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Grab your favourite choice of Caffeine, and buckle in… This week I’m talking about a family Dynasty that was the law in their county for 87 years - Until a murder investigation reveals the cracks and the truth crumbles the whole empire. The Rise and Fall of Murdaugh Country.

June 7, 2021. A dirt road in rural South Carolina. A father calls 911 with a frantic, sobbing voice: “My wife and son… they’ve been shot.”

For generations, the Murdaugh name was untouchable—a dynasty of power, legal supremacy, and Southern gothic secrets. But on that humid summer night, the illusion shattered.

Pull up a chair. This isn’t just a true crime story. It’s a slow-burn tragedy of privilege, addiction, and the lies that built a empire of dirt. From the mysterious boat crash that claimed a young woman’s life, to the roadside assassination attempt that seemed too bizarre to believe, follow the twisted timeline that forced a grieving father to take the stand… and confess.

How did the man who held all the power lose everything? And what was really hidden behind those iron gates?

Listen to the unraveling. The boat. The guns. The billions missing. The verdict that stunned the world

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In this weeks episode, I’m talking about the Unsolved Murder of Karen Woodcock - A Mother of 7 - who went missing, found dead by the roadside only 2 kilometers away from her home, whose murder is still unsolved to this day.

It was Canada Day, 1973. Families across Peterborough, Ontario, were lighting barbecues and watching fireworks. But somewhere out on the quiet gravel of Villiers Line, the holiday ended in silence.

Karen Woodcock—a 33-year-old mother of seven—never made it home.

The next morning, her body was discovered along a rural stretch of Otonabee Township. No witness. No confession. No arrest. Just a family left with a void that five decades of searching hasn’t filled.

This episode walks the dark shoulder of that lonely road. We’ll sift through the fragments of a cold case that still haunts the OPP—a $50,000 reward still on the table, a killer still unnamed, and seven children who grew up asking one question: Who took our mother?

If you know the answer, police are waiting. But for everyone else… listen closely. Someone out there still remembers that night

If you have any information about the murder of Karen Anne Woodcock, please contact the Peterborough County OPP at 705-742-0401, the Provincial Communication Centre at 1-888-310-1122, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS

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Episode 16

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In this weeks episode I talk about the mysterious disappearance of Jaclyn “ Jackie” Ferland Smith - Who walked out of her house in August 2021, never to return and yet to be found. Grab your favourite choice of Caffeine and sip slowly

Pura Vida. It’s a phrase that promises a pure life, a slower pace, and a slice of paradise. For Canadian expats Jaclyn “Jackie” Ferland-Smith and her husband Sebastien, the sweeping Pacific coast of Playa del Coco, Costa Rica, was supposed to be that dream .

But in 2021, the dream turned into a nightmare. Jackie vanished without a trace .

In Season 10 of Someone Knows Something, award-winning documentarian David Ridgen travels to a paradise veiled in rumour and fear to investigate a case that has more questions than answers . What happened to Jackie?

In this premiere episode, “Jackie,” David introduces us to the woman at the center of the mystery. We learn about her hopes for a fresh start and the family she left behind in Canada. But as David begins to dig beneath the surface of the idyllic beach town, the first cracks in the story begin to show.

Why does Jackie’s family believe someone knows more than they are letting on? And how does a person simply disappear from a “perfect life”?

This is a story about paradise lost, hidden secrets, and a family’s desperate fight for the truth.

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Welcome back Caffeine Casefilers!

Grab a mug, fill it with something dark and unforgiving, and let’s get started.

In the summer of 1981, a shadow fell over British Columbia. Eleven children vanished. The man responsible was Clifford Olson—a compulsive liar, chronic criminal, and psychopath who would become one of Canada’s most notorious serial killers.

But when police finally caught him, they didn’t just handcuff him. They made a deal with the devil: $100,000 for the location of his victims’ bodies. The “cash for bodies” deal sparked national outrage and forever stained the justice system.

In this extended deep dive, we explore Olson’s troubled childhood in Richmond, his 24-year criminal career, and each of the 11 victims whose lives were stolen. We examine the infamous deal, his decades behind bars tormenting families from his cell, the “Olson Clause” that stripped him of pension benefits, and the unintended legacy—a victims’ rights movement that changed Canadian law forever.

From his death from cancer in 2011 to the secret jailhouse recordings that still raise questions, this is the complete story of the Beast of British Columbia.

Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussions of violence, sexual assault, and murder. Discretion is advised.

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Welcome back Caffeine Casefilers Grab a mug, fill it with something dark and unforgiving, and let’s travel to British Columbia

Robert Pickton was a quiet, unassuming pig farmer who hid in plain sight. While throwing raucous parties at his “Piggy Palace” and cruising the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, he was committing the worst serial killings in Canadian history.

