Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN

In 2000, Darrell Night was having a night out with friends, when he was picked up by police. He thought they were going to take him to the drunk tank… but instead, the car went in the opposite direction.

More resources on this case:
BOOK: Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild by Rob Renaud and Susanne Reber
DOCUMENTARY: Two Worlds Colliding
PODCAST: COMMONS - The Police
ARTICLE: Family suspects foul play: Police say every avenue investigated by Terry Craig (the original Neil Stonechild article)

Podcast recommendations:
Commons - current season “Fuck the police”
Nighttime - the stories of Glen Race and Haunted Canada

Credits:
Research and writing: Danielle Paradis
Additional research and writing: Kristi Lee
Audio editing and production: We Talk of Dreams   
Disclaimer voiced by the host of True
Theme Song: We Talk of Dreams  

Music credits:
S. Cherimisinov - Comets and Sparks, United Voyagers, Fog, Our Future, Lucerna
Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder two
Kai Engel - Nothing, Seeker, July, Fryeri, Soli, Delirium
Kevin McLeod / Incompetech - Immersed, Shadowlands 1 Horizon
Other tracks and theme Music by We Talk of Dreams

Information sources:
Brown, DeNeen L. “Left for Dead in a Saskatchewan Winter.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 22 Nov. 2003,

Chin, Gabriel Jackson, and Scott Wells. “The 'Blue Wall of Silence' as Evidence of Bias and Motive to Lie: A New Approach to Police Perjury.” SSRN, 17 Apr. 2011

Corruption and the Blue Code of Silence.” ResearchGate,

Government of Canada, Department of Justice. “Alternative Approaches.” Canada's Court System, 9 Sept. 2016, www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/ccs-ajc/04.html.

Magee, Robin K. “The Myth of the Good Cop and the Law.” Race, Racism and the Law, racism.org/articles/law-and-justice/criminal-justice-and-racism/136-criminal-justice-generally/1820-the-myth-of-the-good-cop-and-the-law.

Meagan Campbell, April 8, 2016. “New Light on Saskatoon's 'Starlight Tours'.” Macleans.ca, 8 Apr. 2016, www.macleans.ca/news/canada/new-light-on-saskatoons-starlight-tours/.

National Film Board of Canada. “Two Worlds Colliding.” National Film Board of Canada, 7 Sept. 2011, www.nfb.ca/film/two_worlds_colliding/.

Perreaux, Leslie. “Decade-Old Death Resurfaces (Feb 22, 2000).” Www.thestarphoenix.com, www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Decade death resurfaces 2000/10318241/story.html 

Reber, Susanne, and Robert Renaud. Starlight Tour: the Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild. Random House Canada, 2019.

Warren, Jeremy. “'I'm Known for the One Evil Thing I Didn't Do'.” Www.thestarphoenix.com, www.thestarphoenix.com/known evil thing didn/10318022/story.html.

Collection of articles by the StarPhoenix

http://drc.usask.ca/projects/legal_aid/file/resource285-2d480424.pdf

https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2003/february/20/inquiry-called-into-death-of-neil-stonechild

http://www.vancouversun.com/Stonechild+Story+2004/10307751/story.html

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/saskatoon+under+microscope+sparked+internal+probe+tells+horror+story+2000/10318255/story.html

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Beligerent+drunk+gets+ride+highest+power+land+June+1997/10318326/story.html

http://www.vancouversun.com/Adam+Cold+truths+from+dark+time/10319086/story.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon-police-chief-fired-1.298150 

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Beligerent+drunk+gets+ride+highest+power+land+June+1997/10318326/story.html

https://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/columnists/tank-george-floyd-protest-issues-prevalent-in-saskatoon

https://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/aboriginals/starlighttours.html 

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rcmp-to-probe-alleged-police-link-to-native-freezing-deaths/article4160406/

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/technology/police+story+details+abuse+saskatoon+column+relates+tale+about+city+cops+dumping+drunken/10318304/story.html

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/saskatoon+under+microscope+sparked+internal+probe+tells+horror+story+2000/10318255/story.html 

https://www.indianz.com/News/2019/12/16/remembering-neil-stonechild-and-exposing.asp

https://j-source.ca/article/revisiting-saskatoons-freezing-deaths-with-les-perreaux/

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