Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo

Investigation into the disappearance of a Cree girl taken by child welfare AI summary

CBC Visit website › True Crime · EN · 17 episodes · latest 2026-09-29

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Where is Cleo? Taken by child welfare workers in the 1970’s and adopted in the U.S., the young Cree girl’s family believes she was raped and murdered while hitchhiking back home to Saskatchewan. CBC news investigative reporter Connie Walker joins the search to find out what really happened to Cleo. For the best in true crime from CBC, ad-free, visit apple.co/cbctruecrime.Watch Connie Walker's A Sister's Promise on The Fifth Estate's YouTube channel now.

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  1. The kid who confronted his abuser at residential school (via See You in Court)

    2026-09-29 · 37 min

    Willie Blackwater is just 13 when he holds a knife to his rapist's throat, demanding an end to his recurring abuse. It’s the first time Willie stands up to his residential school supervisor, but it’s far from the last.…

  2. S2 Episode 10: Cleo’s letters E

    2018-04-01 · 55 min · Season 2, episode 10

    Even though it was supposed to have been destroyed in 1983, the police file documenting the investigation into Cleo’s death still exists and it contains more detail than Christine ever imagined learning about the last…

  3. S2 Episode 9: Reunion E

    2018-03-26 · 54 min · Season 2, episode 9

    Christine travels to Pennsylvania for an emotional reunion with her brother, Johnny, who she hasn’t seen since she was a baby. Determined to get more answers about the days and weeks leading up to her sister’s death,…

  4. S2 Episode 8: Salesperson of the year

    2018-03-19 · 36 min · Season 2, episode 8

    Digging through archives in Saskatchewan, Connie makes a shocking discovery. As she investigates the controversial Adopt Indian Metis program which Cleo and her siblings were a part of, the man who started the program…

  5. S2 Episode 7: Lillian

    2018-03-19 · 32 min · Season 2, episode 7

    Connie’s chance meeting with the father who Cleo never knew is followed by new revelations about the Semaganis children’s biological mother, Lillian. A picture begins to emerge about why her children were taken, and…

  6. S2 Episode 6: Little Pine

    2018-03-19 · 50 min · Season 2, episode 6

    A brief encounter with someone who knew Cleo perhaps better than anyone else just before her death reveals crucial details. Connecting new facts about her life leads the investigation to a world far from where Cleo…

  7. S2 Episode 5: Afraid of the dark

    2018-03-14 · 29 min · Season 2, episode 5

    As Connie shares some shocking news with Cleo's siblings, the truth about what happened to her remains just out of reach. Police may have answers but can’t share them yet. It's time to visit the one person who's bound…

  8. S2 Episode 4: The funeral home

    2018-03-13 · 41 min · Season 2, episode 4

    The search for Cleo leads Connie to investigate a headstone belonging to a 13-year-old girl who died in 1978. The cemetery is more than 20 hours away from Arkansas, where Cleo's family has long believed she was killed.…

  9. S2 Episode 3: A little lie

    2018-03-08 · 54 min · Season 2, episode 3

    Connie meets Cleo’s older brother, Johnny, in Pennsylvania, where he was adopted. He’s haunted by the memory of saying goodbye to Cleo and longs to fulfill a promise to find her. A late night internet search reveals he…

  10. S2 Episode 2: Eyes that haunted me

    2018-03-07 · 41 min · Season 2, episode 2

    Christine gets a tip that helps geographically narrow the search for Cleo, and Connie visits another sister, April, to see what she may remember. Scouring old photos and documents, they stumble on a key reference to…

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Oldest episode in feed
11/2016 · over 9 years
Typical length
39 min
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