WANNA'BE COP KILLER-Dan Zupansky

for its bass fishing and its numerous hiking trails. The Bay of Fundy is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U. S State of Maine. The Bay of Fundy, on the southern coast of New Brunswick is famous for the highest hides in the world. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, or the RCMP, are Canada's Federal and National Police Service and are the police for Porta Peak and all other

small communities in the surrounding counties. You may have heard them referred to sin as mounties. A detachment is a section of the RCMP which polices a local area. There are fifty three detachments in Nova Scotia, with the nearest to Porta Peak being Truro which is twenty five miles away, and the Enfield Detachment fifty eight miles away from Porta Peak. Of some of the communities in the area of Porta Peak the RCMP service include Deebert, Wentworth, Millbrook, Glenholme, Onslow,

Hilden and Schuberenacticity. Gabriel Wartman was a fifty one year old denturist with a successful practice with two offices, one in Dartmouth and one in Halifax, where he regularly lived. He'd been married twice before and owned several properties in Porta Peak and other places. He was said by some neighbors to be a millionaire with a drinking problem. Others then encountered him while working found him mild mannered, and

one person even called him jovial. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, and with the government enforced increasing travel, work and personal restrictions, Whartman was not allowed to work at his clinics, so he was staying at his cottage in port A Peak with his longtime common law wife, who he also worked with at his clinics. Wartman grew up in neighboring New Brunswick, and in nineteen eighty six, when he graduated high school, his yearbook entry included Gabe's future may include being an

RCMP officer. He attended the University of New Brunswick and Fredericton in the late eighties. A fellow student there said, Gabriel always had a sadness about him. I don't know what his life later life, adult life was like, but I can tell you that at university people weren't nice to him. He was a little different, but he was beautiful and he really had a deep heart. But he

was the brunt of everybody's jokes. After university, Warpman began his career as a denturist and ran the Atlantic Denture Clinic in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, as well as one in the Halifax area. He divided his time between the two clinics. He was featured in a twenty fourteen CTV news story crediting him with helping provide dentures to a cancer survivor

whose medical coverage wouldn't cover the cost. He didn't grow up to be an RCMP officer like his yearbook entry predicted, but his biggest hobby became buying RCMP cars at auctions and restoring them. He also collected police memorabilia and even had acquired an official RCMP uniform. By fall of two thousand and nineteen, he now had purchased his fourth former police car and bought roof lights and siren for the car through an online auction, whereas he and his friends

then installed it. He then had an official looking RCMP police decal created by his neighbor and drinking buddy, Peter Allan Griffin, who in two thousand and seventeen was convicted of cocaine trafficking and weapons charges linking him with the La Familia drug cartel in Mexico. Whartman told some friends that the restored ARCMP car project was to be a type of tribute to fallen officers. Others he told if things went bad and he needed to get out of town,

he wouldn't be stopped in a police car. What some friends thought Wharpman was referring to was related to the coronavirus crisis. Whartman had felt it necessary in light of the ongoing declared pandemic, the stockpile food, firearms, and eight hundred dollars worth of gasoline. He also bought two handguns and two semi automatic rifles illegally. Warman was charged with assaulting a fifteen year old mail in Dartmouth in October two thousand and one, when he was thirty three years old.

Warman pled guilty to the single charge in October two thousand and two and received a conditional discharge, meaning that he wouldn't have a criminal record if he completed nine months of probation and paid a fifty dollars fine. He completed his probation successfully. In twenty ten, Wharman was investigated on claims he threatened his parents, Paul and Evelyn Whartman, but no charges were laid. Paul Whortman's brother Glynn, phoned Paul to tell him that Gabriel was threatening to come

to Monkton and shoot and kill them. Whartman reported the incident to the nearest RCMP detachment, and as a resultant officer interviewed Gabriel, who flatly denied his father's claims. No charges came as a result of the complaint. Paul Whartman told others later that he was also beaten by Gabriel during a vacation in Cuba, but never reported it. In May twenty eleven, RCMP and TRURO received an anonymous email that stated that Whartman had a cash of illegal guns

