Patrick Lejtenyi
Crime
A Mafia Acquittal Is the Latest L for Quebec Law Enforcement
Crime experts are expecting Montreal’s gang wars to heat up this year.
Patrick Lejtenyi
2.26.18
True North Crime
She Was the Last Woman Executed In Canada. She May Have Been Innocent
More than half a century after a bomb on a plane killed nearly two dozen people near the St. Lawrence River, the evidence that condemned Marguerite Pitre to hang remains pretty flimsy.
Patrick Lejtenyi
1.23.18
True North Crime
How Canada’s Most Prolific Hit Man Turned Informant on the Hells Angels
“Apache” Trudeau was known as a killer with “no respect for human life at all.”
Patrick Lejtenyi
9.26.17
Culture
Does English Montreal Get Drunker Than French Montreal? An Investigation
A new study says ‘yes’ so I asked members of the bar scene about it.
Patrick Lejtenyi
9.11.17
True North Crime
He Was a Top Officer in the Military, and Also a Serial Killer
The story of Russell Williams, the air force colonel who shocked Canada, and how he was caught.
Patrick Lejtenyi
8.2.17
True North Crime
How the Man Who Committed One of Canada’s Most Gruesome Murders Was Caught
How and why Douglas Garland murdered and tortured a former business partner, his wife and their five-year-old grandson.
Patrick Lejtenyi
5.10.17
Crime
What the Hell Is Up With Quebec’s Brunch-related Kidnappings?
Two crimes involving brunch restaurant chains, kidnappings and the Montreal suburb of Laval have a province stumped.
Patrick Lejtenyi
4.7.17
Crime
The Toxic Masculinity Behind One of Canada’s First University Shootings
Valery Fabrikant killed four people at Concordia University 25 years ago. Sadly, his profile seems more familiar than ever.
Patrick Lejtenyi
4.6.17
True North Crime
How a Dismembered Montreal Sex Worker Became a Sensation, Then a Ghost, and Now a Fading Legend
Why Mary Gallagher’s brutal murder became a Montreal ghost story.
Patrick Lejtenyi
3.1.17
Science
Sex, Drugs and Music Are all Related in Your Brain’s Chemical System: Researchers
Obviously.
Patrick Lejtenyi
2.13.17
Quebec
Quebec Has a Long History of Anti-Muslim Violence and Political Rhetoric
Experts say Sunday’s horrific attack was years in the making.
Patrick Lejtenyi
1.30.17
Politics
Campus Conservatives Are Still Keeping Their Heads Down in the Age of Trump (and Leitch and O’Leary)
"Being a conservative is not something we advertise."
Patrick Lejtenyi
1.26.17
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