Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo: Recent Episodes
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Where is Cleo? Taken by child welfare workers in the 1970âs and adopted in the U.S., the young Cree girlâs family believes she was raped and murdered while hitchhiking back home to Saskatchewan. CBC news investigative reporter Connie Walker joins the search to find out what really happened to Cleo.
Someone Knows Something is the investigative true crime series by award-winning documentarian David Ridgen.
In Season 10 of Someone Knows Something, host David Ridgen investigates the sudden 2021 disappearance of Jaclyn Ferland-Smith, a Canadian expat living in Playas del Coco, a paradise veiled in rumour and fear on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
More episodes of Someone Knows Something are available wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://link.mgln.ai/SKS10xMandM
Christine Harron, a book-loving teenager from Hanover, Ontario, leaves for school in the spring of 1993 and is never seen again. A suspect emerges, confessing to her murder, but the case falls apart and Christine's family are left without answers.
In Season 9 of the award winning podcast Someone Knows Something, David Ridgen, along with Christine's mother, reopen the investigation and come face to face with the man who said he killed Chrissy.
Someone Knows Something is the investigative true crime series by award-winning documentarian David Ridgen. Each season tackles an unsolved case, uncovering details and bringing closure to families.
More episodes of Someone Knows Something are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/Dhp7oA5t
Today we have a special bonus episode for you from our sibling show Unreserved, a fearless space for Indigenous voices. Host Rosanna Deerchild is ready to Indigenize your summer with a tastemaker’s guide to the best books, movies, podcasts and more.
More episodes of Unreserved are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/qKyKgTHk
Fraud. Abduction. Murder. Every week, Crime Story host and investigative journalist Kathleen Goldhar goes deep into a tale of true crime with the storyteller who knows it best.
In this special episode, Connie Walker joins Kathleen to discuss the new season of her Pulitzer Prize winning podcast Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater that investigates a crisis of policing on America’s largest reservation. Connie investigates the disappearance of two women on the Navajo Nation, a place where people say you can get away with murder.
The full episode and many more are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/7G-QCxtw
From Spotify comes Stolen Season 3: Trouble In Sweetwater. Violence. Retaliation. Disappearances. The Navajo Nation is 27,000 square miles of remote terrain with just over 200 tribal police officers. This season on Stolen, Connie Walker’s investigation into the cases of two missing women leads her on a search for justice in a place where people say you can get away with murder. Reporting for Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s (IWMF) Fund for Indigenous Journalists reporting on issues related to Missing & Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) with a concentration on women, girls, Two-Spirit, and transgender people.
The high seas are beyond the reach of international law – and beyond the beat of most reporters. But Pulitzer-Prize-winner and former New York Times journalist, Ian Urbina, has sailed into uncharted territories. Urbina sets out on a years-long quest to investigate murder at sea, modern slave labour, environmental crimes and quixotic adventurers. Part travelog, part true-crime thriller, this 7-part series takes listeners to places where the laws of the land no longer exist. The Outlaw Ocean is brought to you by CBC Podcasts and the LA Times and produced by The Outlaw Ocean Project. More episodes are available at http://hyperurl.co/theoutlawocean
The Secret Life of Canada is a podcast about the country you know and the stories you don't. Join hosts Leah-Simone Bowen and Falen Johnson as they reveal the beautiful, terrible and weird histories of this land. The Secret Life of Canada is back with season 4 and in this episode, youâll hear the story behind a now famous "before and after" photo of a little boy who was taken to residential school in Regina, Saskatchewan. Who is this boy? Where is he from and what happened to him after he was taken away from home? More episodes are available at http://hyperurl.co/secretlifeofcanada
Even though it was supposed to have been destroyed in 1983, the police file documenting the investigation into Cleoâs death still exists and it contains more detail than Christine ever imagined learning about the last days, hours and even minutes of Cleoâs short life.
