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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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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.
46This 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.
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.
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”.
Investigative reporter Connie Walker tracks down the person police suspected in the murder of Alberta Williams.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/missing-murdered-season-2-finding-cleo-transcripts-listen-1.6733352
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.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/missing-murdered-season-2-finding-cleo-transcripts-listen-1.6733352
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.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/missing-murdered-season-2-finding-cleo-transcripts-listen-1.6733352
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.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/missing-murdered-season-2-finding-cleo-transcripts-listen-1.6733352
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.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/missing-murdered-season-2-finding-cleo-transcripts-listen-1.6733352
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.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/missing-murdered-season-2-finding-cleo-transcripts-listen-1.6733352
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.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/missing-murdered-season-2-finding-cleo-transcripts-listen-1.6733352
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.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/missing-murdered-season-2-finding-cleo-transcripts-listen-1.6733352
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An absolute brilliant podcast. Sensitive, considerate, so determined to find the truth and get answers. No stone unturned. I loved it. I learned so much I didn't know, heartwrenching, disgusting government behaviour, the story of Alberta Williams and Finding Cleo. Riveting, spell binding, fascinating. I hope you receive or have received an award for these amazing productions. Thank you for enlightening me on history I never knew existed.
I feel like the story doesn't make sense. I would of looked more into it, especially the adopted brother and mother. The whole she threw his coat in the water and then shot herself seems like a story they made up to cover up what really happened.
Why Connie was the one telling Mark? Maybe because she was the one who found the sister. The other siblings had tried contacting him. Critisising her for telling Mark is just as logical as critisising her for telling any of the sibling, or giving them any information at all. They asked for her help!
God, a 24 year old talking and allegedly sleeping with a 13 year old. even worse he gets arrested at 34 for sleeping with another 13 year old. kills me that police didn't look into that man just in case he was with other little kids or if he had pictures on a phone or something. could've saved at least 1 little girl if they did it back then
"pointing to the back of the car". How dumb do you have to be to not get that she wants the license plate. If she understood that then this wouldve been over 30 years ago
I listened years ago and cleo's story still breaks my heart
What a story. Big shout out to Connie and all who investigated this case and doggedly pursued it to the end. The last scene with Christine at Cleo's grave was so moving. Thank you
Holy smoke! #WhereIsCleo & finding out about the young lady she was becoming. So heartbreaking.
Awe. Bless these siblings and their fortitude. It takes an immense amount of strength to live and pursue answers of these sorts. #WhereIsCleo
wow, what a podcast. I didn't know this, scoop 60. It's heartbreaking to hear about the fact that children taken away from their families! 🇭🇺 saskia from the Netherlands.
So incredibly sad what happened to Alberta Williams, she deserved much better & a full long life. RIP Alberta. Please if you have any info regarding this case come forward.
The brothers statement sounds really suspicious- he said that he was on the school bus and saw Cleo wearing his jacket and that when he got home she didn’t have it- so he went outside to look for it. He found it in the creek and then confronted her as to why she threw it in the creek. And he said he heard a bang and thought it was Cleo cleaning? Really? Have you heard a 38 go off? It doesn’t sound like someone cleaning, it sounds, unmistakeable, like a gun. Maybe his jacket was wet because he was washing blood off if. From his statement he went outside looking for his jacket, but it didn’t sound like he knew to look for it in the creek, he just happened to find it there? It doesn’t add up
This story broke my heart.
very badly edited; it makes it frustrating to listen to
getting an error that the source is broken.
Painfully beautiful series. I’m so sorry that this was and still is a reality. Thank you so much to the team and to Cleo’s family for telling this story. It was really well done. I learned so much.
Such a sad, and all too common story. Excellent work done by the reporter and her team. I'm always impressed with the CBC, I wish journalist in my country were of the same caliber.
when will the next season come out!
this is a very sad story and I feel for this little girl. I did not like the angle it was written from.
so it was just assumed she was raped and murdered?