Gladiator School
Suspicion: Murder on Mount Olive
Toronto Star
4.6 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Twelve years into his life sentence for murder, Chris Sheriffe is a model prisoner. He's doing all the courses available behind bars, plus weekly meetings of the prison public speaking club. He does conflict resolution, helping guards and prisoners get along. Which is intriguing, given that Toronto Police labelled him a hard knuckled killer. Also, he calls his Mom several times a day. In an interview at the notorious "Gladiator School" prison, Chris tells his side of the story. How his choice to stay out all night with a young woman, then drive a man home got him labelled a gangster.
Suspicion
Chief Investigative Reporter Kevin Donovan, who brought you the Billionaire Murders, is back with Murder on Mount Olive, an investigation of a crime the courts closed the book on in 2012. On a sunny day in August, 2009, a man is shot three times at a barbecue. What happens that day will put a budding young soccer star turned carpenter behind bars for life for a crime he says he didn't commit. This is the story of Christopher Sheriffe and his fight for justice.
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| 0:00.0 | But you know what keeps me going to? |
| 0:03.0 | I'll tell you what. |
| 0:05.0 | Because I know he's innocent. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm on the back deck of Marjorie and Lloyd's home in Brampton, just northwest of Toronto. |
| 0:14.0 | It's midsummer. |
| 0:16.0 | Marjorie and Lloyd are Chris Sheriff's parents. |
| 0:18.0 | It's been 12 years since their son was sent to prison for life. |
| 0:22.6 | Because if he, I could accept it if he was guilty. |
| 0:27.6 | And then he would have had to pay. |
| 0:29.8 | He would have to be responsible for what he did. |
| 0:33.6 | He wouldn't have to be responsible. |
| 0:36.8 | But I know he's innocent. |
| 0:39.1 | Marjorie worked her whole career at RBC, |
| 0:41.8 | Canada's largest financial institution. |
| 0:44.5 | Lloyd was a forklift driver. |
| 0:46.7 | They gave their children a comfortable middle-class life. |
| 0:50.1 | These days, a lot of their retirement savings |
| 0:52.4 | funds a series of legal appeals in their son's case, |
| 0:56.4 | all unsuccessful to date. |
| 0:59.0 | Their hope and why they're talking to me is that I will find what the legal system missed. |
| 1:05.3 | I warn them, it's a tough hill to climb and they may end up disappointed. |
| 1:09.9 | Again, Marjorie says she has faith of the truth, |
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