{"id":12935,"date":"2012-01-06T12:33:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T17:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12935"},"modified":"2012-01-06T12:33:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T17:33:32","slug":"weird-local-story-gets-a-bit-weirder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/06\/weird-local-story-gets-a-bit-weirder\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird local story gets a bit weirder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Pickering, about 20 kilometres west of here, the regional police found that an abandoned home had been modified to add a &#8220;confinement room&#8221;. It&#8217;s in a fairly secluded area, so there were no immediate leads to who had made the modifications or who (if anyone) had been confined in it. Today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/01\/06\/pickering-dungeon-house-with-mysterious-confinement-room-burns-to-the-ground-in-suspicious-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>National Post<\/em><\/a> reported that the &#8220;dungeon house&#8221; has burned to the ground:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An abandoned Pickering farmhouse that was found to have padlocked dungeon in its basement burned to the ground early Friday morning, adding an unexpected twist to an already bizarre police investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A fire broke out at 140 Concession Rd. 7 outside of Pickering shortly after midnight and soon consumed the desolate building where police had been carrying out an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Before the blaze, police were trying to determine who built the \u201cconfinement-style\u201d room with padlocks affixed to the very thick door, discovered in late November when crews went in to assess the building that had been scheduled for demolition.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the house was last occupied in 2006, but the room was new &mdash; believed to have been built within the last year or two.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t get into what was in the room, but the way it was constructed &mdash; the time and effort put into it and the materials used &mdash; clearly indicated it was a room designed to hold somebody in,\u201d Durham Regional Police Detective Darren Short said last month.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Pickering, about 20 kilometres west of here, the regional police found that an abandoned home had been modified to add a &#8220;confinement room&#8221;. It&#8217;s in a fairly secluded area, so there were no immediate leads to who had made the modifications or who (if anyone) had been confined in it. Today, the National Post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,73],"tags":[343,98,207],"class_list":["post-12935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-randomness","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-police","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3mD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12936,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935\/revisions\/12936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}