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Island Crime
Laura Palmer
Frequency: 1 episode/21d. Total Eps: 89
Each season of Island Crime delves into an unsolved murder or missing person case on Vancouver Island. Host/Producer Laura Palmer updates the cases when she finds new evidence or fresh perspectives. Original journalism, leaving no stone unturned.
Season 7-'Evaporated' explores the disappearance of Victoria's Ian Indridson.
Season 6: ‘Sweethearts’ examines the unsolved cases of three teenage girls who were murdered in Victoria, Canada between 1990 and 1991.
Season 5: ‘Whiskey Creek’ is the untold story of a Halloween night massacre.
Season 4: ‘Finding Amber’ follows the case of a Port Alberni woman who disappeared on July 8, 2022.
Season 3: ‘Missing Michael’ is the story of Michael Dunahee, a little boy from Victoria, BC, who vanished from a playground in 1991 at the age of 4.
Season 2: ‘Gone Boys’ follows the mystery of men who have gone missing in recent years on Vancouver Island.
Season 1: ‘Where is Lisa?’ digs into the disappearance of 21-year-old Lisa Marie Young.
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Island Crime Season 7 'Evaporated' Coming Soon...
Season 7
mardi 7 janvier 2025 • Duration 01:35
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S1 E15 Cold
Season 1 · Episode 15
mardi 3 décembre 2024 • Duration 44:30
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S6 E6 Evil
Season 6 · Episode 6
mardi 7 mai 2024 • Duration 34:59
When Melissa, Cheri and Kimberly were killed in Victoria, there may have been four serial killers preying on sex trade workers and sexually exploited youth on the coast. Who are these predators, and what has been done to exclude them from the cases on the island?
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S6 E5 Boyfriends
Season 6 · Episode 5
mardi 30 avril 2024 • Duration 51:44
The men close to Cheri, Melissa and Kimberly, at the time of their deaths, are all potential suspects. Boyfriends, pimps, and sex traffickers, could any of them have wanted the girls gone?
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S6 E4 The Stroll
Season 6 · Episode 4
mardi 23 avril 2024 • Duration 43:21
Cheri, Kimberly and Melissa were all last seen on the stroll in downtown Victoria. The activities of the area starkly contrast the elegant image Victoria is trying to sell tourists. It becomes a fertile hunting ground for predators.
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S6 E3 The Girl in Polka Dot Tights
Season 6 · Episode 3
mardi 16 avril 2024 • Duration 41:23
Melissa Nicholson’s badly beaten body is found on the side of the road. Newspapers at the time describe her as "teen hooker #3", but her family only remembers her big smile, sparkly personality, and honey-coloured hair. The 17-year-old is last seen on the Victoria stroll.
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S6 E2 After the Fair
Season 6 · Episode 2
mardi 9 avril 2024 • Duration 40:07
Cheri Lynn Smith spends her days reading the bible and writing to her parents. Before she's killed, Cheri is lured away from her Regina home by a sex trafficker posing as her boyfriend. Not long after, a horseback rider finds her body in the underbrush outside of Victoria, B.C., Canada.
Thank you to Cheri's parents for permitting me to use the audio from their interview on 'Listen Up TV' -and to host Lorna Dueck for agreeing to make the audio available to Island Crime.
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S6 E1 Soft
Season 6 · Episode 1
mardi 2 avril 2024 • Duration 46:26
For three decades, Rhonda has wondered why someone killed her high school friend Kimberly Gallup. Kimberly was a girl who loved the Kansas City Chiefs and Bon Jovi. Her death has a lasting impact on all who knew her.
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Coming Soon: Season Six, Sweethearts
Season 6
jeudi 14 mars 2024 • Duration 02:24
The year is 1990 and within about 12 months three teenage girls will be murdered in Victoria, B.C., Canada. Before they were found dead, all three girls were lured into sex trafficking with promises of love and money. Today, it's been more than thirty years since they were killed, and their killer, or killers, have never been found.
Island Crime Season 6: Sweethearts exposes the stigma surrounding their deaths and asks whether time and technology can finally bring justice for their families.
New episodes coming April 2024.
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S1 E14 Speak Up or Shut Up
Season 1 · Episode 14
vendredi 24 novembre 2023 • Duration 58:14
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