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S23 E9: Six More Months | "The Pit"

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A last minute decision puts the trial on hold for another six months. Sheree's family is shocked, and Greg is still in jail. Why would Greg's lawyers ...

S23 E10: The case against Greg | "The Pit"

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Prosecutors and police reveal their evidence against Greg, including blood DNA and cell phone data. They build a timeline of the day Sheree disappeare...

S23 E11: Testimony | "The Pit"

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Greg's children testify against him in court. Police reveal what set the Mr. Big operation in motion, as observers consider whether the judge will acc...

S23 E12: Just between you and me | "The Pit"

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Mr. Big illusion is lifted. Greg's so-called friends turn out to be cops. As details of the elaborate web of deception are revealed in court, we h...

S23 E13: New Evidence | "The Pit"

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A rural couple makes an unusual discovery under a shed and is called to testify in court. Greg forces his own lawyers to make a difficult decision. Th...

S23 E14: Grievances | "The Pit"

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Greg explains why he thinks he’s the victim. As witnesses are questioned again, Greg appears in court on another matter. The judge gives a stern les...

S23 E15: Voir Dire | "The Pit"

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The judge finally rules on what evidence he’ll consider at the trial. The Crown and Greg must decide how to proceed. 

S23 Update: Greg makes his case | "The Pit"

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Greg calls some familiar faces as witnesses. The defence and Crown make their closing arguments. The judge announces a date for his final decision.

S23 E16: Decision day | "The Pit"

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Justice Richard Danyliuk shares his detailed decision in court. He doesn't mince words. The ruling hits hard for Sheree’s friends and family.

S23 E17: The final act | "The Pit"

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Questions arise around what’s next for Greg. Others look for ways to prevent deaths like Sheree’s from happening again. Friends keep Sheree’s me...

Uncover Introduces: Earwitness from Lava for Good

18 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One July night in 1995, Deputy Sheriff William G. Hardy was shot behind the Crown Sterling Suites hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time as th...

Uncover Introduces: Gay Girl Gone

15 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Of all the young revolutionaries in Syria during the Arab Spring, Amina is different. An out lesbian in a country where homosexuality is illegal, she ...

Uncover Introduces: Crime Story

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fraud. Abduction. Murder. Every week, Crime Story host and investigative journalist Kathleen Goldhar goes deep into a tale of true crime with the stor...

Introducing: The Pit

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What happened to Sheree Fertuck? CBC journalists Alicia Bridges and Victoria Dinh shed light on her disappearance which has served as a haunting examp...

Uncover Introduces: Someone Knows Something | Season 8

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Host David Ridgen joins victims' family members as they investigate cold cases, tracking down leads, speaking to suspects and searching for answers. I...

S22 E1: The Gun | "The Band Played On"

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's the summer of 1985. Peter Hamer is a typical, goofy teenager partying with his friends. They're drinking beer and coolers. Then he invites his mu...

S22 E2: The Coach | "The Band Played On"

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The coach was successful, charismatic and powerful, and in 1968 he treated student Rob Ferron like he was special. Years later, Madeleine Glaus discov...

S22 E3: The Dance of the Lemons | "The Band Played On"

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1986, Peter Hamer told a school administrator about his vulgar, abusive music teacher. Soon, the teacher was gone. Other adults had known what was ...

S22 E4: The Crush | "The Band Played On"

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On a clear spring day in 2017, witnesses call 911 to report a fiery car crash. The driver of the car is a high school music teacher who’d been facin...

S22 E5: Face the Music | "The Band Played On"

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A predatory music teacher has his day in court, and victims are there to watch. When Peter Hamer tried to reveal his secret decades ago, authorities f...

S22 E6: The Demon Inside | "The Band Played On"

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When the court documents are finally unsealed, they reveal a disturbing portrait of a sex offender who began preying on students in the late 1960s. Au...

S22 E7: No More Secrets | "The Band Played On"

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There's a confrontation as a victim demands accountability from the institution he says failed them all. Meanwhile, the drama heads back to court, wit...

Introducing: The Band Played On

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Investigative reporter Julie Ireton unravels a complicated web of five decades of historical sexual abuse involving dozens of teens. They were preyed ...

S21 E1: Bitter Pill | "The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman"

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What does a Philadelphia junk artist have to do with the deaths of a wealthy Canadian pharma giant and his philanthropist wife? Maybe nothing, but it’...

S21 E2: The Smartest Man I Ever Met | "The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman"

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Shermans’ funeral is weird, the list of eulogists long, and it’s attended by Canadian boldface names. But ask anyone who knew Barry Sherman an...

