Episode 6: A Phoenix From the Ashes

Katy speaks with Eleanor Nairne, who first introduced her to Lee Kranser’s work. Back in 2019, Nairne exhibited a groundbreaking retrospective of Lee Krasner’s work while she was senior curator at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Today she is the Keith L. and Catherine Sacks C ... Show More

Artist, musician and writer Audrey Flack shares her firsthand accounts of the downtown New York City art scene in the mid-twentieth-century and a song she and her band, The History of Art, wrote about Jackson Pollock.  Flack passed away in June. For more about her life, see “Audr ... Show More

<p>In March of 2010, a 48-year-old woman was found murdered in the backyard of her Connecticut home. With her murder appearing personal, police wondered if someone in her inner circle could have been behind it. But as years passed and justice didn’t come, her son took the investi ... Show More

<p>November 7th, 2003. Hong Kong, China. Police found the body of 40-year-old investment banker Robert Kissel wrapped in a carpet in his family’s storage unit. Suspicion turned to his wife Nancy, who stood to gain around $18 million from her husband’s estate.</p><p>For bonus epis ... Show More

<p>It’s four years since tragic 21 year old showjumper Katie Simpson was laid to rest in her native Tynan in County Armagh - a day when her killer Jonathan Creswell, posed as a chief mourner and stood in false grief as she was lowered into her grave.</p><br><p>Nicola speaks to jo ... Show More

In 1992, Dilleen Hempel had just married the love of her life, moved into a new home and started a new job. But on her way home from her second-shift, the 26-year-old vanished. On this episode of Crime Beat as Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt shares the panic and conf ... Show More

In 1983, Patrick Welsh disappeared and left behind a suicide note. Five years later, his wife, Elizabeth, officially had him declared dead. In 1997, Elizabeth received a letter from the Social Security Administration, demanding that she pay back $56,000 in death benefits. She the ... Show More

<p>Episode 5: John finds a lawyer and plots to unleash a blizzard of lawsuits against his enemies, with the aim of proving to Debra that he is the victim, in case after case. The lawyer believes her life is in danger. As her painful isolation from her family deepens, she secretly ... Show More

<p>December 23rd, 2012. Houston, Texas. Sandra and Jaime Melgar celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary. Hours later, family members found Sandra bound and trapped in a closet, and Jaime stabbed to death in another closet. Sandra believed they were victims of a home invasion, b ... Show More

<p>Last week we heard how Marian Bates was murdered at her jewellery shop in Nottingham in front of her husband Victor and daughter Xanthe during a botched armed robbery. One of the criminals who was sent to prison for 13 years in connection for conspiracy to rob Marian’s jewelle ... Show More

The Peter Demeter case involves the 1973 murder of his wife, Christine Demeter, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Peter Demeter, a Hungarian-Canadian real estate developer, was convicted of orchestrating her brutal killing to claim a substantial life insurance policy. The trial re ... Show More