and wanted to kill a cop. That email tip was saved in Nova Scotia's RCMP records, but was removed after two years, as per their policy. In twenty thirteen, a neighbor of Whartman's called police to report that he had assaulted his wife and had illegal guns. Whartman's wife at the time, Lisa, would not make a complaint, and subsequently there were no charges. The neighbor moved after Whartman became more and more threatening to her over her call to

the ARCA. Whartman owned six properties and had a serious dispute for years with his uncle Glynn, over a property that Whartman refused to sign off his part ownership to, even after his uncle had paid him for it. The property was eventually sold to a woman named Lisa McCully. In late March, Whartman transferred money from his bank account to a Brinx facility. On March thirtieth, twenty twenty, he removed four hundred and seventy five thousand dollars in one

hundred dollars bills. He picked up the money driving one of his police cars. Airing on CBS the night of April fourteenth in the US and Canada from the producers of Law and Order was the new crime drama FBI Most Wanted. In the seventh episode, which aired was featured a leading character named Gabriel Clark, a small town cop of assessed with his girlfriend, who goes on a murder spree dressed in his police uniform, inevitably killing three police

officers and a civilian. As the man hunt for the killer cop gets close, he sets his farmhouse and then himself on fire. The audience learns that Gabriel Clark went on the killing spree because he was treated unfairly when he reported corrupt cops on the force. Evening of April eighteenth, twenty twenty, Whartman and his common law wife attended a small gathering nearby their cottage. There they argued about a video call Wharpman had made earlier with a female friend.

They left the party after arguing about the call, but it seemed that they had resolved the matter, so Whartman's wife went to bed. He soon woke her up, saulted her, put one of her hands in a handcuff, and dragged her to one of his Arcian Pea cars and put her in the back seat along some containers of gasoline. When he went back into the house, she managed to slip the cough off her wrist and escaped from the car by sliding through the plexiglass divider between the front

and back seats. She fled into the woods, where she hid. Whartman had destroyed her cellphone. Whartman, using his gas reserve, set on fire as cottage, a warehouse on the property, and three vehicles, including two of his former police cars. Whartman may have been looking for his wife when he went to the home of neighbors Greg and Jamie Blair, who he shot and killed while their children ten and twelve were in the home. Whartman then set their house

on fire, but the two children managed to escape. To the home of workmen's closest neighbor, forty nine year old elementary school teacher Lisa McCully. The children hid together in mccully's basement and called nine to one one, where they were connected with a civilian dispatcher at the RCMP's operational communication CeNSE in Truro. McCully was murdered when she went

outside to investigate. At ten pm, RCMP received a nine to one to one call about a shooting in rural Porta Peak, and when officers arrive at ten twenty five, they find several dead bodies outside on the road and in houses, with several buildings burning. They found victims in seven separate locations, some of them as police went from house to house to look for the suspect and check on residents. That prompted a massive emergency response, including helicopters,

Emergency Task Force officers and other forces. The search led to multiple buildings that were being consumed by fire and a series of seven murder scenes. Nine of the victims were neighbors of wartmen, Aaron Tuck, forty five years old, his seventeen year old daughter Emily, and his partner, forty year old Joline Oliver were shot and killed by Whartman. John Joseph Zal and his wife Elizabeth Joann Thomas's home was burned down by Whartman. They were later found dead inside.

