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True North True Crime
by truenorthtruecrime
True North True Crime is one of Canada's most listened-to independent true crime podcasts, with more than 10 million downloads worldwide. Dedicated to victim-centred storytelling, the podcast focuses on missing persons, unsolved cases, and victims of violent crime from across Canada. Recognized by Apple Podcasts as a Creators We Love selection and featured by Amazon Music and Spotify, the hosts have also appeared on CTV News, Global News, and in documentaries discussing cases covered by the podcast. New episodes every other week Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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The Girl in the Park - Part 3
M. was thirteen when she was murdered in Burnaby’s Central Park in July 2017. Ibrahim Ali was arrested and charged with first degree murder in September 2018. This is Part Three, the final episode in our series on her case. After eight months of trial, both sides deliver their closing arguments,...
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The Girl in the Park - Part 2
M. was thirteen when she was murdered in Burnaby's Central Park in July 2017. Ibrahim Ali was arrested and charged with first degree murder in September 2018. This is Part Two of our three-part series on her case. In this episode, we take you inside the courtroom for Ali's trial, which began in...
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The Girl in the Park - Part 1
M. was thirteen years old. She loved anime and sewing her own costumes. On the evening of July 18, 2017, she was murdered in Burnaby's Central Park. Her body was found there on July 19, 2017. This crime shocked British Columbia and Canada. In this episode, we tell you about M. and her family, and...
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Shawn Reineke
In September 1984, eighteen-year-old Shawn Reineke went to a university dance in Saskatoon. At some point that night, a group of strangers pranked him while he was passed out drunk, then left him alone in the building. Hours later, he was found at the bottom of a garbage chute, nine floors below....
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Adam Cormack
In June 2017, twenty-five-year-old Adam Cormack was shot once in the head and left near a gravel pit outside Whitehorse, Yukon. Within days, Yukon RCMP had a suspect in custody: Edward Penner. Two years later, a jury convicted Penner of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to life in prison...
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MMIMB: Anthony Primozic - Part 2
In March 2026, four years after Anthony Primozic died in Haines Junction, Yukon, Seth Boss finally stood trial in Yukon Supreme Court on a charge of second-degree murder. Nobody disputed that he caused Anthony's death. The three-week trial came down to one question: could the Crown prove what he...
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MMIMB: Anthony Primozic - Part 1
Anthony Primozic was 25 years old, a proud citizen of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations from Haines Junction, Yukon. By every account from the people who loved him, one of the kindest people in his community. In March 2022, he was killed in his own home by someone he barely knew. In part…
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Nadine Robinson
In July 2006, 36-year-old nurse and mother Nadine Robinson, also known in media reports as Nadine Robinson-Creary, was found murdered inside her Edmonton, Alberta home. Twenty years later, her homicide remains unsolved, no one has ever been charged, and her family is still searching for answers.…
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Part 2 - Debra Entwistle
In March 1993, Debra Kayla Entwistle was murdered in her home in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Her former common-law partner Leonard Neveu confessed, led investigators to her remains, and admitted in an Edmonton courtroom that he killed her. He refused to plead guilty to second degree murder. The...
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Part 1 - Debra Entwistle
In March 1993, Debra Kayla Entwistle was weeks away from leaving Fort McMurray for good. She had spent years trying to escape a violent man, and she had finally done it. Her father had an apartment waiting for her in Vernon, British Columbia. She never made it. On the morning of March 24th, her...
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MMIWG: Karen Tessier
Karen Tessier was 57 years old when she was last seen on July 9th, 2024, in Fort Nelson, British Columbia. Five days later her vehicle was found burned in a remote area outside of town. She has not been found. No arrest has been made. In this episode we speak with Karen's mother Elizabeth, an…
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The Johnson and Bentley Family Murders
In August 1982, David William Shearing murdered six members of the Johnson and Bentley families while they were on a camping trip near Wells Gray Provincial Park in British Columbia. George and Edith Bentley, their daughter Jackie Johnson, her husband Bob Johnson, and the couple’s two young...
