David Ridgen

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Sea of Lies from Uncover · Uncover Introduces: Someone Knows Something Season 9 · 16 Nov 2024 podcast

Sean and Marianne did pass their first polygraph tests, according to documents, and neither was ever arrested or charged in Christine's case.

There weren't many Christine Herron news reports to look at early on in my investigation. Items I could find talked about the local Hanover police making no headway in Christine's case, claiming even a year later that there was no evidence of foul play.

Even though Chrissy had left her house without her ID, any extra clothing, or the $80 in birthday money she had just received, police continued to suggest that she was a runaway, that there were sightings of her. Christine was in Toronto with skinheads who had been seen in Hanover.

She'd dyed her hair blonde and shaved the side of her head, or she'd left home to go live with her father Lorne out west. But she never appeared there, or Toronto, or was seen anywhere else again after May 18th, 1993.

Even if police weren't looking for Christine, Marianne and Sean were trying their best.

The media would report on these supposed sightings of Chrissy and help to generate more rumors. And to make matters worse, according to Mary Ann, the few articles that were written were often filled with inaccuracy.

Cindy and her father drove the roads that Chrissy might've traveled to get to their farm.

Cindy had spoken to Chrissy on the phone the night before she disappeared. They were planning the May long weekend where Chrissy was supposed to come to Cindy's farm.

Cindy says she spoke to police several times over the years and that sometimes they would insist that Cindy knew more, that she knew where Chrissy was. But she didn't. The best Cindy could do was tell police about what Chrissy was like, her routines and habits, certain places she liked to go.

It should be noted here that some feel Chrissy would be shy of strangers or even run away from them if she were alone.

I'm sitting in the passenger seat as Sean and Marianne give me a short tour of Hanover. Main Street, the river, the school, the park. Population about 7,700, Hanover rose and then fell as a furniture-making capital of Canada, with much of that business gone now overseas. A town at the time of her disappearance down on its luck, but where Chrissy called home.

Sean and Marianne moved not long after Chrissy disappeared to shelter themselves from what sounds like an onslaught of neighbors.

A brief flurry of police activity surrounded a call that a boy going into grade 10 named Mark Kuntz received in July 1993, a couple of months after Chrissy disappeared. The call, Kuntz told his parents and police, came from someone who said they were Chrissy. The girl on the other end said she was calling from a payphone and that she was near one of the abandoned factories in town.

The person on the phone said she had run out of money and asked Kuntz to meet her behind a shed near the school. She also told him that she wanted to have sex with him. Kuntz says the person sounded like Chrissy but when he went to the shed with police standing by, nobody appeared. Later that night, another call came in where the girl's voice asked Kuntz if he had told police.

He said he had and the voice said, thanks a lot and hung up. Koontz admitted later that he had previously received crank calls on other topics and also that he had not heard Chrissy's voice for well over a year and barely knew her or saw her even then.

In 1999, Hanover Police requested the assistance of the Ontario Provincial Police on Chrissy's case. At that time, a cataloging of the case was undertaken by the OPP and new interviews were conducted, along with re-interviews. DNA samples were taken from Mary Ann and a profile obtained for Chrissy from a tube of her lipstick.

A reward fund for $30,000 was renewed on the 10-year anniversary of Chrissy's disappearance. In 2003, one of the original investigating officers on the case, Stanley Edwards, is charged with several criminal offenses, including robbing a bank, forcible confinement, and sexual assault. None of the charges were connected to Chrissy's case.

Back at Marianne and Sean's place, I share some documents with them that the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General has sent me. The basic story that they tell is known to Marianne and Sean, but the crucial details have remained hidden and out of reach until now. Details about a local man named Anthony who had a frustrating night at an August 2004 party.

He'd had a few drinks and then confessed to killing Christine Herron. This season on Someone Knows Something, the Christine Herron case.

That was the first episode of the new season of Someone Knows Something, the Christine Herron case. You can listen to episode two right now on YouTube and everywhere you get your podcasts. You can also get the entire series by subscribing to CBC True Crime Premium on Apple.

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