Someone Knows Something Explained

Someone Knows Something
Host:David Ridgen
Updates:Weekly
Language:English
Theme Music Composer:Bob Wiseman
Audio Format:MP3
Num Seasons:8
Num Episodes:67 + updates
Began:March 2, 2016
Provider:CBC Radio

Someone Knows Something (or SKS for short) is a podcast by Canadian award-winning filmmaker and writer David Ridgen, first released in March 2016. The series is hosted, written and produced by Ridgen and mixed by Cesil Fernandes. The series is also produced by Chris Oke and executive producer Arif Noorani.[1]

Using investigative journalism, Ridgen narrates a nonfiction story about a criminal cold case over multiple episodes. Episodes are released on a weekly basis; most of the Season 1 episodes ranged from 15 to 40 minutes in length,[2] with Season 2 episodes ranging between 32 and 80 minutes in length. Season 4 was released in February 2018.[3] Season 5 began in October 2018.[4]

Someone Knows Something is Ridgen's first podcast experience; it is also CBC Radio's first true-crime podcast.

Episodes of Someone Knows Something are also sometimes broadcast on CBC Radio One as substitute programming, such as on public holidays and during the summer when some of its regular shows are on hiatus.

Series overview

The first season of SKS focuses on the June 12, 1972, disappearance of Adrien McNaughton, a five-year-old boy who vanished during a family fishing trip in Eastern Ontario. The McNaughton family is from Arnprior, Ontario, where Ridgen grew up (he and his family moved there shortly after Adrien's disappearance).[5]

The second season follows the disappearance of Sheryl Sheppard in Hamilton, Ontario. Sheppard went missing on January 2, 1998, two days after her boyfriend, Michael Lavoie, offered a proposal of marriage on a live TV broadcast.[6] With some assistance from Sheppard's mother, Odette Fisher, Ridgen looks into the case as well as the backgrounds of both Sheryl and Michael, who has been the only person the Hamilton Police Service has named as a suspect in Sheryl's disappearance.[7]

Season 3 of SKS, all six episodes of which were released during the week of November 7, 2017, revisits the 1964 deaths of two teenagers in Mississippi, Charles Moore and Henry Dee; Ridgen previously explored the cold case in a 2007 documentary for CBC, Mississippi Cold Case, which resulted in a re-opening of the case and the eventual conviction of James Ford Seale for the abductions of Moore and Dee.

In early 2018, Season 4 explored another murder Ridgen had documented for CBC, that of Wayne Greavette, who was killed through the use of a flashlight bomb sent to him in the mail.[8]

Season 5 premiered in October 2018 focusing on the 1986 rape and murder of Kerrie Ann Brown in Thompson, Manitoba.[9]

Season 6 premiered in May 2020, Donald Izzett Jr. disappeared on Mother's Day 1995.[10]

Season 7 premiered on May 14, 2023 and it focuses on the 1998 murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian, a doctor who was performing abortions. He was murdered by James Charles Kopp an affiliate of the militant Roman Catholic anti-abotion group, The Lambs of Christ. It also goes into how Kopp maybe connected to three similar shootings that happened in Canada.[11]

Season 8 premiered on September 18, 2023. it focuses on the 2007 unsolved disappearance and murder of eighteen-year-old Angel Carlick from Whitehorse, Yukon.[12]

Episodes

Season 2

On October 21, 2016, a message posted on the show's Facebook page announced that Season 2 is "coming soon".[13] The first episode of the second season aired on November 21, 2016, with episodes released on a weekly basis (excluding a break for Boxing Week) through the season's conclusion on February 12. It was rebroadcast in the summer of 2017, from June 29 to September 3.[14]

Season 3

!No.!Title!Length(minutes:seconds)!Original air Date
1"The Wrong Body"1:11:21November 5, 2017
2"The Klansman"1:01:37November 5, 2017
3"The Hornet's Nest"42:29November 5, 2017
4"Bunkley"47:41November 5, 2017
5"The Bridge"49:20November 5, 2017
6"Reckoning"50:20November 5, 2017
7"Epilogue"45:41November 5, 2017
TBA"Bonus: Return to Mississippi"27:00September 22, 2019

