S1 Episode 2: The Investigation

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S1 Episode 2: The Investigation

FromMissing & Murdered: Finding Cleo

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Nov 1, 2016

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Combing through old police notebooks, Walker tries to piece together what happened on the night Alberta vanished. She discovers that even before Alberta’s body was found, one of the people interviewed hinted at a “tragic accident”.

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Nov 1, 2016

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Titles in the series (23)

Where is Cleo? Taken by child welfare workers in the 1970’s and adopted in the U.S., the young Cree girl’s family believes she was raped and murdered while hitchhiking back home to Saskatchewan. CBC news investigative reporter Connie Walker joins the search to find out what really happened to Cleo.

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S1 Episode 4: The Brothers: New details emerge about the last night Alberta was seen alive. Reporter Connie Walker speaks to a key witness who has never been interviewed by police about what he saw the night Alberta disappeared. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
41 min listen
S1 Episode 2: The Investigation: Combing through old police notebooks, Walker tries to piece together what happened on the night Alberta vanished. She discovers that even before Alberta’s body was found, one of the people interviewed hinted at a “tragic accident”. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
43 min listen
S1 Episode 3: A Suspect: Investigative reporter Connie Walker tracks down the person police suspected in the murder of Alberta Williams. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
54 min listen
S1 Episode 0: Who Killed Alberta Williams?: This preview of Missing & Murdered: Who Killed Alberta Williams? explores how a chilling tip sparked the CBC’s Connie Walker to uncover secrets and confront a suspect in a decades-old cold case. The 8-part true crime podcast launches on October 25th. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
6 min listen
S1 Episode 1: The Tip: Reporter Connie Walker meets face to face with the person who sent her a tip about Alberta Williams’ unsolved murder. Find out why they’re breaking their silence, and meet the sister who’s still haunted by vivid memories of Alberta’s disappearance. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
35 min listen
S1 Episode 5: The Black Truck: A shocking new revelation surfaces about people seeing Alberta in a mysterious black truck after she was thought to have disappeared. The tip propels investigative reporter Connie Walker north, to Prince Rupert, British Columbia. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
34 min listen
S1 Episode 8: Resilience: Connie Walker questions police about DNA evidence, and learns that after nearly three decades, their seemingly stagnant investigation has become “very active”, as a result of new information brought to light in this podcast. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
58 min listen
S1 Episode 7: The Notebooks (Part Two): Digging deeper into old police notes, Connie Walker tries to find out what happened to a pile of bloody clothes matching a description of what Alberta was wearing on the night she disappeared. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
34 min listen
S1 Episode 6: The Taxi Driver: In this episode, Connie Walker finds the cabbie who people told us they saw with Alberta and her uncle Jack the night after she’s thought to have vanished. While talking to Walker the taxi driver discloses something surprising about his DNA. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
45 min listen
S1 Episode 7: The Notebooks (Part One): A closer examination of old RCMP notebooks yields new details about a mysterious phone call from a woman who knew where Alberta’s body was concealed, days before her body was actually found. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
44 min listen
S2 Episode 2: Eyes that haunted me: Christine gets a tip that helps geographically narrow the search for Cleo, and Connie visits another sister, April, to see what she may remember. Scouring old photos and documents, they stumble on a key reference to Cleo in April’s adoption records. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
41 min listen
S2 Episode 0: Finding Cleo: In the 1970s, Cleo was taken by child welfare workers and adopted in the U.S. Her family, who has been searching for her since, was told she was murdered. Host Connie Walker helps the family unravel the mystery. A CBC News podcast coming March 7th. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
4 min listen
