Story Hunter Podcasts

Ep 1: Terror In Renfrew County

It was a beautiful fall day in Renfrew County, Ontario, when the first of three 911 calls came into the local police dispatch. The woman on the other end of the phone was screaming. A man had just shot her sister.

Then, a second call. A young man had just witnessed his mother being attacked by a gun-wielding man in their home. Finally, a third call. A local real estate agent had just found her client dead in her cottage, and it

looked like she had been strangled. Three women killed in less than two hours in a quiet rural community. Yet, it didn't take the police long to know who their number one suspect was.

He was a man who had a long history of domestic violence and abuse, but ultimately, nothing prevented him from enacting his ultimate revenge on the women who had stood up to him.

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Ep. 1: A Day At the Lake - The Mysterious Deaths of Karen and Krista Hart

It was an unspeakable tragedy - twin three-year-old girls had drowned at a local lake in Gander, Newfoundland while under the care of their father. Their mother was inconsolable but the police were perplexed. What really happened that day at the lake? Nelson Hart, the twin’s father would eventually be charged with their murders after confessing to an uncover investigator. But would the police tactics used to elicit that confession hold up in a court of law? Would justice be served for two innocent victims or would a killer go free?

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Ep 1: Monster In The Woods - The Crimes Of David Alexander Snow

In the summer of 1992, a dangerous sexual predator was on the loose in North Vancouver. Three young women had been sexually assaulted at gunpoint and two of the victims had been kidnapped. It was a race against time to find the woman and apprehend the suspect before he struck again. But Vancouver authorities really had no idea who they were hunting. The man they were after was a fugitive -  a killer who had already left behind a trail of torture and murder in a small Ontario town. And he had no plans on stopping his reign of terror. 

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Failing Zachary - A Murder Most Preventable

When David and Kate Bagby were told their 28-year-old son Andrew had been murdered they were devastated. Andrew was a well respected family doctor who had just begun his career after years of study. Now he was gone and his ex-girlfriend, another doctor, had been charged with his senseless killing. The Bagby’s felt they had nothing to live for and even contemplated suicide. But when they were told that the woman accused of killing their son was expecting their grandchild they knew they had to do everything to protect that baby. When the woman fled the U.S to Newfoundland they followed her and applied for custody of their unborn grandchild. But when their grandson finally arrived the courts and social services deemed his mother, an accused murderer, a fit parent. The decision of the “experts” would have dire consequences and leave a couple already grieving the loss of their son destroyed by another death that was entirely preventable. 

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A Killer in the Family - The Murders of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook

In 1987, teenage sweethearts Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook set out from Victoria, BC for a one-night trip to Seattle. Tragically they were never seen alive again. Somewhere along their route they encountered a violent stranger who targeted the trusting couple. But who was this evil predator, and would he strike again? The killer had left his DNA at the crime scene but with limited forensic testing available in 1987, the double murder case went cold. Many years passed before advances in genetic testing gave investigators an exciting new approach to potentially finding the killer. Could a stranger’s DNA profile on a public ancestry database be the key to solving a double murder?

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Ep 1: Frozen Tears - The Murder of Dusty Bowers

She was just going to be a few minutes, so Julie Bowers decided to leave her sleeping 11-month-old son Dusty in his car seat in the back of her car when she went into the bank. It was the afternoon of January 14, 1988, a bitter cold day in Kincardine, Ontario.

When Julie returned to the car Dusty was gone. It was a parent’s worst nightmare – a missing child. But for the young mother it was just the beginning of a terrifying ordeal that would end in tragedy and an arrest. Accused of killing her own son, Julie Bowers would stand trial for murder while her hometown struggled to come to grips with the horrendous crime. Who left a baby to die in the snow? Secrets and accusations would fly but would the truth ever come out?

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A Sister’s Love: The Murder of Lynne Knight

When a young Canadian nurse is brutally murdered in a suburb of Los Angeles in 1979, the police are baffled by what the killer has left behind – a homemade garotte used to strangle the victim. They are certain the unique weapon will lead them to her killer. But without any other evidence the case eventually goes cold.

Years go by and a family in Stratford, Ontario is left to mourn their beautiful daughter, but the victim’s sister is not willing to let a vicious killer escape justice even if she has to write to the President of the United States.

Finally, a cold case team reinvestigates the murder and reexamines that unique homemade weapon. Fresh eyes find new evidence and the suspected killer is arrested and charged. But thirty-five years later can a jury be convinced of his guilt and will a determined sister and a grieving family finally get justice?

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Ep. 1: Sins Of The Son - The Disappearance Of Minnie Ford 

When a well-to-do recently widowed mother disappears from her suburban home the police are baffled. She didn’t take any money or clothing, and no one has seen or heard from her in days. It’s 1963 in a city known as “Toronto the good,” and middle-aged women just don’t disappear. Rumors spread that she’s taken off with a new man to Florida but her family is convinced she would never leave her teenage son. But strangely that same 16-year-old son forgot to report his mother missing and doesn’t seem too upset over her disappearance.

It will take three long years before a battered body is discovered but it won’t take police investigators long to figure out who’s responsible for the missing mother’s grisly demise.

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Fake Nurse: The Story of Brigitte Cleroux

In the fall of 2021, hundreds of women in British Columbia received a letter from the B.C. Women’s Hospital. It informed them that during their recent time in hospital, they had been treated by a woman who had posed as a nurse without any qualifications.

Apparently, the imposter nurse had a long history of fraud, forgery and impersonation. Her real name was Brigitte Cleroux, and she had spent thirty years taking on nursing jobs and teaching positions, none of which she was qualified to do.

But what did this mean for the women who had been treated by her? Some had experienced extreme pain during their procedures -pain so bad procedures were called off. One woman lost sensation in both of her hands for two weeks as a result of Cleroux’s botched attempts to insert an IV needle. And others discovered they were given inappropriate medications, including Fentanyl.

After finally being arrested and charged in Ontario, investigators began to unravel a web of lies and deceit that spanned the country. Exactly how many patients were treated and possibly harmed by the fake nurse and how did Brigitte Cleroux fool so many for so long?

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Four people have vanished after the July 4th long weekend in New Jersey, but when the bodies of a middle-aged couple, are discovered, the missing person’s case quickly turns into a double homicide and the hunt for two killers.

Within days the son of the murder victims and his friend are arrested and charged with murder. Scott Franz claims he shot his stepfather in self-defense while his Canadian friend Bruce Curtis says he shot Scott’s mom by accident. Who will a jury believe, and will justice ultimately be served?

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