Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast - Friends, Family & a Predator: A Twisted True Crime Case
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Her father was invicted of molesting her and her two sisters.
So I go to the bathroom, come out, and I'm like, hey, I know what you did to your daughters.
So when we started scrapping, I ended up, like, putting both hands around his neck,
and then I moved to get, like, a side position, and this guy had a bull.
He's like, you killed your dad.
You go, that night she told us that you left.
Where were you all night?
So my mother, I'm from Canada, obviously.
My mother is from a small, do you know what Métis is?
No.
Half Native American, half white.
Okay.
So my mom's from a small Métis town.
She's Métis.
So a very small town.
My grandpa was like the mayor of there and everything and he was a politician up there
and all this crap.
But she was the youngest girl.
There was 13 kids.
She's the youngest girl.
And she was a bit of a hippie and she wanted to spread her wings.
So she ended up moving to Toronto, Ontario.
And one night at the nightclub, at my uncle's nightclub, actually, she met my father,
who was apparently six foot nine, very charming, very well-built man, I guess.
And yeah, so she fell in love with him.
He actually sang Elvis Presley to her, and she was a huge Elvis fan.
So my name was actually supposed to be Elvis, but.
thankfully my cousin was born a week before me his name's Elvis and I was named after my dad so that saved me a life for torment but right so uh when he sang to her she fell in love and um so they started hanging out he took her around places whatever and made her fall in love even more and then once she was in love in love he turned her out and apparently he was a pimp and that's why he was so charming and uh yeah you put her on the streets and he used to i'm sorry
Sorry. So this is something, like this was already something he was doing when they met.
Yeah. She just didn't have any idea. Yeah. She didn't know. So once that happened,
she was already in love. And then she met all these girls. And then he used to sleep with all the girls.
And then he ended up getting my mom pregnant. And then he married her. And so there's wedding pictures and stuff. And I'm six months in the tummy.
So I tell everybody I was a product of the game.
and well he married her though I mean he must have had some affection for well it was the
Italian side of the family right it was a it was the Italian family to push him towards it
I guess but like it's weird because my mom was a black sheep of her family there's 12
siblings and my dad was a black sheep of his set back black sheep of his family with 12
siblings so pretty weird they ended up together but um yeah so he ended up well she ended up
giving birth to me. I already had an older sister. It wasn't his. So she gave birth to me
and decided this was no life for her kids and told one of the other girls she was going to move
back to Manitoba with her family. And that girl ran to my dad and said, Jenny's planning on leaving
with the kids. So my dad introduced her to crack. So she was addicted to crack for about a year
that she'd beat it on her own, beat the addiction and made the mistake of telling another lady,
that she was planning on coming home with the kids.
My dad caught wind of it again and introduced her to heroin.
So some of my earliest memories...
Your dad doesn't sound like a nice person.
No, no, you'll hear more.
You'll hear more that just makes them a total piece of garbage.
Right.
So my earliest memories and actually recently,
because I'm part of a class action lawsuit against a priest,
I had to get a bunch of, what do you call it?
Not particularly, a bunch of, I had to get all my paperwork.
Sorry about that.
I hit the computer.
I had to get all my paperwork from when I was in care.
Disclosure, sorry, I had to order all my disclosure from when I was in care.
And they sent it to me, there's 278 pages.
And the stuff I read was just wholen.
Like it was like, oh, mind-boggling.
And I remembered some of it.
So some of my earliest memories are, one thing I always remember is my mom would get changed
in one of the rooms with all these ladies, all the ones that worked for my dad, and I'd be in there
just like saying goodbye to her kind of while they're all naked getting dressed and there was a lot
of bush in there. That was like, that was about 85, 86. So it was just a lot of bush. So
anyways, that's one of my earliest memories. And then I remember there was a lady that used to come by
and talk to my parents, my dad would get mad, my mom would cry, and then they'd leave.
And what I found out later was those were social workers.
And then one time they came, because there was, we would go door to door asking for food,
asking for clothes, asking for money.
But every time we got money, I remember my dad would take it from us.
And they were leaving us alone in the apartment.
There was reports of us hanging out the window on the fourth floor.
There were some reports of me with a nine-year-old in the parking lot when I was
sore starting fires and stuff.
And, yeah, so all the stuff I read was just very, like, child neglect, like, major.
And then, I guess my sister went to my mom.
Well, first, they had a case open against, with my family, because my sister went to school,
bruised up.
But once they met me, they saw how aggressive I was towards her and just said, well, that's
her brother beating her up.
And then a year and a half later, my sister went to,
school and told the teachers that she was being sexually assaulted by my dad.
So they stepped in again.
My dad got mad.
They arrested him, brought him to the station, questioned him, and then he admitted to some of those things.
And the thing that pisses me off, once I read all those, the disclosure and stuff, was he got
less than two years for about a year of abuse to my sister.
And my sister was only eight, because I was only five.
So my sister was eight.
But some of the things I remember, too, was sometimes a lot of people would come to my house.
They would get high.
They'd get drunk.
Or we go to, what was his name, Uncle Chico's?
We go to Uncle Chico's house.
He had roaches.
You go in the bathroom.
There's all these, like, dirty pictures from magazines in his bathroom, hung up on the walls and stuff.
But we go there or we'd be at my house.
And my dad would talk to somebody, and that person would take my sister into a room.
And then my sister would come across.
and that person would give my dad drugs.
So he was pimping out his eight-year-old stepdaughter.
Like just a total piece of shit.
So, yeah, anyways, eventually the social workers came and they told us that, like, I remember
actually my mom taking us to arcades or restaurants, so we'd be sitting in the front
playing games.
There was a restaurant with a Pac-Man game.
We'd sit there and play it, and my mom would go in the back with the owner.
So she would take us to turn tricks too and stuff.
So it was quite the life.
but finally these social workers came one day with another guy
and they had this red car that looked like an old New York taxi
but it had a red light on top like a siren I guess
and they told us grab your favorite toy we're going to go watch a movie
so we did and we ended up in a foster home
so they didn't take us to a movie they brought us to foster home
and then from what I read recently in the disclosure
my mom was missing visits she was laid for visits
she'd show up drunk two hours later
trying to fight everybody
they got security in the one office
just because of my mom
so within the first
three days we
no sorry four days
we ended up in four foster homes
so we went to an emergency one
went to another one
and then I remember we're sitting at the office
and there was a dude with a heavy
guessing it was Texas accent
but he looked at me and my sister
and he's like
well that one's pretty charming
and that little fat fucker's kind of funny
so we'll take them
They took me and my sister, so
But I remember him being, he was pretty cool
But it was only for overnight
And then we ended up
At another foster one where I stayed for
I think two years altogether
My mom started missing more and more visits
And
One day we're at a visit
I was six years old
And I just didn't understand why we can go home with her
I didn't understand all that stuff
I just knew I wanted to go home
And
And so I asked my mom and said, how come we can't go home with you?
And she said, you have to go back to Janice's.
We've got to figure things out first.
And at six years old, I said, fuck you, you don't love us anymore.
And I went sat in the back of the transport van and waited for my sister to be finished
her visit.
And then we got driven back to our foster home.
So where was your father?
My father was in jail.
Okay.
Yeah, he was in jail for what he did to my sister.
Thankfully, but two years is fuck all for all for all that.
So this foster mom wanted to adopt us.
And once again, what I learned recently was my dad was totally against it.
He wasn't giving up his parental rights.
My mom was willing because she was a good foster mom and this and that.
And we always told her that she treated us good.
And then, yeah, so the next, after I sent it to my mom, she missed the next visit.
And my sister explained to me that mom's sick.
Just got to give her time.
She's going to get better.
You know, and we'll get to go home.
So I said, okay.
And so the next week, we're getting dressed for visits.
And our social worker always showed up and called our names and we come running down,
get in the van, and we go.
So my sister is helping me get dressed.
We call us downstairs.
We come running down the stairs and halfway down the stairs.
And this was the last time I remember being truly happy because we were going to see my mom.
I was going to apologize.
I was going to tell her, I'm sorry for what I said, sit on her lab, be a real hug.
So as we're running down the stairs, I noticed there's my social worker, my foster mom,
and another lady who turned out to be my dad's attorney.
I don't know why she was there.
And the foster mom said, come in, sit in this living room.
Now, the shitty thing about that foster home was she had one living room that had crayons,
papers, shitty wooden toys.
And then she had a living room for her real kids.
kids that had video games, VCR, TV, nicer couches.
So, yeah, so when she told us to come into that living room, I knew something was up.
So I was sitting on my foster mom's lap.
The attorney was in the middle.
My sister was on the social worker's lap.
And the social worker said, something really awful happened to your mother.
Right away, I knew I got this hot feeling through my body.
I was only six, but I knew right away.
And I looked at my sister, and I realized my sister didn't clue in yet.
So I was like, did she break her arm?
Did she break her leg?
Was she in a car accident?
Did a dog bite her?
Like, just any question I could think of to stop them from saying what they were going to say.
And yeah, every answer was no, no, no.
And then I just ran out of questions.
And they said, your mother died.
And then my sister screamed so loud and she grabbed me and she hugged me.
She's like, no, Jr., not mama, not mama.
And I was just like, and I remember staring at that social worker, just listening to my sister scream.
So we brought my sister upstairs.
She cried herself to sleep.
I went downstairs to the veranda and this, this foster mom, Janice, who was always nice to me, always, like, very nourishing, except for when it came to, like, how she treated her kids.
You know, that was the only thing I didn't like, but either was the lady I trusted after what I went through at home.
so I'm sitting on the back for end
I remember watching the sun go down
and at six years old I was thinking
no one's ever going to hit my mom again
my mom's never going to be drunk again
no one's ever going to hurt her no one's ever going to make her cry again
but I was bala my eyes out but I was thinking that
and then the sliding door opened in my foster mom
said quit your fucking whaling
and slam the door and I stopped right there
and I'll just say holy shit
so this lady was so nice to me
like all this shit happened so
or that happened sorry and it just it just shook me and I was like okay well I'm not sure about
this lady no more blah blah blah um apparently before she died they were talking about my uncle
adopting my sister and I my older sister right a week before she died um she gave birth to my baby
sister so my grandpa won custody of my oldest sister and I and he was going to figure out
which uncle and auntie, we go to live with.
And then my baby sister, my uncle and auntie flew to Toronto and adopted her.
The day after the adoption papers were signed, my mom killed herself.
So she made sure we were taking care of first with her family.
So, and then she gave herself a hot shot of heroin.
And the reports say she died, June 8, 1987, in a flop house surrounded by people that didn't give a shit about her.
So that was pretty heartbreaking to read that.
Because I knew she killed herself.
If I didn't know the situation, I didn't know where it happened or anything like that.
So once I read this disclosure, I read all that shit.
So we're going to live with, we're going to move to an Indian reservation in Manitoba here with her brother.
And I remember my foster mom's dad used to come.
I used to love the smell of his pipe.
He'd smoke a pipe.
I'd love that smell.
We were allowed to eat granola when he was there for breakfast.
Like all this stuff.
He was a pretty cool guy.
he had a, his wife was blind, so they had a seeing eye dog named Penny.
I still remember that.
And she was like the best dog ever.
And he used to stand at the top of the stairs and he'd sing,
today's the day that teddy bears have their picnic.
I'm not sure if you know that song, but he'd sing that to us with all the doors open.
And then one day, as I'm laying there going to sleep, he came in there,
tucked in his two real grandkids, came over to me, kissed me on the cheek.
and then reached under my blanket.
And I was like, whoa, what the...
And I pushed them away, and I was like, what the heck?
So the next morning, as soon as I woke up,
I told my foster mom, she's fucking lost her mind on me.
Like she just, there's no way you do that, blah, blah,
what's wrong with you, grabbing by the arm,
put me in the corner.
I had to stand in the corner for about four hours.
That was our punishment at the corner.
So I had to stand there for about four hours.
And then on the day of my mom's funeral,
she was helping me get dressed and long bendy twizzlers candy keeps the fun going as she's doing as she's doing up my zipper on my dress pants she pulled again pulled my underwear down grab my piece
is pulled it out and started hugging it, saying, is this what your dad used to do to you?
Like just until it ripped on my zipper.
So now I'm like, what the heck?
Like so much has changed in this one week from this lady that I used to love that I used to trust.
It was just like horrible.
So I told, it was the day of my mom's funeral, too, was right before the funeral.
And I remember during the funeral we walked in and I see my dad sitting there with two guards.
He's handcuffed shackled.
There's a bunch of other shitty people.
people that I wish didn't show up, just like you tell the junkies and shit, just, you know,
the ones that were probably around my mom when she died. And then, uh, they took us in the
back behind this curtain. And I was only six. So from my line of view, I could see cotton in her
nose. I could see her lips sewn shut. Her eyes were sewn shut. I'm not sure if they
do that anymore, but I could see all that. And it was just a whole, it was really, uh, so once a funeral was
over, I went to my social worker and I said, hey, Donna, Janice did this to me and I think she's mad
because what her dad tried to do. So my social worker says to me, hey, just be brave and hang in there.
You guys are moving soon. So I'm like, okay. So we go home and we used to have, our bedtime was
5.30 in the evening. So we get home from school, do whatever homework we had to do, eat dinner. And then we
have to say, mom, can we be excused from the table?
Then we, right after that, we go for bath.
Mom, can I be excused from the bath?
So one day I yelled out, mom, can I be excused from the bath?
She came in there, reached in the tub, grabbed my penis again like this, and squeeze so hard that it hurt to piss for like a week.
And then just after that went away, I was drying off in the bathroom.
She came in there again.
They did the same thing and just, it was crazy.
So when I read all the disclosure, it's talking about how much I have.
loved her, how much I said I trusted her, how I felt safe in her home. And then the day we leave
to go live with my uncle, she's trying to say goodbye to us and I ran to the plane. I didn't
look at her. I didn't look back. I just ran to the plane. So, yeah, so that's pretty freaking traumatized.
And yeah, so we moved to my uncle's reserve is called Split Lake Indian Reserves here in Manitoba.
And I remember for the first few nights I couldn't sleep because it's so quiet. You hear dogs
once in a while in Toronto like you'd hear like screaming yelling cops this and that new
market wasn't that bad did you ever see the foster mother again no never no okay no but um
when I was 11 I think a lady came from Toronto to interview us because we're still under
Toronto care or Ontario care for some reason and she told us that she died from her brain
aneurism so I was like yeah thanks
Yeah, it was good. My sister, balderized out, but my sister didn't know what happened, though.
Right.
But I was just saying, yeah. Thank you.
But yeah, so when we move there, a week within getting there, I find out that my uncle, like, sends his kids to Sunday school.
So we're going to Sunday school with my cousins.
They leave. And I tell this, there's a native priest and there's a white priest.
So I tell the native priest, hey, my mom just died.
