More than 180 years after the doomed Franklin Expedition vanished into the Canadian Arctic, DNA is giving names back to sailors lost in the ice. As scientists connect human remains to descendants living today, a 25-year-old episode of Star Trek: Voyager offers an unexpected parallel. What happens when the dead aren’t quite finished telling us…
In Oshawa, Ontario, everyone knew Ken Chopee as “the Star Wars guy.” A lifelong collector of memorabilia, comics, and film artifacts, his identity was built around a galaxy far, far away — until his life came to a violent end in January 2023. In this episode of The Prime Detective, we examine the real-life killing…
How a Montreal murder trial pulled a hit Netflix series into the courtroom. A 24-year-old artist, Romane Bonnier, was murdered in broad daylight near McGill University. Her killer, François Pelletier, didn’t just confess — he wrapped the crime in a bizarre pop-culture narrative, calling himself the “Chief antagonist of the Black Mirror Society” and naming…
