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Someone Knows Something

S5 Episode 3: Helen Betty Osborne

Someone Knows Something

CBC

True Crime

4.620.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Another young woman was brutally murdered in northern Manitoba in 1971. But unlike the Brown case, a perpetrator was eventually brought to justice. What can be learned from the Helen Betty Osborne case?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Queer life Montreal was wild.

0:04.0

Montreal in the 90s was a great time, but it had a dark side.

0:10.0

It was not a safe city for gay people back then.

0:14.0

But what else was behind a series of deaths in the city?

0:18.0

Somebody's killing gay men, we wanna know why.

0:21.0

I'm Princess Poude and this is The Village, the Montreal Murdered.

0:25.0

Get Early Access to Episode at cbc.ca-listen

0:30.0

or by subscribing to the CBC True Crime Premium Channel on Apple Podcasts.

0:39.0

This is a CBC Podcast.

0:42.0

The following program contains mature subject matter.

0:46.0

Listen to discretion is advised.

0:49.0

You are listening to someone know something from CBC Podcasts.

0:58.0

In season 5, David Rogen travels north to Thompson, Manitoba to investigate the 1986 murder of Carrie Brown.

1:07.0

This is Episode 3. Helen Betty Osborne.

1:20.0

This is a stroke of several kilometers out of the Pauh, down some gravel roads.

1:30.0

Unmarked sight until you come upon it.

1:34.0

There's nobody else around. It's the end of the day.

1:40.0

Cloudy.

1:43.0

There's no markers at all that would indicate that this is the way to the memorial for Helen Betty Osborne.

1:48.0

You look it up online. There's GPS coordinates.

1:55.0

I'm here where the memorial was laid.

2:00.0

I'm just walking up to it here.

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