The Crime
Suspicion: Murder on Mount Olive
Toronto Star
4.6 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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On a hot, sunny day in August a man is shot three times. It happens outside a barbecue. Witnesses give different descriptions of the shooter; police flood the area looking for clues. What happens that day will end up putting a young soccer player turned carpenter behind bars for life for a crime he says he didn't commit. This is the story of Christopher Sheriffe and his fight for justice.
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Suspicion
Chief Investigative Reporter Kevin Donovan, who brought you the Billionaire Murders, is back with Murder on Mount Olive, an investigation of a crime the courts closed the book on in 2012. On a sunny day in August, 2009, a man is shot three times at a barbecue. What happens that day will put a budding young soccer star turned carpenter behind bars for life for a crime he says he didn't commit. This is the story of Christopher Sheriffe and his fight for justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you're facing life behind bars for murder. |
| 0:05.0 | Now let's say you're offered a deal. |
| 0:09.0 | Plead to a lower charge and get out years earlier. |
| 0:14.0 | Would you take it? |
| 0:16.0 | Or after a decade in prison, you had a second chance at freedom. |
| 0:21.6 | Both offers come with a catch. |
| 0:24.6 | Admit responsibility. |
| 0:26.6 | Take accountability for your actions, for taking a human life. |
| 0:31.6 | This Rexdale neighborhood is no stranger to gun violence. |
| 0:34.6 | Three people have been murdered in August alone, the most recent victim, |
| 0:38.8 | a 34-year-old man shot dead yesterday in a brazen daylight drive-by shooting on Mount Olive |
| 0:44.4 | Drive near Markham Grove and Steele. If you did, you'd walk out those prison gates while you're |
| 0:50.1 | still relatively young. Think about it. To be there for the aging parents you love, |
| 0:56.1 | who supported you and sacrificed so much. Maybe get married, take your kids to the beach to |
| 1:02.8 | soccer practice. 25 years and possibly more, that's a long time behind bars. |
| 1:12.5 | Hello, Kevin Donovan. |
| 1:14.8 | Hi, Kevin. |
| 1:15.6 | Hi, Kevin. Thanks for calling me. |
| 1:19.9 | How are you today? |
| 1:21.3 | I've spoken to Chris Sheriff many times over the past year. |
| 1:25.5 | On the phone, in person behind bars. He's a tall guy, over six feet. |
| 1:31.8 | His mum, Marjorie, says he looks like basketball star LeBron James when he was younger. |
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