Suspicion: Murder on Mount Olive
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Suspicion: Murder on Mount Olive
Suspicion is the Toronto Star’s investigative true crime podcast. In season 4, 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...
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Kevin Donovan’s conversation with Canada’s Dean of lawyers who advocates for the wrongfully convicted. James Lockyer talks about the new federal plan...
Smokescreen
There can be problems when using confidential informants and hearsay evidence, especially when a man’s freedom is at stake. Lawyer Dean Embry’s conver...
Colour Blinded
In this bonus episode, we hear a top cop’s story of being Black and on the job in one of Canada’s biggest police forces. Listen to Keith Merith’s con...
Choices
It’s now been 13 years. Chris reflects on decisions he made. The friends he had. Staying out that hot night in August instead of going home. And on wh...
Trial and Error
A trial scheduled for one month becomes two. The Judge is not pleased. It’s now down to 12 jurors to determine Chris and Awet’s fate – but the lone Bl...
The Third Man Theory Rocks Trial
The day of the murder from all sides. Chris, Awet Asfaha, two young women — each give a different perspective on the events leading up to Kim Golaub’s...
Two Down, One To Go
Chris is out on bail leading up to the trial. Toronto Police show up at his house one night. They end up assaulting his father, arresting his brother,...

Why did Kevin Donovan investigate this case?
Kevin Donovan talks about why he decided to look at Chris Sheriffe's case. Hear from him, and catch up on the series so far, while getting a glimpse o...
Bodies To His Name
Bombshell. On the eve of the murder trial, a young Toronto police officer emerges with two confidential sources, one of them purporting to be a gang m...
The Story So Far...
This Friday, April 4, the second half of Murder on Mount Olive's season starts with episode 6, Bodies To His Name, as well as episode 7, one week earl...
Playing For Your Country
Who is Chris Sheriffe? Elite soccer player. Aspiring carpenter. Good family. We hear from the people who knew him best, mother, sister, coach. We also...
Where's The Gun?
The forensics. How three bullets killed a man. The gun shot residue. Where it landed and where it didn’t land gives homicide detectives some help, but...
Gladiator School
Twelve years into his life sentence for murder, Chris Sheriffe is a model prisoner. He’s doing all the courses available behind bars, plus weekly meet...
Video: Kevin Donovan talks with Chris Sheriffe behind bars
Watch or listen to this bonus video footage, where Kevin Donovan sits down with Chris Sheriffe in prison at Collins Bay. Listen to episode 3 of Murder...
The Hunt
Homicide detectives get lucky. The best witness possible, and he’s talking, and he’s got a partial licence plate from a car that left the scene right...
The Crime
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 f...
A second sneak peak: Suspicion Season 4, Murder on Mount Olive
Coming Friday, March 7, episodes 1, 2 and 3 (for subscribers) will be available for Suspicion Season 4, Murder on Mount Olive.
Toronto Star Chie...
Suspicion returns March 7 with Season 4, Murder on Mount Olive
Toronto Star Chief Investigative Reporter Kevin Donovan, who brought you the Billionaire Murders, is back with Murder on Mount Olive, an investigation...
S2 The Billionaire Murders | E12 Domestic Troubles and More
In episode 12 of “The Billionaire Murders: The hunt for the killers of Honey and Barry Sherman” Kevin Donovan is joined by producer Raju Mudhar, as th...
S2 The Billionaire Murders | E11 Gift Bags and Blood Stains Part 2
In episode eleven of “The Billionaire Murders: The hunt for the killers of Honey and Barry Sherman” Kevin Donovan uses what he knows about the killing...
S2 The Billionaire Murders | E10 Gift Bags and Blood Stains Part 1
In episode ten of “The Billionaire Murders: The hunt for the killers of Honey and Barry Sherman” Kevin Donovan examines crime scene photos, including...
S3 40 Years Cold | E4 The Impact
With court decisions in place, do Tice and Gilmour’s families ever find closure? The complicated conclusion of how grief and relief live side by side...
S3 40 Years Cold | E3 The Killer
Who is Joseph George Sutherland? What would lead him to such depraved acts? In Moosonee, Ontario, we learn of the horrific circumstances that shaped t...
S3 40 Years Cold | E2 The Science
A scientific breakthrough helped catch a notorious American serial killer. Could that same technology be used to catch Susan Tice and Erin Gilmour’s k...
S3 40 Years Cold | E1 The Victims
Susan Tice and Erin Gilmour were living separate lives. One, a newly divorced mom of four; the other, in her early 20s with a love of fashion and her...
Introducing Suspicion Season 3, 40 Years Cold
On Monday, June 17, the Toronto Star's crime podcast Suspicion launches Season 3, "40 Years Cold."
In 1983, two women – Susan Tice and Erin Gilm...
S2 The Billionaire Murders | E9 Succession
The four children of slain billionaires Honey and Barry Sherman squabble over their new-found riches, but only two really want power. Hanging over all...
S2 The Billionaire Murders | E8 Perfect Storm
Honey and Barry Sherman had nothing on their calendar, friends were away and Barry’s life was a who’s who of suspects. He also owed a lot of money. If...
S2 The Billionaire Murders | E7 Pointing Fingers
A long, winding road takes reporter Kevin Donovan to a most unusual meeting in a cold garage with Honey and Barry Sherman’s only son, the man who call...
S2 The Billionaire Murders | E6 Family Matters
All the money in the world can’t buy happiness and the home of Honey and Barry Sherman tells that story. Honey was tough on the kids. Barry was a soft...
S2 The Billionaire Murders | E5 Wrong Turns
When the lead Toronto homicide detective avoids the crime scene and juniors can’t walk across the road to collect key surveillance video, that’s a sig...
S2 The Billionaire Murders | E4 King and Queen
Barry Sherman the Generous, the Brilliant, the Tough Negotiator. Honey Sherman the Ferocious, the Brave, the Fundraiser. It was love at first sight in...
S2 The Billionaire Murders | E3 The Day They Died
We follow the footsteps of Honey and Barry Sherman and the mysterious "Walking Man" as they converge on Old Colony Rd., in what became a horrible, mur...
S2 The Billionaire Murders | E2 The Bodies
After Honey and Barry Sherman are found hanging, police sources say it is a murder-suicide and cause outrage among Sherman friends who believe otherwi...
S2 The Billionaire Murders | E1 The Man on the Inside
Where are Honey and Barry Sherman? It’s a typical day for these eccentric billionaires but they’re not answering the phone. After a gruesome discovery...
Introducing Suspicion Season 2, The Billionaire Murders: The hunt for the killers of Honey and Barry Sherman
Launching Feb. 10, Season 2 of “Suspicion” brings “The Billionaire Murders: The hunt for the killers of Honey and Barry Sherman,” a podcast probing th...
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S1 Death in a Small Town | E7 Graduation Day
As the McLellans prepare to celebrate son Luke’s graduation, the Ontario Provincial Police make an arrest in Nathaniel’s case. It’s been six years. Wh...
S1 Death in a Small Town | E6 Shattered Faith
The small-town rumour mill is in overdrive. When Rose-Anne and Kent see a police car they expect to be pulled over. Their extended family is torn – s...
S1 Death in a Small Town | E5 A Mother Fights Back
What is normal behaviour when your child is dying? Rose-Anne and Kent confront doctors and learn what they were saying behind their back. Rose-Anne di...