Episode 1

Rene Dahinden is searching for sasquatch.

Tracking the sasquatch

On December 6, 1989, 14 women were shot dead at a university in Montreal. The gunman Marc Lepine's hate crime left behind a profound and painful human tragedy. The real mystery of the crime, however, was about what in Lepine's life had led him to pick up a gun and attack complete strangers. In this piece from 1999, the fifth estate explores Lepine's past and discovers many factors that may have led him to act as he did.

Montreal Massacre - Legacy of Pain

He was just an ordinary guy who stole almost a million dollars.

Disappearing Act

The latest episode in the long, strange and troubling story of ex-NHL player agent David Frost.

Inside Room 22

On a rainy night in Kingston in October 2003, third-year Royal Military College cadet Joe Grozelle simply vanished.

Shadows of Doubt

The Girl in Saskatoon (Update)

A story of love and murder in post-Katrina New Orleans.

After the Storm

Bob Gainey's long fight to reveal the truth about his daughter's death at sea.

Overboard (Update)

Giving power to the people. Germany's green revolution and the man who's leading it.

The Gospel of Green

When faced with economic hardship, they turned to their most valuable export -- themselves.

Where the Women Went

Your backstage pass to political theatre.

The Chess Master

The price an entire family pays when one member is wrongfully convicted of murder.

A Death in the Family

Someone Got Away With Murder

What happens when someone's virtual fantasy takes over their real life.

Strangers in Paradise

He was sentenced in the killing of four Mounties. But, his story has never been heard. Until now.

Collateral Damage

An Alberta teen addiction rehab centre and its controversial treatment methods.

Powerless

She preyed on the lonely, then married and buried them.

Black Widow

Hockey's unwritten law of fighting and the men who live by it.

The Code

It's been called a "community centre for junkies".

Staying Alive

The Elephant in the Room

Disturbing allegations about our safety in the air.

Riding on Risk

Learning lessons about the economic downturn, the hard way.

The Education of Brian Nicholl

A young Ottawa woman's suicide leads to an international hunt for an online predator.

Death Online

He had it all and lost it. Now, Theo Fleury finally may have found himself.

The Fall and Rise of Theo Fleury

They went off to war like heroes and returned with invisible wounds.

Broken Heroes

When a bus ride home turned into a night of terror.

Bus 1170

What happens when a small town thrill-seeker is lured into B.C.

Over the Edge

The Unofficial Story

Ashley Smith was a troubled 19-year-old when she choked herself to death with a strip of cloth at Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener, Ontario. Her death made national headlines and led to a scathing report by Canada's federal prison ombudsman. Now, through exclusive access to prison video exposing Ashley's treatment in custody, the fifth estate shares the story of this young woman's harrowing life and the circumstances surrounding her death.

Out of Control

The collapse of a financial giant and its Canadian connection.

House of Cards

Billions have been spent on airport security.

Fasten Your Seatbelts

Over two decades he bilked investors of $50 million.

Earl Jones: In Trust

Part one of a three-part series: How the fifth estate covered the first decade of the 21st century.

21st Century: War and Terrorism

Part two of a three-part series: How the fifth estate covered the first decade of the 21st century.

21st Century: The People

Part three of a three-part series: How the fifth estate covered the first decade of the 21st century.

21st Century: Law and Disorder

A string of wrongful murder convictions... and the man who prosecuted them.

The Wrong Man

A helicopter ride to an oil rig, a crash and 17 deaths. New details about what may have caused it.

Cougar 491

She's 13 and has a failing heart. Hannah Jones said "no" to the transplant that will save her life.

Hannah's Heart

He's rich, he's powerful, he's larger than life. But what kind of boss is Peter Nygard?

Larger Than Life

The shocking case of Colonel Russell Williams.

Above Suspicion

Linden MacIntyre's personal essay on how the cycle of sexual abuse that plagued small communities in Nova Scotia years ago continues to haunt them today - in new and unexpected ways.

Betrayal

A story about love, death and a family searching for truth.

