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The Expert Witness from Uncover

S19: "Run, Hide, Repeat" E5: Stan's World

The Expert Witness from Uncover

CBC

True Crime

4.510.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Pauline sets out to understand Stan’s mind and motives. She meets up with his son, John, who has some very strange stories of his own. And Pauline finally comes across a potential answer – something that could explain all of Stan's actions. But will it be enough to forgive him? For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/run-hide-repeat-transcripts-listen-1.6682766

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0:00.0

I'm Andrew Betgrace, co-host of the NPR podcast White Lies.

0:04.0

They're not being held because they're charged with a crime.

0:06.4

These people are being indefinitely detained.

0:09.0

You can't just keep these people in jail until they die.

0:11.5

On the new season of White Lies, a story about immigration and definite detention in the search for a secret list.

0:17.5

Listen to the White Lies podcast from NPR.

0:20.5

This is a CBC podcast.

0:36.5

The first weird thing was probably when I was 10 years old.

0:41.5

I asked my dad once, did you fight in an ore?

0:46.5

I was in the army.

0:50.5

What happened was this.

0:52.5

Me and another soldier were guarding an oil refinery somewhere in New Brunswick.

0:57.5

Somebody came driving up to the entrance and broke through it and drove on.

1:02.5

Like they were going to set off a bomb or something.

1:05.5

My dad said that he and this other soldier-centric guy both shot at this individual and one of them killed him.

1:13.5

And that was the first story.

1:16.5

Stan Sears had two sons, Mike and John.

1:20.5

Mike, the younger of the two, died tragically the same year that Stan and Sibble moved from St. John to Nova Scotia.

1:27.5

John is 75 now and lives in Agacy, B.C.

1:32.5

We never really knew each other growing up.

1:35.5

I was a lot older than me and had moved out by the time my family became close with Stan and Sibble.

1:44.5

In 2014, I started writing about what had happened to my family, trying to figure it all out.

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