Melanie Cole

Writer by obsession, sarcastic and ridiculous by design

[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

On Aug 29, 1955, John Petlock went to do some stooking on his mother's farm. When he didn't return the following morning, his wife called the RCMP. What they found on the farm of Mary Petlock would haunt the community of Fenwood, SK for a long time..

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

According to their children, Andrew and Mary Kosowan had a good marriage. The couple raised 10 children and had a successful farm in the Strong Pine district of Saskatchewan. But in 1934, things started to go wrong. Really wrong.

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

On the morning of August 11, 1938, things seemed normal for the Ritchie household just north of Regina. But things were about to go very, very wrong.

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

In the early morning of October 30, 1934, the nude body of Ovilla Laventure was found in a barn near Spiritwood, Saskatchewan. But was it murder, or an unfortunate comedy of errors that led to his death?

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

On October 29, 1929, the Casement family were moving into their new home on a farm not far from Leslie, Saskatchewan. No one could have predicted the horrible tragedy that would play out, and the exact details remain a mystery to this day.

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

On the morning of May 24, 1914, Jessie Ireland was in her kitchen, washing dishes, near Biggar, SK. She certainly didn't expect her husband to come up behind her with a gun...

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

On the afternoon of June 28, 1928, 10-year-old Anna Goff never made it home from school in her small farming community southwest of Shaunavon, Saskatchewan. When volunteers went out looking for her, they found something gruesome.

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

On the night of November 28, 1922, the body of Fred Barnsley was discovered on his farm in Hodgeville, SK. The last person to see him alive had a very interesting story to tell...

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

In the early morning hours of December 29, 1916, police were called to the west side of Saskatoon after a tussle turned deadly, ending with a stabbing.

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

On the evening of November 21, 1916, Alex Krilozoski was hosting a wedding celebration at his home near Vonda, Saskatchewan. No one expected the evening to end with murder.

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

On February 11, 1935, Solomon Maddock was shot and killed on his farm near Wapella, Saskatchewan. The prime suspect? His 34-year-old daughter, Gladys. But was it murder or an accident?

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

On the morning of April 3, 1914, a police sergeant and an undertaker drove north of Regina to exhume the body of Thomas Gore. His death, a little too sudden for his neighbours, had been labeled as suspicious...

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

On February 13, 1913, the body of Charles Bruggencote was found on a trail not far from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. At first, they thought it might be an accident, but it quickly became clear it was murder.

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

On March 5, 1912, three-year-old Viola Erickson died on her family's farm near Tompkins, Saskatchewan. The following day, her stepfather, Victor Erickson, was arrested. The rest of the story... is horrible.

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

On September 12, 1911, Terezia Bugyik Alak and her father went to retrieve her things from her husband's home near Vanscoy. The errand seemed to be going okay, until it really, really wasn't.

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[Melanie Cole @MelanieKCole]

In 1919, Hannah Hanson murdered her two children and ended her life near Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. But that wasn't the first time she'd harmed a child in her care...

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