Crime Beat
People know their hometowns by streets, a favourite restaurant or the local mall. Crime Reporter Nancy Hixt knows hers by the crime scenes she's been to over the past 20 years. Journey deep inside some of Canada’s most high-profile criminal cases. Each episode will take you inside the story to give you details you didn't hear on the news.
Winner of the 2020 & 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award (RTDNA).
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 126
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Inside Corrections | 12
If you’ve ever watched shows like Prison Break or Orange is the New Black you probably have an idea of what life behind bars is like or a dramatized version of it.
On this special episode of Crime Be…
00:47:24 |
Tue 30 Jul 2024
Incendiary Circumstances - Part 2 | 11
On November 17, 2004 a young Calgary family settled in for the evening. At about 9pm, the husband left for work as a security guard, while his wife stayed home with their two children. In the middle …
00:48:35 |
Tue 16 Jul 2024
Incendiary Circumstances - Part 1 | 10
In the middle of a cold snowy night, a Calgary woman woke to the sound of shattered glass. Within minutes the entire home was engulfed in flames. The panicked mother tried to help her two children bu…
00:30:36 |
Tue 02 Jul 2024
The autopsy tells a story | 09
You’ve seen them on true crime TV shows and movies, forensic pathologists, medical examiners, and coroners have a firm foothold in popular culture. But what is forensic pathology and how does it diff…
00:43:42 |
Tue 18 Jun 2024
The long road to justice - Part 2 | 8
In early 2002, the body of a 21-year-old woman was found in a rural area about an hour’s drive south of Calgary. Adrienne McColl had been murdered and investigators worked around the clock to gather …
00:49:43 |
Tue 04 Jun 2024
The long road to justice - Part 1 | 7
On a breezy winter day in February of 2002, in southern Alberta, a rancher was moving some cattle along a rural road when he came across a disturbing sight in a ditch. As he got closer he was able to…
00:32:36 |
Tue 21 May 2024
The Deadly Contract - Part 2 | 6
On January 16th, 2006 financier Jack Beauchamp was shot six times and left for dead on his office floor. Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt shares the conclusion of how investigators unrave…
00:41:01 |
Tue 07 May 2024
The Deadly Contract - Part 1 | 5
On January 16th, 2006 financier Jack Beauchamp grabbed a coffee and went to work in his downtown Calgary office. Minutes later he was fighting for his life. He had been shot six times and left for de…
00:28:07 |
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Update: The Brentwood five massacre | 4
It’s been ten years since one of the darkest days in Calgary’s history- On the anniversary of the biggest mass killing to ever happen in the city, Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt shares …
01:17:39 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
Out of the dark | 3
In the summer of 2006, a young Calgary woman was on top of the world. She had a supportive family, amazing friends and a great job. But life as she knew it came to an abrupt stop in the middle of the…
00:41:09 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
The Hunt For A Predator - Part 2 | 2
In the late 1970s and early ‘80s a sexual predator stalked Calgarians. At the same time, homicide detectives used cutting edge strategies to track a child killer.
What no one realized, was that the t…
00:38:55 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
The Hunt For A Predator - Part 1 | 1
In late 1970’s and early 80’s a sexual predator was on the loose. Two little girls had heard about the man dubbed the “Southwest Calgary Rapist” but they never imagined they would cross paths with hi…
00:27:39 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
Season 6 is coming, February 27th
For most of us, crime is something we see on the news…in movies…or hear about on a podcast. We never think it could happen to us…Until it does.
Loved ones are gone…and for the survivors…the scars wi…
00:02:01 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
Introducing... Global News' What Happened To...? The Thai Cave Rescue
The 2018 Thai cave rescue quickly became an international spectacle that captured the attention of people all around the world.
Twelve boys and their soccer coach were exploring the Tham Luang cave i…
00:25:20 |
Fri 22 Sep 2023
Gone In An Instant Part 2 | 15
In the spring of 2022, chaos erupted in southeast Calgary.
There were reports of two erratic drivers, followed by a shooting.
Moments later, a violent collision. Angela McKenzie, a mother of five, di…
00:27:53 |
Tue 08 Aug 2023
Gone In An Instant Part 1 | 14
On a cool spring evening in 2022, chaos erupted as police received reports of two erratic drivers and then gunfire. One of the vehicles fled the shooting scene at high speed and moments later was inv…
00:23:35 |
Tue 25 Jul 2023
Caught in the Crossfire | 13
The widespread impact of a deadly gang war continues to be felt to this day. On this episode of Crime Beat, Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt shares the story of one casualty of a war he w…
00:26:27 |
Tue 11 Jul 2023
1:41 of Terror | 12
A Central Alberta family arrived home from a long weekend away and noticed something was suspicious as they pulled into their driveway. Upon entering the home, there was a shocking discovery. Join Gl…
00:47:46 |
Tue 27 Jun 2023
The Horror That Still Lurks | 11
In the middle of the night two officers knock on a young woman’s door, they were there to alert her – that the man who raped her more than twenty years earlier was AWOL.
Join Global News senior crime…
00:19:52 |
Tue 13 Jun 2023
A Deadly Betrayal | 10
On a cold, snowy day in January of 2006, a man scouring for bottles in downtown Calgary dumpsters made a grisly discovery marking the starting point of a true whodunnit. Police followed a trail of fo…
00:52:16 |
Tue 30 May 2023
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