When the remains of two children are found in Vancouver's Stanley Park in 1953, the public and police are puzzled about their identities; advances in DNA technology help investigators make a shocking discovery.

Imagine there’s banging on your door. What you don’t realize is that the person on the other side of the door has a gun. For residents of a Vaughan condo building, just north of Toronto, it was a night that changed their lives forever in one of Canada’s worst mass shootings. Reporter Catherine McDonald covered the story back in 2022 and spoke with the only shooting victim who survived, along with her husband who fought off the gunman. She returns now to meet the first responders who helped save their lives.

Shannon Madill had everything going for her; she had just landed an audition for a role in a television series; was looking forward to moving from Calgary to Edmonton; the audition was recorded on video; hours later she vanished.

Family and friends of a young mother become frantic when she fails to show up for work. An exhaustive search of her home leads to a horrifying discovery and an Amber Alert for her missing five-year-old daughter. Follow along as investigators take you inside what happened to Sara and Taliyah, how they tracked the suspect, and the motive behind this senseless crime.

For seven years, Cindy James told police she was being stalked; when the Vancouver nurse's lifeless body was found two weeks after she went missing, and no suspects, a coroner's inquest is called in hopes of solving the mystery.

It was October 1984 in a small town outside Toronto; a young girl went missing; three months later, Christine Jessop's body was found more than 50 kilometers away from her Queensville home.

Two neighbors that live just two doors apart decide they should get together for a barbeque; that get-together takes a deadly turn that results in a shocking 911 call and a compelling police interrogation.

Terrie Ann Dauphinais, a young Metis woman, is found dead in her home; her death was deemed a homicide, but no charges were ever laid, and the case went cold; new developments in the investigation lead to a dramatic turn of events.

The body of 40-year-old doctor Elana Fric was discovered by a passerby in a ravine just north-west of Toronto; the man arrested and charged for the crime sent shockwaves through Toronto’s tight-knit medical community.

Glen Davis was a multi-millionaire philanthropist, well-known for his generosity; he and his wife donated millions to charities, including the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

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.

True crime novels are often topping best sellers lists; to explore the reason of public fascination with this genre of storytelling, "Crime Beat" sits down with five authors pushing the boundaries of true crime.

For seven years, Cindy James told police she was being stalked; when the Vancouver nurse's lifeless body was found two weeks after she went missing, and no suspects, a coroner's inquest is called in hopes of solving the mystery.

Audrey Trudeau moves to Calgary in the late 90's in search of a fresh start following a divorce; then, on the eve of an exciting new opportunity, she suddenly vanishes; her disappearance puzzles her loved ones.

A caring nurse and mother of three viciously murdered after a break-in at her home, while her 3 children slept in another room unaware of the attack.

New leads in the 10 year old case of a 42-year-old nurse brutally murdered in her home; her family questions why it is taking so long to make an arrest.

Reporter Caryn Lieberman reveals how Larry Arnold's murder investigation is linked to the 1997 killing of a 20-year-old woman hundreds of kilometers away in North Bay, Ontario. Sarah Whitehead was sexually assaulted and murdered as she left a mall. Both murders were mysteries that almost went unsolved, two seemingly unrelated cases, until DNA from a cigarette butt led police to the killer. A serial rapist and murderer whose crimes crossed provincial borders and some of which likely remain unsolved to this day.

Detectives investigate leads in what they believe was a targeted killing; reporter Mark Carcasole reveals the twists and turns in the plot to kill Davis, and just how close to home it was.

Penny Boudreau reported her 12-year-old daughter Karissa missing on the night of a heavy snowstorm in January 2008; in an emotional news conference, the Nova Scotia mother made a tearful appeal for the public's help in finding the little girl.

In November of 1999, 16-year-old Julie Surprenant disappeared without a trace. She was last seen at a bus stop just meters from her back door in the Montreal suburb of Terrebonne, but somehow never made it home. Julie’s disappearance is one of the most widely covered criminal cases in Quebec over the past 25 years. The main suspect was a neighbor with a long criminal history, but he was never charged. Just days before dying, the suspect told a nurse he’d killed Julie, but the confession didn’t make it to the police in time for him to be questioned.

Curious about why the owner of an expensive sports car would be outside a Toronto motel, police knock on the door and are met with gunfire; over the next several hours, hundreds of bullets are fired in the biggest shootout in the city's history.

When a man turns up dead on a hunting trail in Killarney, police have no idea if it was an accident or murder. Until they find the killer who says he was hired to do it. The woman he points the finger at claims she’s completely innocent and must travel a long road to prove it. When she finally gets her day in court – a decision is handed down that has far reaching implications.

