Tue, Nov 25, 1997
'Karla Homolka,' first aired by the fifth estate in November of 1997, is a searing investigation into a plea bargain - later dubbed 'the deal with the devil - struck between Ontario Crown attorneys and Karla Homolka, who was ultimately convicted of manslaughter in one of Canada's most notorious and grisly murder cases. In 1995, Homolka's former husband Paul Bernardo was convicted of the kidnap, rape and murder of Ontario teenagers Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy and sentenced to at least 25 years in prison. Bernardo was classified as a 'dangerous offender,' meaning it is unlikely he will ever be set free.
Dec 1982
On July 10, 1978, Eric Wilson - a 19-year from Ottawa and student at Tufts University - left home to drive to a summer college course in Colorado. When he went missing four days afterward in Nebraska, his family tried to persuade local and U.S. police that he wasn't simply a runaway and hadn't simply forgotten to call home. The program examines the lengths to which they had to go to find out what happened to Eric, and the byzantine nature of the legal system which seemed less interested in pursuing justice than in avoiding the expenses involved in the investigation and potential trials.
Fri, Dec 5, 2014
A research into the events that leads 15 years-old Amanda Todd to a tragic end. A look into the investigation to find the perpetrator of the extortion and psychological abuse that young Amanda suffered for about 3 years, the faults by the Canadian and Dutch police, the harassment and threats via Facebook and how they managed to help to catch the perpetrator, the dangers of web-cam chats and the consequences of cyberbullying and sextortion.