Introducing Season 10: The Jaclyn Ferland-Smith case

Someone Knows Something

CBC

True Crime

4.6 • 20.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In Season 10 of Someone Knows Something, host David Ridgen investigates the sudden 2021 disappearance of Jaclyn Ferland-Smith, a Canadian expat living in Playas del Coco, a paradise veiled in rumour and fear on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Episode 1 launches Monday, March 9.

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0:00.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:10.4	Grazius is good.
0:12.4	The word that you're going to hear the most is pure vida.
0:15.3	So just pure vida.
0:16.3	And it's okay to say that.
0:17.5	Yes, of course.
0:18.2	Everybody uses for it.
0:19.0	Grazie, hola.
0:21.6	Cháo, all. Pure a vida.
0:22.6	Pure a vida.
0:23.6	Costa Rica, tiny, lush, rich in species, and filled with expat Canadians trying to find
0:31.6	a pure life.
0:33.6	It's really exciting to think, you know, they're in their 40s at the time and able to retire to Costa Rica.
0:40.9	But sometimes the escape can become something else entirely.
0:46.8	I think she was in a situation where it was just too much for her to keep going.
0:52.6	I came out of shower, dry myself,
0:55.2	and I looked, she was not there.
0:59.6	Her engagement ring was there, and her phone.
1:04.2	From CBC Podcasts, I'm David Rijin,
1:07.0	and this is Someone Knows Something, Season 10.
1:10.1	I actually met Jacqueline on a couple of boat trips.
1:14.4	Very quiet, girl, but super nice.
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