Cancrime Podcast
1) The Mother and the Murderer: Woman confronts son’s killer in prison
Carolyn Solomon, a mother of two from Sudbury, Ontario, travelled 1,500 kilometres, past razor-wire topped steel fences and gun-toting watchtower guards, into the bowels of a federal penitentiary, to ...Show More
2) The inside story of how dogged cops caught Canada’s worst rapist
Canada’s worst rapist, a serial predator who may have assaulted more than 1,000 women, is free from prison and one of the investigators who caught him is certain he’ll strike again. B...Show More
3) Witness to murder: “I will always blame myself”
Witness to Murder: the story of a terrible crime in a small Ontario town and a girl who was witness, victim and accomplice.
4) Unsolved murders blamed on “incompetent” Quebec police
Police in Quebec have long been among the worst* in Canada at solving murders. Now, one man – bolstered by decades of meticulous research – is challenging this futility with a demand fo...Show More
5) Another psychopath and sex predator freed from prison
There may be 3,500 psychopaths behind bars in Canada’s prisons, roughly one quarter the male penitentiary population, according to researchers. They are conscienceless predators a...Show More
6) Prison service can’t contain spending or limit inmate deaths, report shows
Despite an enormous infusion of cash in the past decade, the agency that runs the country’s penitentiaries has failed to deliver on longstanding promises to reduce prisoner deaths and has failed...Show More
7) Former thief orchestrates ‘Christmas break-in’ that gives
Robin Marc Smith (inset, 2007 booking photo) had a 30-year career as a Grinch – and he was remarkably good at it – so it’s surprising to see him don a Santa hat so that he can break, enter and g...Show More
8) Williams case “extraordinarily unusual,” defence lawyer says
Criminal defence lawyers Michael Edelson and his partner Vince Clifford took extraordinary precautions in the handling of the sensational sex-murder case of Russell Williams. I had a chance to intervi...Show More