Hi there, I hope you're well.

I just wanted to check in with a quick update

because you've probably noticed Canadian true crime has gone a little bit quiet since the last series.

We're on a break from releasing new episodes until April.

I'll explain why in a second.

But first, I wanted to say thank you for the response to the latest Robert Pickton series. It ended up

being very different to the original and we've received so many thoughtful messages and comments

from listeners who really engaged with it. Thank you so much for listening. I also wanted to

shout out the support we received from the industry in relation to episode 200,

cast box podcast player and Apple Podcasts for their special promotion of the Picton series,

to the Sound Off podcast and broadcast dialogue podcast for having me on,

and to see TVs the social, which I fortunately did not stuff up. There's links to all of

this in the show notes. As I've said before, responsible storytelling and true crime can open

minds, challenge harmful narratives, and deepen our understanding of the world around us.

There's no getting around the fact that true crime sits within

the world of entertainment, but it's always been important to me to use this platform to do

as much good as I can, to advocate for victims and survivors, to raise awareness about systemic

issues and try to give back. As an indie passion project with a very small team, striking the

right balance has always been tricky and over the past year we've had some incredible

opportunities to make a difference that made that balancing act harder than ever. Our podcast series

about the first sexual assault trial of Headley lead singer Jacob Hoggard was turned into a CBC documentary called Breaking Idol, link in the show notes to watch it.

I spent last summer and part of the fall digging into the truth of what happened in the high-profile Hockey Canada trial, the most mentally exhausting case I've covered yet.

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