Uncover Introduces: Canadian True Crime

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True Crime

4.6 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

When police arrive for a welfare check at the home of a Vancouver fashion store owner, they're confronted with the lifeless bodies of two women lying on the kitchen floor, their faces covered with dishcloths. It looks as if Doris Leatherbarrow and her daughter Sharon Huenemann were killed just as they were serving up dinner for two mystery guests. Who were they? And where had they gone?

This is an episode from Canadian True Crime, The Huenemann and Leatherbarrow Murders - Part 1.

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0:00.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:06.4	Canadian True Crime is a podcast hosted by Aussie Canadian Christy Lee, as she delves into the dark underbelly of the Canadian justice system,
0:16.2	piecing each case together from court documents, news archives, trial reporting, and input from victims
0:22.5	and survivors, with a range of cases from historic to recent, well known to obscure.
0:28.7	Canadian true crime episodes are detailed, factual, and nuanced, going beyond the superficial
0:34.5	to examine the underlying causes of crime.
0:38.0	This episode is all about the murders of Doris Leather Barrow,
0:42.0	the owner of a successful chain of women's fashion stores in Vancouver,
0:46.0	and her daughter, Sharon Hunaman.
0:48.2	It looked as though the two women were ambushed in the kitchen,
0:51.3	just as they were about to serve dinner for two mystery guests.
0:54.5	But as the investigation progressed, an even more shocking tale emerged.
0:59.7	Now, here's part one of Canadian True Crime series, The Hunaman and Leather Barrow Murders.
1:10.2	Hi, everyone. Today's case has been requested many times over the years.
1:15.9	It's a complicated story from British Columbia and we've pieced it together from multiple court
1:21.4	documents and the news archives, particularly the reporting of the Times colonist,
1:26.8	the Vancouver Sun and the province. As Times colonist, the Vancouver Sun, and the province.
1:29.5	As always, please respect the privacy of the people involved in this case.
1:39.0	It's a Friday night in October in the province of British Columbia,
1:46.4	and Ralph Hunerman is waiting for his wife Sharon to arrive home for Thanksgiving weekend. They live on the southern end of Vancouver
1:53.4	Island, but Sharon has been on the mainland for a couple of days helping her mother, who owns a small
2:00.0	chain of clothing stores.
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