David Ridgen
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60 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 9 Apr
David Ridgen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Jacqueline Furlan Smith, a 40-year-old former Canadian military trainer, moves to Costa Rica to follow her dreams, but in the summer of 2021, vanishes without a trace.
I'm David Ridgen and this is Someone Knows Something Season 10, The Jacqueline Furlan Smith Case.
Available now on CBC Listen and wherever you get your podcasts.
Nothing.
Are you kidding me?
Jacqueline Furlan Smith, a 40-year-old former Canadian military trainer, moves to Costa Rica to follow her dreams, but in the summer of 2021, vanishes without a trace.
I'm David Ridgen, and this is Someone Knows Something, Season 10, The Jacqueline Furlan Smith Case.
Available now on CBC Listen and wherever you get your podcasts.
Sea of Lies from Uncover · Uncover Introduces: Someone Knows Something Season 9 · 16 Nov 2024
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Hi there, I'm David Ridgen. I'm the investigator and host of Someone Knows Something. I want to tell you about someone named Christine Herron. Chrissy was a book-loving teenager from Hanover, Ontario. One afternoon in the spring of 1993, she said goodbye to her mother and left for school. Chrissy was never seen again. But in the aftermath of her disappearance, a suspect emerged.
Someone who I come face-to-face with. The new season is available right now. It's a story of murder and heartbreak and investigative error. Here's the first episode. Chrissy, have a listen. I'm at another river. This one flowing through a southwestern Ontario town on a clear but darkening springtime evening.
I recorded these nature sounds well over a decade ago for a TV documentary using the same microphone I now use for the podcast. This thing always seems to be standing between me and the unknown. Somehow oddly comforting.
The river's flowing clear, but there's lots of debris kind of pushed against the shoreline. There's obviously a pretty high floodplain here.
I remember focusing on the sounds these things made here. Chains on a swing, muddy logs at the high water mark, brushy grasses along the path, and that metal gate. I wonder if these objects, or the sounds they made, ever held any actual comfort for anyone. At one time, this park was Christine Herron's favorite place in the whole world, I've been told.
If I'd been here before May 18th, 1993, I might have seen her down here catching frogs or fishing.
The sounds I've recorded here don't reveal any secrets, but I feel pulled back to places like this again and again. Pulled back into long-term investigations, their grief and the hope. Even after some questions have been answered, there's always more, and more difficult ones. Over 30 years ago, just one week after her 15th birthday, Christine Herron disappeared.
And her full story has yet to be told. I'm David Ridgen, and this is Someone Knows Something, Season 9, The Christine Herron Case, Episode 1, Chrissy. I first learned about Christine in the late 2000s as I was scanning through some of the many unsolved cases out of Ontario. I was preparing to make a documentary series for CBC Television's news program, The National.
I sorted Chrissie's case into a much smaller pile, a short list of sorts, cases that for some reason spoke to me.
I'd learned that a memorial service was being held at a church 17 years after Christine disappeared, so I traveled west to Hanover in the springtime of 2010. Let us pray.
Framed photos of Christine in curly dark hair and glasses sit on a small table at the front of the church next to the minister. There are others, sad people whom I assume are her family, standing close by, including the woman that I know is her mother, Mary Ann.
This minister's words, his impressions of Christine, fill me with a chill of sadness. Tears suddenly roll down my face for this young person I'd never met. And right there, I decide that I'm going to do this case.
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