Canadian cases, remembered with care.
True North True Crime is a serious case-driven show about crime, justice, and public safety in Canada, with occasional context from beyond its borders. Episodes move through family memories, police information, court processes, and community aftermath without losing sight of the people at the center.
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True North True Crime is a Canadian true-crime series built around cases where violence, disappearance, and justice systems leave families carrying the story forward. Its episodes are serious and deliberately paced. Rather than relying on spectacle, the show builds context through timelines, court developments, police information, family interviews, and the social conditions around each case. Recent episodes move from Kelowna to Terrace, Calgary, Vaughan, Winnipeg, and beyond Canada when a broader public-safety history is relevant. The Bailey McCourt story is framed through intimate partner violence, family memory, and the painful gap between a guilty verdict and actual safety. Sebastian Moore’s episode centers a 17-year-old remembered by his family while tracing a confrontation in Terrace that turned fatal. Deeanna Erickson’s disappearance is treated through vulnerability, lost supports, sisterly care, and the uncertainty of a search that has not ended. The Vaughan condo shooting episode follows years of building conflict, legal strain, and the residents left to process a horrific night. Candace Derksen’s story reaches across decades, trials, media pressure, grief, and forgiveness from Wilma and Cliff. Shane Smith’s episode examines conflicting accounts, physical evidence, and a family still trying to understand what happened in a garage. The Crime Stoppers conversation with Jillian Millam broadens the frame, explaining anonymous tips, legal safeguards, volunteer programs, and community safety. Another episode follows Michael Carman’s killing and the birth of Crime Stoppers as a response to fear, silence, and public distrust. Across these stories, the show repeatedly returns to the same moral center: victims were full people before they became case names. Family voices matter. Details matter too. The storytelling can be graphic and emotionally demanding, but it is usually restrained, with a clear effort to separate known facts from uncertainty. It suits listeners who want case narratives that connect personal loss with institutions, public memory, and the long work of accountability.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who prefer sober storytelling, family perspectives, and careful timelines over sensational pacing. It will especially fit people interested in Canadian cases, unresolved questions, victim advocacy, and how public-safety systems work.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its balance of emotional witness and procedural detail. It gives families room to describe the person they lost while also explaining courts, investigations, anonymous tips, and community aftermath in plain language.
A podcast bringing awareness to murders, missing people, and unsolved cases in Canada. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A courtroom conviction fails to bring safety, leaving Bailey McCourt's family to carry her story forward.
Bailey McCourt - Part 1 opens on a courtroom decision that should have meant safety. In Kelowna, British Columbia, Judge David Roos finds James Plover guilty on all four counts tied to assaulting Bailey and threatening her and their children, yet he is not taken into custody as…
A distressing disappearance is grounded in bus footage, family memory, and a search that remains unresolved.
Late on June 6, 2025, a 31-year-old woman got off a Calgary transit bus in Walden, visibly distressed and short of her intended stop, then vanished into the night.
A condo dispute expands from meetings and legal strain into a deadly night inside Bavaria Tower 2.
True North True Crime follows the Bavaria Tower 2 dispute as it moves from Suite 104 into strata meetings, legal bills, a special assessment, peace bonds, and the ordinary routines of the building.
A decades-long Winnipeg case becomes a steady study of unresolved loss, public pressure, and the Dirksen family's forgiveness.
True North True Crime's "Candace Dirksen" follows the long arc of a 1984 Winnipeg murder case that took decades to reach court and still resisted closure after several trials.
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True North True Crime centers Bailey McCourt, a 32-year-old Kelowna mother of two, and the July 4, 2025 timeline that ended with James Plover's first-degree murder charge.
True North True Crime follows the November 2023 killing of 17-year-old Sebastian Moore in Terrace, British Columbia, where police say a confrontation near La Kelsey Avenue ended with 17 stab wounds.
A Facebook account named Nasser Hamed later demanded $10,000 in Bitcoin and sent a photo investigators believed was AI-generated, but it did not explain where Deanna Erickson went after June 6, 2025.
