Valley of Secrets

Send us Fan Mail In May 1989, forty-four-year-old nurse Cindy James vanished from Richmond, British Columbia after years of reporting that someone was stalking her. When her car was found parked outside a local bank—groceries and purse still inside—friends knew something was terribly wrong. In this first part of a two-part investigation, host Nicci Ruth retraces Cindy’s final day and the mystery t...

Send us Fan Mail August 1989. Three-year-old Casey Bohun disappears from her bed in North Delta. Her mother wakes to an open door, an empty blanket — and a nightmare that would follow her for the rest of her life. Accusations, rumors, and shifting stories haunt the case to this day. And while everyone thought they knew how it ended… the real tragedy was still to come. 🕯 Sources & References Ov...

Send us Fan Mail It’s a cold, rainy night in Chilliwack, British Columbia. Ten-year-old Jo-Anne “Jo-Jo” Pedersen walks alone through the storm, a pink jacket pulled tight around her shoulders, heading to a corner store to call her mom. But when her mother arrives twenty minutes later, the phone booth stands empty — the receiver swaying in the rain. Forty years later, her disappearance remains one...

Send us Fan Mail Two seventeen-year-olds. Two quiet Fraser Valley communities. Both left home one day and never came back. In this special Mental Health Awareness Month episode, Nicci Ruth shares the stories of Brittany Stalman and Jeff Surtel — two lives forever changed by silence, loss, and unanswered questions. Sources http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/3559dfbc.html https://dnasolves.com/articles...

Send us Fan Mail In 1976, a twelve-year-old girl vanished on her walk to school in Port Moody, B.C. Six months later, police uncovered the unimaginable. This is the true story of Abby Drover —the girl who survived the darkness beneath her neighbour’s garage. Sources https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-kidnap-sex-criminal-dies-in-hospital-1.1199808 https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/vid...

Send us Fan Mail 1995,  Thanksgiving weekend was shattered in Mission, BC when a mother and daughter were found murdered and a young boy barely clinging to life. This episode uncovers the truth behind the Holtam family tragedy. https://www.abbynews.com https://www.cbc.ca https://www.pressreader.com https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/april-27-1998-page-3-88/docview/3212178081/se-2 https://www.proq...

Send us Fan Mail On January 30th, 2021, 23-year-old Shaelene Keeler Bell left her apartment in Chilliwack for what she said would be a short drive — and vanished. Four months later, her body was discovered in the Fraser River nearly 90 kilometers away, but how she ended up there remains a mystery. This is the story of Shae, a young mother whose case still leaves more questions than answers. Source...

Send us Fan Mail In October 1995, two best friends were attacked while walking home in Abbotsford. One barely survived with catastrophic injuries, the other never made it home. What followed was months of taunts, terror, and a chilling hunt for the man who called himself ‘the  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/abbotsford-killer-terry-driver-dies-1.6143184 https://bc.ctvnews.ca/abbots...

Send us Fan Mail On a warm July night in 2017, 13-year-old Marrisa Shen left her Burnaby home for a quick walk to Tim Hortons. She never came back. By morning, police searching Central Park uncovered a discovery that shook the entire community. The investigation would span years, involve one of Canada’s most unusual sting operations, and end in a trial that stunned everyone who followed it. Source...

Send us Fan Mail In the winter of 1995, three young women — Tracy Olajide, Tammy Pipe, and Victoria Younker — are brutally murdered in the shadow of Hemlock Valley, a ski resort in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley. In this episode of Valley of Secrets , we retrace their lives, their final days, and the unanswered questions that still linger nearly three decades later. Works Cited The Chilliwack Pr...

Send us Fan Mail Over Labour Day weekend in 2010, Rachael Bagnall and Jonathan Jette set out for a backcountry trip to a remote, heart-shaped lake in British Columbia's Coast Mountains. What was meant to be a final adventure together before Racheal left the country turned into something else entirely. To this day, their story raises the haunting question- what happened on that trail? Works Ci...

Send us Fan Mail In 1988, the quiet town of Mission, BC, is shattered when the Madsen family is brutally murdered in their home. What unfolds is a chilling story of betrayal, teenage violence, and a community forever scarred. This episode of Valley of Secrets unravels the lives lost, the investigation, and the trial that shocked British Columbia. Sources Times Colonist — “Axe-Murder Trial Hears fr...

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