Christine travels to Pennsylvania for an emotional reunion with her brother, Johnny, who she hasnât seen since she was a baby. Determined to get more answers about the days and weeks leading up to her sisterâs death, Christine finally gets a copy of Cleoâs death certificate. That, and other documents begin to shed light on the truth sheâs been seeking for decades.
Digging through archives in Saskatchewan, Connie makes a shocking discovery. As she investigates the controversial Adopt Indian Metis program which Cleo and her siblings were a part of, the man who started the program agrees to speak with her about its controversial origins, and legacy.
Connieâs chance meeting with the father who Cleo never knew is followed by new revelations about the Semaganis childrenâs biological mother, Lillian. A picture begins to emerge about why her children were taken, and when she joined the fight to stop the adoption of more Indigenous children into white homes.
A brief encounter with someone who knew Cleo perhaps better than anyone else just before her death reveals crucial details. Connecting new facts about her life leads the investigation to a world far from where Cleo died, back to Little Pine First Nation.
As Connie shares some shocking news with Cleo's siblings, the truth about what happened to her remains just out of reach. Police may have answers but canât share them yet. It's time to visit the one person who's bound to know more.
The search for Cleo leads Connie to investigate a headstone belonging to a 13-year-old girl who died in 1978. The cemetery is more than 20 hours away from Arkansas, where Cleo's family has long believed she was killed.
Connie meets Cleoâs older brother, Johnny, in Pennsylvania, where he was adopted. Heâs haunted by the memory of saying goodbye to Cleo and longs to fulfill a promise to find her. A late night internet search reveals he may be close.
Christine gets a tip that helps geographically narrow the search for Cleo, and Connie visits another sister, April, to see what she may remember. Scouring old photos and documents, they stumble on a key reference to Cleo in Aprilâs adoption records.
Connie responds to Christineâs plea for help finding her eldest sister, Cleo. The only proof of Cleoâs existence though is a tiny, undated school photo. A clue soon emerges which will take Christineâs search in unexpected directions.
In the 1970s, Cleo was taken by child welfare workers and adopted in the U.S. Her family, who has been searching for her since, was told she was murdered. Host Connie Walker helps the family unravel the mystery. A CBC News podcast coming March 7th.
Connie Walker questions police about DNA evidence, and learns that after nearly three decades, their seemingly stagnant investigation has become âvery activeâ, as a result of new information brought to light in this podcast.
Digging deeper into old police notes, Connie Walker tries to find out what happened to a pile of bloody clothes matching a description of what Alberta was wearing on the night she disappeared.
A closer examination of old RCMP notebooks yields new details about a mysterious phone call from a woman who knew where Albertaâs body was concealed, days before her body was actually found.
In this episode, Connie Walker finds the cabbie who people told us they saw with Alberta and her uncle Jack the night after sheâs thought to have vanished. While talking to Walker the taxi driver discloses something surprising about his DNA.
A shocking new revelation surfaces about people seeing Alberta in a mysterious black truck after she was thought to have disappeared. The tip propels investigative reporter Connie Walker north, to Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
New details emerge about the last night Alberta was seen alive. Reporter Connie Walker speaks to a key witness who has never been interviewed by police about what he saw the night Alberta disappeared.
Investigative reporter Connie Walker tracks down the person police suspected in the murder of Alberta Williams.
Combing through old police notebooks, Walker tries to piece together what happened on the night Alberta vanished. She discovers that even before Albertaâs body was found, one of the people interviewed hinted at a âtragic accidentâ.
Reporter Connie Walker meets face to face with the person who sent her a tip about Alberta Williamsâ unsolved murder. Find out why theyâre breaking their silence, and meet the sister whoâs still haunted by vivid memories of Albertaâs disappearance.
This preview of Missing & Murdered: Who Killed Alberta Williams? explores how a chilling tip sparked the CBCâs Connie Walker to uncover secrets and confront a suspect in a decades-old cold case. The 8-part true crime podcast launches on October 25th.