Can you make sure she's in heaven?
so he's like oh come talk to this guy
so I go to this back office we start talking
boom the priest fucking makes it move on me
like right after moving to somewhere
where I thought I was safe
this priest does whatever
tries to get well gets his hand in my pants
and I just freak out and I leave
so my uncle sends us the next week
not knowing what happened because I didn't say anything
and then the priest asked me to help
trim trees outside
because they're touching the church
So I said okay
And we're going to pray for your mom
We need healing
So we're going to do that
So I said okay
And next you know I'm face down on the ground
And he did the ultimate
The ultimate sexual assault
He had six years old
And after that
He's like crying
And he's like
I'm so sorry the devil
This temptations
And he goes
But if you say anything to anybody
I'll make sure you go back
To a foster home
Now, the thing with me, I'm only six, but I know I just came from, what was it called, Catholic Children's Aid Society.
So to me, I don't know there's Lutheran, there's Catholic.
I didn't know all that stuff.
Right.
I just knew Catholic meant church.
And this guy, I think it was the Lutheran church or something.
But he said that.
So I just thought Catholic foster home, priest, Catholic connected to foster home.
He could probably make this happen.
Right.
I don't want to go back to that foster home.
So I didn't end up saying anything they went.
And then the third week, he somehow taught me into going outside again.
It happened again.
I went home and I told my uncle.
I was like, I don't want to go to church somewhere.
And I think he saw something in my eyes and he told me I don't have to go anymore.
And, yeah, then life got slowly better.
Do you, do you know what residential schools are?
Is that where you, is that like a,
where you actually live at the school?
Yeah, but it was forced by the church
to Aboriginal people, to native people.
They would come and physically take their kids from them
and put them in this school run by the church,
run by nuns and priests.
If you spoke your language, you got beaten up,
all the girls had their braids cut off,
and braids are a big thing in the native culture.
Right.
And another thing,
if the parents didn't give them,
give up their kids, they'd be threatened with jail.
So they had no choice because if they're in jail, they can't take care of their kids,
so they'd take them anyways.
Right.
And recently, within the last couple years, they've been finding unmarked graves.
They found 215 unmarked graves in Colonna, B.C., around a residential school.
So, and there's crazy stories.
Like, it's all coming out now.
There's this thing called Truth in Reconciliation in Canada, and it's about the church.
Like, the Pope came to Edmonton and apologized to all the,
native people for residential schools and it's just the stories you hear are just horrific like
it's like burnt babies in the furnace priests getting some of the students pregnant like at a really
early age is just horrible so once those went away yeah there's a school here in florida
like a juvie hall where you know you stayed in the juvenile aisle and this was back in the
I want to say it was in 1930s, 40s, and 50s,
and they've found a couple hundred bodies of children that were in the school.
Because what they would say is, you know, like back then, you know, you're a poor,
you're a poor family, your kid gets in trouble.
He gets, you know, whatever, a couple of years in the Juvie, wherever it is.
You know, the Juvie Hall, I forget the name of it where it is down here.
And if they showed up six months later or a month later or even two years later to go find out where their kid was or a visit or something, they'd just say, oh, he ran away.
Oh, my God.
And nobody, and it was a bad kid anyway.
He was already committing crimes.
And this was back in the 30s or 40s or 50s.
I forget what the name of it is.
It's a big deal down here.
And so I hate to even say that, you know, the win it was because I know everybody's going to be telling me in the comment section.
They were screaming, like, it was
1978.
Yeah.
There's like hundreds of bodies that are found.
And, you know, they just, you know, these are, and there's a, you know,
sadistic guards and, you know, raping the children or beating them.
The kids were getting in trouble and they just beat them to death.
The kid didn't end up dying.
They just bury the body.
And who's going to believe them?
There's a, yeah, the kid gone and who's going to believe the guard and the warden there
and the, or, you know, or the kid who or a couple of kids that are saying, no, they beat him
to death.
Well, you're just a bad.
kid, nobody's going to listen. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Or why would those kids say much at all?
They're locked up. You'll be next. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So fear. Yeah. This is almost like that,
except these are kids that committed crimes, you know. Yeah, yeah. These are just, okay, just
Aboriginal, or I'm sorry, Aboriginal. I'm just native. Aboriginal, native. Yeah.
Yeah. Indigent. That ended up at this. Just because they were forcefully taken away.
So it's almost the same thing except they're not criminal. They used to do that to the Indians.
in the U.S.?
Well, yeah, the Indians. We're Indians. Native Indian.
I'm saying in the U.S., I knew there were schools that they would send them to.
That's exactly what's going on up here, or what was going on up here.
So the same thing, the residential schools, I think there was one in Pennsylvania
where they went and they put a bunch of, they call it, now they call it Orange Shirt Day.
So for Truth and Reconciliation Day, which is September 30th, everyone wears an orange shirt.
It says every child matters.
And I think what they did in Pennsylvania was they put teddy bears and a pair of shoes,
kid shoes, for every single grave they found.
So that's what they're doing up here.
But I know for sure there was one in Pennsylvania.
But so a residual of that is Indian day school, which I went to on that reserve.
It's a normal school, but it's run by the government.
So they send in white teachers and stuff.
And grade two, I had a teacher that I was a,
big mouth,
those loud mouths,
whatever,
but she put soap in my mouth
and then slap me around
while I was in there
in grade two.
And then in grade four,
I had a teacher
that used to grab us
like this and pull our face up
until we get into our cheeks.
He'd kick us over in our desk
and you'd kick us while we're down.
And so,
and that's like a residual of residential school.
So a lot of people,
unfortunately,
say,
well,
you've so long ago,
get over it.
The residential schools,
why are you whining about it?
What's wrong with you Indians?
you know, it was so long ago, forget about it.
And it wasn't that long ago because I went to Indian Day school, and I'm 42.
Right.
Which is a residual of residential school.
And I still talk to people on, because I live in a reserve right now.
I live on my wife's reserve.
And I speak to people all the time that it had been to residential school.
And it's just, it's hard breaking hearing their stories and stuff.
But so, yeah, so that was, that was split like, I learned a hunt and trap, which was awesome with my uncle.
And it was a good time there except for the whole priest thing.
But luckily, I never had to go back to church.
And then I forget exactly what happened, but something else happened with my sister,
with my uncle's in-laws.
So we had the move.
So instead of dealing with it, we just got sent away to my uncle that adopted my baby sister.
So we're living with him.
And my sister one day decides she's going to tell our baby.
baby sister. Hey, Auntie Jenny was actually your mom, not your auntie that died. She was your
mom. Uncle Greg and Auntie Ronnie, aren't your real parents? That's your auntie and uncle.
So when Kara asked my uncle, my uncle sits us down and says, who the fuck told care of this?
And my sister Lisa looks at me and I'm a bad kid. So she looks at me and goes, well, I'm pretty sure
with Dale. And I'm like, fuck. So I got like a open on my life. So we got sent away because they
didn't want her knowing the real story. But I was a bad kid. I remember one time I used to go in
my uncle's pockets or my auntie's pockets before school. And I'd take like, back when they had
$2 bills, I take a $2 bill, $1 bill, and I'd buy whatever at lunch. And one day I reached his
pocket and I pulled out $480. And I was like, holy shit. A nice lick. Yeah. So I put my pocket. I go to
school. I'm in grade six. So I go to school. And my uncle shows up. So how old would you be 12?
That's what, 11, 12 years old? So my uncle shows up to my school wearing cowboy boots,
Edmonton Oiler sweatpants, which is a hockey team up here, unless you're familiar with
NHL. But he's wearing NHL sweatpants with cowboy boots, a wife feeder tucked in and a cowboy hat
with those sunglasses that turn dark when you go outside. Right. So he shows up.
up and I'm more embarrassed than I am scared.
My uncle's standing at the door like, where the fuck's dad?
So he calls me out, he asked me, did you take that money?
I said, what money?
And I'm denying it, denying it.
So me being a little fat kid that loves candy, on my way home, I stop at this corner store,
which is a trailer, it's called K&M.
And I go there and I bought like dinosaur gummies, Dorito chips, two liter pop.
And I go home with it.
And my uncle's like, where in the fuck did you get that?
And I was like, oh, I found it in the dumpster.
He was like, it found him in the dumpster.
So he phones K&M.
He goes, hey, was my nephew there?
And he goes, yeah, the fat one.
And he goes, all the money.
Well, I hit it by a fence and I took 20 bucks in the time every day.
So when she confirmed that I was there, he hung up, he said, get to the basement.
He gave me a, because that was his rent.
So he gave me a lick in every day until the next month when he paid his rent.
And I took it like a champ.
I never told him where the money was.
I never admitted to it.
So, but yeah.
But my hunger got me busted.
So, yeah, so after that, we moved to a foster home in Winnipeg.
And I guess my mom's final wish, I don't know who she told,
but her final wish was that me and my older sister would never be split up,
that we'd be together.
So even when we were supposed to move from Toronto,
my one uncle didn't want me, he just wanted my sister.
And then my other uncle said he'll take both of us.
So that's why we ended up with that one.
But my other uncle adopted a girl out of the family who's a really cool cousin of mine.
So that worked out.
But so we ended up in Winnipeg.
We were in a foster home together.
My sister and I and we started fighting.
And I remember one time she hit me in the face about four times.
And then I picked her up, slammed her on the coach, put her arms and legs behind her back.
And I said, I'll never hit you.
But if you ever touch me again, I'll fucking hurt you.
So as soon as that happened, we got split up.
I ended up in an emergency foster home.
While I was there, I was like, I like, I like this place.
And then my foster dad said, oh, you sure?
He goes, you don't know the true story here, man.
And I was like, well, I like it. I like it.
So we decided I'd go live with him.
So, yeah, so I lived with him.
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August 1st.
We had this respite worker who was awesome.
She was going to school to be a social worker
and he was only, I think he was only 24
and he had four of us, he'd by himself
and he had a couple rest play workers there.
But yeah, what I liked about his house
was he used to sit us down in a circle
and force us to talk about our past
and he would make us, like,
he'd force us to heal basically.
And if we tried to bullshit, he'd call us on it.
And then we couldn't leave the circle
unless we talked about something.
So you're really cool guys.
and the lady that was just in here helping me set this whole thing up,
that's a respite worker because once she stopped working for him,
they started dating and then they got married.
And now I live like 50 minutes away from them in a different town.
So everything worked out there,
the best people I've ever met in my life.
The only good foster home I've ever been in.
So everything worked out there, which was awesome.
And then something happened when I was there.
I got in trouble.
so I couldn't stay there
and I ended up
an emergency foster home
and he moved out to where she lives
they ended up getting married
and then her dad's a farmer
so they start you start farming
now he runs the farm and all this stuff
but I had to go to emergency foster home
and I didn't understand
why I had to leave
so I rounded up a bunch of friends
we went to the house
we used to live in, ran through the walls
ripped up the toilets, ripped up the sinks.
We did $30,000 damage.
And to them, we were having a good time partying.
To me, I'm like, you fucking hurt my feelings.
This is me getting revenge.
Because I didn't understand why I had to leave.
Right.
But what happened was I had assaulted one of our foster brothers.
I didn't realize because they have different levels of needs.
So he was a level five.
And when my foster dad told me I had to leave, he goes, he's a level five.
You're a level two.
you're only here because I love you.
And that's when I was like, fuck.
So that's when I got put in the murderous foster home.
But I still didn't fully understand it.
So that's why I wanted to get revenge on him.
That's why I smashed up his house.
And how we got busted was the next day,
I guess a real estate agent came to show it.
And there's all these little brown kids laying in the store with bottles and
cussed up.
So yeah, next thing you know, we hear,
Roop, Wittip, please.
We're surrounding the house, blah, blah.
So I run upstairs.
I tried to hide in his shower.
My foster bad's old shower.
And then I remember climbing onto the ceiling or climbing under the little ledge on the roof.
And then I heard the dog and I was like, fuck.
And then this cop's like, get down from there before you fall, you fat fuck.
And I remember laughing.
And I was like, okay, I'm going in the room.
Don't bring the dog, please.
So I climbed back in the window, laid down.
They arrested me.
And I ended up in the youth center like June.
How were you?
I was 13 by then.
Okay.
Yeah.
So I ended up in June.
juvie. And then I ended up getting put in this. It's like a group home, but it's a locked
coupon, which was a locked facility. And, excuse me, but they only had, they had like magnetic
doors. So we used to work, Hey Kitchen, and we only had vending machines. So we get paid in tunis
just for the vending machines. So everyone would pay me 10 tunis, line up, I'd smash the door
open, and then I'd block the guards from coming. Because I was a big kid, I was 240 at 13 years
So I blocked the guards from chasing them.
They'd all run out.
I'd have a big hand of change and I'll go running.
Yeah, so I got in trouble lots for that.
And then, let's see, played rugby a lot most of my life.
Got in trouble again when I was 16 for bank fraud, I think it was.
Bank fraud for what?
It's just crappy bank fraud.
Well, I was with this girl.
She found out I was, I told her I was 21.
Like, okay, I have two daughters that were born when I,
I was 17 so I made them when I was 16 their moms I had a full beard when I was 13 their moms are
20 so I told them both I was 21 and we ended up having kids guys I have I'm 42 I have two 25 year old
daughters but um so I was living with this girl I was I ran away from a group home and I was 14 I think
I think was 14 and she was 22 but she thought it was 25 and then one day I was reading her diary
and she was kind of catching on
and she's just saying
she's kind of sick of me
being at the house
with my friends and this and that
so I'll say wait
she changed her pin number
on her card to my nickname
so I know her
fucking yeah I'm going to go on the run
so I took her bank card
I did the empty envelopes
but I'd do it on a Thursday
because I knew they wouldn't catch it
until Tuesday so I could have
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday
and they catch it on Tuesday
it'd be no good so it was fraud
over $5,000
and I got thrown in the youth center for that.
Got out when I was 16.
I was too big for, what did they say?
I was too big for foster homes and too manipulative for group homes.
So they gave me my own place.
So I got my own apartment.
Actually, before I turned 16, got my own apartment, lived on my own.
There's a part of this that I was thinking I don't want to get into because
Andrew Tate got charged with human trafficking because of what if he was saying.
Right.
So, well, as you say, at 16, I kind of got into some shit.
Right.
I understand.
I was living pretty good, actually.
And then when I was 18, this is where the fun story is coming.
When I was 18, I had a bunch of girls around me.
Well, first off, I was going to throw this into the story because it's pretty shitty.
But there was this girl I met who, once again, was a lot older than me.
And...
Um, she told me, because I had these girls, so she told me you either choose me and we live
happy. We'll have the white picket fence, this and that, or you can pick these girls and go do
your thing. Right. But I was so, I just, I didn't trust women. I didn't trust love. I didn't
trust women. It just seemed like they all left me and like as a kid, like my mom dying, all that
shit. I just didn't want to latch on to any woman. So I thought the safest thing for myself would be
to pick these girls.
So she said,
my cousin offered me an opportunity
to go on the road with the carnival.
I was going,
you'll be a fucking carny and go ahead.
So she went all over Canada,
all over the States.
And then one night,
there was a bunch of us sitting there.
So even though I was doing illegal shit,
I still had a job.
