The Murder of Loretta Saunders

Dec 5

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA

This is a two-part series:

Part 1 - I tell the complete story.
Part 2 - I hand over to Nighttime Podcast who speaks with Delilah - Loretta's sister, who provides additional insights into what was happening in the background.

In 2014, 26 year old Loretta Saunders – a proud Inuk woman – was in Halifax completing her university thesis on missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. She went out to run an errand and didn’t return. What happened to her – and the resulting activism of her family – would have far-reaching effects.

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Credits: Part 1

Research: Enya Best and Kristi Lee
Writing, narration, music arrangement: Kristi Lee
Audio editing, audio production: We Talk of Dreams
Disclaimer voiced by the host of Beyond Bizarre True Crime
Theme Song: We Talk of Dreams

Credits: Part 2
See here

Music:

We Talk of Dreams - original composer of "Canadian True Crime Theme song"
Music below is used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Five, Laserdisk
Kai Engel - Aspirato, Brooks, Change
Kevin McLeod / Incomptech - Lost Time. Bittersweet
S. Chermisinov - Fog
PC II - Exit Exit
M. Dioxin - From the Arctic Circle to the Southern Seas

Information Sources

Victoria’s Agreed Statement of Facts

Blake’s Agreed Statement of Facts

National post coverage

CBC news coverage including by Blair Rhodes

https://worldpolicy.org/2017/04/17/inuit-capitalism-and-colonization-a-foreign-affair/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/trying-to-make-sense-of-loretta-saunders-death-1.2555237

https://the-toast.net/2015/07/01/mmiw-loretta-saunders/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/missing-woman-prompts-police-to-issue-public-plea-1.2540817

https://globalnews.ca/news/1967856/live-blog-pair-convicted-of-murder-in-loretta-saunders-death-sentenced-to-life/

https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Executive_Summary.pdf

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/family-says-at-mmiw-hearings-that-a-white-passing-appearance-alters-police-reaction-1.3655730