Story Hunter Podcasts

Ep. 1: Double Indemnity - Murder in the Suburbs

When emergency responders arrive at a car fire on a deserted California mountain top road, they are too late to save the man trapped in the burning Volkswagen. Luckily his wife, Lucille has managed to get out of the car and call for help.

But once the fire is extinguished and the charred body of Doctor Gordon Miller is removed, investigators quickly determine that the newly widowed woman’s story just isn’t adding up. The car shows no signs of an accident but there is an empty cannister of gas on the back seat. It isn’t long before the tragic car fire is beginning to look a lot more like murder and Doctor Miller’s wife is now their prime suspect.

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Ep. 2: Fatal Friendship - The Murder of Nancy Eaton

On a cold winter night in January 1985, a worried mother discovered the body of her twenty-three-year-old daughter. Nancy Eaton, an heiress to the Eaton family fortune had been stabbed to death in her own home and sexually assaulted. And the distraught mother knew exactly who was responsible. Seventeen-year-old Andrew Leyshon- Hughes was a troubled teenager, but Nancy was his friend and had treated him like a little brother. It wouldn’t take long for Andrew to confess to the horrible crime but was he ultimately responsible for what he had done? His esteemed lawyer Clayton Ruby would argue that his client wasn’t guilty of anything. What would a jury decide?

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Ep. 1: Fatal Friendship - The Murder of Nancy Eaton

She was the great, great granddaughter of Timothy Eaton, founder of Canada’s largest department store chain and he was from a wealthy, well-respected family. She was a beautiful twenty-three-year-old woman with a new career and an exciting social life, while he was a deeply disturbed seventeen-year-old who had been in and out of psychiatric hospitals half his life. An unlikely pair, but they had bonded over a carefree summer in Muskoka at their neighbouring family cottages.

Life back in the city would put a strain on their friendship, but she would always make time for him and let him sleep on her couch when he nowhere else to go. So nothing seemed out of the ordinary when he showed up on her doorstep on a snowy January night in 1985. But by the next morning everything would be very different. She would be dead before she woke, and he would be holding the bloody knife.

They were the closest of friends, so why did he kill her? Was he simply bad or completely mad? That would be the ultimate debate in determining his fate

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Ep. 1: Legacy Of Laughter - The Phil Hartman Story

Emmy award-winning comedian. He was famous for his work on Saturday Night Live and had a starring role in NewsRadio, an NBC sitcom. He was also the voice of several characters in the long-running animated show The Simpsons.

Alongside his successful career, he was living a million-dollar lifestyle in Los Angles with a beautiful wife and two young children.But behind their perfect-looking family life there was trouble. Long simmering issues of jealousy, anger and addictions were creating tension and their ten-year marriage was imploding.

Those closest to Phil and his wife knew there was trouble, but no one could have ever predicted the violent ending!What happened to one of America’s favourite funnymen and was it a tragedy that could have been prevented?

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Ep. 2: Death of a Dream - The Dorothy Stratten Story

The tragic murder of Dorothy Stratten in 1980 was headline news around the world. The beautiful Playboy Playmate had been killed by her jealous ex husband in a brutal murder-suicide But behind the salacious headlines a family grieved and her lover could barely go on. Famed Hollywood director, Peter Bogdanovich had lost the love of his life. But amid his grief an anger would emerge against others whom he believed responsible for the death of Dorothy Stratten. Peter would write a book about Dorothy and accuse Playboy Enterprises and its founder Hugh Hefner of the sexual and physical exploitation of a young, naïve Dorothy. But will Peter be prepared when Hugh Hefner turns the tables and accuses Peter Bogdanovich of reprehensible misdeeds?

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Ep. 1: Death of a Dream - The Dorothy Stratten Story

She was a pretty teenager in pigtails, working at the local Dairy Queen in Vancouver when a small-time street hustler first spotted her. He knew a good thing when he saw it and she was his ticket to fame and riches. Within a few months she was posing naked for Playboy Magazine, and he was buying a wedding ring. She was an instant star loved by many for her natural beauty and innocence, but he was a sleazy con no one wanted around.

Dorothy Stratten was a beautiful young woman on the verge of fame. She had just been named the Playboy Playmate of 1980 and her acting career was taking off. And more importantly she had finally found true love. But her ex-husband wasn’t prepared to let her go. As far as he was concerned, she was his possession and if he couldn’t have her, no one could.

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Ep. 1: Hollywood Horror Story – The Murder of Iana Kasian

It was a mother’s intuition that something was wrong. Olga Kasian’s daughter Iana had just given birth to a baby girl and now she was missing. But Olga knew where she was. She was in a West Hollywood apartment with her boyfriend, a wealthy Canadian producer who had gained mediocre success with a graphic novel that explored the mind of a serial killer.

It would take the police two days to check on Iana and when they did they would discover a horrific crime scene. Her boyfriend would be charged with her killing and prosecutors would contend that like a B-grade Hollywood horror film he used scenes right out of his graphic novel as a blueprint for torture, mutilation and murder.

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Ep. 2: Deadly Secrets - Killer Confession

A controversial undercover police technique called “Mr. Big” has resulted in a secretly recorded confession to murder. Sixty-eight-year-old Jean Ann James has admitted to the 1992 brutal slaying of her good friend Gladys Wakabayashi. It’s taken sixteen years to bring charges against their prime suspect and the Vancouver police are certain their undercover sting will put Jean Ann James away for life. But will the jury believe her confession? Was she admitting to murder or making up a story to please Mr. Big? And will she ever pay for what she did?

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Ep. 1: Deadly Secrets - Killer Friendship

In the summer of 1992 a shy, forty-one-year-old mother is brutally murdered in her home in one of Vancouver’s wealthiest suburbs. It turns out the woman had a secret, and that secret got her killed. It doesn’t take long for the police to narrow in on a prime suspect, but a lack of physical evidence at the crime scene prevents them from making an arrest. The case ultimately goes cold for sixteen years until investigators decide to take one last shot at charging their prime suspect. Using a controversial undercover sting operation called “Mr. Big” they will try to lure their suspect into a fantasy criminal underworld. It’s an elaborate plan, but, will they ultimately get the confession they need to put a murderer behind bars?

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Chasing a Ghost: The Hunt for the 22- Calibre Killer

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