And it was,
it was Mantoba Youth and Care Network.
And it was kind of like the
Manitoba Youth and Care Network.
So working with foster kids,
stuff like that.
And it was kind of,
with the children's advocate of Manitoba.
So one day a bunch of us are sitting there and I have a friend I grew up with and she
said, I need to ask you a question.
It's very important.
I'm not looking for sympathy.
I just want an answer.
So I said, okay, what's up?
So she tells me that her father was convicted of molesting her and her two sisters.
And he only got three months.
but it was followed by three months house arrest
where he legally had to stay in the same house as the victims
and I was like that's the worst miscarriage of justice
I've ever seen for a victim
and then she goes yeah
and then obviously it happened again
this time there was four of them
heard her three sisters
so this time he got 12 months
followed by three months house arrest
and I'm like what the fuck?
Like are you serious? And she's like yeah
I was like that's why I'm asking you
that you work with did you ever
kids who were arrested. And I said, not directly. I said, I just do like file work and stuff.
And she's like, oh, okay, so you wouldn't know that? I was like, I've never seen that in my life.
I've never seen somebody sent back to their victims legally sent back to their victims.
And then she goes, yeah, well, it happened one more time. And you got 18 months plus three months house rest.
That's when his wife finally decided to leave him after the third conviction. She finally left him.
So let's just say, God is fuck. I was crying. I was like, I couldn't help it.
She said, I'm not looking for sympathy.
Like, just, I was wondering.
I was like, okay, I'm so sorry, blah, blah, blah.
And then there was this, this one gay dude there, one of my buddies,
borrowed 40 bucks off me.
And then he left.
And then this, there was, okay, so there's this one girl that her mom somehow
recognized me.
She used to babysit me when I was like six or five.
So she knew me from Toronto all of a sudden in Winnipeg.
And she's like, oh, yeah.
I knew your mom.
And I guess her grandma's grew up together.
Our moms grew up together.
She used to babysit me.
So I started calling this person my sister.
And it's a trans girl.
So there was her and she had a trans friend with her.
And she's like, oh, I thought she didn't like drugs.
And I was like, I don't.
Because I knew nothing more drugs by then.
I did acid a couple times when I was 16 smoke weed once in law.
And then I said, no, I don't like drugs.
She goes, why'd you live in $40?
I was like, because he's my buddy.
He always breathing black.
And then she's like, he went to get crack.
And I was like, no, he did.
They're like, yeah, we went to get cracked.
So I didn't realize if you're a crackhead, you're not waiting around.
You're going to reach your dealer.
I didn't know that because I didn't know about drugs.
So I went to go try to find him where he always is.
And I walked up and down there for two hours, didn't see him.
So finally I'm like, fuck it.
I'm going to call a taxi.
This is in 1999.
So there's pay phones and shit still.
So I'm on the phone calling a taxi.
And then this guy comes from across street carrying beer.
He's like, who you own the phone with?
And I was like, U.S. City taxi.
And he's like, asked for two of them.
So I said, okay.
So I asked for two, hung up.
So while we're waiting, we start talking.
And he goes, what's your name?
You're a funny motherfucker?
And I was like, Dale Turcott, nice to meet you.
And then he told me his name.
And his first name is Kim, which is very rare for a man.
And then his last name, which is a Spanish rare last name I never heard.
And I was just like, holy fuck, this is her dad.
This was four hours after she told me what he had done.
He approached me.
I had no physical description of him.
I didn't know if he had long hair, bald head,
if he was fat, short, and nothing.
I just knew his name.
And he approached me four hours after she told me.
So I'm like, thinking in my head, like, is this fate?
Then I'm thinking I was just planning on beating the shit out of him.
So what do you did?
That's it.
So I said, who are you drinking with?
He goes, nobody.
And I said, well, I'll pay for half the beer.
He goes, you pay for the cab.
So I said, okay.
So you go back to this place.
I'm not drinking.
I made it look like I was drinking.
I'm sitting on the couch.
of a cannon bear
and he's showing me
how the Pink Floyd
record sinks up
with the Pink Floyd movie
you showing me this
so well
plus when we first got there
there was a picture of his daughter
that I know so I knew for sure
it was him right
so I go to the bathroom
come out and I'm like
hey I know what you did to your daughters
and he's like what I know what you did to your daughters
and this dude was Jack too
so he took a weird stance
like not like a fighting stance
but it was just kind of a sideways
I'm ready kind of thing
and his juggler was just like
boom so
I got ready
and then he moved towards me
and you know when you're ready to fight
as soon as someone moves you're going to go
so he kind of moved towards me
I swung three times, missed every shot
because he was going slow
and he reached out and he grabbed my dick
he just cupped it
and I was just like
what the fuck so I was like
you got a half an hour to stop
no I'm kidding I didn't say that
Sorry.
Oh my God.
No, but as soon as he did that, I backhanded him and he went flying to the coach.
And I'm thinking in my head, I'm confronting you about being a perver and you're going to be a pervert.
And at this time, I'm 320 pounds.
I'm six feet tall.
He didn't care.
I got a beard, shaved head, kind of intimidating.
He didn't give a fuck.
Like, this guy was a true monster.
So we backhand him, we'd get into it.
And then I remember he tagged me right in the chin.
and then I kind of went back
and I was leaning on
what is it, entertainment stand
so I'm leaning there
telling my body to move
and I can't move at all
and then he gets up
and he's coming towards me
and I honestly thought in my head
like he's going to rape you or something
so everything I had
I pushed my heels to the ground
and I fell on top of them
so we fell under the coach
and then yeah
he kept he started hitting me in the head
and every shot he gave me
I started coming to
right so I started scrapping him
Another thing, too, which will turn into something funny after was he wasn't wearing a belt
and he had these cargo shorts on and he kept pulling them up.
So when we started scrapping, he couldn't pull them up anymore.
So we're fighting on the couch.
I ended up like putting both hands around his neck and then I moved to get like a side position
and this fucking guy had a bowler.
And I'm like, what the hell?
Like this guy's an actual fucking perver.
So I hit him seven times a year.
and yeah it's up to you if you want to edit this but his eyeball popped out and he hit my hand
and I'll just say whoa because it's still attached to muscles right so then he quit moving
something okay he's dead so I get up and I'm like what the fuck just happened so I go and I look
outside I don't know why I looked outside but you know when it's like dark out light inside
the window is like a mirror right so I'm looking like that I move my hand and I see
something moved behind me. So I turn around and he's standing there and he's got his bone
here sticking out. His hand, each finger was like, because his hand was like this. So it looked
like purple balloons at the end of each finger. I guess his hand was crushed and all that
blood pooled. Um, eyeball hanging out, foot facing the other way, like standing there. And I honestly,
I wasn't, I didn't do drugs. I wasn't drunk. But for the first time in my life, I was like,
it's a fucking zombie. I actually believed.
he was a zombie. So I'm thinking if he comes this way, I'm going that way. If he comes this
way, I'm going that way. Like, I'm going opposite of what, because he had a big coffee table
that was between us. So whatever way he came, I was going the opposite way. I was getting the hell
out of there. I was so scared. Like, I'd never been that scared in my life. I seriously thought
it was a zombie. So he looks at me, he's trying to say something. And he goes, I loved my princesses.
And I was like, you sick, fuck. Like, through that coffee table, I grabbed him, like, give him like a rock
bottom, grabbing by the neck, slamming him to the couch. And I remember choking him so hard
that I heard something snap. And then I looked at my hand. I went like this. I thought like I broke
a finger. And then I looked at him and he's going, they're grabbing his throat. And then I just
remember making a fist. And it was such a weird feeling because when I made that fist, it was like
everything that ever happened to me, everything that ever happened to my sister, all the kids that I
I wasn't care with it. It happened to all the files I read about kids who were molested.
Like it felt like all their powers were in my hand, like almost like a super punch from
victims. And I remember jumping up, which wasn't that high because I'm fat. But I jumped
up and I slammed the reins his forehead and he was gone. He died right there, took his last
breast. But then I went to the door and he was slumped. This time I made sure he was
dead because I picked him up and I kind of shook him and I dropped him against his coach.
So I went to the door, turned the hand.
to look back, and I was like, now you'll never do any, now you'll never do this to
anybody again. And then I ran up to him and I stomped on his, because he still had a
heart on. So I stomped on his heart on. And I left. And yeah, so I guess the police,
their first piece of evidence was the killer had size 14 Reeboks, because we had a heel
print on one of his thighs and a toe print on the other. Right. And so I go back home and there's
a bunch of girls there. This was the next day. So I'm there. The day after that, the paper comes
out and I read a newspaper and there's a picture that girl with dad. So apparently my best friend
knew her dad and she's reading the paper and she's like, oh my God. I was like, what? She's like,
you killed him? I was like, I killed who? She's like, you killed your dad? And I was like,
the fuck you're talking about. He goes that night she told us that and you left. Where were you
all night? I was like, I don't even know her fucking dad. And she's like, you fucking killed him. I was
like, dude, I don't even know who he is.
And then, yeah, next you know, I'm
chilling with my girlfriend.
The girls were still there.
And there was that, my best friend,
the one that was reading the paper, went to go and do her laundry.
And then came home.
And about two minutes later, there's a knock on the door.
And then she opens the door.
And she's like, oh, yeah, he's right there.
So two detectives come in.
They're like, Dale Turcott?
And I'll see, yeah.
Like, Dale Joseph, Turkot?
And we're like, yeah.
They're like, we're from homicide and Robert.
So she called them?
Yeah, well, she was doing laundry.
And this was my best friend.
Like this girl was also in foster care.
She was looking for her mom because her dad kidnapped her from Manitoba and took her to,
or no, kidnapped her from Ontario and brought her to Manitoba.
And she never talked to her mom in all that time.
And so I took her to the library back in the day before they had internet and shit.
And we went through all those family names looking for her mom.
and her mom got married
so she knew the new name
so we're looking, we're looking
we wrote down all the names
and I remember I was at her group home
he called all of them nothing
and I said don't worry we'll go back to the library
because she's pretty upset she had her hopes up
and it was just like a movie I was getting on the transit bus
and it was just like a movie I pulled out my bus pass
and this posted note fell
there was three numbers on there
so I brought it inside and said hey
I got three more numbers
the last one she called
hi is this blah blah blah
mom this town is oh my god so after 10 years I helped her find her mom with the money I was making
illegally I paid for the gifts and the flight to Ontario for her to visit her mom and all that so we
were like best friends we'd been through hell together and she did this to me so at the time I'm
kind of not believing she would do that to me so I'm thinking it's all coincidence right we'll come
up later what actually so um so yeah the cops take me
out of there. They didn't handcuff me or nothing. They said, we'll be in front. So I said, okay.
So I walk out. I'm thinking right out of the back, but I'm not fast. Right.
I get to the front door, there's two squad cars unmarked. And that cop rolls down his window. He's like,
pick which one. So is it okay? So I went, got in the back of one. And he goes, hey, we're
going to go to burger factory to have something to eat first, okay? And I said, yeah. So I went to
burger factory. I still wasn't handcuffed. They ordered me two burgers, fries, we ate. I was thinking
They're buttering.
Did you ever ask them why they were there?
Like, did you ever say you're just going along with it?
Or is it just a known?
I knew.
I knew.
I knew it you knew, but I didn't know if you were like, hey, what's going on?
This is crazy.
Why are you talking to me?
When we got to the station.
I don't even know that guy.
No.
I made a quick joke when we got to the station.
I was like, is this for that robbery last night?
And they're like, ah, because of the homicide robbery?
So. But yeah, they took me to eat. I thought they were buttering me up. But they weren't. And I got to the station. They, they were interviewing me. He's like, dude, I don't care what the story is. Just give me a story so I could write it down and we put you inside. So I said, okay. I said, well, how about this? Because they arrested six people from house. The two trans girls, my best friends, mostly my girlfriend and two other people. So I said, all of these people that she brought in all,
have charges. So how about you make me a deal as a man, not as a cop to a suspect,
man to man. You make me a deal that none of them will get made on any of their charters and I'll
give you a story. And he's like, Doug. So we shook hands. I gave him a story. It wasn't the
real story, but I gave him a story. They let everybody out. And a couple months later, all of them
beat their charges. They just threw them out. So he was on it. He was good to his word.
but what was your
the girl's name
your best friend
Tadis
Janice
Tannis
Oh with a K
Kana
With a T
Oh Tannis
Tannis
Okay
Yeah
So when you gave him the story
Was it
Tannis killed him
Yeah
Beat him to death
I was there
I saw the whole thing
Never seen anything like it
She's super strong
For 120 pounds
For a tiny lady
Yeah
Insane
Where were
you back then, man.
She, and the weirdest thing is she was wearing my shoes, which was weird because she
had to wear my shoes.
I have a big shoe.
Oh, that would have been good.
That would have been funny.
Not what?
Didn't work out that way.
No.
So they gave me, Tana's asked if she could say goodbye to me before they take me away.
So they gave us 15 minutes together.
And then, yeah, so I get locked up.
everyone beats their chart
is I'm awaiting trial
and you know what's funny is
so many lawyers came to see me
to try to be my lawyer
and there was one name
Ken McCaffrey he's from Winnipeg
and he has no hands
he's got like a thumb and a nub
and he writes
so when he interviewed me
I was like okay well nice meeting we get up
and he goes like this
where's my hand there he goes like I
so me I'm thinking what the fuck do I do
So I grabbed it like this and I shook.
Because fist bumps weren't too popular back then.
So I'm going up to the elevator and I'm like, why not I just fist bump him?
Like, what the fuck?
I shook his numb.
Yeah, it was pretty funny.
You got to have done with your pinky.
Yeah, he's a little nut.
A little pinky.
Yeah, so finally, there's a, I call him the late great Greg Brodsky.
He was the best murder lawyer in Canada.
He did over 500 murder cases in Canada.
And he just happened to be from Winnipeg.
So he came to see me one day, and he goes, you know what I am?
And I'm like, yeah, you want me as a lawyer?
And I was like, yeah, actually.
Okay, what do you want for me?
Tell me the story.
What happened?
What happened?
So I started telling him.
Bullshit, that couldn't happen because this, this and this.
And there's no way that would have been like this.
And I was like, what was the story?
What was the story you gave him?
Oh, it was something about, um, he slept the bell?
No, I think I said that we were fighting and I accidentally, I had my arm
over his neck and I put too much pressure.
And then he called bullshit on it right away.
So I gave him a different story.
He called bullshit again.
And he goes, I'm your lawyer.
They can't record.
I'm not recording.
Tell me what's going on.
I'll tell you the real story.
I'm like, okay.
So I told him the real story.
He goes, now he can work.
Now he can work.
He goes, what do you want from me?
And I said, I'll do 10.
I'll do 20.
I just don't want life.
Because I'm not sure how it works in the States.
But in Canada, if you get life, as soon as you get out, say you get out in the 25
or the 10, you're on parole.
for the rest of your life.
So if I have a disgruntled ex,
she can say I pushed her or she saw me drinking.