Don Madson, a long time care home worker, and her husband Frank Gulanchin, were also shot and killed. Joy and

Peter Bond were also shot and killed. They lived less than a half a mile away from Whartman's loghouse, so it seems a small party gathering had ended and those that were there previously had gone back home and wherever the party originally was Warmon may have returned to that address, first killed the occupants, and then proceeded to those people's homes who had been there earlier in the evening, or he hadn't returned to the party and was instead simply

looking for his wife to kill her and anyone else that might think to harbor her. Forty two year old Corey Ellison from Truro was in port A Peak visiting his father and brother that Saturday night. Clinton and Corey Ellison heard a gunshot and saw the glow of a fire sometime after ten pm, and so his brother Corey went out to investigate Clinton and his father hadn't heard from his brother Corey after his original call to confirm he was near where the fire was, and so Clinton

went out looking for him. He soon found his brother Corey's dead body lying on the road. Elson said he ran into woods when he saw someone he thought was the killer walking nearby with a flashlight, and spent the next several hours there shaken and frightened, hiding in the woods,

hearing the continued sound of gunshots. That night, RCMP discovered two men that claimed they saw a man driving what looked to them like a police car who had drove alongside them and opened fire on the pair, wounding one of them. Police by this time had identify Wartmont as the likely killer, but given his cottage and property was on fire and they believed there being only one way

out of the community and they had it secured. Whartman they felt was either on foot and couldn't get too far, or was already possibly dead in one of the fires, they thought he might have killed himself. At eleven thirty five, RCMP's message on Twitter was for residents to stay inside

and lock their doors. Police then set up a search perimeter of one point two miles, believing Wartmont would have no possible way now out of port A Peak overnight, the RCMP did not give any updates via Twitter for eight hours, and it was confusion later by a by RCMP whether Wartmont was the driver of the police car the two witnesses reported. RCMP claimed that at one point in the evening Whartman had exchanged gunfire with police, and an overnight fire was reported in Wentworth, twenty six miles

north of Porta Peak. Police believed Whartman was acting alone was over Officers patrolled the streets and helicopters flew overhead, but residents in the area were fearful that the shooter might go through the woods and attempt to enter their homes. RCMP found victims in seven separate locations, some of them as police went house to house to look for the

suspect and check on residents. At ten thirty five, Whartman had already left the Porta Peak area through a field and made it to Deebert, thirteen miles away from Porta Peak. He arrived at a building in the Deebert Industrial Park at eleven ten and spent the night somewhere in Deebert RCMP and other law enforcement continued to search residents and properties throughout the night as fires continued and citizens shuddered

in their homes in fear of a deadly menace. Most of those residents not knowing what in the world had just happened. Workmen left Deebert near six a m. And drove on Highway four to a house where he knew the occupants. There, he executed Federal Corrections officers Sean McLeod, a second cousin of Peter Allen Griffin, and MacLeod's partner in Lanna Jenkins. He then set their home on fire. Their neighbor, Tom Bagley, and airport firefighter for thirty years,

heard an explosion and came over to help. He was shot and killed by Whartman. He then set the house on fire around the same time about seven am, Whortman's common law wife emerged from hiding in the woods and made it to a neighbor's house, where he calls nine one one. ARCMP arrived and she tells him that Whartman is wearing an RCMP uniform, has several guns, including two handguns and a military firearm, and is driving his near identical RCMP police car and provides them with a photo

of the car. She told police that he also liked to carry a police issue yellow vest in the front seat of his car to pass himself off as a cop. She told police that Wartman wasn't a police officer want to be. He didn't like police officers and thought he was much better than them. The RCMP release at be on the lookout for or BOLO to all RCMP officers in Nova Scotia with the photo of Wartman, a photo of his police car, and a warning that he was

wearing a police uniform. The RCMP at eight am posted on Twitter for the public that the Porta Peak situation involved an active shooter. At almost nine am, they post Whartman's photo and state that he is to be considered armed and dangerous. If you see him, do not approach. He's described as a white man, bald, six foot two

to six foot three with green eyes. The RCMP's decision not to use ready alert to notify residents was that the RCMP may have been afraid of sending an alert, in part because it could have put officers in jeopardy with armed members of the public looking to protect themselves, and also because their communications might have been paralyzed by having everyone in the public calling in about every police car they saw, so likely it was an extremely difficult

