This is a CBC Original Podcast.

You're listening to someone knows something from CBC Radio.

In 1972, five-year-old Adrian McNaughton vanished

while on a fishing trip in eastern Ontario.

Documentarian David Rigen goes back to the small town he grew up in, searching for answers.

When CBC called me to talk about this podcast, I'd just begun shooting a feature film

up in an old Ontario mining town.

We were using a series of abandoned farmhouses as our sets,

and what the farm families left behind as our props.

The films are a drama I've written that takes place in this kind of dilapidated future

where a group of homeless people stumble through a situation where they have to help someone.

When they have no means or resources to do it,

and in fact, they have no understanding of what the actual situation is until the very end,

so a classic puzzler or slash horror, I guess.

Without giving it all away, it's a story where a character tries to escape from abductors.

They try to liberate themselves and get away from the people who took them,

and not end up sprawled in the woods or a ditch or pushed into a fridge or somewhere, a shallow grave.

Anyway, CBC wanted to talk podcasts because I'm assuming years before I'd made a series

of documentaries about cold cases at the CBC.

Some of them I made in the US and some in Canada.

But they were all haunting and haunted by malicious humans,

hard images, crime scenes, aching family members, and boxes and boxes of documents

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