Crime Beat

Season 6

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26 episodes · First aired 2024-10-18

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S6 E2146 min

Before My Eyes

Driving home from work, Royi Flescher could never have imagined what he was about to encounter. And when Soula Berdoussis pulled over, she thought she was stopping to help at the scene of a car accident. What unfolded next would change them forever – as they found two women brutally stabbed, taking their last breaths lying at the side of a busy Toronto thoroughfare. Reporter Catherine McDonald takes us back to that fateful day in late August 2022 and hears from these eyewitnesses about coming face-to-face with the killer. But it wasn’t until they testified at his trial that they’d learn the full disturbing details of what led up to that day.

S6 E2246 min

The 'Mr. Big' Playbook

When there is insufficient evidence or cooperation from the suspect - what’s left for authorities to try to get a conviction? The 'Mr. Big' technique is often a last resort for police to solve a murder. But the elaborate tactic to elicit confessions from suspects is under fire. The technique has become so controversial that some countries have gone as far as to ban the practice. Reporter Jayme Doll delves into a number of high profile cases and examines: how far should undercover police go to catch a killer?

S6 E2346 min

A Recipe for Disaster

In July 2007, a joint birthday celebration for a 6-year-old and two 18-year-old girls draws a crowd of 50 to a Toronto community backyard on a warm summer day. As night falls and the cake is cut, the atmosphere shifts quickly as tensions escalate, leading to a violent gun battle that results in the death of 11-year-old Ephraim Brown. Detectives investigate the tragedy, uncovering that Ephraim, lost in his music, likely didn't hear the warning to run. They also learn that the birthday girls unknowingly invited two rival gangs to the event, setting the stage for the deadly confrontation.

S6 E2446 min

Code of Silence

Evelyn Fox’s son – a father of four - was shot while trying to help a friend in trouble. Shauna Brown lost her son in a drive-by shooting as he played with his two-year-old daughter on the steps of their family home. Barbara Gill’s son was gunned down when a car pulled alongside the moving vehicle he was in and someone opened fire. It’s a club no one wants to belong to. Mothers of murdered men. What’s harder is knowing the killers are still at large and there isn’t enough evidence for police to make arrests. All they need is a single witness to step up. But what do you do when no one is willing to break the code of silence?

S6 E2546 min

Uncovering a Serial Killer

In the late 1970’s, there was a series of mysterious deaths. First, two jr. high girls were found in an underpass west of Calgary. Seven months later, another young woman was found in a ditch, beaten and strangled to death, and just months after that, a fourth woman was found strangled to death. For decades, their families searched for answers to no avail. Join senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt as she shares how a team of cold case investigators uncovered shocking evidence nearly 50 years later that led them to a serial killer.

S6 E2646 min

Just Steps From Home: The Disappearance of Julie Surprenant

In November of 1999, 16-year-old Julie Surprenant disappeared without a trace. She was last seen at a bus stop just meters from her back door in the Montreal suburb of Terrebonne, but somehow never made it home. Julie’s disappearance is one of the most widely covered criminal cases in Quebec over the past 25 years. The main suspect was a neighbor with a long criminal history, but he was never charged. Just days before dying, the suspect told a nurse he’d killed Julie, but the confession didn’t make it to the police in time for him to be questioned.

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