["True North True Crime reconstructs the December 18, 2022 shooting at Bellaria Tower 2 on Jane Street in Vaughan, where York Regional Police found five dead residents in three separate units and one seriously injured woman in hospital.", "The episode centers on Francesco Vili's years-long fight with the condo board over the electrical room beneath Suite 104, including complaints about electromagnetic waves, vibrations, and sleep loss.", "It traces the legal escalation through court orders, peace bonds, a contempt finding, and a forced-sale hearing scheduled for December 19, 2022.", "The final stretch follows Vili's December 19 video, the fire alarm, the stairwell response, and the SIU review of the police shooting."]
True North True Crime's TNTC Plus bonus episode covers the 1984 murder of 13-year-old Candace Dirksen in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and notes that her body was later found in a shed 500 meters from her family home.
True North True Crime examines the June 6, 2020 killing of 20-year-old Shane Smith in Calgary, Alberta, after he left a Barlow car meetup and went to a home in Mackenzie Town.
Jillian Millam, Executive Director of British Columbia Crime Stoppers, explains how anonymous tips are assessed, edited, and passed to police without exposing a tipster’s identity.
True North True Crime examines the July 24, 1976 killing of 20-year-old University of New Mexico student Michael Stanley Carman during an overnight gas-station robbery in Albuquerque.
True North True Crime examines the February 19, 2014 shooting of 22-year-old Shabir Niazi in a garage at 39 Roosevelt Avenue in Ajax, Ontario.
True North True Crime hosts Graham and Kate join Jordan Bonaparte and Madeleine Klein of Canadian Gothic to review their 2025 work and anticipate 2026.
True North True Crime examines the October 17, 2022 discovery of 31-year-old Keisha Gary and 30-year-old Umair Qasim inside a vehicle near Alpha Secondary School in Burnaby, British Columbia.
True North True Crime examines the October 3, 1984 disappearance of nine-year-old Christine Jessop from Queensville, Ontario, and the discovery of her body on December 31, 1984.
True North True Crime examines Stephen Alexander Marshall's 2006 killing of Joseph Gray and William Elliott after Marshall downloaded 34 Maine sex-offender registry profiles.
True North True Crime interviews Jason McMillan of Canadian Cadaver Canines about human-remains detection, missing-person searches, and his newly certified Dutch Shepherd, Osiris.
True North True Crime reconstructs the December 11, 1962 executions of Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin at Toronto’s Don Jail, the last executions carried out in Canadian history.
True North True Crime examines the September 15, 1956 murder of seven-year-old Wayne Millett at Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition grounds.
True North True Crime examines the October 1983 disappearance and unsolved murder of 17-year-old Donna Jean Ockhock in London, Ontario.
True North True Crime examines the disappearance of 52-year-old Matthew McGrath from Carlton Place, Ontario, on or around January 17, 2024.
True North True Crime examines the 2001 killing of 18-year-old Patricia Callahassan after she moved from Prince George, British Columbia, to Edmonton, Alberta.
Dylan Coshman, a 21-year-old from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, disappeared from Edmonton after leaving his cousins’ home shortly after 2 a.m.
True North True Crime reconstructs the June 28, 2022 Bank of Montreal shooting in Saanich, British Columbia, where six of seven GVERT officers were wounded.
True North True Crime examines the 1959 murder of 12-year-old Lynn Harper in Clinton, Ontario, and the conviction of her 14-year-old schoolmate Stephen Truscott.
True North True Crime continues Malcolm Madsen's disappearance case through surveillance footage, GPS records, phone data, and Brooke Mullins's efforts to force Mexican authorities to act.
True North True Crime examines Malcolm Madsen's 2018 disappearance from Puerto Vallarta through interviews with journalist and filmmaker Robert Osborne.
True North True Crime examines the disappearance of 23-year-old Byron Watson, who left his aunt’s home on Lonsdale Street in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, on November 26, 2023.
A true crime podcast interviews Sergeant Chris Voller of the National Police Federation about the realities of policing in 2025, focusing on mental health and support for RCMP members.
A collaborative true crime episode discussing a high-profile Canadian disappearance case.
Hosts Caitlin and Graeme answer listener questions and provide updates on cases covered in 2024 in a casual, unscripted Q&A episode.
A podcast episode that wraps up 2024 with host Madelayne Klein, featuring ads for weight loss and car insurance services.