Uncover

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Uncover is a true crime series from CBC Podcasts. Each season brings you deep into a new investigation, with a host deeply connected.

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Uncover Introduces: Love, J...

01.23.2023

Behind every catfish, there’s the bait. Who is Janessa Brazil? Stolen images of an adult entertainment star are being used to con victims out of thousands of dollars, breaking hearts in the process. Journalist Hannah Ajala embarks on a quest ...

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01.23.2023 Uncover Introduces: Love, Janessa Behind every catfish, there’s the bait. Who is Janessa Brazil? Stolen images of an adult entertainment star are being used to con victims out of thousands of dollars, breaking hearts in the process. Journalist Hannah Ajala embarks on a quest ...
01.13.2023 S18: "Pressure Cooker" E1: Project Souvenir Police intercept two homegrown – and very peculiar – extremists intent on murder and mayhem at a national holiday festival. Pressure cooker bombs. Just like the Boston Marathon. But something about the official version of the story doesn’t add up.
01.13.2023 S18: "Pressure Cooker" E2: The Mysterious Uncle Abe Meet the misfit suspects behind the foiled attack. Learn how they fell down a rabbit hole of conspiracy, hate and terror. And how they crossed paths with a mysterious financier who pledged to fund their diabolical plot.
01.13.2023 S18: "Pressure Cooker" E3: Point of No Return John and Amanda’s struggles with addiction complicate their fledgling plot. Will these oddballs be able to pull off an attack? Police spending escalates as Project Souvenir gets more elaborate by the day.
01.13.2023 S18: "Pressure Cooker" E4: Ticking Time Bombs John and Amanda are losing their grip on reality, frustrating Abe and his shadowy accomplices. John has doubts and asks for spiritual guidance from an imam, but time is running out as zero hour approaches.
01.13.2023 S18: "Pressure Cooker" E5: Trapped John and Amanda piece together their shattered reality while facing a possible lifetime in prison. As the full picture of Project Souvenir emerges in court, they start to wonder if the deception goes even deeper.
01.13.2023 S18: "Pressure Cooker" Bonus: Finding Kaz A mystery lingers about what role Canada's spy agency may have played in John and Amanda's case. The puzzling character known as Kaz could be the key to solving that mystery.
12.22.2022 S17: "The Kill List" E1: Death of an Icon A leading human rights activist is found dead. Many immediately suspect murder. The assassinations of dissidents like her have become commonplace in Pakistan. But Karima Baloch's body was discovered off the shores of Toronto, the city where she fled for ...
12.22.2022 S17: "The Kill List" E2: A Death in Sweden Months before Karima’s death, another prominent Baloch dissident is found drowned in a river in Sweden. Sajid Hussain had also fled Pakistan to start a new life in safety. His death bears a striking resemblance to Karima’s. Could the two ...
12.22.2022 S17: "The Kill List" E3: The Dissident Club Mary meets those who have been told they are on a kill list. Exiles from Pakistan have sought safety through the Western world. But do they remain in danger, no matter how far they flee?
12.22.2022 S17: "The Kill List" E4: ‘I am not a terrorist’ We learn about Karima’s final days from those closest to her, including a man who’s finally ready to speak. After escaping death in Pakistan, what evidence is there that Karima may have taken her own life?
12.22.2022 S17: "The Kill List" E5: Living Ghosts We follow Karima’s dramatic return to Balochistan — where even in death, she’s considered a threat. And hear from those in her homeland still willing to risk their lives by speaking out.
12.22.2022 S17: "The Kill List" E6: The Pier New documents, witnesses and a renowned forensic scientist all lead to the same, unsettling conclusion about what really happened to Karima.
11.14.2022 Uncover Introduces: Run, Hide, Repeat Pauline Dakin’s childhood was marked by unexplained events, a sense of unseen menace, and secretive moves to new cities with no warning. When Pauline was a young adult, her mother finally told her what they were running from – organized ...
09.26.2022 Uncover Introduces: The Outlaw Ocean The high seas are beyond the reach of international law – and beyond the beat of most reporters. But Pulitzer-Prize-winner and former New York Times journalist, Ian Urbina, has sailed into uncharted territories. Urbina sets out on a years-long quest ...
