S1 Episode 4: Hello, Adrien?
Someone Knows Something
CBC
4.6 • 20.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Is Adrien still alive? If so, what would he look like today? Forensic artist Diana Trepkov creates a series of age-progression sketches to help SKS in their quest to solve the mystery of McNaughton's disappearance. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sks/season1/someone-knows-something-season-1-adrien-mcnaughton-transcripts-listen-1.3846202
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| 0:00.0 | We love barbecues, but we don't love accidental burns. |
| 0:03.4 | Swap frozen peas for savlon burns and skulls to keep the fun cooking. |
| 0:07.1 | Choose savlon for your family's first aid kit. |
| 0:09.6 | Savelon burns and skulls 0.25% green treats minor burns and skulls contains |
| 0:13.1 | clerexidine, gluconate, always with the label. |
| 0:16.4 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | You're listening to someone knows something from CBC Radio. |
| 0:25.4 | In 1972, five-year-old Adrian MacKnotten vanished while on a fishing trip in Eastern Ontario. |
| 0:31.6 | Documentary in David Rigen goes back to the small town he grew up in, searching for answers. |
| 0:37.9 | It can take a long time to be accepted in a small town. |
| 0:54.0 | A long time for people to get to know you and another long time for people to think they know you. |
| 1:01.3 | And then you gotta decide if you care or not. |
| 1:05.3 | The point is that for better or worse, everyone in that town eventually thinks they know who you are. |
| 1:20.0 | So how would it go for a five-year-old boy like Adrian MacKnotten, who back in June 1972, |
| 1:25.9 | some say, might have been abducted from the nearby wilderness. |
| 1:30.4 | A forced adoption. |
| 1:32.9 | A person or a family who wanted a little boy to raise his own so badly that when they happened to pass |
| 1:40.9 | home's lake that exactly the moment Adrian went missing, they took him away and kept him away for over 44 years. |
| 1:49.8 | That's a scenario believed to this day by some of Adrian's family members. |
| 1:56.0 | Adrian's second eldest brother, Greg, is at the MacKnotten family home in arm prior, |
| 2:01.6 | along with his mother, father, and siblings. |
| 2:04.9 | I was so young at the time that I don't really recall a whole lot other than we were all out fishing. |
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