S2 Episode 7: Lillian: Connie’s chance meeting with the father who Cleo never knew is followed by new revelations about the Semaganis children’s biological mother, Lillian. A picture begins to emerge about why her children were taken, and when she joined the fight to stop the adoption of more Indigenous children into white homes. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
32 min listen
S2 Episode 1: Stolen. Murdered. Missing.: Connie responds to Christine’s plea for help finding her eldest sister, Cleo. The only proof of Cleo’s existence though is a tiny, undated school photo. A clue soon emerges which will take Christine’s search in unexpected directions. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
34 min listen
S2 Episode 4: The funeral home: The search for Cleo leads Connie to investigate a headstone belonging to a 13-year-old girl who died in 1978. The cemetery is more than 20 hours away from Arkansas, where Cleo's family has long believed she was killed. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
41 min listen
S2 Episode 10: Cleo’s letters: Even though it was supposed to have been destroyed in 1983, the police file documenting the investigation into Cleo’s death still exists and it contains more detail than Christine ever imagined learning about the last days, hours and even minutes of Cleo’s short life. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
55 min listen
S2 Episode 5: Afraid of the dark: As Connie shares some shocking news with Cleo's siblings, the truth about what happened to her remains just out of reach. Police may have answers but can’t share them yet. It's time to visit the one person who's bound to know more. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
29 min listen
S2 Episode 8: Salesperson of the year: Digging through archives in Saskatchewan, Connie makes a shocking discovery. As she investigates the controversial Adopt Indian Metis program which Cleo and her siblings were a part of, the man who started the program agrees to speak with her about its controversial origins, and legacy. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
36 min listen
S2 Episode 3: A little lie: Connie meets Cleo’s older brother, Johnny, in Pennsylvania, where he was adopted. He’s haunted by the memory of saying goodbye to Cleo and longs to fulfill a promise to find her. A late night internet search reveals he may be close. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
54 min listen
S2 Episode 6: Little Pine: A brief encounter with someone who knew Cleo perhaps better than anyone else just before her death reveals crucial details. Connecting new facts about her life leads the investigation to a world far from where Cleo died, back to Little Pine First Nation. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
50 min listen
Bonus: Connie Walker joins Crime Story to discuss her new podcast Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater: Fraud. Abduction. Murder. Every week, Crime Story host and investigative journalist Kathleen Goldhar goes deep into a tale of true crime with the storyteller who knows it best.  In this special episode, Connie Walker joins Kathleen to discuss the new season of her Pulitzer Prize winning podcast Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater that investigates a crisis of policing on America’s largest reservation. Connie investigates the disappearance of two women on the Navajo Nation, a place where people say you can get away with murder. The full episode and many more are available at: <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/7G-QCxtw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://link.chtbl.com/7G-QCxtw</a> by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
4 min listen
S2 Episode 9: Reunion: Christine travels to Pennsylvania for an emotional reunion with her brother, Johnny, who she hasn’t seen since she was a baby. Determined to get more answers about the days and weeks leading up to her sister’s death, Christine finally gets a copy of Cleo’s death certificate. That, and other documents begin to shed light on the truth she’s been seeking for decades. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
54 min listen
Missing & Murdered Introduces: Stolen Season 3 | Trouble in Sweetwater: From Spotify comes Stolen Season 3: Trouble In Sweetwater. Violence. Retaliation. Disappearances. The Navajo Nation is 27,000 square miles of remote terrain with just over 200 tribal police officers. This season on Stolen, Connie Walker’s investigation into the cases of two missing women leads her on a search for justice in a place where people say you can get away with murder. Reporting for Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s (IWMF) Fund for Indigenous Journalists reporting on issues related to Missing & Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) with a concentration on women, girls, Two-Spirit, and transgender people. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
3 min listen

