The WORST episodes of Crime Beat
Every episode of Crime Beat ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Crime Beat!
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 - 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 - 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.
#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.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon
#20 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - "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.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Deadly Rumours
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/6/2024
In the spring of 2006 Calgary Police received an ominous call from someone worried a woman was being held captive in a downtown rooming house. Officers responded but found nothing suspicious. Over the next few days two patrol officers heard similar stories from several other people as details got more and more disturbing– alleging a woman had been held, tortured and killed. How could they solve a crime they weren’t sure had been committed? And without knowing if there was a victim? Follow along with Senior Crime Reporter Nancy Hixt as she shares the details of Deadly Rumours.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - 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.
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