The Murder of Loretta Saunders

Dec 5

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA

In 2014, 26 year old Loretta Saunders – a proud Inuk woman – was in Halifax completing her university thesis on missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. She went out to run an errand and didn’t return. What happened to her – and the resulting activism of her family – would have far-reaching effects.

This is a two-part series:

Part 1 - The complete story
Part 2 - I hand over to Nighttime Podcast who speaks with Delilah - Loretta's sister, who provides additional insights into what was happening in the background.

Note: Sadly, Delilah (Diem) Saunders passed away in 2021.

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Credits: Part 1

Research: Enya Best and Kristi Lee
Writing, narration, music arrangement: Kristi Lee
Audio editing, audio production: We Talk of Dreams
Disclaimer voiced by the host of Beyond Bizarre True Crime
Theme Song: We Talk of Dreams

Credits: Part 2
See here

Music:

We Talk of Dreams - original composer of "Canadian True Crime Theme song"
Music below is used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Five, Laserdisk
Kai Engel - Aspirato, Brooks, Change
Kevin McLeod / Incomptech - Lost Time. Bittersweet
S. Chermisinov - Fog
PC II - Exit Exit
M. Dioxin - From the Arctic Circle to the Southern Seas

Information Sources

Victoria’s Agreed Statement of Facts

Blake’s Agreed Statement of Facts

National post coverage

CBC news coverage including byBlair Rhodes

https://worldpolicy.org/2017/04/17/inuit-capitalism-and-colonization-a-foreign-affair/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/trying-to-make-sense-of-loretta-saunders-death-1.2555237

https://the-toast.net/2015/07/01/mmiw-loretta-saunders/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/missing-woman-prompts-police-to-issue-public-plea-1.2540817

https://globalnews.ca/news/1967856/live-blog-pair-convicted-of-murder-in-loretta-saunders-death-sentenced-to-life/

https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Executive_Summary.pdf

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/family-says-at-mmiw-hearings-that-a-white-passing-appearance-alters-police-reaction-1.3655730