The Cult Queen of Canada from Uncover

Join Ian Hanomansing and the hosts of Uncover, Missing and Murdered and Hunting Warhead as they share never-before-told stories from their podcasts in front of a live audience at the Hot Docs Podcast Festival. Josh Bloch asks if he was duped by his friend and subject of Uncover: Escaping NXIVM, Sarah Edmondson. Connie Walker reveals why she became a journalist and her hidden motivation behind her true crime podcast Missing and Murdered. Justin Ling, host of Uncover: The Village dives deep into Hollywood's connection to so-called "homosexual murders." Uncover: Sharmini host Michelle Shephard shares her approach for getting subjects to talk, and Daemon Fairless, host of Hunting Warhead questions if we should show sympathy to pedophiles.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.

📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]

🧩 Evidence photos.  
🗺️ Unreleased maps.  
📼 Interview outtakes.  
📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).

⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]

👇 [Be the 18%.]
— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Sharmini, Episode 1 - On June 12, 1999, 15-year-old Sharmini Anandavel left her family’s Toronto apartment around 9 a.m. She never returned. Her remains were found in a wooded ravine four months later. Investigative journalist Michelle Shephard revisits the case that has haunted her for twenty years and hears—for the first time—police theories about the only suspect. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-5-sharmini-transcripts-listen-1.5277530

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.

📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]

🧩 Evidence photos.  
🗺️ Unreleased maps.  
📼 Interview outtakes.  
📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).

⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]

👇 [Be the 18%.]
— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Sharmini, Episode 2 - Michelle visits Woodbine Junior High in North York to learn about Sharmini’s life as a Grade 9 student. Her friends, teachers, and community recall the days after the teen's disappearance, and the false stories born out of prejudice. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-5-sharmini-transcripts-listen-1.5277530

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.

📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]

🧩 Evidence photos.  
🗺️ Unreleased maps.  
📼 Interview outtakes.  
📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).

⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]

👇 [Be the 18%.]
— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Sharmini, episode 3 - In the years between being a suspect in Sharmini's killing and his 2009 conviction, Stanley Tippett exhibited disturbing patterns. Michelle talks to law enforcement officers, old neighbours, and witnesses about Tippett's behaviour as he moved from Oshawa to Collingwood to Peterborough. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-5-sharmini-transcripts-listen-1.5277530

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.

📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]

🧩 Evidence photos.  
🗺️ Unreleased maps.  
📼 Interview outtakes.  
📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).

⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]

👇 [Be the 18%.]
— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Sharmini, episode 4 - Michelle talks to Stanley Tippett for the first time in twenty years. Face to face. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-5-sharmini-transcripts-listen-1.5277530

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.

📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]

🧩 Evidence photos.  
🗺️ Unreleased maps.  
📼 Interview outtakes.  
📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).

⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]

👇 [Be the 18%.]
— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Sharmini, episode 5 - Michelle questions Tippett on the shifting details of his stories, while he firmly maintains his innocence. His own words from months ago —and from 1999— contain many contradictions. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-5-sharmini-transcripts-listen-1.5277530

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.

📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]

🧩 Evidence photos.  
🗺️ Unreleased maps.  
📼 Interview outtakes.  
📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).

⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]

👇 [Be the 18%.]
— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Sharmini, episode 6 - Sharmini's brother Kathees shares the last time he saw her and recalls their interactions with Stanley Tippett before she went missing. The Toronto Police shares why no one was charged for Sharmini's murder, with context of another case around the same time. We hear her voice for the first time. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-5-sharmini-transcripts-listen-1.5277530 Also, after the credits, an update from the team.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.

📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]

🧩 Evidence photos.  
🗺️ Unreleased maps.  
📼 Interview outtakes.  
📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).

⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]

👇 [Be the 18%.]
— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Two new sources come forward with statements on Sharmini Anandavel’s murder. One claims he has carried the image of Sharmini with Stanley Tippett for twenty years. The other says that a photograph of Tippett published in fall 2019 brought back a memory — a jog near where her body was found.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.

📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]

🧩 Evidence photos.  
🗺️ Unreleased maps.  
📼 Interview outtakes.  
📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).

⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]

👇 [Be the 18%.]
— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Rebecca Lavoie, host of Crime Writers On..., speaks with four distinguished podcasters who work with true crime: Justin Ling, host of Uncover: The Village, Connie Walker, host of Missing & Murdered, Natalie Jablonski, producer on In The Dark, and Amber Hunt, host of Accused. They break down the ethics behind true crime podcasts, what good podcasts should work to achieve, and what to take into consideration when dealing with stories that affect real lives. This bonus episode was recorded in front of a live audience at Podcast Movement.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.

📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]

🧩 Evidence photos.  
🗺️ Unreleased maps.  
📼 Interview outtakes.  
📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).

⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]

👇 [Be the 18%.]
— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

On June 12, 1999, 15-year-old Sharmini Anandavel disappeared. Michelle Shephard returns to an investigation that has haunted her for 20 years.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada.

📁 [Here's what's NOT in the episode.]

🧩 Evidence photos.  
🗺️ Unreleased maps.  
📼 Interview outtakes.  
📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted).

⛔ [82% of listeners never see this.]

👇 [Be the 18%.]
— [Before this gets locked.](freehealth.ca/)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━