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Taylor Samson’s mother, brother suing William Sandeson

by Zane Woodford December 8, 2022December 13, 2022

Samson disappeared in 2015, and Sandeson was charged with first-degree murder.

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A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents

PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

2020 MASS MURDERS

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

UNCOVER: DEAD WRONG

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

Tag: first-degree murder

Taylor Samson’s mother, brother suing William Sandeson

Halifax considers shrinking evacuation area, reports 151 homes lost in Tantallon fire

Travel, activity banned in Nova Scotia forests as three wildfires continue to burn

Meet the volunteers working to rescue pets from homes evacuated due to the Tantallon fire

Tantallon wildfire: blaze still ‘out of control,’ concerns about reburn, update on loss of homes

MP Rick Perkins plays the ‘Chinese’ canard