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Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo

S2 Episode 7: Lillian

Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo

CBC

True Crime

4.78K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Connie’s chance meeting with the father who Cleo never knew is followed by new revelations about the Semaganis children’s biological mother, Lillian. A picture begins to emerge about why her children were taken, and when she joined the fight to stop the adoption of more Indigenous children into white homes.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Damon Fairless, host of Hunting Warhead from CBC Podcasts in the Norwegian newspaper VG.

0:06.1

Hunting Warhead follows a global team of police and journalists as they attempt to dismantle a

0:11.6

massive network of predators on the dark web. Winner of the Grand Prize for Best Investigative

0:16.8

Reporting at the New York festivals and recommended by the Guardian, Vulture, and the Globe and Mail,

0:21.9

you can find Hunting Warhead on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:27.2

This is a CBC Podcast.

0:40.5

I'm Connie Walker and this is Missing and Murdered, Finding Clear, an investigative podcast by CBC News.

0:49.1

We've just got a text message as we're driving by the casino. Gavin said, just found Sydney,

0:54.2

he's here at the casino so we're now going to go in and try to talk to the man that we think is

1:00.7

Cleo's dad. Okay, yeah, let's go. The gold ego casino is pretty small, a little bit bigger than

1:13.2

a school gym, but it is busy tonight. There are a few table games but mostly it's rows and rows

1:20.6

of slot machines. We don't know what Sydney nicotine looks like but we find Gavin right away.

1:28.1

Gavin's been keeping his eye on Sydney and points him out to us. He's playing at a slot machine.

1:36.6

Gavin's giving him a heads up that we want to talk to him but I don't know how much he's

1:40.4

explained about why we're here. Hi, I'm Connie. Nice to meet you. How are you doing? Good.

1:50.4

There are people playing at the machines on either side of Sydney and it's really cramped,

1:54.8

not an ideal place for this conversation. Can we have a by you a coffee or something? Yeah,

2:02.0

okay, well we'll just be up in here. Let us know when you're when you're right. After a few

2:06.0

minutes Sydney comes over. He's tall. I noticed that right away. They think of how everyone else

2:11.7

said Cleo was tall too. So, do you live around here? Moon Lake? Moon Lake? How far is that?

2:18.9

Oh, 100 lbs. Sydney looks like he's in his 70s. His hair is thin and goes down to his shoulders

2:25.8

and it's mostly gray, including his goatee. So, so when did you meet Lillian? Do you remember when you

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