In this episode, we explore Pickton’s disturbing childhood, his systematic targeting of vulnerable women, and the shocking police failures that allowed him to kill for decades. We honor the lives of the women—Sarah, Marnie, Georgina, and so many more—whose names were nearly forgotten. A haunting look at evil, indifference, and the fight for justice.

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Welcome back Caffeine Casefilers. Grab a mug, fill it with something dark and unforgiving, and let’s get started.

Between 2007 and 2016, residents of long-term care homes in Ontario, Canada, were dying. Nothing unusual there—elderly people with complex medical conditions pass away every day. But eight of those deaths were something else entirely. They were murders, committed by the one person everyone trusted: their nurse.

Elizabeth Wettlaufer was a registered nurse, a quiet woman from rural Ontario who went to church on Sundays and worked the night shift. She was also a serial killer. For nearly a decade, she moved through the corridors of care homes injecting vulnerable seniors with lethal overdoses of insulin—and no one noticed. Not her employers, who fired her multiple times but gave her glowing references. Not the nursing regulator, who ignored red flags going back to 1995. Not the coroner, who refused to investigate because “no death in a nursing home is unexpected.”

In this deep dive, we tell the full story of Wettlaufer’s crimes, with extended biographies of each victim: a WWII veteran who lied about his age to fight for Canada, a Hungarian refugee who escaped Soviet tanks with nothing but the clothes on his back, a seamstress who cried out for help for over an hour as she fought for her life. We examine the psychology of a killer who described “the red surge” and “euphoria” after murder, the systemic failures that allowed her to operate undetected for a decade, and the 2019 public inquiry that concluded she would never have been caught if she hadn’t confessed.

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Welcome Back Caffeine Casefilers! In this weeks episode I talk about the strange case of Ken Parks and how his sleeping disorder led him to killing and the attempted killing of his Mother and Father in-law

In the early morning hours of May 24, 1987, 23-year-old Ken Parks drove 20 kilometers from Pickering to Scarborough, let himself into his in-laws’ home with a spare key, and brutally attacked them with a tire iron, killing his mother-in-law . Covered in blood, he then drove to a police station and confessed, uttering the chilling words, “I think I have just killed two people” .

This seems like an open-and-shut murder case, but what if the killer has absolutely no memory of the crime? Parks’ defense was one of the most bizarre in Canadian legal history: he claimed he was asleep. This episode explores the landmark Supreme Court case R v Parks, diving into the science of sleepwalking, the distinction between “insane” and “non-insane” automatism, and the public’s skepticism over whether a man could commit such violent acts without consciousness or intent. Was this the perfect crime or a genuine neurological tragedy? Tune in to hear how a jury ultimately answered that question and set a precedent that still echoes today

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This week, we head to Las Vegas, where a devoted father is found suspiciously mutilated, stuffed in a sleeping bag, and set on fire in his own garage. The one thing that is truly baffling? His 16-year-old daughter, Sierra, is nowhere to be found and isn’t responding to calls or texts. That is, until she and her boyfriend, Aaron Guerrero, are located in Salt Lake City by the Utah Transit Authority Police after skipping a train fare. Come with us on this wild ride as we explore how a forbidden romance, parental disapproval, and a chilling lack of remorse led to a father’s brutal murder—and how the teenage killers’ own video confession became the evidence that convicted them.

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Welcome Back, grab something strong and sip slowly because this case stays with you

On October 26, 2015, Lee Antoni returned home to his Calgary house after a weekend away and made a horrifying discovery: his wife, 31-year-old Amanda, lying dead at the bottom of the basement stairs in a pool of blood. The scene was so violent that responding officers called it “the bloodiest” they had ever seen.

But here’s where the case takes a strange turn. There was no sign of forced entry. No DNA from any other person. No suspect. Just an overturned chair, a shattered cell phone, a broken piggy bank embedded in Amanda’s skull—and a family left with nothing but questions.

In this deep dive, we explore the life of Amanda Antoni—the adopted daughter from Carstairs who “lit up every room she walked into”—and examine the forensic paradox that has baffled police for nearly a decade. Was it a tragic accident? A random intruder? Or does someone out there know exactly what happened on Castledale Way?

With new attention from Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries, Amanda’s family is still fighting for answers.

If you have any information about the death of Amanda Antoni, please contact Calgary Police Service at 403-266-1234 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.

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A loving grandmother. A brilliant inventor. A five-year-old superhero fan. On June 30, 2014, Alvin Liknes, Kathy Liknes, and Nathan O’Brien walked into their Calgary home and never walked out.

In this episode, we explore the lives behind the headlines. We follow Alvin’s journey from the prairies to the oil fields, Kathy’s legacy of unconditional love, and the slow-burning fuse of Douglas Garland—the quiet, bitter farmhand who went from stealing identities to building a kill kit. Discover how a dispute over a pump turned into the longest Amber Alert in Canadian history.

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