Dark Roast: Caffeine Casefiles Podcast

Episode 19 - The Sweetest Little Girl Part 2

25 min · 30. maj 2026
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Welcome Back Caffeine Casefilers! This is Part 2 of this series takes a deeper look into the tragic death of two-year-old Vienna Rose Irwin. In this episode, we cover the findings from the coroner’s report, and the details from the civil lawsuit filed by her family. If you missed the previous Episode, go back and listen Episode 6: The Sweetest Little Girl Key Details: * A two-year-old girl who was found dead in a septic tank on the property of her daycare. * The coroner’s inquest into the circumstances surrounding her death. * The family’s civil lawsuit seeking justice for their daughter. Content:On May 25, 2023, the life of two-year-old Vienna Rose Irwin was tragically cut short when she was found dead in a septic tank on the property of her daycare, Watch Me Grow Day Care, near Cobourg, Ontario. The circumstances surrounding her death have left the community searching for answers. In this episode, we examine the official coroner’s report and the findings from the investigation. We also detail the civil lawsuit filed by the Irwin family against the daycare, as they continue to fight for accountability and justice for their daughter. Tune in to hear the full story and learn about the ongoing legal battle. Listen now and subscribe for more updates Follow Dark Roast for weekly episodes Instagram: @darkroastcaffeinecasefiles Substack: @darkroastcaffeinecasefiles Facebook: Dark Roast: Caffeine Casefiles Podcast Spotify: Dark Roast Caffeine Casefiles Youtube: Dark Roast: Caffeine Casefiles Email: substack@caffeinecasefiles.com Web: Dark Roast: Caffeine Case files by Caitlin Francois | Substack [https://darkroastcaffeinecasefiles.substack.com/] Rate and Review:If you enjoyed this episode, please rate us 5 stars and leave a review on Spotify. It helps other true crime and coffee lovers find the show. Get full access to Dark Roast: Caffeine Case files by Caitlin Francois at darkroastcaffeinecasefiles.substack.com/subscribe [https://darkroastcaffeinecasefiles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

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episode New Brew - A Canada Day Murder artwork

New Brew - A Canada Day Murder

A father of four. Murdered on Canada Day. His daughter found him. 💔🇨🇦 This is the short version. Tap the links for the full story. * 📰 Trial begins (CTV News): https://www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/prince-albert/article/trial-of-man-accused-of-killing-prince-albert-father-begins/ [https://www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/prince-albert/article/trial-of-man-accused-of-killing-prince-albert-father-begins/] * 📰 Victim identified as ‘always funny’ father of four (CTV News): https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/prince-albert-homicide-victim-identified-as-norman-wenzel-always-funny-father-of-four-1.6951158 [https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/prince-albert-homicide-victim-identified-as-norman-wenzel-always-funny-father-of-four-1.6951158] * 📰 First-degree murder charge laid (CTV News): https://www.ctvnews.ca/prince-albert-police-lay-first-degree-murder-charge-in-death-of-always-funny-father-of-four-1.7000613 [https://www.ctvnews.ca/prince-albert-police-lay-first-degree-murder-charge-in-death-of-always-funny-father-of-four-1.7000613] * 📰 Daughter testifies (paNOW): https://panow.com/news/2026/06/16/i-couldnt-breathe-victims-daughter-testifies-at-prince-albert-murder-trial/ [https://panow.com/news/2026/06/16/i-couldnt-breathe-victims-daughter-testifies-at-prince-albert-murder-trial/] * 📰 Forensic pathologist testimony (paNOW): https://panow.com/news/2026/06/17/excessive-blood-loss-cause-of-victims-death-says-forensic-pathologist-at-murder-trial/ [https://panow.com/news/2026/06/17/excessive-blood-loss-cause-of-victims-death-says-forensic-pathologist-at-murder-trial/] * 📰 Case proceeds to trial (paNOW): https://panow.com/news/2026/06/14/kemp-crescent-murder-case-proceeds-to-trial/ [https://panow.com/news/2026/06/14/kemp-crescent-murder-case-proceeds-to-trial/] * 🎙️ Serialously with Annie Elise – search “Norman Wenzel” or “Prince Albert Canada Day murder” in your podcast app #TrueCrime #CanadaDay #PrinceAlbert #Saskatchewan #Serialously #AnnieElise #TrueCrimeTok #ShortStory #DeepDive #CanadianTrueCrime ☕ Follow Dark Roast for weekly episodesGet your weekly true crime and caffeine fix * TikTok: @DarkRoastCaffeineCasefiles * Instagram: @darkroastcaffeinecasefiles * Substack: @darkroastcaffeinecasefiles * Facebook: Dark Roast: Caffeine Casefiles Podcast * Spotify: Dark Roast Caffeine Casefiles * YouTube: Dark Roast: Caffeine Casefiles * Email: substack@caffeinecasefiles.com * Web: Dark Roast: Caffeine Case Files by Caitlin Francois on Substack ⭐ Rate & ReviewIf you enjoyed this episode, please rate us 5 stars and leave a review on Spotify. It helps other true crime and coffee lovers find the show. ☕ Help fill the coffee potLove the show? Support us at buymeacoffee.com/darkroasttruecrime [https://buymeacoffee.com/darkroasttruecrime] – every cup keeps the cases brewing. Stay caffeinated, stay curious. ☕🔎 Get full access to Dark Roast: Caffeine Case files by Caitlin Francois at darkroastcaffeinecasefiles.substack.com/subscribe [https://darkroastcaffeinecasefiles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

