Story Hunter Podcasts

Ep 1: Terror In Renfrew County It was a beautiful fall day in Renfrew County, Ontario, when the first of three 911 calls came into the local police dispatch. The woman on the other end of the phone was screaming. A man had just shot her sister. Then, a second call. A young man had just witnessed his mother being attacked by a gun-wielding man in their home. Finally, a third call. A local real esta...

Ep. 1: A Day At the Lake - The Mysterious Deaths of Karen and Krista Hart It was an unspeakable tragedy - twin three-year-old girls had drowned at a local lake in Gander, Newfoundland while under the care of their father. Their mother was inconsolable but the police were perplexed. What really happened that day at the lake? Nelson Hart, the twin’s father would eventually be charged with their murd...

Ep 1: Monster In The Woods - The Crimes Of David Alexander Snow In the summer of 1992, a dangerous sexual predator was on the loose in North Vancouver. Three young women had been sexually assaulted at gunpoint and two of the victims had been kidnapped. It was a race against time to find the woman and apprehend the suspect before he struck again. But Vancouver authorities really had no idea who the...

Failing Zachary - A Murder Most Preventable When David and Kate Bagby were told their 28-year-old son Andrew had been murdered they were devastated. Andrew was a well respected family doctor who had just begun his career after years of study. Now he was gone and his ex-girlfriend, another doctor, had been charged with his senseless killing. The Bagby’s felt they had nothing to live for and even&nb...

A Killer in the Family - The Murders of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook In 1987, teenage sweethearts Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook set out from Victoria, BC for a one-night trip to Seattle. Tragically they were never seen alive again. Somewhere along their route they encountered a violent stranger who targeted the trusting couple. But who was this evil predator, and would he strike again? Th...

Ep 1: Frozen Tears - The Murder of Dusty Bowers She was just going to be a few minutes, so Julie Bowers decided to leave her sleeping 11-month-old son Dusty in his car seat in the back of her car when she went into the bank. It was the afternoon of January 14, 1988, a bitter cold day in Kincardine, Ontario. When Julie returned to the car Dusty was gone. It was a parent’s worst nightmare – a missin...

A Sister’s Love: The Murder of Lynne Knight When a young Canadian nurse is brutally murdered in a suburb of Los Angeles in 1979, the police are baffled by what the killer has left behind – a homemade garotte used to strangle the victim. They are certain the unique weapon will lead them to her killer. But without any other evidence the case eventually goes cold. Years go by and a family in Stratfor...

Ep. 1: Sins Of The Son - The Disappearance Of Minnie Ford  When a well-to-do recently widowed mother disappears from her suburban home the police are baffled. She didn’t take any money or clothing, and no one has seen or heard from her in days. It’s 1963 in a city known as “Toronto the good,” and middle-aged women just don’t disappear. Rumors spread that she’s taken off with a new man to Flor...

Fake Nurse: The Story of Brigitte Cleroux In the fall of 2021, hundreds of women in British Columbia received a letter from the B.C. Women’s Hospital. It informed them that during their recent time in hospital, they had been treated by a woman who had posed as a nurse without any qualifications. Apparently, the imposter nurse had a long history of fraud, forgery and impersonation. Her re...

Four people have vanished after the July 4th long weekend in New Jersey, but when the bodies of a middle-aged couple, are discovered, the missing person’s case quickly turns into a double homicide and the hunt for two killers. Within days the son of the murder victims and his friend are arrested and charged with murder. Scott Franz claims he shot his stepfather in self-defense while his Canadian f...

Ep. 1: Nightmare In New Jersey - The Bruce Curtis Story It was supposed to be a fun summer holiday. Nova Scotia teenager Bruce Curtis was going to spend the July 4th long weekend with his American friend Scott Franz. The two eighteen-year-olds had just graduated from a prestigious private school and were looking forward to hanging out together on the fabled New Jersey Shore. But while Scott bragge...

Ep. 3: Evil In Paradise In 1996 seventeen-year-old Rebecca Middleton from Belleville, Ontario was viciously raped and murdered in Bermuda. Two local men are arrested within days, but an inept criminal justice system has resulted in one of the accused taking a plea deal with a five-year prison sentence and the other being acquitted of murder. Rebecca’s family vows to never give up in their fight fo...

Ep. 2: Evil In Paradise A teenage girl from Belleville, Ontario is brutally murdered in Bermuda while on a summer vacation in 1996. Within days two local men are charged and the case against them seems strong. It doesn’t take long for one to flip on the other, so the Bermudian crown attorney’s office makes a plea deal. They’re willing to give up one to secure a murder conviction against the other....

