13 Hours Inside the Nova Scotia Massacre

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Canada’s worst shooting spree in modern history has left us with far more questions than answers. Journey inside every single hour of this tragedy as it happened with Global News Halifax reporter Sarah Ritchie. This 13-part true crime series will try to piece together exactly what happened and what could or should have been done to prevent it.

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July 2021 Update

07.13.2021

The 13 Hours team brings you an update on what’s happened since the series wrapped in April. A local magazine has been publishing leaked information that some say may have come from a source inside the RCMP. That includes audio ...

13 Hours Inside the Nova Scotia Massacre episodes:

07.13.2021 July 2021 Update The 13 Hours team brings you an update on what’s happened since the series wrapped in April. A local magazine has been publishing leaked information that some say may have come from a source inside the RCMP. That includes audio ...
06.22.2021 Introducing... China Rising Introducing Episode 1 of China Rising - Hostage Diplomacy On the first episode of China Rising, we examine the Chinese government's practice of detaining political prisoners, by hearing directly from Canadians who've become caught in the crossfire. Christian aid workers ...
04.12.2021 The Pathway to Murder \| 13 In this final episode, the gunman is killed in a chance encounter with police at a gas station, ending 13 hours of horror in Nova Scotia. But this story begins decades before April 18, 2020. Family members describe a pattern ...
03.29.2021 In The Dark \| 12 Episode 12 begins with the story of the final hour of the killing spree, and the gunman’s final victim. A mysterious phone call alerted Gina Goulet’s daughter that something was wrong on the morning of April 19, 2020. In this ...
03.15.2021 Collision Course \| 11 This episode picks up the gunman’s movements through central Nova Scotia on the morning of April 19, 2020, as he drove toward Halifax. A chance encounter put him in the paths of two RCMP officers. Constables Chad Morrison and Heidi ...
03.03.2021 Breaking News: SIRT Report Released Nova Scotia’s independent police watchdog, the Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), has concluded two RCMP officers who shot at the fire hall in Lower Onslow, N.S., during the manhunt for Gabriel Wortman should not face criminal charges. The SIRT report ...
03.01.2021 Friendly Fire \| 10 On the morning of April 19, 2020, Greg Muise and Darrell Currie were preparing the Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade to help evacuees from Portapique, N.S. Suddenly, shots rang out and bullets sprayed the building, forcing them and others to run ...
02.15.2021 Too Little Too Late \| 9 At 8:02 AM, Nova Scotia RCMP Tweeted that they were responding to an “active shooter situation” in Portapique. Five minutes later, they told other police forces they were searching for Gabriel Wortman, who was wanted for homicide and considered armed ...
02.01.2021 Daybreak \| 8 In this episode, we hear from police on scene in Portapique for the first time through recently uncovered recordings of their radio communications. The recordings show police were having communication issues and navigation issues as they searched for the gunman ...
01.18.2021 Origins \| 7 This episode begins more than a decade before the events of April 18 and 19, 2020, when the gunman travelled to Fredericton, New Brunswick to clean out the apartment of his "dear friend," Tom Evans. People who knew them say ...
01.04.2021 Communication Breakdown \| 6 Overnight on April 18 and 19, 2020, Nova Scotia RCMP were searching for a gunman who had murdered 13 people and lit buildings on fire in Portapique. It turns out that police had been warned about the gunman nearly a ...
12.21.2020 Injustice Collector \| 5 On June 4, 2020, Nova Scotia RCMP said that a psychological autopsy of Gabriel Wortman found that he was an injustice collector, "one who held onto conflict or differences with others, turning them inward until they boiled over in rage." ...
12.07.2020 Red Flags \| 4 Overnight on April 18, 2020, Gabriel Wortman was hiding out in an industrial area in the town of Debert, N.S. According to surveillance footage, he arrived at 11:12 p.m., 27 minutes after police said he left Portapique. But this is ...
11.23.2020 Emergency Response \| 3 On April 18, 2020, police respond to several 911 calls from Portapique, N.S. Gabriel Wortman has killed several of his neighbours and set some of their homes on fire. The first police officers who arrive find several people dead and ...
11.09.2020 Stolen Dreams \|2 The first sign from the outside that something was horribly wrong in Portapique, Nova Scotia, was rush of 911 calls around 10 p.m. Saturday, April 18, 2020 was an otherwise quiet night across the province. Much of the world was ...
11.09.2020 A Shattered Quiet \|1 On Saturday, April 18, 2020 communities everywhere were on lock down to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the quiet, coastal town of Portapique, Nova Scotia, Canada. But a 51-year-old denturist with a violent past named Gabriel Wortman ...
10.14.2020 Introducing 13 Hours Inside the Nova Scotia Massacre The deadliest shooting spree in Canada’s modern history left us with far more questions than answers. Join Sarah Ritchie, a reporter for Global News in Halifax, as she tries to unravel how something like this could happen there. Sarah will ...