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How do you take down a criminal network that’s hidden in the shadows? How do you rescue child abuse victims who could be anywhere in the world? Hunting Warhead follows the journalists and police on a global mission to expose the darkest corners of the internet. What they discover shocks them. Host D…

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    • Jun 3, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 37 EPISODES

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    The Hunting Warhead podcast is an exceptionally well-made and important podcast that delves into the dark world of child abuse material and the efforts to bring perpetrators to justice. The host, Damien Fairless, along with a team of reporters, delivers a thought-provoking and deeply researched narrative that is both heartbreaking and necessary. The production quality is flawless, with a brilliant host who is articulate and easy to listen to. This podcast sheds light on a subject that needs more attention in society, without sensationalism or exploitation.

    One of the best aspects of this podcast is its careful approach to handling such a difficult topic. The respect for the victims is evident throughout, with a focus on educating listeners about what signs to look out for in order to protect children. The journalism involved in this podcast is excellent, providing compelling information and interviews with members of law enforcement involved in these investigations. There is also appreciation shown towards those working tirelessly to rescue and protect children, making them true heroes.

    However, there are some drawbacks to this podcast. Given the nature of the subject matter, it can be incredibly emotionally and mentally upsetting for listeners. While this serves as a testament to the impactful storytelling, it can be challenging for some individuals to listen through certain descriptions of abuse. Additionally, there may have been missed opportunities for immediate corrections or revisions in terminology used when discussing child abuse material.

    In conclusion, The Hunting Warhead podcast is an exceptionally well-made and important production that sheds light on a difficult but crucial subject matter. It educates listeners about the prevalence of child abuse material while maintaining respect for victims and focusing on prevention and protection. Despite its challenging content, this podcast stands out as one of the best examples of true crime podcasts due to its thorough research and professional delivery. Highly recommended for those interested in learning more about this important issue plaguing our society.



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    Hunting Warhead Introduces | Uncover: Calls From a Killer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 33:37


    What does a reporter do when they receive a cold call from one of the most horrific serial killers in Canadian history?The killer: Clifford Olson, who murdered at least eleven children in the 1980s. The reporter: Arlene Bynon, who recorded her jailhouse calls with Olson for years.Alongside legendary journalist Peter Worthington, Arlene spent hundreds of hours on the phone with Olson. It was kept secret from his prison guards; he wasn't allowed to speak to the media.In Calls From a Killer, from CBC's Uncover, Arlene unearths secrets that have been buried for decades. More episodes of Calls from a Killer are available at: https://link.mgln.ai/dTCt1x

    Introducing: Lucky Boy from Tortoise Media

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2025 38:37


    Gareth's whole life has been defined by a relationship he had 35 years ago when, as a 14-year-old schoolboy, he fell in love with an attractive young teacher at his school. He spent most afternoons in her bedroom and thought he was the luckiest boy in the world. But when she walked out of his life everything started to unravel. Lucky Boy is a new four-part series from Tortoise Media in which Chloe Hadjimatheou asks who gets to be a perpetrator and a victim. Click here to listen to the rest of the series or search for Lucky Boy wherever you listen to podcasts.

    Hunting Warhead Introduces | Uncover: Sea of Lies

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2025 49:13


    A body is pulled from the ocean, and a race against time to capture one of the world's most wanted criminals begins.Uncover: Sea of LIes is the story of a con man who couldn't stop lying. A tale of murder, stolen identities, fine art, a diaper bag stuffed with gold bars, and a crime solved by a Rolex watch. From rural Canada to coastal England, he lied and deceived at every turn.Award-winning podcaster Sam Mullins (Chameleon: Dr. Dante & Wild Boys) takes you inside the world of a devious scammer whose trail of destruction crosses continents and decades. So who is he? And how did this ruthless villain finally get unmasked? More episodes of Uncover: Sea of Lies are available at: https://link.mgln.ai/k9s4vs

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: Someone Knows Something Season 9

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2024 34:29


    Christine Harron, a book-loving teenager from Hanover, Ontario, leaves for school in the spring of 1993 and is never seen again. A suspect emerges, confessing to her murder, but the case falls apart and Christine's family are left without answers.In Season 9 of the award winning podcast Someone Knows Something, David Ridgen, along with Christine's mother, reopen the investigation and come face to face with the man who said he killed Chrissy.Someone Knows Something is the investigative true crime series by award-winning documentarian David Ridgen. Each season tackles an unsolved case, uncovering details and bringing closure to families.More episodes of Someone Knows Something are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/W72zkExu

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: The $6 Billion Dollar Gold Mine Scam

