Crimes, Killers, Cults and Beer: A True Crime Podcast · Dark Pass Productions

170 Marc Lepine: Canadian Misogynist and School Shooter

·1 hr 44 min

1. Crimes, Killers, Cults and Beer: A True Crime Podcast focuses on Marc Lepine, born Gamil Gubari on October 26, 1964 in Montreal, Quebec. 2. Bill hosts the episode with Kevin, who is acting as interim co-host and steering the case discussion. 3. The episode asks how a childhood shaped by abuse, bullying, and isolation led Mark Lepine toward violence. 4. Rashid Gubari is described as an abusive father who worked for himself, refused to stop a Caribbean business trip for his son's birth, and would later slap Monique at her desk. 5. Monique Le Pen, who had been a nurse and at one point a Catholic nun, was forced to leave nursing and work as her husband's assistant. 6. The hosts say Rashid believed women were inferior to men and beat Monique when she corrected paperwork or showed the children affection. 7. A 1970 incident at school led to ear damage serious enough that Mark needed surgery to repair his eardrum and inner ear. 8. After Monique separated from Rashid, the bank seized the house and everything in it when he stopped making mortgage payments. 9. Mark changed his name to Mark Lepine at 14 because other kids were bullying him over Gamil Gubari. 10. The episode links his name change, his father's behavior, and Monique's long work hours to Mark's growing resentment toward women. 11. Mark later said he felt "alone and isolated from the world" after his mother worked more and the children spent weekdays with other people. 12. Kevin and Bill connect that isolation to his bad acne, low self-esteem, and the way his younger sister Nadia mocked him at school. 13. Nadia was placed in a group home in 1981 because of drug use at about age 11, which the hosts describe as part of the family fallout. 14. Monique then enrolled Mark in a Big Brother program, where a mentor taught him motorcycles and photography and his grades improved. 15. That progress stopped when the mentor was removed after other children said he had molested them for years. 16. Mark later became intensely interested in World War II, the SS, ball-and-horror movies, and time in the woods with other boys. 17. He tried to join the army in 1981 but was found "unsuitable," and he later claimed the problem was that he had trouble accepting authority. 18. In 1982 he moved with his family to Saint-Laurent, then started a two-year science program and later switched to electronics technology for job placement. 19. By 1986 he had left home for his own apartment, visited École Polytechnique in Montreal, lost his hospital job for being insubordinate, and started talking openly about hating feminists and women in the workforce. 20. The tone is sarcastic and conversational, with Kevin doing host duties while Bill adds jokes, side comments, and personal comparisons. 21. Listeners who like abuse-to-radicalization case histories and Canadian true crime will get the most from this episode. 22. Listeners who want a short, restrained summary without banter may skip it.

As heard by us

A rough-edged true crime conversation that keeps the case front and center.

The episode settles into a grim blend of history and profane banter, and that is where it works best. The hosts keep the facts moving while drifting through maple syrup jokes, local asides, and a few absurd turns, yet the thread never fully slips.

Read the full review in PlayNext →

Why you'd press play

Press play if you want a profane, banter-heavy Canadian true-crime conversation with teeth.

Read the full recommendation in PlayNext →

Listen to the show on

Apple Podcasts Spotify