2005 - 2006 Season
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
FROST BITE
The story of the young NHL player who hired a hit man to kill his agent filled newspaper pages and television newscasts.
Last November, a
fifth estate investigation revealed that there was much more to the story of Mike Danton and David Frost than was previously known. Previously unheard tapes of conversations between Danton and Frost, showed that despite Danton's conviction for the crime, the bizarre bond between the player and his agent is as strong as ever.
Now, Bob McKeown and a
fifth estate team have investigated new revelations about Frost's involvement.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
FAILING JEFFREY
Five-year-old Jeffrey Baldwin was found dead in his grandmother's east Toronto house in 2002. Officially, Jeffrey died of pneumonia, the result of breathing in his own feces, but the real cause was severe, prolonged malnutrition.
Four months after his death, his grandparents, in whose care he had been placed by the Toronto Catholic Children's Aid Society, were arrested and ultimately convicted of second-degree murder. The grandparents, Elva Bottineau and Norman Kidman had a history of child abuse; Jeffrey was not the first child to die in Elva's care. And this history of abuse was detailed in CCAS files.
Gillian Findlay and
the fifth estate have investigated the death of Jeffrey Baldwin to find out why and how this couple could have been given custody of Jeffrey and his siblings.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
At
the fifth estate we like to check back in on some of the reports we've broadcast and find out what happened next to the people we've met. We'll be bringing you updates on four stories.
A man wrongly convicted of murder and finally exonerated finds a life outside of prison that involves an unbelievable Hollywood-style transformation.
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Find out if a maverick judge, long a thorn in the side of her province's judiciary and its government and who fought to keep her place on the Bench, was able to do so.
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Shannon, Quebec was a small community with a big problem when we first met them--the military base next door was slowly poisoning their water supply. They fought back, with surprising results.
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And when Ted Nolan was awarded the NHL's Coach of the Year, his career should have been secured. So, why wasn't it? And what's he doing now?
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
THE CHOKING GAME
When an Edmonton mother went looking for clues and answers as to why her well-adjusted nine-year-old son might have committed suicide, she discovered some information about a disturbing social phenomenon called the choking game.
Linden MacIntyre reports that doctors and medical examiners in Canada and the United States are slowly beginning to re-assess how widespread the game is and whether deaths, once thought to be suicides, may in fact be victims of this deadly game.
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Wednesday, March15, 2006
LOCAL HERO
When he was a little boy, Elwood Battist was a longshot to survive at all, let alone thrive. What happened to him was a typical scenario for someone so disabled--decades in an institution, little hope for a life "outside".
But, Elwood's story has taken a remarkable turn and the impact of one man and his attitude on the Ontario town where he lives has turned him into a local hero.
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006
YOU BE THE JUDGE
For most of Wayne Carlson's life, the only thing between his life inside prison and the outside world seemed to be a revolving door. Finally, several years ago, Wayne Carlson was released from a prison in Drumheller, Alberta and it looked as though he was about to put his life of crime and institutions behind him. He married a good woman, wrote a book called
Breakfast With The Devil, courted celebrity and then, inevitably, those who know him would say, he landed back inside.
Now, at 63, he is struggling to convince a parole board and those who know him best, perhaps his last chance to do so, that he is capable of redemption and deserves another chance on the outside. Granted unusual access, Linden MacIntyre and a
fifth estate team attend Carlson's parole board hearing and let you be the judge.
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Wednesday, March 1, 2006
KARLA HOMOLKA
Karla Homolka follows an examination, by the CBC's the fifth estate unit, of one of the most controversial murder investigations and trials in recent Canadian history. When Paul Bernardo was on trial for a series of rapes and two horrific abductions and murders, the testimony of his wife, Karla Homolka, was considered essential for his conviction.
At Bernardo's trial she was portrayed as an unwilling accomplice, a woman too terrified and submissive to do anything but obey. But months of investigation by
the fifth estate uncovered evidence that cast serious doubt on that official portrayal of Homolka.
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CBC News: Indepth backgrounder for recent developments in the Homolka/Bernardo case.
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
MONEY, TRUTH AND SPIN
An exclusive story from inside the world of Canadian politics. For the first time, dealmaker Karlheinz Schreiber sits down in front of television cameras to answer questions about his secretive past and about his relationship with former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
As Linden MacIntyre reports, Schreiber goes on the record to talk about the $300,000 the former Prime Minister received from him, where that money came from and the fallout, both public and private, that ensued from it.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2006
THE MURDERED BRIDE
This is a story of forbidden love; the story of Jassi and Mithu Sidhu. Jassi, a young Canadian woman and Mithu, an impoverished rickshaw driver met when Jassi was visiting India. She knew her family would never accept Mithu, so they eloped. Not long after their marriage, the two were attacked on a deserted road. Mithu was left for dead. Jassi was found, the next morning, in a ditch, her throat slit. The men arrested for her murder swore their orders came from Canada.
