Hey, it's Nancy. Before we begin today, I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to

Crime Beat early and add free on Amazon Music included with Prime. For most of us, crime is something we see on the news, in movies, or hear about on a podcast.

We never think it could happen to us or our families until it does.

I said to like turn to my mom,

I said something is not right mom,

just had the worst feeling that it was her.

For victims and the investigators who work tirelessly to solve major crimes, it's all too real.

Loved ones are gone, and for the survivors, the scars will never heal. I know that he didn't really

think that somebody was going to come in and kill him. You know there's a father of

three family person family man that didn't go home to his family.

That just, it's such a waste.

I'm Nancy Hicks, a senior crime reporter for Global News.

On this season of Crime Beat, you'll hear directly from victims and their families.

And I just had this overwhelming feeling that what I was never going to see her alive again.

And I just, I'm not even sure if I collapsed or not,

but I could feel my knees going out.

And I don't really remember much after that.

And you'll hear from the detectives who

return with me to the crime scenes decades later,

sharing intimate details of these cases and the cutting edge techniques they use to solve

them.

I'll never forget it.

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