09.05.2022 Uncover Introduces: Pressure Cooker John and Amanda have lived on the fringes their whole lives. They’re on welfare, living with John’s grandma, and struggling with addiction to opioids and Dungeons and Dragons. They’ve followed crooked paths to this point. John played in heavy metal ...
08.02.2022 Introducing: Kuper Island Long after the Kuper Island Residential School was torn down, the survivors are still haunted by what happened there. Investigative reporter Duncan McCue exposes buried police investigations, confronts perpetrators of abuse and witnesses a community trying to rebuild — literally ...
08.02.2022 S16: “Kuper Island” E1: A School They Called Alcatraz Duncan McCue travels to Penelakut, an island off the coast of B.C., and the site of the Kuper Island Residential School. The community has torn down the reviled building, but the dark memories of what happened at the nearly-century old ...
08.02.2022 S16: “Kuper Island” E2: Nights on the Boys’ Side What was it like to be a student at one of the most notorious residential schools in Canada? Survivors James and Tony Charlie share their own account of recurring sexual abuse at the hands of their teachers, starting with a ...
08.02.2022 S16: “Kuper Island” E3: Sink or Swim Survivor Belvie Brebber tells us about her five years at Kuper Island Residential School, a time filled with fear, cruelty and sexual violence. Belvie makes it out alive, but her younger brother Richard Thomas does not. She describes a terrible ...
08.02.2022 S16: “Kuper Island” E4: What happened to Richard? Richard Thomas was smart, kind and well-loved. He was having no problems in school and he wanted to go further in education. Then inexplicably, days before his graduation, he’s found dead in the Kuper Island school gym. His death was ...
08.02.2022 S16: “Kuper Island” E5: Feeding the Dead An archaeologist uses the stories of survivors and a ground-penetrating radar machine to pinpoint where children who died at the Kuper Island school were buried, sometimes in places where no one ever wanted them to be found. And we explore ...
08.02.2022 S16: “Kuper Island” E6: It Didn't Feel Like Justice We explore what really happened during a 1990s RCMP task force investigation triggered by the high number of allegations of sexual abuses at the Kuper Island Residential School, and track down a former staff member who witnessed the horrors firsthand. ...
08.02.2022 S16: “Kuper Island” E7: Hurt People Hurt People The children who attended Kuper Island Residential School faced a terrible aftermath trying to process what happened. The abuse they suffered there often coloured their relationships with family and community — with devastating results. Meanwhile, the team learns one of ...
08.02.2022 S16: “Kuper Island” E8: Every Child Matters The team tracks down the last person to ever see Richard Thomas alive at Kuper Island Residential School. Donnie Sampson was just 10 years old at the time and has disturbing memories of the day — that include a familiar ...
07.19.2022 S15: "The Village 3" E7: Atonement Years of sustained pressure finally pay off as the policing culture shifts to include activists’ input into their investigations.
07.12.2022 S15: "The Village 3" E6: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell When one of its priests is found murdered in Montreal, the Anglican Church has to publicly reckon with its sins.
07.05.2022 S15: "The Village 3" E5: Out With Them All Faced with a deadly disease, surrounded by death, AIDS activist Roger Leclerc resorts to controversial tactics to confront discrimination and violence against gays and lesbians.
06.28.2022 S15: "The Village 3" E4: A Murder is a Murder is a Murder A married man is murdered while on a business trip in Montreal. The case highlights the challenges of investigating the murders. Delayed investigations and unsolved cases are a dear price to pay when a serial killer may be on the ...
06.21.2022 S15: "The Village 3" E3: Chicken Little Montreal, 1991 – Fearing a serial killer, activists decide to take matters into their own hands.
06.14.2022 S15: "The Village 3" E2: Sex Garage Scores of police remove their badges and slip on rubber gloves before beating and arresting queer partygoers in downtown Montreal. The violence escalates in the coming days, and many more are beaten and jailed. A stronger front emerges.
06.07.2022 S15: "The Village 3" E1: La Vie en Rose Joe Rose, a queer activist living with AIDS, is murdered in cold blood on a city bus. So public, so brutal – the city is shocked. The killing becomes a catalyst for ACT UP’s takeover of the 1989 Montreal AIDS ...
05.31.2022 Introducing: The Village: The Montreal Murders (Trailer) A sneak peek into season three. Montreal in the 90s was a great time, but it had a dark side. For many men, being in – or out – of the closet during the AIDS epidemic was the difference between ...
