Uncover

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Uncover is an investigative series from CBC Podcasts. Season 1 explores one woman's escape from Keith Raniere’s NXIVM. Season 2 examines the unsolved bombing of a commercial passenger plane.

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S9 E1: The Jane Does

03.31.2021

The world would not be talking about ‘Peter Nygard, the predator’ if it weren’t for a group of ten mostly Bahamian girls and young women who accused the fashion mogul of raping them. Two original ‘Jane Does’ tell their stories. ...

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03.31.2021 S9 E1: The Jane Does The world would not be talking about ‘Peter Nygard, the predator’ if it weren’t for a group of ten mostly Bahamian girls and young women who accused the fashion mogul of raping them. Two original ‘Jane Does’ tell their stories. ...
03.30.2021 S9 E2: Carte Blanche Who is Peter Nygard? The son of Finnish immigrants to Canada, he rose to become boss of an eponymous fashion label that once boasted hundreds of stores around the world. Nygard’s success gave him the means to move to the ...
03.30.2021 Introducing: Spy Affair A charismatic Russian woman arrives in the US on a mission to improve relations between the two countries, and she soon makes some powerful friends. But who is Maria Butina? And who is she working for? As Maria gets closer ...
03.29.2021 S9 E3: Richette If girls and women had been abused at Nygard Cay, Richette Ross would be key in exposing those secrets. The former employee tells us what she witnessed; why she worked for Nygard for as long as she did; and how ...
03.28.2021 S9 E4: ‘A Thursday Night in November’ It didn’t just happen at Nygard Cay; it wasn’t just in the Bahamas. There are sexual assault allegations against Nygard that date back more than 40 years ago, in his hometown of Winnipeg. This is Uncover: Evil By Design.
03.27.2021 S9 E5: ‘It’s always been known in Winnipeg’ Journalists have been trying to report on the allegations against Peter Nygard for decades now. How has so much been kept so quiet for so long? This is Uncover: Evil By Design.
03.26.2021 S9 E6: 'Peter Says Hi' Surveillance, threats, and criminal prosecutions. Host Timothy Sawa saw, up close, the extreme lengths that Peter Nygard and his associates were willing to go to, in order to stop the CBC’s reporting. This is Uncover: Evil By Design.
03.25.2021 S9 E7: Flesh and Blood Once thought to be the heir to the international clothing empire, he is now a fierce defender of his father’s accusers. Meet Peter Nygard’s son, Kai. This is Uncover: Evil By Design.
03.24.2021 S9 E8: The Enablers Nygard now sits in a Manitoba jail cell, awaiting extradition and a possible criminal trial. But what of the many others who have been accused of helping him along the way? This is Uncover: Evil By Design.
01.28.2021 Introducing: Evil by Design More than 80 women from around the world have accused the fast-fashion mogul Peter Nygard of rape, sexual assault, and human trafficking in incidents across four decades and at least four countries. He denies it all, and claims his accusers ...
09.29.2020 S8 E1: RAVENSCRAG This is Uncover: Brainwashed. The Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal was an innovative new hospital where patients sought cutting-edge psychiatric care. But instead of being helped, many were subjected to shockingly brutal experiments: massive doses of LSD or other drugs, ...
09.28.2020 S8 E2: PSYCHIC DRIVING Dr. Ewen Cameron, an internally renowned psychiatrist, was once the director of the World, American and Canadian Psychiatric Associations. So how did he come to develop his controversial treatments? And what was the real purpose behind his experiments? This is ...
09.27.2020 S8 E3: EXPOSING MKULTRA Communist brainwashing, mind control experiments, a government cover up... MKULTRA sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories or science fiction. But it was real. John Marks, author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, and Stephen Kinzer, author of Poisoner ...
09.26.2020 S8 E4: SUING THE CIA After discovering that they were the unwitting victims of human experiments, nine of Dr. Cameron’s victims band together to take on a Herculean task – to make the CIA pay. How do you sue one of the most powerful intelligence ...
09.25.2020 S8 E5: WE TORTURED SOME FOLKS MKULTRA was supposed to have ended in the 1960s. The torturous experiments didn’t work. So why did these techniques evolve and continue to be used by American trainers throughout Latin America, and then get revived once again in the era ...
09.24.2020 S8 E6: NEVER TOO LATE TO SAY SORRY MKULTRA has entered popular culture, becoming the butt of jokes, television plot points, and the darling of internet conspiracy theorists. At the very least, the secrecy that still surrounds MKULTRA, or the CIA’s post-9/11 programs, sows distrust of governments, and ...
09.23.2020 The downfall of NXIVM's Keith Raniere: A conversation with Josh Bloch In a U.S. federal courtroom Tuesday, Keith Raniere was sentenced to 120 years—having been convicted of a slew of crimes related to his alleged sex cult NXIVM. During the trial and sentencing, victims told of how the self-professed empowerment "vanguard" ...
07.28.2020 S7 E8: Still Waiting What now? Bousquet reviews the original police investigation, talks with Glen and his family, and wonders: What does justice look like? Will anyone be held accountable? And what other innocent person might be in prison?
07.21.2020 S7 E7: No Malicious Intent Glen’s last hope — a federal lawyer opens a new investigation that leads to a hearing at the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. Tim works to get sealed court documents released to the public. The result is a bombshell.
07.14.2020 S7 E6: The Trail of a Killer An RCMP profiler and analyst is put on a killer’s case. He starts to make links that lead to a shocking discovery. Can this be helpful to Glen?
07.07.2020 S7 E5: The Cold Walls of Prison Glen faces new horrors while being locked up in prison. But then he makes a connection with someone on the outside who provides a lifeline — and possibly, a route to freedom.
