
Crime Beat — Season 3

The boy spent the night at his grandparents’ house. The following morning, when his mother arrived to collect him, all three had vanished. This disappearance ignited one of the most extensive Amber Alerts in Canadian history. The questions …

The disappearance of a young boy and his grandparents spurred a dramatic arrest by law enforcement. Subsequent searches of the suspect's property yielded a series of unsettling discoveries. DNA was recovered, yet the missing individuals rem…

The near annihilation of a family by a triple murder left investigators grappling for a motive. At the house, they encountered a horrifying tableau and an unsettling weapon: a crossbow. They also found the sole survivor, a man who had fough…

The discovery of a torso adrift in Oshawa Harbour brought a wave of dread to the Hache family. It soon became agonizingly clear that the remains belonged to their 18-year-old daughter, Rori, who had been missing. But the initial shock deepe…

Chantel Moore, a woman of Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation, aged twenty-six, was fatally shot by an Edmundston police officer responding to a wellness check.

A young bride from British Columbia, on her first visit to India, fell victim to a brutal attack. She was abducted, and her body was found the following day in a canal. Her husband, severely beaten, was left for dead but miraculously surviv…

Jules Knox navigates the intricate complexities of a flawed investigation, the ensuing family fury, and a revealing interview with Arlene’s husband and the defendant, Bert Westervelt.

Born and raised in a city known for its perilous streets, Mylan Hicks defied expectation to achieve a career in professional football. He envisioned a stint with the Calgary Stampeders of the CFL as a crucial step toward realizing his ultim…

It remained unspoken.

The autumn of 2010 witnessed the brutal loss of four men, each at the height of their lives. In a series of three shootings across Toronto, Jahmeel Spence, a devoted father; Carl Cole, a steadfast family man; Mike James, a promising young c…

A quarter-century has passed since the senseless killing of Constable André Lalonde, a man remembered for his affable demeanor and distinctive mustache. Mike Armstrong delves into the enduring consequences of this murder on Lalonde’s widow …

The disappearance of a young woman from Calgary sets off a chain of events culminating in a grim discovery. A 911 call directs officers to a residence where an elderly couple are found deceased. As investigators piece together the circumsta…

The summer of 1994 hung heavy in the Okanagan air. On August 17th, eight-year-old Mindy Tran, cycling to a friend's house in Kelowna, British Columbia, was last seen. She never arrived, and she was never seen again.

Two Eritrean refugees seeking refuge in Canada have been victims of violence. Nighisti Semret, 55, was found stabbed while walking home from her work. Separately, the remains of Rigat Ghirmay, 28, were discovered by a dog walker in a park i…

On September 28, 2011, nineteen-year-old Maple Batalia, a young woman with ambitions of modeling, acting, and medicine, was fatally shot in a university campus parking lot. Security camera footage, in a final, inexplicable act, drifted away…

The cascade of 911 calls directed first responders to several locations, where they made the grim discovery of a young woman's body. The question now is: what became of Lacey Jones-McKnight? The unsettling details, as revealed in those desp…

The 'Wells Gray Murders,' a crime of unprecedented brutality in Canadian history, continue to cast a long shadow. Forty years later, investigators and the families of those lost are still deeply affected by the events of August 1982. David …

Caryn Lieberman recounts the perplexing disappearance of Larry Arnold in 1994, a man who vanished from Toronto's gay village. Weeks later, his body was discovered in a locale notorious for casual sexual encounters. The family’s frustration …

Caryn Lieberman reports on the connection between the murder of Larry Arnold and the 1997 killing of a 20-year-old woman in North Bay, Ontario, hundreds of kilometers away. Sarah Whitehead was sexually assaulted and murdered as she left a s…

Arcelie Laoagan, a mother of five known for her tireless efforts, vanished en route from her workplace. Circumstances suggested she had been the victim of an assault, prompting a frantic race against time by investigators to locate her.

A detailed examination of blood spatter analysis reveals how forensic specialists interpret patterns to reconstruct events at a crime scene, and the crucial role this evidence has played in securing convictions within Canada's most publiciz…

The disappearance of 27-year-old Caitlin Potts from the North Okanagan in February 2016 left authorities baffled. Despite the absence of a body, RCMP officials suspect she was murdered. Over the following year and a half, four more women va…

Over the past year and a half, five women have vanished without a trace from the vicinity of British Columbia’s Shuswap region, leaving their families yearning for answers. A body discovered by police more than five years later has spurred …

The pursuit began with a police manhunt, escalating into a desperate high-speed chase that plunged two officers into a fight for their lives. It tells the story of a man driven to extreme measures, fueled by an all-consuming obsession with …

A devoted nurse and mother of three was brutally killed during a home invasion, her children asleep in a separate room and oblivious to the violence.

The homicide detectives who solved the 2003 murder of Holly Jones, a ten-year-old girl from Toronto, have now disclosed the strategies they employed to bring her killer to justice. In a poignant reflection, Holly’s mother recounts cherishe…