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2024 40:52


    It was the biggest gold discovery in history...until it wasn't. In 1995, Canadian mining company Bre-X announced to the world it had found a significant amount of gold deep in the jungles of Indonesia. Stock prices soared as investors worldwide fought to stake their claim. But when Bre-X's chief geologist mysteriously fell from a helicopter over the jungle, the story of the billion dollar discovery began to unravel. Nearly three decades later, no one has ever been held accountable. In the new podcast, The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam, host Suzanne Wilton takes you from the jungles of Indonesia to small town Alberta, Canada, to investigate what really happened and find out more about the man behind the biggest goldmine fraud of all time. Produced for the BBC World Service and CBC by BBC Scotland Productions. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/noD9tHcz

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: Split Screen: Kid Nation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2024 36:49


    The controversial reality TV show known as ‘Kid Nation', which borrowed its premise from Lord of the Flies, was cancelled shortly after its 2007 debut. Producers took 40 kids into a makeshift desert town to fend for themselves and create their own society. Was the series an opportunity to discover what kids are capable of? Or simply a ploy for ratings? With access to former ‘Kid Nation' contestants, their families, and the show's creators, culture journalist Josh Gwynn uncovers how this cult TV show became a lightning rod for an ongoing debate about the ethics of reality TV. Welcome to Split Screen, an examination of the utterly captivating, sometimes unsettling world of entertainment and pop culture. From reality TV gone awry, to the cult of celebrity, each season of Split Screen takes listeners on an evocative journey inside the world of showbiz. Ex-contestants, producers, and cultural critics uncover complicated truths behind TV's carefully curated facades, and question what our entertainment reveals about us. Split Screen: sometimes reality is twisted. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/W1aWJZcE

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: The Pornhub Empire: Understood

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2024 27:42


    With about 100 million visits per day, Pornhub is one of the biggest websites on the planet. This four-part series pulls back the curtain on the scrappy, Montreal-based startup that revolutionized sex on the internet — and the massive scandal that exposed its dark side. The Pornhub Empire, season 2 of Understood, releases March 11. Hosted by journalist Samantha Cole (How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex). About Understood: Know more, now. From the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, to the rise of Pornhub, Understood is an anthology podcast that takes you out of the daily news cycle and inside the events, people, and cultural moments you want to know more about. Over a handful of episodes, each season unfolds as a story, hosted by a well-connected reporter, and rooted in journalism you can trust. Driven by insight and fueled by curiosity…The stories of our time: Understood. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/ZdC_XwwL

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: Hollywood Exiles

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2024 36:20


    From the BBC World Service and CBC Podcasts comes Hollywood Exiles. Host Oona Chaplin tells the story of the decades-long campaign to root out communism in Hollywood. It's a campaign that eventually drove her grandfather, Charlie Chaplin, and many others out of tinseltown. Hollywood Exiles is a tale of glamour, duplicity and political intrigue that reverberates to this day. It's the story of how Tinseltown became an ideological battleground. The toll of the fight was enormous – reputations, careers and families were torn apart by the campaign to drive communists from the movie business. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/lYrmVFFO

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: Gay Girl Gone

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2023 36:33


    Of all the young revolutionaries in Syria during the Arab Spring, Amina is different. An out lesbian in a country where homosexuality is illegal, she bravely documents her life on the blog Gay Girl in Damascus. Her candid posts attract readers from around the world, and soon she has a wide, ardent following. But then a post appears saying Amina has been abducted. Her fans mobilize, desperate to track down and save their fearless heroine. What they find shocks them. Journalist Samira Mohyeddin investigates what actually happened to the infamous Gay Girl in Damascus in this 6-part series. The result is a twisted yarn that spans the globe and challenges our thinking on love, politics and identity in cyberspace. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/KeDFgPjf

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: Bloodlines

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2023 31:06


    From BBC Sounds and CBC Podcasts. Syria. 2018. ISIS is on the brink of defeat. A toddler disappears in the chaos. In London, his grandad needs answers. Poonam Taneja investigates. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/iosg4xHg

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: Crime Story

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2023 50:35


    Fraud. Abduction. Murder. Every week, Crime Story host and investigative journalist Kathleen Goldhar goes deep into a tale of true crime with the storyteller who knows it best. From the reporter who exposed Bill Cosby, to the writer who solved one of Australia's most chilling cold cases — Crime Story guests include: Gilbert King (Bone Valley), Eric Benson (Project Unabomb),Carole Fisher (The Girlfriends), and many more. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/1c5GV9FT

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: Someone Knows Something | Season 8