06.30.2020 S7 E4: Fresh Evidence The day after Glen is convicted of murder he starts to work on his appeal. A new lawyer and an ex-RCMP private investigator find fresh evidence that should help get Glen a new trial.
06.23.2020 S7 E3: The Trial The trial of Glen Assoun for the second degree murder of Brenda Way starts on June 1, 1999. But within days, the trial takes an expected turn, and events begin to unfold that place Glen in an impossible situation.
06.16.2020 S7 E2: Psychic Visions The police investigation into Brenda Way’s murder is going nowhere until a new investigator is assigned to the case. Suddenly, new witnesses and evidence start to appear, and all of it points in one direction.
06.16.2020 S7 E1: Pitbull On November 12, 1995, 28-year-old Brenda Way is found murdered behind an apartment building in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Investigative journalist Tim Bousquet discovers, right in his own neighbourhood, a community of sex workers and a pattern of violence that indicates ...
06.11.2020 S7: Dead Wrong - Trailer Twenty-five years ago, Brenda Way was found murdered in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. A botched investigation followed, resulting in the wrongful imprisonment of Glen Assoun—who served more than 17 years for the crime. How could one investigation go so wrong? And ...
05.12.2020 Introducing Someone Knows Something: Donald Izzett Jr. In Someone Knows Something Season 6, Debra has been searching for her son, Donald Izzett Jr. for 25 years. The last time she spoke with him was Mother’s Day. He had called from a road trip, but sounded upset, saying ...
03.17.2020 Bonus: Hidden Messages, Backmasking and the Satanic Panic From the '60s to the '90s, parents worried messages hidden in rock albums would make their children do drugs and worship the devil. The truth could only be revealed if these records were played backwards. Twenty Thousand Hertz — a ...
03.10.2020 S6 E7: What good can come of this? Far from healed, the Martensville Nightmare remains an open wound for those who lived through it. And yet for the rest of us, the history is all but lost — a symbol of the broader failure across the board to ...
03.03.2020 S6 E6: ‘I remember telling them nothing happened to me’ How does it come to be that hundreds of children across North America and beyond report such similar crimes? How has a phenomenon that’s never seen a proven case become so real in the minds of so many? And what ...
02.25.2020 S6 E5: The Many Martensvilles As devastating as the Martensville Nightmare is for all involved, it’s just one piece of a much bigger picture. FBI special agent Ken Lanning spent the ‘80s trying to figure out what the hell was happening across North America, and ...
02.18.2020 S6 E4: ‘There is still time to wake up' A local activist in Saskatoon, Marjaleena Repo, says she knew instantly that the accused were innocent, victims of nothing less than mass hysteria. Though she sounds the alarm in any forum she can find, her warnings are ignored.
02.11.2020 S6 E3: ‘You got to be friggin’ kidding me’ As the number of suspects continues to grow, rumours of an underground Satanic cult whose members include police officers have taken root. Saskatoon Police Officer John Popowich finds himself facing “the worst things that a human being can be accused ...
02.04.2020 S6 E2: 'It was hell' By June 1992, nine people face nearly 180 charges related to the sexual abuse of children who have attended a home daycare in Martensville. Journalist Dan Zakreski revisits the sites of the story that dominated everyone's attention, including a ‘Devil ...
02.04.2020 S6 E1: 'It was such a perfect place' Police Officer Claudia Bryden is drawn into a bizarre case unfolding in the peaceful Prairie town of Martensville, Saskatchewan. What starts with a single complaint about an alleged sexual assault in a home daycare grows into something bigger and more ...
01.22.2020 S6: Satanic Panic - Trailer Throughout the 1980s, Satanic cults were widely believed to be preying on children — torturing and terrorizing them as part of dark rituals. Across North America, there were hundreds of false allegations, scores of unjust criminal trials and countless lives ...
01.20.2020 S5 Sharmini Bonus: Potential Witnesses Emerge 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 ...
01.14.2020 Introducing Chasing Cosby by the L.A. Times For decades, Bill Cosby brought warmth and laughter across the country, cementing his image as “America’s Dad.” But behind that disguise was the real Bill Cosby – the monster who preyed on women by promising them mentorship, only to then ...
12.20.2019 S1, S3 & S5 BONUS: The Story I Didn’t Tell 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 ...
11.05.2019 Introducing Hunting Warhead A new investigative series from CBC Podcasts and the Norwegian newspaper VG. Hunting Warhead follows an international team of police officers as they attempt to track down the people behind a massive child-abuse site on the dark web. Listen at ...
10.23.2019 Introducing Bad Batch When a group of patients wind up in a Texas hospital in critical condition, the trail leads back to one stem cell company and its charismatic CEO. What happens when a supposed miracle cure leaves you worse off than before? ...
09.24.2019 S5 E6: Searching for Justice 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 ...
09.24.2019 S5 E5: I Don't Recall 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.
09.17.2019 S5 E3: Stranger to the Truth 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 ...
09.17.2019 S5 E4: Behind Bars Sharmini, episode 4 - Michelle talks to Stanley Tippett for the first time in twenty years. Face to face.
09.09.2019 S5 E2: Saturday Morning 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 ...
09.09.2019 S5 E1: The Crime Beat 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 ...
09.04.2019 The ethical true crime podcast: How to make one, what not to do 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 ...
09.03.2019 S5: Sharmini - Trailer On June 12, 1999, 15-year-old Sharmini Anandavel disappeared. Michelle Shephard returns to an investigation that has haunted her for 20 years.
09.01.2019 S4 The Cat Lady Case Bonus - The Press Conference Season 4 update: Detective Rob Matthews keeps his promise, and someone phones Zander with a tip.

