{"podcast":{"title":"Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History","slug":"dark-poutine-true-crime-and-dark-history-329170","podcast_index_feed_id":329170,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/CORU8758037629","website_url":"http://darkpoutine.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/fa6161fa-d858-11ec-92a4-e3736c3e7410/image/e74115dceaaabb5341e68cb64ee2f4f2.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Curiouscast","episode_count":428,"summary":"True crime, legends, folklore, dark history and other creepy topics from the perspective of real Canadians. Support the show: https://buymeacoffee.com/darkpoutine","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dark-poutine-true-crime-and-dark-history-329170"},"episode":{"title":"Bound by Silence: The Murder of Dr. Edith Wightman","slug":"bound-by-silence-the-murder-of-dr-edith-wightman","published_at":"2025-12-01T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dark-poutine-true-crime-and-dark-history-329170/bound-by-silence-the-murder-of-dr-edith-wightman","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dark-poutine-true-crime-and-dark-history-329170","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/CORU3763891071.mp3?updated=1763961343","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/CORU3763891071.mp3?updated=1763961343","summary":"Episode 395: On a cold December day in 1983, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, was shaken by a deeply unsettling crime. Dr. Edith Wightman, a respected scholar, was discovered dead in her office: bound with tape, handcuffed, and suffocated with a cloth. The investigation took an even stranger turn when police arrested Michael Allen Crowley, a chemist from Welland, who had been seen on campus in disguise, dressed in women’s clothing and a wig. With no personal connection to the victim, and the bizarre methods used, the murder left students and faculty reeling, and raised questions still unanswered to this day. Sources:A Brief History Of McMaster UniversityHistory of McMasterWIGHTMAN, Edith Mary | RutgersDec 19, 1983, page 1 - The Hamilton Spectator at Newspapers.comDec 24, 1983, page 16 - The Hamilton Spectator at Newspapers.comEdith Wightman - Search - Newspapers.com™Michael Alan Crowley - Search - Newspapers.com™\"72 Hours: True Crime\" Murder on Campus (TV Episode 2005)Canadian News Briefs - UPI ArchivesEdith Wightman | Wikipedia1984_3Winterhttps://www.reddit.com/r/McMaster/comments/jl1ew5/trying_to_find_details_of_on_campus_death/Review: [Untitled] on JSTORWightman: Gallia Belgica (Book Review)Detectives say Robert Garrow now 'best suspect' in 1973 Komorowski murder | CBC NewsAdele Komorowski Homicide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Episode 395: On a cold December day in 1983, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, was shaken by a deeply unsettling crime. Dr. Edith Wightman, a resp…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3220,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dark-poutine-true-crime-and-dark-history-329170/episodes/bound-by-silence-the-murder-of-dr-edith-wightman/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dark-poutine-true-crime-and-dark-history-329170/bound-by-silence-the-murder-of-dr-edith-wightman.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}