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Helen Escott
May 102 min read
Helen C. Escott’s Operation Series optioned for film and TV
Helen C Escott’s five-book Operation Series published by Flanker Press has been optioned by Rink Rat Productions for film & TV
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Helen Escott
Oct 3, 20232 min read
Time to cozy up to fall fiction
Exciting things are happening in October! Operation Masonic Walking Tour Go back to the scene of the murder! Sun, Oct 15, 2023 3:00 PM -...
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Helen Escott
Apr 13, 20232 min read
Local Author Finalist for Best Book in Atlantic Canada
Award-winning author Helen C. Escott has been announced as a finalist for the 2023 Best Atlantic-Published book award by the Atlantic...
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Helen Escott
Nov 18, 20221 min read
Out of the Fog
Host Don-E-Coady invites Crime Author Helen Escott. Eye Physician & Surgeon Dr. Christopher Jackman. Michael Wahl, Host of the WAHL Show....
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Helen Escott
Oct 25, 20223 min read
I'm in the jailhouse now: Memories from the front line
When Gerald Leahy joined the RCMP in his home province of New Brunswick in 1956 he was thrilled when first posted to Newfoundland. "I was...
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Helen Escott
Oct 19, 20224 min read
Remembering the good old days of policing
Chief/ Supt. George Powell: Remembering the good times When reminiscing about his policing career with family, friends and fellow...
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Helen Escott
Oct 12, 20224 min read
From being shot to meeting Joey Smallwood, it was a great 36 years!
When Murray Evans joined the RCMP 56 years ago, recruiters were as interested in his physique as they were his intelligence. The boy from...
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Helen Escott
Oct 3, 20225 min read
Constable Ken Ellis: From the historic Badger Riot to the night that changed his life
As a young man, the only thing Ken Ellis wanted to be was an RCMP officer. That dream came true on May 05th, 1958 when he went to...
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Helen Escott
Aug 5, 20224 min read
RCMP Second Man Award
On Dec 21, 2013 the RCMP in Newfoundland and Labrador honoured twenty-two women in recognition of their support and unpaid services while...
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Helen Escott
Aug 3, 20212 min read
Operation Trafficked -Human trafficking stops when men stop buying women and children for sex
It is possible to get away with murder if you kill people whose lives are already devalued by society. Operation Trafficked takes you...
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Helen Escott
Jul 21, 20214 min read
Crash and burn - But he always walked away. The Staff Sgt. Bob MacKinnon story
September 21, 1971 was a beautiful day. Twenty-five-year-old Cst. Bob MacKinnon had almost six years in the Force when he was called into...
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Helen Escott
Feb 23, 20214 min read
Rose Marie Russell-Coffey: Rose Marie of the Mounties
Constable Rose Marie Russell-Coffey made history in 1975 when she became the first female RCMP police officer in Newfoundland and...
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Helen Escott
Feb 23, 20216 min read
Anne James: Telecoms Operator – Always the calm in the storm
When Anne James was living in her hometown of Bishop’s Falls, her brother was friends with an RCMP member. At the time she was working...
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Helen Escott
Feb 23, 20216 min read
Inspector Trudy Murray: The longest serving female RCMP police officer in Canada
Trudy Murray waited patiently for the announcement that came on May 23, 1974. RCMP Commissioner Maurice Nadon told the country that the...
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Helen Escott
Jan 28, 20214 min read
S/Sgt. Gail Courtney – Still Blazing Trails in Retirement
The women joining the Royal Canadian Mounted Police today can’t even begin to imagine what the first women experienced: The fun, the...
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Helen Escott
Jan 28, 20214 min read
Cst. Cheryle LaFosse: The first Sworn RCMP Female
Constable Cheryl LaFosse grew up in a policing family. Her father was RCMP Supt. Jack LaFosse who joined the Newfoundland Ranger Force in...
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Helen Escott
Nov 11, 20201 min read
Helen C. Escott to launch memoir from Engen Books!
Helen C. Escott, the bestselling, award-winning author behind Operation Wormwood, The Reckoning, Operation Vanished, and, In Search of...
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Helen Escott
Oct 20, 20205 min read
Are UFO’s Observing RCMP Officers in NL?
UFO’s are no strangers to Newfoundland and Labrador. As a matter of fact, the UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) are quite frequent CFAs...
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Helen Escott
Sep 28, 20203 min read
We must be vigilant when it comes to stopping the sexual abuse of children
I find it disturbing that celebrities who know nothing about the culture of Newfoundland and Labrador, will come here to sit on an ice...
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