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Crime Story

This is true crime with journalistic integrity — and a curious, conversational edge. Every other Monday, Crime Story dives into gripping cases of every kind: from white-collar scandals and high-profile trials to under-the-radar stories you’ve never heard before. At the heart of each episode is a deep, intimate interview with someone who knows the case inside and out — the journalists, documentarians, and storytellers who’ve reported on these crimes, chased leads for years, and lost sleep uncovering

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00:40:08

A bomb kills four at a Paris synagogue. Did police...

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2025/03/24

On Oct. 3, 1980, a bomb exploded outside the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris, killing four people and injuring 46.The attack sparked outrage and protests against anti-semitic violence. But as weeks turned to years, the investigation went nowhere.Finally, French investigators named Hassan Diab, a Lebanese-Canadian professor, as its main suspect. 28 years years after the attack, Diab was charged and extradited from Canada to France. But did the police arrest the right person?Alex Atack and Dana

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00:38:54

Leaving Neverland: The case against Michael Jackson

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2025/03/17

Michael Jackson might be the most famous pop star of all time. With more than 500 million records sold, it’s hard to overstate his impact on popular culture, and on the generation of fans who grew up with his music.His strange personal life became part of his mystique. He occasionally slept in an oxygen chamber, and he collected exotic animals, including a pet monkey named Bubbles. But there were darker stories as well. Stories about him abusing young boys.In 1993, Jackson was publicly accused of

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00:31:49

Housing Crisis: When Your “Landlord” is a Murderer

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2025/03/10

In the summer of 2021, Tabatha Pope and her boyfriend were living out of a cheap motel, struggling to make ends meet. Then, she found an affordable apartment just outside downtown Houston, and it seemed like her luck was finally turning around.But when she moved in, something wasn’t right. There were buckets on the floor filled with a thick, red substance that looked a lot like blood, and crimson stains on the walls. It was clear that something terrible had happened here. And as she learned more,

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00:46:47

30 bank robberies in a year: Tony Hathaway’s...

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2025/03/03

In real life, bank robberies are not nearly as sexy and dramatic as the movies make them out to be. They're usually poorly planned acts of desperation. Tony Hathaway was desperate, but he was smart. By the time he was caught - he'd pulled off thirty robberies in just over a year. This week on Crime Story, Josh Dean from the podcast, Hooked, explores why Tony Hathaway became one of America's most prolific bank robbers.Hear Crime Story episodes a week early, and ad-free, on CBC True Crime Premium.

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00:43:07

Hypnosis, false memory and lies: A Texas Ranger’s...

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2025/02/24

In 2015, Larry Driskill confessed to a murder he swears he did not commit. There was no physical evidence linking him to the crime, and he didn’t know the victim, a 29-year-old woman named Bobbie Sue Hill. And yet, ten years after her murder, Driskill found himself in a police station describing how he disposed of her body in a creek in Parker County, Texas.The man sitting across from Driskill was James Holland, a Texas Ranger who later became known as a “serial killer whisperer" for his ability to

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00:37:31

The bogeyman and the hard luck lawyer: From murder...

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2025/02/17

In Ringgold, Georgia, Alvin Ridley was something of a local bogeyman. He rarely left his house and, when he did, he was always by himself.So when Alvin called 9-1-1 to report the death of his wife – a woman that no one had ever heard about, let alone seen – the town was shocked.Quickly a narrative began to emerge: Alvin Ridley had held this woman captive for more than thirty years. And then, he’d strangled her.It didn’t take much for the citizens of Ringgold to believe it. And, before long, police

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00:44:45

Two siblings, one murder. Who should police believe?

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2025/02/10

When someone is attacked, especially in their home, the victim usually knows the person hurting them. And in the 2002 murder of a woman named Marlyne Johnson, the police charged her daughter-in-law, Sophia Johnson, with first degree murder. The whole ordeal tore two families apart because not only was Sophia charged with killing her mother-in-law, but the main witness against her was her own brother.Amory Sivertson dives back into the case in her new podcast, Beyond All Repair. She joins Crime Story

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00:42:02

Unconventional romance or sexual assault? A...

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2025/02/03

When Derrick Johnson was a toddler, he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. He never developed the ability to speak. Instead, he would communicate with his eyes and his hands, and his family would do their best to interpret his gestures.That was until they met a Rutgers professor named Anna Stubblefield.Anna thought that with the right technique and coaching Derrick could learn to say exactly what was on his mind.But what began as an attempt to expand Derek's horizons quickly turned into a nightmare

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00:33:10

An unmarked grave, a missing woman and a family’s...

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2025/01/27

Like most journalists, veteran reporter Tonya Mosley spent her career telling other people's stories. But then she got a call from a man named Antonio Wiley.In her podcast, She Has A Name, Tonya and Antonio investigate the disappearance of his mother, Anita Wiley, who went missing in Detroit in 1987. The more they learn about what happened to Anita, the more Tonya realizes that the investigation will impact her entire life.For ad-free listening to Crime Story, subscribe to CBC's True Crime Premium

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00:31:54

She tricked more than 50 birthworkers into thinking...