Ep. 1: Evil In Paradise It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, two teenage girls from Belleville, Ontario were heading to Bermuda for a six-week summer vacation. The British Island Territory was a well-known and safe tourist destination. The two best friends were living in paradise, until something went terribly wrong. After a late-night of drinking and partying, the girls get separated and...

Ep. 2: Pushed To the Limit - The Jane Stafford Story Jane Stafford is charged with the first-degree murder of her husband Billy after his headless body is discovered. Jane admits to shooting him but claims it was in self-defence after he threatened to kill their neighbours and her son. Her trial gains nationwide attention because her defence rests on battered women’s syndrome. The jury will hear o...

Ep. 1: Pushed To the Limit - The Jane Stafford Story When a headless corpse is found on a deserted dirt road in rural Nova Scotia the local RCMP are certain it’s the body of the town’s resident bully, Billy Stafford. He’s been a thorn in the cop’s side for years and they doubt anyone is going to miss him but they still need to figure out who pulled the trigger. When Billy’s common-law wife Jane is...

Ep.1: Barwin’s Babies For decades Dr. Norman Barwin was revered as a miracle worker.  His specialty for helping women and couples who had issues with conceiving their own babies earned him the nickname The Baby Whisperer. The walls of his offices at the Broadview Fertility Clinic in Ottawa were covered with photos of the babies that resulted from his treatments.   But in the early 2...

Ep. 2: Trail of Pain - The Crimes of Albert Johnson Walker The British police have just arrested a man and his wife for suspected identity theft and possible murder. The man has been using the name of his friend who turned up dead in a fisherman’s net off Devon, England. But it turns out that identity fraud and murder are just the tip of a very extensive web of lies and deceit that goes back many...

Ep. 1: Trail of Pain - The Crimes of Albert Johnson Walker On a sunny July day in 1996 off the coast of Devon, England, a fisherman and his son caught something very unusual in their net. It was a dead man! He was fully clothed but had no identification. Yet, strangely he was still wearing an expensive Rolex watch. Tracing the timepiece’s unique serial number, the police identify the drowned man....

Hockey Night to Remember: The Life of Brian “Spinner” Spencer He was a kid who learned how to skate practically before he could walk. Born and raised in a small northern Canadian town, Brian Spencer had a dream that one day he would make to the National Hockey League. It was an irresistible desire that came with a lot of sacrifice for him and his dad Roy. But their hard work and determination fina...

Ep. 1: Double Indemnity - Murder in the Suburbs When emergency responders arrive at a car fire on a deserted California mountain top road, they are too late to save the man trapped in the burning Volkswagen. Luckily his wife, Lucille has managed to get out of the car and call for help. But once the fire is extinguished and the charred body of Doctor Gordon Miller is removed, investigators quickly...

Ep. 2: Fatal Friendship - The Murder of Nancy Eaton On a cold winter night in January 1985, a worried mother discovered the body of her twenty-three-year-old daughter. Nancy Eaton, an heiress to the Eaton family fortune had been stabbed to death in her own home and sexually assaulted. And the distraught mother knew exactly who was responsible. Seventeen-year-old Andrew Leyshon- Hughes was a troubl...

Ep. 1: Fatal Friendship - The Murder of Nancy Eaton She was the great, great granddaughter of Timothy Eaton, founder of Canada’s largest department store chain and he was from a wealthy, well-respected family. She was a beautiful twenty-three-year-old woman with a new career and an exciting social life, while he was a deeply disturbed seventeen-year-old who had been in and out of psychiatric hospi...

Ep. 1: Legacy Of Laughter - The Phil Hartman Story Emmy award-winning comedian. He was famous for his work on Saturday Night Live and had a starring role in NewsRadio, an NBC sitcom. He was also the voice of several characters in the long-running animated show The Simpsons. Alongside his successful career, he was living a million-dollar lifestyle in Los Angles with a beautiful wife and two young c...

Ep. 2: Death of a Dream - The Dorothy Stratten Story The tragic murder of Dorothy Stratten in 1980 was headline news around the world. The beautiful Playboy Playmate had been killed by her jealous ex husband in a brutal murder-suicide But behind the salacious headlines a family grieved and her lover could barely go on. Famed Hollywood director, Peter Bogdanovich had lost the love of his life. But...