Crime Story

By CBC

What's Crime Story about?

Fraud. Abduction. Murder. Every week, Crime Story host and investigative journalist Kathleen Goldhar goes deep into a true crime case with the storyteller who knows it best.

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Crime Story episodes:

04.29.2024
Ghost Story: A family murder mystery disturbs the past
Tristan Redman didn’t believe in ghosts ... until he was all but forced to consider the possibility. His new podcast, Ghost Story, investigates a murder in his own family and the stories we tell ourselves about the past. For...
04.22.2024
After Sandy Hook: Alex Jones and the battle for truth in America
Go deep inside one of America’s most pernicious lies with New York Times reporter, Elizabeth Williamson, who spent years uncovering the origins of the myth that Sandy Hook was a hoax. For early access to Crime Story episodes and...
04.15.2024
The Retrievals: Why is female pain so often ignored?
The women in this story came to a fertility clinic at Yale hoping to become pregnant. They arrived expecting the utmost in care. But when a surgical procedure caused them excruciating pain, their doctors dismissed it. Susan Burton is...
04.08.2024
After ‘The Staircase’: Margie Ratliff tallies the damage
Margie Ratliff wishes she could be scrubbed from the documentary that made her famous. In 2004, she appeared in The Staircase, a groundbreaking documentary series about the murder trial of her father, Michael Peterson. Margie was 22- years-old when...
04.01.2024
The Line: Inside America’s Forever Wars
In 2018, former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher was accused of committing war crimes. In The Line, Dan Taberski, creator of hit podcasts, Missing Richard Simmons and Running from COPS, unpacks his story and explores the increasingly blurry line between right...
03.25.2024
Scamanda: She lied about having cancer and stole over $100,000 in donations. How? Why?
For nearly ten years, Amanda C. Riley relied on her community as she struggled through multiple relapses of cancer. Family, friends, and a group of online strangers supported Amanda emotionally, and made financial donations. There was just one problem: Amanda...
03.18.2024
Murder in Boston: When a racist lie hoodwinked America
In 1989, the city of Boston was gripped by the murder of Carol Stuart. Stuart was seven months pregnant when her husband Chuck told police a Black man shot and killed her. The police tore through Boston’s predominantly Black community...
03.11.2024
Madness, Murder and Music: Phil Spector and the tragic death of Lana Clarkson
Lana Clarkson was a budding comedian when her life took a tragic turn. On a shift at The House of Blues, she met the troubled “pop genius", Phil Spector. Spector worked with everyone from The Beatles to Tina Turner, but...
03.04.2024
Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University
Why would an Ivy League institution protect a serial predator? In this episode, medical journalist Laura Beil, behind the award-winning podcast, “Dr. Death,” joins Crime Story to discuss her explosive investigation into New York’s most prolific sexual predator and the university...
02.26.2024
I Got A Name: Murder In The Far North
When a mysterious letter arrived on Eliza Robertson's doorstep, she didn't know what to think. It spoke of a young woman who had been murdered 30 years prior – and the culprit never found. Robertson was a fiction writer, but...
02.19.2024
Mythologizing Manson: The Original Cult Leader
In 1969, Charles Manson unleashed his cult of murderous hippies onto the LA Hills. Decades later, it’s a saga that continues to inspire books, movies and memes. But how well do we really know the story that led to seven...
02.12.2024
In Her Defence: When the accused is also a victim
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...
02.05.2024
A School They Called Alcatraz: Kuper Island
Why would children risk their lives to run away from school? In the heart-wrenching podcast, Kuper Island, journalist Duncan McCue investigates the suspicious death of Richard Thomas, a student at Kuper Island Residential School. McCue uncovers stifled police investigations, confronts...
01.29.2024
Bear Brook: The Science of Wrongful Confessions
Sharon Johnson’s family has spent decades coping with her brutal murder. But what if the story they were told is a lie? What if the man imprisoned for her murder is innocent? In season two of Jason Moon’s hit podcast...
01.22.2024
Abducted in Plain Sight: The Jan Broberg story
