I'm 22 years old, I'm opening the door, I'm mowing, mowing the dead body.

I'm Phil Martino.

And I'm Madison Fitzpatrick.

In season one of Tracking a Killer, the cold case files we delved into decades-old murders

that have never been solved.

This season we are back with more cases and more families looking for answers.

How could somebody just leave somebody there like that?

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This is a CBC Podcast.

That night at the Bluebird Motel turned into a weekend.

It was 1988. I was 23.

I'd been told that my father, Warren Daken, was a powerful figure in the world of organized crime.

That my brother, my mom and I, were in grave danger.

I learned that the man I had believed for most of my life to be a close family friend,

my mother's confidant, the Reverend Stan Sears, he was working for the government,

part of an anti-organized crime task force.

It was just this unrelenting deluge of information that kind of upended the world.

I can't imagine what my producer Michael is visiting me at my home in Halifax.

I'm trying to describe that weekend at the Bluebird Motel how it was revelation after

revelations. And I remember at some point Stan said, okay, I think that's a whole lot for tonight.

I'm working to go to bed now. And I remember lying in this motel room.

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