Uncover (podcast)

Uncover

Uncover is a Canadian investigative journalism podcast, launched in 2018 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ^[1] Each season is hosted by a different journalist, and delves into Canadian and international crime stories. ^[2]

The second season, Bomb on Board, won the RTNDA Canada award for Best Original / Enterprise Journalism in 2019. ^[3] In August 2019, the CBC announced that the third season, The Village, was in development as the basis for a documentary television series. ^[4]

As with other CBC podcasts, episodes of the series have aired terrestrially on CBC Radio One as substitute programming in the summer season and on public holidays.

Seasons

Season	Title	Topic	Host	Air Dates	Ref
1	Escaping NXIVM	NXIVM	Josh Bloch	September 2018	[5]
2	Bomb on Board	The bombing of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21.	Ian Hanomansing and Johanna Wagstaffe	November 2018	[6]
3	The Village	Unsolved murders in Toronto's Gay Village.	Justin Ling	April 2019	[7]
4	The Cat Lady Case	The disappearance of Joan Lawrence.	Zander Sherman	July 2019	[8]
5	Sharmini	The disappearance of Sharmini Anandavel.	Michelle Shephard	September 2019	[9]
6	Satanic Panic	1990s Satanic Panic in Martensville, Saskatchewan.	Lisa Bryn Rundle	February 2020	[10]
7	Dead Wrong	The murder of Brenda Way and wrongful imprisonment of Glen Assoun.	Tim Bousquet	June 2020
8	Brainwashed	Investigation into the CIA's experiments in mind control.	Michelle Shephard	September 2020
9	Evil by Design	Assault allegations against fashion mogul Peter Nygård.	Timothy Sawa	March 2021	[11]
10	The Village 2	Investigation into the deaths of two Toronto trans women, Alloura Wells and Cassandra Do.	Justin Ling	July 2021
11	Carrie Low VS.	Carrie Low's mission to hold Nova Scotia police accountable for failure to investigate her assault.	Maggie Rahr	November 2021
12	A Death in Cryptoland	The death of Gerald Cotten, CEO of QuadrigaCX.	Takara Small	December 2021
13	White Hot Hate	Journalist Ryan Thorpe's infiltration of a white supremacist organization.	Michelle Shephard	December 2021
14	Boys Like Me	Incel subculture and related crimes.	Ellen Chloe Bateman	January 2022
15	The Village	The murder of gay men in 1990s Montreal.	Justin Ling	June 2022
16	Kuper Island	Kuper Island Residential School	Duncan McCue	August 2022
17	The Kill List	The murder of human rights activist Karima Baloch.	Mary Lynk	December 2022
18	Pressure Cooker	Follows an investigation into a couple accused of terrorism.	Dan Pierce	January 2023
19	Run, Hide, Repeat	The story of host Pauline Dakin's tumultuous childhood.	Pauline Dakin	February 2023
20	The Africas vs. America	The 1985 bombing of a Black neighborhood in West Philadelphia, targeting a family of Black radicals known as MOVE.	Matthew Amha	May 2023
21	The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman	The lives and deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman, one of Canada's richest couples.	Kathleen Goldhar	June 2023
22	The Band Played On	Five decades of sexual abuse of teens by three teachers at Bell High School in Ottawa.	Julie Ireton	August 2023
23	The Pit	The murder of trucker Sheree Fertuck in Saskatchewan.	Alicia Bridges & Victoria Dinh	December 2023
24	Hunting Warhead	Follows a search for the people behind a child-abuse site on the dark web.	Daemon Fairless	February 2024
25	Love, Janessa	The search for Janessa Brazil, a cam girl whose photos are used in various catfishing schemes.	Hannah Ajala	March 2024
26	The Outlaw Ocean	7-part series on crimes at sea.	Ian Urbina	April 2024
27	Bloodlines	The disappearance of 2-year-old Salmaan in the final days of the war against ISIS, as well as the fates of other children like him.	Poonam Taneja	July 2024
28	Someone Knows Something	The Ku Klux Klan murders of two 19-year-old black men, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, in Southwest Mississippi in May 1964.	David Ridgen	September 2024
29	Capital Gazette	The June 2018 mass shooting at The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, MD.	Kelly McEvers	October 2024
30	Bad Results	A DNA lab offering prenatal paternity tests often identifies the wrong men as fathers.	Rachel Houlihan & Jorge Barrera	December 2024
31	The Banned Teacher	Anne-Marie Robinson reached out to host Julie Ireton to share her story of being raped by her music teacher as a teen, leading to the discovery of more victims.	Julie Ireton	January 2025
32	Sea of Lies	The discovery of a body by local fishermen leads to a multi-country manhunt.	Sam Mullins	March 2025
33	Calls From a Killer	Information received in jailhouse calls from murderer Clifford Olson.	Arlene Bynon & Nathaniel Frum	June 2025
34	Dirtbag Climber	A mysterious climber, alias Jesse James, is found dead in Squamish, BC.	Steven Chua	September 2025

References

1. Connie Thiessen, "CBC unveils fall podcast slate" Archived 2019-10-10 at the Wayback Machine . Broadcast Dialogue, August 23, 2018.
2. Sarah Larson, ""Uncover: The Village": A Serial Killer, Toronto's Gay Community, and a Podcast That Transcends True Crime" Archived 2019-09-29 at the Wayback Machine . The New Yorker , May 3, 2019.
3. "CBC Radio brings home RTDNA awards for excellence" Archived 2019-08-07 at the Wayback Machine . CBC News, May 12, 2019.
4. Jordan Pinto, "CBC puts five podcasts into television development" Archived 2019-09-14 at the Wayback Machine . RealScreen , August 15, 2019.
5. Stacy Lambe, "What's the NXIVM Cult? Everything to Watch or Read in Addition to the Lifetime Movie" Archived 2019-10-10 at the Wayback Machine . Entertainment Tonight , September 21, 2019.
6. Ben Forrest, "Bomb on Board" Archived 2019-10-10 at the Wayback Machine . Skies, December 14, 2018.
7. Andrew Wright, "Reporter Justin Ling Sheds New Light on Bruce McArthur Case in CBC Podcast "Uncover: The Village"" Archived 2019-10-10 at the Wayback Machine . Zoomer Magazine , April 5, 2019.
8. Doug Crosse, "Bracebridge Reporter updating missing seniors case with podcast" Archived 2019-10-10 at the Wayback Machine . My Muskoka Now, December 5, 2018.
9. Todd Vandonk, "Peterborough rapist Stanley Tippett focus of CBC podcast Uncover: Sharmini" Archived 2019-10-10 at the Wayback Machine . My Kawartha, October 5, 2019.
10. "New podcast explores how 'Satanic Panic' overtook a Saskatchewan town" Archived 2020-02-06 at the Wayback Machine . CBC Radio, February 4, 2020.
11. "UNCOVER: NYGARD (EVIL BY DESIGN)". solutionsmedia.cbcrc.ca (in French). Archived from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2021-04-04.