Season 7: The Abortion Wars - Trailer

Someone Knows Something

CBC

True Crime

4.6 • 20.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Coming May 2022: the return of Someone Knows Something. In Season 7, host David Ridgen and American journalist Amanda Robb investigate the 1998 murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian — Robb’s uncle — who was shot in an act of anti-abortion violence. The series explores the anti-abortion radical who was responsible for the murder and the possible links to similar attacks on Canadian doctors. With protests on the rise and debates about reproductive rights heating up in the U.S., could more violence be on the horizon?

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0:00.0	It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child.
0:05.1	For many, it's their biggest fear.
0:07.1	I'm Marissa Jones, host of The Vanished, and every week I dig into the stories of overlooked
0:12.1	and unsolved missing persons' cases.
0:14.3	I bring to light every detail, interviewing friends, family, law enforcement, and even
0:18.8	suspects to try to uncover the truth.
0:21.7	Follow The Vanished wherever you get your podcasts.
0:24.2	You can listen at-free on the Amazon Music or Wondery app.
0:29.4	This is a CBC Podcast.
0:31.4	I'm not afraid of them, and I'm not afraid of the violence that I fear of my family, my
0:38.1	children.
0:42.0	From CBC Podcasts, I'm David Rigen, and this is someone knows something, season seven.
0:48.0	I contacted you because an uncle of mine I was very close to was murdered about 20 years
0:54.6	ago.
0:56.2	We had come back from temple services and had even taken a suit or sport coat off.
1:02.1	October 23rd, 1998, Amherst, New York.
1:06.6	A bullet smashes through Dr. Barnett Slepian's kitchen window.
1:11.3	They were watching us.
1:13.5	That's scary part.
1:16.7	Dr. Slepian's murder struck fear in the medical community and devastated his family.
1:23.0	He was killed for providing abortions.
1:26.4	People react to grief in many different ways, and then the way I reacted was I was going
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