Episodes
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Ep 1: Terror In Renfrew County
It was a beautiful fall day in Renfrew County, Ontario, when the first of three 911 calls came into the local police dispatch. The woman on the other end of the phone was screaming. A man had just shot her sister.
Then, a second call. A young man had just witnessed his mother being attacked by a gun-wielding man in their home. Finally, a third call. A local real estate agent had just found her client dead in her cottage, and it
looked like she had been strangled. Three women killed in less than two hours in a quiet rural community. Yet, it didn't take the police long to know who their number one suspect was.
He was a man who had a long history of domestic violence and abuse, but ultimately, nothing prevented him from enacting his ultimate revenge on the women who had stood up to him.
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Ep. 1: A Day At the Lake - The Mysterious Deaths of Karen and Krista Hart
It was an unspeakable tragedy - twin three-year-old girls had drowned at a local lake in Gander, Newfoundland while under the care of their father. Their mother was inconsolable but the police were perplexed. What really happened that day at the lake? Nelson Hart, the twin’s father would eventually be charged with their murders after confessing to an uncover investigator. But would the police tactics used to elicit that confession hold up in a court of law? Would justice be served for two innocent victims or would a killer go free?
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Ep 1: Monster In The Woods - The Crimes Of David Alexander Snow
In the summer of 1992, a dangerous sexual predator was on the loose in North Vancouver. Three young women had been sexually assaulted at gunpoint and two of the victims had been kidnapped. It was a race against time to find the woman and apprehend the suspect before he struck again. But Vancouver authorities really had no idea who they were hunting. The man they were after was a fugitive - a killer who had already left behind a trail of torture and murder in a small Ontario town. And he had no plans on stopping his reign of terror.
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Failing Zachary - A Murder Most Preventable
When David and Kate Bagby were told their 28-year-old son Andrew had been murdered they were devastated. Andrew was a well respected family doctor who had just begun his career after years of study. Now he was gone and his ex-girlfriend, another doctor, had been charged with his senseless killing. The Bagby’s felt they had nothing to live for and even contemplated suicide. But when they were told that the woman accused of killing their son was expecting their grandchild they knew they had to do everything to protect that baby. When the woman fled the U.S to Newfoundland they followed her and applied for custody of their unborn grandchild. But when their grandson finally arrived the courts and social services deemed his mother, an accused murderer, a fit parent. The decision of the “experts” would have dire consequences and leave a couple already grieving the loss of their son destroyed by another death that was entirely preventable.
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A Killer in the Family - The Murders of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook
In 1987, teenage sweethearts Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook set out from Victoria, BC for a one-night trip to Seattle. Tragically they were never seen alive again. Somewhere along their route they encountered a violent stranger who targeted the trusting couple. But who was this evil predator, and would he strike again? The killer had left his DNA at the crime scene but with limited forensic testing available in 1987, the double murder case went cold. Many years passed before advances in genetic testing gave investigators an exciting new approach to potentially finding the killer. Could a stranger’s DNA profile on a public ancestry database be the key to solving a double murder?
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Ep 1: Frozen Tears - The Murder of Dusty Bowers
She was just going to be a few minutes, so Julie Bowers decided to leave her sleeping 11-month-old son Dusty in his car seat in the back of her car when she went into the bank. It was the afternoon of January 14, 1988, a bitter cold day in Kincardine, Ontario.
When Julie returned to the car Dusty was gone. It was a parent’s worst nightmare – a missing child. But for the young mother it was just the beginning of a terrifying ordeal that would end in tragedy and an arrest. Accused of killing her own son, Julie Bowers would stand trial for murder while her hometown struggled to come to grips with the horrendous crime. Who left a baby to die in the snow? Secrets and accusations would fly but would the truth ever come out?
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A Sister’s Love: The Murder of Lynne Knight
When a young Canadian nurse is brutally murdered in a suburb of Los Angeles in 1979, the police are baffled by what the killer has left behind – a homemade garotte used to strangle the victim. They are certain the unique weapon will lead them to her killer. But without any other evidence the case eventually goes cold.
Years go by and a family in Stratford, Ontario is left to mourn their beautiful daughter, but the victim’s sister is not willing to let a vicious killer escape justice even if she has to write to the President of the United States.
Finally, a cold case team reinvestigates the murder and reexamines that unique homemade weapon. Fresh eyes find new evidence and the suspected killer is arrested and charged. But thirty-five years later can a jury be convinced of his guilt and will a determined sister and a grieving family finally get justice?