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MISSING: Liam Toman
In this episode, we speak with the family of missing 22-year-old Liam Toman — his father Chris, mother Kathleen, and stepmother Lara. Liam disappeared during a ski trip to Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, in the early morning hours of February 2, 2025. He was last seen walking back toward his hotel in the...
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Bailey McCourt - Part 2
Hours after being convicted of assaulting his wife Bailey McCourt, James Plover walked out of a Kelowna courthouse on existing bail. Within three hours, she was dead, killed in a parking lot in broad daylight in front of witnesses. She was 32 years old and a mother of two. This is Part 2 of a...
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Bailey McCourt - Part 1
Bailey McCourt was a 32-year-old mother of two from Kelowna, British Columbia. In June of 2024, her husband, James Plover, assaulted her inside their home, grabbing her by the throat and threatening to kill her. Bailey called 911. Plover was charged with assault by choking and uttering threats.…
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MMIMB: Sebastian Moore
Sebastian Moore was seventeen years old when he was stabbed and killed in Terrace, British Columbia on the night of November 26th, 2023. A youth was taken into custody but after more than a year of investigation, Crown Counsel declined to approve charges, determining the incident met the legal...
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MISSING: Deeanna Erickson
UPDATE: Since the release of this episode, Deeanna Erickson has been located. Calgary Police have stated that the case is non-criminal and have not released further details. Her sister has shared that Deeanna has passed away. We extend our condolences to Shelby and to all those who knew and loved...
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The Vaughan Condo Shooting
On December 18, 2022, a mass shooting event inside Bellaria Tower II in Vaughan, Ontario left five people dead. Francesco Villi, a 73-year-old resident of the Bellaria condominium at 9235 Jane Street, carried out the attack after years of escalating legal disputes with the condo board. Within...
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Candace Derksen
In this episode, we examine the 1984 murder of 13-year-old Candace Derksen in Winnipeg. Candace vanished on her way home from school in November of that year. Weeks later, her body was discovered in a storage shed, bound and left in the cold. We trace the investigation, the arrest and trial, and...
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Shane Smith
In the summer of 2020, 20-year-old Shane Eric James Smith vanished in Calgary. He was last seen on June 6, and within days police believed he had been shot and killed by a friend at a southeast Calgary residence. In the weeks that followed, the Calgary Police Service charged Ian Charles…
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A Conversation with Gillian Millam of BC CrimeStoppers
In this previously TNTC+ episode, we sit down with Gillian Millam, former Metropolitan Police officer from the U.K. and current Executive Director of British Columbia Crime Stoppers. Gillian began working with Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers in 2015 and went on to coordinate one of the province’s...
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The Murder of Michael Carmen and the Birth of Crime Stoppers
In July 1976, a young gas station attendant named Michael Carmen was shot and killed during a late-night robbery in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His death seemed destined to become another unsolved case in a city struggling with rising crime and few witnesses willing to speak. But one Canadian-born...
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Shabir Niazi
In this previously TNTC+ exclusive episode, we dive into the homicide case of Shabir Niazi out of Ajax Ontario. Shabir Niazi, who was 22 years old at the time, was found shot to death in the garage of a home on Roosevelt Avenue. The case drew significant attention due to a series of legal...
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True Crime Holiday Hangout
On this Christmas Day episode of True North True Crime, we’re joined by Madelayne Klein and Jordan Bonaparte from The Canadian Gothic for a year-end roundtable. Together, we reflect on the cases from 2025 that stayed with us, the shifts and trends we’ve seen across the true crime space, and how...
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Keisha Garie
It was a quiet Monday afternoon in Burnaby, British Columbia, when police were called to a residential street near Alpha Secondary School. A passerby had noticed a parked vehicle and looked inside — making a discovery that would devastate two families and spark a complex investigation. The bodies...
