Young lovers on a summer road trip and a UBC Botany professor enjoying the great Canadian backcountry; but their love for life and nature would be cruelly cut short when they come face to face with evil on the Alaska Highway in northern British Columbia.

In part one of The Dead End Road- the clues left behind in a cross-country manhunt that would grow so complex and dangerous, it required assistance from The Canadian Department of National Defence.

**Content Warning: This episode contains depictions of mass murder and suicide. Listener discretion is advised**

Episode Credit & Sources:

• Host, Writer, Production & Sound Design: Leila / Gettin' The Tea with Leila C
• RCMP Manitoba
• RCMP British Colombia
• Cold open: audio of witness Ken Albertson, reporting by Tania Fletcher, CBC
• Last Driver who stopped - reporting by Austin Grabish, CBC Winnipeg
• SBS news- Lin Evlin reporting
• CBC News - Greg Rasmussen reporting
• Government of BC – Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park
• Lucas Fowler Farewell - Mark Burrows from Nine News
• Northern Development Initiative Trust – Fort Nelson aerials
• Alan Schmegelsky, spoke to April Lawrence outside the CHEK News studio in Victoria, BC. July 22, 2019
• Alan Schmegelsky, interview with Sarah Abo, 60 Minutes Australia
• The Canadian Press on July 24, 2019 - Laura Kane and Natasha Herrmann reporting

#Highway97Murders #NorthernBCMurders #LucasFowler #ChynnaDeese #LeonardDyck #DeadEndRoad #KamMcLeod #BryerSchmegelsky #TeenageFugitives #CanadianTrueCrime #WesternCanadaMurders #HistoricalCrimesCanada #DeaseLakeMurder #FortNelsonMystery #GillamManitobaManhunt #GettinTheTeaWithLeilaC #TrueCrimeCanada #BCTrueCrime #TrueCrimeNorth

In the summer of 1982, three generations of a close-knit Kelowna family packed up their camper for a vacation into British Columbia's Clearwater Valley.

They never made it home.

What followed was the "Wells Gray Murders"—a tragedy that triggered a cross-country manhunt and forever changed a community.

The case was ultimately cracked by a single, closely guarded local secret: a bullet hole hidden inside a camper door.

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Support & Memorials:

To learn more about the lives of the victims or to visit the memorial, please check out the Johnson Bentley Memorial Aquatic Centre in West Kelowna. https://www.westkelownacity.ca/parks-recreation-facilities/johnson-bentley-memorial-aquatic-centre/

**Content Warning: This episode contains thematic elements of mass casualty, murder involving children, and mentions of sexual violence. Listener discretion is advised**

Episode Credit & Sources:

• Host, Writer, Production & Sound Design: Leila / Gettin' The Tea with Leila C
• Primary Historical & Court Data: The Parole Board of Canada 2026 Decision (Dated August 19, 2026).
• News Documentation & Audio Archives: Global News Canada - reporting by Jenna Freeman / The Canadian Press — Reporting by Marissa Birnie and David Augustine (August 2026) / Discover Airdrie — Local community coverage and interviews with Kristal Woolf.

Music :

• The road from home – serge pavkin
• Dark wave synth instrumental – nick panek
• Dark Street - Dream Protocol
• Cinematic beats – rockot
• 7 known associates – chestnut music studios
• Dark Ambient underscore – Open Mind Audio
• Ambient beat – andreii korniev
• Solaris – abstract edm
• Background music – apalon beats
• Sad music – solar flex
• (Outro) Cinematic journey – Sutton cinematic

#WellsGrayMurders #ABulletInTheDark #CanadianTrueCrime #WesternCanadaMurders #HistoricalCrimesCanada #ParoleEligibility #JohnsonBentleyFamily #WellsGrayParkTragedy #CampKiller #DavidShearing #DavidEnnisParole #Kelowna #ClearwaterValleyMystery #AirdrieTrueCrime #KristalWoolf #BowdenPenetentiary #MLAAngelaPitt #GettinTheTeaWithLeilaC #TrueCrimeCanada #BCTrueCrime #TrueCrimeNorth

What was supposed to be a standard university celebration turned into Calgary’s darkest night. On April 15, 2014, five young students were tragically killed at a house party in the quiet northwest neighborhood of Brentwood. The devastating timeline of the Brentwood Five tragedy, the hunt for Matthew de Grood, and the complex "Not Criminally Responsible (NCR)" verdict that left a community searching for answers. This is the story of how a city broke, and how it chose to heal.

#MatthewDeGrood #CalgaryTrueCrime #CanadianTrueCrime #BrentwoodFive #TrueCrimePodcast #NCR #NotCriminallyResponsible #MurderMysteries #BermudaShortsDayMassacre

In small-town Innisfail, Alberta, everyone knew your name, doors were left unlocked, and a sense of tight knit community was never far away.

But in 2011, that peaceful prairie innocence was shattered forever when a deadly package—disguised as a holiday gift— quickly unraveled into a calculated story of financial greed, stolen lives, and the ultimate betrayal.

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Source files from: The Calgary Herald - Val Fortney, Red Deer Advocate, The Calgary Sun - Damian Wood, Canadian Press, RCMP-GRC Police

Music & Transition credits: Riverside license-free music library. “Winter in Fargo” , "Match" "Novel" "Growing Pains" "Things Gone Wrong" "Niagara" "Winter Morning"

#VictoriaShactay #InnisfaiBombing #RedDeerMurder #CalgaryTrueCrime #CanadianTrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #BrianMalley #MurderMysteries

For decades, American fugitive Gary Allen Srery moved silently across borders, changed names, and left unspeakable violence in his wake.

In the conclusion episode, we follow the dark trail of a predator that lead directly to Calgary, Alberta —and reveal the horrific secrets buried deep within the Foothills for nearly 50 years.

#GaryAllenSrery #CalgaryTrueCrime #CanadianTrueCrime #ColdCaseSolved #TrueCrimePodcast #GeneticGeneology #MurderMysteries

Part 1: The Book of Gary Allen Srery — When Science Didn't Forget

Four young women.

Four lives brutally interrupted.

Nearly five decades of unanswered questions.

Then, science came knocking...

As investigators revisit four forgotten cold cases in Calgary, DNA begins to reveal a chilling connection — and finally gives four women the voice they were denied in life.

*With source files from:

RCMP-GRC Alberta

CTV National

Canadian Press

Radio-Canada

In the summer of 2010, Lyle and Marie McCann set out on a road trip from Alberta to British Columbia to visit their daughter.

Their burned-out motorhome was later discovered near Edson, Alberta — but no sign of the elderly couple.

What followed was a massive investigation, a suspect with a disturbing criminal history, years of courtroom battles, and a family desperate for answers.

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With files from:

CanadianPress

CBC

CrimeStoppers

CTV Edmonton - David Ewasuk

Edmonton Journal

Edmonton Sun

Music:

Music licensed through Soundstripe.

Three people vanished from a Calgary home - and what investigators uncovered would turn a missing persons case into one of Canada’s most chilling triple murder prosecutions.

The conclusion to the series closes the loop on the Lickness family case, tracing the evidence, the motive, and the courtroom fight that followed.

The Nathan O’Brien Children’s Foundation:

https://nathanobrienfoundation.com/

With files from:

CanadianPress

CBC

music courtesy of @pixabay:

Emand Erdroff - “Where we meet again...”