Three-Fingered Abe: The Kidnapping of John S. Labatt

Podcast: Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History · Dark Poutine / Curiouscast

Opublikowano: 2026-07-13

Episode 427: In the summer of 1934, John Sackville Labatt was one of the most recognizable names in Canada. The fifty-three-year-old president of John Labatt Limited had spent nearly two decades running one of the country's largest and oldest breweries, a family business built across three generations and tested by Prohibition, the Depression, and the rum-running trade that kept it alive through both. On the morning of August 14, he left his Lake Huron summer home running late for a meeting and took a shortcut through the forest on a little-used dirt road outside Sarnia. What happened on that road set off the l...