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    Crime Beat Season 1 Episode 5 - Alicia Ross: Everyone's Daughter
    8.6/10(17 votes)

    #1 - Alicia Ross: Everyone's Daughter

    S1:E5

    Alicia's disappearance leads to one of the largest missing person searches in Ontario's history; reporter Catherine McDonald reconnects with Alicia's mother to tell the tale.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Crime Beat Season 2 Episode 5 - Karissa Boudreau: Up With The Angels
    8.6/10(11 votes)

    #2 - Karissa Boudreau: Up With The Angels

    S2:E5

    Penny Boudreau reported her 12-year-old daughter Karissa missing on the night of a heavy snowstorm in January 2008; in an emotional news conference, the Nova Scotia mother made a tearful appeal for the public's help in finding the little girl.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Crime Beat Season 1 Episode 9 - The Disappearance of Lisa Mitchell
    8.5/10(12 votes)

    #3 - The Disappearance of Lisa Mitchell

    S1:E9

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Crime Beat Season 2 Episode 7 - Two Doors Down: The Tragic Case of Mr. Kelloway
    8.4/10(7 votes)

    #4 - Two Doors Down: The Tragic Case of Mr. Kelloway

    S2:E7

    Two neighbors that live just two doors apart decide they should get together for a barbeque; that get-together takes a deadly turn that results in a shocking 911 call and a compelling police interrogation.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Crime Beat Season 2 Episode 8 - Stolen Second Chances: The Jessica Newman Story
    8.3/10(10 votes)

    #5 - Stolen Second Chances: The Jessica Newman Story

    S2:E8

    A Calgary mother disappeared in March 2015. Months later her body was found in a ditch by a road construction crew. The autopsy revealed she was stabbed 75 times.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Crime Beat Season 2 Episode 10 - For No Reason: The Murders of Dianna and Richard
    8.3/10(7 votes)

    #6 - For No Reason: The Murders of Dianna and Richard

    S2:E10

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    Director:Unknown
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  8. Crime Beat Season 2 Episode 11 - The Evil and Senseless Plot Against Ray Johnson
    8.3/10(7 votes)

    #7 - The Evil and Senseless Plot Against Ray Johnson

    S2:E11

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    Director:Unknown
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  9. Crime Beat Season 4 Episode 2 - The Hired Hit
    8.3/10(7 votes)

    #8 - The Hired Hit

    S4:E2

    When former beauty queen Alexandra Pesic is gunned down in a brazen daylight shooting on a midsummer evening in 1992, a quiet community in a suburb of Vancouver, B.C. is stunned; evidence of a contract killing is found motivated by greed and hate.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Crime Beat Season 5 Episode 2 - Seeking Justice for Myles Gray
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    #9 - Seeking Justice for Myles Gray

    S5:E2

    On a hot August day in 2015, 33-year-old Myles Gray traveled from the Sunshine Coast to Vancouver in his company truck to make his usual delivery of fresh greenery to wholesale florists. That same day, he was found dead in the backyard of a home. A coroner was unable to pinpoint a cause of death because his injuries were so severe. The only witnesses? A group of Vancouver police officers responding to a nuisance call about a man spraying a woman with a garden hose. An independent investigation recommended charges, but none were laid. It's taken Myles Gray’s family eight years to fight for justice for him - and find the truth.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Crime Beat Season 1 Episode 6 - Darkness in the Pass
    8.2/10(16 votes)

    #10 - Darkness in the Pass

    S1:E6

    With two people dead and a two year old missing, a small community in the Rocky Mountains is broken.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Crime Beat Season 1 Episode 12 - The Brentwood Five Massacre: Part 1
    8.2/10(16 votes)

    #11 - The Brentwood Five Massacre: Part 1

    S1:E12

    An accomplished dancer, an aspiring urban planner, two talented musicians, and a young man who was well on his way to becoming a humanitarian became victims of the biggest mass killing in Calgary's history.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Crime Beat Season 2 Episode 6 - Fatal Façade: The Murder of Dr. Elana Fric
    8.2/10(9 votes)

    #12 - Fatal Façade: The Murder of Dr. Elana Fric

    S2:E6

    The body of 40-year-old doctor Elana Fric was discovered by a passerby in a ravine just north-west of Toronto; the man arrested and charged for the crime sent shockwaves through Toronto’s tight-knit medical community.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Crime Beat Season 3 Episode 6 - Forbidden Love The Murder of Jassi Sidhu
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #13 - Forbidden Love The Murder of Jassi Sidhu

    S3:E6

    While visiting in India, a young newly-wed from British Columbia was attacked, kidnapped, and her lifeless body discovered in a canal the next day. Her husband was severely beaten and left for dead, but survived to tell the story.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Crime Beat Season 2 Episode 2 - Who Killed Sonia?
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #14 - Who Killed Sonia?