It was a crime unlike anything ever seen before in Canada. The horror of the 'Wells Gray Murders' forty years ago still haunts investigators involved in the case, as well as family and friends of the victims. In August 1982, David Shearing stalked and murdered three generations of a family while they were out on a summer camping trip in B.C. After a long cross-country investigation, police learn the killer was always closer than suspected. What was the murderer's motive for such a horrific crime?

A little boy had a sleepover at his grandparent’s home. When his mother returned to pick him up the next morning—all three were gone. That was the starting point of one of the longest Amber Alerts in Canadian history. Who would kidnap a five-year-old child and his grandparents, and why? It was a race against the clock to find the missing trio. Follow along as police uncover shocking forensic evidence and learn the twist that finally leads investigators to identify a suspect.

With a little boy and his grandparents still missing, police make a dramatic arrest. A search of the suspect’s property leads to one disturbing discovery after another. DNA was found, but still no bodies. What happened to Nathan O’Brien, and Alvin and Kathy Liknes? Learn how a petty grudge festered and grew into a murderous plot, and the shocking key evidence seen from high above the killer’s property… in the conclusion of Hunted by Evil.

When a triple-murder nearly wipes out an entire family, police struggle to establish a motive. At the home, investigators discover a gruesome scene and identify an unexpected murder weapon — a crossbow. They also meet the lone survivor who fought for his life and barely escaped. The mystery deepens when a suspicious package is discovered, and the killer’s double-life is revealed.

The family of Marilyn Bergeron searches for answers and reveals some startling theories in the mystery of a young Quebec woman who disappeared in 2008.

After a torso is found floating in the Oshawa Harbour, the family of 18-year-old Rori Hache is horrified to learn the human remains belong to the missing teen. But when a local plumber calls in a “flesh-like” substance clogging a drain, the horror only grows.

Lead homicide detectives reveal the tactics used to catch the killer of Holly Jones, a Toronto 10-year-old who was found murdered in 2003; Holly's mother shares memories of her daughter and her family's efforts to fight child pornography.

On September 28, 2011, 19-year-old Maple Batalia, an aspiring model, actress and doctor, is shot and killed in a university campus parking lot; security camera footage pans away at the last moment, leaving her last minutes alive a mystery.

A young Calgary woman goes missing, and a 911 call results in the discovery of an older couple dead in their home, leading police to uncover the tragic connection between the two cases as they uncover evidence of a senseless killing spree.

On August 17, 1994, in Kelowna B.C., eight-year-old Mindy Tran hopped on her bike and pedaled over to a nearby friend's house to ask her to play; she was never seen again.

A Calgary mother disappeared in March 2015. Months later her body was found in a ditch by a road construction crew. The autopsy revealed she was stabbed 75 times.

In November 1997, Reena Virk was invited to a party by a group of her peers. What started out as a regular Friday night in Victoria, BC quickly took a sinister turn. The 14-year-old teen would be brutally ambushed and attacked by the group, most of them girls. Schools were abuzz with gossip that someone had been murdered but there was no body and only rumours to go on. Join reporter Christa Dao as she shares how investigators deciphered fact from fiction and revealed ruthlessness and evil in teen girls, unfathomable at the time.

Just days away from a family Easter dinner in 2019, a young single mom and her 22-month-old daughter disappeared. Days passed, and their loved ones grew increasingly concerned, eventually contacting the police. Investigators said it appeared all footprints of life had come to a sudden end. An exhaustive search eventually led them deep into the wild and forested mountains of Kananaskis Country.

Jolene Riendeau, a 10-year-old girl, disappears without a trace from a Montreal neighborhood, she was last seen at a local convenience store; her remains were unearthed twelve years later near a bridge and her parents are still searching for answers.

A German tourist travels across the world with his family to witness the splendor of the Canadian Rockies; without warning, a chance encounter and a single bullet interrupts their trip and changes their lives forever.

When 27-year-old Caitlin Potts disappears from the North Okanagan in February 2016, police are puzzled. Although her body has never been found, Mounties believe she has been murdered. And then, over the next year and a half, four other women disappear too. One of the women's bodies is found on the Sagmoen family farm and many start to point the finger at Curtis Sagmoen. But although he has spent time in jail for other offences, he's never been charged with murder. In this episode of Crime Beat, reporter Jules Knox investigates whether these cases could somehow be connected?

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.

When a Winnipeg teenager was found savagely attacked in a donut shop, investigators arrested a B.C. man who was visiting the area. After serving nearly four years behind bars, he was suddenly released, prompting some people to question if a murderer had now walked free. As Jules Knox reports, years later, another slaying of a teenage girl halfway across the country gave fresh light to old evidence that could help convict a killer.

