Hunting Warhead Introduces: Someone Knows Something Season 9

November 13, 2024·34 min·3 clips

Sean lost control when police mentioned Paul Bernardo during his polygraph, accusing him of Christine's murder.

The story starts at water. Ridgen puts the listener beside a river in a southwestern Ontario town, then turns to Christine Herron's disappearance. Chrissy loved books. In spring 1993, she said goodbye to her mother, left for school, and was never seen again. Suspicion came later. This excerpt stays close to those first days, when Mary Ann believed the park mattered and wanted people searching there. Mary Ann waited all night. She says the Hanover police chief told her his own daughter sometimes left for days, so Chrissy had probably done the same. Mary Ann kept pressing. She tried to organize a church search, but says people were told to go the other way. The park was off limits. Police warned there would be consequences if searchers went near it during the first weekend. An antique car show was coming, and Mary Ann says police worried about disrupting that Victoria Day weekend event. The formal search came late. Hanover police and fire coordinated volunteers on May 23, 1993, five days after Christine disappeared. Nothing was found. The town resisted alarm: posters came down, phone calls told the family to stop making a fuss, and people insisted Chrissy would come back when ready. Mary Ann and Sean had no suspects. The preview then points toward a later confession, a murder arrest, and a Crown Attorney who once called the case close to certain.

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A missing-teen case told with patience, gravity, and the ache of a town looking away.

The episode opens on Christine Herron, a book-loving Hanover teenager who vanished after leaving for school in spring 1993, then settles into a quiet look at how a small town can miss danger in plain sight.

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A vanished Hanover teen, David Ridgen, and a case that keeps circling through murder, heartbreak, and investigative error.

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