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Hey it's Mike here. Today we've got something a bit different for you. It's a sneak peak of the award-winning

true-crime podcast Crime Beat which just launched its six season. There are

amazing episodes for you to check out today and we've got a sample from the latest

season for you because for most of us crime is something we see on the news in movies

or hear about on a podcast we never think it could happen to us until it does.

Loved ones are gone and survivors are left with scars that never heal.

In this season, host Nancy Hicks takes you inside some of the most serious crime she's covered

as a senior crime reporter for global news.

This sample comes from the episode titled Out of the Dark and you'll hear about a

young Calgary woman who was on top of the world until life as she knew it came to an abrupt stop in the middle of the night on August 6th, 2006.

To listen to the full episode, search for Crime Beat wherever you're listening right now.

The following episode contains descriptions of sexual violence and may not be suitable for everyone. It also contains

coarse language, adult themes, and content of a violent and disturbing nature.

Listener discretion is advised.

When I think back to the early 2000s, I remember covering a series of stories about serial sexual predators attacking complete strangers. There was the Hemlock Crescent Rapist whose actions gripped an entire city in fear in the late 1980s and early 90s.

He evaded arrest until 2004.

I share that story in season five called Hunted on Hemlock Crescent.

Then there was the Beltline Rapist who also attacked strangers.

In 2003 and 2004, he violently beat and raped two young women in their own homes.

One victim was 17, the other was 19 years old. Police used some unique strategies to track this offender. You can

listen to that story in surviving a predator and a follow-up episode. Both of those cases took

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