Episode 1: ‘Don't touch the glass’

Hunting the Suicide Salesman

CBC

True Crime

4.9 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

After a young British man ends his life with a mysterious substance, his grieving family stumbles into the online world that helped him – and countless others – die.

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0:00.0	Hi, Steve Patterson here, host of the debaters, the show where we get Canada's best comics to take on our country's sauciest topics.
0:07.7	Topics like, is no meal complete without dipping sauce?
0:11.3	This episode was recorded in Winnipeg, home of the signature Honeydill Sauce, so we had a live audience of saucy specialists.
0:18.8	This is an episode you're going to want to dip into,
0:21.4	so don't miss the debaters wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:25.2	Saucy or not.
0:27.9	This is a CBC podcast.
0:34.4	Are these the evidence bags that they were in?
0:36.9	Yeah.
0:40.7	Are you guys comfortable talking about that stuff or reading them?
0:45.3	Yep.
0:46.2	Yeah.
0:49.5	I'm at a cluttered dining room table in Northern England.
0:52.9	There are papers everywhere. Stacks of file folders, empty teacups,
0:57.6	an ashtray full of spent cigarettes.
1:01.2	It's not much of a dining room, not anymore.
1:04.5	What it is now is a makeshift war room.
1:09.4	Are these different draftss or like each separate?
1:12.6	Each separate.
1:13.6	Okay.
1:14.6	So he left three of them?
1:17.6	Yeah.
	...

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