The Cult Queen of Canada from Uncover

Rebecca Lavoie, host of Crime Writers On..., speaks with four distinguished podcasters who work with true crime: Justin Ling, host of Uncover: The Village, Connie Walker, host of Missing & Murdered, Natalie Jablonski, producer on In The Dark, and Amber Hunt, host of Accused. They break down the ethics behind true crime podcasts, what good podcasts should work to achieve, and what to take into...

On June 12, 1999, 15-year-old Sharmini Anandavel disappeared. Michelle Shephard returns to an investigation that has haunted her for 20 years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes.   📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted). ⛔ [ 82% of list...

The Cat Lady Case, Episode 1 - A witness remembers gunshots and a mysterious fire around the same time an elderly woman goes missing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes.   📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted). ⛔ [ 82% of listeners nev...

The Cat Lady Case, Episode 2 - A suspicious-looking man is seen interacting with the so-called “Cat Lady” shortly before her disappearance. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes.   📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted). ⛔ [ 82% of listene...

The Cat Lady Case, Episode 3 - Police learn that the missing woman, Joan Lawrence, is not the only one to disappear from the small community. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes.   📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted). ⛔ [ 82% of liste...

The Cat Lady Case, Episode 4 - With evidence and suspects, police try to press charges related to the disappearances. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes.   📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted). ⛔ [ 82% of listeners never see this .]...

The Cat Lady Case, Episode 5 - Information arises about where the missing seniors may be. Zander goes on a search and gets a surprise call. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes.   📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted). ⛔ [ 82% of listene...

The Cat Lady Case, Episode 6 - An insider finally speaks, and new details emerge about Joan. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes.   📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted). ⛔ [ 82% of listeners never see this .] 👇 [ Be the 18%. ] — [Befo...

What happened to Joan Lawrence? Investigative journalist Zander Sherman sheds light on one of cottage country’s darkest crimes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes.   📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted). ⛔ [ 82% of listeners never see...

Season 4 update: Detective Rob Matthews keeps his promise, and someone phones Zander with a tip. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes.   📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted). ⛔ [ 82% of listeners never see this .] 👇 [ Be the 18%. ] — [...

Join host Justin Ling and a panel of special guests in front of a live audience at the Human Rights Conference as part of World Pride in New York City marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Panelists from around the world reflect on the movement since Stonewall and what's next for LGBTQ+ rights today. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada....

The team behind season one of Uncover: Escaping NXIVM takes us inside the trial of NXIVM co-founder Keith Raniere and speaks with former member of the group Sarah Edmondson about her thoughts on the trial. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes.  ...

In this update to season one, Josh Bloch sits down with Jayme Poisson, host of CBC's daily news podcast Front Burner, to unpack a number of significant developments in the case against NXIVM members. The full season of Escaping NXIVM is available in the Uncover podcast feed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .]...

The Village, Episode 1 - In 2010, men with similar characteristics start mysteriously disappearing from Toronto's gay village. They are all linked to one man. Investigative journalist Justin Ling follows the case as friends search for loved ones and police provide few answers. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-3-the-villiage-transcripts-l...

The Village, Episode 2 - The community rallies as more men go missing and frustration and anger build. An anonymous source reveals how close police come to catching a serial killer, then let him go. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-3-the-villiage-transcripts-listen-1.5128216 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The C...

The Village, Episode 3 - A string of unsolved murders in the 1970s share a disturbing pattern. A retired homicide detective has regrets about not solving one case: he had evidence and a sketch. But a victim's sister says police had blind spots when the victims were gay. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-3-the-villiage-transcripts-listen-1...

The Village, Episode 4 - The head of the Toronto Police cold case team insists the historic, unsolved murders were fully investigated at the time. But Justin discovers otherwise, and learns these men lived and died in a time of no rights, and no protection, including from police. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-3-the-villiage-transcript...

The Village, Episode 5 - Justin traces Sandy Leblanc's steps from beloved brother with humble beginnings to well-known discoteque owner in the Village's burgeoning club scene. When he's killed, rumours are rampant about who was responsible. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-3-the-villiage-transcripts-listen-1.5128216 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━...

The Village, Episode 6 - The American police who investigated Mark's murder open their files to Justin, who learns Mark's and Sandy's deaths were connected, in an unexpected way. A retired beat cop who worked the Village in the 70s shares his suspicion about who murdered Sandy. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-3-the-villiage-transcripts-...

The Village, Episode 7 - When close to 300 men are arrested in one night in Operation Soap, Toronto's largest bathhouse raid, the queer community rises up against what they see as decades of police repression. An internal struggle in the force keeps murders unsolved. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-3-the-villiage-transcripts-listen-1.51...

The Village, Episode 8 - Toronto's queer community comes to grips with the truth about Bruce McArthur's crimes and pushes for changes in how violence against marginalized people is handled by police. The Toronto police cold case team has some answers in the 23 re-opened cases. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-3-the-villiage-transcripts-l...

The Village, Bonus Episode - Trans women of colour in Detroit are confronting an epidemic of violence with the support of The Justice Project, a task force that investigates and prosecutes serious crimes against LGBTQ people. After aspiring designer and dancer Kelly Stough is murdered in Detroit, they take on her case. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/...

For The Village, Uncover season 3, host Justin Ling explores the numerous cases of missing and murdered men in Toronto's gay community, dating back to the 1970s. What social forces allowed these cases to go unsolved, or even unnoticed? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased map...

Uncover: Bomb On Board - Episode 1. A bomb exploded on Canadian Pacific Flight 21 killing all 52 people on board. Chuck was on the ground. Didi's dad was on the plane. Witnesses offer insight into what happened July 8, 1965 - and why no one has ever been held responsible. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-2-bomb-on-board-transcripts-liste...

Gambling, gunpowder, murder charges and insurance claims. Almost immediately police narrowed in on four suspects. Ian and Jo find out why. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-2-bomb-on-board-transcripts-listen-1.5129876 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode...