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True North True Crime

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True North True Crime is one of Canada's most listened-to independent true crime podcasts, with more than 10 million downloads worldwide.

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Dedicated to victim-centred storytelling, the podcast focuses on missing persons, unsolved cases, and victims of violent crime from across Canada.

Recognized by Apple Podcasts as a Creators We Love selection and featured by Amazon Music and Spotify, the hosts have also appeared on CTV News, Global News, and in documentaries discussing cases covered by the podcast.

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  1. Halloween Special 2026

    · 38 min · Episode 160

    Some stories are too bizarre to believe. Others are too unsettling to forget. This Halloween, we're digging into three of Canada's creepiest unsolved mysteries. A Quebec farmhouse terrorized by an unseen presence…

  2. The Girl in the Park - Part 3

    · 35 min · Episode 159

    M. was thirteen when she was murdered in Burnaby’s Central Park in July 2017. Ibrahim Ali was arrested and charged with first degree murder in September 2018. This is Part Three, the final episode in our series on her…

  3. The Girl in the Park - Part 2

    · 39 min · Episode 158

    M. was thirteen when she was murdered in Burnaby's Central Park in July 2017. Ibrahim Ali was arrested and charged with first degree murder in September 2018. This is Part Two of our three-part series on her case. In…

  4. The Girl in the Park - Part 1

    · 33 min · Episode 157

    M. was thirteen years old. She loved anime and sewing her own costumes. On the evening of July 18, 2017, she was murdered in Burnaby's Central Park. Her body was found there on July 19, 2017. This crime shocked…

  5. Shawn Reineke

    · 50 min · Episode 156

    In September 1984, eighteen-year-old Shawn Reineke went to a university dance in Saskatoon. At some point that night, a group of strangers pranked him while he was passed out drunk, then left him alone in the building.…

  6. Adam Cormack

    · 53 min · Episode 155

    In June 2017, twenty-five-year-old Adam Cormack was shot once in the head and left near a gravel pit outside Whitehorse, Yukon. Within days, Yukon RCMP had a suspect in custody: Edward Penner. Two years later, a jury…

  7. MMIMB: Anthony Primozic - Part 2

    · 1 h 03 min · Episode 154

    In March 2026, four years after Anthony Primozic died in Haines Junction, Yukon, Seth Boss finally stood trial in Yukon Supreme Court on a charge of second-degree murder. Nobody disputed that he caused Anthony's death.…

  8. MMIMB: Anthony Primozic - Part 1

    · 1 h 02 min · Episode 153

    Anthony Primozic was 25 years old, a proud citizen of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations from Haines Junction, Yukon. By every account from the people who loved him, one of the kindest people in his community. In…

  9. Nadine Robinson

    · 1 h 06 min · Episode 152

    In July 2006, 36-year-old nurse and mother Nadine Robinson, also known in media reports as Nadine Robinson-Creary, was found murdered inside her Edmonton, Alberta home. Twenty years later, her homicide remains…

  10. Part 2 - Debra Entwistle

    · 52 min · Episode 151

    In March 1993, Debra Kayla Entwistle was murdered in her home in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Her former common-law partner Leonard Neveu confessed, led investigators to her remains, and admitted in an Edmonton courtroom…

  11. Part 1 - Debra Entwistle

    · 53 min · Episode 150

    In March 1993, Debra Kayla Entwistle was weeks away from leaving Fort McMurray for good. She had spent years trying to escape a violent man, and she had finally done it. Her father had an apartment waiting for her in…

  12. MMIWG: Karen Tessier

    · 43 min · Episode 149

    Karen Tessier was 57 years old when she was last seen on July 9th, 2024, in Fort Nelson, British Columbia. Five days later her vehicle was found burned in a remote area outside of town. She has not been found. No…

  13. The Johnson and Bentley Family Murders

    · 49 min · Episode 148

    In August 1982, David William Shearing murdered six members of the Johnson and Bentley families while they were on a camping trip near Wells Gray Provincial Park in British Columbia. George and Edith Bentley, their…

  14. MISSING: Liam Toman

    · 53 min · Episode 147

    In this episode, we speak with the family of missing 22-year-old Liam Toman — his father Chris, mother Kathleen, and stepmother Lara. Liam disappeared during a ski trip to Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, in the early morning…

  15. Bailey McCourt - Part 2

    · 42 min · Episode 146

    Hours after being convicted of assaulting his wife Bailey McCourt, James Plover walked out of a Kelowna courthouse on existing bail. Within three hours, she was dead, killed in a parking lot in broad daylight in front…

  16. Bailey McCourt - Part 1

    · 36 min · Episode 145

    Bailey McCourt was a 32-year-old mother of two from Kelowna, British Columbia. In June of 2024, her husband, James Plover, assaulted her inside their home, grabbing her by the throat and threatening to kill her. Bailey…

  17. MMIMB: Sebastian Moore

    · 41 min · Episode 144

    Sebastian Moore was seventeen years old when he was stabbed and killed in Terrace, British Columbia on the night of November 26th, 2023. A youth was taken into custody but after more than a year of investigation, Crown…

  18. MISSING: Deeanna Erickson

    · 38 min · Episode 143

    UPDATE: Since the release of this episode, Deeanna Erickson has been located. Calgary Police have stated that the case is non-criminal and have not released further details. Her sister has shared that Deeanna has…

  19. The Vaughan Condo Shooting

    · 46 min · Episode 142

    On December 18, 2022, a mass shooting event inside Bellaria Tower II in Vaughan, Ontario left five people dead. Francesco Villi, a 73-year-old resident of the Bellaria condominium at 9235 Jane Street, carried out the…

  20. Candace Derksen

    · 1 h 03 min · Bonus

    In this episode, we examine the 1984 murder of 13-year-old Candace Derksen in Winnipeg. Candace vanished on her way home from school in November of that year. Weeks later, her body was discovered in a storage shed,…

  21. Shane Smith

    · 53 min · Episode 141

    In the summer of 2020, 20-year-old Shane Eric James Smith vanished in Calgary. He was last seen on June 6, and within days police believed he had been shot and killed by a friend at a southeast Calgary residence. In…

  22. A Conversation with Gillian Millam of BC CrimeStoppers

    · 1 h 22 min · Bonus

    In this previously TNTC+ episode, we sit down with Gillian Millam, former Metropolitan Police officer from the U.K. and current Executive Director of British Columbia Crime Stoppers. Gillian began working with Greater…

  23. The Murder of Michael Carmen and the Birth of Crime Stoppers

    · 41 min · Episode 140

    In July 1976, a young gas station attendant named Michael Carmen was shot and killed during a late-night robbery in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His death seemed destined to become another unsolved case in a city…

  24. Shabir Niazi

    · 57 min · Episode 139

    In this previously TNTC+ exclusive episode, we dive into the homicide case of Shabir Niazi out of Ajax Ontario. Shabir Niazi, who was 22 years old at the time, was found shot to death in the garage of a home on…

  25. True Crime Holiday Hangout

    · 1 h 19 min · Bonus

    On this Christmas Day episode of True North True Crime, we’re joined by Madelayne Klein and Jordan Bonaparte from The Canadian Gothic for a year-end roundtable. Together, we reflect on the cases from 2025 that stayed…

  26. Keisha Garie

    · 46 min · Episode 138

    It was a quiet Monday afternoon in Burnaby, British Columbia, when police were called to a residential street near Alpha Secondary School. A passerby had noticed a parked vehicle and looked inside — making a discovery…

  27. Christine Jessop

    · 53 min · Episode 137

    On October 3rd, 1984, nine-year-old Christine Jessop disappeared from her home in Queensville, Ontario. Her case became one of the most highly scrutinized investigations in Canadian history, marked by a wrongful…

  28. The Maine Registry Murders

    · 35 min · Episode 136

    This episode was originally a TNTC+ bonus episode. In April 2006, a 20-year-old man drove from Nova Scotia to Maine with a chilling plan. Armed with names and addresses from the state’s sex offender registry, he…

  29. Inside the World of Cadaver Canines

    · 1 h 29 min · Episode 135

    In this previously TNTC+ bonus episode, we're taking you inside a world few people truly understand — the work of cadaver search dogs and their handlers. We’re joined by Jason McMillan, Vice President and K9 Handler…

  30. The Last Hangings in Canada

    · 32 min · Episode 134

    On a cold December night in 1962, two men were led through the echoing halls of Toronto’s Don Jail. Beneath their feet, a trapdoor waited. Minutes later, Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin became the last people ever…

  31. The Murder of Wayne Mallette and the Wrongful Conviction of Ron Moffatt

    · 59 min · Episode 133

    Seven-year-old Wayne Mallette vanished on the deserted grounds of Toronto’s Canadian National Exhibition on September 15, 1956. Within days, police zeroed in on 14-year-old Ron Moffatt, extracting a confession during a…

  32. Donna Awcock

    · 44 min · Episode 132

    On the night of October 12, 1983, 17-year-old Donna Jean Awcock was babysitting for a neighbour in London, Ontario. When her shift ended, she set out for a short walk — but she never made it home. The next morning,…

  33. Mathew McGrath

    · 1 h 00 min · Episode 131

    In January 2024, 52-year-old Mathew McGrath went missing from Carleton Place, Ontario. For four months his family searched desperately, until his body was discovered in the Mississippi River that May. The coroner ruled…

