Dawson Creek

With Don Taylor.

When I was in Dawson Creek, I slept on foam.

I rolled it up, moved from house to house.

And Rick Dhaliwal.

And you get toughened up.

Kelowna's, like, one of the nicest cities in the world.

Um, I'm talking about up north, Fort St. John, Dawson Creek.

That's where you get tough, and you don't make mistakes like you just did.

He also once held a lucrative job in this region's oil and gas industry.

I'm born and raised here in Dawson Creek.

You are?

Spent some time in Edmonton, um, Prince George, uh, Fort St. John.

15 murders in the last five years, some of them Terry's friends.

And, uh, it's hard, it's hard to tell where, where this, where this madness is coming from.

[dramatic music] In this final episode, we'll do our best to sort out where the madness is coming from, and we'll take that very question to the man overseeing most of the murder investigations in Dawson Creek, following some big news from the RCMP.

Having these charges under our belt, and yes, it's just one case out of many, but they're significant charges.

I was selling air conditioners at the time.

heating equipment and solar water tanks and we had these road trips take us all over to the interior of BC and all over British Columbia like Vernon we go all the way up to Dawson Creek and back then it wasn't It was just white people.

It's Canada, pure Canadian farmlands.

It was beautiful.

That gave me the vibe like, holy shit, that's fucking awesome.

People are kind of weird, but it's amazing here, these tiny little towns.

But then when I went again two years ago, did the same route to Dawson Creek, basically all the way up Dawson Creek and back.

how come all of a sudden there are so many Indians? It doesn't make any sense that, like, how come, like, all of a sudden that they've extended all the way to the interior of fucking British Columbia.

Her boyfriend was convicted of the crime, but is a free man in Canada while he appeals that ruling in Mexico.

W5's Avery Haines explains how the Dawson Creek, BC man could fight to stay in Canada.

Ryan Friesen is free in Canada while a court in Mexico decides whether to uphold his femicide conviction.

His girlfriend, Kiara Agnew, was beaten to death at this resort in Playa del Carmen in 2023.

And then ones that we get from Williams Lake and Chetwin and That far away? Oh, yeah.

We've had people come from Terrace, Smithers, Bear Lake, Chetland, McKenzie, Fort St. John, Fort St. James, Dawson Creek.

We cover the entire north now.

Wow.

can't recall.

Faber Drive from Dawson Creek, from Quinnell, from Salmon Arm.

Where are they from? Am I going to hit any of them there with a guess? Yeah.

Where is Faber Drive from? Kitimat.

Jason Markusoff here, filling in for Jamie today.

Something's happening in the small town of Dawson Creek, British Columbia.

A wave of violence has swept over the sleepy northern town, with 15 murders in the last five years.

Timothy Sawa is a producer with The Fifth Estate, Canada's premier investigative television program, and he's the host of the brand-new season of Uncover: The Mile Zero Murders.

Timothy's investigated police corruption, offshore tax havens, kickbacks in the pharmaceutical industry, and systemic issues around sexual assault.

In The Mile Zero Murders from CBC's Uncover and The Fifth Estate, Timothy investigates what's behind the baffling wave of disappearances and murders in Dawson Creek, a community struggling with the deadly local drug trade.

Now, here's the first episode of The Mile Zero Murders.

Have a listen.