I get taken back for two years before they even reveal me.
Right.
So you're on parole until the day you die.
So I just told him, I'll do 10, I'll do 20, I'll just don't want life.
He said, okay, I'll come see you tomorrow.
So I said, okay, come to see me the next day.
He goes, you plead guilty seven to 10,
you plead guilty to manslaughter because I got charged with second degree murder.
So he said, you plead the manslaughter.
He goes, you'll get seven to ten.
So I said, okay.
Was it in the press?
Was there, were there like, was this in the press?
You said there was in the news, but I mean, after they arrested you were the paper, was
the newspaper following the case?
Yeah.
Yeah.
They came to court and everything.
Okay.
So, so.
He said seven to ten.
Seven to ten.
He said he was going to ask for seven.
And he told me the crown attorney was asking for ten.
So it would be somewhere in between.
So I said, okay.
So what he did, because he's such a frigging genius, is he made sure we had a female judge
that had kids.
Right.
Because I killed a child molester.
Right.
Boom.
Yes.
Oh.
The judge ended up getting a three-time convicted child.
Yes.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
So she ended up giving me six years instead of seven to ten.
I got six years.
So he's a genius.
But another thing, they tried to bring up his, his, um,
criminal record in court, and the Crown Attorney is like, well, he's not the one on trial.
Mr. Turquhart's on trial, not him.
But the judge already knows the particular, so she already knew he was a child molested in that.
Oh, I'm sure the judge had read the newspaper.
They read the paper.
You know, they know.
Well, I'm not even sure.
I'm not even sure if the paper said that he was a child molester.
I don't even know.
But I know for sure the judge knew.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah.
So, now the funny thing.
When I read the particulars of the case, because they found him with his pants down.
Right.
I guess when I tipped over that coffee table, his astray flew.
So when they found him during the autopsy, they found some cigarette butts in his ass crack.
They tested them for semen to see if I raped because they found him with his past down.
So when I read that, I was like, what the fuck?
And then in court, the Crown Attorney said, the victim did not know the accused.
I don't know what the motive was.
In my personal opinion, Mr. Turkod was looking to trade sex for money.
In a state of rage when the man wouldn't pay him, Mr. Turkud beat him to death.
So everyone in the courtroom laughs.
Then my lawyer stands up and he goes, no offense to my client.
But if I was a John, I would not pick up a 324-pound,
bald man. Everyone laughed, including the judge. And I was like, oh, my God. So the next day in the
paper, it says the crown attorney suggested Mr. Turcall was a male prostitute. So all my
buddies in jail are like, hey, I got chocolate bars, bro. I got chips. So, but yeah, so I ended up
getting six years for that. And how much time do you do on six years in Canada? In Canada,
they have something called statutory release, which is two-thirds. So,
no matter what, I get out in four years.
The only time there is an exception to that is if they have a dangerous offender who's
reoffended violently or a sexual offender that didn't do all their programs, then they have
to do all their time.
Okay.
But anybody else, you automatically get, you go down two thirds and then you're on parole
for the rest of the time.
So I remember.
Do you also get gain time?
No.
No, no good time.
You can earn good time, though.
But do you have earlier parole, but that's only for nonviolent offenders, first time offenders?
So you have to be first time, you have to be nonviolent.
You are not.
Well, I'm not.
No.
Well, I remember when 9-11 happened, they had an army dude come.
And he told us that if you're, the hell did you say, if you're serving less than six years and you're nonviolent and you don't have weapons charges, if it comes down to World War III,
you can serve the rest of your time out in the Army.
So, and I was like, well, six years, violence, I don't call off.
So, yeah.
But I remember when I, first I was in Stony Mountain Penitentiary in Mantua here.
And then because I didn't have any community support because I was so young,
I didn't have anyone really visiting me.
They shipped me out to Saskatchewan, which is the next province.
and yeah so I'm there
and I ended up getting minimum security
well you know what that is
yeah because I think you were minimum right
I was in medium and then I was in a low
and then they have camps
so camps and a lows are basically minimum
yeah they call the farm
yeah they call the farm out here so
there's like no fence
yeah no fence
Yeah, that's like a camp.
Yeah.
So we got, there's like little barbed wire fence, but that's for like, because we
have livestock.
Yeah.
Like I worked in the slaughterhouse there.
I'm doing time for man to slaughter.
And my first job out there is slaughtering pigs.
Oh my God.
Like, how's that?
It's the irony.
Exactly.
So, you ask, where's your father during all this?
Have you heard from him at all?
Obviously out of prison.
Yeah, sorry.
So my father, I guess, he used to call my uncle.
We went to visit him the day before we left to Mantoba.
We went to go visit him one more time.
And what I read recently in my papers was that it was to let my sister know that
everything that happened wasn't her fault.
And it was to say goodbye to me.
So when we went to my uncles, he would call me once a week.
He was allowed to call me on Tuesdays, I think it was.
When we moved with my other uncle,
Um, my, my dad would call, but my uncle would be like, no, he doesn't live here.
So that's how our communication stopped.
Okay.
So, and then when I was 16, I was told that, uh, because he had that disease that
Andre the Giant had, where your brain releases growth hormones.
Right.
So I was told that his body quit growing, but his organs kept growing, and then his lungs
ended up popping
and he died face down
in his soup
that's what my aunt
he told me
so I'm like oh
I wasn't too sad
whatever
good riddance
so yeah
so that's
so later on
the second time
I'm in jail
I'm bored one day
and I'm thinking
okay my dad named me
after him
we got taken away
when I was six
so if he remarried
what if he wanted
his name to live on
and he renamed
his new kid
after him
So I'm like, I wonder if I have any sibling.
So I get on Facebook, I'm bored.
I'm not locked up because I was the inmate committee representative for our range.
So I don't have to lock up during the day.
Just me and the clearers are out.
So I'm on the phone and I said, look up every D. Turkot, Dale Turkot, Dale Jr., Jr.,
so I sent them all the same message.
Hey, sorry to waste your time.
I'm not sure if you're also Dale Turkot Jr., but if you are, please get back to me.
I have a question.
So the second day, the first day,
oh, sorry about that,
did look on your search, sorry, blah, blah, blah.
Excuse me.
Second day, you get a message.
Hey, I'm not Dale Jr.
I'm actually Dale Sr.
If your mother was Jenny and your sister Lisa
and your younger sister Kayla,
let me know.
So the only thing he had wrong was my younger sister was Kara,
not Kayla.
And my whole body went fucking cold.
And I was like, there's no fucking way.
I said, somebody's fucking with me.
She said, what do you mean?
I said, my dad's dead.
My dad died when I was 16.
I said, someone's messing with me.
I was like, someone knows enough about me to fuck with me.
And she's like, who the hell would take your time to do that?
Yeah, you reached out to him, bro.
Yeah.
But I could tell him, like, my dad's dead.
My dad's dead.
So I was like, okay, I have an idea.
I hang up the phone.
I called my foster mom, the one that lives here.
And I say, hey, ma, I was like, this is what's going on?
What do you think?
She goes, well, what's your aunt?
He's uncle's names.
So I tell her, she's like, yeah, he's on Facebook.
They have friends in common.
And to tell you the truth, this looks like you with a pervert
mustache and a trucker hat.
I said, oh, damn.
I said, what the fuck?
So I said, okay, thank you.
I hang up, call my ex back.
And I was like, hey, there's one thing to let me know if that's him or not.
I said, ask him this question.
So I asked, hey, if this is really Big Dale, what was my imaginary friend's name?
Without hesitation, you message back, Marby the mop.
And I was like, holy fuck, that's my dad.
And I was like, I was told you died when I was 16, but I wrote him a 27 page letter.
sent them pictures of his grandkids
except they were all clothed
and I told them in that letter
I remember everything
and I said when I say everything I mean
everything I was like so it's going to take a bit
to build a relationship
but I know what you did and I said the life
I'm living now
you guys people like you are the bottom
of the fucking the ladder here
I was like I hate people like you
I killed somebody like you and it probably happened
because of you like I told them all that in the
fucking letter so
when I got out that time
I was supposed to go see him
the first week I got out
it was set up to go see him
because I was on parole
so I had to get everything approved
so everything was set up to go see him
except when I got out
my drug phones
all my coke phones are doing bad
because people were fucking up
because I wasn't around
so I stuck back to straighten those people out
and then I thought
I'll go the next week
so the day I was supposed to come home
from that visit
which was going to be the day
that I left to go to the visit
he had a seizure and he died so but he was over 600 pounds seven feet tall and he was seven foot two
and he was bedridden he had two nurses yeah and then he the year after my mom died he met another
lady and he was with her that whole time and she was so jealous that my dad still had
pictures of us and wedding pictures she was jealous of a dead woman but because of parole everything
was so meticulous me going out to the funeral everything had to be planned like I
I had to check him with these cops, check him with those cops when I got there,
check him with these cops when I got there, leave by this time.
So her knowing that, she moved the funeral up one day, and I missed it.
I need to bury my dad.
So, but, and you know what, I cried when he died, and I'm embarrassed about that
because of what he did to my sister.
And what I accidentally, I shouldn't have did it.
I shouldn't have did it.
But when I found out that he was alive, I told my sister, the one that he, it's sexually
abused.
Right.
I told her, I was like, you, big deal is still alive.
and she got a hold of him and said,
why did you do that shit to me?
He told her,
oh, your mom was always gone,
blah, blah, blah.
And she's like,
she's like,
I was fucking eight years old.
And my dad said to her,
why don't you get off your fucking high horse?
So when I just sent him to him,
yeah,
he clearly had some issues.
Yeah,
he's a fucking piece of shit.
And the rest of the family is so nice,
so good.
Like he was never molested.
He was never nothing like that.
He just became a piece of shit on his own.
and I'm so thankful because you look at statistics,
I am so thankful that I ended that cycle right there.
Because there's so many people like,
I hate when people blame that,
but I know that it is part of it.
But I just don't like when people hide behind that so much.
Right.
And they don't try to get help.
They do like, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I mean,
lots of people go through abuse and they don't end up,
they don't end up becoming that month.
Yeah.
You know, but some do.
But yeah.
Yeah, I think too many do.
And then too many hide behind it.
Yeah.
So when you got out of prison after the manslaughter charge, what happened then?
I was going to tell you a quick story in between there.
So I ended up in the minimum.
I had met a girl because we used to have socials.
That's where like people from the outside can come in.
You'd all sit around and have barbecues, shit like that.
It's going on.
So.
And Canadian.
Yeah, exactly.
What a place to commit crime.
Jesus.
Well, that's the thing, too.
Like, if I did my crimes in the States, I'd have been doing life.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think there would have been.
You'd have gotten at least 20 and done at least 15 to 17.
Yeah.
You'd have been, that's if you got 20, you might have just ended up with 20.
I don't think I would have got a chance to commit my second crime.
Yeah.
So you would have been an old.
You'd still be in there.
Yeah.
Still be in there.
So, yeah.
So we have, we have these socials.
and I met my buddy's sister
and we were kind of whatever.
Her last name is actually rabbit skin.
Native girl.
The last name was rabbit skin.
I got a kick out of that.
So anyways,
so me and her start talking,
whatever,
she has a boyfriend that's doing time with me.
But he's married.
So he's married,
plus he has his girl's girlfriend.
So I'm like,
whatever.
So I end up in the minimum
and we talk more
because he's not doing time with me no more.
I'm in the minimum.
He's in the medium.
And then this guard that I was kind of,
I wouldn't say fooling around with because we only meet out.
We didn't actually go all the way.
She came and warned me.
She's like, hey, because of your attitude,
you're going back in the wall on Tuesday.
And I was like, what?
She was, yeah.
She's like, I'm not supposed to tell you,
but you're going back in the wall on Tuesday, back to medium.
So I'm like, fuck.
And the big thing in my mind,
because me and my sister, Lisa, the older sister used to be so close.
Like, so close.
Like I'd die for her.
And she didn't know, like when I got charged, the hardest thing about when that murder happened, the hardest part of the whole fucking thing was when I had to call her from the police station and tell her I got charged a second degree of murder.
That was the hardest part.
It was the whole thing.
But yeah, like his daughter showed up to court with my family and stuff.
So they were two, they weren't going to miss them.
But the hardest thing was telling my sister Lisa.
And then Lisa was like, I didn't raise no murderer.
They're like, what the fuck?
Something must have happened.
Something must.
She didn't know the real story.
And here in Canada, after you get sentenced, there's 18 months where they can bring
your charge back and appeal it.
So I had to stick with that story for 18 months that was accidental, this and that.
Oh, right.
So my sister still didn't know what happened.
So when I took off or when that lady told me I was going back inside the wall,
I said, how much time will I get if I take off?
And the guard's like, don't take off, don't take off.
I said, well, how much time will I get?
And she's like, I don't know, 30.
days. Just don't commit any crimes. So I was like, okay. She's like, you're leaving? I was like,
yeah. So I called old rabbit skin. This is a guard. This is a guard. Yeah. Yeah. So everything said
I had been all rabbit skin. I called old rabbit skin. And I was like, hey, you want to come pick
me up? She's like, what? I was like, yeah, I'm taking off. She's like, no way. And I was
like, okay. I'll be there. How long? I was like an hour after count. So she said,
okay. Or no, an hour before count. Sorry. So before count? Before count? Before count? Before count?
count, an hour before it count. I'm risky. That's nuts. I know I should have to
have to count, but so anyway, so I take off and I remember walking through the snow and they
had this, this, uh, like barbed wire fence, but only three wires high. So it's like up to my knee.
So I go to climb over it. And my pants get stuck. I fall over and a fucking tree pokes me in the
eye. So I'm like, oh my God, I think this is a sign, blah, blah. So I keep walking to the road and finally get
to town. I look back and my trail is like zigzay because of my eyeball. Right. So I'm like,
this is a bad sign. I should just go back. So I get to the table and try call her three times,
no answer. So I'm like, maybe I can make it back before count. All of a sudden they're like,
and there's really old Chivette, like old as Chavette. She's got a car seat in the backseat. So I got
to squeeze into the passenger seat with this car seat back there. So I'm leaning on the dashboard.
And then I go to her house in the city.
for a bit for a couple days and then she was do want to come up to my reserve it's safe for there
so i said yeah let's go so you go to her reserve and i remember the only hill in saskatchew and we found
it and we're going up the hill the car's barely making it i can feel her staring at me so i'm like
do you want me to get out and walk to the top of the hills she's like please i didn't want to be rude
but can you i'm like yeah so i got out of this little shitty chivette walked to the top of the hill
met her there coasted down the other side so i was on her reserve for 16 days
But I was like, there's a pool table.
The only pool table in town is at the grocery store.
And there's all these older native people there, like buying groceries and shit and nobody to help them.
So I started helping all them.
And then they had these activity days where they play volleyball.
And I was there every night playing volleyball, you know, like making the youth laugh, making the kids laugh, making the elders laugh, all this other stuff.
One day I met her house in the basement with her mom watching TV.
