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The Expert Witness from Uncover

S6 "Satanic Panic" E5: The Many Martensvilles

The Expert Witness from Uncover

CBC

True Crime

4.510.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

As devastating as the Martensville Nightmare is for all involved, it’s just one piece of a much bigger picture. FBI special agent Ken Lanning spent the ‘80s trying to figure out what the hell was happening across North America, and why. 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.

0:30.6

I have so many things to ask you.

0:32.0

I'm going to ask you for like, sort of shorter answers.

0:35.2

Yes, I know that. That's my biggest problem.

0:37.6

I can't give the problem I have is I can't give sure what snappy sound bite answers

0:42.8

to extremely complex questions.

0:46.0

Ken Laning spent more than 30 years as a special agent with the FBI.

0:51.3

And for the bulk of that time, his focus was the sexual victimization of children,

0:57.3

trying to understand it so he could help stop it.

1:01.3

We like black and white kind of problems, so we tend to want to hold a simple fight.

1:05.4

Everything. The sexual victimization of children is an extremely complex and diverse problem.

1:13.6

In the early 80s, as Ken was first trying to get his head around those complexities,

1:19.2

the United States was facing this new, especially disturbing set of crimes against children.

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