Episodes

  • Leo Schofield spent decades in prison. Then another man confessed.
    Jun 2 2025

    In 1987, Leo Schofield was convicted of murdering his wife, Michelle. Decades later, a different man confessed to the crime.


    Jeremy Scott’s DNA was found in the car Michelle was driving the night she was murdered. And yet, the state of Florida doesn’t believe either of them. Not only did Leo lose Michelle but he spent 36 years in prison for her murder.


    This week on Crime Story, Bone Valley’s Gilbert King is back and he brought a surprise guest: Leo Schofield. Exactly one year since Leo was released from prison, we discuss season two, meeting Jeremy and Leo's decision to forgive him.


    If you like this episode, we think you’ll enjoy our first conversation with Gilbert: Bone Valley: ‘Why is Leo Schofield still in jail?’

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    40 mins
  • Amanda Knox on what it took to reclaim her freedom
    May 26 2025

    In 2009, Amanda Knox was wrongly convicted of the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher. She should have been a footnote in a tragic story. But despite zero physical evidence linking her to the crime, she spent four years in prison. Amanda was vilified by the press and made infamous as ‘Foxy Knoxy’ in the tabloids.


    After eight years on trial, she was finally exonerated in 2015. And yet, her release from prison was only the beginning of Amanda’s search for freedom. Who was she now that the world had branded her a killer?


    Today, Amanda is a writer, podcaster, and advocate for criminal justice and media ethics. She joins Crime Story to discuss her new book, Free: My Search for Meaning.


    If you like this episode, we think you’ll enjoy our conversation with Maurice Chammah.


    Feedback for us? You can email us directly at crimestory@cbc.ca.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Hells Angels Hitman: The story of Canada's deadliest assassin
    May 19 2025

    In 1977, the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club opened up a chapter in Montreal. One of its founding members was a man named Yves “Apache” Trudeau.


    Although he was quiet and diminutive, Trudeau had a knack for violence. And, before long, he had developed a reputation as a ruthless assassin. By the time his criminal career ended, he had murdered no fewer than 43 people.


    Despite the magnitude of his crimes, Trudeau only served 7 years in prison.


    Now, Julian Sher and Lisa Fitterman are reexamining the story in their new book Hitman: The Untold Story of Canada’s Deadliest Assassin.


    Feedback for us? You can email us directly at crimestory@cbc.ca.


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    30 mins
  • Keith Morrison on 30 years of true crime
    May 12 2025

    When we started this podcast a year and a half ago, there was one name at the top of our dream guest list: Keith Morrison.


    For more than 30 years, Morrison has been the face – and the voice – of NBC’s Dateline, which, in some ways, is the original true crime show.


    In recent years, Morrison has moved into podcasting. His latest offering, Murder in the Moonlight, is about a pair of wayward drifters who murder an elderly couple in a quiet farming community.


    Morrison explains how he picks the stories he works on, what it’s been like to spend three decades covering true crime, and whether the death of his stepson, the Friends actor Matthew Perry, impacted the way he approaches his job.


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    Feedback for us? You can email us directly at crimestory@cbc.ca.

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    29 mins
  • Bonus | Agent Pale Horse
    May 5 2025

    FBI undercover agent Scott Payne’s job was to infiltrate the most dangerous gangs of our times: outlaw bikers, drug cartels and the international neo-Nazi networks hellbent on inciting a race war.


    He was taking down these groups from within. And Scott was good at it — people confided in him their most audacious plans for mass violence and domestic terrorism.


    In the second season of White Hot Hate, host Michelle Shephard gives you an unvarnished view of a life undercover. Because after a 28-year-long career pretending to be somebody else, Agent Payne is ready to tell his side of the story.


    This series was produced alongside a book co-written by Scott Payne and Michelle Shephard titled Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis.


    More episodes of White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse are available at: https://link.mgln.ai/iSaGFR

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    32 mins
  • Undercover with neo nazis and biker gangs: FBI agent tells his story
    Apr 28 2025

    Over the past decade or so, white supremacist groups with names like the Patriot Front and the Atomwaffen Division have been quietly recruiting new members online, spreading propaganda and conducting paramilitary training exercises across North America.


    One of these groups is called The Base and, in the summer of 2019, Scott Payne wanted to become a member.


    But Scott wasn’t a neo nazi or a rightwing extremist. He was an undercover FBI agent.


    Over the course of 28 years in law enforcement Scott has infiltrated biker gangs, posed as a hitman, and ingratiated himself with drug dealers.


    Now he’s taking us inside that world, with a memoir called Codename: Pale Horse, and the second season of the CBC podcast White Hot Hate, both of which he worked on with journalist Michelle Shephard.


    Feedback for us? You can email us directly at crimestory@cbc.ca.

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    36 mins
  • Bonus | Sea of Lies from Uncover
    Apr 22 2025

    A body is pulled from the ocean, and a race against time to capture one of the world's most wanted criminals begins.


    Uncover: Sea of LIes is the story of a con man who couldn't stop lying. A tale of murder, stolen identities, fine art, a diaper bag stuffed with gold bars, and a crime solved by a Rolex watch. From rural Canada to coastal England, he lied and deceived at every turn.


    Award-winning podcaster Sam Mullins (Chameleon: Dr. Dante & Wild Boys) takes you inside the world of a devious scammer whose trail of destruction crosses continents and decades. So who is he? And how did this ruthless villain finally get unmasked? More episodes of Uncover: Sea of Lies are available at: https://link.mgln.ai/datnhH

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    49 mins
  • A body fished from the ocean and the con man behind the crime.
    Apr 21 2025

    Sam Mullins' latest podcast, Sea of Lies, begins with a gruesome catch pulled from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean and leads to a wild manhunt for one of the world’s most wanted criminals.


    Fisherman John Copik and his son Craig were hoping their day on the water would mean smooth sailing and finish with a good haul of cod. Instead, the duo from Devon reeled in a corpse. The horrifying discovery threw them straight into the middle of an investigation that uncovered stolen identities, a con man who had duped even his closest friends and family, and, of course, murder.


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    36 mins