Season 4

!No.!Title!Length(minutes:seconds)!Original air Date
1"9-1-1"50:12February 4, 2018
2"Death Letter"45:32February 11, 2018
3The Deer42:10February 18, 2018
4D&L40:08February 25, 2018
5Jr.1:02:17March 4, 2018

Season 5

!No.!Title!Length(minutes:seconds!Original air Date
1"Ravens"1:03:12October 15,2018
2"Dead End"1:11:09October 15,2018
3"Helen Betty Osborne"54:15October 21, 2018
4"Graveyard Road"1:04:18October 21, 2018
5.1"Part 1: Rolly"37:19October 28, 2018
5.2"Part 2: Mad Max"31:33October 28, 2018
6"The Call"54:19October 28, 2018
7"Luella"58:07November 4, 2018
8"Other Brother"55:50November 4, 2018
9"Marnie"1:05:36November 11, 2018
10.1"Part 1: Sumner"55:53November 18, 2018
10.2"Part 2: Sumner"27:20November 18, 2018
TBA"Extra: Spread the Word"59:00October 14, 2020
TBA"Update: 'I was here all night'"48:30March 5, 2019

Season 6

!No.!Title!Length(minutes:seconds)!Original Air Date
1'Mother's Day'48.47May 10, 2020
2'Pitfire'50:00May 17, 2020
3'Frenemy'55:51May 24,2020
4'Fragments'1:06:36May 31, 2020
5'The Test'59:59June 7, 2020

Season 7

!No.!Title!Length(minutes:seconds)!Original Air Date
1'Aiding, Abetting, Abortion'32:30May 14, 2022
2'Remembrance'32:03May 15, 2022
3'The Informant'49:14May 16, 2022
4'What's Left Behind'39:18May 24, 2022
5'Nemesis'39:36May 30, 2022
6'Mississippi'47:15June 7, 2022
7'Darkworld'41:41June 13, 2022
8'A Network of Support'23:20July 13, 2022

Season 8

!No.!Title!Length(minutes:seconds)!Original Air Date
1'Angel'46:58September 18, 2023
2'Wendy'41:17September 25, 2023
3'The Saddest Song in the World'42:23October 2, 2023
4'Photograph'39:23October 9, 2023
5'Return to Pilot Mountain'41:14October 16, 2023
6'The Price of Admission'31:56October 23, 2023
7'Take it to the Limit'31:35October 30, 2023

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Someone Knows Something CBC Radio. www.cbc.ca. April 6, 2016.
  2. Web site: CBC's Someone Knows Something taps into Serial podcast success. Now. March 2, 2016. Michelle Da Silva.
  3. Web site: Season 4: Greavette. CBC. November 30, 2018.
  4. Web site: Season 5: Kerrie Brown. CBC. November 30, 2018.
  5. News: Someone Knows Something to focus on cold cases, beginning with the disappearance of Adrien McNaughton in 1972.. Yeo. Debra. March 2, 2016. The Toronto Star. 0319-0781. April 6, 2016.
  6. Web site: Introducing Season 2: Sheryl Sheppard. www.cbc.ca. November 21, 2016.
  7. http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6976747-clairmont-cbc-podcast-explores-1998-hamilton-cold-case/ "CBC podcast explores 1998 Hamilton cold case,"
  8. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/sks/season-3-dee-moore-1.4290075 Source: Someone Knows Something website
  9. Web site: Hoye. Bryce. Mysterious killing of Manitoba teen Kerrie Ann Brown explored in CBC podcast. CBC News. October 16, 2018. November 30, 2018.
  10. Web site: Season 6: Donald Izzett Jr. . CBC. May 12, 2020.
  11. Someone Knows Something Season 7 CBC Gem . en . 2024-04-15 . gem.cbc.ca.
  12. Someone Knows Something Season 8 CBC Gem . en . 2024-04-15 . gem.cbc.ca.
  13. Web site: Someone Knows Something – Timeline Facebook. www.facebook.com. October 21, 2016.
  14. CBC Radio, Listen to SKS Season 2 on CBC Radio One this summer. Accessed August 21, 2017.