05.31.2022 S15: "The Village 3" E0: Return to The Village Justin hands over the season to Francis at Parc de L’Espoir, the memorial to people who died from HIV/AIDS in Montreal’s gay village. We’re going back 30 years. The world was a different place. What we learned about how to ...
05.16.2022 Uncover Introduces: Someone Knows Something: The Abortion Wars Host David Ridgen joins victims' family members as they investigate cold cases, tracking down leads, speaking to suspects and searching for answers. In Season 7 of Someone Knows Something, Ridgen and investigative journalist Amanda Robb dig into the 1998 murder ...
03.10.2022 S9 "Evil By Design" E9: Nothing Sticks New criminal charges have been laid against Peter Nygard. New survivors have come forward. And much older allegations have surfaced. But for accusers in Nygard’s hometown — some who were among the most vulnerable in society — justice seems as ...
01.07.2022 S14: "Boys Like Me" E1: A Moment of Silence Hours after a deadly van attack in Toronto, the media starts hunting for clues. One of those clues leads to a surprise phone call and a shocking discovery.
01.06.2022 S14: "Boys Like Me" E2: A Supreme Gentleman Evan and Alek are in the same special-needs program in high school, where they’re both bullied and ostracized. But while Evan tries to break out of his shell, Alek retreats further into himself and finds solace in some of the ...
01.05.2022 S14: "Boys Like Me" E3: Boys Will Be Boys Alek frequented incel sites for years, lurking in forums that celebrated or even encouraged the kind of attack he’d go on to commit. What draws young men into this toxic world? Ellen connects with a prominent incel who takes her ...
01.04.2022 S14: "Boys Like Me" E4: A Soldier for the Cause Evan shares a troubling period from his past and reflects on the different paths he and Alek took. What pushes someone to kill in the name of an ideology? Ellen speaks to a former Jihadi recruiter about the murky path ...
01.03.2022 S14: "Boys Like Me" E5: Welcome to the Manosphere Incels are only part of the threat. Ellen speaks with a woman who spent years undercover among a vast network of online communities — among them so-called mens’ rights activists and pickup artists — all united in their desire for ...
12.31.2021 S13: "White Hot Hate" E1: 'Save Your Race, Join The Base' When recruitment posters for a white supremacist network start appearing around town, Winnipeg Free Press journalist Ryan Thorpe decides to go undercover and infiltrate the group.
12.30.2021 S13: "White Hot Hate" E2: 'Best of Both Worlds' A tipster reveals that Patrik — who talked about derailing trains and setting off explosives — was a member of the Army Reserve. Does the military have a problem with neo-Nazis in its ranks?
12.29.2021 S13: "White Hot Hate" E3: Hate Camps Outed as a member of The Base, Patrik Mathews disappears. His abandoned truck is discovered near the Canada-U.S. border. He could be heading to a training camp. But what exactly are they training for?
12.28.2021 S13: "White Hot Hate" E4: 'It only takes a few' Some members of The Base are planning deadly attacks that they hope will spark a race war. Will they be stopped, before it's too late?
12.27.2021 S13: "White Hot Hate" E5: The ‘Network Administrator’ We speak with ‘Roman Wolf,’ the founder of The Base. Who is he really? Why did he start a white supremacist network? And with half a dozen members behind bars, what comes next?
12.26.2021 S13: "White Hot Hate" E6: 'Give them what they deserve' Patrik Mathews could be facing up to 25 years in prison for U.S. firearm offences. His and others’ arrests may have destroyed the appeal of accelerationist groups like The Base — but where is the movement heading now?
12.13.2021 S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E1: The Body Upon checking into a luxury resort in India, Gerald Cotten complains to staff he’s feeling ill. He and his wife are taken to a hospital and within 24 hours the young CEO is declared dead. A month passes before word ...
12.12.2021 S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E2: Hunting Ghosts QuadrigaCX collapses and there’s widespread panic. An online sleuth searches for answers through a tangle of websites, hidden identities and a trail of emails. He uncovers a pattern of deception that predates his exchange, linking Gerry to a shadowy underworld ...
12.11.2021 S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E3: Cracks in the Empire Gerald Cotten and his business partner, Michael Patryn, launch QuadrigaCX on Boxing Day, 2013. There’s hype in the budding Bitcoin community and the small exchange seems to have a meteoric rise. But cracks begin to appear, problems with the banks, ...

