KICK DOWN THE DOOR FOR JUSTICE!
Chelsea Poorman and the Secrets of a Shaughnessy Mansion
Personally connected, I've met people who've been affected
They've been asking for some help, but they been continually neglected
How many more of these indigenous women have to go missing
Before somebody will listen?
-Classified, Powerless (2018)
Hey Folks,
Recently, I appeared on the Grimerica Outlawed podcast with Mike Kiernan, Chelsea Poorman’s father.
Chelsea Poorman was 24 years old when she vanished in downtown Vancouver in September 2020. She was last seen at Granville Street.
If you would like to learn more about her case, I encourage you to watch the episode of Crime Beat called Chelsea Poorman and the Secrets of a Mansion.
TRIGGER WARNING: This documentary is very upsetting. If you have trauma related to a family member disappearing, you might not want to watch it alone. For what it’s worth, it is very tastefully done.
Chelsea’s father, Mike Kiernan, did everything that he could to find her. Although this is a tragic tale, it is also a tale about one man’s love for his daughter.
When Mr. Kiernan learned that his daughter was missing, he drove his mini-van from his hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to Vancouver. He did everything that he could think of to find her while living in his van.
He put decals with pictures of his daughter on his van and spent the days putting up posters and talking to anyone who would listen about his daughter’s disappearance.
There should be a movie about Mike Kiernan’s search for Chelsea Poorman. The only problem is that there’s no happy ending.
18 months after Chelsea Poorman went missing, her mutilated body was discovered outside a mansion in the ultra-rich neighbourhood of Shaughnessy. She was missing three fingers and part of her skull. Despite this, the Vancouver Police Department ruled that there was “insufficient evidence to suggest that her death was the result of a crime.”
Unsurprisingly, her friends and family are unconvinced, and they’re not alone. The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs and the Federation of Indigenous Nations have issued statements calling for the VPD to re-open the investigation into Chelsea’s death.
“I KICKED DOWN THE DOOR.”
After Chelsea was found, Kiernan broke into the vacant house on whose property his daughter’s remains were discovered, locating a number of items that he was sure belonged to her.
“There’s a lot of DNA evidence left there – a lot of stuff that can be investigated,” he said, noting he later told police about what he did. “They didn’t touch any of it, and just left it there.”
I have not been able to discover the name of the owner of the mansion, which is valued at 7 million dollars. According to all the articles that I’ve read, the house has been vacant for quite some time, and its owner does not live in Canada.
Mainstream media has not reported the name of the mansion’s owner, but it is worth noting that Vancouver is a global destination for money launderers from around the world, notably China and India.
Could the owner of this property have connections to an Asian crime syndicate? That possibility has not been ruled out, as far as I can tell.
THE RCMP REVIEWED THE VPD’S INVESTIGATION INTO CHELSEA POORMAN’S DEATH… AND HAVE NOT MADE THAT REPORT PUBLIC
Back in 2022, I wrote:
On July 25th, a Vancouver blog reported that “The RCMP has been asked to review the investigation conducted by the Vancouver Police Department into the disappearance and death of Chelsea Poorman.”
Personally, I don’t have the slightest confidence in the RCMP, so I’m guessing that this review will go nowhere. But the fact that the file is being reviewed does suggest that even members of the power structure think that the VPD’s handling of this case is suspicious.
After the RCMP reviewed the file, they apparently wrote a report, but that report has not been public. In other words, I was right when I predicted that “this review will go nowhere”.
This is not the first time that RCMP reports into serious police misconduct have kept secret.
And this leads me to something that I’ve been meaning to cover for some time - the pedosadist sex trafficking ring in Prince George, the largest city in Northern B.C.
THE PEDOSADIST SEX TRAFFICKING RING IN PRINCE GEORGE
For years, there was a sex trafficking ring in Prince George which trafficked young indigenous girls. I personally know one woman who was victimized by this ring over the course of several years when she was a child.
The ring famously included a judge named David Ramsay, but also is alleged to have included members of the RCMP.
In the early 2000s, Ramsay was convicted of sexual assault. He later died in prison.
Is any of this sounding vaguely familiar?
According to a 2004 CBC article:
Former British Columbia provincial court judge David Ramsay has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually assaulting young aboriginal women.
