S33 Trailer | Calls From a Killer

Sea of Lies from Uncover

CBC

True Crime

4.6 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

The voice of a killer. The truth uncovered.

For years, journalist Arlene Bynon took forbidden jailhouse calls from notorious murderer Clifford Olson. Hundreds of hours of secret recordings — hidden from prison guards and the public — are now being revealed.

In Uncover: Calls From a Killer, Arlene, joined by Nathaniel Frum, will expose what Olson told her, what police got wrong, and why authorities paid a serial killer $100,000.

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0:00.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:12.9	I'd call for Eileen Beinen.
0:15.4	Yes.
0:16.1	From Clifford Olson.
0:17.2	Will you accept the charge?
0:19.4	I was a young journalist when Clifford Olson first called me.
0:24.6	Okay, listen, just don't let anything out that I'm calling you.
0:27.6	I'm not doing this.
0:29.2	Are you supposed to call the media?
0:30.9	This is a conference call.
0:32.0	A reporter getting secret phone calls from Canada's most notorious serial killer.
0:38.9	He was serving a life sentence for murdering 11 children.
0:43.7	His oldest victim, 18, the youngest, nine.
0:49.9	Captured only after the police offered him a shocking deal.
0:54.5	Cash for bodies.
0:57.0	And then the prosecution announced an unusual trade.
1:00.6	The location of the missing bodies, in return for $100,000.
1:05.0	Today, the news that crime does pay was a concern all across the country.
1:10.1	I was desperate to understand why he did what he did.
1:15.3	I knew I was killing the children, but I couldn't stop myself.
1:19.5	I wasn't insane. I knew what I was doing at the time.
1:23.8	And how to stop it from happening again.
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