Before My Eyes

Crime Beat

Curiouscast

True Crime, News, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

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 For more info, please go to ⁠https://globalnews.ca/tag/crime-beat/⁠ Subscribe to Crime Beat TV HERE: ⁠ / crimebeattv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Nancy. Before we begin today, I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Crime Beat early and ad-free on Amazon music included with Prime.
0:12.0	A listener's note. The following episode contains coarse language, adult themes, and content of a violent and disturbing nature nature and may not be suitable for everyone.
0:22.1	Listener discretion is advised.
0:28.5	Motorists north of Finch Avenue in Toronto thought they had come across an accident on the afternoon
0:35.2	of August 26, 2022.
0:38.9	It's far from the busy downtown core, so witnesses were shocked to see a vehicle that had
0:45.2	jumped the curb. About a dozen drivers stopped, and what they saw was a violent and chaotic
0:52.3	scene that would change them forever.
0:56.5	Oh my God, but she has that. She's got holes in her back.
1:00.5	I'm Nancy Hicks, a senior crime reporter for Global News. Today, we continue our special series
1:06.6	of Crime Beat, where I'm joined by my colleagues from the TV documentary series.
1:12.2	In this episode, Catherine McDonald shares the story of Elvie Sigaud and her daughter,
1:18.4	Angelica, in Before My Eyes.
1:23.9	So we're approaching Bathurstreet, this turn that I do tens of times a week.
1:31.3	The afternoon of August 26, 2022, started out like any other for Roy Flesher.
1:38.3	He had just finished work in the North York region of Toronto and was driving home for the weekend around three in the afternoon.
1:46.0	At that time I was running my own business called Mug and Meets at a butcher shop serving the Jewish community.
1:53.0	I had to work late so I didn't even get changed so usually I wear white, butcher pants and butcher shirts.
2:00.0	Drove the same road 20, 30 times every week.
2:04.1	He never could have imagined the horror that he was about to encounter
2:08.2	on one of Toronto's busiest streets.
2:11.5	I was driving past and doing at least 60 kilometres an hour.
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