Island Crime Podcast explores Whiskey Creek deaths

<p>Peter McCully chats with Former CBC producer Laura Palmer, who is the host of the podcast, ‘Island Crime.’</p> <p>During the first four seasons Palmer has told stories that have included Lisa Marie Young's disappearance, a young woman from Nanaimo who was 21 when she vanished, Amber Manthorne of Port Alberni who went missing in 2022- and 4-year-old Michael Dunahee who went missing from a Victoria Playground.</p> <p>‘When I first thought about Michael's story, I thought, what can I possibly bring to this story? It's more than 30 years old. This has been a huge story that's been widely covered. What can I bring to it? And then I started talking to people and realized that a tiny fraction of that story had only ever been told because you were talking to the same people all of the time,’ says Palmer. ‘But when I approached the story, I talked to everybody. So, when you get a chance to go into that kind of level of detail and research on a story, inevitably you find more, and I think that's true for every season that I've done so far.’</p> <p>Season 5 of the podcast has recently been released, it explores the deaths of three people in Whiskey Creek, Halloween Night, 2020.</p> <p>Palmer says she was approached by the mother of one of the victims who really felt that no one cared about her son dying in this tragic circumstance.</p> <p>‘When you start talking to family members of victims, it immediately becomes a very different story. Initially when I read the reports, all you heard was two people had been identified and they had extensive criminal pasts. The police were saying nothing to worry about here. This is a targeted thing. There's no public danger. And I think for a lot of people that might be where it ends, but I'm hoping once they listen to the stories of the victims of Whiskey Creek, they might feel a little bit differently,’ says Palmer.</p> <p>McCully asked Palmer if there are any island crime cases or topics that she is eager to explore in future podcasts.</p> <p>‘I have a running list, and it's