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On July 10, 1978, Eric Wilson - a 19-year from Ottawa and student at Tufts University - left home to drive to a summer college course in Colorado. When he went missing four days afterward in Nebraska, his family tried to persuade local and U.S. police that he wasn't simply a runaway and hadn't simply forgotten to call home. The program examines the lengths to which they had to go to find out what happened to Eric, and the byzantine nature of the legal system which seemed less interested in pursuing justice than in avoiding the expenses involved in the investigation and potential trials.

A five-year-old boy who starved to death in his grandparents' Toronto home didn't just slip through one crack, but through a whole institutional safety net, lawyers at a coroner's inquest suggested Tuesday.

On Christmas Day 2009, faith in the safety of air travel was shaken when a 23-year-old Nigerian man boarded a US-bound plane and then, over Canadian airspace, tried to detonate a bomb he had hidden in the his underwear.

The story of Ramiro Cristales, who was sent to Canada after news leaked in Guatemala of his survival; the story of the unsolved murder of Stefano Savoili.

The hunt for the true owner of a Modigliani spans two continents; an interview with one of Canada's most prolific art thieves; wildlife cops investigate illegal trade.

An investigation into the natural health industry and how Health Canada isn't protecting its customers.

Updates on decades-old investigations.

Genealogist Cece Moore tracks a Canadian cold case with a new and controversial technique that could potentially revolutionize crime fighting. Bob McKeown investigates.

The plan for de-radicalizing returning ISIS fighters; the federal government says it has a plan to keep the public safe if or not when ISIS fighters return to Canada; Bob McKeown investigates.

Some women from Quebec's youth protection system discover they're still haunted by the horrors of their treatment; Jayme Poisson digs into a new Canadian study about what caused dozens of Canadian and U.S. diplomats in Cuba to get sick.

People in Regina are caught in between the growing violence among indigenous gangs and the police in one of Canada's most dangerous neighbourhoods.

Mark Kelley looks at whether the next mass shooting could be stopped if one could get inside the mind of a mass murderer; exclusive conversations with Alexandre Bissonnette's family and the leading profilers who've studied him.

A son travels to a remote island in British Columbia to search for his father's killer, only to discover a problematic police investigation; Ashley Smith's tragic death in prison was supposed to lead to reforms.

Retired hockey enforcers' wives demand change from the NHL; the story of Anne Innis Dagg, the little known Canadian pioneer for the rights of women and a groundbreaking scientist on the behaviour of giraffes.

When a woman leaves her home in Nova Scotia to travel to England, it isn't usually cause for an international criminal investigation. But, the script for Heli Munroe's trip is straight out of Alfred Hitchcock.

An abusive priest's prison confession in Quebec raises questions about how clergy sexual assault is prosecuted in Canada; after nearly 20 years of fighting Toronto police, John Connelly's parents appear to have reached the end of the line.