Kimberly Proctor — Part 1

Canadian True Crime

Kristi Lee

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

[Part 1 of 2] The comprehensive story of 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor, and the two classmates she thought were her friends.

This series examines a number of issues related to the dynamics of teenage relationships in the online era, and utilizes case files released by police, news archives, and relevant studies, statistics and scholarly articles. Our goal is to highlight common manipulation tactics employed by abusive people, the pitfalls of navigating consent, boundaries and rejection, mental health, nature vs nurture and more. This case is closely related to our previous episode, Cherish.

Additional content warning: this series includes graphic and distressing details of a murder and sexual assault, and brief mention of sexual assault against a child and cruelty to animals.

Please respect the privacy of those involved in this case.

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This month, Canadian True Crime has donated in Kimberly’s memory to BC SPCA Wild Arc, the wildlife rescue organization she planned to start volunteering with.

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0:00.0	Canadian True Crime is a completely independent production funded mainly through advertising.
0:04.4	You can listen to Canadian True Crime ad free and early on Amazon music included with Prime,
0:09.5	Apple Podcasts, Patreon and Supercast.
0:12.6	The podcast often has disturbing content and coarse language.
0:16.3	It's not for everyone.
0:17.3	Please take care when listening.
0:19.3	Hi there, and welcome back to Canadian True Crime.
0:22.6	This is part one of a two-part series about a particularly devastating case related to our last episode about the
0:30.1	Murder of Cherish Oppenheim. Today's case has been constantly requested by
0:35.3	listeners over the years and as I'll get to in just a second it's not because
0:40.3	there's a lack of existing coverage.
0:43.4	A few years back, Kimberly's father published an open letter to express his outrage about Canada's
0:50.0	criminal justice system.
0:52.1	Mr Proctor wrote that he was caught by surprise
0:55.3	when the trial judge asked him if there were any details the family wanted kept from the
1:00.4	public. Quote, I said, do not hold back anything. We wanted the entire
1:06.3	country to know exactly what these two monsters had done, end quote.
1:13.0	There was no way for Kimberly's family to predict that her story would be picked up by various
1:18.8	online content farms and exploited en masse for views and downloads.
1:24.0	Coverage has often been reduced to a sensationalized summary that focuses on the most shocking details,
1:31.0	as though the real people devastated by this crime are simply characters
1:35.8	and a fictional story, wrapped up and click-bate thumbnails and serve to audiences craving their next
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