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Someone Knows Something is the investigative true crime series by award-winning documentarian David Ridgen. Each season tackles an unsolved case, uncovering details and bringing closure to families.


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Previous seasons: S1: Adrien McNaughton. S2: Sheryl Sheppard. S3: Dee & Moore. S4: Greavette. S5: Kerrie Brown. S6: Donald Izzett Jr.. S7: The Abortion Wars. S8: The Angel Carlick Case. S9: The Christine Harron Case.

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  • October 29 · 42 min

    Introducing: When it All Went Wrong

    <p>Investigations about the people who get hurt when the systems meant to protect us fail, hard. Not by accident, not from poor planning, but because someone chose to do wrong — and others chose to do nothing.</p><p><br></p><p>In <strong>When it All Went Wrong</strong> with chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault as your guide, CBC’s best journalists go deep over multiple episodes to reveal the fault lines in institutions we’ve come to trust and the fates of people caught in the middle.</p><p><br

  • June 3 · 48 min

    Introducing: Hunting the Suicide Salesman

    <p>Following the critically acclaimed series Hunting Warhead, Season 2: Hunting the Suicide Salesman follows host Daemon Fairless as he takes us inside another dark corner of the internet: the online world helping people take their own lives. When people around the world started killing themselves with an obscure substance a few years ago, police were unaware that something – someone – was tying many of these deaths together.</p><p><br></p><p>It took grieving families and investigative journalis

  • S10 · E6
    April 13 · 52 min

    S10 E6: Sebastién

    <p>In Episode 6, David and Sebastien speak again, to go over some theories and see if, step-by-step they can map out everyone's whereabouts on the day and evening that Jackie disappeared.</p>

  • S10 · E5
    April 6 · 40 min

    S10 E5: Historias

    <p>David follows leads to investigate a taxi tip. And more eye witnesses who may have seen Jackie in the days after she disappeared. Or did they?</p>

  • S10 · E4
    March 30 · 41 min

    S10 E4: The Red Cab

    <p>Digging deeper, David talks to an eye witness who says she saw something the night Jackie disappeared. David works with producer María José Burgos to call the authorities to get access to Jackie's investigative file. What did police find? Did they have a suspect?</p>

  • S10 · E3
    March 23 · 46 min

    S10 E3: Ex-Patriota

    <p>David talks to the neighbours and others in town, and tracks down security guards from Jaclyn’s gated community. Gathering the fragments. What did people see or hear? Where did Jackie go?</p>

  • S10 · E2
    March 16 · 51 min

    S10 E2: Papier Maché

    <p>Sebastién reveals some of the cracks beneath he and Jaclyn’s relationship and tells the story of what he remembers from Jackie's last day.&nbsp;</p>

  • S10 · E1
    March 9 · 37 min

    S10 E1: Jackie

    <p>Jaclyn Ferland-Smith moved to Playa del Coco with her husband Sebastien to find and build a new life. But then Jackie disappears, with no trace found. Jackie's family, with David's help, begins the process of picking up the pieces.</p><p><br></p><p>Hear episodes early on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@cbctruecrime" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>CBC True Crime on YouTube</strong></a>, or get all episodes early and ad-free by subscribing <a href="https://apple.co/cbctruec

  • March 2 · 5 min

    Introducing Season 10: The Jaclyn Ferland-Smith case

    <p>In Season 10 of Someone Knows Something, host David Ridgen investigates the sudden 2021 disappearance of Jaclyn Ferland-Smith, a Canadian expat living in Playas del Coco, a paradise veiled in rumour and fear on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. <strong>Episode 1 launches Monday, March 9</strong>. </p><p><br></p><p>Hear episodes early on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@cbctruecrime" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CBC True Crime on YouTube</a>, or subscribe to <a href="https://apple

  • S9 · E5
    Dec 4, 2024 · 46 min

    S9 E5: A Bear In The Woods

    <p>The finale. The aftermath of Ringel's trial, what happened, and what was learned. David and Mary Ann embark on a search for Chrissy’s body.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Watch David Ridgen's original television documentary from 2012, '</strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIh3L9OLmnI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Confession to Murder Part I</strong></a><strong>' and '</strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAYba5FnolM" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_b

  • S9 · E4
    Nov 27, 2024 · 38 min

    S9 E4: ‘Til The Day I Die

    <p>David’s TV documentary about Christine comes out in the spring of 2012, publicly revealing details of the case for the first time along with key interviews including a face-to-face with Anthony Ringel. In the aftermath, police launch an undercover operation on Ringel. David and Mary Ann's work proves key and Ringel is re-arrested. Will Ringel finally go to trial and Mary Ann learn the truth?</p>

  • S9 · E3
    Nov 20, 2024 · 38 min

    S9 E3: Stay

    <p>The case against Anthony Ringel falls apart and he is freed. And Mary Ann says she's been kept in the dark. How did it happen, and is Anthony Ringel even guilty of what he says?</p>

  • S9 · E2
    Nov 13, 2024 · 29 min

    S9 E2: Ringel

    <p>A decade after her disappearance, a previously uninvestigated local man comes forward at a family gathering and confesses to killing Christine Harron. Chrissy's mother Mary Ann is told that the case is a "slam dunk". And the outcome of an upcoming trial could mean she will finally learn the truth. But this is just the beginning.</p>

  • S9 · E1
    Nov 6, 2024 · 35 min

    S9 E1: Chrissy

    <p>Chrissy Harron didn’t feel well on May 18, 1993, and stayed home from school, but eventually her mother insisted that she get to afternoon class. Chrissy left, slamming the door, and would never be seen again. How can someone simply vanish, and did the local police find anything of use in their investigation?</p><p><br></p><p>New episodes will be released weekly on Wednesdays. Don't want to wait? Binge the whole season right now via <a href="https://apple.co/cbctruecrime" rel="noopener norefe

  • Oct 30, 2024 · 2 min

    Introducing Season 9: The Christine Harron Case

    <p>Someone Knows Something host&nbsp;David Ridgen's latest investigation is 15 years&nbsp;in the making. Season 9 follows the story of Ontario teenager Christine Harron who disappears&nbsp;in 1993. A&nbsp;mysterious man confesses&nbsp;to her&nbsp;murder,&nbsp;but the&nbsp;police case&nbsp;stalls out&nbsp;—&nbsp;and then David steps in.</p><p><br></p><p>Episodes will be released weekly starting Wednesday, Nov. 6.&nbsp;Subscribe to&nbsp;<a href="https://url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/qNUgCPY99TKm1

  • S8 · E7
    Oct 30, 2023 · 31 min

    S8 E7: Take it to the Limit

    <p>The final episode in the unsolved case of Angel Carlick. David follows a new lead — and finally gets in touch with someone at the centre of a compelling tip.</p>

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