S33 Trailer | Calls From a Killer
The voice of a killer. The truth uncovered.
For years, journalist Arlene Bynon took forbidden jailhouse calls from notorious murderer Clifford Olson. Hundreds of hours of secret recordings — hidden from prison guards and the public — are now being revealed.
In Uncover: Calls From a Killer, Arlene, joined by Nathaniel Frum, will expose what Olson told her, what police got wrong, and why authorities paid a serial killer $100,000.
Episode 1 is coming May 20, 2025. Binge all episodes early and ad-free by becoming a subscriber here.
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Transcript
This is a CBC podcast.
Collect call for Eileen Binan.
Yes.
From Clifford Olson, will you accept the charge?
I was a young journalist when Clifford Olson first called me.
Okay, listen, just don't let anything out that I'm calling you.
I'm not doing this right off.
Are you supposed to
it.
A reporter getting secret phone calls from Canada's most notorious serial killer.
He was serving a life sentence for murdering 11 children.
His oldest victim, 18.
The youngest, 9.
Captured only after the police offered him a shocking deal.
Cash for bodies.
And then the prosecution announced an unusual trade.
The location of the missing bodies in return for $100,000 today the news that crime does pay was a concern all across the country.
I was desperate to understand why he did what he did.
I knew I was killing the children, but I couldn't stop myself.
I wasn't insane.
I knew what I was doing at the time.
And how to stop it from happening again.
You say you have nothing to lose, so are you going to kill again?
One of these days, Arlene, I'm going to make a move and it's going to be a bloodbath.
For 30 years, these recordings have been sealed away.
Secrets kept in boxes in my basement.
But it's time to unearth the tapes because I believe that the police could have stopped him sooner.
When we got down to the point where you got a missing nine-year-old kid who's six blocks from his home and disappears when he's at the corner store getting an ice cream or a candy bar.
You got a big problem.
That the pain left behind is still raw.
I still have rage and anger.
I can't even go out at night.
I have a fear to go out at night.
The RCMC and what they did caused us
so much damage.
And I believe that there were more victims.
So when you went to the police, how long did it take for them to follow up after you said those things to them?
I don't even know if they've still followed up on that.
I've never heard another thing.
I'm Arlene Binan from CBC's Uncover, calls from a killer.
If you're Olson's calling, will you accept charge?
Yes, I will.
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