‘Til The Day I Die

November 27, 2024·39 min·3 clips

Anthony Ringel tells an undercover officer how he smothered 15-year-old Christine Herron in the mud.

The warning is plain. Before the case picks back up, the listener is told the episode includes difficult subject matter, including references to sexual assault. Then Marianne answers the question. She remembers an officer arriving at 11:30 at night and asking her to contact Detective Gilpin. The news is tight, and it lands hard. Ringel has been arrested and charged with murdering Marianne's daughter, after an earlier arrest almost ten years before led nowhere. The episode stays mostly procedural. Chrissy, also named as Christine Herron, would have been 34, while Ringel is now described as 44. A press conference follows at the Walkerton police station. Media and family gather as the case moves back into public view through an OPP press conference. The middle section gets quieter. Undercover officers have spent about five months around Ringel, trying to pull out any admission tied to Chrissy's disappearance. What they get are generalities. Documents show the officers returning after the holidays, spending time with him, and pushing again through conversation. The ice-fishing trip goes nowhere too. Even after five months, nothing in the excerpt suggests Ringel has admitted involvement or given police the statement they want. Then police try a different angle. They arrange for undercover officers to search names online with Ringel, using a fake search engine made for the operation. The setup is careful. One staged name produces nothing useful, while Ringel's name brings up the CBC documentary. Recognition seems to be the point. The episode sits with investigators trying to make a cold case move through pressure, patience, and one carefully built moment.

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A careful case update where procedure and grief keep colliding.

This chapter returns to Christine Herron's case as Marianne learns that Anthony Ringel has been arrested and charged with Chrissy's murder again, after the earlier charge was stayed and the case seemed to stall.

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You want a case that resurfaces after nearly ten years and still does not end cleanly.

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