'Til Death Do Us Part

The secret plan to detain thousands of Canadians.

Enemies of the State

In a special edition of the fifth estate, Bob McKeown decodes the shocking confession of Colonel Russell Williams. From his initial interview to the full declaration of guilt, the fifth estate deciphers one of the most compelling confessions in Canadian history.

The Confession

With news that a Canada-wide arrest warrant has been issued for convicted sex offender and former junior hockey coach Graham James, the fifth estate presents an updated broadcast of The Fall and Rise of Theo Fleury, containing new details and footage. Originally broadcast in October 2009, Theo Fleury's candid and emotional conversation with host Bob McKeown marked the first time the star hockey player and current star of Battle of the Blades went on the record to talk about the dark secrets that haunted him during his glory years in the NHL and the staggering fall from grace that cost him millions of dollars, his family and almost, his life.

The Fall and Rise of Theo Fleury (Update)

Who really killed Abdinasir Dirie? One Somali family's story of tragedy and broken hopes.

The Life and Death of Abdinasir Dirie

Abuse and cover-up behind our prison walls. Stories from the people who saw it everyday.

Behind the Wall

More than a decade after the murder of Fatima Kama, a suspect is finally arrested.

The Girl in the Suitcase

One hockey family's painful loss and the politics of gays in sports.

The Legacy of Brendan Burke

Were they murdered? Abducted? Or are they living new lives. Tracking the trails of three Canadians who disappeared without a trace.

Presumed Dead

The personal toll of tragedy: Canadian stories of Haiti's earthquake.

After the Earth Shook

Reporter Bob McKeown's investigation into Nadia Kajouji's tragic death led the fifth estate on an international hunt for an Internet predator. McKeown now returns to Nadia's story as an alleged "Cyberpath" is about to face justice in a precedent-setting case.

Justice for Nadia

Who's killing the Rizzutos? The war against Canada's first crime family.

Death of the Don

Inside the world of WikiLeaks: with unprecedented access.

WikiRebels

It's a moment few Canadians will ever forget: the death of a 21-year-old Georgian luger during a Winter Olympics training run. It was ruled driver error. Now, we have shocking new revelations some don't want you to hear.

Death at the Olympics

The Devil You Know

The G20 from a different angle. Unforgettable footage, captured by ordinary people. The sights and sounds of powerful personal stories.

You Should Have Stayed at Home

A dictator's final fight against his own demise.

Colonel Gadhafi: Dying Days

Locating the truth about Canadians lost to their families and friends.

Missing

White collar criminals waltz away from hard time.

Getting Off Easy

Bob McKeown traces the career of and his friendship with the always fascinating, charismatic and confounding Stephen Reid.

My Friend the Bank Robber

Linden MacIntyre examines how evidence can acquit as well as convict.

A Question of Innocence

The fifth estate reveals new information that challenges the official story of the mission to shoot and kill the world's number one terrorist.

Truth and Lies: The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden

Years later, the crash of Swissair 111 in 1998 remains one of Canada's greatest tragedies. Now new disturbing information from an insider who suspected it might have been murder, raising questions about the official cause of the disaster.

Swissair 111: The Untold Story

It began with what was supposed to be a second honeymoon, a chance for two tempestuous people -- the world boxing champion from Montreal and his beautiful Brazilian wife -- to heal their troubled marriage. It ended in Brazil with one of them dead and a question.

Gatti-vs-Gatti

After a decade of disasters at sea, the fifth estate investigates Canada's troubled Search and Rescue fleet and hears from the survivors who lived to tell, and the insiders who tried to save what was once a organization admired around the world.

Mayday

Inside the brutal secret world of Moammar Gadhafi. As the Libyan dictator vows to fight on to the last bullet -- startling new information is emerging.

Colonel Gadhafi: Palace of Secrets

A family murdered, a son and his friend convicted, and the confession that could set them free.

True Confession

Diana Swain investigates sexual abuse in Scouts Canada.

Scout's Honour

How did an experienced hunter mistake her own husband for a bear -- and shoot him dead? Although acquitted, questions still remain.