tactical decision that was made. At nine forty three, Wharptman encounter sixty five year old Lillian Hyslop walking on the along the Highway four in Wentworth and shoots and kills her. At nine forty eight, Whartman drives to the Glenholm area, where the residents at the house recognize him but don't answer the door, and he leaves. They call RCMP afterwards. At ten oh four, our MP tweet for people to avoid void Highway four in Glenholm as a shooter is

in the area. At ten oh eight, Whartman pulls over a car in Deebert and kills nurse Christian Beaton, mother of a three year old who is pregnant. He continues on Highway four and pulls over another motorists fifty five year old nurse Heather O'Brien, and shoots and kills her

in her car. At ten seventeen, RCNP on Twitter posts a photo of Whartman's almost identical police car, providing the car's external displayed number and stating for the first time that the killer, Whartman, is dressed as an RCNP officer in driving a police car. At ten twenty five, Wartman stops at Millbrook at their fire station and takes off his jacket and puts on his reflective vest, then continues

driving through the community of Hilden. At ten thirty, RCMP tweeted that the shooting saw suspect was in the dee

Bert in central Onslow area. About ten forty two RCMP officers showed up to a hall in Onslow being used as a registration center for evacuees from the man hunt and fired several shots at the building they had apparently mistaken the RCMP cruiser parked and an officer outside guarding the fire hall for Whartman, and fired numerous times at the officer, missing him but peppering the fire station with bullets as frightened police and evacuees inside scrambled for cover

after hearing the gunshots outside. By that time, Whartman was in Millbrook, about eight miles from Onslow. At ten forty nine, Constable Heidi Stephenson, a twenty three year RCMP veteran officer and Constable Chad Morrison were to be working in Enfield. Morrison was to meet up with Stevenson in nearby Shubenacadi, and when he spotted workman Whartman's car, he thought it

was her. Morrison found out otherwise when Whartman pulled up beside him and opened fire, wounding him, but Morrison managed to escape when shortly after Wharpman spotted Stevenson's car he rammed into her car head on. He got out and shot Stevenson, then dragged her out of the car and

shot her again, then took her gun and ammunition. Joey Weber, father of three, had gone out heading to shoe Beninacady to run a family errand a witness of some of the actual murder ind or of the car Whartman's set ablaze. Joey Weber is shot and killed by Whartman. He then steals his SUV tracker and continues his murderous journey. At eleven oh six, RCMP post on Twitter that the shooter is traveling south on Highway one oh two, but there

was some confusion in Truro. RCMP office descended on a Sobey's grocery store forty miles away an RCMP dispatcher had called the Truroa Police department to report that their suspect, Gabriel Whartman, was spotted at a grocery store in truro The municipal police force quickly asked all units to respond and assist RSMP at the store. At that point, Whartman was still believed to be driving a silver Chevy Tracker.

As RCMP had advised on Twitter a few minutes earlier, he has multiple weapons, the RCMP dispatcher warned Trureau police at eleven twelve am. Officers from TRUROAU reported back a few minutes later to say that the only thing they found at the grocery store was an RCMP emergency response team. Whartman then travels to an acquaintance of his, a fifty year old genturist, Gina Goulay. He shoots and kills her

and steals her Masda Thie. At eleven twenty three, Warpman, driving the Mazda three, stops at a gas station and then filled the gas up. At eleven twenty six, two RCMP tactical officers arrive at the same station to refuel. One very observant officer recognized warman, and before the gunman could respond, he was shot dead by the RCMP officer. Police found several firearms in the back seat of the

