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Someone Knows Something

Hosted by CBC · true crime · EN-CA

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Someone Knows Something is the investigative true crime series by award-winning documentarian David Ridgen. Each season tackles an unsolved case, uncovering details and bringing closure to families. Find episode transcripts at this page . Previous seasons: S1: Adrien McNaughton. S2: Sheryl Sheppard. S3: Dee & Moore. S4: Greavette. S5: Kerrie Brown. S6: Donald Izzett Jr.. S7: The Abortion Wars. S8: The Angel Carlick Case. S9: The Christine Harron Case.

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34%

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What is Someone Knows Something about?

Someone Knows Something is the investigative true crime series by award-winning documentarian David Ridgen. Each season tackles an unsolved case, uncovering details and bringing closure to families. Find episode transcripts at this page. Previous seasons: S1: Adrien McNaughton. S2: Sheryl Sheppard. S3: Dee & Moore. S4: Greavette. S5: Kerrie Brown. S6: Donald Izzett Jr.. S7: The Abortion Wars.

Who hosts Someone Knows Something?

Someone Knows Something is hosted by CBC. The show has published 107 episodes to date.

What has Someone Knows Something covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Introducing: When it All Went Wrong" (29 October 2026, 42 minutes), "Introducing: Hunting the Suicide Salesman" (3 June 2026, 49 minutes), and "S10 E6: Sebastién" (13 April 2026, 52 minutes).

How often does Someone Knows Something publish?

Someone Knows Something publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 36 minutes across 107 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Someone Knows Something?

Booking probability for Someone Knows Something is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Someone Knows Something requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Someone Knows Something's contact route on record: verified email.

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CBC hosts Someone Knows Something, a true crime podcast with 107 episodes published.

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  • Someone Knows Something

    Introducing: When it All Went Wrong

    Oct 29, 202642 min

    Investigations about the people who get hurt when the systems meant to protect us fail, hard. Not by accident, not from poor planning, but because someone chose to do wrong — and others chose to do nothing. In When it...

  • Someone Knows Something

    Introducing: Hunting the Suicide Salesman

    Jun 3, 202649 min

    Following the critically acclaimed series Hunting Warhead, Season 2: Hunting the Suicide Salesman follows host Daemon Fairless as he takes us inside another dark corner of the internet: the online world helping people...

  • Episode #6

    S10 E6: Sebastién

    Apr 13, 202652 minS10

    <p>In Episode 6, David and Sebastien speak again, to go over some theories and see if, step-by-step they can map out everyone's whereabouts on the day and evening that Jackie disappeared.</p>

  • Episode #5

    S10 E5: Historias

    Apr 6, 202640 minS10

    <p>David follows leads to investigate a taxi tip. And more eye witnesses who may have seen Jackie in the days after she disappeared. Or did they?</p>

  • Episode #4

    S10 E4: The Red Cab

    Mar 30, 202641 minS10

    <p>Digging deeper, David talks to an eye witness who says she saw something the night Jackie disappeared. David works with producer María José Burgos to call the authorities to get access to Jackie's investigative file...

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  • Episode #3

    S10 E3: Ex-Patriota

    Mar 23, 202647 minS10

    <p>David talks to the neighbours and others in town, and tracks down security guards from Jaclyn’s gated community. Gathering the fragments. What did people see or hear? Where did Jackie go?</p>

  • Episode #2

    S10 E2: Papier Maché

    Mar 16, 202651 minS10

    <p>Sebastién reveals some of the cracks beneath he and Jaclyn’s relationship and tells the story of what he remembers from Jackie's last day. </p>

  • Episode #1

    S10 E1: Jackie

    Mar 9, 202637 minS10

    <p>Jaclyn Ferland-Smith moved to Playa del Coco with her husband Sebastien to find and build a new life. But then Jackie disappears, with no trace found. Jackie's family, with David's help, begins the process of picking...

  • Someone Knows Something

    Introducing Season 10: The Jaclyn Ferland-Smith case

    Mar 2, 20265 minS10

    <p>In Season 10 of Someone Knows Something, host David Ridgen investigates the sudden 2021 disappearance of Jaclyn Ferland-Smith, a Canadian expat living in Playas del Coco, a paradise veiled in rumour and fear on the...

  • Someone Knows Something

    Someone Knows Something Introduces | Allison after NXIVM from Uncover

    Nov 14, 202543 minS0

    <p>You think you know the NXIVM story. The secretive self-help empire. The sex cult headlines. The downfall of its leader, Keith Raniere. But the most famous woman at the centre of the story has remained largely silent...

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    Someone Knows Something Introduces | Uncover: Sea of Lies

    Jan 27, 202549 minS0

    <p>A body is pulled from the ocean, and a race against time to capture one of the world's most wanted criminals begins.</p><p><br></p><p>Uncover: Sea of LIes is the story of a con man who couldn't stop lying. A tale of...

  • Someone Knows Something

    Introducing: Hell and Gone Murder Line from iHeart Podcasts | Doug Janis Part 1

    Dec 21, 202428 minS0

    <p>From iHeart Podcasts and School of Humans comes Hell and Gone Murder Line. On December 13, 2020, in Hemphill, Texas, police in Sabine County got a call about a houseboat on fire. The houseboat was docked behind 322...

  • Episode #5

    A Bear In The Woods

    Dec 4, 202446 minS9

    <p>The finale. The aftermath of Ringel's trial, what happened, and what was learned. David and Mary Ann embark on a search for Chrissy’s body.</p><p><br></p><p>Watch David Ridgen's original television documentary from...

  • Episode #4

    ‘Til The Day I Die

    Nov 27, 202439 minS9

    <p>David’s TV documentary about Christine comes out in the spring of 2012, publicly revealing details of the case for the first time along with key interviews including a face-to-face with Anthony Ringel. In the...

  • Episode #3

    Stay

    Nov 20, 202438 minS9

    <p>The case against Anthony Ringel falls apart and he is freed. And Mary Ann says she's been kept in the dark. How did it happen, and is Anthony Ringel even guilty of what he says?</p>

  • Episode #2

    Ringel

    Nov 13, 202429 minS9

    <p>A decade after her disappearance, a previously uninvestigated local man comes forward at a family gathering and confesses to killing Christine Harron. Chrissy's mother Mary Ann is told that the case is a "slam dunk"...

  • Episode #1

    Chrissy

    Nov 6, 202435 minS9

    <p>Chrissy Harron didn’t feel well on May 18, 1993, and stayed home from school, but eventually her mother insisted that she get to afternoon class. Chrissy left, slamming the door, and would never be seen again. How...

  • Someone Knows Something

    A Killer Confessed and Still Walked Free. Why? | Crime Story interview preview with David Ridgen

    Nov 4, 20244 minS9

    <p>David Ridgen joins Kathleen Goldhar on the Crime Story podcast to give a behind-the-scenes look at the investigation for Season 9 of Someone Knows Something: The Christine Harron case.</p><p><br></p><p>Hear the full...

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    Introducing Season 9: The Christine Harron Case

    Oct 30, 20243 minS9

    <p>Someone Knows Something host David Ridgen's latest investigation is 15 years in the making. Season 9 follows the story of Ontario teenager Christine Harron who disappears in 1993. A mysterious man confesses to her...

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    The Next Call with David Ridgen: Episode 4 in the case of Terrie Dauphinais (UPDATE)

    Oct 2, 202442 minS0

    <p>"Come Forward": Ken Dauphinais is back in court facing serious charges. David investigates what this might mean for Sue Martin and her daughter Terrie's murder case.</p>

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