S21 E3: The Scorpion | "The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman"

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

To get ahead in the generic drug industry you need to be focused, hard-nosed and fearless. Especially because half the battle is taking on one of the ...

S21 E4: The Winters are Coming | "The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman"

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It is no secret that some family members wanted Barry Sherman dead. And no one had a bigger grudge against Barry than his first cousins, Kerry Winter ...

S21 E5: Just Skate | "The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman"

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If Honey Sherman showed up unannounced at her favourite hair salon and someone was in her chair — that person got moved pretty darn quickly. Honey w...

S21 E6: It's Complicated | "The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman"

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The lack of justice, or any resolution, has left a void in this story that has been filled by online sleuths, investigative reporters, nosey neighbour...

S21 E7: My Blood is Yours | "The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman"

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After a notorious 2018 interview on CBC television, Kerry Winter became a familiar figure in the tale of the Shermans’ deaths. “The Cousin Did It”...

S21 E8: Thin Lines | "The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman"

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After our year-long investigation, in this final episode we revisit the murder/suicide theory. That misstep set the whole investigation off on the wro...

Introducing: The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman, journalist Kathleen Goldhar looks into the lives and deat...

Bonus: The Set from Audacy Originals

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the crack era.The most violent time in New York City history. The NYPD is fighting a losing battle and instead of protecting the city from drug...

Introducing: The Africas VS. America

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

To those that remember, it’s known simply as the bombing of West Philly. In the spring of 1985, the City of Philadelphia became the first in U.S. hi...

S20 "The Africas VS. America" E1: Mother's Day

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the early hours of May 13, 1985, police direct residents of Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia to leave their homes, and not return for 24 hours. It...

S20 "The Africas VS. America" E2: The Making of John Africa (GI John)

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A quiet and reclusive young man is conscripted to war in Korea and returns having been made anew. Vincent Leaphart becomes the enigmatic John Africa, ...

S20 "The Africas VS. America" E3: The Toughest Cop in America

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

By the 1970s, both local and federal law enforcement have perfected a system to subvert and neutralize Black liberation movements across the United St...

S20 "The Africas VS. America" E4: The Commissioner’s Gambit

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Complaints from neighbours about MOVE’s lifestyle lead to increasingly violent clashes with police. One confrontation turns deadly, and by 1978, rel...

S20 "The Africas VS. America" E5: The System on Trial

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The MOVE 9 are catapulted into the international spotlight, facing more than 900 years between them for the death of Officer James Ramp — a crime fo...

S20 "The Africas VS. America" E6: Hellfire

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1983, the City of Philadelphia elects its first Black mayor as successor to Frank Rizzo. Woodrow Wilson Goode inherits Rizzo’s fight against MOVE...

S20 "The Africas VS. America" E7: Elegy

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After a commission finds that city officials and police were negligent in their actions on May 13, 1985, a reeling city looks to heal, and surviving m...

S20: Why & how Matthew Amha chose to tell the story of MOVE — On stage at Hot Docs

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this live discussion from the Hot Docs festival, Africas VS. America host Matthew Amha joins Falen Johnson on stage to speak about the stories jour...

S19: "Run, Hide, Repeat" E1: Don't Tell

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s 1971 and Ruth Dakin is going through a messy divorce and fears for the future of her young children, Pauline and Ted. She meets Stan Sears, a U...

S19: "Run, Hide, Repeat" E2: On The Run

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Now a teenager living in Saint John, the secrecy and unexplained moves wear Pauline down. Eventually she graduates and starts a career in journalism t...

S19: "Run, Hide, Repeat" E3: The Weird World

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Based on her mother and Stan’s stunning revelations, Pauline and her brother Ted start sifting through their childhood memories and matching them to...

S19: "Run, Hide, Repeat" E4: Saving Mom

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pauline is struggling with doubts — the details of her family’s secret seem outrageous. But why would Stan and her mother lie to her? Pauline set...

S19: "Run, Hide, Repeat" E5: Stan's World

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pauline sets out to understand Stan’s mind and motives. She meets up with his son, John, who has some very strange stories of his own. And Pauline f...

S18: "Pressure Cooker" E1: Project Souvenir

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Police intercept two homegrown – and very peculiar – extremists intent on murder and mayhem at a national holiday festival. Pressure cooker bombs....

S18: "Pressure Cooker" E2: The Mysterious Uncle Abe

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meet the misfit suspects behind the foiled attack. Learn how they fell down a rabbit hole of conspiracy, hate and terror. And how they crossed paths w...

S18: "Pressure Cooker" E3: Point of No Return

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

John and Amanda’s struggles with addiction complicate their fledgling plot. Will these oddballs be able to pull off an attack? Police spending escal...