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A New Brew - #4

A 28-year-old tow truck driver. Three teenage hitmen. A $7,500 contract killing. The towing industry’s dark underworld exposed. 🚛🔫💔 This is the short version. Tap the links for the full story. Links to the story: * 📰 Teen pleads guilty (CBC News): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/teen-recruited-to-shoot-gta-tow-truck-driver-pleads-guilty-to-murder-9.7238849 [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/teen-recruited-to-shoot-gta-tow-truck-driver-pleads-guilty-to-murder-9.7238849] * 📰 Hired gun confession (Toronto Star): https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/toronto-area-teen-admits-to-murdering-this-tow-truck-driver-on-behalf-of-influential-adults-inside-warring-towing-industry/article_c04bf304-0df8-4d25-b43c-b71903ac6792.html [https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/toronto-area-teen-admits-to-murdering-this-tow-truck-driver-on-behalf-of-influential-adults-inside-warring-towing-industry/article_c04bf304-0df8-4d25-b43c-b71903ac6792.html] * 📰 Teen recruited by industry (Global News): https://globalnews.ca/news/11908185/16-year-old-boy-recruited-by-tow-truck-industry-pleads-guilty-to-murder/ [https://globalnews.ca/news/11908185/16-year-old-boy-recruited-by-tow-truck-industry-pleads-guilty-to-murder/] * 📰 Two teens charged (CBC News): https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7300507 [https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7300507] * 📰 “The Union” criminal network (CTV News): https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/violent-crime-group-known-as-the-union-is-behind-gta-tow-truck-violence-police-say-1.6978687 [https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/violent-crime-group-known-as-the-union-is-behind-gta-tow-truck-violence-police-say-1.6978687] * 🎙️ Serialously with Annie Elise – search “Sulakshan Selvasingam” or “Toronto tow truck murder” in your podcast app #TrueCrime #Toronto #TowingIndustry #ContractKilling #Serialously #AnnieElise #TrueCrimeTok #ShortStory #DeepDive #CanadaCrime * ☕ Follow Dark Roast for weekly episodesGet your true crime and caffeine fix every week. 📱 Find us everywhere: * TikTok: @DarkRoastCaffeineCasefiles * Instagram: @darkroastcaffeinecasefiles * Substack: @darkroastcaffeinecasefiles * Facebook: Dark Roast: Caffeine Casefiles Podcast * Spotify: Dark Roast Caffeine Casefiles * YouTube: Dark Roast: Caffeine Casefiles * Email: substack@caffeinecasefiles.com * Web: Dark Roast: Caffeine Case Files by Caitlin Francois on Substack ⭐ Rate & ReviewIf you enjoyed this episode, please rate us 5 stars and leave a review on Spotify. It helps other true crime and coffee lovers find the show. ☕ Help fill the coffee potLove the show? Support us at buymeacoffee.com/darkroasttruecrime [https://buymeacoffee.com/darkroasttruecrime] – every cup keeps the cases brewing. Stay caffeinated, stay curious. ☕🔎 Get full access to Dark Roast: Caffeine Case files by Caitlin Francois at darkroastcaffeinecasefiles.substack.com/subscribe [https://darkroastcaffeinecasefiles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

30. juni 20264 min
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Episode 22 - No More Stolen Sisters

