Claim OwnershipMissing & 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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Louise Tortorelli
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Cassie
I'm a fan but I thought the way they handled telling Mark was really tactless. Let a sibling tell them or at least be nicer on the phone, that was not a time for a name correction.
Janet Corbin Harrington
So extremely sad that a young girl felt no hope of being able to return to the family she loved. She was lost before they could find her. Gov't has a purpose, but certainly acts beyond their limits at times. Especially in the handling of all native tribes. There were great atrocities in the handling of native tribes. I was shocked to learn this still happened in the 60's. Prayers for peace for Cleo's family.
Rachel Eh Hamilton
Wow that New Jersey Govt employee was so unprofessional and quite frankly inconsiderate.
Angel S
So heartbreaking but still so many questions unanswered. what caused her to take her life How did she get the gun why was her brothers jacket in the creek and he was on the scene....
Barry Donaghy
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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,,,,,
Geoffrey Rouse
I'm a fan, but this episode is painfully drawn out. You were right, for nothing.
ILLegal ELbow
riveting!!! not sure I'll get this out of my head for a while!!
ILLegal ELbow
"this krey phase"
Eugenia
Is there more of this that I have missed?
Paul Dalton
Eugenia I had the same question. This episode is the introduction to Season 5 You can find the full season on cbc website. Highly recommended Hope this helps. @Simplyplants
BC surv
it kind of sounds similar to the Kerri Ann Brown case
Genene Blades
Can't believe What this family has been through so heart breaking....
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.
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.