S37 E1: The Thing | The Expert Witness
The Expert Witness from Uncover
CBC
4.5 • 10.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The city of Akron, Ohio reels from rising violence and stalled investigations until arrests suddenly begin to happen. A mysterious new AI-powered tool called Cyber Check has arrived. Criminal defense attorney Don Malarcik first encounters the technology when it’s used to implicate his young client in a murder. With no clear explanation of how it works, and no public record of its existence, Don and his team begin digging into Cyber Check, uncovering unsettling questions about whether this powerful new technology is delivering justice—or quietly reshaping it.
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| 0:00.0 | Is this on? |
| 0:01.5 | Season 3 of Proof. |
| 0:03.0 | Murder at the bike shop is available now, wherever you get your podcasts. I'm scared to be sitting here in this damn chair talking about this. This is a guy confessing a murder to her, and she has no idea what day had happened. Everything I tell you is the truth. I hope I don't bring a ton of shit down on me. Listen to season 3 of proof now. Wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:21.7 | There was evidence in the house |
| 0:23.5 | and they would not listen to me. |
| 0:26.0 | It's not me. |
| 0:27.4 | I didn't do it. |
| 0:30.9 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:36.5 | Cheryl Ross Beck always knew what she wanted. |
| 0:40.3 | She wanted a girl. |
| 0:42.5 | Everybody that I know of my friends have daughters. |
| 0:45.9 | All of them have daughters. |
| 0:48.2 | I wanted to be a girl mom. |
| 0:50.5 | I always wanted to have a girl. |
| 0:54.8 | Cheryl's worked in the same maternity ward for almost 30 years. |
| 0:59.2 | So she has witnessed people being gifted her literal dream almost every shift. |
| 1:05.0 | When she got pregnant for the first time, |
| 1:07.5 | she thought that she could will a girl into existence. |
| 1:13.6 | But when the baby came, it was a boy. A blessing, but a boy. |
| 1:16.6 | When she got pregnant for the second time, she prayed, she wished, |
| 1:24.6 | come on, girl, girl, girl. |
| 1:28.3 | In Christmas 2002, her prayers were answered when not only did she get to have a girl, she had Maya. |
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