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Uncover episodes:

S9 E1: The Jane Does

S9 E2: Carte Blanche

Introducing: Spy Affair

S9 E3: Richette

S9 E4: ‘A Thursday Night in November’

S9 E5: ‘It’s always been known in Winnipeg’

S9 E6: 'Peter Says Hi'

S9 E7: Flesh and Blood

S9 E8: The Enablers

Introducing: Evil by Design

S8 E1: RAVENSCRAG

S8 E2: PSYCHIC DRIVING

S8 E3: EXPOSING MKULTRA

S8 E4: SUING THE CIA

S8 E5: WE TORTURED SOME FOLKS

S8 E6: NEVER TOO LATE TO SAY SORRY

The downfall of NXIVM's Keith Raniere: A conversation with Josh Bloch

S7 E8: Still Waiting

S7 E7: No Malicious Intent

S7 E6: The Trail of a Killer

S7 E5: The Cold Walls of Prison

S7 E4: Fresh Evidence

S7 E3: The Trial

S7 E2: Psychic Visions

S7 E1: Pitbull

S7: Dead Wrong - Trailer

Introducing Someone Knows Something: Donald Izzett Jr.

Bonus: Hidden Messages, Backmasking and the Satanic Panic

S6 E7: What good can come of this?

S6 E6: ‘I remember telling them nothing happened to me’

S6 E5: The Many Martensvilles

S6 E4: ‘There is still time to wake up'

S6 E3: ‘You got to be friggin’ kidding me’

S6 E2: 'It was hell'

S6 E1: 'It was such a perfect place'

S6: Satanic Panic - Trailer

S5 Sharmini Bonus: Potential Witnesses Emerge

Introducing Chasing Cosby by the L.A. Times

S1, S3 & S5 BONUS: The Story I Didn’t Tell

Introducing Hunting Warhead

Introducing Bad Batch

S5 E6: Searching for Justice

S5 E5: I Don't Recall

S5 E3: Stranger to the Truth

S5 E4: Behind Bars

S5 E2: Saturday Morning

S5 E1: The Crime Beat

The ethical true crime podcast: How to make one, what not to do

S5: Sharmini - Trailer

S4 The Cat Lady Case Bonus - The Press Conference

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