What is the'Finding Cleo'podcast?
A podcast that helped a local man and his family discover the story behind their late sister’s death has won international honors. "Finding Cleo" also has sparked a reckoning in Canada, a school curriculum and possible legislation.
Where is Cleo?
Where is Cleo? Taken by child welfare workers in the 1970s and adopted in the U.S., the young Cree girl’s family believes she was raped and murdered while hitchhiking back home to Saskatchewan.
What happened to Cleo?
Where is Cleo? Taken by child welfare workers in the 1970’s and adopted in the U.S., the young Cree girl’s family believes she was raped and murdered while hitchhiking back home to Saskatchewan. CBC news investigative reporter Connie Walker joins the search to find out what really happened to Cleo.
Where is Cleo from the Sixties Scoop?
Five siblings separated in the Sixties Scoop have reconnected as adults and are determined to find out what happened to the sister they lost track of. In the latest episodes of Finding Cleo, CBC News reporter Connie Walker follows a lead that takes her to a cemetery in New Jersey.
What happened to Cleo in finding Cleo?
And upstairs, Cleo Madonia, dressed in a checkered shirt, jeans and socks, took out her father's pistol and ended her life by shooting herself in the head.
Who is April in finding Cleo?
Cleo's younger sisters April and Annette were adopted by a Toronto family in 1974, not long after the photo below was taken. April's homemade dream catchers fill the walls of her apartment. Cleo's birth year, 1965, is finally revealed in an old adoption record sent to Annette's family in 1974.
Why is finding Cleo important?
Creator of Sixties Scoop adoption program says it wasn't meant to place kids with white families. Fifty-year-old documents uncovered by the CBC podcast Finding Cleo detail a tense struggle between the bureaucrats behind a Saskatchewan adoption program and Indigenous groups that called it an act of "cultural genocide."
What is Connie Walker doing now?
Connie Walker, the award-winning Cree journalist and creator of Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo, now creates podcasts for Gimlet Media and Spotify. Recently she's taken a focus on the stories of residential school survivors.
How many siblings did Cleo have finding Cleo?
The Sixties Scoop Cameron is the youngest of six children. The other siblings are Johnny, Mark, April, Annette and Cleo, also known as Cleopatra.
Is Cleo found?
But that is what popped out in jubilant disbelief at 4.50am when my deputy editor told me Cleo Smith had been found alive in Carnarvon, 18 days after she had disappeared on a family camping trip. "The cops broke down a door and found her in a house," he said.
Was Cleo adopted?
She and her siblings were adopted into different white families across Canada as part of the “Sixties Scoop,” but Cleo's biological family had never officially learned what became of her.
What happened to up and vanished?
While season 2 of Up and Vanished went on an unannounced hiatus late 2019, host Payne Lindsey has stated that he's continued to investigate the case and has been documenting the whole time. In 2021, Up and Vanished began a third season dedicated to the disappearance of Ashley Loring HeavyRunner.
Where is Duncan McCue?
TorontoDuncan McCue is host of CBC Radio One's Cross Country Checkup and a correspondent for CBC's The National. He reported from Vancouver for over 15 years, and is now based in Toronto.
How many episodes of stolen are there?
The current season of Walker's show, the eight-part Stolen: The Search for Jermain, finds the podcaster digging into a more recent case: the 2018 disappearance of a young indigenous mother who went missing after leaving a bar in Missoula, Montana.
What happened to Cleo the Cree?
Taken by child welfare workers in the 1970’s and adopted in the U.S., the young Cree girl’s family believes she was raped and murdered while hitchhiking back home to Saskatchewan. CBC news investigative reporter Connie Walker joins the search to find out what really happened to Cleo. Listen on Apple Podcasts. JUN 23, 2021.
When was the Cleo murder case destroyed?
Even though it was supposed to have been destroyed in 1983, the police file documenting the investigation into Cleo’s death still exists and it contains more detail than Christine ever imagined le…
Who is the creator of the next call?
From David Ridgen, the creator of Someone Knows Something, comes the new investigative podcast The Next Call. Tackling unsolved cases through strategic phone calls. In the case of Terrie Dauphinais, a 24-year-old Metis woman is found dead in her Calgary home in the spring of 2002. New investigative efforts have held out promise, but the case still remains cold almost two decades later. More episodes are available at: smarturl.it/thenextcall
Where is Cleo?
