Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo

Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo

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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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Introducing Someone Knows Something: Kerrie Brown

Fifteen-year-old Kerrie Brown disappeared from a house party in Thompson, Manitoba. Her body was found two days later. Host David Ridgen joins Kerrie's friends and family on their search for answers. Subscribe to Someone Knows Something now.

Introducing Someone Knows Something: Kerrie Brown

2018-10-1601:03:4217

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.

S2 Episode 10: Cleo’s letters

2018-04-0200:55:3215

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.

S2 Episode 9: Reunion

2018-03-2700:54:034

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.

S2 Episode 8: Salesperson of the year

2018-03-2000:36:3710

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.

S2 Episode 7: Lillian

2018-03-2000:32:224

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.

S2 Episode 6: Little Pine

2018-03-2000:49:473

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.

S2 Episode 5: Afraid of the dark

2018-03-1500:29:565

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.

S2 Episode 4: The funeral home

2018-03-1400:41:123

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.

S2 Episode 3: A little lie

2018-03-0900:54:215

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.

S2 Episode 2: Eyes that haunted me

2018-03-0800:41:202

Comments (9)

brian humber

i coundnt stop listening to this over the last few days,,, i never knew about this very sad part of Canadian history,,, thank you for opening my eyes,,,,,

Feb 18th

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Geoffrey Rouse

I'm a fan, but this episode is painfully drawn out. You were right, for nothing.

Jan 13th

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ILLegal ELbow

riveting!!! not sure I'll get this out of my head for a while!!

Dec 14th

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ILLegal ELbow

"this krey phase"

Dec 13th

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Eugenia

Is there more of this that I have missed?

Dec 4th

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BC surv

it kind of sounds similar to the Kerri Ann Brown case

Nov 26th

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Genene Blades

Can't believe What this family has been through so heart breaking....

Nov 19th

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Louterry Ochoa

please if any help I am looking for couple of peaple they are amanda gaorgea martinez, mikel martinez airana ochoa abel kain bravo our I just for some other way to find out some other dereation .Thank you louterry ochoa.

Oct 16th

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Tori GirlRed HB

I can relate to Lillian's children. I come from a long line of borderline mothers and have suffered the affects of toxic stress. What happens to children is permanent. The government always fails it's children in American history, too.

Oct 10th

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