True North True Crime

On the night of August 17th, 2023, three men walked out of The Curry House in downtown Owen Sound, Ontario, without paying their bill. The owner, Sharif Rahman, followed them onto the sidewalk. He was found unconscious minutes later, and he died a week later in hospital. He was 44, and he left behind his wife and their six-year-old daughter.

Sharif had come to Canada from Bangladesh by way of the United Kingdom, and he became one of the most familiar faces in Owen Sound. He cooked for fundraisers, fed health care workers during the pandemic and sat on community boards. His death shook the city. Police released photographs of the men, then went quiet for almost a year.

In this episode, we learn about Sharif and how a small city police service traced three men across the Atlantic to the UK and brought them back to face a court in Canada.

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Some stories are too bizarre to believe. Others are too unsettling to forget.

This Halloween, we're digging into three of Canada's creepiest unsolved mysteries.

A Quebec farmhouse terrorized by an unseen presence that seemed to have a mind of its own. Eerie lights descending over a Nova Scotia fishing village, leaving witnesses shaken and authorities searching for answers. And something monstrous lurking beneath the waters off British Columbia, with a discovery that defies explanation.

Ghosts, UFOs, and creatures from the deep. Three chilling stories pulled from Canadian history, where the truth may be even stranger than the legends.

So lock the doors, turn down the lights, and settle in. Because this Halloween, we're exploring the things that might be better left unexplained.

Join us for a special Halloween edition of True North True Crime.

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M. was thirteen when she was murdered in Burnaby’s Central Park in July 2017. Ibrahim Ali was arrested and charged with first degree murder in September 2018.

This is Part Three, the final episode in our series on her case. After eight months of trial, both sides deliver their closing arguments, and a jury decides Ali’s fate. In the days that follow the verdict, a gun is allegedly brought into the courtroom. Then comes sentencing, and the appeal that followed it, an appeal that is still ongoing.

Content warning: this episode discusses the murder and sexual assault of a child victim.

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M. was thirteen when she was murdered in Burnaby's Central Park in July 2017. Ibrahim Ali was arrested and charged with first degree murder in September 2018.

This is Part Two of our three-part series on her case. In this episode, we take you inside the courtroom for Ali's trial, which began in April 2023. We cover the evidence and testimony presented against Ali, the witnesses called and cross-examined, and a trial filled with repeated delays.

Part Three, the final episode in this series, comes out next week.

Content warning: this episode discusses the murder of a minor and contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault and forensic evidence.
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M. was thirteen years old. She loved anime and sewing her own costumes. On the evening of July 18, 2017, she was murdered in Burnaby's Central Park. Her body was found there on July 19, 2017.

This crime shocked British Columbia and Canada. In this episode, we tell you about M. and her family, and the truth about the man arrested for this heinous crime.

What followed her murder was a massive investigation. Three hundred officers worked the case. Police looked at two thousand people as possible suspects. More than a year passed with no answers. It became IHIT's largest active investigation, and one of the largest they had ever handled, with more than 2,300 investigative tasks completed. Investigators eventually turned to cutting edge DNA technology and investigative strategies rarely used in Canada to find him.

This is Part One of a three-part series on M.'s murder.

Content warning: this episode discusses the murder of a minor.

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