    S2:E2

    New leads in the 10 year old case of a 42-year-old nurse brutally murdered in her home; her family questions why it is taking so long to make an arrest.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Crime Beat Season 2 Episode 12 - An Enigma: Hiding in Plain Sight
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    #15 - An Enigma: Hiding in Plain Sight

    S2:E12

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    Director:Unknown
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  17. Crime Beat Season 1 Episode 3 - The Final Homecoming of Lukas Strasser-Hird
    8.0/10(16 votes)

    #16 - The Final Homecoming of Lukas Strasser-Hird

    S1:E3

    After a year studying abroad, Lukas Strasser-Hird had dreams to be a doctor; he went out with friends to celebrate when he arrived home, but no one could have predicted how dangerous the situation was to become.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Crime Beat Season 1 Episode 4 - Alison Parrott: Leader of the Pack
    8.0/10(18 votes)

    #17 - Alison Parrott: Leader of the Pack

    S1:E4

    Coaxed from her home for a photoshoot, a promising young athlete never returns: Caryn Lieberman brings us through the DNA breakthrough that cracks the case to a mother's national safety campaign.

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  19. Crime Beat Season 1 Episode 10 - Kimberley Kasatkin: No Body, No Crime
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #18 - Kimberley Kasatkin: No Body, No Crime

    S1:E10

    Kimberlee hasn’t been heard from since 2016; her partner says she left and abandoned the family and her parents accuse him of murder; Rumina Daya investigates this unsolved case that’s testing the limits of international justice.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Crime Beat Season 5 Episode 6 - Nothing is What it Seems: Part 2
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #19 - Nothing is What it Seems: Part 2

    S5:E6

    When a man walking his dog comes upon a neighbour’s garage engulfed in flames, little does he know the treachery behind it. When the smoke clears, a woman is found dead with drug paraphernalia nearby. But nothing is what it seems, and police are left combing through a web of lies to find the killer. As they home in on the suspect they discover he’s planning to leave the country and try to intercept him, at the same time, putting an elaborate Mr. Big operation in motion.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Crime Beat Season 5 Episode 16 - A Trail of Blood
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #20 - A Trail of Blood

    S5:E16

    It began as a cold case. In 1995, a 92-year-old woman had been brutally beaten during a home invasion, managed to escape, but died months later. At the time, no one knew who’d so viciously attacked Henrietta Knight. But 20 years later as police are investigating the disappearance of a known criminal, they find a connection. As the investigation unfolds, they find links to a bank robbery, a car bombing and multiple murders. A trail of blood that leads them to the one man responsible for it all.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Crime Beat Season 5 Episode 17 - Hunt for the Wolfpack
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #21 - Hunt for the Wolfpack

    S5:E17

    Three brazen murders in Kelowna, Vancouver and Toronto spark an extensive police investigation into the Wolfpack Alliance, a crew of gangsters running operations connected to Mexican cartels. The kingpins are quick to take out anyone in their way, leaving authorities scrambling to build a case against the killers. As Jules Knox reports, while a murder trial is finally underway, a cunning escape leaves authorities at a loss and the public looking for justice.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Crime Beat Season 2 Episode 1 - Who Killed Kelly Cook, The Back-Up Babysitter
    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #22 - Who Killed Kelly Cook, The Back-Up Babysitter

    S2:E1

    In 1981, 15-year-old Kelly Cook had taken a new babysitting job in her hometown of Standard, Alberta. She was supposed to check in with her parents when she arrived at the babysitting job, but that call never came.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Crime Beat Season 2 Episode 9 - I Survived a Serial Killer
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    #23 - I Survived a Serial Killer

    S2:E9

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  25. Crime Beat Season 3 Episode 16 - Justice for Lacey
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #24 - Justice for Lacey

    S3:E16

    A series of 911 calls leads first responders to multiple scenes and the disturbing discovery of a young woman's body. What happened to Lacey Jones-McKnight? Learn the shocking details revealed on the 911 calls and the painstaking lengths forensic investigators went to in an effort to find Justice for Lacey.

    Director:Unknown
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  26. Crime Beat Season 5 Episode 20 - The Death of Christine Demeter By Persons Unknown: Part 1
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #25 - The Death of Christine Demeter By Persons Unknown: Part 1

    S5:E20

    On a warm summer night in 1973, building developer Peter Demeter pulls a Mercedes full of tourists into his driveway after a shopping trip. As the garage door opens, headlights illuminate a horrific scene, the bludgeoned body of his wife and model, 33-year-old Christine Demeter.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Alicia Ross: Everyone's Daughter" is the best rated episode of "Crime Beat". It scored 8.6/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/4/2020. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Karissa Boudreau: Up With The Angels".