The Cult Queen of Canada from Uncover

In September 2024, a senior employee at Viaguard Accu-Metrics is sentenced for running an unrelated $6 million hair-testing scam. Will this development prompt the police to investigate his former employer as well? Will it finally push Tenenbaum to comment on the record? And what options remain for John, Corale and the other customers living with the long term impact of their bad results? 
A legal note: Over the course of this podcast, a number of allegations are made against Viaguard Accu-Metrics and its employees. When asked, company owner Harvey Tenenbaum said he stands by the test, and that any errors were caused by customers during sample collection.

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🔎 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.]

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Who is this baby’s father? It’s a question a DNA lab promised to answer with “99.9% accuracy” — but instead, routinely identified the wrong dads. Investigative journalists Jorge Barrera and Rachel Houlihan track down the families whose lives were torn apart by these bad results and the story behind the Canadian company that stands by its testing and continues to operate today.

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🔎 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/)

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Part 1: Five colleagues are shot dead. Everyone is traumatized. On that day, June 28, 2018, what can the remaining staff of the Capital Gazette do that might make a difference? Publish "a damn paper."

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🔎 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/)

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Part 2: How do you try to return to normal after a mass shooting? The Capital Gazette moves into a tiny, temporary office, and staff members confront the challenges of producing a daily paper while dealing with fear and guilt.

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🔎 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/)

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Part 3: The Capital Gazette takes on a new beat: itself. As the shooter's case works its way towards trial, the staff tries to balance coverage obligations with personal feelings.

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🔎 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/)

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Part 4: The Capital Gazette is swept up in the troubles of the newspaper industry. Its corporate owners are making painful cuts, and a hedge fund with an ominous reputation seeks control. Staff members, who survived the 2018 shooting and kept the Capital going, wonder if the paper can last.

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🔎 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/)

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Part 5: In our final episode, there's one important part of the newspaper's story we couldn't bring you until now: what it's like to have their attacker stand trial. And the unexpected ways that trial can affect you. Plus a big update about the newspaper itself.

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🔎 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/)

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In the upcoming season, Uncover listeners will get to know the surviving staff of The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, MD, where a gunman murdered five people in June 2018. Produced by NPR's Embedded.

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🔎 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/)

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In 1964, the partial remains of two black teenagers — Charles Moore and Henry Dee — were pulled from a backwater of the Mississippi River. Brutally murdered by the Ku Klux Klan, no one was ever convicted. In one of his first ever cold case investigations, Someone Knows Something host David Ridgen joins victim's brother Thomas Moore, as he returns to Mississippi 40 years later to discover the truth, confront the Klansmen involved, and find justice.

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🔎 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/)

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In 1964, two klansmen were arrested for the murder of Dee & Moore: James Ford Seale and Charles Marcus Edwards. The charges were dropped. But Edwards is still known to be alive, and Thomas wants to meet him face to face. For transcripts of this series, please visit this page.

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🔎 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/)

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