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Ep. 1: Sins Of The Son - The Disappearance Of Minnie Ford
When a well-to-do recently widowed mother disappears from her suburban home the police are baffled. She didn’t take any money or clothing, and no one has seen or heard from her in days. It’s 1963 in a city known as “Toronto the good,” and middle-aged women just don’t disappear. Rumors spread that she’s taken off with a new man to Florida but her family is convinced she would never leave her teenage son. But strangely that same 16-year-old son forgot to report his mother missing and doesn’t seem too upset over her disappearance.
It will take three long years before a battered body is discovered but it won’t take police investigators long to figure out who’s responsible for the missing mother’s grisly demise.
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Fake Nurse: The Story of Brigitte Cleroux
In the fall of 2021, hundreds of women in British Columbia received a letter from the B.C. Women’s Hospital. It informed them that during their recent time in hospital, they had been treated by a woman who had posed as a nurse without any qualifications.
Apparently, the imposter nurse had a long history of fraud, forgery and impersonation. Her real name was Brigitte Cleroux, and she had spent thirty years taking on nursing jobs and teaching positions, none of which she was qualified to do.
But what did this mean for the women who had been treated by her? Some had experienced extreme pain during their procedures -pain so bad procedures were called off. One woman lost sensation in both of her hands for two weeks as a result of Cleroux’s botched attempts to insert an IV needle. And others discovered they were given inappropriate medications, including Fentanyl.
After finally being arrested and charged in Ontario, investigators began to unravel a web of lies and deceit that spanned the country. Exactly how many patients were treated and possibly harmed by the fake nurse and how did Brigitte Cleroux fool so many for so long?
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Four people have vanished after the July 4th long weekend in New Jersey, but when the bodies of a middle-aged couple, are discovered, the missing person’s case quickly turns into a double homicide and the hunt for two killers.
Within days the son of the murder victims and his friend are arrested and charged with murder. Scott Franz claims he shot his stepfather in self-defense while his Canadian friend Bruce Curtis says he shot Scott’s mom by accident. Who will a jury believe, and will justice ultimately be served?
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Ep. 1: Nightmare In New Jersey - The Bruce Curtis Story
It was supposed to be a fun summer holiday. Nova Scotia teenager Bruce Curtis was going to spend the July 4th long weekend with his American friend Scott Franz. The two eighteen-year-olds had just graduated from a prestigious private school and were looking forward to hanging out together on the fabled New Jersey Shore. But while Scott bragged about being rich to his Canadian friend, the reality of his homelife is anything but. Scott lives with his mom and stepfather who is a violent man. He keeps loaded guns in the house and isn’t afraid to use them.
Within a couple of days, Bruce realizes that he and his friend need to leave the house in New Jersey before anything serious happens. They’ll drive back to Nova Scotia. But in one fateful moment, everything changes. Now four people are missing and blood stains in the house indicate a violent struggle. Now the local police aren’t sure if they’re investigating a murder, a kidnapping or both?
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Ep. 3: Evil In Paradise
In 1996 seventeen-year-old Rebecca Middleton from Belleville, Ontario was viciously raped and murdered in Bermuda. Two local men are arrested within days, but an inept criminal justice system has resulted in one of the accused taking a plea deal with a five-year prison sentence and the other being acquitted of murder. Rebecca’s family vows to never give up in their fight for justice, and the case finally attracts the attention of a famous London lawyer who also happens to be the wife of the British Prime Minister. But can an internationally renowned lawyer finally convince the Bermudian Supreme Court that a grave injustice has occurred and will anyone ever be held accountable for the young girl’s murder?
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Ep. 2: Evil In Paradise
A teenage girl from Belleville, Ontario is brutally murdered in Bermuda while on a summer vacation in 1996. Within days two local men are charged and the case against them seems strong. It doesn’t take long for one to flip on the other, so the Bermudian crown attorney’s office makes a plea deal. They’re willing to give up one to secure a murder conviction against the other. But when DNA evidence points to the wrong man on trial for murder, the prosecutors realize they made a deal with the devil. Can prosecutors save their case and secure a murder conviction or will the young girl’s vicious rape and murder go unpunished?
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Ep. 1: Evil In Paradise
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, two teenage girls from Belleville, Ontario were heading to Bermuda for a six-week summer vacation. The British Island Territory was a well-known and safe tourist destination. The two best friends were living in paradise, until something went terribly wrong.
