Crime Story
True Crime
Fraud. Abduction. Murder. Every week, host and investigative journalist Kathleen Goldhar speaks with the reporters, documentarians, and investigators who know the world’s most shocking true crime cases inside and out. These are the stories that stayed with them; the cases they can’t shake. New episode every Monday.
Follow Crime Story for weekly true crime interviews, expert analysis, and inside access to the world’s most shocking cases. To get episodes early and ad-free, subscribe to CBC True Crime Premium on Apple Podcasts.
From unsolved mysteries to high-profile trials, Crime Story delivers candid interviews with those who have worked across cases involving serial killers, missing persons, wrongful convictions, and infamous criminals. Episodes cover high-stakes criminal investigations, forensic breakthroughs, and deep dives into cults, scams, organized crime, domestic terrorism, and more. If you follow true crime documentaries, investigative journalism, or podcasts like Someone Knows Something, Canadian True Crime, Criminal, Serial, or Dirty John, Crime Story is for you.
Past guests include some of the most renowned voices in crime journalism and investigative storytelling. Award-winning journalist Connie Walker discusses cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women. David Ridgen of Someone Knows Something shares insights from his work solving cold cases. Carl Miller breaks down the chilling details behind The Kill List. Jana Pruden explores the psychology of confession and memory in wrongful conviction cases. Charlie Webster unpacks the shocking revelations of Scamanda. Eric Benson examines the mind of the Unabomber.
We’ve covered some of the most infamous crimes in modern history: the Manson murders, the Hargan family killings, and the disturbing story of Ruby Franke. We’ve investigated cult leaders like Bikram Choudhury and the shocking cases behind series like The Teacher’s Pet, The Man in the Window, and Abducted in Plain Sight. Experts like Jeffrey Toobin, Michelle Shephard, and Elizabeth Williamson reveal the hidden power structures behind crimes of domestic violence, financial fraud, and corporate corruption.
With deep reporting from journalists like Nicki Egan (Chasing Cosby), Mandy Matney (The Murdaugh Murders), Kim Bolan, Simon Lewsen, and Hedley Thomas, Crime Story brings you insider perspectives from the front lines of crime writing, law enforcement, and criminal justice. Whether it’s an investigative journalist uncovering a major police coverup, an expert analyzing crime scene evidence, or a crime podcaster sharing behind-the-scenes details, this show takes you inside the cases that still haunt those who worked on them.
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True Crime
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Fraud. Abduction. Murder. Every week, host and investigative journalist Kathleen Goldhar speaks with the reporters, documentarians, and investigators who know the world’s most shocking true crime cases inside and out. These are the stories that stayed with them; the cases they can’t shake. New episode every Monday. Follow Crime Story for weekly true crime interviews, expert analysis, and inside access to the world’s most shocking cases. To get episodes early and ad-free, subscribe to CBC True Crime Premium on Apple Podcasts. From unsolved mysteries to high-profile trials, Crime Story delivers candid interviews with those who have worked across cases involving serial killers, missing persons, wrongful convictions, and infamous criminals. Episodes cover high-stakes criminal investigations, forensic breakthroughs, and deep dives into cults, scams, organized crime, domestic terrorism, and more. If you follow true crime documentaries, investigative journalism, or podcasts like Someone Knows Something, Canadian True Crime, Criminal, Serial, or Dirty John, Crime Story is for you. Past guests include some of the most renowned voices in crime journalism and investigative storytelling. Award-winning journalist Connie Walker discusses cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women. David Ridgen of Someone Knows Something shares insights from his work solving cold cases. Carl Miller breaks down the chilling details behind The Kill List. Jana Pruden explores the psychology of confession and memory in wrongful conviction cases. Charlie Webster unpacks the shocking revelations of Scamanda. Eric Benson examines the mind of the Unabomber. We’ve covered some of the most infamous crimes in modern history: the Manson murders, the Hargan family killings, and the disturbing story of Ruby Franke. We’ve investigated cult leaders like Bikram Choudhury and the shocking cases behind series like The Teacher’s Pet, The Man in the Window, and Abducted in Plain Sight. Experts like Jeffrey Toobin, Michelle Shephard, and Elizabeth Williamson reveal the hidden power structures behind crimes of domestic violence, financial fraud, and corporate corruption. With deep reporting from journalists like Nicki Egan (Chasing Cosby), Mandy Matney (The Murdaugh Murders), Kim Bolan, Simon Lewsen, and Hedley Thomas, Crime Story brings you insider perspectives from the front lines of crime writing, law enforcement, and criminal justice. Whether it’s an investigative journalist uncovering a major police coverup, an expert analyzing crime scene evidence, or a crime podcaster sharing behind-the-scenes details, this show takes you inside the cases that still haunt those who worked on them.
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Episodes
The bogeyman and the hard luck lawyer: From murder trial to redemption
2/17/2025
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 came to the same conclusion and charged Alvin with first degree murder.
But there was one person who came to Alvin’s defence: a down on his luck attorney named McCracken Poston, who would become Alvin’s biggest defender – and his friend.
In his memoir Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom, Poston recounts his experience representing Alvin Ridley, and tells the story of one of the strangest trials in Georgia history.
Feedback for us? You can email us directly at crimestory@cbc.ca.
Duration:00:37:31
Two siblings, one murder. Who should police believe?
2/10/2025
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 now.
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Duration:00:44:45
Unconventional romance or sexual assault? A complicated story of consent.
2/3/2025
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. One that ended with Derrick’s family accusing Anna of sexual assault.
In his documentary Tell Them You Love Me, director Nick August Perna explores Anna and Derrick’s relationship – and the complicated questions it forces us to confront.