Mazda he was driving. The firearms included a rifle, another firearm described only as a semi automatic with the selector switch on fire, a pistol with one round of ammunition in the chamber, an empty magazine in one of the guns of which the hammer was cocked and safety was off, as well as boxes of ammunition and a green metal ammunition can in the front seat. Stevenson's police issued nine

men elimited pistol was also among the firearms. Paula Henrana left her work near the gas station in Enfield Sunday morning because she was concerned with the safety of her step granddaughter, who lived in Porta Peak. She pulled over to the side of the road when she saw dozens of police officers decked out in black vests surround the suv. One officer was on one knee on top of the vehicle and had his assault rifle pointed into the car

through the sun roof. Several others were laying down on their stomachs on the pavement with their rifles at the ready and appeared to be aiming at the front door of the Big Stop gas station. Overhead, she saw a helicopter fly by. Sirens blared in the distance. Over an hour earlier, at ten point fifteen am, Nova Scotia Provincial Emergency Management officials had contents acted the RCMP to offer them the use of the public emergency alerting system that

would alert people via their phones and televisions. RCMP and government officials were still in the process of preparing the alert when they got the news that Wartman had been shot and killed. News broke nationally about the mass killings after April twentieth, with more and more details being revealed as RCMP investigated fully twenty three dead, including the killer, three wounded, sixteen crime scenes, Porta Peak and Nova Scotia

residents were traumatized. The nation was shocked and desperate for information. Because of the coronavirus lockdown, journalists and their news agencies were slower to gather information and even get the correct tally of the total dead. The Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attempted to instruct the Canadian media not to print the mass murderer's name and photo, so as not to give him the infamy that he would certainly receive As a result, the Prime Minister responded with an immediate plan to ban

fifteen hundred types of semi automatic weapons for sale in Canada. However, of the four guns Wharpman had in his possession, none were obtained legally, and three of them originated in the US. The fifth gun that Wartman had was Constable Heidie Stevenson's stolen revolver. The gun controlled debate will renew with this case, regardless they did not have a license. But the debate over access to retired police cars and equipment is just starting.

Maybe decommissioned or former police materials should not be permitted to be owned or sold at all. At the very least, look alike police vehicles should have to be registered with the local police department and in this case the RCMP. Are there not serious questions in retrospect as to red flags for police or anybody. When someone other than a police officer wants to restore a police car making it look authentic, I would have asked what is the purpose

behind it? And especially now we can see that owning one of these vehicles could become an ideal vehicle an ideal vehicle for those with plans to murder. Whatever is decided, though, the discussion should be had because if this killer did not have an authentic looking police car, committing this carnage would not have been as easy and certainly not as desirable and dramatic a way for a psychopathic killer to

conduct an incredible and historic mass murder. Two police cars sat at his cottage, One RCMP car sat at his denturist office in Halifax. He had bought another at auction and fall of two thousand and nineteen. The RCMP knew at the beginning of the attacks that Whartman had three police vehicles. What they didn't know was that he had a fourth police car until Wharpman's common law wife told

them the next morning. After coming out of hiding. There were cries from Canadian journalists in the public for a federal inquiry as to what happened and the RCMP response to the mass murder. The RCMP were criticized immediately for not using the Nova Scotia Ready alert system and instead relying on Twitter alone to warden residence. As details emerged, Canadian journalists began discovering even more disturbing elements surrounding the

rampage that took twenty two lives. They found out about the RCMP's failure to rest, let alone contain Warpmen in the area that they thought they courted off the first night after he had killed thirteen already. They discovered the RCMP's failure to warn people even on Twitter by not offering details about the killer driving a police car wearing a police uniform until a little over an hour before

Warpman was ultimately shot. As part of their immediate and ongoing investigation, Arcy and PI found an acquaintance who said Wharpman had been in domestic conflicts in the past. John Hudson, who had known Warpman for about eighteen years, said he was sometimes openly controlling and jealous of his longtime girlfriend. I didn't see him hitting her anything like that, he said,

but I know they fought. Hudson recalled the bonfire party about ten years previous, when an argument between the two left the woman locked out of their home in port A Peak. I was with her trying to get her stuff out of there. He said, people been drinking and it was a crazy night and he didn't want her to leave, but he wouldn't let her in the house. At one point, Warpman removed the tires from the woman's vehicle and threw them in the ditch to prevent her

