they could use it They thought it was only supposed to be used for weather and natural disasters. What of those fucking morons think was going to happen to them if they used it? They were going to be fired for trying to be too safe The initial tactical response was that of confusion that there was no clear chain of command because they didn't know the area well, pololice did not realize there was a gap in their containment efforts and that allowed the shooter to escape For most of the night, RCMP operated under the assumption that Gay Wortman was still near Porta Pic or that he was dead wasn't until the next morning the RCMP full grasped that he'd escaped Outdated technology, insufficient training, confusion over orders. Who was giving them? Who was supposed to follow them? also hampered the response the commission found. Early in the response, an off duty RCMP sergeant, driven to the detachment by his wife, was issuing orders to officers Even though he had told colleagues at the time he'd had at least four drinks Right? That was why he wasn't driving. He was too drunk to drive but not too drunk to help lead Canada's most important ever manhunt. Got it The report also details Wortman's history of domestic violence and his relationships with women, including his common liwife, common lawife Lyinda Banfield Excuse me, Lisa Banfield. in particular the report notes the experience of Brenda Forbes, a neighbor in Porta Pic who informed the RCMP of Wortman's violence toward Banfield of the past, He never faced consequences But Brenda dealt with years of stalking harassment and threats from Wpman. prompting her to leave the province when the police would not deal with those threats. All of these errors made by the RCMP led to conspiracy theories about gay wararpare One theory is that he was actually an important confidential informant for the RCMP Fueling this speculation is the fact that on march thirtieth, twenty twenty, just three weeks before the rampage, Wartman withdrew four hundred seventy five thousand dollars in cash from a Brinks depot in Dartmouth, Nov Scotia This theory actually published in an article from Mclean's magazine It laid out its case saying the cash in a carry all and put it in the trunk of his car and then placed the four hundred seventy five thousand dollars in a few fireproof containers at one of six real properties that he owned sources in both banking and the RCMP said that that transaction is consistent with how the RCMP funnels money to its confidential informants and agents and that it is not an option available to private banking customers. Around this time, a major bust of four motorcycle gang members, two Hell's Angels, and two Red deevils were arrested by RCMP after a very long operation in the next province over New Brunswick. As Gay Wartman was known for smuggly motorcycle parts, cigarettes, liquor, possibly guns from the U S, and had regular interactions with numerous bite gang members. Some speculated that Wartman was an informant acting against the gangs for the RCMP And at the night he started his rampage, he'd found out that his cover had been blown Feing betrayed, he went on a murder spree, one partially engineered to embarrass the RMCP or RCMP excuse me. The RCMP has repeatedly said it has no special relationship with Werpin But of course, that doesn't mean that they're not hiding something If Wortman was an RCMP inform or agents, it could explain why the force appeared not to act on supposed previous complaints about his illegal guns and assaults on his common law wife Another conspiracy theory is that Wartman may have had a partner of sorts with his criminal activities person with strong ties to organized crime Peter Allan Griffin I bought this remote controlled toy helicopter to which I have attached this handgun. And I tell you, this thing is not easy to fly. Peter, that doesn't seem very goes Now I don't have anything to control the trigger with, so I put it on a timer. but I don't remember how long I sh it.' wrong die. Not that Peter Griffin actually., this Peter Griffin was forty years old living in Puorta Pica, Nova Scotia with his parents while working at a sign shop in nearby Turo in twenty nineteen Griffin had been arrested in Edmonton back in twenty fourteen in connection to the La Familia gang which has ties to Mexican drug cartels He was on parole, hung out with Wartman and occasion worked for him as a handyman pololice interviewed Griffin about the mass shooting shortly they occurred and he initially told his parole officer that he didn't know anything But it was soon discovered that he was the guy who printed the fake RCMP decals for Wartman in twenty nineteen This has also led some to believe that there could be more to what occurred in twenty twenty than what has been made public by the police So what a fucking crazy story, right Will we ever know why Gabriel Wartman did what he did? I mean, probably not I mean, maybe he thought, for example, that the police truly had ratted him out to the bikers he had ratted out. and now there was a price on his head And he knew he was a dead man walking. You know, that it wasn't going to be a quicker painless death And so he decided to have one last fling with his mistress, one last strip tea, some hot sex, his last rodeo And then he decided he wanted to fuck over the RCMP on his way out Drive around in the car, they look like one of their cars, dressed in one of their uniforms, killing as many people as he could before they killed him, making them look as incompetent as possible Burn as many buildings down as well, causees so much mayhem kill Mountys, you know, if he could when they came for him Or maybe maybe he got real conspiratorial about COVID had some kind of strange mental health crisis just fucking snapped