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
Shattered By A Call | 7
In the summer of 2018, a young Calgary woman disappeared.
For nearly a week her family held out hope she would be found safe.
Instead, a call to 911 sparked a major investigation and led officers to …
00:56:01 |
Tue 25 Jan 2022
Stolen Innocence | 6
In the middle of the night on Sept. 24, 1981, a two-year-old girl was rescued by police.
She was found outside of a post office in a small town north of Calgary. She was cold, crying, and wearing onl…
00:42:21 |
Tue 11 Jan 2022
Introducing What Happened to...Ted Williams, the man with the golden voice.
On this episode of Crime Beat we introduce you to another Global News podcast called What happened to…? where host and reporter Erica Vella ,speaks with Ted Williams and Doral Chenoweth and the 2011,…
00:56:20 |
Tue 28 Dec 2021
The Story is Never Finished | 5
A heartbreaking anniversary highlights a decade of missed opportunities, a killer tries to fight his conviction – again, and a disgraced doctor faces new charges.
On this special year-end episode sen…
00:31:01 |
Tue 14 Dec 2021
Blindsided: The Mylan Hicks story | 4
In the fall of 2016, the CFL season was well underway and the Calgary Stampeders were on fire.
When the Stamps beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Sept. 24 of that year, the team set a record winning s…
00:58:06 |
Tue 30 Nov 2021
'Hunted by evil' Part 3 — Inside the jury
It’s arguably one of the highest profile multiple murder cases in Canadian history.
Douglas Garland was convicted of the first-degree murder of five-year-old Nathan O’Brien and his grandparents Alvin…
00:33:34 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
Hunted By Evil Part 2: The Monstrous Acts of Douglas Garland | 2
On July 4, 2014, four days into an Amber Alert, a suspect was arrested in connection with the disappearance of Nathan O’Brien and his grandparents Alvin and Kathy Liknes.
An RCMP emergency response t…
01:05:56 |
Tue 02 Nov 2021
Hunted By Evil Part 1: The story of Nathan O'Brien and his grandparents |1
In 2014, on the first long weekend of the summer, a Calgary mother went to her parents’ home to pick up her five-year-old son following a sleepover.
When she got there, all three were missing.
Who wo…
00:48:30 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Season 4 Trailer
Over her 25 year career as a crime reporter...each case she's covered stays with her…But...there are some... that haunt her.
They’re heartbreaking and horrific…difficult to revisit...because to bring…
00:02:21 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
Introducing... China Rising
Introducing Episode 1 of China Rising - Hostage Diplomacy
On the first episode of China Rising, we examine the Chinese government's practice of detaining political prisoners, by hearing directly from…
00:34:41 |
Tue 22 Jun 2021
Behind The Scenes |17
Global News crime reporter Nancy Hixt gives you a behind-the-scenes look at Crime Beat.
From digging up stories to writing and putting together this podcast, join Nancy as she explains how it all com…
01:03:02 |
Tue 01 Jun 2021
Scarred but not broken - part two |16
In the summer of 1999, the RCMP in central Alberta investigated a horrific case involving two children.
A father murdered his little girl and tried to kill his son.
The case haunted investigators for…
00:57:00 |
Tue 18 May 2021
Scarred but not broken - part one |15
On a cool rainy day in the summer of 1999, an old Chevy van was seen speeding on a highway from the backcountry eastbound towards Rocky Mountain House, Alta.
There was a large piece of canvas attache…
00:37:30 |
Tue 04 May 2021
Tormented by Trauma |14
In early 2007, a young widowed mother of two was just settling into a bigger home after living for several years in a cramped apartment with her extended family.
Aset Magomadova was looking forward t…
00:49:47 |
Tue 20 Apr 2021
Sheldon Kennedy and the scars that last a lifetime |13
In the fall of 1996, the Canadian sports world was rocked by a major sex abuse scandal.
NHL player Sheldon Kennedy courageously went forward to police to reveal he suffered years of abuse at the hand…
01:02:17 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
The boy with the heart of a lion |12
On this episode of the Global News podcast Crime Beat, crime reporter Nancy Hixt shares a story of one young man’s grit and determination despite a massive loss.
On Jan. 25, 2012, police were called…
00:55:35 |
Tue 23 Mar 2021
Drawing Out a Suspect |11
It’s a police tactic that uses both science and art.
From Jack the Ripper to outlaws of the wild west-- or even more recently in the case of the Golden state killer-- for hundreds of years, investiga…
00:39:10 |
Tue 09 Mar 2021
Narrowing in on a killer - The Kelly Cook Story | 10
In the summer of 1981, a group of teenagers was out exploring the countryside in southeastern Alberta.
They had stopped to scout a path around a lake when they came across something that would haunt …
00:41:14 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
Violated Care – patients of a disgraced doctor speak out |9
In February 2018, an Alberta woman went to police to file a complaint against a Calgary neurologist.
The woman alleged she was sexually assaulted during a neurological exam in 2007.
She told Global N…
00:59:05 |
Tue 09 Feb 2021
How Carly Survived a Predator |8
In the spring of 2004, "Carly" was a bright-eyed, smart and bubbly young girl.
The 17-year-old was just months away from finishing high school — but for the moment, she was focused on her friends and…
00:45:34 |
Tue 26 Jan 2021
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