British Columbia Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm handed down the sentence Tuesday in Prince George.
Earlier Tuesday, Ramsay abjectly apologized to the young women he sexually assaulted, some of them as young as 12.
Some 300 First Nations representatives from across B.C. turned up at the courthouse to show solidarity with the victims, who ranged in age from 12 to 16.
[…]
The victims all were aboriginal girls.
[…]
Former First Nations Summit leader Bill Wilson has called Ramsay's crimes "atrocious and racist" and said the former judge deserves 25 years behind bars.
Evidence showed Ramsay, 61, paid the girls for sex, often driving them to rural areas. On one occasion, Ramsay slammed a girl's head into the dashboard of his vehicle until she bled, then sexually assaulted her.
Another girl was left naked near the highway and threatened with death if she told anyone.
The offences happened between 1992 and 2001. Ramsay was removed from the bench in July 2002, and later resigned.
It is worth noting that Robert Pickton was arrested in February 2002, which leads me to suspect that there may have been an effort from federal authorities to crack down on the B.C. RCMP, which may be the most corrupt and depraved police force in North America.
As I mentioned, the Prince George sex trafficking ring is alleged to have included members of the RCMP.
Last year, award-winning journalist Amanda Follett Hosgood dropped a bombshell article with the understated headline BC Renews Investigation into Prince George RCMP.
It’s been 23 years since Sheila told her social worker a story involving explosive allegations of sexual abuse by a Prince George B.C. provincial court judge and an RCMP officer against vulnerable underaged girls.
In 2004, David Ramsay, the provincial court judge who at times presided over life-altering decisions of the girls he sexually and violently abused, pled guilty and was sentenced to seven years in prison, where he died in 2008
But nearly 20 years later, those alleging harm and their supporters say Prince George RCMP officers that were also accused of sexual abuse and harassment — as many as 10 implicated through the Ramsay investigation — were never properly investigated.
“If a judge was found guilty of doing that to us women, young ladies at the time, why wouldn’t they want to push further into investigating?” asks Sheila, the woman who shared her story with a social worker. (The Tyee is using a pseudonym in order to protect her privacy.)
“You have young, vulnerable women who have stated that these things have happened to them. Regardless if they are entrenched in addiction or on the streets, once it’s been found that this judge was guilty of these acts, why wouldn’t they investigate these RCMP officers?”
It’s a question that’s been repeated for years — by the women, some of whom shared their stories even earlier than Sheila, in the 1990s, by their families and by other officers within the RCMP who have pushed for a proper investigation.
Two decades later, B.C.’s Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General announced on March 8 that the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team will lead an investigation into the historic misconduct allegations and failure of RCMP to properly investigate them.
Note that Albertan investigators were brought in. To me, this suggests a tacit acknowledgement that the B.C. RCMP are too corrupt to investigate themselves, even when we’re talking about serial child rape.
This is Canada, folks.
According to Wikipedia:
During his tenure as judge, Ramsay on multiple occasions picked up aboriginal girls as young as twelve and sexually assaulted them. He insisted on not using a condom, and on one occasion, when the girl resisted, he became enraged and smashed her head against the dashboard of his car.[2] Several of these young women appeared before him in court.[3]
A special prosecutor, Dennis Murray, Q.C., was appointed to investigate the charges. Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm of the British Columbia Supreme Court was appointed as judge.[4]
Note that a special prosecutor was brought in from Quebec.
Ramsay was indicted in August 2002.[5] Six weeks later, in September 2002, he attempted suicide.[1] On May 3, 2003, he pleaded guilty to five of the ten charges in the indictment; the other charges were stayed.[6]
He was convicted of one count of breach of trust, one count of sexual assault causing bodily harm, and three counts of sexual exploitation of a child. In June 2004, he was sentenced to seven years in prison.[3][7]
Three years into his sentence, Ramsay applied unsuccessfully for day parole in 2007 on the grounds that he had terminal cancer.[7] He died in Dorchester Penitentiary on January 19, 2008.[8]
Note that Dorchester Penitentiary is in New Brunswick on Canada’s East Coast.
In other words, it is as far away as possible from members of the B.C. RCMP, some of whom had a very plausible motive for wanting him dead.
As D.O.A. once put it, DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES.
