Best David Renfrew Podcasts (2024)

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Ep 1: Terror In Renfrew County 39:30

1y ago39:30

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Ep 1: Terror In Renfrew County It was a beautiful fall day in Renfrew County, Ontario, when the first of three 911 calls came into the local police dispatch. The woman on the other end of the phone was screaming. A man had just shot her sister. Then, a second call. A young man had just witnessed his mother being attacked by a gun-wielding man in th…

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Ep. 1: A Day At the Lake - The Mysterious Deaths of Karen and Krista Hart 46:51

1y ago46:51

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Ep. 1: A Day At the Lake - The Mysterious Deaths of Karen and Krista Hart It was an unspeakable tragedy - twin three-year-old girls had drowned at a local lake in Gander, Newfoundland while under the care of their father. Their mother was inconsolable but the police were perplexed. What really happened that day at the lake? Nelson Hart, the twin’s …

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Ep 1: Monster In The Woods - The Crimes Of David Alexander Snow 49:09

1+ y ago49:09

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Ep 1: Monster In The Woods - The Crimes Of David Alexander Snow In the summer of 1992, a dangerous sexual predator was on the loose in North Vancouver. Three young women had been sexually assaulted at gunpoint and two of the victims had been kidnapped. It was a race against time to find the woman and apprehend the suspect before he struck again. Bu…

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Ep. 1: Failing Zachary - A Murder Most Preventable 40:13

1+ y ago40:13

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Failing Zachary - A Murder Most Preventable When David and Kate Bagby were told their 28-year-old son Andrew had been murdered they were devastated. Andrew was a well respected family doctor who had just begun his career after years of study. Now he was gone and his ex-girlfriend, another doctor, had been charged with his senseless killing. The Bag…

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Ep 1: A Killer in the Family - The Murders of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook 43:08

1+ y ago43:08

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A Killer in the Family - The Murders of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook In 1987, teenage sweethearts Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook set out from Victoria, BC for a one-night trip to Seattle. Tragically they were never seen alive again. Somewhere along their route they encountered a violent stranger who targeted the trusting couple. But who was…

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Ep 1: Frozen Tears - The Murder of Dusty Bowers 40:13

1+ y ago40:13

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Ep 1: Frozen Tears - The Murder of Dusty Bowers She was just going to be a few minutes, so Julie Bowers decided to leave her sleeping 11-month-old son Dusty in his car seat in the back of her car when she went into the bank. It was the afternoon of January 14, 1988, a bitter cold day in Kincardine, Ontario. When Julie returned to the car Dusty was …

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Ep. 1: A Sister’s Love - The Murder of Lynne Knight 33:11

1+ y ago33:11

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A Sister’s Love: The Murder of Lynne Knight When a young Canadian nurse is brutally murdered in a suburb of Los Angeles in 1979, the police are baffled by what the killer has left behind – a homemade garotte used to strangle the victim. They are certain the unique weapon will lead them to her killer. But without any other evidence the case eventual…

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Ep. 1: Sins Of The Son - The Disappearance Of Minnie Ford 35:23

2y ago35:23

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Ep. 1: Sins Of The Son - The Disappearance Of Minnie Ford When a well-to-do recently widowed mother disappears from her suburban home the police are baffled. She didn’t take any money or clothing, and no one has seen or heard from her in days. It’s 1963 in a city known as “Toronto the good,” and middle-aged women just don’t disappear. Rumors spread…

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Fake Nurse - The Story of Brigitte Cleroux 31:23

2y ago31:23

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Fake Nurse: The Story of Brigitte Cleroux In the fall of 2021, hundreds of women in British Columbia received a letter from the B.C. Women’s Hospital. It informed them that during their recent time in hospital, they had been treated by a woman who had posed as a nurse without any qualifications. Apparently, the imposter nurse had a long history of …

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Ep. 2: Nightmare In New Jersey - The Bruce Curtis Story 46:05

2y ago46:05

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Four people have vanished after the July 4th long weekend in New Jersey, but when the bodies of a middle-aged couple, are discovered, the missing person’s case quickly turns into a double homicide and the hunt for two killers. Within days the son of the murder victims and his friend are arrested and charged with murder. Scott Franz claims he shot h…

