The BEST episodes of Crime Beat season 1
Every episode of Crime Beat season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Crime Beat season 1!
A true crime series that takes viewers deep into some of Canada’s most infamous criminal cases. Using extensive archives and intimate family interviews, each week new details are revealed that go beyond the news headlines giving a voice to victims and their families, unraveling how each case was solved, and exploring lasting impacts on the community and justice system.
#1 - Farah Khan: A City’s Lost Child
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/14/2020
Dismembered remains belonging to a child are uncovered, and Alan Carter returns to the scene of the crime 20 years later, reuniting with the lead detective and a community coming together in grief.
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#2 - The Disappearance of Lisa Mitchell
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/9/2020
At 29 years old, Lisa Mitchell and her common-law husband, Allan, had two children and she juggled two jobs to try to make ends meet and then one day, she disappeared, leaving her common-law husband and two children behind.
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#3 - The Brentwood Five Massacre: Part 2
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/6/2020
What started out as a party to mark the end of classes at the University of Calgary ended in a horrific tragedy; to add to the complexity of the case, investigators quickly learned the suspect was the son of one of their own.
#4 - Meika Jordan: The Broken Princess
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/7/2020
Crime reporter Nancy Hixt reviews the case of Meika Jordan, a six-year-old girl whose life was tragically cut short; Nancy reveals the details of this case and the evidence uncovered by investigators in their quest for justice.
#5 - If Anything Happens To Me: The Ottey Sisters
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/25/2020
Teenage sisters Marsha and Tamara Ottey were stabbed to death in August 1995; months later, Dimitrija Trajceski became the first TTC worker killed on the job. Caryn Lieberman shares the story of how these two families' lives became intertwined.
#6 - Kimberlee Kasatkin: No Body, No Crime?
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/16/2020
Kimberlee hasn't been seen since entering her apartment in Peru in 2016. Her partner says she left and abandoned the family, her parents accuse him of murder. Rumina Daya investigates this unsolved case that's testing the limits of international justice.
#7 - Guy Paul Morin & the Murder of Christine Jessop
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/23/2020
Almost three months after she went missing, Christine Jessop's body was found more than 50 kilometers away from her Queensville home; after an intense police investigation, a former neighbor, Guy Paul Morin was charged.
#8 - Darkness in the Pass
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/11/2020
With two people dead and a two year old missing, a small community in the Rocky Mountains is broken.
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#9 - The Final Homecoming of Lukas Strasser-Hird
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/21/2020
After a year studying abroad, Lukas Strasser-Hird had dreams to be a doctor; he went out with friends to celebrate when he arrived home, but no one could have predicted how dangerous the situation was to become.
#10 - The Brentwood Five Massacre: Part 1
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/30/2020
An accomplished dancer, an aspiring urban planner, two talented musicians, and a young man who was well on his way to becoming a humanitarian became victims of the biggest mass killing in Calgary's history.
#11 - Alicia Ross: Everyone's Daughter
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/4/2020
Alicia's disappearance leads to one of the largest missing person searches in Ontario's history; reporter Catherine McDonald reconnects with Alicia's mother to tell the tale.
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#12 - The Legacy of Jordan Manners
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/18/2020
Catherine McDonald looks back at the impact of the murder of Jordan Manners, who was gunned down at a C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute hallway.
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#13 - Alison Parrott: Leader of the Pack
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/28/2020
Coaxed from her home for a photoshoot, a promising young athlete never returns: Caryn Lieberman brings us through the DNA breakthrough that cracks the case to a mother's national safety campaign.