and was legit out of his mind at the end had some kind of you know, crazy rationale for doing what he did and killing who he killed Whatever the reasoning in the end, I guess doesn't matter for who he killed And it's terrifying that a person can do that. justust snap that somebody knows some neighbor You've had drinks with, laughed with, never had a problem with just snap and decide to kill you and others around you as quickly as possible Just walk up, start shooting without giving a reason without ever even looking angry. where you don't have a chance to be like Hey, hey, dude whoa whoa, what's going? talk about this How do you prepare for something like that Sally in some ways, you can't Short of removing yourself complete from society, living alone way out in the woods, some kind of doomsday bunker with security cameras all over the place and motion alerts, letting you know when someone approaches and Just, you know, be loaded to the gills with guns can't. And even in that crazy scenario What happens when you get sick and need a doctor. They're not going let you just you know. H your exam taken with a loaded gun in your hand. What happens when you get old you need care The sick truth is we are all vulnerable to being killed like this, each and every one of us I could have been gunned down while working on this episode in the coffee shop Somebody could kick down my door in the studio right fuckking now, just blast me away somebody can figure out where I live, kill me my sleep burn down my house with me inside. It's terrifying possib And thinking about it too much can drive you insane What we can do though to try and prevent it is live in a society with well trained, well paid law enforcement who are held accountable when they do fuck up and don't stop tragedies like these soon enough after they start The first several people killed by Wartman didn't have a chance, but after those first nine hundred eleven calls replaced Nearly every officer within a hundred mile radius Why weren't they heading toward Porta Pic should have been communicating with each other They should have known to look for the primary suspect, Gave Wortman. They should have had his photo, you know, sent to all their phones. Somebody should have been looking at the map and setting up roadblocks on all the roads leading out of the area. Helicopters should have been patrolling through the night and other search parties, you know, Raming through the woods Nobody should have died onn Sunday, april nineteenth. To me, this episode really illustrates how truly important it is for a society to have a well trained properly vetted law enforcement staff, right agency who are given all the latest tech so they can do their jobs most effectively. Well paid law enforcement officers Right? Giving jobs that entice the best and the brightest to sign up Because when you need some brave men and women to risk their lives, so you can keep your life, you want the fucking best and clearly the best and brightest They weren't working for the RCMP in Nova Scotia around Portter Pic in twenty twenty. So was anybody fired in the aftermath of all this Nope Not one person by the looks ofix. Did anyone get demoted Nope N one person. Were any improvements made following all those mistakes? Yes There was at least that. The RCMP has implemented significant operational and technological reforms following the mass shooting Key improvements include upgrated dispatch operations in Dartmouth, mandatory risk maner, manager and incident commander training, the implementation of quote blue force tracking to monitor officer locations and expanded use of the National Alert ready systemy Let's h If somebody like Gabe Warpman ever snaps again changes will be enough Time for the takeaways. Time suuck, top w takeaways Number one. The Royal Canadian mounted police, they don't always suck They've also stopped a lot of bad people from doing a lot bad shit. They're a combination, federal and state police agency all rolled into one local agency as well that's been around in some form since eighteen seventy three They're seen as a national symbol of Canada and are the major police force for all but two provinces. Were they at their best in Nova Sotia on april eighteenth and nineteenth, twenty twenty? Obviously not Another really fucked up back And their actions exposed systemic failures that likely allowed Gaye Wortman's actions to continue on long after they should have been stopped But they also saved an untold number of citizens' lives, you know, by finally getting him. They have saved a bunch of people in other situations. An officer did give her life, the ultimate sacrifice trying to stop that motherfucker. and that shouldn't go unnoticed. No, and a second officer also nearly died two Nova Scotia has a lot of active motorcycle gangs. Even though Hell's Angels have officially been shut down by the RCMP, there are fourteen known outlaw motorcycle gangs still operating in the province And it seems that Gabriel Wortman was very likely criminally connected to several of them and that there's a lot of speculation that connection, that connection that he had, you know, may have in some way led to his rampage. Number three Gabriel Wartman was a strange duke A man who' obsessed with the police and went out, causeed playain as a cop Wman's best friend from his teen years was the creepy and much older lawyer Tom Evans. Evans convicted of sexually assaulting a seventeen year old boy. He helped get released from jail, known to sexually prey on young men and boys, highighly suspected that Evans and Wortman had a sexual romantic relationship and that Evans represented a man employed by the Medeine cartel who had been convicted as part of a brazen plot to break two men out of jail Evans left all of his