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Canada's Most Mysterious Manhunt

In July 1931, a heavily armed fugitive calling himself Albert Johnson arrived in Canada's remote Northwest Territories, eventually sparking a brutal 49-day manhunt across 150 miles of frozen wilderness after shooting an RCMP constable and later killing Constable Edgar Millen. Utilizing elite cold-weather survival skills, Johnson survived a dynamite blast to his fortified cabin, scaled a 7,000-foot mountain peak during a blinding sub-zero blizzard, and successfully outmaneuvered a massive 40-man ground posse that deployed aerial surveillance for the first time in Canadian history. The pursuit finally ended in a fatal shootout on the open ice of the Eagle River, but the deceased fugitive carried thousands in cash, high-end metropolitan dental work, and absolutely no clues regarding his previous life. Despite modern advancements in forensic genomics tracing his genetic lineage back to 18th-century Sweden, the true identity, criminal background, and ultimate motives of Canada's infamous "Mad Trapper of Rat River" remain entirely unknown. Become a Northern Crimes Patreon member: https://patreon.com/northerncrimes Subscribe to Northern Crimes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@northerncrimes Subscribe to Southern Crimes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SouthernCrimesYT

Terrifying TRUE Camping Stories from the Pacific Northwest | 2 Hours

The outdoors are a place that should give us solace. But sometimes, it's a place of true terror. This episode covers dozens of stories of camping and hiking gone wrong. From the vast wilderness of Alaska, to remote roads of British Columbia, and the scenic hiking trails of Washington and Oregon, these stories will chill you to the bone, and make you question whether or not you'll ever want to pitch a tent again. Like Northern Crimes? Give us a follow, comment, or give us a review! Support Northern Crimes on Patreon: https://patreon.com/northerncrimes Find Northern Crimes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@northerncrimes Check out our sister channel, Southern Crimes: https://www.youtube.com/@SouthernCrimesYT

The £26 Million Irish Bank Heist

Belfast, December 2004. As festive crowds filled the city center for Christmas, a white van quietly backed into the loading bay of the Northern Bank headquarters. What appeared to be a routine rubbish collection was actually the final phase of a military-grade operation that secured twenty-six and a half million pounds in cash—marking the largest bank robbery in British and Irish history.This investigation strips back the meticulous planning behind the heist, which began the night before with the coordinated armed hostage-takings of two bank employees and their families. We examine the forensic vacuum left by a gang that bleached crime scenes , the immediate geopolitical fallout that threatened the Irish peace process , and the multi-jurisdictional money trail that wound across Europe. From the unprecedented recall of entire bank note lines to the newly declassified state papers identifying the suspected mastermind behind the plot , we analyze how an army-style operation executed a historic theft without a single conviction for the robbery itself. Support Northern Crimes on Patreon: https://patreon.com/northerncrimes [https://patreon.com/northerncrimes] Subscribe to Northern Crimes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@northerncrimes [https://www.youtube.com/@northerncrimes] Subscribe to our sister channel, Southern Crimes: https://www.youtube.com/@SouthernCrimesYT [https://www.youtube.com/@SouthernCrimesYT]

Dark Tales from the Mountain States

On July 24th, 1997, Olympic hopeful and distance runner Amy Wroe Bechtel drove into Wyoming's Shoshone National Forest to map a race route. Her car was found on the Loop Road with a to-do list on the passenger seat, every item crossed off except one. The FBI deployed infrared sensors and requested satellite imagery from NASA and the Russian space station Mir. Over 200 searchers combed the Wind River Range. They found nothing. Dale Wayne Eaton - later convicted of abducting and murdering 18-year-old Lisa Marie Kimmell after keeping her captive for six days - was confirmed to be camping miles away. He has never spoken a word about Amy Bechtel. This documentary examines six unsolved and cold cases from across the Mountain States: two women shot on the same January night in Breckenridge, connected by a single orange sock and solved forty years later by a discarded fast-food napkin; a Steamboat Springs hardware store owner murdered by a woman who had married nine men under sixteen aliases; a church pianist who vanished from her grandparents' Idaho Falls property three days after 9/11; a Montana doctoral candidate who walked out of her apartment in 1966 leaving a teakettle on the stove and two uncashed paychecks on the counter; and a teenage girl whose car was found buried on a convicted killer's Wyoming property fourteen years after she disappeared. Some cases were solved by forensic genealogy, forensic botany, and a mother's refusal to stop. Others remain open. Support Northern Crimes on Patreon:https://patreon.com/northerncrimes [https://patreon.com/northerncrimes] Subscribe to Northern Crimes on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@northerncrimes [https://www.youtube.com/@northerncrimes] Subscribe to our sister channel, Southern Crimes:https://www.youtube.com/@SouthernCrimesYT [https://www.youtube.com/@SouthernCrimesYT]

The Survivalist YouTuber who Disappeared

On March 25th, 2022, Finn Creaney - co-founder of Wildcat Bushcraft survival school and one of Scotland's most experienced wilderness instructors - was dropped off at Loch Naver in the Scottish Highlands to begin a planned 40-mile solo hike to Golspie. He was 32 years old, married, the father of a four-year-old daughter, and two weeks removed from learning his wife was pregnant with their son. He left a voicemail for his wife at 12:52 PM. His phone went offline at 1:47 PM. He has not been seen since. This documentary examines the three-year search for Finn Creaney - from one of the largest Highland rescue operations in recent memory, to his father's eighteen-month private search across the same terrain, to the discovery of a green rucksack on the banks of Loch Naver in October 2023, sitting near the very point where Finn's journey began. We trace the investigative theories, the forensic limitations of a case with almost no physical evidence, and what the rucksack's location suggests about Finn's final hours - including the cold water crossing that his family now believes claimed his life, and why that conclusion sits uneasily against everything he taught and practiced as a professional survivalist. As of 2026, Finn Creaney remains officially listed as a missing person. His remains have never been recovered. Support Northern Crimes on Patreon: https://patreon.com/northerncrimes [https://patreon.com/northerncrimes] Subscribe to Northern Crimes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@northerncrimes [https://www.youtube.com/@northerncrimes] Subscribe to our sister channel, Southern Crimes: https://www.youtube.com/@SouthernCrimesYT [https://www.youtube.com/@SouthernCrimesYT]