'Til Death Do Us Part (Update)

Every fall, hundreds of teenagers from remote aboriginal reserves in Northern Ontario fly into the city of Thunder Bay looking to get a high school diploma. But in recent years, that struggle has been tainted by tragedy. Seven of those students have died sudden and unexpected deaths.

Stories from the River's Edge

An aspiring filmmaker working on an all too convincing screenplay about murder, turns fiction into fact by killing for real.

Murder, He Wrote

The chilling final chapter in the fifth estate's investigation into the true life mystery of how a Canadian hockey player, missing for fourteen years, ended up frozen in a glacier crevasse in Austria.

A Cold Case

Each year millions of Canadians set off on what they hope will be the vacation of a lifetime.

Holiday Hell

An investigation into sexual harassment allegations at the RCMP. The inside story of women who signed up to serve and protect and now claim Canada's pre-eminent police force failed to protect them.

Behind the Line

'the fifth estate' unveils a new chapter in the murder of Jassi Sidhu, with startling revelations about those who planned and paid for the killing, and how the murderers got away.

Escape From Justice

the fifth estate investigates shaken baby syndrome. For decades, the diagnosis virtually guaranteed convictions, shattering the lives of thousands of parents, babysitters and families. Now new evidence questions whether the syndrome even exists and whether some of those convictions may have been wrong.

Diagnosis Murder

They are pathetic, weird and sometimes dangerous; 'the fifth estate' searches for the truth behind the lies told by some of Canada's most memorable and imaginative con artists.

The Lies People Tell

Bob McKeown presents the latest chapter in the bloody war that has decimated Canada's first family of crime.

Who's Killing The Rizzutos?

A minute-by-minute reconstruction of the Italian cruise ship disaster, with first-hand accounts from the survivors and the rescuers, along with the stories of those who perished.

The Wreck of the Costa Concordia

How the four women found murdered in a Kingston canal lived as virtual prisoners in their own home.

The House of Shafia

The new chapter in the explosive allegations against Scouts Canada.

The Lost Boys

Are they chasing extremes dreams or are we pushing them over the edge? A look at the life and death of freeskier Sarah Burke and other top athletes who seek fame and fortune and risk life and limb to compete in high performance sport.

Fearless

Canadian kids and their parents risk everything to chase NBA dreams. Bob McKeown reveals the huge money -- and the scams -- at play for those trying to break into pro basketball.

Fast Break

The OxyContin epidemic: a pill that promises temporary relief has cost many Canadians a lifetime of addiction. the fifth estate investigates one of the most successful marketing campaigns in pharmaceutical history.

Time Bomb

A boy lost on the ice, and how Canada's Search and Rescue service failed to bring him home.

Lost on the Ice

the fifth estate recreates a real-life kidnapping minute-by-tension-filled-minute and lets viewers decide what to do to catch the perpetrators each step of the way.

Kidnapped

It was May 19, 2012 and a young and determined Canadian was proudly standing on top of the world after an agonizingly slow climb up Mount Everest. Shriya Shah-Klorfine had reached the summit. But in the hours that followed, things would go dreadfully wrong and she would perish, like hundreds before her, high up in Everest's "Death Zone." Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's first ascent of Everest almost 60 years ago, it has been an irresistible fascination for aspiring mountaineers. Hundreds make the attempt every year, and many don't make it. This year was no exception as hundreds made their way to the summit even as worrying signs pointed to trouble. Among them was Shriya Shah-Klorfine, the cheerful and energetic Torontonian. She had never climbed a mountain before, and despite warnings from her friends, husband, and seasoned Everest sherpas, she was climbing the world's highest peak, determined to succeed.

Into The Death Zone

As the nearly 180-year-old Kingston Penitentiary that has housed some of Canada's most notorious inmates prepares to close its gates for good, Linden MacIntyre weaves together the stories of three of its most famous inmates. "Kingston Pen: Secrets and Lies" is the story of convicts trapped in a cycle of violence, of miscarriages of justice, and psychopaths of incredible charm.