Killer's still on the lamb.
Oh, there's my picture.
The only difference is my hair is cut and I don't have glasses.
So I'm like, so I'm sitting there, I look at her mom, I look at her, and I was like,
what I'm going to do?
I got no way out of there.
I've been asking my friends for $85 for a bus ticket to Winnipeg.
Everyone says, I got a way to payday, got a way to pay day.
She asked her friends, nobody hooked her up.
And then I guess they had a meeting on the reserve about me.
And they said, hey, you're doing a lot of good things.
we're not going to turn you in.
Just don't be doing stuff I got out here.
And I'm like, oh, my God, I'm safe.
So this is a crazy part.
So they asked me, do you want a chaperone on a ski trip with the youth?
No problem.
Let's go.
The next morning, she's like, hey, I've got $90 in my bank account.
I don't know who it came from.
So I phone all my friends, wasn't me, wasn't me, wasn't me.
She phones hurt people, it wasn't her.
So I'm suspecting it might have been her boyfriend that's still in jail.
So with that, we buy the $85 bus to get.
She goes, do you want to stick around with a ski trip or do you want to go home?
I say, do you want, it might be safer.
Let's just go home.
Or I'm going to go home.
She said, okay, call me to make sure you got there safe.
It's okay.
So I think it was like 16 hour bus ride.
So I get there, call her, tell her he made it.
She's crying.
And I said, what happened?
Apparently the dude that took my spot, their van rolled, and he died.
So, yeah, I got saved by that bus thing, which tripped me out.
But yeah, and then I was on the run in Winnipeg.
I think I was on a run for a month and a half.
And I remember they started kicking in doors of like my friends that had kids looking for me.
So because when you go, when you first go to jail, they do this, they ask us like 900 questions.
There's questions like, did your dad want to be a florist?
Did your mom want to be a mechanic?
Did you ever want to be a hairdresser?
Well, just some weird questions.
Like 900 of them and you have to do it so they can assess you.
It's so weird.
But I think they take your personality to you.
They take what's important to you.
And they realize that my family.
and friends and kids are important to me.
So that's why they started doing that to smoke me out.
They're kicking in friends' doors that have kids.
One thing that was funny, I got in the cab one day,
and the Winnipeg Free Press,
or no, Winnipeg's son is sitting on his dashboard.
And there's something that says,
killer's still on the lap.
And I'm like, oh my God.
And he's looking at it, looking at me,
looking at me.
And I'm like, I was like, can you believe that?
And he said, what?
I was like, this dude, and I showed him a picture of the dead guy.
I was like, this dude killed my twin brother.
and I was like, and he's already out.
And that guy said, what?
I was like, this guy here?
Killed this guy.
And I showed him a picture of me.
Killed this guy.
That's my twin brother.
You killed him.
And the piece of shit, it's already out of jail.
The cabby's like, no way.
And I'm like, yeah, can you believe that?
He's like, no.
And yeah, so he quit staring at me and shit,
dropped me off where I was, where I got picked up.
But then I was like, you know what?
Maybe it's not safe to be here.
So the next day, I'm leaving that place.
And there's a cop car sitting there.
And I just kind of gave them a hello.
And I guess that was the first cop setting up to raid that house.
So once they hit another house with kids, I was like, you know what, that's enough.
I don't want to traumatize anyone else.
I'm turning myself in.
So I go to turn myself in.
They asked me for ID.
And I'm like, read the paper.
I'm right there.
Like I'm turning myself in to be on the run because I'm on the run from a manslaughter charge.
And you're asking me for ID?
I'm like, well, do you have any form of ID?
I was like, no.
Like, oh, you took off from prison?
I'm like, yeah.
You have prison ID?
I was like, no, I got nothing.
Read the paper.
When people are looking for you, you don't keep the identifying documents on.
Exactly.
And it was almost like they were going to turn me away.
Like, that's what it felt like.
And then they made me sit down, wait for like an hour until available unit was able to come get me.
So I was just like, this is fucking crazy.
So yeah, they took me in and brought me back to Saskatchewan.
So I get back there.
And I'm on the inmate committee again.
I'm the secretary.
So one day I'm typing up a proposal for.
so we can sell, what was it, chocolate Easter bunnies
so we could sell them to the inmates to raise money for an event.
So I'm typing up the proposal.
That girl with boyfriend comes walking in with one of my buddies.
And he's like, hey, I heard you were with Tanya.
Did you get my $90?
I should have asked them without your 90 bucks.
Here's some chocolate bunnies.
Yes.
So he comes in and he's like, were you with Tanya?
I don't know.
He goes, I heard you're fucking my girl.
And I said, what?
I heard you're fucking my girl.
I was like, no.
He goes, yeah, you were fucking.
And he said, Tanya, that's my girl.
And I was like, I thought you were married.
He said, I am.
But that's my girlfriend.
Like, were you with her?
And I was like, oh.
She doesn't know that.
I promise you.
Yeah.
She didn't mention it.
Yeah, exactly.
No, so I'm standing there.
And this guy, he's a...
Is this a big guy?
He's huge.
He's done...
Who comes up to you and tells you?
Yeah, he's big.
He's been in for 18 years and he's tattooed from like his fingertips to his neck.
Like just covered.
Dude was huge.
Working out for 18 years.
So I'm sitting there at the desk.
I turned towards him.
And he's like, yeah, so Tanya, that's my girl.
I was like, oh, shit.
So I'm looking at him.
And this, I'll admit, I'm very embarrassed about it, but I'll admit it.
He pulled out this long, sharpened screwdriver, and he put on a boxing glove.
And I looked at him and I was like, please, John, don't kill me.
And I never thought I would ever beg for my life.
And I'm embarrassed to say I did, but I did.
I looked him in the eyes.
I said, please John don't kill me.
And he's like, oh, you piece of shit, he's like, your sister and your family didn't realize you weren't coming home, eh?
And right when his thing went like this, like he pulled back to stab me, I remembered, because I played
rugby for five years. And I remember our coach taught us, if you want to put anybody on their heels,
shove your thumbs in their armpits and lift and push back. So I shot up from that chair,
put my thumbs in his armpits, ran him against the wall. And all of a sudden he's like,
hey, hey, stop, stop. And I'm like, what the fuck? And he just sounded like such a bitch. I was like,
yo, like grab him by the throat, took his knife away, started punching him. And he's like,
okay, bro, stop, bro, stop. And then we tripped over a lockbox. And then I pulled up his jacket
And I was like, yeah, you're never going home.
Hey, wait when I went to stab him.
I just saw stars and I was like, what the fuck?
And all of a sudden all this blood.
And then I was like, what the hell?
And I kept wiping the blood and it would just be in my eyes again.
And I kept going.
And I realized my so-called friend fucking hit me with a two-by-four.
It was nailed on the wall with nails sticking out to hang up your jacket.
So when he pulled it off the wall, there was nails sticking out.
And that's what he got me with.
Boom.
And he hit me seven times of the two-by-four.
did knock me out, thankfully.
And then I'm not sure if you know those big coffee urns
where you make a big thing of coffee
and there's like a little pipe that gets hot.
Yeah.
So we had a broken one in there
and our doorknob was broken.
So that thing, I pulled that thing out,
put in the doorknob,
tried to turn it and it snapped.
And I was like, fuck, so I turn around
and I'm wiping, I still have the knife
or the screwdriver.
And I'm wiping that blood,
wiping that blood.
And then all of a sudden I hear
they're playing floor hockey in the gym
because the office is just off the gym.
And then all of a sudden the voices got
louder and I realized the door opened and both those guys ran by me and then I went to the
door and my other buddy from Winnipeg named Trent he was there and I was like Trent
Trent and I was slowly like losing consciousness because all that blood and then yeah I just
kind of closed my eyes and then Trent somehow picked me up and he walked me to the gate
and he's like you still have the knife on you bro and I was like fuck thanks thanks for leaving
so I tried to feel around with and I finally found it and I threw it in the middle of the
dome. And then the guards came rushing.
So remember that one guard
was rubbing my thigh. Like, are you alive?
I just kept my eyes closed because she's rubbing my thigh.
But then I woke up and
they thought I got stabbed in the head. So they rushed
me to the hospital, whatever, and asked me what happened.
I didn't say, so they threw me in the hole.
And then they watched the cameras.
So he threw those other two guys in a hole.
None of us wanted to charge each other. None of us
wanted to make a statement on each other so they let us all out.
So me realizing how much
of a bitch they were and
actually realizing I was stronger than I thought,
I challenged them both to a fight in the gym, me against both of them.
My guys will check them for weapons.
Their guys can check me for weapons.
And we're going at it.
So they agreed with it.
Nobody else knows.
I'm on my way to the gym.
Boom, I get arrested.
Get thrown in the hole.
And I'm like, wow.
So the big guy, the 18 years guy, went and told the guards,
hey, this guy's planning something against us.
So I ended up there.
And then I was in the hole for so long.
and then my sister moved to British Columbia
so I was like well why don't she send me to jail out there
then I'll have community support
and I'll have visits so I'm like okay
so they tried to send me there
and then I ended up stopping in Alberta
and I got stuck in the middle of nowhere
I didn't know anybody but I finished my three years there
and it was sorry
but yeah
doesn't sound all right
in some ways it does you guys are playing hockey
and and
oh yeah hockey football
money's I never saw a fucking chocolate
Bunny the whole time I was at Coleman but uh you know so which state did you do time in huh
which state did you do time in Florida Florida okay that's where you're originally from
yeah I'm from I'm from Tampa but I was on the run for like three years but when they caught me
they sent me to Coleman which is about an hour north of Tampa okay yeah what's that small
you're from because you said well I say Tampa because nobody knows my small town well it's I'm from
like, I'm actually from Temple Terrace.
Absolutely.
Like 15 minutes outside of, you know, it's almost like a suburb of Tampa, but it actually
is its own city.
Nobody knows that, though.
Yeah.
I think someone in the comments is like, oh, I was there before or something.
Yeah.
Yeah, because as soon as you answered me, I was like, I want to see what kind of interviewer
this guy.
So I started watching your stuff.
And I was like, oh, shit, this guy's interesting.
Well, not a great interviewer, but I am interesting.
So you got out and did you go live like near your sister?
Because that's pretty much your only real kind of support, right?
Yeah.
So that's a problem here closest to.
Yeah.
It seems.
It seems, I mean, maybe I'm wrong.
But no, no.
Yeah, we were.
So I tried to get out there.
I couldn't.
And then one day I was talking to my foster dad, the one whose house I'm sitting in right now.
Okay.
And the one whose house I smashed up $30,000 damage.
So I phoned him because we stayed in contact.
They wrote to me, you know what I used to do while I was in there?
Because there was a lot of Inuit guys like Eskimos.
A lot more than Eskimos, like Inuits.
And they're very, very good carvers.
They order sandstone and they carve the most amazing things.
So what I realized, because you could smoke back then, I realized in between paydays,
because I used to run a sports book in there too.
So I'd hand you this long ticket.
You can make parleyes.
You could bet on one sport.
And then you bet Pop.
You can bet pop.
You just can't get right.
There always had to be a side hustle.
That was the problem.
So say you owe me 48 pop,
was I come up to you that comes up to a pack of smokes,
just paying me a pack of smoke.
I'll give you a deal.
So I realized these annuit guys,
these Eskimos didn't have tobacco in between paydays
because you got paid every two weeks.
So what I did once, actually,
I met another guy's sister that I had a crush on.
And I was like, okay, well,
I'm going to get one of these guys to carve
a dolphin out of soapstone.
So I said, how much do I owe you for that?
He's like, oh, give me four packs of smoke.
So I said, okay, pay him four packs of smoke.
But then I was thinking, okay, in between, they're always trying to, do you know what a jail
store is?
Okay, so say you want chips.
You come to me, I had one of these two.
You come to me, I'll give you two bags of chips.
On Petey, you have to give me three.
Yeah, we just, that's the store.
Like every, every unit in Coleman had at least one, sometimes two or three.
three stores.
Yeah.
It was the same thing.
It's like either someone would do,
sometimes they'd do half or some of them would do double.
But yeah, like if you bought like,
if you bought $10 worth of stuff,
you owed him $15 worth of.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We usually do buy items.
But so what I realized was, I mean, obviously, well,
we didn't have any money.
So it's whatever the equivalent was.
Like they'd say, okay, they'd give you a store list.
They'd be like, you might even gotten three bags of chips and a,
and maybe a six pack of soda
so you own like 10 bucks
or you own like 15 bucks
they give you they go okay
you got to give me three coffees
one creamer
a bag of chips
like they would break it down
because there's no money
yeah so if you got two chips
you owe me three chips
and you got two things of coffee
you owe me three things of coffee you're about 33%
right yeah
so I noticed these Eskimos
were cussing cigarettes in between
they cut packs of smokes, two for three.
So I was like, can't wait.
How much you want for that?
Well, give me four packs of smokes.
Well, you have no smokes right now.
How about I give you two?
Okay.
Or it'd be like, instead of four packs of smokes,
how about it give you a pouch of tobacco?
Okay.
And then I started buying all these things.
And one day I was sick laying in my cell.
For some reason, Rosie O'Donnell was on.
And she's talking about eBay.
So I'm like, boom, I got this idea.
I was like, I wonder if I send all these carvings back to my foster mom.
if she could put them on eBay. So she did. And I kept buying these things for $7,
selling them for $140, like sending them home, giving them sold. Like, it was crazy.
So when I got out, well, okay, sorry, you asked me a question. Yeah. So I had about a year left.
And I was in contact with my foster parents. So I had about a year left. I was talking about
to my foster having the phone. I was joking around. And I said, yeah, I got about a year.
I got to figure out some girl I can make fall in love with me. So I come with her.
I said that as a joke. And he's like, hey, kiddo. He said, why don't you just
come home and I was just like holy fuck so after everything I've done to him after the murder after
not having anybody for how long he doesn't come home and I just hearing a word home I was like yeah
come home pa so when I got out my ex came to pick me up brought me out here uh to where I live now
and then uh I live with them for about a week and then I was telling my foster one because she's
like well let's go fly for a job because we live by uh um writing
Mount National Park, which is a national park, which is a big vacation spot.
So she's like, well, let's go to the park and get your job.
I said, well, my only experience is in a restaurant, and I don't think they want to manslaughter
with knives.
She's like, shut the fuck up and get in the car.
I was like, okay.
By the end of the day, I had three jobs.
Two of them were restaurants.
So one was bartending.
So everything worked out.
And then my ex, I guess my ex-fiancee, she had a, I figure what it's called, but they
call it tubal pregnancy, where the egg goes to their fallopian tube.
Yeah.
And she lost the baby.
And it was the first time both of us went through that.
And I just fell apart.
I ended up going back to Winnipeg, which was a mistake, hooked up with a bunch of guys I met in jail.
There were drug dealers.
And the thing is, I'm not sure if it's the same in the States, but in Canada, if you're
that young, you're in for a charge like that, you're that big.
And especially if you're, if you're Indian or native, you're like almost automatically
in a gang.