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Ep. 1: Nightmare In New Jersey - The Bruce Curtis Story 34:38

2y ago34:38

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Ep. 1: Nightmare In New Jersey - The Bruce Curtis Story It was supposed to be a fun summer holiday. Nova Scotia teenager Bruce Curtis was going to spend the July 4th long weekend with his American friend Scott Franz. The two eighteen-year-olds had just graduated from a prestigious private school and were looking forward to hanging out together on t…

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Ep. 3: Evil In Paradise 46:56

2+ y ago46:56

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Ep. 3: Evil In Paradise In 1996 seventeen-year-old Rebecca Middleton from Belleville, Ontario was viciously raped and murdered in Bermuda. Two local men are arrested within days, but an inept criminal justice system has resulted in one of the accused taking a plea deal with a five-year prison sentence and the other being acquitted of murder. Rebecc…

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Ep. 2: Evil In Paradise 24:35

2+ y ago24:35

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Ep. 2: Evil In Paradise A teenage girl from Belleville, Ontario is brutally murdered in Bermuda while on a summer vacation in 1996. Within days two local men are charged and the case against them seems strong. It doesn’t take long for one to flip on the other, so the Bermudian crown attorney’s office makes a plea deal. They’re willing to give up on…

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Ep. 1: Evil In Paradise 37:14

2+ y ago37:14

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Ep. 1: Evil In Paradise It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, two teenage girls from Belleville, Ontario were heading to Bermuda for a six-week summer vacation. The British Island Territory was a well-known and safe tourist destination. The two best friends were living in paradise, until something went terribly wrong. After a late-night of …

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Ep. 2: Pushed To the Limit - The Jane Stafford Story 53:13

2+ y ago53:13

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Ep. 2: Pushed To the Limit - The Jane Stafford Story Jane Stafford is charged with the first-degree murder of her husband Billy after his headless body is discovered. Jane admits to shooting him but claims it was in self-defence after he threatened to kill their neighbours and her son. Her trial gains nationwide attention because her defence rests …

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Ep. 1: Pushed To the Limit - The Jane Stafford Story 36:55

2+ y ago36:55

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Ep. 1: Pushed To the Limit - The Jane Stafford Story When a headless corpse is found on a deserted dirt road in rural Nova Scotia the local RCMP are certain it’s the body of the town’s resident bully, Billy Stafford. He’s been a thorn in the cop’s side for years and they doubt anyone is going to miss him but they still need to figure out who pulled…

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Ep. 1: Barwin's Babies 42:02

2+ y ago42:02

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Ep.1: Barwin’s Babies For decades Dr. Norman Barwin was revered as a miracle worker. His specialty for helping women and couples who had issues with conceiving their own babies earned him the nickname The Baby Whisperer. The walls of his offices at the Broadview Fertility Clinic in Ottawa were covered with photos of the babies that resulted from hi…

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Ep. 2: Trail of Pain - The Crimes of Albert Johnson Walker 55:44

2+ y ago55:44

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Ep. 2: Trail of Pain - The Crimes of Albert Johnson Walker The British police have just arrested a man and his wife for suspected identity theft and possible murder. The man has been using the name of his friend who turned up dead in a fisherman’s net off Devon, England. But it turns out that identity fraud and murder are just the tip of a very ext…

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Ep. 1: Trail of Pain - The Crimes of Albert Johnson Walker 44:55

2+ y ago44:55

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Ep. 1: Trail of Pain - The Crimes of Albert Johnson Walker On a sunny July day in 1996 off the coast of Devon, England, a fisherman and his son caught something very unusual in their net. It was a dead man! He was fully clothed but had no identification. Yet, strangely he was still wearing an expensive Rolex watch. Tracing the timepiece’s unique se…

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Ep. 1: Hockey Night to Remember - The Life of Brian “Spinner” Spencer 56:45

2+ y ago56:45

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Hockey Night to Remember: The Life of Brian “Spinner” Spencer He was a kid who learned how to skate practically before he could walk. Born and raised in a small northern Canadian town, Brian Spencer had a dream that one day he would make to the National Hockey League. It was an irresistible desire that came with a lot of sacrifice for him and his d…

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Ep. 1: Double Indemnity - Murder in the Suburbs 53:30

