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11 Shell Lake Massacre
The story of Saskatchewan’s worst mass murder. 21-year-old Victor Hoffman suffered from paranoid schizophrenia which saw him descend into madness, leading to a collision with an unsuspecting family that would have tragic consequences.
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Rampage: Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing by Lee Mellor
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Credits:
Writer, researcher and narrator: Kristi Lee
Audio production and original scoring: Erik Krosby
Additional editing, mixing: Mike Migas
Music credits:
- Erik Krosby - composer and producer of original music in the first half of the story
Music below is used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Podcast theme music: Space Trip.
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The tracks below come from Free Music Archive:
- Lucky Stars by Podington Bear Dark Water by Podington Bear Antoine’s Song by ROZKOL Fly Inverted Past a Jenny by Chris Zabriskie Cylinders 7 by Chris Zabriskie Everybody’s Got Problems That Aren’t Mine by Chris Zabriskie We Always Thought The Future Would Be Kind of Fun by Chris Zabriskie
Main information sources:
Rampage: Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing by Lee Mellor‘Schizophrenia, Mass Murder, and The Law’ by F.H. Kahan, Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Volume 2, Number 3, 1973, Pp. 127-146http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1973/pdf/1973-v02n03-p127.pdf
- CLIPPING: ‘Leask man charged in mass murder’, Saskatoon Star Phoenix. August 21, 1967 CLIPPING: ‘Living in the shadow of Tragedy’, Calgary Herald, 8 June 2008
http://leaderpost.com/storyline/a-whole-family-was-murdered-in-shell-lake-in-1967http://orthomolecularvitamincentre.com/illnesses-and-conditions/mental-disorders/schiz-disorders/dr-hoffers-schizophrenia-page/