Where is Cleo? Taken by child welfare workers in the 1970’s and adopted in the U.S., the young Cree girl’s family believes she was raped and murdered while hitchhiking back home to Saskatchewan. CBC news investigative reporter Connie Walker joins the search to find out what really happened to Cleo.
Where is Cleo's grave?
The search for Cleo leads Connie to investigate a headstone belonging to a 13-year-old girl who died in 1978. The cemetery is more than 20 hours away from Arkansas, where Cleo's family has long believed she was killed.
What episode does Christine go to Pennsylvania?
S2 Episode 9 : Reunion. 3/27/2018. Christine travels to Pennsylvania for an emotional reunion with her brother, Johnny, who she hasn’t seen since she was a baby. Determined to get more answers about the days and weeks leading up to her sister’s death, Christine finally gets a copy of Cleo’s death certificate.
When was Cleo's body destroyed?
Even though it was supposed to have been destroyed in 1983, the police file documenting the investigation into Cleo’s death still exists and it contains more detail than Christine ever imagined learning about the last days, hours and even minutes of Cleo’s short life.
Who is the creator of the next call?
From David Ridgen, the creator of Someone Knows Something, comes the new investigative podcast The Next Call. Tackling unsolved cases through strategic phone calls. From the victim's family members to potential suspects, the investigation unfolds with The Next Call. More episodes are available at: smarturl.it/thenextcall
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S1 Episode 0: Who Killed Alberta Williams?
This preview of Missing & Murdered: Who Killed Alberta Williams? explores how a chilling tip sparked the CBC’s Connie Walker to uncover secrets and confront a suspect in a decades-old cold case. The 8-part true crime podcast launches on October ...
S1 Episode 1: The Tip
Reporter Connie Walker meets face to face with the person who sent her a tip about Alberta Williams’ unsolved murder. Find out why they’re breaking their silence, and meet the sister who’s still haunted by vivid memories of Alberta’s disappearance.
S1 Episode 2: The Investigation
Combing through old police notebooks, Walker tries to piece together what happened on the night Alberta vanished. She discovers that even before Alberta’s body was found, one of the people interviewed hinted at a “tragic accident”.
S1 Episode 3: A Suspect
Investigative reporter Connie Walker tracks down the person police suspected in the murder of Alberta Williams.
What is the podcast Finding Cleo about?
CBC’s investigative podcast, Finding Cleo, is a powerful departure from that norm, using the story of a little girl named Cleopatra Semaganis Nicotine, who disappeared from her Saskatchewan First Nations community, to shed light on the plight of indigenous girls and women everywhere.
What is the CBC podcast?
CBC’s investigative podcast sheds light on the plight of indigenous girls and women everywhere
What did Semaganis say about the Canadian reservation?
But life on the reservation was rife with hardship, Semaganis says. “It’s in the middle of nowhere, where (the Canadian government) put us,” he says. “If you want to work, you have to go off the reservation.”
How old was Cleo Madonia when she died?
It’s here that Cleo Madonia, just 13 years old when she died, waited since 1978 for her siblings to find her. Her oldest brother, Johnny Semaganis, was just 100 miles away, in Lancaster County. The siblings weren’t told that fate had dropped them so near to each other, a continent from where they’d started.
How to listen to Cleo podcast?
To listen to or download the 10-part podcast, search “Finding Cleo” where you find your podcasts, or visit cbc.ca/radio/findingcleo. That Canadian Broadcasting Corporation website also includes photos, background details and an account of how reporter Connie Walker and her producers researched the lives of Cleo and her siblings.
Where did Semaganis move to?
Childhood. His adoption to a new family and his move to the Millersville area were not, Semaganis says, easy adjustments. “They adopted two other Indians also, Yakima from Washington state” who were a little older, Semaganis says of his new family in Lancaster County.
What did Cleo write about Andy Gibb?
In her bedroom, police found notes shared among Cleo and her friends. She wrote about how much she liked singer Andy Gibb, about a teacher she didn’t like, about what name she and a friend should give the band they would form someday.
How old was Johnny Semaganis when he was adopted?
It was Sept. 5, 1974. Twelve-year-old Johnny Semaganis, a Little Pine First Nation boy from a reservation in Saskatchewan, just over the border from Montana, was being asked to sign his consent to adoption.
What was the Sixties Scoop?
Johnny, Cleo and the rest of their siblings had been caught up in the Sixties Scoop, a Canadian program that removed indigenous children from their families and put them up for adoption elsewhere.
