Tanya Brooks is a Mi’kmaq woman from Millbrook First Nation, a mother of five, and a deeply loved sister and daughter. People who knew her describe an artist and a writer with aspirations in poetry. We talk about the challenges she faced, the horrendous assault she experienced and her eventual murder thereafter which happened while she was on her road to recovery.

We also take a moment to respect the relentless advocacy of Vanessa Brooks, memorial walks, and the broader MMIWG2S+ crisis in Canada, including the statistics that of how Indigenous women and girls are still at risk today.

The case remains active, with rewards of up to $150,000 is available through Nova Scotia’s Rewards for Major Unsolved Crimes Program. If you listen and this stays with you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share Tanyas story to help keep her name in the light.

References for this episode included below:

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/tanya-jean-brooks

https://www.vice.com/en/article/murdered-in-halifax-before-loretta-saunders-there-was-tanya-brooks/

https://www.halifax.ca/home/news/police-continue-investigate-murder-tanya-jean-brooks-6

https://judyhaiven.ca/2022/05/08/halifaxs-mothers-day-murder-tanya-brooks-a-memorial-walk-tues-1-pm/

https://nsadvocate.org/2019/05/13/the-murder-of-tanya-brooks-10-years-later/

https://halifax.citynews.ca/2025/05/12/police-continue-investigating-cold-murder-file-in-halifax/

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Darryl Ferneyhough was out doing what he loved, dancing in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the night of May 12, 2001. He had plans to crash at his cousin’s nearby apartment, borrows a spare key and $5, and then disappears. The last confirmed sightings are chillingly specific: he’s seen at Club NRG around 1:30 a.m., then spotted again at about 3:40 a.m. running near Gottingen Street by the Marquee Club. After that, nothing: no bank activity, no contact with friends or family, and no confirmed trace for more than 25 years.

We walk through what’s known about Darryl’s life in Dartmouth and Halifax, why his family believes he did not leave voluntarily, and how delays in passing along key information can complicate any missing person investigation. We also talk openly about the limits of public reporting in cold cases and why the smallest observation from a night out can matter years later. If you’ve ever wondered how cases stall, this one shows how quickly a narrow window for witnesses can close.

Then we explore the unsettling overlap with another Halifax disappearance from the same period. Police have publicly said they did not find a connection between the two men beyond the timing and the shared nightlife context, but the proximity raises hard questions about safety, bias, and the fear of targeted anti-2SLGBTQ+ violence. We also discuss why the detail of Daryl running at 3:40 a.m., and ask what happened in those two hours.

If you have any information on Darryls disappearance, please don’t assume it’s too small to help. Subscribe to Dark Harbour, share this episode, and leave a review to help keep Daryl’s name in the public eye.

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A 17-year-old walks out of the Nova Scotia woods and onto a main road, speaks to a passing hunter, checks a pocket watch that reads about 2:45 p.m. and then seems to vanish in the time it takes for someone else to drive a few kilometres. That teen is Patrick “Patty” Paddon, and more than five decades later, his family still has no confirmed trace of him or the gear he carried.

Content warning: this story involves the disappearance of a minor, possible death, and discussion of foul play theories.

We trace Patty’s last known day in Colchester County, from the hunting plan with his father and uncle to the safety rules meant to keep everyone in the same area. Then the case turns on the most unsettling detail: the reported conversation on Pembroke Road and the impossibly tight window that follows. If Patty is on the road and people are searching nearby within minutes, why doesn’t he answer rifle shots, a car horn, or shouted calls?

We also dig into the search itself and why it stands out in Nova Scotia true crime history: volunteers, RCMP coordination, tracking dogs, snowmobiles, helicopters, and military support, with huge ground and aerial coverage and still no boots, no rifle, no compass, no flare, no ring. We share how We the Missing and Patty’s niece Nicole have kept the file alive, and we talk through the questions that remain, including the eerie context of multiple hunter disappearances in the 1969 season.

If you care about cold cases, missing persons in Canada, and the way small timeline details can change everything, listen now, share Patty’s story, and please subscribe and leave a review so more people see it. What’s your best explanation for how someone disappears from a road with no trace?

Please find our sources and websites below to help keep the search of the Paddy going. Thanks for listening to our show.

https://pleasebringmehome.com/canada/patrick-paddy-weymouth-paddon/

https://terynn19.wixsite.com/we-the-missing/post/patrick-weymouth-paddon-17-november-29-1969-upper-stewiacke-burnside-area-colchester-county

https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/dartmouth-teen-missing-patrick-paddon-paddy-hunting-trip-mystery-questions

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