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The Expert Witness from Uncover

S5 "Sharmini" E1: The Crime Beat

The Expert Witness from Uncover

CBC

True Crime

4.510.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Sharmini, Episode 1 - On June 12, 1999, 15-year-old Sharmini Anandavel left her family’s Toronto apartment around 9 a.m. She never returned. Her remains were found in a wooded ravine four months later. Investigative journalist Michelle Shephard revisits the case that has haunted her for twenty years and hears—for the first time—police theories about the only suspect. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-5-sharmini-transcripts-listen-1.5277530

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0:00.0

The honor of all the Chief Justice and the Associate of the United States

0:04.0

Most Americans have made up their minds about the Spring Court.

0:08.0

It's either restoring justice or destroying America.

0:15.0

The Supreme Court is not going to save us.

0:17.0

I'm Julia Lungoria and in this season of more perfect, we're making sense of the Spring Court today.

0:22.0

Listen to more perfect from WNYC Studios wherever you get podcasts.

0:30.0

This is a CBC Podcast.

0:41.0

I think if we go along here we'll be where we need to be.

0:44.0

If we follow this path north, yeah.

0:50.0

In my memory, the east side of the park was much more open.

0:55.0

And there was more grass, which it may open up farther up here.

1:02.0

Yeah, when you see actually how vast this park is, it is kind of amazing that her remains were found at all.

1:12.0

Matt Cron spent more than 30 years as a police officer, 12 of them with homicide.

1:19.0

Now that he's retired, he has time to help us out to bring us down into this ravine and find the right spot.

1:27.0

I think this is it.

1:30.0

I think this is where it was.

1:32.0

I remember the rocks across the river and her body was located.

1:40.0

The great site was located beside a fallen log.

1:45.0

It not sound corny, but sort of perversely it is a beautiful resting place.

1:49.0

It is. It's a very serene spot, very quiet spot.

1:52.0

Right beside the river here.

2:07.0

Toronto police are continuing a desperate search for a missing 15-year-old girl, Charmini and Andavelle.

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