True North Crime

The girls are back and they are very rusty, but still they persevere to share with you a story full of lies and murder. The Zaman family were a perfectly normal family living perfectly normal lives in...

Edmonton has a murder problem. Since the mid-80s Edmonton's sex workers have been disappearing, their remains surfacing years later outside the city. The RCMP formed Project KARE to investigate the mu...

One of--if not the most--prolific art thieves in Canadian history is a guy you've never heard of. In fact, no one suspected John Mark Tillmann of having walked away with thousands of artifacts and ant...

True story: Warlock is one of Rachel's favourite movies. Also true is that, sadly, it served as inspiration for a brutal murder in which a little boy full of life was killed by his neighbour.  Read ab...

Ian Thor Greene was a mystery wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in the persona of an undergraduate student at Dalhousie University. It would take some time, but eventually the cops would come to know his ...

Twenty years ago, on April 6, 1999, Pierre Lebrun showed up to his former place of employment with a grudge and a gun. Join Shelley and Rachel as they take a look at how a toxic workplace environment ...

Candice knew exactly who raped her, but nobody believed her. Three DNA tests later, her attacker was still living free and clear until a second victim came forward. How was John Schneeberger able to "...

Kim Anderson was a devoted Jehovah's Witness and a loving mother to her two children. She dedicated her life to her church but, tragically, her church did not support her when she needed it most.    K...

Pete Forde was a good friend to women, but never more than that. When a chance discovery was made, Forde's true nature was exposed, and the women who called him friend now had a new word to describe h...

In early October, 1994, a chalet in Morin Heights went up in flames. A few hours later another fire would destroy a villa in Switzerland. How were these two fires connected, and why were they set? TNC...

Satanic panic swept through small-town Saskatchewan in the early 1990s, leaving behind bevy of falsely accused caregivers and cops. Read about Martensville. Read about Satanic panic in general.   Twee...

When Det. Herb Curwain arrived at Durham homicide in 1991, he was handed a cold case about a missing teen. Three years later, his dedication to finding justice for Julie Stanton would result in a coup...

When paramedics arrived at the house on Pitch Pine Crescent, one of them exclaimed, "I've been here before." So beings the tragic story of the Harrison family and how they were utterly failed by polic...

When Blake Leibel moved from Toronto to LA, he did so without much of a plan. He wanted to "make it big," just like everyone else. He did become temporarily famous, but likely not in the way he imagin...

It's way too hot to discuss true crime, so Shelley and Rachel are taking a break. They'll be back in the fall with more Canadian true crime to blow your mind. ...

Only two provinces have laws regarding kids and vaccination, but parents can opt-out for any reason. Anti-vaxxers also tend to be big into naturopathy and can display a baffling amount of willful igno...

The first Toronto True Crime Film Festival was held on June 8 and 9, 2018, at the Royal Theatre. On the morning of June 9, a series of panel discussions took place at the Monarch Tavern, just a couple...

The torso murder has fascinated Canadians in general and Hamiltonians in particular for over seventy years. It all began when a group of kids found a "headless pig" out in the woods. That discovery wo...

Polygamy is illegal in Canada, but everyone's always looked the other way when it came to the polygamist community of Bountiful, British Columbia. Only within the past few years as the BC government m...

Starting in the mid-1980s and lasting into the early 2000s, the province of Quebec was held hostage to two rival biker gangs, the Hells Angels and the Rock Machine. Join Shelley and Rachel as they att...

When Shelley suggested she and Rachel cover a bank robber nicknamed "The Flying Bandit," she had no idea there were in fact two different Flying Bandits who operated in Canada at different times. Rach...

Not a lot of people know the awful, gory, and tragic story of The Ant Hill Kids. They were the most violent cult in Canadian history, and while some of its members lost limbs, others lost their lives....

It's about a seven-minute walk between Holly Jones' house and her friend Claudia's. Sometime in those seven minutes, Holly disappeared. The morning after her disappearance, a man on the Toronto Island...

Rachel drops a bomb on Shelley when she tells her Michael Wayne McGray was born in Collingwood, ON. McGray first started killing in his teens and never really stopped. After he was arrested for the mu...

Shelley and Rachel are joined by criminal defense council Jacob Stilman to discuss the "compendium of official error" that is the multiple prosecutions of Guy Paul Morin. Guy was tried twice for the r...

In the inaugural episode, Rachel talks about a triple homicide that went unsolved for seven years. The home invasion of a WWII veteran blew the case wide open. Shelley runs down the history of DNA as ...