2+ y ago53:30

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Ep. 1: Double Indemnity - Murder in the Suburbs When emergency responders arrive at a car fire on a deserted California mountain top road, they are too late to save the man trapped in the burning Volkswagen. Luckily his wife, Lucille has managed to get out of the car and call for help. But once the fire is extinguished and the charred body of Docto…

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Ep. 2: Fatal Friendship - The Murder of Nancy Eaton 47:18

2+ y ago47:18

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Ep. 2: Fatal Friendship - The Murder of Nancy Eaton On a cold winter night in January 1985, a worried mother discovered the body of her twenty-three-year-old daughter. Nancy Eaton, an heiress to the Eaton family fortune had been stabbed to death in her own home and sexually assaulted. And the distraught mother knew exactly who was responsible. Seve…

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Ep. 1: Fatal Friendship - The Murder of Nancy Eaton 37:15

2+ y ago37:15

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Ep. 1: Fatal Friendship - The Murder of Nancy Eaton She was the great, great granddaughter of Timothy Eaton, founder of Canada’s largest department store chain and he was from a wealthy, well-respected family. She was a beautiful twenty-three-year-old woman with a new career and an exciting social life, while he was a deeply disturbed seventeen-yea…

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Ep. 1: Legacy Of Laughter - The Phil Hartman Story 49:26

2+ y ago49:26

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Ep. 1: Legacy Of Laughter - The Phil Hartman Story Emmy award-winning comedian. He was famous for his work on Saturday Night Live and had a starring role in NewsRadio, an NBC sitcom. He was also the voice of several characters in the long-running animated show The Simpsons. Alongside his successful career, he was living a million-dollar lifestyle i…

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Ep. 2: Death of a Dream - The Dorothy Stratten Story 50:16

3y ago50:16

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Ep. 2: Death of a Dream - The Dorothy Stratten Story The tragic murder of Dorothy Stratten in 1980 was headline news around the world. The beautiful Playboy Playmate had been killed by her jealous ex husband in a brutal murder-suicide But behind the salacious headlines a family grieved and her lover could barely go on. Famed Hollywood director, Pet…

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Ep. 1: Death of a Dream - The Dorothy Stratten Story 43:37

3y ago43:37

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Ep. 1: Death of a Dream - The Dorothy Stratten Story She was a pretty teenager in pigtails, working at the local Dairy Queen in Vancouver when a small-time street hustler first spotted her. He knew a good thing when he saw it and she was his ticket to fame and riches. Within a few months she was posing naked for Playboy Magazine, and he was buying …

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Ep. 1: Hollywood Horror Story – The Murder of Iana Kasian 43:35

3y ago43:35

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Ep. 1: Hollywood Horror Story – The Murder of Iana Kasian It was a mother’s intuition that something was wrong. Olga Kasian’s daughter Iana had just given birth to a baby girl and now she was missing. But Olga knew where she was. She was in a West Hollywood apartment with her boyfriend, a wealthy Canadian producer who had gained mediocre success wi…

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Ep. 2: Deadly Secrets - Killer Confession 41:11

3y ago41:11

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Ep. 2: Deadly Secrets - Killer Confession A controversial undercover police technique called “Mr. Big” has resulted in a secretly recorded confession to murder. Sixty-eight-year-old Jean Ann James has admitted to the 1992 brutal slaying of her good friend Gladys Wakabayashi. It’s taken sixteen years to bring charges against their prime suspect and …

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Ep. 1: Deadly Secrets - Killer Friendship 46:40

3y ago46:40

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Ep. 1: Deadly Secrets - Killer Friendship In the summer of 1992 a shy, forty-one-year-old mother is brutally murdered in her home in one of Vancouver’s wealthiest suburbs. It turns out the woman had a secret, and that secret got her killed. It doesn’t take long for the police to narrow in on a prime suspect, but a lack of physical evidence at the c…

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Bonus Interview: Chasing a Ghost: The Hunt for the 22-Calibre Killer 31:00

3y ago31:00

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Chasing a Ghost: The Hunt for the 22- Calibre Killer For more information about this podcast, visit us at storyhunterpodcasts.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Chasing a Ghost: The Hunt for the 22-Calibre Killer 49:07

3y ago49:07

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Chasing a Ghost: The Hunt for the 22-Calibre Killer In the spring of 1970, the rural communities of Gormley and Palgrave, Ontario were shaken by two violent crimes in just thirteen days. Two mothers at home with their children were raped and murdered by a stranger. The unknown assailant was quickly dubbed “The 22-calibre killer” by the media for hi…

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A Mother’s Love - The Murder of Olga Duncan 49:57

3y ago49:57

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A Mother’s Love - The Murder of Olga Duncan 1959 was going to be an exciting year for Olga Kupczyk. The thirty-year-old Canadian nurse has recently re located to Santa Barbara, California where she had met a handsome, successful lawyer. After a whirlwind romance the two were now married and expecting their first child. But just five months into the…

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Ep. 1: Innocence Lost - The Murder of Emanuel Jaques 56:54

3y ago56:54

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Ep. 1: Innocence Lost - The Murder of Emanuel Jaques What began as a hot and sunny day in late July, 1977 soon turned into a nightmare that would be forever seared into the minds and hearts of Torontonians. Twelve-year-old shoeshine boy Emanuel Jaques was shining shoes at Yonge and Dundas when he was abducted and murdered above a body rub parlor on…

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Ep. 2: Enemy Within - The Murder Of Glen Davis 45:41

3y ago45:41

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Ep. 2: Enemy Within - The Murder Of Glen Davis In 1969, Mary Davis Nelles was kidnapped and betrayed by someone she once loved. For the wealthy Davis family, the betrayal was unforgivable, and it made the multi-millionaires even more reclusive. But sadly it would not be the last time a crime of greed would land the Davis family on the front pages o…

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Ep. 1: Enemy Within - The Kidnapping Of Mary Davis Nelles 48:45

3y ago48:45

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Ep. 1: Enemy Within - The Kidnapping Of Mary Davis Nelles They were one of Canada’s wealthiest families, but their millions couldn’t buy the privacy they desired. The Davis family shunned any notoriety or publicity but that didn’t stop those in their inner circle from violent acts of greed. In 1969 26-year-old newlywed Mary Davis Nelles is kidnappe…

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Ep. 2: Motherisk 38:57

3y ago38:57

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Ep. 2: Motherisk Child welfare agencies across Canada spent millions of dollars on hair tests conducted by the Motherisk Lab based at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. In 2014, the Lab’s results were put under the spotlight during the criminal trial of April Broomfield, a single mother accused of feeding her son cocaine. Expert testimony a…

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Ep. 1: Motherisk 30:32

3y ago30:32

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Ep. 1: Motherisk The Motherisk Lab based out of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, claimed to be able to determine through a simple hair test if a parent was abusing drugs or alcohol. Test results were used in thousands of child protection cases, often leading to families being ripped apart, and children put up for adoption. But the tests w…

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Ep. 3: Think Dirty - The Disgrace of Dr. Charles Smith 40:09

3y ago40:09

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Ep. 3: Think Dirty - The Disgrace of Dr. Charles Smith Brenda Waudby was a young single mother living in Peterborough when her 22-month old daughter Jenna was murdered in her home in 1997. Jenna suffered horrendous injuries involving burns, blows, and sexual assault. But rather than pursuing evidence that pointed towards the pre-teen boy who was ba…

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Ep. 2: Think Dirty - The Disgrace of Dr. Charles Smith 35:21

3+ y ago35:21

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Ep. 2: Think Dirty - The Disgrace of Dr. Charles Smith In the summer of 1997 Lianne Gagnon was emerging from the haze of grief that had descended upon her and her family in the aftermath of her baby boy Nicholas’s sudden death. She was planning her wedding to her fiance Pete Thibeault when the investigation into Nicholas’s death was reopened, and s…

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Ep. 1: Think Dirty - The Disgrace of Dr. Charles Smith. 36:51

3+ y ago36:51

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Ep. 1: Think Dirty - The Disgrace of Dr. Charles Smith. Charles Smith worked for decades as a forensic pathologist in Ontario. World-renowned, his testimony in hundreds of cases involving the sudden deaths of children put supposed killers behind bars. But one case against a young mother accused of murdering her eleven-month old son set in motion th…

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Murder in the Morgue: The Two Faces of Steven Toussaint 37:24

