Crime Story

Crime Story

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Crime Story episodes

  • House of Gucci: Family. Fortune. Murder.

    Maurizio Gucci was killed in 1995 outside his Milan office. Police scrambled until a tipster came forward with a shocking claim: it was an inside job. Journalist Sara Gay Forden takes us inside this epic family drama.


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    This episode's transcript can be found here.

    34 min
  • An insider’s view of Heaven's Gate and the tragic mass suicide of 39 followers

    In 1997, members of a cult named Heaven's Gate took their lives in a mass suicide. Glynn Washington grew up in a cult and remembers thinking, could that have been me? Washington is now host of the podcast, Heaven’s Gate, and joins Crime Story to help us understand how 39 people were driven to death.


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    This episode's transcript can be found here.

    41 min
  • Scandal in Dublin: The killer who toppled a government

    Dive into the gripping tale of Malcolm Macarthur, Dublin's charming socialite turned bank robber, whose desperate bid to maintain his lavish lifestyle spiraled into tragedy and scandal.


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    This episode's transcript can be found here.

    38 min
  • 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 early access to Crime Story episodes and to listen ad-free, subscribe to CBC's True Crime channel here.


    This episode's transcript can be found here.

    39 min
  • 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 to listen ad-free, subscribe to CBC's True Crime channel here.


    This episode's transcript can be found here.

    1 hr 4 min
  • 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 the host of The Retrievals, a podcast that exposes what was actually going on behind the scenes. In this episode, we discuss the shocking source of the patients’ pain and ask why we still tolerate and misinterpret women’s pain.


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    This episode's transcript can be found here.

    42 min
  • 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 it aired and has never escaped the documentary’s notoriety. 


    In this special episode of Crime Story, Margie joins us alongside directors of the new film, Subject, Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall. Subject explores the ethics of ‘docu-tainment’ and asks, in the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? 


    For early access to Crime Story episodes and to listen ad-free, subscribe to CBC's True Crime channel here.


    This episode's transcript can be found here.

    48 min
  • 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 and wrong in America’s forever wars.


    For early access to Crime Story episodes and to listen ad-free, subscribe to CBC's True Crime channel on our show page in Apple Podcasts.


    This episode's transcript can be found here.

    41 min
  • 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 never had cancer. It was all an elaborate lie. 


    Charlie Webster, host of the hit podcast Scamanda, details the extremes Amanda went to in carrying out her con — and why she believes Amanda was not only able to lie about having cancer, but steal from those closest to her.


    For early access to Crime Story episodes and to listen ad-free, subscribe to CBC's True Crime channel on our show page in Apple Podcasts.


    This episode's transcript can be found here.

    41 min

About Crime Story

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This is true crime with journalistic integrity — and a curious, conversational edge. Every other Monday, Crime Story dives into gripping cases of every kind: from white-collar…

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