Leigh Alexander
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881 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jul
Leigh Alexander’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When the RCMP was first contacted by Sergeant Ben Finley around spring of 2014, they couldn't share any information about Vicious.
Because he was a minor, but also because the threshold to build and then try a case in Canada is just not the same as it is in the U.S.
At the time, Ben and his colleagues just didn't have enough of the right evidence.
But that didn't mean Gary and his colleagues didn't know exactly who Ben was talking about.
Vicious was arrested in both March and October of 2014.
which included staying off the internet, he wasn't supposed to have access to any computers either.
Obviously, he did not abide by those conditions.
At the time of those earlier arrests, the RCMP didn't understand the scale of what was happening.
Once the FBI were involved, they were able to work with Ben to gather the right kind of evidence for the RCMP so that together they could finally put a stop to Vicious' reign of terror.
But for all his victims, it felt too little, too late.
So many of the women my team and I spoke to in the making of this podcast said they felt their local police did not take their report seriously, that they were ignored at best, and at worst, essentially belittled by officers who told them to just log off or to be more careful online.
Even when the justice system did take action, in the eyes of the women who were targeted by Vicious, the consequences were pretty toothless.
Like his, in my mind at least, completely unenforceable ban from being online.
It left them completely vulnerable to another of his attacks.
It's something Sergeant Ben Finley can empathize with.
Ben's been a cop for decades, so he has a lot of respect for the justice system.
But he struggles to understand some of the decisions made around Vicious' previous arrests and releases.
This latest and hopefully final arrest might feel long overdue, but at least it's finally here.
Ben takes comfort in that.
Natasha, one of Vicious' earliest victims, who you met in Episode 4, had tried to seek help from her own local police department, but she didn't get anywhere.
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