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Christine Jessop
On October 3rd, 1984, nine-year-old Christine Jessop disappeared from her home in Queensville, Ontario. Her case became one of the most highly scrutinized investigations in Canadian history, marked by a wrongful conviction, decades of unanswered questions, and a search for justice that stretched...
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The Maine Registry Murders
This episode was originally a TNTC+ bonus episode. In April 2006, a 20-year-old man drove from Nova Scotia to Maine with a chilling plan. Armed with names and addresses from the state’s sex offender registry, he hunted down two men, Joseph Gray and William Elliott, in a series of calculated...
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Inside the World of Cadaver Canines
In this previously TNTC+ bonus episode, we're taking you inside a world few people truly understand — the work of cadaver search dogs and their handlers. We’re joined by Jason McMillan, Vice President and K9 Handler with Canadian Cadaver Canines — a volunteer-based team that assists in searches…
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The Last Hangings in Canada
On a cold December night in 1962, two men were led through the echoing halls of Toronto’s Don Jail. Beneath their feet, a trapdoor waited. Minutes later, Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin became the last people ever executed in Canadian history. In this special Halloween episode, we step back into...
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The Murder of Wayne Mallette and the Wrongful Conviction of Ron Moffatt
Seven-year-old Wayne Mallette vanished on the deserted grounds of Toronto’s Canadian National Exhibition on September 15, 1956. Within days, police zeroed in on 14-year-old Ron Moffatt, extracting a confession during a parent- and lawyer-free interrogation and securing a juvenile conviction—while...
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Donna Awcock
On the night of October 12, 1983, 17-year-old Donna Jean Awcock was babysitting for a neighbour in London, Ontario. When her shift ended, she set out for a short walk — but she never made it home. The next morning, October 13, Donna’s body was found near the Thames River by the Fanshawe Dam. She...
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Mathew McGrath
In January 2024, 52-year-old Mathew McGrath went missing from Carleton Place, Ontario. For four months his family searched desperately, until his body was discovered in the Mississippi River that May. The coroner ruled his cause of death as drowning, but the manner was left undetermined. Police...
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MMIWG: Patricia Calahasen
It was the early hours of August 3rd, 2001, in Edmonton, Alberta, when fire crews responded to a dumpster blaze behind a central apartment building. Once the flames were out, they made a horrifying discovery — the burned remains of a young woman. For nearly two weeks, investigators worked to find...
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MISSING: Dylan Koshman
In October 2008, 21-year-old Dylan Koshman disappeared from south Edmonton after a late-night argument with his cousins. He left the house wearing only jeans and a t-shirt—and without his phone, wallet, or jacket—never to be seen again. Initially treated as a missing-person case, the…
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The Saanich Bank Shooting
👉 Content warning: this episode contains audio of gunfire. On June 28, 2022, a quiet day at a Bank of Montreal in Saanich, British Columbia, exploded into chaos when two heavily armed men stormed the building, triggering a deadly shootout with police. In the midst of gunfire, six officers put...
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The Murder of Lynne Harper and the Wrongful Conviction of Steven Truscott
In June 1959, 12-year-old Lynne Harper disappeared from the small community of Clinton, Ontario. Two days later, her body was found in a wooded area near a rural concession road. What followed was one of the most infamous wrongful convictions in Canadian history. Steven Truscott, a 14-year-old...
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Malcolm Madsen - Part 2
After Malcolm Madsen vanished in Puerto Vallarta, his daughter Brooke began a relentless effort to uncover the truth. In Part 2 of our coverage, we trace how the case progressed within Mexico’s legal system. With key evidence—including GPS data and surveillance footage—Brooke pushes forward…
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Malcolm Madsen
This is part one of a two-part series on the disappearance of Malcom Madsen. Malcom was a 68-year-old Canadian man who went missing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in October 2018. In this episode, we look at who Malcom was, his life in Mexico, and the night he was last seen. We’re joined by…
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MMIMB: Byron Watson
On November 26, 2023, 23-year-old Byron Watson left his auntie’s home on Lonsdale Street in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. He told his family he’d be back later that day — but he never returned. Byron, a member of the Nekaneet Cree Nation, was a well-known presence in the small community of Maple...
