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The Expert Witness from Uncover

S6 "Satanic Panic" E1: 'It was such a perfect place'

The Expert Witness from Uncover

CBC

True Crime

4.510.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Police Officer Claudia Bryden is drawn into a bizarre case unfolding in the peaceful Prairie town of Martensville, Saskatchewan. What starts with a single complaint about an alleged sexual assault in a home daycare grows into something bigger and more disturbing than anyone could have imagined. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/uncover-season-6-satanic-panic-transcripts-listen-1.5437487

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0:00.0

It started as a normal day.

0:01.8

What if the truth about the greatest tragedy of your life

0:05.3

was kept secret from you?

0:06.7

Huge explosion occurred.

0:08.2

This is the story of a scandal deliberately buried

0:11.4

in the chaos of the Iraq War.

0:13.2

What really just happened?

0:15.4

Listen to NPR's embedded podcast and its latest series,

0:18.8

Taking Cover.

0:21.6

This is a CBC podcast.

0:23.6

This is very unnatural for me to speak to the media.

0:31.6

I don't really have a lot of interest in having anything to do with the media.

0:38.1

I'm sitting across from Claudia Bryden in a hotel room in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

0:44.8

It's a meeting that after months of back and forth,

0:49.1

I didn't think what's going to happen.

0:51.4

But the reason I'm here mainly is what's partly because you're a very tenacious woman.

1:01.6

Claudia is long out of policing, but she still carries herself like a cop

1:07.8

with a straight spined confidence.

1:11.2

She measures her words carefully.

1:15.6

Nearly 30 years ago, Claudia was at the center of an infamous case

1:20.4

in the tiny prairie town of Martinsville.

1:24.2

But she's kept quiet since.

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