from leaving. So I went to get her clothes, and he said to me, I don't want anybody in my house. If you come in my house, I'm just telling you I've got guns in here. Reporter Paul Polango, an author of three books regarding the RCMP, wrote in McClain's magazine that his investigation uncovered ample evidence regarding the four hundred and seventy five thousand dollars withdrawal from Brinks that indicated

that Gabriel Whartman was an RCMP agent. Newspapers reported that Whartman was friends with certain Hell's Angels and had at least one gangland connection, and then some speculated part of the reason for the rampage was involved with Whartman's role with RCMP and the conditions of that undercover work for them, that being that eventually Whartman would have to testify against

those he gathered evidence about. Polango provides plenty of evidence support his assertions and makes a compelling argument the RCMP however, denied publicly that Wartman had any involvement at all with the RCMP and deny unequivocally he was an agent. There'll be more for journalists and authors to find, but likely

there'll be no definitive answers to so many questions. Twenty two killed, three wounded, and RCMP psychological autopsy was conducted and concluded that Warman was an injustice collector, holding on to grudges for perceived slights, insults, or bad business dealings. There were three categories of his victims, those he targeted for past injustices, those targets of his rage, and random

victims along the path. I know there'll be more to be said, also regarding the heroic behavior of Lisa McCully, who helped protect Greg and Jamie Blair's two small children, Sean MacLeod and Alana Jenkins, firefighter neighbor Tom Bagley who came to help when he heard an explosion and it was shot for his efforts, and Joey Weber outrunning a family errand, and it seems was a witness to certain moments of ARCMP Heidie Stevenson's murder and or the torching

of the two police cars. As a result, he was murdered and his SUV tracker stolen. According to Western University criminology professor Michael Aren't filled. He says, it also remains to be seen what effect the COVID nineteen lockdown had on the mass shooting, and you can't separate the two in terms of victimology. When else in history can people be predictably be found in their residence all at the

same time. So, even if we believe he was an RCMP agent, he was going to be found out by those he was informing on, and so he went on a final killing rampage. It doesn't explain all his police car and police memorabilia interest. For years previous to this

murderous rampage. The pandemic and its government orders to stay at home did offer an incredible opportunity for Whartman to know exactly where all his potential targeted victims were, with couples together and even three members of a family all at home together. But did Whartman actually see the CBS FBI Most Wanted episode with the Gabriel Clark character with all the incredible parallels to Wharpman's eventual murders arsons and

revenge on police. There seems to be too many coincidences not to and only four days previous to his murderous rampage. Many infamous serial killers have used some form of ruse involving their impersonation of police to control their victims to rape and kill them. This killer used the near identical police card to evade capture to try to kill Constable Chad Morrison and ultimately kill Constable Heidi Stevenson and others On Sunday. Two people Wharpman knew wouldn't let him in

their home and they were spared. They would have been numbers twenty three and twenty four. It was extremely good fortunate. The RCMP officer that had just arrived at the gas station in Enfield was very observant recognized Whartman, despite that Workman had stolen the MAS to three and was getting gas and not driving a police car as reported in the original Bolo or the Stolen sv Tracker that RCMP

had just recently tweeted, Wartman was now driving. Warman was heavily armed and had proven that he would kill police and any bystanders if given the chance, and he wasn't hesitant in lighting fires using gasoline. The RCMP officer shot Wartman dead at the busy gas station before he could respond with his own gunfire. We can only imagine the

furner carnage if he hadn't. Gabriel Whartman is to be considered a mass murderer, which is, by definition, the murder of more than four people in a short period of time and in a small geographical area without a cooling off period. The cooling off period is the key factor in classifying someone as a serial killer other than the mass murderer. RCMP have pondered, as well as journalists as to what exactly Gabriel Whartman did between the hours of eleven PM to almost six AM. I wonder as well.

I know from interviewing authors on this program for over ten years, and from my own experiences corresponding with psycho killer Sidney Chierhus, that a psychopathic pathic killer like Whartman was likely able to fall asleep in his car and get some well needed rest that night, for all the murderous plans he had for the next day, and with that true murder, listeners