You're going to get recruited into a gang.
I went four years without being in a gang somehow.
And a lot of people respected that.
So when I got out, friends with Asians, friends with everybody.
And they started, well, why don't you collect money for us?
We got, you need a job, collect money from people that aren't paying.
So I said, okay.
So one day my boss invites me over for dinner.
So I go and he goes, can I tell you something without you getting mad?
And I was like, yep.
And he goes, you know this isn't the movies, right?
And I was like, what?
He goes, this isn't Scarface.
This isn't sopranos.
And I was like, what do you mean?
He's like, you don't have to beat the shit out of people.
You don't have to break bones.
He's like, you're big enough.
People are scared of you.
And he's like, nobody's borrowing drugs off me anymore because of you.
And I was like, oh, shit.
So I was like, okay, because I thought I had to be like menacing and violent.
So he ended up telling me like, you just want to drive.
You want to drive for my brother?
And I said, okay.
So I was a driver.
His brother got sick one day.
So I was like, well, I know what to do.
I've been watching.
So took a bag of crack, sold it.
One guy fell in love.
One was having a baby.
The other one was just lazy.
So I started taking all their shifts.
So I was working like 48 hours of the time, driving, making money.
And then I just realized because of me, the one guy was causing beef with everybody over bullshit,
knowing that I would take care of it.
Right.
So one day I went to his house and I was like, hey, you either make me a half partner,
I'm going to beat the shit out of you in front of your wife.
And he's like, done, done.
And he goes, oh, I told myself, if this ever threatens me, I'm going to be done.
So he gave me his work vehicle, he gave me his two work phones, gave me the four and a half
ounces of crack he had, and I took it. And I'm not sure how the states were, for if you know
about the drug of the states. But here, if you build up a good crack phone, you can sell it for like
$20,000, $30,000. And these Asian guys really wanted those crack phones. So I sold the two phones
to them. So I had like $50,000 and a bunch of crack. I came back to this small town where I am.
and I ended up trading straight across some crack for coke
and then I started selling coke crack
and all of a sudden I started I started two phones
I was hiding it from my foster parents
like I wasn't doing drugs either at all
so I was hiding from my foster parents
I met this woman who's now my fiance
and she just hated that lifestyle
so she didn't really hang out with us
or I'd lie to her and tell her I was done with that
and then within two years I was selling kilos
So next thing you know, there's this dude at the park up here who asked me to buy a 40
bag off me.
And I was like, well, I don't do that.
I don't sell.
I've never heard of a 40 bag of weed.
He's like, no, no, no, he's like, oh, I thought, I was like, no, no.
But he was with a bunch of dudes.
And I remember them getting on the shuttle, there's a shuttle bus from that bar.
I remember then getting on a shuttle and leaving and him going, fuck, I got left behind.
And that wasn't a setup because I came out to piss.
So there's no way they knew I was going to come out to piss when that happened.
So I saw this dude, get left behind.
Then he asked me for a 40 bag.
And then I told him, like, I don't sell that, but I send him to my buddy.
My buddy sells it to him.
And then, next to know, he's, I don't know, just a really fun dude.
Like, he's fun to joke around with.
He was fun to hang out with.
And I was like, man, you're like, this guy's like me.
So we started pulling them off. I got to Winnipeg, bringing them back out here, hanging out with them, hanging out with them when I got to Winnipeg, all this other shit.
So we used to have smaller deals with each other. He introduced me to his friend Dave. And I remember Dave, I told him, I told Trey that I didn't like Dave.
So Dave came to my house, walk right in my house and he's like, hey, I heard you don't like me. I get a bad feeling for me. I'll get a bad vibe.
And he goes, oh, sorry if I'm not one of your guys that's selling drugs so I can party and drink.
drink on the weekend. He goes, I do this because I got no fucking job skills. I never had job skills.
I'm not educated, but I need money for my family. I have a family. I'm not here to do all the
blow and go and party on the weekend. I'm here for my fucking family. So I was like, well,
kind of respect you came up to me like that and bold. So I thought he was cool. So when we did
these little deals in Winnipeg, they were like, not little deals, but they're like half keys or
whatever and shit. So they would meet up with me. One of us would pick the restaurant. One would
pick the hotel. One would pick the nightclub. Like, well, they would pick one. I'd pick
the other. They'd pick the other. And then the next time it would change. But what we were doing
was every time we made a deal, because they were coming from the next province, is what I thought.
So we'd make a deal. We'd all go get clean shaven. We all go get a new outfit. We'd go sit down for
dinner, we go do the deal, then we go celebrate at the bar. That's what we did every time.
And every time, like I said, we got clean-shaven, new outfit, this and that. So one day,
he's like, hey, well, me and him were hanging out. We did a three-key deal together. Me and the,
me and Trey, the actual cop that was with me for three months. Right. So, and I honestly had,
like I told all my boys, because I had different phones. I had the phone out here. I had two phones in a
city called Brandon and then two phones in Winnipeg. And I told all my guys, I have to go do a
3T deal. I don't trust these guys. I honestly think I'm going to get killed, but it's worth
the risk. If you're not willing to come with me, I won't hold it against you. Just tell me no.
They all said no except for Tray. Little that I know he's an undercover cop. So we went to do
the deal. There was probably spot in the parking lot and everything just case she went sideways.
So what I think is they were waiting to get me for something bigger than three. But I told him,
hey, I just got my friend pregnant.
I'm going to have a kid.
Like, I think this is my last deal.
I have job skills.
I'll put money away.
I'll live comfortable.
That's what I told him.
And he's like, oh, cool, okay, yeah, blah, blah.
So he's like, hey, I want a key.
And I'm thinking, like, kind of got a bad feeling.
Like, how come all of a sudden you want a key?
When we're just good with what we're doing, I said, I'm doing one more deal for a key.
All of a sudden you want it.
What's going on?
I just got, like, a really weird feeling.
So all my friends are telling me don't do it.
like don't go
so I go
because I'm an idiot
I get to the hotel room door
and he's like
oh I just want to talk to you by myself
that's what Dave says
so Tray stays in the hallway
with the guy that brought me to Kilo
so I was sitting on the bed
Dave's on that side we're talking
he said I'm going to go get the money
make yourself a drink
and I looked at him
and I realized he had fucking stubble
and he had the same jeans he had earlier
and that's what told me
he was a cop for some reason
for some reason that's what fucking
and I'll say you
fucking piece of shit
and he said what
and I was like fucking piece of shit
and he was what I was like you're a fucking cop
I'm not I was like you're a fucking cop
I was like he's Trey a cop
I was he told me Trey's not a cop
because me and Trey
like we got well Mike is his real name
we got so close
at a certain point he came to my house crying
and asked him what's going on he's like
don't get mad but I have to go home
why would I get mad because my mom's sick
so I was like go home I'll pay
for your ticket. I'll say, don't come back until she's okay. And the dude cried on my
shoulder, like tears stains on my fucking shoulder, crying about his mom, telling me all about
his mom, the good memories. I don't want her to die. I don't know what I'll do if she doesn't
die. Or if she dies, sorry. When I read in the particulars, he told them that if he didn't
have me at that time, he wouldn't have made it true that. That's how fucking close him and I
thought in three months, in three months. So, and the thing is, when he came to do that
three key deal with me, to me, that meant he was willing to die with me. That's
That's how I saw it. None of my boys were willing. He was willing. So he was my new right-hand man.
So he knew everything. So that day, I was just like, I was looking at Dave. I was like,
tell me Tray's not a cop, please. Just tell me he's not a fucking cop. And then he said, what are you
talking about, bro? I'm going to get the money. I said, just go get your friends, man. I said,
the jig's up. You guys got me. Congratulations. Go get your buddies. And he said, I don't know
what you're talking about. I said, get out of here before I beat the shit out of you with that whiskey
bottle because he's telling me to make a drink. I was like, get out of your
before I beat a shit on you with that whiskey bottle.
And I just got up.
He walked out.
And then I just got on my knees and went like this in the middle of hotel room.
And you know how when like a door opens beside another door, it rattles?
Right.
When he went in the hallway, all of a sudden my door rattled.
After it closed, he rattles.
And then I heard, get on the fucking ground.
Get on the ground.
Like out in the hallway.
So they took down tray as a muse or whatever.
And they took down my buddy who brought the kilo.
Right.
So I'm just waiting.
waiting for it. I'm just like this waiting for it. Sure enough, it's an adjoining door. The hotel
pops open. Swat comes in. Get on the fucking get on your stomach. Because I was already on the
ground. So I laid on the ground. He's like, don't fucking move. And he jamming the whatever machine
gun they have, I think, AR-15s. Jammed it in my head a couple of times. And I just thought,
you know what? I just got out of jail for doing that much, like doing that time, whatever.
I don't think I can go back. There's going to be like 10, 15. And I was thinking if I reach
under the bed, they'll blow my head off. So I was about to do that.
But then I thought, I got a baby on the way I can do this.
Right.
So I just sit, I laid there, and I honestly pictured like a castle crumbling.
And when everything was said and done, they said I had 149 people under me.
But this is like small time.
Like this wasn't like a big fucking, you know.
Right.
It was like street people.
Like what I would do, there was a couple times I saw these certain girls at crack houses, but they didn't smoke crack.
So I'd see them walking their baby the next day in the neighborhood.
And I'd go up to them and be like,
hey, I saw you here, you know, some crackheads.
How about I give you a 10-pack?
And, you know, they're 20 bucks each.
So I'll say, I'll give you a 10-pack.
You bring me 1-30.
I'll give you another one.
You bring me 120, 110.
Next, you know, we're doing half, and I'll give you 30 packs.
And we'll go half-first.
So that's what I was doing.
Like giving work to all these single moms are in the neighborhood,
all these dudes that new people.
I wasn't getting nothing out of it.
I wasn't doing trades.
Don't smile.
Don't smile on me.
Yeah.
You really, it's about people helping people.
You're really helping the single.
mothers that's what i i i hear you i well these are these are people that i saw that didn't actually
smoke crack when is around but they're hanging out at crack houses yeah just because they're
family or they know the people or so but yeah i guess we can look at it too ways but i thought
you're smiling because you thought i was getting something out of it's no no no i was just thinking
you're like no like i'm helping out the other like i don't know about that but okay i hear you
No, judgment. I'm not judging. Pamper money.
No, so, yeah, so when they took me down, they said that many people were under me.
But I remember once they handcuffs me, they took me out in the hallway and Tray's laying face down.
And as I walked by, he looked up at me and he's like, I guess, and he put his head back down.
So I'd like to think there was a little bit of regret.
But I don't know, because we were, we were fucking close.
And for him to say that, I don't think he knew I was going to see what he said to
his officers or whatever about that, about him not making it through that.
So, and then a shitty thing, which I think was a little bit of a bitch move, was I was so close
to this dude in my mind, in my heart that I pled guilty before trial because I knew if I went
to trial, he would have to come.
And if I saw him again, I think I would break my heart.
Right.
Just knowing like, you know, it'd be like a black and white montage going through my head
of all our good times and some 80s music, maybe Bon Jovi.
Exactly.
Painting together, painting a house.
High fiving.
So, yeah.
So I played guilty just so I didn't have to see them.
But I remember they came out to me and they said, okay, because when I got busted, they drove
me past all my stash houses in the back to that car.
and then they pulled up to my girlfriend at the times
and there was cops outside
I guess she got raided
my niece nephew were there
my stepson was there
got traumatized they threw her on the ground
arrested her and they said because
one day when he was over I said go get my scale
and she went and got it so they said she knew
about the whole operation
right so they said
if you take an extra year
this was the same lawyer that did my murder by the way
called me a fucking idiot
he's like you pretty much got away with murder
why are you committing crimes again
so he's like
okay they offered you
if you take an extra year
she won't go to jail
and I was like fuck that
and then my lawyer said what
what do you mean
so but then that's all operation
is she's running this whole operation
yeah no no I actually said
how much time do I have to do
so she doesn't even have a criminal record
and he's like that's my fucking guy
He goes, I'll come see you tomorrow.
God.
So he came back and he goes,
if you do two extra years,
she won't have a criminal record.
Because it wasn't her,
honestly her fault.
She was just,
I had shit stashed in her house.
She only knew where my scale was.
Because, yeah,
she saw me something.
I hear you.
I believe you.
So I did that.
He's innocent.
She didn't know.
She thought I drove Uber.
Yeah,
they did have Uber back.
And then he brought me a bunch of pictures
just like the movies black and white blown up who's this who's this if you identify at least
10 of these people we'll take two years off your sentence and I said no okay that's Tommy
Jimmy that middle name lastly Paul lives with his mom here's his phone number that's Billy
Billy I never even liked Billy because Billy actually drives Uber no so I refuse to and and it's
funny too because I recently came home where I here, like where I live now, a bunch of guys
were in my crew. And I remind them once in a while, like, hey, you could have been in prison.
You might want to pick up lunch. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So I ended up getting. Billy, you got that?
You got that? With your Uber. Yeah, I got six years and one month for that. So I got a month
more for drugs than I did for murder.
How much time do you do on that?
I did four years, but, okay, you remember when I told you,
I was in that lockup facility where I used to bust the door open for people?
Yeah.
Okay, so their protocol was only chase down the girls and bring them back
because they're at risk to being exploited.
So the boys can go, just bring the girls back so nobody's taking advantage of them
because they're young girls, young native girls, blah, blah, blah.
So that was their only protocol.
So one day, one of the staff grabbed my buddy.
and I'm thinking, hey, they're not supposed to patch the guys.
What's the fuck?
So I grab him.
We're playing Tuggle War with him.
And he goes, let him go, or I'll charge you with this.
So I pushed my buddy Chris into the staff, into the guard.
So he falls over, blah, blah, blah.
We go on the run for about a week, have fun.
And then we turn ourselves in and we come back there.
No harm, no foul.
So I come back.
So then the cops come.
I got charged with assault with a weapon for throwing a kid at this guy.
You hit him with your buddy.
Yeah.
So we're in court.
And the judge is like, how did this even get to my desk?
You can't use a human being as a weapon.
The whole courtroom starts laughing.
So when I'm in jail for this drug charge, I got to be in a short film when I was on the run in Vancouver.
I was on the run on a kettle of warrant.
So I got on the run making movies.
And you know what's funny?
It was a jail movie.
Okay.
It was a jail movie.
And they even put a picture on Facebook and said, guess which one's the actual
criminal. So, but yeah. So I got interested in the whole process. It was pretty cool. So I started
asking questions about screenplays and stuff. And this is an app. So my mom sent me a couple
books on screenplays. I read them. So I started doing a screenplay to keep myself occupied. So as I'm
writing it, this dude comes up to me and says, hey, Tercott, guess who you knew pro
officer is? And I look up, it's the guy through the kid, the one who everybody in court laughed
at. Right. So when I got out, this guy breached me 13 times.
So I called him one day.
I said, hey, I've got to bring my steps on the school.
I'll be there about 10 minutes late for my piss test.
He said, okay, I get there.
