11 Shell Lake Massacre

Shell Lake, Saskatchewan

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 will have tragic consequences. 

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Learn more about:
Rampage: Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing by Lee Mellor
Vincent Li episode on The Minds of Madness
The Greyhound Bus Beheading episode on Dark Topic

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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:

1. 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/

1. Podcast theme music: Space Trip. http://www.dl-sounds.com/royalty-free/space-trip/

The tracks below come from Free Music Archive:

1. Lucky Stars by Podington Bear

2. Dark Water by Podington Bear

3. Antoine’s Song by ROZKOL

4. Fly Inverted Past a Jenny by Chris Zabriskie

5. Cylinders 7 by Chris Zabriskie

6. Everybody’s Got Problems That Aren’t Mine by Chris Zabriskie

7. 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. 127-146

• http://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-1967

• http://orthomolecularvitamincentre.com/illnesses-and-conditions/mental-disorders/schiz-disorders/dr-hoffers-schizophrenia-page/

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/vince-li-man-in-bus-beheading-granted-unsupervised-passes-to-winnipeg-1.2976618

Victor Ernest Hoffman upon arrest.