Crime Beat

Crime Beat

Looking into some of Canada's most infamous criminal cases with extensive archives and intimate interviews and exploring the lasting impacts on the community and justice system.

Genre: Crime

Cast:Antony RobartNancy HixtCaryn LiebermanCatherine McDonaldRumina DayaEric SorensenNeetu GarchaJules KnoxSteve IrwinDavid HobsonDave PerryMatt DemarinoRolf PrisorLesley ParrottShubham SapreKhalid UsmanJulia HirdPatty Segura


1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Meika Jordan: The Broken Princess

Sat, Mar 7, 2020

Crime reporter Nancy Hixt reviews the case of Meika Jordan, a six-year-old girl whose life was tragically cut short; Nancy reveals the details of this case and the evidence uncovered by investigators in their quest for justice.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Farah Khan: A City's Lost Child

Sat, Mar 14, 2020

Dismembered remains belonging to a child are uncovered, and Alan Carter returns to the scene of the crime 20 years later, reuniting with the lead detective and a community coming together in grief.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Final Homecoming of Lukas Strasser-Hird

Sat, Mar 21, 2020

After a year studying abroad, Lukas Strasser-Hird had dreams to be a doctor; he went out with friends to celebrate when he arrived home, but no one could have predicted how dangerous the situation was to become.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Alison Parrott: Leader of the Pack

Sun, Mar 29, 2020

Coaxed from her home for a photoshoot, a promising young athlete never returns: Caryn Lieberman brings us through the DNA breakthrough that cracks the case to a mother's national safety campaign.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Alicia Ross: Everyone's Daughter

Sat, Apr 4, 2020

Alicia's disappearance leads to one of the largest missing person searches in Ontario's history; reporter Catherine McDonald reconnects with Alicia's mother to tell the tale.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Darkness in the Pass

Sat, Apr 11, 2020

A small community in the Rocky Mountains is shattered when two people are found dead and a two-year old goes missing; Nancy Hixt recounts one of the most disturbing cases she's covered.

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S1.E7 ∙ The Legacy of Jordan Manners - Catherine McDonald

Sat, Apr 18, 2020

In May of 2007, 15 year old Jordan Manners was gunned down in a hallway, marking the first time a student was shot and killed inside a Toronto school and Catherine McDonald remembers the murder, its impact on the community and his family.

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S1.E8 ∙ If Anything Happens To Me: The Ottey Sisters

Sat, Apr 25, 2020

Teenage sisters Marsha and Tamara Ottey were stabbed to death in August 1995; months later, Dimitrija Trajceski became the first TTC worker killed on the job. Caryn Lieberman shares the story of how these two families' lives became intertwined.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ The Disappearance of Lisa Mitchell

Sat, May 9, 2020

At 29 years old, Lisa Mitchell and her common-law husband, Allan, had two children and she juggled two jobs to try to make ends meet and then one day, she disappeared, leaving her common-law husband and two children behind.

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S1.E10 ∙ Kimberley Kasatkin: No Body, No Crime

Sat, May 16, 2020

Kimberlee hasn't been heard from since 2016; her partner says she left and abandoned the family and her parents accuse him of murder; Rumina Daya investigates this unsolved case that's testing the limits of international justice.

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S1.E11 ∙ Guy Paul Morin & the Murder of Christine Jessop

Sat, May 23, 2020

Almost three months after she went missing, Christine Jessop's body was found more than 50 kilometers away from her Queensville home; after an intense police investigation, a former neighbor, Guy Paul Morin was charged.

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S1.E12 ∙ The Brentwood Five Massacre: Part 1

Sat, May 30, 2020

An accomplished dancer, an aspiring urban planner, two talented musicians, and a young man who was well on his way to becoming a humanitarian became victims of the biggest mass killing in Calgary's history.