ALLEGATIONS ABOUT THE SEX TRAFFICKING RING IN PRINCE GEORGE FIRST SURFACED IN 1998, BUT RAMSAY WAS NOT ARRESTED UNTIL 2002
The parallels between the Pickton case and the Ramsay case are striking. Both came under suspicion in 1998, but were not arrested until 2002. Both are believed to have had many accomplices, and both seem to have been protected by the RCMP. Both were transferred out of province after being convicted, and both died in prison after coming up for day parole.
Although I believe that both Ramsay and Pickton were guilty of horrific crimes, they both were, in a sense, fall guys.
Police in Canada like to play a twisted version of “Pin the Tail on the Donkey” where they attempt to pin as many charges as possible on people who aren’t in a good position to defend themselves.
They tried to do it in Winnipeg, where police attempted to pin the murder of Tina Fontaine on a meth-addicted Acadian scrap metal collector named Raymond Cormier.
Cormier may have had an inappropriate relationship with the 15-year-old Fontaine, but there is ZERO evidence that he killed her. After he was acquitted, no one else was ever charged.
3 OF THE 5 GIRLS WHO ACCUSED RAMSAY HAVE SINCE DIED
According to Hosgood:
Kara Myers was a young adult working with youth in residential care homes when two girls in their early teens told her about police officers who picked them up off the streets under the guise of arresting them and solicited sex in exchange for not laying charges.
“I was fairly young and they trusted me,” she says. “They could say pretty much anything to me. But they also knew that there were boundaries there.”
She knew, when she first heard the girls’ stories implicating the local officers in about 1998, that she had to report them. She shared the allegations with her superiors. For two years, she heard nothing, she says. Then, in about 2000, police started investigating Ramsay. In 2003, they sent several BC RCMP officers to Prince George to look into the allegations against local RCMP officers. Myers worked with them to connect with the girls.
But too much time had passed, she says, and the officers implicated in the Ramsay investigation were never charged. Twenty years later, she worries the renewed investigation will lead nowhere. Three of the five girls who accused Ramsay have since died. Evidence has gone missing. Memories fade.
“I have very little faith,” she says. “I’m very jaded.”
One of the girls who shared her story with Myers was Celynn, a young woman with Cree ancestry. In the years that followed the Ramsay decision, Celynn gave multiple statements to police, says her father, Bob Sandbach. Every time she came forward, she was treated as a “hostile witness,” and detained in a prison cell, sometimes for days, he says.
In 2007, at age 22, Celynn died just weeks after giving her final statement to police. After years of hoping for justice, Sandbach was told by the RCMP that his daughter’s statements were unreliable and that there would never be charges against the officers.
“They didn’t believe her. It was up to her to prove to them that she was telling the truth,” he says. But in the years since Celynn’s death, more evidence has emerged to support her story, he says.
THERE’S VIDEO EVIDENCE… OR AT LEAST THERE WAS.
The allegations might have just disappeared if it hadn’t been for a random discovery in the basement of Lisa Mackenzie’s Kamloops home.
Mackenzie, who grew up in Prince George, had returned there as a young RCMP recruit in 2003. She’d heard a little about the Ramsay case but was initially unaware that some of her fellow officers, including a man she would briefly marry, were also implicated in the allegations of abuse.
She began dating Joseph Kohut, a more senior officer, shortly after moving to Prince George. In May 2004, just weeks before Ramsay pled guilty, Kohut moved to the Kamloops detachment. They hastily married later that year so Mackenzie could transfer with him.
By January 2005, Kohut had been suspended from his job and the couple had split, Mackenzie says.
“When he got suspended, I even said to him, ‘What did you get suspended for?’ He wouldn’t tell me,” she says. “Then all the allegations came out.”
Kohut was suspended from March to December 2005, according to court documents. After a phased return to work in 2006, he went on permanent sick leave starting November 2007 and was deemed psychologically unfit for duty the following month.
Kohut and another former Prince George RCMP officer, Justin Harris, have both filed lawsuits against the attorney general of Canada and B.C.’s public safety minister over the RCMP’s investigation into their conduct, saying it impacted their mental health and their ability to work…
Kohut filed his lawsuit in 2007. The case would continue until 2014, when his last-minute application to postpone the trial was denied by the court.
According to Kohut’s application, investigations by RCMP into his conduct between 2004 to 2006 were carried out “negligently and in bad faith” and allegations against him ultimately deemed unsubstantiated.