In 2001,
the fifth estate uncovered new information about Jassi's murder, but the official investigation into the case, in India and in Canada, was far from complete. Bob McKeown travels to India to find Mithu and to confront Jassi's killers.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
BUSTUP IN BOUNTIFUL
This is the next chapter in the fascinating story of the notorious polygamous community of Bountiful, British Columbia. Since the fifth estate first visited the town and met its leader, Winston Blackmore, much has happened both within and without this break-away sect of Mormons. Authorities, in the United States and Canada, are investigating them and a bitter, potentially dangerous, power struggle has developed between Winston Blackmore and the sect's self-proclaimed prophet, the American Warren Jeffs. Hana Gartner again visits the once idyllic community of Bountiful and sits down to talk to Winston Blackmore.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
A KNOCK ON THE DOOR
In December 2001, the Connelly family of Ottawa was given the worst possible news: their 22-year-old son John, a third-year university student, was dead. Police told them that their son had committed suicide, jumped off the roof of his ten-storey apartment building. the Connellys could not believe that John would kill himself. So they began asking questions about their son's death and soon found themselves doing the investigation the police had not done. Bob McKeown tells the tale of one family's fight to find the truth behind the official story.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
BLACK DAWN: THE NEXT PANDEMIC
What would happen if the World Health Organization declared what has long been expected and feared: human-to-human transmission of the avian flu virus?
Black Dawn is a docudrama featuring leading epidemiologists, doctors and emergency planners who imagine the impact avian flu would have as it spreads around the globe. Some predict the coming pandemic will be more lethal than all of the world's previous plagues.
Black Dawn combines expert opinions with dramatic recreations to paint a starkly realistic picture of life during the next pandemic.
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Sunday, December 11, 2005
TSUNAMI: UNTOLD STORIES
the fifth estate
Freeze Frame reveals untold stories from people who were caught in the deadly force of last year's Tsunami -- stories of super-human strength, twists of fate and dreadful loss. Their lives have been forever altered by one of the worst natural disasters in human history.
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Wednesday December 7, 2005
A HAIL OF BULLETS
It was the RCMP's darkest day in more than a century. How did it happen? How could a lone gunman, James Roszko, shoot and kill four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers before turning his rifle on himself? Twenty-four hours after the tragic shootings on Roszko's farm -- with the image of dead Mounties lying in the snow forever seared into the national psyche --
the fifth estate set out to answer that question.
Linden MacIntyre's report points out discrepancies in the official RCMP version of the events of March 3, 2005 and reveals troubling information about how Roszko was policed in the years prior to the tragedy. "A Hail of Bullets" tells the story behind the murders: details about Roszko's stolen weapons, accusations of sexual assault and disturbing questions about a suspicious death.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
ROGUE AGENT
The story of the young NHL player who hired a hit man to kill his agent, filled newspaper pages and television newscasts. A
fifth estate investigation now reveals that there is much more to the story of Mike Danton and David Frost than was previously known.
Bob McKeown's encounter with Frost, interviews with family members and other sources, audio tapes of conversations between Danton and Frost, show that despite Danton's conviction for the crime, the bizarre bond between the player and his agent is as strong as ever.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005
GIVING DEATH A HAND
In Giving Death a Hand,
the fifth estate's Hana Gartner investigates the Canadian connection to a mysterious death in Dublin, Ireland. The connection is a 72-year-old grandmother from British Columbia named Evelyn Martens who, last year, was charged, tried and acquitted by a Canadian jury for her part in assisting suicides.
Gartner profiles Martens from her childhood in Depression-era Saskatchewan, her marriages and children, to her role in an international network dealing in death.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
A FEW BAD APPLES
They were the photos that shocked the world. Detainees in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison attacked by dogs, made to crawl on all fours while on the end of a leash, hooded with electrical wires attached to limbs. This humiliation, even torture, was carried out by their guards, members of the American military.
President Bush and his government wanted the public to believe that this was the work of just a few bad apples. But, an investigative team from
the fifth estate, led by reporter Gillian Findlay, takes us inside one of these notorious images, talks to the American soldiers who were there, and finds a markedly different story.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS
The events of September 11, 2001 changed our attitudes towards flying and security forever. In the wake of 9/11, the Canadians government followed the lead of the Americans and quickly installed new technology in airports; state-of-the-art screening devices that could find hidden weapons or bombs or detect explosive materials. In our season premiere,
the fifth estate's Hana Gartner investigates whether or not the billions of dollars spent on this new security process is worth its price tag.
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