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2025/01/20

There is no shortage of scam artists, catfishers, and grifters in true crime.Usually, they’re looking for money, sex, or fame.But Kaitlyn Braun was a different kind of con artist all together.Over the course of two years, Braun tricked more than 50 birthworkers into thinking she was pregnant. She’d take them on wild, unpredictable rides through traumatic pregnancies (and births) that turned out to be completely fabricated.InThe Con: Kaitlyn’s Baby, journalist Sarah Treleaven (Madness of Two,

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00:38:41

The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby | Episode 1

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2025/01/20

Amy, a seasoned doula, is bedridden due to illness when she receives a call from fellow doula Katie to assist a client, Kaitlyn, over the phone. Kaitlyn is pregnant as a result of sexual assault and has just learned her baby will be stillborn. Over the next 10 days, Amy and Katie are swept into Kaitlyn's escalating crises — bleeding disorders, a hysterectomy, cancer, and seemingly predatory doctors — while supporting her emotionally, over the phone. Despite exhaustion and their own trauma, they

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00:46:06

Audience Favourite | In Her Defence: When the accused...

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2025/01/13

How should we deal with women who kill their abusers? In the Globe and Mail’s first longform podcast In Her Defence, reporter Jana Pruden tells the story of Helen Naslund, who shot and killed her husband after enduring 30 years of abuse. It’s a story about a long fight for freedom and a justice system stuck in the past.Feedback for us? You can email us directly at crimestory@cbc.ca.This episode's transcript can be found here.

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00:35:35

Bonus | Bad Results: The “Fake Baby"

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2025/01/06

Crime Story will be back in the new year with brand new episodes. To keep you company over the holidays, we're bringing you episode one of Bad Results.They needed certainty. They got chaos. For over a decade, countless people from at least five different countries put their trust in a company offering prenatal paternity tests. It promised clients “99.9% accuracy” — but then routinely, for over a decade, identified the wrong biological fathers.Investigative journalists Jorge Barrera and Rachel

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00:33:20

Bonus | Lords of Death

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2024/12/30

Crime Story will be back in the new year with brand new episodes. To keep you company over the holidays, we're bringing you episode one of Lords of Death, a podcast from Tenderfoot TV.While digging through an old memory box, host Thrasher Banks discovers forgotten VHS tapes, police reports, and faded letters regarding a 1995 murder in Dayton, Ohio. Drawn to the connection between this murder and the other seemingly innocuous contents of the box, Thrasher begins investigating.Could the 1995 murder be

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00:29:26

The Gas Man: The unlikely figure behind some of...

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2024/12/23

For more than three decades, Peter Walaschek has been on the run. In the late 1980’s, during the Iran-Iraq war, Walaschek admitted to selling illegal chemicals used to make mustard gas to the Iranian regime. But he wasn’t a professional weapons dealer or a career criminal. He was a pharmacist who happened to really hate his office job.Reporter Chloe Hadjimatheou joins Crime Story to explain what it was like sitting across from the international fugitive, and how, Walaschek says, he went from working

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00:36:02

The voice of a killer? What a taped call says about...

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2024/12/16

In 2012, Edmonton police released audio of Amber Tuccaro, a young woman from Mikisew Cree First Nation who went missing a year and a half earlier. On the tape, you hear Amber speaking to someone as they drive. And even more eerie, you hear the voice of the man that most people believe murdered her.Reporter Jana Pruden joins Crime Story to discuss why hearing that haunting tape drove her to investigate Amber’s story.If you enjoyed this episode, check out Crime Story’s first conversation with Jana

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00:28:40

339 bodies in the woods: the Noble crematory story

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2024/12/09

In the winter of 2002, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency received an anonymous tip: somebody had seen bones on a property in Noble, Georgia, and they thought they might be human.Eventually, a police investigation would unearth the remains of more than 300 people.In a different kind of story, this property might belong to America’s most prolific serial killer. But none of these people were murdered – they had been sent there to be cremated.In his podcast Noble, Shaun Raviv tries to understand

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00:36:20

Carl Miller was a regular academic. Then he found the...

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2024/12/02

Carl Miller had spent most of his career at a think tank in London, writing reports and giving lectures – the stuff most academics do.Then, a few years ago, Carl got a call that would change his life forever. The caller, an old colleague, had stumbled upon something that scared him: an online marketplace where you could hire a hitman.Suddenly, Carl was looking at a list of hundreds of names. A list of people that somebody, somewhere wanted dead.So Carl started calling them.For early, ad-free access

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00:36:24

Ruby Franke: The dark secrets behind her Youtube fame

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2024/11/25

Ruby Franke rose to online fame by vlogging the lives of her six children and her husband, Kevin. Millions of people tuned in to the 8 Passengers YouTube channel every day for a snapshot of domestic bliss. But then, viewers began noticing something seemed off about the Utah family's idyllic life. Their suspicions lead to a shocking truth.Note: This episode contains details of child abuse.Feedback for us? You can email us directly at crimestory@cbc.ca.For ad-free listening to Crime Story and early

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00:41:03

Man in the Window: Tracking down the Golden State Killer

Crime Story ·

2024/11/18

Between 1973 and 1986, entire neighbourhoods in California often went to bed thinking about one man. His crimes earned him many names: the Cordova Cat Burglar, the East Area Rapist and of course, the Golden State Killer. For years, he broke into hundreds of homes, sexually assaulting more than 45 women and murdering 13 people, before disappearing into the night.This week on Crime Story, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Paige St. John reveals why it took more than 40 years for victims of the Golden

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