MURDERED: Helen Betty Osborne

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The discovery of 19-year-old Helen Betty Osborne’s body should have outraged the residents of The Pas, Manitoba. Yet, the truth of what happened to her, and who killed her, would remain an open secret for years. But, like all secrets, what happened that night eventually came to light – and upended over a decade of sinister silence.

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0:00.0	Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers. And I'm Brett. And the story I have for you today is about how a young woman's senseless and violent murder shone a light in all the darkest parts of one small northern Manitoba community. And it put a whole town on trial. It's a story that is just as important to hear today as it was over 50 years ago when it
0:22.9	happened. And it feels all too familiar even in 2025. This is the story of Helen Betty Osborne.
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0:47.3	I'm It's a cold gray morning in November 1971, and a 14-year-old named Kenneth is fishing with his father on Clearwater
1:12.5	Lake in northern Manitoba.
1:14.7	And, of course, by fishing when you're a kid, I mean, he's like sitting there and sitting
1:18.9	there.
1:19.4	He's not moving.
1:20.3	He's not talking.
1:21.0	It's for hours.
1:21.9	He's like just hoping they might get a fish.
1:24.7	So you can imagine Kenneth gets kind of antsy. So he tells his dad that he's just
1:29.0	going to go for a walk, see if he can find any rabbit tracks in the snow or something like that.
1:33.9	Now, it's about 11.30 in the morning, and Kenneth is next to this pump house on his way back
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