Kingston Pen: Secrets and Lies

Exclusive new revelations about the troubled F-35 program It could yet prove to be the most expensive defense purchase in Canadian history -- $25 billion and counting. The military promises it's the best fighter jet available, but some critics are saying it's a turkey hatched from a bad idea: a do-it-all plane that might not do anything well-at-all. Was Canada pressured to buy the F-35 fighter jet? Will the jet ever deliver on its promise of being the top gun in the sky? Did the government cover up the true costs to win an election? With secret documents and exclusive interviews with Air Force insiders, Gillian Findlay pieces together the troubling story of the F-35. From Lockheed Martin's first prototype and bungled development process to Canada's decision to buy the fighter jet without an open competition, "Runaway Fighter" raises serious questions about a procurement system seemingly run amok and a jetfighter critics say will never live up to its spin.

Runaway Fighter

Family members say she preyed on the lonely, then married and buried them. Now the so-called Black Widow has been charged with attempted murder after the the suspicious sudden illness of another husband. Linden MacIntyre first spoke to Melissa Friedrich when she was in jail in Florida, and then again on the phone last year after she moved back to Nova Scotia.

The Widow's Web

Diagnosed with ALS, one woman's public fight to meet death on her own terms. Gloria Taylor was the first Canadian ever to win the right to ask a doctor for help in dying, when and how and where she wished. "The Life and Death of Gloria Taylor" documents her struggle with mortality as she fights publicly to change the law over the course of what would be the last year of her life. Doomed by ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Gloria Taylor became dependent on medical technology. Her fight for life was futile, and she could only hope for what she called a dignified ending. the fifth estate's Linden MacIntyre first met her more than a year ago as she battled with a disease that has no cure, and had just begun another struggle in British Columbia's Supreme Court to have the right to decide the time and manner of her death. She agreed to let the fifth estate follow her throughout that struggle, the private highs and lows, and the personal indignities throughout the final year of her life.

The Life and Death of Gloria Taylor

They have the courage to stand up and speak out when no one else dares, yet the popular perception of whistleblowers is they are doomed to be victims of reprisals. But when the fifth estate caught up with some of its more memorable whistleblowers, we found out their lives can take twists and turns no one ever expected. These cases offer an ironic insight into what was supposed to be a new era of transparency and integrity in Canada. To date, not a single case has been prosecuted under Canada's Public Servant Disclosure Protection Act, and the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner was dismissed in disgrace. It was the late '90s when the fifth estate first caught up with Drs. Shiv Chopra and Margaret Haydon. The two Health Canada scientists had serious concerns about a new synthetic drug that promised to transform dairy farming by increasing milk production in cows.

Whistleblowers: Moment of Truth

The journey of three young men born into one world. Six years later, they're trying to escape into another.

Lost In The Struggle: The Next Chapter

Linden MacIntyre reveals for the first time the extraordinary tale of how seven ordinary guys suddenly struck it rich -- to the tune of $12.5 million.

Lucky 7

In the trade they call elephants Charismatic Mega Fauna -- huge majestic animals that help the industry draw millions of people each year. The fact is that Zoos and Aquariums are big business, generating more revenue than all professional sports leagues in the U.S. and Canada combined, according to industry insiders. Yet all is not well with the gentle giants in Canadian zoos. A heated controversy has erupted over what to do with zoo elephants when they are ready to retire.

Mark Kelley tells the story of two friends on the adventure of a lifetime in a small plane who crashed into the icy waters of the Canadian North.

Left for Dead

Lance Armstrong was an inspiration to millions - he overcame a deadly disease and was hailed as one of the world's greatest athletes - but insiders knew the truth. the fifth estate examines the widespread use and abuse of doping in international cycling and how Lance Armstrong kept this dark secret for years.

Lance Armstrong: Master of Spin

Each week the fifth estate brings in-depth investigations that matter to Canadians – delivering a dazzling parade of political leaders, controversial characters and ordinary people whose lives were touched by triumph or tragedy.

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Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/1976