estate to Gabe Wortman, including a Ruger Mini fourteen rifle that he used at one point during the rampage Number four, during his thirteen hour killing spree, Warman wreaked havoc on a tight knit rural area. He made four of his direct neighbor's orphans He killed a lot of good caring, helpful people who are already trying to adjust to the start of a global pandemic Folks looked out for the neighbors and love their communities He murdered Tom Bagley. J and beaten, who's expecting a child Greg and Jamie Blair Joy and Peter Bond Lillian Campbell Highlop. Corey Ellison. Gina Goulet Don Madson and Frank Glynchin Alana Jenkins and Seaan McLeod Lisa McCulley Heather O'Brien Joolen Oliver, Eron Tuck, and Emily Tuck Heidi Stehvenson Joanne Thomas and John Joseph Zoell and Joey Weber All killed during thirteen hours of terror, the deadliest shooting rampage in Canadian history Number five. New info One more big botched moment during the mananhunt for Wartman took place at the Oslow Belmont Fire Brigade Hall in Onlo, Novacotia, thirty minute drive from Porta Pick Yeahet there's more And this is worse than maybe anything I've already said so far about the RMCP or RCMP. I don't know why I can't get that fucking acronym consistently correct. On the morning of Sunday, the nineteenth, just after ten seventeen AM, two mounties accidentally fired five rounds at another officer they thought was the gunaman hitting a community hall where various firefighters and an evacueee were sheltering to be safe from the gunman's rampage Constable Terry Brown and Constable Dave Mellenson were traveling east on Highway two in search of Wortman in an unmarked police vehicle, in Nissan Altima. They saw a dude wearing an orange reflective vest, Dave Westlake, a civilian emergency management coordinator for the Colchester Regional Emergency Management Organization standing next to an RCMP cruiser They did not see Constable Dave Gunon in the driver's seat They stopped their car in the middle of the road, approximately eight meters or roughly three hundred feet from a monument at the entrance to the fire haall. Constable Gignon, Saw Brown and Melison exit their vehicle raaise their weapons point them in his general direction Constle Melison tried to radio other officers, let him know what he was seeing, but couldn't get through. of course not Accord to Brown, he yell forr. Westlake to show his hands Both Brown and Melison report observing Mr. Wetlake then duck behind the RCMP vehicle Yeah becauseuse he don't want to fuckking d and then brown open fire shooting four rounds towards the parked RCMP vehicle and Melison fired another round at the same target. mister Westlake said heard the words get down before the shots were fired. He started to run. He ran into the fire hall and yelled, shhots fired. get down, get down Andone's terrified Constable Gignon stayed at his cruiser while the shots were fired Almost got shot in the face He ducked down, used his police radio to identify himself and directed the members to look at the fucking call number on his goddamn cruiser He called out You guys are pointing your guns at me culture Jesus Chist. The Colchester Radio transcript also recorded that he broadcast, Who are you shooting at? It's me Ganyon Brown and Millison then approached the fire hall, spoke with Gonon, maybe apologized, but probably not. performed a brief scan to the area After they return of the vehicle they phone their superior, Staff Sergeant Al Carroll, to report the incident Carol asked a few questions, including whether they were okay But because the perpetrator was active, he just told him, go on, keep going Just drive off The shots called causeed forty thousand dollars worth the damage to the hole peopleople traum traumatized inside. they're fucking terrified they're going to d Some firefighters interviewed over a year later were still traumatized and still pissed off that those guys hadn't been punished. Brown and Mellison later testified that they missed hearing some very important information that had been radioed to them about the gunman's car having a black push bar They literally weren't paying attention when the message came in They also said they had not been told the exact fucking location they were at was being used as a comfort center, a place literally designated as a safe space for people to hide from the gunmen Holy shit. neeither officer ever received any discipline whatsoever Time suuck, Tub five, take away thirirteen hours of tear The twenty twenty Nova Scotia massacre has been sucked. Thank you to the Bad Magic Productions team for all their help and making time suck story isn't fucking nuts. Thanks Qeen of bad magic Lindsay Cumins Thanks to Logan Keith helping to publish this episode Designing Merch for the store at badmagicroductions d. com. Thank you to Heather Rylander again for her research Thanks to the All seen eyes, moderating the cult of the Curious private Facebook page, the modod squad, making sure disiscord keeps running smooth And everybody over on the Time Sck and Bad Magic sububredits And now let's head on over this week's Time suucker updates Updates. Get your time sucker updates Hard, partying meet ack Jim Snd it a message to Bo Jangless of Timesop Podastot with the sub line of Black Angus Raurant fuck A bro Apparently that chain really did used to be so much more than just a steakhouse. Jim wrote Hey, suck Master, donon't be goofing' on the scene at Black Angus Restaurant C canan attest to the coolness of the Bellevue Washington location But as a horny twenty something in the eighties. Black Angus in El Cohone, California. was quite the hookup place When one wasn't up for driving into San Diego for the clubs of the beach, the Black Angus in San Diego's East County was good enough as a place to hang out and probably get laate As soon as you mentioned their name, their commercial jingles started playing in my head At Stewart Anderson's Black Angus restestaurant, you're gonna to feel good inside. All the memories. goodood times, good times. Love the show Don't change the thing Jim, I love it. What a fucking night people were having back in the day a Black Angus G themselves a high quality steak for an affordable price. complete with a loaded bak potato. and then getting some strange for the cost of a couple happay hour drinks And what a happy hour, it seems to have been for you on some occasions This one for you, Jim Another trip down memory Lane Gring out of the stage. Fire a sirloin up for me. 