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Bonus: Connie Walker joins Crime Story to discuss her new podcast Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater: Fraud. Abduction. Murder. Every week, Crime Story host and investigative journalist Kathleen Goldhar goes deep into a tale of true crime with the storyteller who knows it best.  In this special episode, Connie Walker joins Kathleen to discuss the new season of her Pulitzer Prize winning podcast Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater that investigates a crisis of policing on America’s largest reservation. Connie investigates the disappearance of two women on the Navajo Nation, a place where people say you can get away with murder. The full episode and many more are available at: <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/7G-QCxtw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://link.chtbl.com/7G-QCxtw</a> by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
4 min listen
Missing & Murdered Introduces: Stolen Season 3 | Trouble in Sweetwater: From Spotify comes Stolen Season 3: Trouble In Sweetwater. Violence. Retaliation. Disappearances. The Navajo Nation is 27,000 square miles of remote terrain with just over 200 tribal police officers. This season on Stolen, Connie Walker’s investigation into the cases of two missing women leads her on a search for justice in a place where people say you can get away with murder. Reporting for Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s (IWMF) Fund for Indigenous Journalists reporting on issues related to Missing & Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) with a concentration on women, girls, Two-Spirit, and transgender people. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
3 min listen
S2 Episode 10: Cleo’s letters: Even though it was supposed to have been destroyed in 1983, the police file documenting the investigation into Cleo’s death still exists and it contains more detail than Christine ever imagined learning about the last days, hours and even minutes of Cleo’s short life. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
55 min listen
S2 Episode 9: Reunion: Christine travels to Pennsylvania for an emotional reunion with her brother, Johnny, who she hasn’t seen since she was a baby. Determined to get more answers about the days and weeks leading up to her sister’s death, Christine finally gets a copy of Cleo’s death certificate. That, and other documents begin to shed light on the truth she’s been seeking for decades. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
54 min listen
S2 Episode 8: Salesperson of the year: Digging through archives in Saskatchewan, Connie makes a shocking discovery. As she investigates the controversial Adopt Indian Metis program which Cleo and her siblings were a part of, the man who started the program agrees to speak with her about its controversial origins, and legacy. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
36 min listen
S2 Episode 6: Little Pine: A brief encounter with someone who knew Cleo perhaps better than anyone else just before her death reveals crucial details. Connecting new facts about her life leads the investigation to a world far from where Cleo died, back to Little Pine First Nation. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
50 min listen
S2 Episode 7: Lillian: Connie’s chance meeting with the father who Cleo never knew is followed by new revelations about the Semaganis children’s biological mother, Lillian. A picture begins to emerge about why her children were taken, and when she joined the fight to stop the adoption of more Indigenous children into white homes. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
32 min listen
S2 Episode 5: Afraid of the dark: As Connie shares some shocking news with Cleo's siblings, the truth about what happened to her remains just out of reach. Police may have answers but can’t share them yet. It's time to visit the one person who's bound to know more. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
29 min listen
S2 Episode 4: The funeral home: The search for Cleo leads Connie to investigate a headstone belonging to a 13-year-old girl who died in 1978. The cemetery is more than 20 hours away from Arkansas, where Cleo's family has long believed she was killed. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
41 min listen
S2 Episode 3: A little lie: Connie meets Cleo’s older brother, Johnny, in Pennsylvania, where he was adopted. He’s haunted by the memory of saying goodbye to Cleo and longs to fulfill a promise to find her. A late night internet search reveals he may be close. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
54 min listen
S2 Episode 2: Eyes that haunted me: Christine gets a tip that helps geographically narrow the search for Cleo, and Connie visits another sister, April, to see what she may remember. Scouring old photos and documents, they stumble on a key reference to Cleo in April’s adoption records. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
41 min listen
S2 Episode 1: Stolen. Murdered. Missing.: Connie responds to Christine’s plea for help finding her eldest sister, Cleo. The only proof of Cleo’s existence though is a tiny, undated school photo. A clue soon emerges which will take Christine’s search in unexpected directions. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
34 min listen
S2 Episode 0: Finding Cleo: In the 1970s, Cleo was taken by child welfare workers and adopted in the U.S. Her family, who has been searching for her since, was told she was murdered. Host Connie Walker helps the family unravel the mystery. A CBC News podcast coming March 7th. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
4 min listen
S1 Episode 8: Resilience: Connie Walker questions police about DNA evidence, and learns that after nearly three decades, their seemingly stagnant investigation has become “very active”, as a result of new information brought to light in this podcast. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
58 min listen
S1 Episode 7: The Notebooks (Part Two): Digging deeper into old police notes, Connie Walker tries to find out what happened to a pile of bloody clothes matching a description of what Alberta was wearing on the night she disappeared. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
34 min listen
S1 Episode 7: The Notebooks (Part One): A closer examination of old RCMP notebooks yields new details about a mysterious phone call from a woman who knew where Alberta’s body was concealed, days before her body was actually found. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
44 min listen
S1 Episode 6: The Taxi Driver: In this episode, Connie Walker finds the cabbie who people told us they saw with Alberta and her uncle Jack the night after she’s thought to have vanished. While talking to Walker the taxi driver discloses something surprising about his DNA. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
45 min listen
S1 Episode 5: The Black Truck: A shocking new revelation surfaces about people seeing Alberta in a mysterious black truck after she was thought to have disappeared. The tip propels investigative reporter Connie Walker north, to Prince Rupert, British Columbia. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
34 min listen
S1 Episode 4: The Brothers: New details emerge about the last night Alberta was seen alive. Reporter Connie Walker speaks to a key witness who has never been interviewed by police about what he saw the night Alberta disappeared. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
41 min listen
S1 Episode 3: A Suspect: Investigative reporter Connie Walker tracks down the person police suspected in the murder of Alberta Williams. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
54 min listen
S1 Episode 1: The Tip: Reporter Connie Walker meets face to face with the person who sent her a tip about Alberta Williams’ unsolved murder. Find out why they’re breaking their silence, and meet the sister who’s still haunted by vivid memories of Alberta’s disappearance. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
35 min listen