Despite attempts by the force to discharge him, he remained on sick leave, with full salary, until at least 2014, according to the filings.
As of 2021, by the way, Justin Harris was still on paid leave. Can you imagine? You get accused of sadistic child abuse and you end up on paid leave for the next 16+ years?
This is Canada, folks.
I don’t know about you, but this sure seems like hush money to me.
According to Harris’s statement of claim, which was filed in 2008, at least four and up to 10 police officers were implicated by the witnesses that came forward against Ramsay. Starting in 2000 and continuing until 2004, investigators interviewed the young women multiple times.
The statement of claim is available online.
IN NOVEMBER 2005, SPECIAL PROSECUTORS DECLINED TO LAY CHARGES, CITING “INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE”
But Harris’s lawsuit describes inconsistent statements from the girls. While a code of conduct review found that some of the allegations were substantiated, according to Harris’s statement, in November 2005 special prosecutors in charge of the criminal case declined to lay charges because of insufficient evidence.
Under the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act, the force has one year from the time it learns about allegations of misconduct to complete an investigation. Because the force failed to complete its investigation within that window, the continued inquiry should not have occurred, Harris argued.
Neither Harris nor Kohut returned to active duty.
IN JANUARY 2006, VIDEO EVIDENCE SURFACED
Just months after the criminal case was dropped, in January 2006, Mackenzie was cleaning the home she had shared with Kohut, who had since moved out. In the basement, she stumbled across some videotapes. Popping one into the videorecorder, she found what she believes may have been a piece of missed evidence.
One video, she says, seemed to show Kohut and another officer, neither of them in uniform, pulling up to a young Indigenous girl and asking to see her breasts. Mackenzie recognized the girl from her time in Prince George, only she appeared younger — the recordings were apparently years old.
Setting one of the tapes aside — Kohut recording his previous ex-wife, who appeared intoxicated, while he made derogatory statements about her — she called another officer, a staff sergeant who was also a neighbour and off duty at the time, to report the tapes. The officer told her to put them back and not tell anyone. She did, assuming that an on-duty officer would come to collect them.
“I found the tapes, I reported them,” she says. “It wasn’t like I agreed to hide them from anybody. I thought someone would come and deal with them.”
But a day or two later, she got a call at work letting her know that Kohut had gone to the house the couple had previously shared and kicked in the door. Mackenzie, who lived with her young son, busied herself with securing the home and making complaints to the detachment about what she saw as domestic violence.
“At that time, to be honest with you, I wasn’t even thinking of the tapes. All I could think of is, my house just got broken into,” she says. It was several days before she realized most of the tapes, except for the one of Kohut’s ex-wife, were missing.
Mackenzie was soon told the Crown had declined to pursue charges against Kohut. She asked for a file number and other details about the RCMP’s investigation into the break-in. They were never provided, she says.
A report that ‘eviscerates the RCMP from top to bottom’
Another five years passed before Mackenzie raised the issue again. Garry Kerr was a veteran officer in charge of the serious crime and drug units who had moved from Prince George to the Kamloops detachment in 2011. She didn’t know him well, but she trusted him.
Mackenzie went to Kerr’s office and told him the story. “He’s like, ‘You’re joking, right?’” she remembers.
Kerr was disturbed enough by Mackenzie’s allegations that he contacted an RCMP criminal operations officer — someone he says was second in command for the province — to report it. It was August 2011 and the officer assured Kerr that an investigation would begin immediately.
“Then there was nothing,” he says.
In December, Kerr and Mackenzie travelled to Vancouver, where Kerr had hired a lawyer. In the lawyer’s office, they provided statements to senior RCMP officers. Mackenzie handed over the remaining piece of evidence — the tape she’d set aside of Kohut’s ex-wife, which she had planned to return to the woman. She’d only watched a few minutes of the tape and thought it could contain further evidence.
But when the officers left that day, they didn’t take the tape, Kerr says. “It took the RCMP almost seven months to come and pick it up, which defies any logical explanation,” he says.
THIS GOES ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP, FOLKS
In 2012, Kerr retired and moved to Vancouver Island. For years, he didn’t hear anything about the investigation. Finally, in 2015, he wrote a letter to the RCMP’s then-commissioner, Bob Paulson. A couple days later, he got a call from the criminal operations officer, who offered to come to the Island to meet in person. They met in a coffee shop.
