The BEST episodes of Crime Beat season 5

#1 - A Trail of Blood

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/5/2024

In 1995, a 92-year-old woman had been brutally beaten during a home invasion, managed to escape, but died months later. At the time, no one knew who’d so viciously attacked Henrietta Knight. But 20 years later as police are investigating the disappearance of a known criminal, they find a connection. As the investigation unfolds, they find links to a bank robbery, a car bombing and multiple murders. A trail of blood that leads them to the one man responsible for it all.

#2 - Hunt for the Wolfpack

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/12/2024

Three brazen murders in Kelowna, Vancouver and Toronto spark an extensive police investigation into the Wolfpack Alliance, a crew of gangsters running operations connected to Mexican cartels. The kingpins are quick to take out anyone in their way, leaving authorities scrambling to build a case against the killers.

#3 - Incendiary Circumstances

Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/19/2024

#4 - The Hunt for a Predator

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/13/2023

In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s a sexual predator was on the loose. Two little girls had heard about the man dubbed the 'Southwest Calgary Rapist', but they never imagined they would be attacked while riding their bikes one hot sunny day. At the same time, homicide investigators were on the trail for a killer. Follow along as Senior Crime Reporter Nancy Hixt shares the stories of those attacked and the steps police took in their hunt for a predator.

#5 - The Deadly Night Shift

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/1/2023

In 2006, 17-year-old Brigitte Serre was working her first overnight shift at a Montreal gas station when three men attempted an armed heist. Brigitte was murdered in the robbery gone wrong, stabbed 72 times. The killer was eventually caught in a cross-country manhunt and sentenced to 25 years without parole for the brutal slaying. But for the Serre family, the painful reminders of their tragic loss would surface time and time again as the convicted murderer applied for early release.

#6 - The Ties That Bind

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/5/2024

An elderly Mississauga woman is found dead beside Christmas presents she'd been wrapping; within hours of the discovery, investigators receive a call from Niagara police about the attempted murders of two people living an hour away.

#7 - Homicide #42

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/23/2024

It was 1am on a cold, wet November night in 2011 when police found Leanne Freeman lying unconscious in a pool of blood. She later died in a downtown hospital, becoming Toronto’s 42nd homicide of the year.

#8 - Surrey Six Seeking Justice

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/16/2024

#9 - Nothing is What it Seems: Part 1

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/10/2023

When a man walking his dog comes upon a neighbour's garage engulfed in flames, little does he know the treachery behind it. When the smoke clears, a woman is found dead with drug paraphernalia nearby. But nothing is what it seems, and police are left combing through a web of lies to find the killer.

#10 - The Deadly Contract

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/8/2023

January 16th, 2006, started like any other for Jack Beauchamp; the financier grabbed a coffee and went to work in his downtown Calgary office; minutes after he arrived, he was shot six times and left for dead on his office floor.

#11 - Seeking Justice for Myles Gray

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/20/2023

#12 - The Tiny Town Mystery

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/12/2024

When a 20-year-old English tourist suddenly stops contacting his family while backpacking across Canada, his mother tries to raise the alarm; police are slow to respond until an anonymous note prompts them to search a nearby lake.

#13 - Surrey Six-The Gang Hit

Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/1/2024

When a mother left her Surrey, B.C. condo for work in the morning, she never imagined that it would be the last time she would ever see her son.

#14 - In an Instant: The Neville-Lake Tragedy

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/27/2023

Neville-Lakes' three children were killed by a drunk driver, Marco Muzzo, in a crash in Vaughan back in 2015; the driver, the son of a wealthy family, was sentenced to ten years in jail but is now out on parole while the mother is left grieving.

#15 - Chelsea Poorman and the Secrets of a Mansion?

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/3/2023

Chelsea Poorman was last seen on Sept. 6, 2020, in downtown Vancouver. Her remains were found 17 months later behind a vacant home in the upscale Shaughnessy neighbourhood.

#16 - Nothing is What it Seems: Part 2

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/2023

When a man walking his dog comes upon a neighbour’s garage engulfed in flames, little does he know the treachery behind it. When the smoke clears, a woman is found dead with drug paraphernalia nearby. But nothing is what it seems, and police are left combing through a web of lies to find the killer. As they home in on the suspect they discover he’s planning to leave the country and try to intercept him, at the same time, putting an elaborate Mr. Big operation in motion.

#17 - Sorry I Wasn't There

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/9/2024

An innocent victim, 28-year-old Mila Barberi is gunned down while picking up her boyfriend, Saverio Serrano from work.

#18 - The Long Road to Justice

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/16/2024

The family and friends of Adrienne McColl had no idea the heartbreaking news they were about to get - and the long road to justice they were about to embark on.