When series of cabins are raided in northern B.C., and then a reclusive trapper suddenly goes missing, police believe the crimes could be connected; as Jules Knox reports, that triggers a series of events that leaves one Mountie dead.

On May 14, 1971, just after dinner, six-year-old Ljubica Topic wandered off while playing outside with her older brother and some friends. When her brother gets home, Ljubica isn’t there. Questioned by his mother, he reveals that a stranger had approached them asking for help and Ljubica had gone off to assist. After a frantic search, the young girl is found dead just a kilometre away. Who did this and why remained a mystery for nearly 50 years.

A dispute outside a Toronto tavern between a jealous boyfriend and several gang members ends in a hail of gunfire, in which a young woman new to the city is killed, and the missing gun turns up in an unrelated crime.

When a 20-year-old English tourist suddenly stops contacting his family while backpacking across Canada, his mother tries to raise the alarm. Police are slow to respond until an anonymous note prompts them to search a nearby lake. When a body is found, there is hope that it will help bring closure to the missing man’s family. But as Jules Knox reports, another twist in this story means that the case can’t be so easily closed.

Three brazen murders in Kelowna, Vancouver and Toronto spark an extensive police investigation into the Wolfpack Alliance, a crew of gangsters running operations connected to Mexican cartels. The kingpins are quick to take out anyone in their way, leaving authorities scrambling to build a case against the killers. As Jules Knox reports, while a murder trial is finally underway, a cunning escape leaves authorities at a loss and the public looking for justice.

Millionaire Builder Peter Demeter is charged with non-capital murder in connection with his wife's death. His trial in London Ontario's brand-new courthouse is explosive, with investigators uncovering new evidence daily. Who killed Christine Demeter?

Nicolle Hands was a young Winnipeg mother, brutally attacked and stabbed in her apartment while her children were at home sleeping. Two decades after Nicolle’s murder, reporter Marney Blunt looks into a recent development in the case, information exclusively released to Global News, and learns why the family may still be no closer to achieving justice for their beloved Nicolle.

Neville-Lakes' three children were killed by a drunk driver, Marco Muzzo, in a crash in Vaughan back in 2015; the driver, the son of a wealthy family, was sentenced to ten years in jail but is now out on parole while the mother is left grieving.

In December 2019, 26-year-old Koshin Yusuf was coming home from a night out with friends when he was cornered at his Scarborough apartment entrance and shot 24 times. But why? All police had to start with was a piece of grainy video surveillance that captured the actual murder. Was it a case of mistaken identity? Did Koshin know his attackers? Crime Beat tracks the investigation and learns why the judge would later call it a 'stunning' piece of police work.

On November 17, 2004, a young Calgary family settled in for the evening. At about 9 pm, the husband left for work as a security guard, while his wife stayed home with their two children. In the middle of the night, she woke to the sound of shattered glass. Within minutes the entire home was engulfed in flames. After desperate attempts to reach her children failed, the mother managed to escape. The children didn’t survive. Senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt shares the unexpected twists the investigation took into who was responsible for the devastating double-fatal fire.

On a warm summer night in 1973, building developer Peter Demeter pulls a Mercedes full of tourists into his driveway after a shopping trip. As the garage door opens, headlights illuminate a horrific scene, the bludgeoned body of his wife and model, 33-year-old Christine Demeter.

Police work to end a decade-long feud between rival gangs the FKs and the FOBs that has left more than two dozen dead, including innocent bystanders hit in the crossfire.

January 16th, 2006, started like any other for Jack Beauchamp; the financier grabbed a coffee and went to work in his downtown Calgary office; minutes after he arrived, he was shot six times and left for dead on his office floor.

They have been called agents for the silenced. Homicide detectives investigating horrific murders work tireless hours to find answers for grieving families. We interview top detectives about some of their most memorable and impactful cases, including ones that still haunt them to this day. In ‘the Investigators’, we learn what real life is like as a homicide detective on the job and after.

Catherine McDonald looks back at the impact of the murder of Jodan Manners, who was gunned down at a C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute hallway.

It’s one of every new mother’s greatest fears. You put your child down for a nap, only to later notice muffled cries coming from the bedroom. What happened next lands Tammy Wynne Marquardt in jail for nearly 14 years and will haunt her for the rest of her life. Reporter Mark Carcasole shares Tammy’s harrowing story and learns more about the man whose testimony, she says, destroyed her life.

Crime Specialist Catherine McDonald recounts the story about of an obsession so deep it led to the death of an innocent child.

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.

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.