S18: "Pressure Cooker" E4: Ticking Time Bombs

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

John and Amanda are losing their grip on reality, frustrating Abe and his shadowy accomplices. John has doubts and asks for spiritual guidance from an...

S18: "Pressure Cooker" E5: Trapped

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

John and Amanda piece together their shattered reality while facing a possible lifetime in prison. As the full picture of Project Souvenir emerges in ...

S18: "Pressure Cooker" Bonus: Finding Kaz

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A mystery lingers about what role Canada's spy agency may have played in John and Amanda's case. The puzzling character known as Kaz could be the key ...

S17: "The Kill List" E1: Death of an Icon

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A leading human rights activist is found dead. Many immediately suspect murder. The assassinations of dissidents like her have become commonplace in P...

S17: "The Kill List" E2: A Death in Sweden

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Months before Karima’s death, another prominent Baloch dissident is found drowned in a river in Sweden. Sajid Hussain had also fled Pakistan to star...

S17: "The Kill List" E3: The Dissident Club

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mary meets those who have been told they are on a kill list. Exiles from Pakistan have sought safety through the Western world. But do they remain in ...

S17: "The Kill List" E4: ‘I am not a terrorist’

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We learn about Karima’s final days from those closest to her, including a man who’s finally ready to speak. After escaping death in Pakistan, what...

S17: "The Kill List" E5: Living Ghosts

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We follow Karima’s dramatic return to Balochistan — where even in death, she’s considered a threat. And hear from those in her homeland still wi...

S17: "The Kill List" E6: The Pier

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

New documents, witnesses and a renowned forensic scientist all lead to the same, unsettling conclusion about what really happened to Karima. For tran...

Introducing: Kuper Island

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Long after the Kuper Island Residential School was torn down, the survivors are still haunted by what happened there. Investigative reporter Duncan Mc...

S16: “Kuper Island” E1: A School They Called Alcatraz

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Duncan McCue travels to Penelakut, an island off the coast of B.C., and the site of the Kuper Island Residential School. The community has torn down t...

S16: “Kuper Island” E2: Nights on the Boys’ Side

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What was it like to be a student at one of the most notorious residential schools in Canada? Survivors James and Tony Charlie share their own account ...

S16: “Kuper Island” E3: Sink or Swim

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Survivor Belvie Brebber tells us about her five years at Kuper Island Residential School, a time filled with fear, cruelty and sexual violence. Belvie...

S16: “Kuper Island” E4: What happened to Richard?

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Thomas was smart, kind and well-loved. He was having no problems in school and he wanted to go further in education. Then inexplicably, days b...

S16: “Kuper Island” E5: Feeding the Dead

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

An archaeologist uses the stories of survivors and a ground-penetrating radar machine to pinpoint where children who died at the Kuper Island school w...

S16: “Kuper Island” E6: It Didn't Feel Like Justice

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We explore what really happened during a 1990s RCMP task force investigation triggered by the high number of allegations of sexual abuses at the Kuper...

S16: “Kuper Island” E7: Hurt People Hurt People

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The children who attended Kuper Island Residential School faced a terrible aftermath trying to process what happened. The abuse they suffered there of...

S16: “Kuper Island” E8: Every Child Matters

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The team tracks down the last person to ever see Richard Thomas alive at Kuper Island Residential School. Donnie Sampson was just 10 years old at the ...

S15: "The Village 3" E7: Atonement

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Years of sustained pressure finally pay off as the policing culture shifts to include activists’ input into their investigations. For transcripts o...

S15: "The Village 3" E6: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When one of its priests is found murdered in Montreal, the Anglican Church has to publicly reckon with its sins. For transcripts of this series, plea...

S15: "The Village 3" E5: Out With Them All

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Faced with a deadly disease, surrounded by death, AIDS activist Roger Leclerc resorts to controversial tactics to confront discrimination and violence...

S15: "The Village 3" E4: A Murder is a Murder is a Murder

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A married man is murdered while on a business trip in Montreal. The case highlights the challenges of investigating the murders. Delayed investigation...

S15: "The Village 3" E3: Chicken Little

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Montreal, 1991 – Fearing a serial killer, activists decide to take matters into their own hands. For transcripts of this series, please visit: http...

S15: "The Village 3" E2: Sex Garage

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Scores of police remove their badges and slip on rubber gloves before beating and arresting queer partygoers in downtown Montreal. The violence escala...

S15: "The Village 3" E1: La Vie en Rose

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Rose, a queer activist living with AIDS, is murdered in cold blood on a city bus. So public, so brutal – the city is shocked. The killing become...