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S1 Episode 4: The Brothers: New details emerge about the last night Alberta was seen alive. Reporter Connie Walker speaks to a key witness who has never been interviewed by police about what he saw the night Alberta disappeared. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
41 min listen
S2 Episode 5: Afraid of the dark: As Connie shares some shocking news with Cleo's siblings, the truth about what happened to her remains just out of reach. Police may have answers but can’t share them yet. It's time to visit the one person who's bound to know more. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
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S1 Episode 6: The Taxi Driver: In this episode, Connie Walker finds the cabbie who people told us they saw with Alberta and her uncle Jack the night after she’s thought to have vanished. While talking to Walker the taxi driver discloses something surprising about his DNA. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
45 min listen
S2 Episode 7: Lillian: Connie’s chance meeting with the father who Cleo never knew is followed by new revelations about the Semaganis children’s biological mother, Lillian. A picture begins to emerge about why her children were taken, and when she joined the fight to stop the adoption of more Indigenous children into white homes. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
32 min listen
S2 Episode 8: Salesperson of the year: Digging through archives in Saskatchewan, Connie makes a shocking discovery. As she investigates the controversial Adopt Indian Metis program which Cleo and her siblings were a part of, the man who started the program agrees to speak with her about its controversial origins, and legacy. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
36 min listen
S2 Episode 6: Little Pine: A brief encounter with someone who knew Cleo perhaps better than anyone else just before her death reveals crucial details. Connecting new facts about her life leads the investigation to a world far from where Cleo died, back to Little Pine First Nation. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
50 min listen
S1 Episode 1: The Tip: Reporter Connie Walker meets face to face with the person who sent her a tip about Alberta Williams’ unsolved murder. Find out why they’re breaking their silence, and meet the sister who’s still haunted by vivid memories of Alberta’s disappearance. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
35 min listen
S2 Episode 9: Reunion: Christine travels to Pennsylvania for an emotional reunion with her brother, Johnny, who she hasn’t seen since she was a baby. Determined to get more answers about the days and weeks leading up to her sister’s death, Christine finally gets a copy of Cleo’s death certificate. That, and other documents begin to shed light on the truth she’s been seeking for decades. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
54 min listen
S1 Episode 8: Resilience: Connie Walker questions police about DNA evidence, and learns that after nearly three decades, their seemingly stagnant investigation has become “very active”, as a result of new information brought to light in this podcast. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
58 min listen
S1 Episode 5: The Black Truck: A shocking new revelation surfaces about people seeing Alberta in a mysterious black truck after she was thought to have disappeared. The tip propels investigative reporter Connie Walker north, to Prince Rupert, British Columbia. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
34 min listen
S2 Episode 4: The funeral home: The search for Cleo leads Connie to investigate a headstone belonging to a 13-year-old girl who died in 1978. The cemetery is more than 20 hours away from Arkansas, where Cleo's family has long believed she was killed. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
41 min listen
S2 Episode 3: A little lie: Connie meets Cleo’s older brother, Johnny, in Pennsylvania, where he was adopted. He’s haunted by the memory of saying goodbye to Cleo and longs to fulfill a promise to find her. A late night internet search reveals he may be close. by Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
54 min listen
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S1 Episode 2: The Investigation

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Titles in the series (23)

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