Stabbings: the silence of a town.
The brutal murder of Helen Betty Osborne: the secret of a town for sixteen years A fourteen-year-old boy found a naked body with fifty-six stab wounds in the snow, a crime so brutal that the entire town remained silent for sixteen years. What led a community to hide the truth about the death of a young woman who only wanted to be a teacher? In this episode, we analyze the murder of Helen Betty Osborne, a young Indigenous woman seeking a better future in The Pas, Manitoba. We explore the social divide in the town and the impact of collective silence in a case that took sixteen years to…
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