The WORST episodes of Crime Beat

#1 - 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.

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - Murder in the Mountains

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/18/2024

The popular resort town of Banff was rocked when a young female taxi driver was found murdered in 1990. Investigators worked tirelessly to come up with a viable suspect, but the case went cold.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#14 - Out of the Darkness

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/2024

Reporter Caryn Lieberman travels to Kingston to hear from the families and survivors reclaiming their voices in order to tell the story of 34-year-old Yvonne Rouleau, tortured and murdered at the Nozzles Gas Bar where she worked at.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - 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.

#20 - "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.

#21 - 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.

#22 - The Hired Hit

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2022

When former beauty queen Alexandra Pesic is gunned down in a brazen daylight shooting on a midsummer evening in 1992, a quiet community in a suburb of Vancouver, B.C. is stunned; evidence of a contract killing is found motivated by greed and hate.

#23 - 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.

#24 - The Investigators

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

#25 - 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.