“What he relayed to me was that there had been a very extensive RCMP investigation,” Kerr says. “He told me the investigation wasn’t quite complete, but he said up to this point, it doesn’t look like there’s going to be any charges or anything come out of it.”
Weeks later, the criminal operations officer called Kerr again, requesting another meeting. They met in the same coffee shop. Kerr says the officer insisted there had been an extensive and thorough investigation, and Crown counsel had determined there was “nothing criminal.” No charges would be laid, he confirmed.
“He said the entire matter was closed. He said, ‘It’s done, the investigation is over,’” Kerr says.
But Kerr had questions. He wanted to know which of the province’s Crown counsel offices had reviewed the files and he asked for a file number. He was told the officer couldn’t provide either. “Which is ridiculous,” he says.
THE RCMP’S OVERSIGHT BODY SENDS INVESTIGATORS FROM ONTARIO
“I knew obviously something wasn’t right,” Kerr says. He filed a complaint with the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP, the RCMP’s oversight body, which sent investigators from Ontario. Then another long wait began.
It wasn’t until 2021, a decade after his original complaint, that Kerr began making inquiries with the CRCC. That March, he received a 33-page CRCC investigation report that had been sitting on former RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki’s desk for three years.
The report “eviscerates the RCMP from top to bottom, from the commissioner on down,” he says.
“Simply stated, there never was any investigation,” he says. “They tried to bury it. They really tried to silence me in the first few months when I brought the information forward. There never was any investigation. They hadn’t even gone so far as to take a file number.”
He sat on the report for several months before deciding to share it with the media. In November, the Toronto Star reported on it and the Vancouver Sun followed in February, bringing renewed interest in the decades-old allegations.
Kerr declined to share the report with The Tyee. He says it now sits with the BC First Nations Justice Council, a group tasked with transforming B.C.’s justice system to create better outcomes for Indigenous people. He says it’s time that First Nations drove the process and he’s leaving the decision about whether to release it publicly up to them.
WHY HASN’T THE BC FIRST NATIONS JUSTICE COUNCIL RELEASED THE CRCC’S REPORT?
My question is this: Why hasn’t the BC First Nations Justice Council made the CRCC’s report public?
Maybe I’m a little fucked in the head or something, but it seems to me like it might be in the public interest to know whether or not the RCMP are involved in sex trafficking indigenous children.
It’s worth pointing out that in 2019, the guy whose job it was to investigate the RCMP for corruption was arrested for “leaking state secrets” and subsequently sentenced to 14 years in prison.
What secrets did he leak? Who knows? That information has not made been public.
Who did he leak it to? Who knows? That hasn’t been made public either.
But yeah, that’s the basic situation in Canada in 2024. It appears that there is a criminal element within the RCMP which is covering for pedosadist sex traffickers, serial killers, and gangsters.
The only solution is revolution, folks.
Love & Solidarity,
Crow Qu’appelle
We need a lot more reports on these crimes. Kudos to you. Too bad, we don't have many real journalists left in Canada. And the one's that do publish the facts are being censored.
The Corporatocracy has so much fiat currency that every country in the world is under these Global Parasites Control thru bribery, extortion and murder. The UN and WEF and so many other organizations are delivering the marching orders to all levels of government.
Things are ramping up for a war to distract people, power outages to cause more chaos and hunger and a project Blue Beam invasion by Hollywood aliens to tell the earth that a World War is unacceptable, and a one world government must be formed. That's my latest NWO script probability.
She was missing three fingers and part of her skull. Despite this, the Vancouver Police Department ruled that there was “insufficient evidence to suggest that her death was the result of a crime.”
WTF is the Vancouver police smoking? There is a dead body on a property that is missing three fingers and a part of the skull. Ummm. Is murder not a crime in Vancouver? What we have there is a bod dump, in my opinion. A dead mutilated female body. A the very least, it could be a rape gone bad, at worst, it's a kidnapping,/rape/homicide. In my little part of Texas, all three are crimes and just finding a body provokes an investigation. If the woman were Apache, Commanche, or Chiricahua it would demand an investigation.
Does Canada not care about its citizens at all?