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Uncover Introduces: Love, Janessa

S18: "Pressure Cooker" E1: Project Souvenir

S18: "Pressure Cooker" E2: The Mysterious Uncle Abe

S18: "Pressure Cooker" E3: Point of No Return

S18: "Pressure Cooker" E4: Ticking Time Bombs

S18: "Pressure Cooker" E5: Trapped

S18: "Pressure Cooker" Bonus: Finding Kaz

S17: "The Kill List" E1: Death of an Icon

S17: "The Kill List" E2: A Death in Sweden

S17: "The Kill List" E3: The Dissident Club

S17: "The Kill List" E4: ‘I am not a terrorist’

S17: "The Kill List" E5: Living Ghosts

S17: "The Kill List" E6: The Pier

Uncover Introduces: Run, Hide, Repeat

Uncover Introduces: The Outlaw Ocean

Uncover Introduces: Pressure Cooker

Introducing: Kuper Island

S16: “Kuper Island” E1: A School They Called Alcatraz

S16: “Kuper Island” E2: Nights on the Boys’ Side

S16: “Kuper Island” E3: Sink or Swim

S16: “Kuper Island” E4: What happened to Richard?

S16: “Kuper Island” E5: Feeding the Dead

S16: “Kuper Island” E6: It Didn't Feel Like Justice

S16: “Kuper Island” E7: Hurt People Hurt People

S16: “Kuper Island” E8: Every Child Matters

S15: "The Village 3" E7: Atonement

S15: "The Village 3" E6: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

S15: "The Village 3" E5: Out With Them All

S15: "The Village 3" E4: A Murder is a Murder is a Murder

S15: "The Village 3" E3: Chicken Little

S15: "The Village 3" E2: Sex Garage

S15: "The Village 3" E1: La Vie en Rose

Introducing: The Village: The Montreal Murders (Trailer)

S15: "The Village 3" E0: Return to The Village

Uncover Introduces: Someone Knows Something: The Abortion Wars

S9 "Evil By Design" E9: Nothing Sticks

S14: "Boys Like Me" E1: A Moment of Silence

S14: "Boys Like Me" E2: A Supreme Gentleman

S14: "Boys Like Me" E3: Boys Will Be Boys

S14: "Boys Like Me" E4: A Soldier for the Cause

S14: "Boys Like Me" E5: Welcome to the Manosphere

S13: "White Hot Hate" E1: 'Save Your Race, Join The Base'

S13: "White Hot Hate" E2: 'Best of Both Worlds'

S13: "White Hot Hate" E3: Hate Camps

S13: "White Hot Hate" E4: 'It only takes a few'

S13: "White Hot Hate" E5: The ‘Network Administrator’

S13: "White Hot Hate" E6: 'Give them what they deserve'

S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E1: The Body

S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E2: Hunting Ghosts

S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E3: Cracks in the Empire