The WORST episodes of Crime Beat

#1 - The Melrose Avenue Murder

Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/2025

#2 - "Die Like the Rest" Part 1

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/12/2025

A Winnipeg teenager is found savagely attacked; investigators arrest a B.C. man who was visiting; years later, another slaying of a teenage girl gives fresh light to old evidence that could help convict a killer.

#3 - A Million Dead Ends

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/26/2025

On May 14, 1971, just after dinner, six-year-old Ljubica Topic wandered off while playing outside with her older brother and some friends. When her brother gets home, Ljubica isn’t there. Questioned by his mother, he reveals that a stranger had approached them asking for help and Ljubica had gone off to assist. After a frantic search, the young girl is found dead just a kilometre away. Who did this and why remained a mystery for nearly 50 years.

#4 - Mad Trapper

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/8/2024

When series of cabins are raided in northern B.C., and then a reclusive trapper suddenly goes missing, police believe the crimes could be connected; as Jules Knox reports, that triggers a series of events that leaves one Mountie dead.

#5 - 24 Shots, 7 Seconds

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/5/2025

In December 2019, 26-year-old Koshin Yusuf was coming home from a night out with friends when he was cornered at his Scarborough apartment entrance and shot 24 times. But why? All police had to start with was a piece of grainy video surveillance that captured the actual murder. Was it a case of mistaken identity? Did Koshin know his attackers? Crime Beat tracks the investigation and learns why the judge would later call it a 'stunning' piece of police work.

#6 - 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.

#7 - Case Never Closed: Justice for Nicolle

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/13/2024

Nicolle Hands was a young Winnipeg mother, who was brutally attacked and stabbed in her apartment while her children were at home sleeping. Two decades after Nicolle’s murder, reporter Marney Blunt looks into a recent development in the case – information exclusively released to Global News – and learns why the family may still be no closer to achieving justice for their beloved Nicolle.

#8 - 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.

#9 - Shootout at the Duke

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/10/2023

A dispute outside a Toronto tavern between a jealous boyfriend and several gang members ends in a hail of gunfire, in which a young woman new to the city is killed, and the missing gun turns up in an unrelated crime.

#10 - 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.

#11 - 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.

#12 - 'Die Like the Rest' Part 2

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/19/2025

Detectives are slowly piecing together chilling clues from a series of brutal sexual assaults and murders across the country. Teenage girls are the target, and police are starting to question if one of their initial suspects was wrongfully convicted. As Jules Knox reports, a Mr. Big sting operation led officers to a second suspect who was hiding in plain sight.

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - Incendiary Circumstances

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

On November 17, 2004, a young Calgary family settled in for the evening. At about 9 pm, the husband left for work as a security guard, while his wife stayed home with their two children. In the middle of the night, she woke to the sound of shattered glass. Within minutes the entire home was engulfed in flames. After desperate attempts to reach her children failed, the mother managed to escape. The children didn’t survive. Senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt shares the unexpected twists the investigation took into who was responsible for the devastating double-fatal fire.

#18 - The Death of Christine Demeter - By Persons Unknown Part 2

Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/17/2024

Millionaire Builder Peter Demeter is charged with non-capital murder in connection with his wife's death. His trial in London Ontario's brand-new courthouse is explosive, with investigators uncovering new evidence daily.

#19 - The Investigators

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/2024

They have been called agents for the silenced. Homicide detectives investigating horrific murders work tireless hours to find answers for grieving families. We interview top detectives about some of their most memorable and impactful cases, including ones that still haunt them to this day. In ‘the Investigators’, we learn what real life is like as a homicide detective on the job and after.

#20 - The Hand Behind the Gun

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/9/2025

A teenager is gunned down at a church while attending his best friend's funeral, another is ambushed, shot 7 times while out for pizza, and an innocent child is killed when bullets fly at a birthday party. Illegal firearms flooding across the border and into the hands of Toronto’s most notorious gangs causing a surge in homicides. Join Senior Reporter Caryn Lieberman as she follows a major takedown of a criminal organization, and a historic Toronto Police bust that stops hundreds of weapons from hitting the streets.

#21 - Deadly Retribution

Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/16/2025

On a sunny spring day, a man walked into an office in midtown Toronto and opened fire. There was panic at the neighbouring daycare and nearby schools, fearing a gunman was still on the loose. When police arrived, they discovered the shooter had killed two people, Arash Missaghi and Samira Yousefi, before turning the gun on himself. Initially officials did not release the motive for the attack, but his wife said her husband, 46-year-old Alan Kats, could not handle 'losing our life’s savings' in an alleged mortgage fraud the two victims were accused of.

#22 - He's So Evil

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/25/2024

Crime Specialist Catherine McDonald recounts the story about of an obsession so deep it led to the death of an innocent child.

#23 - The Secrets of Salmon River, Part 2

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/20/2022

Five women have mysteriously vanished from near B.C.'s Shuswap region over a year and a half, leaving their families desperate for some sort of closure. When police suddenly discover a body more than five years later, it leads to an arrest in one of the women's murders. But will it help officers crack the other cases? In the conclusion of the Secrets of Salmon River, reporter Jules Knox investigates why police are struggling to make more arrests.

#24 - "Make Him Breathe"

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/2024

It’s one of every new mother’s greatest fears. You put your child down for a nap, only to later notice muffled cries coming from the bedroom. What happened next lands Tammy Wynne Marquardt in jail for nearly 14 years and will haunt her for the rest of her life. Reporter Mark Carcasole shares Tammy’s harrowing story and learns more about the man whose testimony, she says, destroyed her life.

#25 - 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. She returned to a building that was surrounded by yellow police tape, and it wasn’t long before word leaked out that six men had been slaughtered inside. As Jules Knox reports, a well-placed surveillance team led officers to the suspects behind the largest gang-related mass murder in the province’s history, but several unexpected twists in this case soon jeopardized the search for justice.