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MISSING: Jessie Foster
In March 2006, 21-year-old Jessie Foster who was from Kamloops BC, vanished from North Las Vegas under circumstances that point to a disturbing pattern of trafficking and violence against women. Nearly two decades later, her case remains unsolved—but her story is far from forgotten. In this...
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Behind the Badge: A Conversation with Sergeant Chris Voller of the NPF
This week on True North True Crime, we're stepping outside our usual format to offer a rare look behind the badge. Sergeant Chris Voller of the National Police Federation joins us for a candid conversation about the realities of frontline policing in 2025. Representing over 20,000 RCMP members...
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Aspen Pallot - Part 2
In Part One, we shared Aspen Pallot’s vibrant life and the devastating impact of intimate partner violence. Now, in Part Two, we follow her family’s painful journey through the Canadian justice system—a process that felt cold, slow, and disconnected. The trial hinged on intent: was Solaris Dey...
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Lilly and Jack Sullivan - with Jordan Bonaparte from the Nighttime Podcast
This week on True North True Crime, we’re joined by Jordan from The Nighttime Podcast to examine the troubling and still-unfolding case of Lily and Jack Sullivan, two young siblings who vanished from their rural property in Lansdowne Station, Nova Scotia, on the morning of May 2, 2025. According…
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Aspen Pallot - Part 1
Aspen Pallot was 19 years old when she was murdered by her boyfriend, 22-year-old Solaris Day, on October 3, 2018, in Richmond, British Columbia. In this first episode of a two-part series, we focus on Aspen’s life—who she was, how she loved, and the deep bond she shared with her family. Aspen’s...
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Matthew Perry
On October 28, 2023, beloved actor Matthew Perry was found dead in his Los Angeles home. Initially reported as an accidental drowning, new evidence has emerged that suggests something far more sinister. In this episode, we examine the circumstances surrounding Perry’s final days, the details from...
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MMIWG: Juanita "Winnie" Migwans
Juanita “Winnie” Migwans, a 31-year-old Indigenous woman from M’Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island, has been missing since October 4, 2024. She was last seen walking along Riverside Drive in M’Chigeeng. She disappeated without her phone, identification, or personal belongings . Her sudden...
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MISSING: Audrey Desjardins
On October 3, 1996, 42-year-old Audrey Desjardins finished her night shift at a fruit packing plant in St. Davids, Ontario. After dropping off a friend in Welland, she vanished without a trace—along with her red Ford Crown Victoria. Despite extensive searches, including multiple dives in regional...
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Nicholas Adamson
On March 17, 2022, 29-year-old Nicholas Adamson vanished after a night out at The Moose & Goose nightclub in Thorold, Ontario. After stepping outside to make a phone call around 1 a.m., he was denied re-entry into the club. Surveillance footage later captured him walking away along Sullivan…
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Kiara Agnew
In March 2023, 23-year-old Kiara Agnew from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, was found dead at a resort in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. This episode examines the circumstances of her death, the official investigation, and the broader issues of safety while traveling abroad. Gofundme:...
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Cody Dempster - Part 1
In the spring of 2011, the community of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, was shaken by the suspicious death of 16-year-old Cody Dempster. He was found unresponsive in a downtown alley and later pronounced dead—his passing eventually ruled a homicide. The RCMP initially had suspects, but…
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True North True Crime is one of Canada's most listened-to independent true crime podcasts, with more than 10 million downloads worldwide.
Dedicated to victim-centred storytelling, the podcast focuses on missing persons, unsolved cases, and victims of violent crime from across Canada.
Recognized by Apple Podcasts as a Creators We Love selection and featured by Amazon Music and Spotify, the hosts have also appeared on CTV News, Global News, and in documentaries discussing cases covered by the podcast.
New episodes every other week
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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