After a late-night of drinking and partying, the girls get separated and only one of them makes it home. A frantic search of the island turns up nothing, but it doesn’t take long for the other girl to be found. She has been brutally attacked, raped and left to die in the middle of a road.
A Canadian family is left devastated, but their daughter’s heinous murder is only the beginning of their nightmare and a decade-long struggle to find justice in a foreign land.
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Ep. 2: Pushed To the Limit - The Jane Stafford Story
Jane Stafford is charged with the first-degree murder of her husband Billy after his headless body is discovered. Jane admits to shooting him but claims it was in self-defence after he threatened to kill their neighbours and her son. Her trial gains nationwide attention because her defence rests on battered women’s syndrome. The jury will hear of the horrific abuse she and her young son suffered for over six years at the hands of her violent husband and how she believed he would eventually kill her. The jury will have to decide if Jane deserves to be sent to prison but regardless, Jane will have to live with what she did for the rest of her life. What price will she ultimately pay for striking back and speaking out about domestic violence?
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Ep. 1: Pushed To the Limit - The Jane Stafford Story
When a headless corpse is found on a deserted dirt road in rural Nova Scotia the local RCMP are certain it’s the body of the town’s resident bully, Billy Stafford. He’s been a thorn in the cop’s side for years and they doubt anyone is going to miss him but they still need to figure out who pulled the trigger.
When Billy’s common-law wife Jane is arrested three days later she quickly confesses but claims she was acting in self-defence. After six years of unimaginable abuse and fearing for her life, Jane finally snapped.
Her story will make headlines across the country and ignite a much-needed debate about domestic violence and how the Canadian criminal justice system deals with abusers and their victims. Was Jane justified in her actions and what price will she ultimately pay for fighting back?
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Ep.1: Barwin’s Babies
For decades Dr. Norman Barwin was revered as a miracle worker. His specialty for helping women and couples who had issues with conceiving their own babies earned him the nickname The Baby Whisperer.
The walls of his offices at the Broadview Fertility Clinic in Ottawa were covered with photos of the babies that resulted from his treatments.
But in the early 2000s, his reputation would begin to unravel. It started with two lawsuits that exposed major issues with how sperm was allegedly mixed up because of lax standards in his clinic. Children were conceived using sperm that was not that of the chosen donors.
And when those lawsuits brought further scrutiny from couples and the children conceived through his lab, a shocking betrayal would unfold, resulting in the loss of his license to practice medicine, and a multi-million dollar class-action lawsuit.
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Ep. 2: Trail of Pain - The Crimes of Albert Johnson Walker
The British police have just arrested a man and his wife for suspected identity theft and possible murder. The man has been using the name of his friend who turned up dead in a fisherman’s net off Devon, England. But it turns out that identity fraud and murder are just the tip of a very extensive web of lies and deceit that goes back many years.
The English police have nabbed #4 on Interpol’s most wanted list and his real name is Albert Johnson Walker. He’s been missing from Canada for six years along with his fifteen-year-old daughter Sheena. But since disappearing together the father and daughter have been living as husband and wife and she has given birth to two children.
Albert Walker will stand trial for murder but will his daughter testify against him? And if she does what dark family secrets will finally be revealed?
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Ep. 1: Trail of Pain - The Crimes of Albert Johnson Walker
On a sunny July day in 1996 off the coast of Devon, England, a fisherman and his son caught something very unusual in their net. It was a dead man! He was fully clothed but had no identification. Yet, strangely he was still wearing an expensive Rolex watch. Tracing the timepiece’s unique serial number, the police identify the drowned man. But his identity only leads to a stranger mystery when it’s discovered that the man’s best friend has stolen his identity. Now the British police have two men with the same name and one of them ended up dead. Who is the imposter and what other secrets is he hiding? The truth will leave even the most experienced criminal investigators reeling!
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Hockey Night to Remember: The Life of Brian “Spinner” Spencer
He was a kid who learned how to skate practically before he could walk. Born and raised in a
small northern Canadian town, Brian Spencer had a dream that one day he would make to the
National Hockey League. It was an irresistible desire that came with a lot of sacrifice for him
and his dad Roy. But their hard work and determination finally paid off when Brian was drafted
by the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1969.
Sadly on the night Brian was to make his Hockey Night in Canada debut, tragedy would eclipse
the momentous event. Brian’s NHL career would be forever overshadowed by what happened
on that fateful night and his life after hockey would descend into a world of darkness and
despair that he could never recover from.
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