S36 E5: Election Day | The Cult Queen of Canada

The Expert Witness from Uncover

CBC

True Crime

4.5 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It's Election Day in Richmound. The town votes for a new mayor in a desperate battle to heal the divide caused by Queen Romana's cult. Amidst the high-stakes political maneuvering, the cult's true danger is revealed through one vulnerable family.

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0:00.0	Jacqueline Furland Smith, a 40-year-old former Canadian military trainer,
0:05.0	moves to Costa Rica to follow her dreams, but in the summer of 2021,
0:10.0	vanishes without a trace.
0:13.0	How can a woman just go missing and us put out all that effort to find her, and she's still missing?
0:20.0	I'm David Rijin, and this is Someone Knows Something, Season 10, the Jacqueline
0:23.9	Furland-Smith case.
0:25.7	Available now on CBC Listen and wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.7	This is a CBC podcast.
0:35.1	It sometimes feels like the deeper I get into the story of Rich Mound, the further I get from the story of Romana Diedelow and her cult.
0:43.6	It can feel like the presence of the queen is incidental to the simmering local grievances that have the town divided.
0:52.0	That's why I need you to meet Sarah.
0:54.7	God is this.
0:55.3	I'm loving my hair since I got here.
0:57.3	Oh, right.
0:58.4	My family, not so much.
1:03.2	Sarah and I met up to talk because of something that happened to her dad.
1:07.1	Yeah.
1:07.7	And so how long has he lived in Richmond?
1:10.8	For 12 years.
1:12.9	And what brought him here?
1:14.1	I'm pretty sure it's the price.
1:16.2	Sarah's dad moved to Richemound for an affordable retirement.
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