'causeuse I don't care much for sushi and I starve on French cuisine. I'm thinking of a top sirloin dinner at Black Angus. Hell, you made super fresh salad and a baked potato. All under seven bucks. Why don't count parsley as side just give me all not out of cart We got a date with a full steak dinner and Black Angus is where I'll start And now an important update to a previous update regarding the Timesook Discord server requiring buthole verification for new members. 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Ooh, sometimes it's a butthole China A B China Well play Jason Well played Thank you for that Very Very important correction And now one more Another reminder that the words we share matter R And that you never know who needs to hear them. Bad assack Snd in the following message with the subject line of now hear this Dear Dan, they wrote A KA our beloved Mushmouth leader Spreme and his Queen Lindsy first of her name L longong May reign That's so nice. If I don't know if either of you will ever read this or if it'll ever go on air, but if it does, I do ask that my name be redacted because some of the people I mention in this message may potentially listen to this podcast And Lindzy read this too U Anho First of all, I'm an OG fan of yours. Think Sirca hear this and here come the spoons, motherfucker I haveve listened to every episode of Time sucks, Scared to death, and even Iy Dum manan, thank you So suffice to say your brand of humor and your worldview have long spoken to me deeply and been an integral part of my dark humor love and personality I know it's cliche to say this and I'm sure you're probably get jaded I'm hearing this But your content, everything from your standout to your podcast, truly has gotten me through the worst times of my life. There was once a time when I felt like I was in an echo chamber of people who did not have the same empathy, compassion or respect for knowledge I have gaslit constantly by so called friends, family, and my now ex husband into believing that I was alone in my way of thinking I felt alone and was afraid to speak up And I just settled into a routine of thinking that life would always be that way Fast forward to COVID My ex bought is tickets to see your stand up in Houston I was so excited becausecause he rarely did things like that for me and I couldn't wait to see your show. Of course, due to the circumstances of the pandemic, the show was unfortunately canceled. But since we had already gotten in a nonrefundable room, we decided to go and have some fun in the area anyway. Bear you all the details But I will tell you, this was the night that threats and violent words were finally made good upon Thankfully a friend of mine came to get me before I was unable to walk away As I stayed at my friend's house that night, I turned on my favorite comfort show, time suck to help me calm my nerves and try best to get some sleep As I was listening to the Suck Annie Oakles, your words from so many episodes about bad men and the patterns they follow rung in my head along with all the things my friend had told me that night I finally dealt with the realization that was nearly a decade in the making I had to leave this person before he more seriously injured me or ended my life Many people are the times that I was being dramatic and that it was only quote one time All true crime junkies know how these patterns work Ye' worth of constant escalation would not simply end especially once that line have been crossed So I finally mustered up my courage and I began planning to leave. I filed for divorce within a few weeks and I moved out I was scared for my life. He sent me constant threatening texts, and I didn't know how I would make it on my own as I had been with him since I was a teenager And I had little to no family support or help But despite the negivity of many I listened to the voice of my few friends and a you and Lindseay, and I finally got the fuck out A few years later, after some healing, I met the love of my life, a kind and wonderful man who helped me fix everything within myself that he didn't break. I shared your comedy and your shows with him, and he instantly loved your brand of humor the same way I did. He finally took me to see you live in San Antonio in February of twenty twenty three The show was amazing. I felt like my life had finally come full circle It's safe to say my allergies acted up pretty quickly that evening if you catch my drift. After leaving that trip, he and I found out we were expecting our first child. We got married, bought a house, had a son later in the same year felt so surreal There was a time when I didn't believe I would live long enough to see all of these dreams come true In fact, there was a time when I didn't believe I was worth it Somet really resonated me in last week's episode about Gege Russell When you said you wished you could go back in time and get Mindy into therapy and let her know that she deserves better I think that struck me so hard because many of my ex' behaviors align pretty closely with those of George's.