There's cops waiting.
Like, this guy fucked me hard.
Right.
It was his revenge for the embarrassment, the laughter.
So I probably ended up doing maybe seven years on that sentence, seven and a half.
Like, all together.
I guess it doesn't count the time that I was around.
installments.
Yeah.
Yeah. So I did four straight and then the installment plan.
So, but then in the middle of that, too, I got in a high-speed chase.
Is that his fault too?
No, no, that was mine.
And you know, what's funny is I was on the run and Canada wide ward.
So the house I'm sitting in now, I came to visit my parents to say goodbye because I was
going to turn myself in soon.
I was supposed to do a movie again.
I was supposed to be a mental patient.
So I phoned the director and I'm like, hey, I'm not going to be able to make.
it, like, while I'm in the high-speed chase.
I'm like, hey, I'm not going to be able to make it.
Something come up.
I phone my girlfriend, whose vehicle it was.
I was like, hey, your vehicle is going to be impounded in Brandon.
You got to come pick it up, blah, I'll pay for whatever.
I got to go.
And then, yeah, you know, they're breathing.
They're putting out the spike strip.
I got to go.
They said there was one coming up.
And then he said, they were ready to bring the helicopter in the canine.
But my buddy had coke on him, which I didn't know.
And he's like, I'm going to throw up the window.
I was like, nope.
I said, I'm on parole right now.
for, or I'm on the run for a pro violation for a kilo of Coke.
If you throw that, they're going to mark the spot.
I'm going to get 10 more years.
I was like, don't you dare.
And he's like, what do we do?
And then I just, I was maybe three months into actually doing Coke in my life.
I was like, just only one thing we can do.
Oh.
Put it on.
I had a, what was it, Samsung Max?
I figured what was called, Mega.
Samsung Mega.
There's a big phone that looks normal in my hand.
So I put it all on there.
I was like, do what you can.
He did it both two.
And he's like, that's all I could do.
He's almost puking.
And I was like, so I'm going down the road.
I got a king can of Budweiser in my arm like this.
And I'm just hyper-focused.
Oh, it was crazy.
And then when they pull us out, they put him in the back of the supervisor.
And he's puking in there.
So he got a beating.
I'm laying in the middle of the highway with semis going by.
Like, just like, oh.
So yeah.
So when we got taken in, I told him he had no idea that I was on the run.
He had no idea that I took my girl's car.
He didn't know what I was doing, blah, blah, blah.
Like, why was he puking?
I was like, I don't know.
So he got let out.
COVID?
Yeah, there was no COVID back then.
But yeah, no, so I got, so I got a crime in between there.
And then I got, I think, 30 more days for an awfully large, all that shit.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, and then, uh, shortly after that, um, I was working on a screenplay.
And I couldn't figure out, there was something bugging me, but I couldn't figure it out.
I rewrote screenplay twice.
I went through everything twice.
So I'm at home one night.
I'll sit with my ex-girlfriend.
And, well, sorry, one day,
an old friend of mine said she's having car troubles downtown.
So we pulled up.
I helped her out.
And she dropped her scale.
Her scale broke.
So I was like, hey, I got all my paraphernalia at home you can have.
I'm done with this life.
So she said, okay, I'll go get all my baggies,
bunch of scales they left behind, gave it to her in a box.
I said, here you go.
I'm done with this shit.
Take it.
Just go, thank you so much here.
And she gives me a bagging.
I'm like, no, no, no, no.
She goes, no, no, try it.
I said, what the fuck is that?
She's like, meth.
I was like, no, no, no.
And she goes, well, I got no money to thank you.
I said, you don't have to thank me.
We're friends.
She's like, just taken.
She wouldn't shut up.
So I took it.
So I get home, I throw it on the fridge.
Tell my ex-girlfriend.
So as a joke, two weeks later, she buys a bubble.
She's like, I got you a gift.
And I was like, fuck off, like a meth bubble.
Throw it on the fridge, forget about it.
And about three months later, I'm working on the screen plate,
trying to fear what's wrong with it.
It's driving me nuts.
So I unplug everything, cover it with a sheet, uncover it, start.
I can't figure out what's wrong with screenplay.
So she works midnight.
So I message all my friends.
I'm like, hey, do you guys want to come drink?
Like I was so normal.
I had an alcohol cabinet with alcohol still in it.
I was like, you want to come drink?
They're like, no.
I was like, you want to go smoke weed?
No, you don't go for a ride.
Anybody need a ride?
Nobody need nothing.
So I'm sitting home, going nuts about the screenplay.
And then I was like, go on.
Grab the phone because I'm so.
board typed in how to smoke mess.
Of course.
Of course.
That's a vivid.
I'm surprised you waited this long.
Yeah.
But I was never ever a drug guy.
Like really,
like before that I tried coke for a little bit,
didn't like it, quit it.
So anyway, so I smoked meth.
So you smoke pot.
You've done coke.
Yeah.
You've done what other drugs?
Acid 1016.
You don't sound like a drug guy.
No, but I mean, I hear it.
I wasn't like a hard, like I wasn't a junkie yet.
That's what I mean.
Like I wasn't out there trying to find stuff for sell things to buy it.
You know, that's what I mean.
So you were saying you, you, you smoke the meth.
Yes.
So I'm laying on the couch and everything just was like, I realized what was wrong with my screenplay.
And there was a, there was a character.
There was a character.
That wasn't on meth.
That's, it wasn't on meth.
There needs to be a character on the mess.
But I introduced a character in a flashback,
but I introduced them as if they were familiar to the audience.
So that's what screwed me up.
So I was like, okay, I've got to redo this.
So I redid that.
And all of a sudden, that's done.
So I popped in another screenplay.
I was working on.
I started typing.
And I typed for like four hours.
So I go pick up my ex after her shift.
And I'm like, oh, my God.
She said, why are you whispering?
I was like, I smoked that man.
She said, what?
I was like, I smoked that man.
I was like, he's the best thing ever.
You're so focused.
Boom.
She started smoking.
She was a welder.
for nine years, lost her job, took out her, her pension plan, lost her vehicle, we lost her
house, her kid got taken away. Like, how long did this take?
Like, not even nine months. Like, did you just collapse? And then, um, so one night,
um, we in a different X were, because we,
obviously split up because we're no good for each other. So I'm walking with this girl
in Winnipeg and there's like a three-day cold snap in the two-day blizzard. So we're walking
and we walked by this. They just did the road. So there's big snowbags. And we're walking
by this freezing. And I see something. And I was like, is that a garbage bag or a dude?
And she said, oh, that's a garbage bag. So it's okay. So I keep walking. I'm like,
this is bugging me because I'm pretty sure it has a dude. And it's so cold. So I go warm up inside.
I'll be right back. And we'll go check on this day. So I go check.
and you don't see anything because there's a blizzard too, though.
So I go like this in the snow, or am I, I go like this in the snow,
and then I hit something, sure enough, it's him.
And he's barely breathing, so I'm like, holy shit, this guy's going to die.
So it took me six minutes to wake him up, and to wake him up,
I had to grab him by the chest and, like, slam him against snow bake.
So when I straddled them, both my legs went in the snow,
and then snow went up my one leg, and then my jeans held the snow against my leg.
And in that six minutes, I ended up getting frostbite.
So I threw this guy over my shoulder, walked him to the bar because they sell chicken and pizza there.
So I bought him chicken pizza, phone somebody from like a homeless shelter to come get him called Main Street Project.
It's like an emergency thing.
So I told him, can you come get him?
And then they're like, oh, we don't have a car over.
And I was like, the guy almost fucking throws.
And he's like, oh, you're swearing me.
So he hung up.
So I asked another guy, can you please take him to this place?
Don't leave until he signed in.
So he said, okay.
So within a week
My legs are black
From Frostbite
And I'm like, holy shit, this is that
So
I remember this to the day
Two days before it happened
Or two days after it happened
Remember the guy that I told you carried me in prison?
Yeah
After I got stabbed
Or hidden the head
Um
There was a guy that was on acid
That was at this house
And
I came up
on the elevator one day. And this guy's one of the solidest guys, I know, one of the craziest guys. I know.
I come off the elevator and he's shaking. And I was like, what's wrong with you? And he starts
crying, gives me a hug. I said, what's wrong? He's like, I just saw a man get killed. And I was
like, what? So he described everything to happen. I was like, who's this guy? He goes, I don't know. He's like a big
Russian guy with a shaved head. He's got blue eyes. Not clicking in. He's like, he's
from the hood. You know him. I was like, I have no idea without it. So he explains everything
from the moment he walked in till the moment they put him under a futon. And
They started asking people, you want to see a dead body and turn them into a fucking joke.
And his brother was there on acid and was petting his head like a cat, he said, he didn't realize it was a body.
So anyways, two days later, because that happened that night after I saw John, so two days later, I'm in my house.
And I'm thinking, because me and Trent were so close that if we don't hear from each other in two days, we'll message each other.
And just like even an insult, what's up squid, what's up asshole, what's up goof?
like the worst word in prison here is Goof
but we call each other like what's up goof
just to check on each other
and I realized like he hasn't
talked to me in two days like what the hell
so when he wants to cool off he goes to his mom's
so I roll over to phone his mom
and almost like a fucking hologram
I picture John going
there was a big Russian guy who was built with blue eyes
shaved head and I was like Trent's fucking dead
and what John told me was
those guys are like oh yeah we're going to get him over here
and blah, blah, we're going to tell him you want this.
So Trent came to deliver drugs.
As soon as he walked in, someone hit him in the back of the head with a two by four.
And then as he fell forward, they stabbed him in the chest.
And then hit him in the back of the head with a bat, stab him in the chest again.
Why?
Drugs?
Yeah.
Just to take his drugs.
And the only good thing about that was, I guess, Trent, he was, they said when he was breathing,
his chest would go from being stabbed.
So that air coming out, they,
and then they said when he was dying he was on all fours
and they were still hitting him in the back of the head
and then his last breath he looked up
and he's like I'm not dying with my chin down
or something like I or my face down
oh no I'm going to die chin up that's what he said
so he's like trying to be solid till the end
that's a good thing because he was like
you know to us that's a good thing
you're not a different world very very
very different opinion
I'd rather have them not die obviously
but in our world that's like you died like a man kind of thing so she did you go but yeah so where
was I here oh yeah so I got the frostbite so it got really bad there was like these huge wounds
they're still on my leg it's been six and a half years and I still have the wounds they're slowly
finally healing I go for badness changes every second day but I was in my buddy's bathroom and like
when they used to at the hospital in Winnipeg they nicknamed me the weeping giant because
every time they took them off, they would stick, and it would hurt so bad, ripping them off,
and I'd get, like, curi-eyed and shit.
So, one day I was at my buddies, and I'm doing my bandages in his bathroom,
what I used to do was just cut up, like, pillowcases and wrap them around them or whatever.
So, very sterile, by the way.
So he knocks on the door.
He said, are you crying?
I'm going to cry.
And I didn't lock the door, so he opens it.
He said, holy fuck, what's one of your legs?
I was like, oh, don't worry about it.
don't worry about I got this and he's like, try this. And I was like, what's that? So he has
me tinfoil and a little pipe and a lighter. And I'm like, what is that? He's like,
that's down. I was like, what's down? He's like, it's trending all heroin. I was like, no, I'm good,
bro. I'm good. I tell the fuck off. He keeps going, oh, you won't feel nothing if you do it. You
won't feel no pain. So I hear that. I took a little hoop. Sure enough, I didn't share
off. Friends. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, these were the meth friends that introduced me to
fentanyl. So it was already, I was already hanging around with a piece of shit crowd.
So, but, uh, so I did a hoot. That changed my bandages. No problem. So I started buying it and only
doing it before I did my bandages. I'd keep it on me till then. And then next thing, you know,
I needed more and more. You need more and more. Then it became no longer medicine. It became
a need. And then it was no longer recreational. It was, fuck, I need this. My body needs this.
And I remember one time, I was at my friends, and I fucking overdose.
And he said I was dead for three minutes.
And I woke up, I guess because of my size and how much sweat there was there,
they thought I had a heart attack.
Because it was the last time you saw a 400-pound junkie.
So they treated it as a heart attack, woke me up in the hospital.
Because apparently when Sedanol hits your system, your lungs forget to breathe.
So you can just hit somebody like this or give them compressions and they're good.
you don't necessarily mean Narcan.
Right.
It can't helps, but you just need to get the lungs going again.
That's it.
So they're giving me chest compressions thinking I had a heart attack.
So that's what woke me up again.
But they said I was dead for three minutes.
I went back to my friend and I was like, hey, where's the rest of my shit?
Smoked again.
Even though I died, I was like, yeah.
And it was just, yeah.
The Fennell was like, I lost more from Fennell.
Like I became homeless and everything.
and I lived on the streets
and I had people die beside me
I've had people die without me noticing it
I saved 51 overdoses
and it still never deterred me
like your body needs it so bad
and when you start getting dope sick off fentanyl
it's the worst thing in the world
the thoughts you have the things you're willing to do to get it
like there was a corner store
with a nice guy in the world and I almost went there
with a hatchet and my buddy showed up with some fentanyl
and I know if I did that to that dude
I never would have been able to live it down.
Like, once I was over, I'd be a, no, fuck, as if.
Like, there was this.
Another four years in prison.
Yeah.
In Canada, yeah.
No, but it did.
There was just, thankfully, there was just lines I wouldn't cross to get to, my, I'm not sure
if you want to know my main way you're getting, it's not sexual or nothing.
But do you know what Narcan is?
Yeah.
Narcan is the stuff they give you to kind of revise you, right?
It's like an adrenaline.
Yeah, it reverses the opiate.
So what I use.
to do, say, for example, you and you have a friend named Pohn, say, Tom, say you owe me money,
or you owe my buddy money, my buddy who sells Fennel, say you owe money, I know where Tom is,
I'll go see Tom, get Tom to my place, or somebody's place, and then I'll tie up Tom,
knowing he's a Fennel addict, I'll hit him with two things in our can, they put him right into
dope sickness, which is the worst fucking feeling in the world. So he'll be dope sick, I'll show him a
half baggy of dope and I'll say like a half gram I'll say I'll give you a hoot if you tell me
where he is once we confirm he's there you can have this whole half gram and when your
dose like you'll give a fuck you give up your mother like it's it's fucking that's it's the worst
thing in the world so yeah so that's how he used to get my drugs if co gets their money they
give me this percentage I'd say you give it to me drugs and it was just and I've done that so
many times, like, without violence, thankfully.
No, I'm sure tying the guy up to the chair, that's not.
A little bit of wiggling, I guess.
Did it was, I did it.
It was very gentle.
It was very dumb.
I guess we got a different opinion on a few things.
