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True Crime Byline
by Postmedia
True crime podcasts have been having a moment — and, more often than not, behind those podcasts are doggedly determined reporters: People who hit the street, knock on doors and ask hard questions. Because of their work, we often know every little detail about the crimes they cover, but what we don't hear enough is what it was actually like to report on those stories, to sit in courtrooms, chase down leads, get to know family members and talk to witnesses. True Crime Byline — a podcast by Postmedia and Antica Productions — sets out to do this.
Episodes
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The Case Lori Culbert Got Wrong
After Amanda Zhao was reported missing in October 2002, Vancouver Sun reporter Lori Culburt went to Zhao's apartment to interview Zhao's boyfriend, Ang Li. She'll never forget the conversation she had with the seemingly grief-stricken man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
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The Toronto 18: A Story of Radicalization and Rehabilitation.
In 2006, when the RCMP arrested 18 young men who were planning a series of attacks on Canadian soil, it forced Canadians to face the idea of homegrown terrorism. National Post reporter Adrian Humphreys spent years following the stories and transformations of the men who were part of the terror...
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Humboldt Broncos Bus Crash Changed a Town (and a Reporter) Forever
When Kevin Mitchell first heard the Humboldt Broncos bus had crashed on its way to a playoff game, he assumed it was a fender bender. But the Saskatoon StarPhoenix sports editor soon realized an unthinkable tragedy was unfolding. He would spend much of the next year in the community, observing…
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Out of The Ordinary: The Tragic Story of Brandon Truaxe
Brandon Truaxe built the hugely profitable cosmetics empire Deciem — and then plunged it into chaos. From a psychiatric hospital in England he reached out to National Post reporter Joseph Brean to share his side of the story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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An Unthinkable Tragedy in the Ottawa Valley
One call, then another, then a third. Ottawa Citizen reporter Aedan Helmer vividly remembers what it was like in the newsroom on Sept. 22, 2015 when the police scanner crackled with the news that three bodies had been found in cottage country – and the killer was still on the loose. In the days…
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“They Believed Him”
There had long been stories in Saskatoon’s Indigenous community about police taking Indigenous people out of town and leaving them there in the dead of winter. But it wasn’t until one young man survived the ordeal that it created a public reckoning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
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The Exoneration of David Milgaard and the Trial of Larry Fisher
Nearly 30 years after David Milgaard was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of Gail Miller the real killer — Larry Fisher — was charged and tried. Then-Saskatoon StarPhoenix reporter Les Perreaux kept tabs on Fisher before he was arrested and covered his trial in the small community of Yorkton....
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Cocaine, Coyotes & The Coquihalla Highway
As the RCMP prepared to seize millions of dollars worth of cocaine and ecstasy moving across the Canada-U.S. border, they made a curious decision: to bring a journalist inside the fold of the operation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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9/11 Changed Everything. Including This Reporter.
Brad Hunter was a reporter with the New York Post when the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001. Covering the tragedy and its aftermath did more than define his career — it defined the rest of his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Dellen Millard Almost Got Away with Murder
Tim Bosma disappeared in 2013 after leaving home with two men to test drive a truck he was selling online. Police eventually charged Dellen Millard and Mark Smich with murder. Not long after, they discovered this wasn’t Millard’s first time killing. National Post reporter Adrian Humphreys…
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Lev Tahor: The Case of a Missing Community
One winter day in 2013, nearly 250 members of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group called Lev Tahor vanished from the remote town of Saint Agathe, Quebec. As Montreal Gazette reporter Jason Magder investigated, he heard concerning stories: of child abuse, of children taken away from their parents, and…
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How Covering the Bernardo Trial Changed Tom Blackwell
National Post reporter Tom Blackwell has tried to block out many things about the murder trial of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, but what he doesn’t want to forget is what he learned from the victims’ families. Years later, his understanding of how his words can resonate with the loved ones of...
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A Politician Murdered his Ex Wife. We Should Have Seen it Coming
In 1983, the murder of JoAnn Wilson shocked Canadians. But looking back on it today, what's most surprising is that we were surprised it happened at all. Wilson was killed by her ex-husband, former Saskatchewan cabinet minister Colin Thatcher, amidst a prolonged battle over the custody of their...
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The Article that Blew Up a Murder Trial
Today we'd do it without even thinking about it. But back in 2005, Googling a person — even the star witness in a murder trial — wasn’t commonplace. But as National Post reporter Joseph Brean settled into covering the murder trial of Kevin Madden, a teenager charged with killing his 12-year-old...
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This Isn't a Story About Robert Pickton
It started with a tip from a police source: The number of women reported missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside was much higher than publicly reported. A dogged investigation by a team of journalists at the Vancouver Sun told the stories of these missing mothers, daughters and sisters — and...
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Introducing True Crime Byline
Behind every crime headline is a doggedly determined reporter whose job it is to hit the street, knock on doors and ask hard questions. Because of their work, we often know every little detail about the crimes they cover — but what we don't hear enough is what it was actually like to report on...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
True crime podcasts have been having a moment — and, more often than not, behind those podcasts are doggedly determined reporters: People who hit the street, knock on doors and ask hard questions.
Because of their work, we often know every little detail about the crimes they cover, but what we don't hear enough is what it was actually like to report on those stories, to sit in courtrooms, chase down leads, get to know family members and talk to witnesses.
True Crime Byline — a podcast by Postmedia and Antica Productions — sets out to do this.
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True crime podcasts have been having a moment — and, more often than not, behind those podcasts are doggedly determined reporters: People who hit the street, knock on doors and ask hard questions. Because of their work, we often know every little detail about the crimes they cover, but what we...
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