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Curiouscast

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).

Crime Beat

Driving home from work, Royi Flescher could never have imagined what he was about to encounter. And when Soula Berdoussis pulled over, she thought she was stopping to help at the scene of a car accident. 

What unfolded next would change them forever – as they found two women brutally stabbed, taking their last breaths lying at the side of a busy Toronto thoroughfare. 

Reporter Catherine McDonald takes us back to that fateful day in late August 2022 and hears from these eyewitnesses about coming face-to-face with the killer. But it wasn’t until they testified at his trial that they’d learn the full disturbing details of what led up to that day.

Premiered May 18, 2025

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Before My Eyes

When Alicia Ross disappeared, it led to one of the biggest missing person searches in Ontario’s history. Reporter Catherine McDonald reconnected with Alicia’s mother to tell her story as part of the TV documentary series, inspired by the podcast..

For more info, please go to ⁠https://globalnews.ca/news/6761496/al...⁠

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Alicia Ross, Everyone’s Daughter

As a senior crime reporter for Global News for almost 30 years, Nancy Hixt has been lucky enough to work with some amazing journalists. 

She's working hard on the next season but until then she has a special series of Crime Beat for you.

In each episode, you’ll ride along with Catherine McDonald, one of her colleagues from the Crime Beat TV documentary series, as she takes you deep inside the cases she’s worked on.

Please join us for these special episodes by following Crime Beat on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and wherever you find your favorite podcasts.

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Special Announcement

Taj Khyber Rowland knows he’s not who people think he is but he can’t quite remember how his life went so off course. 

He decides to spool backwards, to his younger self. A daredevil seven year old Chellamuthu, living happily, but in abject poverty, with his large family in rural India. 

But when Chellamuthu disobeys his mother and goes to play at the bus station, he’s persuaded to board a bus with some bigger boys. 

He’s kidnapped. And there’s no going back.

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Listen Next... Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy | Through A Glass Darkly | 1

In the summer of 1981, a group of teenagers stopped to scout a path around a lake in southeastern Alberta when they came across something that would haunt them even 40 years later.

It was the body of Kelly Cook, the backup babysitter. Her murder remains unsolved.

In this rerelease, join Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt as shares an emotional meeting of two victims in this case.

﻿Contact:

Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@nancy.hixt⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/NancyHixtCrimeBeat/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠nancy.hixt@globalnews.ca⁠⁠⁠

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Narrowing in on a killer: The Kelly Cook Story

In 1981, Kelly took a job to babysit for Bill Christensen. The 15-year-old was never seen alive again. What most people don’t know is that Kelly was not the killer’s first choice. She was the “backup babysitter.”

Christensen's first choice was a 17-year-old girl, but she already had plans so she turned him down.

Christensen then asked about other babysitters in the area. The original target, who we’ll refer to as Stacey, had never spoken to a journalist about what happened until she joined Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt to share how the case impacted every aspect of her life in this rereleased episode.

Police are still waiting for the tip they need to solve it.

If you know anything that can help police as they investigate Kelly's homicide, call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.

﻿Contact:

Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@nancy.hixt⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/NancyHixtCrimeBeat/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠nancy.hixt@globalnews.ca⁠⁠⁠

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Kelly Cook: The Back-up Babysitter - Part 2

Kelly Cook was a young girl who was abducted from Standard, Alta., 38 years ago. She had taken a job babysitting someone new — and then, she was gone. Her body was found June 28, 1981 in an irrigation canal south of Taber.

Investigators said it was obvious someone had gone through a lot of work to make sure Kelly would never be found. 

In this rerelease of Kelly Cook The Backup Babysitter Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt takes you through the abduction and murder of Kelly Cook
﻿Contact:

Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@nancy.hixt⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/NancyHixtCrimeBeat/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠nancy.hixt@globalnews.ca⁠⁠⁠

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Kelly Cook: The Back-up Babysitter - Part 1

Nearly 50 years after the mysterious deaths of four women, police finally got a break in the case. Historical homicide detectives used cutting-edge techniques to uncover a serial killer. Join Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt as she shares how a husband and father became a monster, and why experts believe he’s likely responsible for many more unsolved crimes.

﻿Contact:

Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@nancy.hixt⁠⁠⁠⁠

Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/NancyHixtCrimeBeat/⁠⁠⁠⁠

Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠nancy.hixt@globalnews.ca⁠⁠⁠
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Uncovering A Serial Killer - Part 3 | 14

From 1976 to 1977, four young women were found dead, their bodies dumped outside of Calgary city limits. The first two were deemed “undetermined deaths.” The third and fourth were considered murders, and police felt the same offender was likely responsible. For decades, the four families were left without answers. Join Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt as she shares how a team of cold case investigators uncovered shocking evidence of a serial killer nearly 50 years later.

﻿Contact:

Instagram: ⁠⁠@nancy.hixt⁠⁠

Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/NancyHixtCrimeBeat/⁠⁠

Email: ⁠⁠nancy.hixt@globalnews.ca⁠

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Uncovering A Serial Killer - Part 2 | 13

In the late 1970s, there were a series of mysterious deaths. First, two jr. high girls were found in an underpass west of Calgary. Seven months later, another young woman was found in a ditch, beaten and strangled to death. Just months after that, a fourth woman was found strangled to death. Follow along as Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt takes you through the haunting details of each case and explains why each investigation went cold for nearly half a century.

﻿Contact:

Instagram: ⁠⁠@nancy.hixt⁠⁠

Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/NancyHixtCrimeBeat/⁠⁠

Email: ⁠⁠nancy.hixt@globalnews.ca⁠

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Alicia Ross, Everyone’s Daughter

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