Welcome back, Caffeine Casefilers. Between March and May 2022, four Indigenous women disappeared from the streets of Winnipeg. Their bodies were found—some of them, anyway—in garbage bins, dumped at landfills, treated like refuse by a killer who believed their lives didn’t matter. Jeremy Skibicki was a white supremacist who targeted Indigenous women at homeless shelters. He drugged them, assaulted them, murdered them, and dismembered them with power tools. Then he went back to the shelters to find his next victim. Rebecca Contois, 24, was a mother. Her partial remains were found in a bin behind a Winnipeg apartment building. Morgan Harris, 39, was a mother of five and a grandmother. Her daughter, Cambria, fought for three years to have a landfill searched for her remains. Marcedes Myran, 26, was a mother of two, a practical joker who hid people’s shoes to make them stay longer. Ashlee Shingoose, 30, was known for three years only as Buffalo Woman—until DNA finally gave her back her name. This is the story of a serial killer who embodied everything wrong with Canada’s treatment of Indigenous women. And a daughter who refused to let her mother be forgotten in the trash. ⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains detailed descriptions of extreme violence, sexual assault, dismemberment, racial hatred, and systemic neglect. Resources: * Hope for Wellness Helpline: 1-855-242-3310 * Native Women’s Association of Canada: nwac.ca [https://nwac.ca/] * Morgan’s Warriors outreach (Winnipeg): @morganswarriors on social media * MMIWG National Inquiry Final Report: mmiwg-ffada.ca [https://mmiwg-ffada.ca/] ☕ Follow Dark Roast for weekly episodesGet your true crime and caffeine fix every week. 📱 Find us everywhere: * TikTok: @DarkRoastCaffeineCasefiles * Instagram: @darkroastcaffeinecasefiles * Substack: @darkroastcaffeinecasefiles * Facebook: Dark Roast: Caffeine Casefiles Podcast * Spotify: Dark Roast Caffeine Casefiles * YouTube: Dark Roast: Caffeine Casefiles * Email: substack@caffeinecasefiles.com * Web: Dark Roast: Caffeine Case Files by Caitlin Francois on Substack ⭐ Rate & ReviewIf you enjoyed this episode, please rate us 5 stars and leave a review on Spotify. It helps other true crime and coffee lovers find the show. ☕ Help fill the coffee potLove the show? Support me at buymeacoffee.com/darkroasttruecrime [https://buymeacoffee.com/darkroasttruecrime] – every cup keeps the cases brewing Stay caffeinated, stay curious. ☕🔎 Get full access to Dark Roast: Caffeine Case files by Caitlin Francois at darkroastcaffeinecasefiles.substack.com/subscribe [https://darkroastcaffeinecasefiles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

19. juni 202637 min
episode Netflix's American Murder artwork

Netflix's American Murder

A #VanLife dream turned into a nightmare. Gabby Petito’s story gripped the world—but the Netflix documentary only tells part of it. For the full picture, tap the links below. * 🎥 Watch American Murder: Gabby Petito on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81766093 [https://www.netflix.com/title/81766093] * 🎙️ Listen to Serialously with Annie Elise - Episode 248: * (search “Episode 248: Why Did Netflix LEAVE THIS OUT About Gabby Petito”) * 📰 Read the full timeline (Netflix Tudum): https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/american-murder-gabby-petito-timeline [https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/american-murder-gabby-petito-timeline] * 📰 Read more (Inside Edition): https://www.insideedition.com/gabby-petito-documentary-shows-cops-confronting-brian-laundries-parents-89004 [https://www.insideedition.com/gabby-petito-documentary-shows-cops-confronting-brian-laundries-parents-89004] #TrueCrime #AmericanMurder #GabbyPetito #Netflix #Serialously #AnnieElise #TrueCrimeTok #ShortStory #DeepDive #VanLife Get full access to Dark Roast: Caffeine Case files by Caitlin Francois at darkroastcaffeinecasefiles.substack.com/subscribe [https://darkroastcaffeinecasefiles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

18. juni 20262 min
episode Netflix's The Crash artwork

Netflix's The Crash

A 100-mph crash. Two dead. One survivor. Accident or murder? The Crash on Netflix will leave you questioning everything. This is the short version—tap the links for the full deep dive. * 🎥 Watch The Crash on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81941710 [https://www.netflix.com/title/81941710] * 🎙️ Podcast deep dive - RedHanded (episode on Mackenzie Shirilla): Search “RedHanded Mackenzie Shirilla” in your podcast app * 🎙️ Podcast deep dive - Crime Junkie (episode on Mackenzie Shirilla): Search “Crime Junkie Mackenzie Shirilla” in your podcast app * 📰 Read more (Netflix Tudum): https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-crash-release-date-news [https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-crash-release-date-news] * 📰 Read more (The National): https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film-tv/2026/05/22/netflix-the-crash-true-crime-review-mackenzie-shirilla/ [https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film-tv/2026/05/22/netflix-the-crash-true-crime-review-mackenzie-shirilla/] #TrueCrime #TheCrash #MackenzieShirilla #Netflix #TrueCrimeTok #ShortStory #DeepDive #Ohio #TrueCrimeDocumentary Get full access to Dark Roast: Caffeine Case files by Caitlin Francois at darkroastcaffeinecasefiles.substack.com/subscribe [https://darkroastcaffeinecasefiles.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

17. juni 20262 min