Introducing: The Village: The Montreal Murders (Trailer)

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A sneak peek into season three. Montreal in the 90s was a great time, but it had a dark side. For many men, being in – or out – of the closet duri...

S15: "The Village 3" E0: Return to The Village

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Justin hands over the season to Francis at Parc de L’Espoir, the memorial to people who died from HIV/AIDS in Montreal’s gay village. We’re goin...

Uncover Introduces: Someone Knows Something: The Abortion Wars

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Host David Ridgen joins victims' family members as they investigate cold cases, tracking down leads, speaking to suspects and searching for answers. I...

S9 "Evil By Design" E9: Nothing Sticks

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

New criminal charges have been laid against Peter Nygard. New survivors have come forward. And much older allegations have surfaced. But for accusers ...

S14: "Boys Like Me" E1: A Moment of Silence

07 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hours after a deadly van attack in Toronto, the media starts hunting for clues. One of those clues leads to a surprise phone call and a shocking disco...

S14: "Boys Like Me" E2: A Supreme Gentleman

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Evan and Alek are in the same special-needs program in high school, where they’re both bullied and ostracized. But while Evan tries to break out of ...

S14: "Boys Like Me" E3: Boys Will Be Boys

05 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alek frequented incel sites for years, lurking in forums that celebrated or even encouraged the kind of attack he’d go on to commit. What draws youn...

S14: "Boys Like Me" E4: A Soldier for the Cause

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Evan shares a troubling period from his past and reflects on the different paths he and Alek took. What pushes someone to kill in the name of an ideol...

S14: "Boys Like Me" E5: Welcome to the Manosphere

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Incels are only part of the threat. Ellen speaks with a woman who spent years undercover among a vast network of online communities — among them so-...

S13: "White Hot Hate" E1: 'Save Your Race, Join The Base'

31 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When recruitment posters for a white supremacist network start appearing around town, Winnipeg Free Press journalist Ryan Thorpe decides to go underco...

S13: "White Hot Hate" E2: 'Best of Both Worlds'

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A tipster reveals that Patrik — who talked about derailing trains and setting off explosives — was a member of the Army Reserve. Does the military...

S13: "White Hot Hate" E3: Hate Camps

29 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Outed as a member of The Base, Patrik Mathews disappears. His abandoned truck is discovered near the Canada-U.S. border. He could be heading to a trai...

S13: "White Hot Hate" E4: 'It only takes a few'

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Some members of The Base are planning deadly attacks that they hope will spark a race war. Will they be stopped, before it's too late? For transcript...

S13: "White Hot Hate" E5: The ‘Network Administrator’

27 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We speak with ‘Roman Wolf,’ the founder of The Base. Who is he really? Why did he start a white supremacist network? And with half a dozen members...

S13: "White Hot Hate" E6: 'Give them what they deserve'

26 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Patrik Mathews could be facing up to 25 years in prison for U.S. firearm offences. His and others’ arrests may have destroyed the appeal of accelera...

S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E1: The Body

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Upon checking into a luxury resort in India, Gerald Cotten complains to staff he’s feeling ill. He and his wife are taken to a hospital and within 2...

S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E2: Hunting Ghosts

12 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

QuadrigaCX collapses and there’s widespread panic. An online sleuth searches for answers through a tangle of websites, hidden identities and a trail...

S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E3: Cracks in the Empire

11 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gerald Cotten and his business partner, Michael Patryn, launch QuadrigaCX on Boxing Day, 2013. There’s hype in the budding Bitcoin community and the...

S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E4: Voleur

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Despite Michael Patryn’s denials that he’s a fraudster named Omar Dhanani, customers aren’t buying it. They’re demanding proof. A mugshot. A s...

S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E5: Where’s the Money Gerry?

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As financial investigators struggle to find any of the missing quarter of a billion dollars, they begin to make some bizarre discoveries around how th...

S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E6: The End Game

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The revelation that Gerry’s house of cards had been falling apart — just as he’s reported dead in India — leaves people wondering: is this an ...

S11: "Carrie Low VS." E1: Taken

06 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Carrie Low goes to the police to report she’s been drugged, kidnapped and assaulted. But the investigation does not go as she expects. For transcri...

S11: "Carrie Low VS." E2: Aftermath

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Carrie tries to launch a complaint against police but is thrown a surprising curveball. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc...

S11: "Carrie Low VS." E3: Believed

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The original investigator assigned to Carrie's case reveals what he says happened behind the scenes. For transcripts of this series, please visit: ht...

S11: "Carrie Low VS." E4: Charged

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An arrest is finally made in Carrie’s case, but she wonders why only one man has been charged. CORRECTION: Sunny Marriner was Executive Director of...