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Duration:00:42:02
An unmarked grave, a missing woman and a family’s secret ties
1/27/2025
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.
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Duration:00:33:10
She tricked more than 50 birthworkers into thinking she was pregnant. Why?
1/20/2025
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.
In The Con: Kaitlyn’s Baby, journalist Sarah Treleaven (Madness of Two, Unrestorable) tries to figure out what could possibly lead someone to do something like this.
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Feedback for us? You can email us directly at crimestory@cbc.ca.
Duration:00:31:54
The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby | Episode 1
1/20/2025
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 unquestioningly focus on Kaitlyn's needs. However, when Amy’s girlfriend points out strange details in Kaitlyn's story, alarm bells ring. A dog barks during a call where Kaitlyn claims she’s in the hospital, and photos Kaitlyn sent of her stillborn are traced back to Wikipedia. Something isn't right.
Content warning: This episode contains references to medical emergencies, including baby loss. We also deal with sexual assault and there is some strong language.
Subscribers of CBC True Crime Premium can binge all episodes of The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby right now.
Duration:00:38:41
Audience Favourite | In Her Defence: When the accused is also a victim
1/13/2025
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.
Duration:00:46:06
Bonus | Bad Results: The “Fake Baby"
1/6/2025
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 Houlihan track down the people whose lives were torn apart by these bad results, the shattered families and acrimonious court cases that followed, and the story behind the company that continues to stand by its testing and is still operating today.
More episodes of Bad Results are available here.
Duration:00:35:35
Bonus | Lords of Death
12/30/2024
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 connected to other unsolved cases? Join Thrasher as he unpacks this box and searches for answers about the “Lords of Death.”
Listen now or subscribe to Tenderfoot+ to binge the show ad-free! More episodes are available at: https://lnk.to/lordsofdeath
Duration:00:33:20
The Gas Man: The unlikely figure behind some of Iran’s deadliest crimes
12/23/2024
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 in a pharmacy in Germany to visiting the battlefields of Iran.
Feedback for us? You can email us directly at crimestory@cbc.ca.
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Duration:00:29:26
The voice of a killer? What a taped call says about Amber Tuccaro's disappearance.
12/16/2024
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 Pruden, titled 'In Her Defence: When the accused is also a victim.'
Feedback for us? You can email us directly at crimestory@cbc.ca.
Duration:00:35:52
339 bodies in the woods: the Noble crematory story
12/9/2024
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 what happened more than two decades ago at Tri State Crematory and wrestles with the question: what do the living owe the dead?
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Duration:00:28:40
Carl Miller was a regular academic. Then he found the Kill List.
12/2/2024
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.
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Duration:00:36:20
Ruby Franke: The dark secrets behind her Youtube fame
11/25/2024
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.
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Duration:00:36:24
Man in the Window: Tracking down the Golden State Killer
11/18/2024
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 State Killer to learn his true identity.
Note: This episode contains details of sexual violence.
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Duration:00:41:03
Someone Knows Something: The Christine Harron Case | Episode 1
11/11/2024
Christine Harron didn’t feel well on May 18, 1993, and stayed home from school — but eventually her mother insisted that she get to afternoon class. Chrissy left, slamming the door, and would never be seen again. How can someone simply vanish, and did the local police find anything of use in their investigation?
Subscribers of CBC True Crime Premium can binge all episodes of Someone Knows Something Season 9 right now.
Duration:00:35:42
A Killer Confessed and Still Walked Free. Why? | Someone Knows Something Exclusive
11/4/2024
In the Spring of 1993, 15-year-old Christine Harron said goodbye to her mom and left for school. She was never seen again. More than 30 years later, there’s still no sign of her.
In the latest season of his hit podcast Someone Knows Something, investigative journalist David Ridgen picks up Christine’s case and comes face to face with the prime suspect in her disappearance. Watch this full interview on YouTube.
You can hear Episode 1 of the Christine Harron investigation right now via CBC True Crime Premium on Apple Podcasts or on YouTube.
Duration:00:32:13
Dirty John: The inside story of a true crime landmark
10/28/2024
Debra Newell was ready to give up on love. By the fall of 2014, she’d been married and divorced four times and was reeling from a string of bad dates. But then she met John Meehan, and it seemed like her luck was finally changing. Meehan was a handsome doctor who doted on Newell. She fell in love almost immediately. Two months later, they were married.
But Newell would eventually discover that Meehan wasn’t a charming doctor at all – he was a serial con artist with a violent past. Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard joins Crime Story to take us behind the scenes of Dirty John, one of the most popular true crime podcasts of all time.
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Duration:00:32:42
The kidnapping of Wenbo Jin: Why international students are being held for ransom
10/21/2024
On January 21 2020, Wenbo Jin woke up just after 4 a.m. to the sounds of two men ransacking his apartment. The 24-year-old had left his home in China to study statistics at the University of Toronto. That night, Wenbo lay there, terrified, as his dream of higher education in Canada turned into a nightmare at the hands of criminals with a diabolical scheme.
This week on Crime Story, journalist Simon Lewsen takes us inside Wenbo Jin’s apartment and reveals the surprising reason kidnappers are targeting international students.
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Duration:00:35:01
Sins of the Child: Are parents responsible for the crimes of their children?
10/14/2024
In 2015, the small town of Oxford, Michigan became the scene of a uniquely American nightmare: a school shooting. It was, tragically, like many of the mass shootings that had come before it. A lonely young man with access to guns and a history of mental illness. A number of warning signs that went unnoticed. But then, something happened that had never been done before: the prosecutors charged the shooter's parents, too.
This week on Crime Story, I speak with Jessica Lowther, who unpacks this story in her new podcast Sins of the Child.
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Duration:00:33:20