3+ y ago37:24

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Murder in the Morgue: The Two Faces of Steven Toussaint When Shirley Iven’s husband didn’t come home from work one night in April, 1998, she knew something was wrong. Her husband Bob worked at the University of Toronto, in the medical department. In fact, he worked in the morgue preparing bodies for dissection formedical students. But now he hadn’t…

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Fatal Attraction: The Murder of Jasmine Fiore 50:12

3+ y ago50:12

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Fatal Attraction: The Murder of Jasmine Fiore Jasmine Fiore was a beautiful swim-suit model from Las Vegas and Ryan Jenkins was a Calgary real estate developer and wanna-be reality TV Star. When they met sparks flew and they were married within a few days. But the ink had barely dried on their marriage certificate before serious problems emerged. I…

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Ep. 1: Unforgotten - Jane Doe #59 57:18

3+ y ago57:18

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Ep. 1: Unforgotten - Jane Doe #59 The year was 1969 and the place was Los Angeles California. The decade known for sex, drugs and rock and roll was coming to a close and the City of Angeles was still reeling from the brutal and unsolved homicides of seven people in one weekend. Actress Sharon Tate and four others had been butchered in the Hollywood…

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Ep. 4: Escape from Kingston Penitentiary - The Life and Death of Ty Conn 57:10

3+ y ago57:10

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Ep. 4: Escape from Kingston Penitentiary - The Life and Death of Ty Conn At 31 years of age, Ty Conn has spent over half of his life behind prison walls. And he’s still facing 47 years in federal lock-up. But after two failed prison escapes and several audacious bank robberies, Ty realizes that if he has any chance at ever having a normal life he’s…

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Ep. 3: Escape from Kingston Penitentiary - The Life and Death of Ty Conn 29:23

3+ y ago29:23

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Ep. 3: Escape from Kingston Penitentiary - The Life and Death of Ty Conn Tyrone Conn has spent his life running away. He has escaped from almost every institution that has tried to contain him, including Collins Bay Penitentiary. After forty-four days on the run he has surrendered but he will pay a heavy price for his misdeeds. At twenty-seven he’s…

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Ep. 2: Escape from Kingston Penitentiary - The Life and Death of Ty Conn 34:55

3+ y ago34:55

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Ep. 2: Escape from Kingston Penitentiary - The Life and Death of Ty Conn Tyrone Conn never had a chance. Abandoned at a young age by his dysfunctional adopted family, he spent the rest of his childhood in institutions. He learned how to survive the hard way - by stealing and running away. And those two habits eventually landed him in federal prison…

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Ep. 1: Escape from Kingston Penitentiary - The Life and Death of Ty Conn 40:59

3+ y ago40:59

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Ep. 1: Escape from Kingston Penitentiary - The Life and Death of Ty Conn It was an escape that wasn’t supposed to happen! On May 6 th , 1999 an inmate scaled a thirty- two foot limestone wall at Kingston Penitentiary and became the first prisoner to breakout of the infamous penitentiary in 41 years. He ran and the public cheered him on because this…

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Ep 3: Laurie Bembenek Story - Woman On The Run 45:35

3+ y ago45:35

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Ep 3: Laurie Bembenek Story - Woman On The Run While Laurie remains in a Canadian prison, lawyers and politicians on both sides of the border continue to argue her case. New evidence and witness testimony presented by her Canadian legal team calls into question the very foundation of the Milwaukee prosecutors original case against her. But in order…

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Ep 2: Laurie Bembenek Story - Woman On The Run 38:24

3+ y ago38:24

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Ep 2: Laurie Bembenek Story - Woman On The Run Laurie Bembenek was convicted of killing her husband’s ex-wife based on what many people believed was highly suspicious and circumstantial evidence. So when she bolted from a Wisconsin prison after spending eight years incarcerated, it seemed like most of Milwaukee supported her escape. “Run Bambi run,…

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Ep 1: Laurie Bembenek Story - Woman On The Run 34:33

3+ y ago34:33

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Ep 1: Laurie Bembenek Story - Woman On The Run It was the summer of 1990 when a famous American fugitive was captured in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Suddenly every tabloid talk show was scrambling for the story and a media frenzy descended upon the small northern city. Since escaping from a Wisconsin prison three months earlier, the convicted killer had …

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