So, yeah, but once, like, once I was into that, he was just, oh, like, there's,
there's, wow, so many good people I know that fell into that.
that died
that just did not deserve to die
like just
what years were this
um
let's see
I got out
2017 so
2018 2018
2019
and then like
2019 fentanyl
really hit when it picked
they call it down
it's like a mix of filler
heroin in fentanyl
but it's mostly fentany
right
so when it hit
nobody really knew what it was
and then I know
people did mix, like, they'll mix mess with it and then give it to somebody without them
knowing it or somebody will use a meth bubble without realizing there was fentanyl with it
and he died like that. And actually I had one of my best friends, she actually, her biggest wish
was I'd get off fentanyl. But she ended up in psychosis from meth and she blew her head off.
and I really honestly wish she was here to see me get clean
like she's one of my best friends
and yeah she her mom died from cancer
and she just fell apart
and her brother hung himself because of their mother's death
and she just couldn't handle it anymore
so she did more and more drugs
and then her girlfriend broke up with her
and then she's like is this what you want is this what you want
but what her girlfriend told me
because I got the full story from her she said
because you've shot guns before, right?
Mm-hmm, yeah.
So when the safety's on, there's no give at all that you can't.
So if you don't realize the safety's not on and you feel a little bit of give, then you know you're fucked.
So she said, when she saw her hand flex, she had this really weird look of regret on her face.
So I almost think she was trying to scare her girlfriend, but I also know she was going through some shit.
She was hearing voices and shit, but she's never been through.
so I don't know if it was like an accidental
if she was trying to scare or she was her trying to stop the voices
it was just so sad
so yeah
but yeah my biggest wish she was still here to see me get sober
but um
so my legs are fucked
um I haven't talked
to my foster parents in two and a half years
my ex-girlfriend I asked her if I can come home
she said a lot of things have changed
my mom lives with me now my best friend lives with me
and I have a foster kid
so like okay cool no big deal
like you heard like fuck but I was like no no big deal so I hadn't talked to her in two years
my foster parents two and a half years my legs were killing me I had no dope I was sick of living
that life trying to figure out where to get dope and um I had a check coming up on a Friday so I knew
on Tuesday if I went to the hospital they'd admit me because of my legs and I also knew they
put me on anti-withdrawal meds that'll hold me off until I get my check
So my plan was, do you know what a pick line is?
Yeah.
Okay, so I had a pick line in my arm.
And my plan was when I get my check, I was going to buy,
oh, spend it all in the flusher for the pick line and just say goodbye.
I was sick of the life.
I was sick of this.
I was sick of not having anybody at all.
Like, it was just, you know, and the thing is, too,
if you're really going to do it, you're not going to be on social media saying,
I'm so sad, oh, this and that, give me attention.
And so I didn't post nothing about it.
I just kept up my normal happy posts, you know, trying to inspire people as a homeless junkie.
And then, yeah, so I was going to say goodbye.
And all of a sudden, so when I went to the hospital, there was COVID.
So they had free Wi-Fi, free TV, free phone because you couldn't have visitor.
So they gave you all that shit for free that you normally had to pay for.
Right.
So I got moved to this one room with a fancy, like, touchscreen TV that comes down.
So I went on there and I logged on the Facebook.
And this will be three days before I was planning to kill myself.
So this was Wednesday.
So on Wednesday, I logged in and my ex-wife message me.
And she said, hey, it's me.
How are you doing?
I had a bad dream about you last night.
Please let me know you're okay.
She goes, I just want to know that everything's cool.
Like, that you're okay.
How are your legs doing?
And I want to let you know is to love you.
So I was like, holy fuck.
I'm like, you know, kind of weird.
So I just played it off like nothing's going on.
Nothing's in my head.
Told her, I missed her, told her I loved her, too.
Kept up just talking, like, didn't want to give her any hint of what was going on.
The next day, I log on again to talk to her, and I have a message from my old foster
dad, who I hadn't talked to him two and a half years.
And he's like, hey, kiddo, wondering, how are you doing?
He said, how are the legs?
I hope everything's good.
Hope you're healing.
Just want to know you're okay.
You know, let me know what you're doing.
Love you, kiddo.
And I'm like, holy fuck.
What are the chances?
Like, they live 15 minutes away.
from each other, but they hadn't spoken, apparently, because I asked my ex-wife, have you
talked to Scott? She's like, no. So they hadn't talked to each other, and they both reached out
to me two days before and one day before I was ready to end it. Right. So I'm thinking in my
head, like, this can't be coincidence. Let's give this one more try. So, and also because
I was planning on killing myself, I just thought, what's the harm of being totally honest with
the addictions team at the hospital? So I told them everything.
I didn't care.
I was leaving in three days.
So I told them everything.
And then after this, on the third day,
before, like, I was going to get my check,
it was in the morning.
They came and there's like,
hey, we're going to do this, this and this.
If you don't mind, we're going to microdose you like this.
Everything's going to be okay.
We're going to get you up to here.
And you won't have withdrawal and nothing.
I was like, you know what?
They're working with me.
These two reached out to me.
Is this coincidence?
And I was like, I don't think so.
I was like, let's give it one more show.
So she's like, why don't you come home?
So I said, okay.
So I quarantined, came home, and then, yeah, since I've been home, that was two and a half years ago, I think.
Right.
Your wife said, why?
Yeah, my ex-wife.
Ex-wife, sorry.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I came home, and I've had, in the beginning, I had three relapses.
So when I came home from the third relapse, you remember I was talking about Indian
day school I was telling you about. Yeah. So there was a class action lawsuit against the government
for that. And I got 10,000. I was supposed to get 150,000. But they said because I don't have any
disfigurements or long or scars, I don't get the 150. Because it apparently doesn't prove that
I got beaten up. You got to prove it. Apparently trauma's not anything. So I got the 10 grand,
the basic. And then, um, yeah, we got into an argument one night and I went to Winnipeg.
He was playing to stay at my sons in Winnipeg. And then, um, my best friend and my brother
messaged me. He was my foster brother for six years. I call him my brother. They message me.
And they're both users. They knew I got that money. They go, let's meet up. So they had a free ride,
spent all that fucking money. So the two grand, they released when the check first came. I got to spend
with the family, you get to my kids.
They eight grand, they released a few days later.
I spent all on drugs.
And I came home, my wife didn't care about the money.
She was just like, you know, you need to get help.
You need to promise me this isn't going to happen again.
You need to go to counseling, figure something out, make a plan or I'm done.
So is it okay?
So start going to counseling about it, made a relapse plan so I don't relapse again.
Shit I got that.
And then, yeah, it's been almost two years.
I've been clean.
I started doing public speaking about my life and about,
It's called Holding on the Hope.
And I just tell people, like,
there's, no matter what you're in, there's always a way out.
There's always a way to climb out of it.
Because so many people I know that are in Fennel,
they're only, they're going to end up in jail for stealing to pay for it,
or they're going to end up dead.
Yeah.
Or killing another Fennel dealer.
Like, they're going to end up in prison.
Like, that's the only way I've ever seen it end.
I don't know anybody else that was in my group of friends that's off drugs right now.
so it's just crazy like i go back to winnipeg i run into so many people that are just you see them high
and i'm just like where are you where are you now i live in rolling river first nation
which is the union reserve with the ex-wife yeah we're getting married again next year
i'm marrying my ex-wife exactly yeah i always say that uh max wife my fiancee yeah um okay
And you were, and you're working with your, your stepmother, your step, oh, wait, sorry, what do you, your foster mom, thank you.
No, no, no, no, no.
Oh, you're not working there.
I thought you were.
I work at the band office.
At the what?
The band office.
It's like, um, it's like city hall for a reserve.
Oh, okay.
So we have a chief.
We have three counselors and they oversee the operations on the reserve.
I'm the receptionist.
So I'm a second.
You're the receptionist.
What?
sexiest secretary you've ever met
I'm telling you that
I see me in big tales
geez
yeah
but it's like a really humble life
but it's like my wife asked me once in a while
like are you bored out here
and I'm like it's a good boring
you don't have to worry about nothing
like I'm so I'm so content
like I just love everything that's going on in my life
except for my legs
my legs are slowly healing but
I don't know much about, you know, I'm in Florida, so I don't know anything about frostbite.
Yeah.
But what, what, I mean, how about, why is it taking so long?
They can't figure that out.
Like, they say, okay, well, you're diabetic.
It might be because of that.
But the thing is, if I get a wound, if I get a wound on my foot, it heals right away.
Like anything on my feet heels, anything above my knees heal?
It's just from just below my knee.
down to my ankle where those wounds are and when one heals it like moves around so this will
heal the one beside it will open it like the skin decided will open but thankfully the last four
months we got new bandages that are slowly closing them so yeah so once those are done then my
life is perfect yeah well that's good yeah you feel how do you feel about this
very good okay i look at i looked back at where i was
and I can't believe I made it out.
Yeah.
How do you feel about the interview?
Good.
Good.
Okay.
I feel like we covered everything.
We're good.
I don't think X that shot me.
What?
No.
I was an X that shot me.
I mean, who doesn't?
That's for real, though.
I've actually blew my balls off, but I have scars just above my knees where the shotgun
and the bullets burnt.
so they didn't actually go into me,
they just burned me.
But I thought she blew my balls off at first.
Listen,
I'm going to interview a guy who was his,
his girl,
ex-girlfriend now, obviously,
his girlfriend saw a,
he was taking a nap
and she saw a gift card
for Victoria's Secrets.
Even though,
and Mother's Day was in a few days,
and that was her Mother's Day present,
she's all he's all like a 50 or a hundred dollar get boiled water and threw it on him on his junk
on his shit oh 30% of his body burn he said the skin how do you know melt it but he said he has a
word he's like sluffed off him i mean it's listen he sent me pictures
wow horrible she received picks yeah i did no no he didn't send me like there was no it's it's it's
full on it's bad wow a pink little thing and that was for her from her that gift card was for her
the gift card was from her oh listen the whole thing she's in prison right now like she was on
the run she just went just nuts just insane is the guy suicidal no he's fine i mean it didn't burn
it off i mean he just low okay but he was law he was for 30 days he was in in the hospital
you imagine how painful that's your oh yeah sure yeah holy shit yeah yeah oh yeah holy shit yeah
bro it's it's uh i'll take the calm boring let's watch the netflix series life over you know
yeah i'm good over the insanity that comes with uh you know drug life yeah i get the once
my wife's very normal she doesn't do drugs we actually got oh yeah i didn't tell you that we got
divorced we got married in prison okay when i was there for doing my drug my drum time i promised her i was
done selling drugs, everything's over, and, dude, like, the way we met was awesome.
Like, do you remember I told you got three jobs when I first moved out here?
Yeah.
So I was a bartender, and she came in one day.
She was going to university in the city.
So she came back to visit her cousin, and she walked in, and I was just like, holy fuck.
So she's in line to get beer, and there's a guy beside her talking to her, and you can see
like spit coming out of his mouth onto her.
So I was like, oh, my God, I'm going to save this chick.
So she comes up
And I grabbed her hands
And I was like
Hey sorry babe
I didn't clean the house
Last night
After the party
If we're gonna drink
We have to go to your house
And she realized what I was doing
So she's like
Oh okay
So she went
I gave her a beer
She went sat down
But he comes up
He's like oh I'm so sorry man
I didn't know
And I was like no no
I wouldn't introduce myself
And that's how we ended up together
And then
So when I'm in jail
I asked her at the visit
I said what do you feel about getting married
And she's like
Yeah sure
So I come down
And I was like, hey, this is the date.
And she's like, oh, you were serious?
And I was like, yeah.
She's like, you were serious.
I was like, yeah, this is the date we're getting married.
Yeah.
I had one of the, I had a guy make a ring for you.
That's the soap, the soapstone.
As a different jail.
I would have did that.
Oh, okay.
No, I bought rings on the street.
She's allowed to bring them in.
But the cake, we try to order an actual wedding cake.
Instead, they just baked like on a big prison pan.
A chocolate cake with like the shittiest ice.
is so dry
like they let my niece and nephew come in
a couple dudes there were like my best man
and she had to bring her sister
and her brother and her mom
so it was pretty funny
but then when I got out
I didn't keep my promise
so we ended up getting divorced
so that's how that works
well let's give it another try
yeah yeah I think this one's the one
once in a while I get to when she wakes up
don't fucking leave me she said that the other day
I was like why you're trying to leave me I was like what are you
she goes I had a dream I'm like fuck you
I should get those cheating dreams and she'll bug me all day about it.
So luckily she's joking.
She's not a psycho.
So I've had those.
Listen, bro.
This guy thought his wife was his girlfriend was perfectly fine.
He's like, we've never had any problems, never saw this coming.
Oh, the girl that shot me, we're together for five months, never had a disagreement.
No argument, no disagreement, nothing.
One day she goes, I heard you going back to your ex-wife.
And I said, what?
And she put a shotgun to my chest.
And I'm like, what?
She goes, I heard you're going back to your ex-wife, Laura.
Once she said her name, because I never denied I was married before.
Once she said her name, I was like, what the fuck?
But my wife, my ex-wife and I, when we talked on Facebook, we were civil.
We didn't talk.
We didn't flirt.
We didn't say nothing sexual to each other.
Right.
We were just friends.
So even if she went through my Facebook, I wasn't saying anything bad to her.
And then she put that shotgun in my chest.
And I'm like, what the fuck?
When she said Laura, I was like, oh, God.
So I grabbed the shotgun, pulled it down, put it between my knees.
And when I tried to pull it away from her,
her finger was on the trigger, and that's what I kind of shot myself, but she was holding the gauge.
I feel like I'd argue differently, but, uh, so what happened with the priest?
So now that I'm clean and I'm not in prison, I don't have to act tough. I'm off drugs. I got to deal with
my childhood trauma. So what I did one night about three months ago, maybe, I was, um, I was on Google.
I couldn't sleep that night.
I just thought, I wonder,
is this fucker's still alive?
So I googled his name,
and something popped up right away,
saying that,
they were saying he's one of the Canada's most prolific pedophiles.
He's got between 500 and 600 victims.
And then also,
they said he got convicted for 60 of them,
60 or 30, but he only got six years.
So I was just like,
oh, shit.
nothing like compared to what he's done but the church what they did was because he had a pilot
pilot's license they gave him a plane so he would fly to remote communities and and be the priest
there and stuff and he used part of the Boy Scouts to Boy Scouts Canada and all that so um yeah so
I when I googled Ralph Rowe that came up all that stuff and then it also said there's a class
action lawsuit against him so I looked into that and there's a
Because he did all this in Ontario and Manitoba.
So there's a law firm in Ontario taking care of the class action lawsuit.
And yeah, all these people are coming forward, talking about what he did and stuff.
So yeah, so hopefully you do get justice.
Is he deceased or is he still alive?
He's living in on Vancouver Island, like living a good life.
And I saw on Reddit, there was a subred about him.
his name's Ralph Rowe, and there's a subreddit about him, but I don't think anyone's
commented on there for a long time.
But yeah, that's how many victims he had.
They said that his legacy on native men is men that don't know how to be fathers,
don't know to be relationships properly, substance abuse and all that.
And they just left a trail of shit everywhere he went.
So, but he's still alive.
He's living a good life, apparently.
But hopefully we get our justice in a year or two.
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