When the key suspect in a series of assaults and murders is brought in for questioning, a cat and mouse game unfolds in the interview room and ultimately leads to a shocking confession from a man leading a secret double life.

A cross-country manhunt ensues when a young Australian American couple is murdered, a much-loved university professor is found dead, and two teens go missing in northern British Columbia.

A cross-country manhunt ensues when a young Australian American couple is murdered, a much-loved university professor is found dead, and two teens go missing in northern British Columbia.

Loved ones and police go to painstaking efforts to locate 26-year-old Dilleen Hempel after she goes missing in 1992 as she was heading home from her new job.

After a man fired a gun on a local playground and seriously injured two girls, outraged parents demanded answers from local politicians as to how to stop the cycle of violence terrorizing their neighbourhoods.

Days after Stephanie Forster is killed near her home in Coquitlam, B.C., her estranged husband, Luigi Derossi, kills himself, but her brother believes Forster discovered Derossi's notoriety as a serial romance scammer.

In an unprecedented case, an internet tormentor is extradited from the Netherlands to stand trial after targeting 15-year-old Amanda Todd, who died by suicide after being blackmailed and harassed over several years.

Ultrasound technician and newlywed Rosemarie "Kim" Junor is stabbed in the chest by a stranger in 2015, and the subsequent trial results in a verdict that still haunts Junor's family.

A man scouring for bottles in downtown Calgary dumpsters makes a grisly discovery, and a trail of forensic evidence leads police to uncover a deadly betrayal.

Senior crime reporters provide updates on a few stories they previously covered; they share several significant developments -- including a major decision made by the Supreme Court of Canada that's impacted multiple murder cases across the country.

Chelsea Poorman was last seen on Sept. 6, 2020, in downtown Vancouver. Her remains were found 17 months later behind a vacant home in the upscale Shaughnessy neighbourhood.

When a man walking his dog comes upon a neighbour’s garage engulfed in flames, little does he know the treachery behind it. When the smoke clears, a woman is found dead with drug paraphernalia nearby. But nothing is what it seems, and police are left combing through a web of lies to find the killer. As they home in on the suspect they discover he’s planning to leave the country and try to intercept him, at the same time, putting an elaborate Mr. Big operation in motion.

In 2006, 17-year-old Brigitte Serre was working her first overnight shift at a Montreal gas station when three men attempted an armed heist. Brigitte was murdered in the robbery gone wrong, stabbed 72 times. The killer was eventually caught in a cross-country manhunt and sentenced to 25 years without parole for the brutal slaying. But for the Serre family, the painful reminders of their tragic loss would surface time and time again as the convicted murderer applied for early release.

The family and friends of Adrienne McColl had no idea the heartbreaking news they were about to get - and the long road to justice they were about to embark on.

When a mother left her Surrey, B.C. condo for work in the morning, she never imagined that it would be the last time she would ever see her son. She returned to a building that was surrounded by yellow police tape, and it wasn’t long before word leaked out that six men had been slaughtered inside. As Jules Knox reports, a well-placed surveillance team led officers to the suspects behind the largest gang-related mass murder in the province’s history, but several unexpected twists in this case soon jeopardized the search for justice.

It began as a cold case. In 1995, a 92-year-old woman had been brutally beaten during a home invasion, managed to escape, but died months later. At the time, no one knew who’d so viciously attacked Henrietta Knight. But 20 years later as police are investigating the disappearance of a known criminal, they find a connection. As the investigation unfolds, they find links to a bank robbery, a car bombing and multiple murders. A trail of blood that leads them to the one man responsible for it all.

In the spring of 2006 Calgary Police received an ominous call from someone worried a woman was being held captive in a downtown rooming house. Officers responded but found nothing suspicious. Over the next few days two patrol officers heard similar stories from several other people as details got more and more disturbing– alleging a woman had been held, tortured and killed. How could they solve a crime they weren’t sure had been committed? And without knowing if there was a victim? Follow along with Senior Crime Reporter Nancy Hixt as she shares the details of Deadly Rumours.

Detectives are slowly piecing together chilling clues from a series of brutal sexual assaults and murders across the country. Teenage girls are the target, and police are starting to question if one of their initial suspects was wrongfully convicted. As Jules Knox reports, a Mr. Big sting operation led officers to a second suspect who was hiding in plain sight.

For more than twenty years, Mark Mariani suffered from Crohn’s disease. In the fall of 2010, he was told about medical advancements that brought renewed hope for a better quality of life. To celebrate he went to his favourite country bar. The following morning his family received a call from the police. Mark had been found dead in a northwest Calgary parking lot. Join senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt as she walks you through the trail of evidence police uncovered to learn how Mark Mariani came Face-to-Face with Evil.