Abducted in Plain Sight is a shocking, enraging watch that begs viewers to hold their judgment– even when it feels impossible. Skye Borgman is the award-winning director behind the film, which tells the story of a young girl abducted not...
01.15.2024
The Perfect Story: Can the truth stand if a subject lies?
Michelle Shephard was reporting in Mogadishu when she met a young refugee named Ismael Abdulle. Abdulle was 17 when he said local militants cut off his hand and foot for refusing to join the terrorist group, al-Shabab. Shephard brought Abdulle’s...
01.08.2024
The Murdaughs: Murder, Corruption and the Fall of an American Dynasty
For nearly one hundred years, the Murdaugh family dominated rural South Carolina. No one dared cross them. But that changed in 2019 when one of the Murdaughs was involved in a tragic boating accident. Mandy Matney was a local reporter...
01.01.2024
Bikram: Fitness Guru or Con Artist?
In the early 2000s, Bikram Yoga spread across North America like wildfire. It was a multi-billion dollar business, spurred on by its eccentric founder, Bikram Choudhury. Choudhury was as close to yoga royalty as you could get and was unafraid...
12.18.2023
Alligator Candy: Every Parent’s Nightmare
In 1973, Jon Kushner set off on his bicycle with plans to pick up candy for his little brother, David. But when he didn’t return home, Jon’s parents panicked. A week later, he was discovered in a shallow grave. He...
12.11.2023
Devil in the Ditch: A Southern Murder Mystery
Larrison Campbell had just started a new job in New York City when her father called with terrible news. Her beloved grandmother, Presh, had been murdered in their hometown of Greenville, Mississippi. The news inspired endless theories and suspicions. In...
12.04.2023
Madness of Two: Aliens and the Apocalypse
Chad and Lori looked like the picture of newlywed happiness when they landed in Hawaii. But what they didn’t share was that they were fugitives, on the run from a spree of murders that included Lori’s own children. In this...
11.27.2023
Unabomber: Beyond the Myth
Ted Kaczynski terrorized the United States with his homemade bombs for nearly 20 years. Ever since his capture, Kaczynski’s story has been the subject of countless books and TV shows trying to unpack his unique psychology. Was the unabomber a...
11.20.2023
The Teacher’s Pet: Solving a cold case 40 years later
When Lyn Dawson disappeared in 1982, many suspected her husband Chris Dawson had something to do with it. But for 40 years, the case went nowhere and Chris was free to live his life. All that changed when journalist Hedley...
11.13.2023
The Girlfriends: Doctor. Pilot. Murderer?
When Carole Fisher met Bob Bierenbaum in 1989, he seemed like a catch. He was a Jewish doctor who spoke five languages, a gourmand who loved skiing, and a New Yorker who could fly planes. He was every Jewish mother’s...
11.06.2023
The Human Scale: Love and Death
On December 1, 2016, police found the body of Dr. Elana Fric in a suitcase by the Humber River. Her husband, Dr. Mohammed Shamji, was arrested the next day. The murder and arrest made immediate headlines with Shamji as the...
10.30.2023
The Attack of Lenard Clark: Chicago Divided
In 1997, Lenard Clark was beaten into a coma by a gang of white teens simply for being Black in a white neighbourhood. One of Clark’s attackers was from a powerful Chicago family, with ties dating back to Al Capone....
10.23.2023
Chasing Cosby: The Rise & Fall of America’s Dad
For nearly 50 years, Bill Cosby charmed America. But behind the scenes, there were rumours of something sinister – that Cosby was drugging and assaulting women. Nicole Weisensee Egan was the first reporter to dig into the claims against Cosby, when...
10.16.2023
NXIVM: Inside The Celebrity Cult
When Josh Bloch ran into an old friend on Hornby Island, he had no idea what would come next. Sarah had just left a cult called NXIVM and was afraid for her safety. She had spent years under NXIVM’s control,...
10.16.2023
Bone Valley: ‘Why is Leo Schofield still in jail?’
In 2018, author Gilbert King received a tip from a Florida judge that there was a man in prison serving a life sentence he didn’t deserve. King’s pursuit of that lead became Bone Valley—a remarkable podcast about cold blooded murder,...
09.20.2023
Introducing Crime Story
Every week, Crime Story brings you an in-depth conversation with a storyteller who has lived and breathed a tale of true crime. Go inside some of the most riveting and complex crimes in recent memory. Crime Story drops Mondays, starting...