Historical Missing Persons & Cold Murder Cases
Tanya Jean Brooks was 36 years old when she was murdered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in May 2009. She was a Mi'kmaq woman associated with Millbrook First Nation and the mother of five children. More than seventeen years later, no one has been charged with taking her life. Her murder remains unsolved, and investigators have... Continue Reading →
On March 22, 2009, 33-year-old Judy Ann Quill was in Pikangikum First Nation, the remote northwestern Ontario community she had called home throughout her life. Judy was a mother of two, a daughter and a woman remembered by her family as someone who regularly visited her parents and helped them with everyday things. Before that... Continue Reading →
Late on a summer Sunday night in 2002, Ronald Joseph Crawford stopped by a Mr. Sub restaurant on Concession Street in Hamilton, Ontario. He wasn't working there, and he wasn't supposed to become part of anything dangerous that night. Ronald had simply gone to visit a friend, the man who owned and was working at... Continue Reading →
Crystal was last seen alive on August 11, 2021.
It has been another busy week at Someone Saw Something, and this week's stories took us across Canada and into the United States, from Toronto to a lonely highway in northwestern Ontario, from a Greyhound bus travelling across the Prairies to a motel in California. Some of the people we talked about have been missing... Continue Reading →
Remembering the stories, the lives, and the questions that remain - August 2, 2026 Another week has passed at Someone Saw Something, and with it came another collection of stories that remind us why these cases deserve to remain visible. Over the past seven days, we have shared the stories of Donna Paré, John Hastings,... Continue Reading →
It was Friday night, August 27, 1965, and somewhere along Toronto's Danforth Avenue, 32-year-old Leslie Alexander Bichener was spending part of his evening at the Danforth Hotel. The hotel stood at the southwest corner of Danforth Avenue and Dawes Road in Toronto's east end. It was an old neighborhood establishment with a history stretching back... Continue Reading →
In the early morning hours of April 18, 2007, 24-year-old Crystal Shannon Saunders climbed into a red vehicle on the streets of Winnipeg. A police officer saw her and in fact, officers attempted to follow the vehicle for a time before eventually losing sight of it. This would become the last known sighting of Crystal... Continue Reading →
Pip: Someone Saw Something takes us to New Zealand today — specifically to a warm summer afternoon in 1998 that ended with questions still unanswered more than twenty-five years later.Mara: This episode covers the disappearance and murder of a fifteen-year-old girl, a case that became one of the largest homicide inquiries in New Zealand's history.... Continue Reading →
On New Year's Eve in 1998, fifteen-year-old Kirsty Bentley woke to a warm summer day in the quiet farming community of Ashburton, New Zealand. Like many teenagers looking forward to the holiday, she spent part of her morning shopping with a friend before returning home. Nothing about the day hinted that it would become one... Continue Reading →
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