  34. MMIWG: Patricia Calahasen

    · 53 min · Episode 130

    It was the early hours of August 3rd, 2001, in Edmonton, Alberta, when fire crews responded to a dumpster blaze behind a central apartment building. Once the flames were out, they made a horrifying discovery — the…

  35. MISSING: Dylan Koshman

    · 41 min · Episode 129

    In October 2008, 21-year-old Dylan Koshman disappeared from south Edmonton after a late-night argument with his cousins. He left the house wearing only jeans and a t-shirt—and without his phone, wallet, or jacket—never…

  36. The Saanich Bank Shooting

    · 43 min · Episode 128

    👉 Content warning: this episode contains audio of gunfire. On June 28, 2022, a quiet day at a Bank of Montreal in Saanich, British Columbia, exploded into chaos when two heavily armed men stormed the building,…

  37. The Murder of Lynne Harper and the Wrongful Conviction of Steven Truscott

    · 46 min · Episode 127

    In June 1959, 12-year-old Lynne Harper disappeared from the small community of Clinton, Ontario. Two days later, her body was found in a wooded area near a rural concession road. What followed was one of the most…

  38. Malcolm Madsen - Part 2

    · 50 min · Episode 126

    After Malcolm Madsen vanished in Puerto Vallarta, his daughter Brooke began a relentless effort to uncover the truth. In Part 2 of our coverage, we trace how the case progressed within Mexico’s legal system. With key…

  39. Malcolm Madsen

    · 51 min · Episode 125

    This is part one of a two-part series on the disappearance of Malcom Madsen. Malcom was a 68-year-old Canadian man who went missing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in October 2018. In this episode, we look at who Malcom…

  40. MMIMB: Byron Watson

    · 58 min · Episode 124

    On November 26, 2023, 23-year-old Byron Watson left his auntie’s home on Lonsdale Street in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. He told his family he’d be back later that day — but he never returned. Byron, a member of the…

  41. MISSING: Jessie Foster

    · 1 h 21 min · Episode 123

    In March 2006, 21-year-old Jessie Foster who was from Kamloops BC, vanished from North Las Vegas under circumstances that point to a disturbing pattern of trafficking and violence against women. Nearly two decades…

  42. Behind the Badge: A Conversation with Sergeant Chris Voller of the NPF

    · 1 h 46 min · Bonus

    This week on True North True Crime, we're stepping outside our usual format to offer a rare look behind the badge. Sergeant Chris Voller of the National Police Federation joins us for a candid conversation about the…

  43. Aspen Pallot - Part 2

    · 52 min · Episode 121

    In Part One, we shared Aspen Pallot’s vibrant life and the devastating impact of intimate partner violence. Now, in Part Two, we follow her family’s painful journey through the Canadian justice system—a process that…

  44. Lilly and Jack Sullivan - with Jordan Bonaparte from the Nighttime Podcast

    · 1 h 16 min · Episode 122

    This week on True North True Crime, we’re joined by Jordan from The Nighttime Podcast to examine the troubling and still-unfolding case of Lily and Jack Sullivan, two young siblings who vanished from their rural…

  45. Aspen Pallot - Part 1

    · 1 h 01 min · Episode 120

    Aspen Pallot was 19 years old when she was murdered by her boyfriend, 22-year-old Solaris Day, on October 3, 2018, in Richmond, British Columbia. In this first episode of a two-part series, we focus on Aspen’s life—who…

  46. Matthew Perry

    · 51 min · Episode 119

    On October 28, 2023, beloved actor Matthew Perry was found dead in his Los Angeles home. Initially reported as an accidental drowning, new evidence has emerged that suggests something far more sinister. In this…

  47. MMIWG: Juanita "Winnie" Migwans

    · 46 min · Episode 118

    Juanita “Winnie” Migwans, a 31-year-old Indigenous woman from M’Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island, has been missing since October 4, 2024. She was last seen walking along Riverside Drive in M’Chigeeng. She…

  48. MISSING: Audrey Desjardins

    · 46 min · Episode 117

    On October 3, 1996, 42-year-old Audrey Desjardins finished her night shift at a fruit packing plant in St. Davids, Ontario. After dropping off a friend in Welland, she vanished without a trace—along with her red Ford…

  49. Nicholas Adamson

    · 1 h 02 min · Episode 116

    On March 17, 2022, 29-year-old Nicholas Adamson vanished after a night out at The Moose & Goose nightclub in Thorold, Ontario. After stepping outside to make a phone call around 1 a.m., he was denied re-entry into the…

  50. Kiara Agnew

    · 53 min · Episode 115

    In March 2023, 23-year-old Kiara Agnew from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, was found dead at a resort in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. This episode examines the circumstances of her death, the official investigation, and…

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