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2023 48:13


    Host David Ridgen joins victims' family members as they investigate cold cases, tracking down leads, speaking to suspects and searching for answers. In the highly-anticipated 8th season of Someone Knows Something, award-winning investigator David Ridgen delves into a cold case that has haunted Whitehorse for more than 15 years. Angel Carlick was a vibrant youth worker, nicknamed ‘Happy-Go-Lucky' by her loved ones. She had plans after graduation to become legal guardian of her brother and work to support struggling youth at her local resource centre. But just days before she was set to graduate in 2007, at age 18, Angel disappeared. Months later, her remains were found in a remote area in the Canadian north. As David works alongside Angel's family, friends, and community, he uncovers details surrounding her death and strives to bring her justice, while honouring the legacy of her late mother, Wendy. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/Q7muT2mY

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: The Banned Teacher

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2023 30:16


    From the host that brought you The Band Played On, The Banned Teacher is a new investigation, in a different city. He says it was consensual sex. She says it was rape. He was her music teacher. She was a teen. And it wasn't just once, with one girl. He had sex with students in closets, classrooms, and cars. The Banned Teacher begins with one victim's search for justice but turns into a full investigation by host Julie Ireton. Warning: This series contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/pt19WSYm

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: The Naked Emperor

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2023 35:05


    Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't like other crypto moguls: he drove a Toyota Corolla, he was an advocate for government regulation, he said he would give billions away to charity. That is, until he lost it all in what has been called “one of history's greatest-ever destructions of wealth.” Sam Bankman-Fried, aka SBF, had an empire. His cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, and hedge fund, Alameda Research, together were worth billions. Celebrities sang his praises, and politicians took his donations. Then, it all collapsed – almost overnight. There were millions of FTX customers. Now, they don't know where their money is. Host of The Naked Emperor, Jacob Silverman, co-author of a forthcoming book about crypto and fraud, takes a closer look at the hype around SBF and FTX, and how it only grew, even as other crypto companies crashed around them. How powerful was Sam Bankman-Fried? And how did he initially manage to hang on, to thrive even, as other giants tumbled towards bankruptcy? More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/G5Urmmqp

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2023 33:54


    News of the mysterious deaths of billionaire Canadian pharma giant Barry Sherman and his philanthropist wife Honey in December 2017 reverberated around the world. Five years later, with no arrests and little news from the police, their deaths remain shrouded in mystery and conspiracy theories, with too many lingering questions. Not just who killed them, but what kind of life do you have to live that when you're found dead, there are multiple theories, including some involving your own family? That's the question journalist Kathleen Goldhar set out to discover, in The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman, as she explores who the Shermans really were and why too much money might have been what killed them in the end. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/EcvpJacm

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: Pressure Cooker

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2022 36:10


    John and Amanda have lived on the fringes their whole lives. They're on welfare, living with John's grandma, and struggling with addiction to opioids and Dungeons and Dragons. They've followed crooked paths to this point. John played in heavy metal bands and dabbled with Satanism. Amanda left home and discovered heroin before her 18th birthday. The couple converts to Islam in an attempt to turn their lives around. But things take a wild turn when a mysterious figure enters their lives and draws them into a web of conspiracy, deception and terror. More episodes are available at smarturl.it/pressurecookercbc

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: Click Here

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2022 24:00


    Click Here from The Record by Recorded Future is a podcast that tells stories about the people and ideas shaping our digital world. Not long after the Conti ransomware group threw its weight behind Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine, someone leaked two years' of its internal chat logs. What they've revealed has rocked the cyber world and made clear that running a world-class ransomware operation isn't as easy as it used to be. Plus, a new look at information warfare with author Amy Zegart. More episodes are available at: https://therecord.media/podcast/

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: Kuper Island

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2022 32:46


    Kuper Island is an 8-part series that tells the stories of four students: three who survived and one who didn't. They attended one of Canada's most notorious residential schools – where unsolved deaths, abuse, and lies haunt the community and the survivors to this day. Hosted by Duncan McCue. More episodes are available at hyperurl.co/kuperisland

    Hunting Warhead Introduces: The Next Call - The Case of Nadia Atwi

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2022 29:41


    From David Ridgen, the creator of Someone Knows Something, comes the new investigative podcast The Next Call. Tackling unsolved cases through strategic phone calls. In the case of Nadia Atwi, on December 8, 2017, Salwa Atwi arrived at her daughter Nadia's home in Edmonton as part of their regular carpooling. But Nadia didn't come outside, and the 32-year-old kindergarten teacher was never seen again. Edmonton's Muslim and Lebanese communities pulled together to search in the days following. Initial searches seem promising, as Nadia's car is found in a park with her phone inside, but four years later there is still no sign of her. More episodes are available at: smarturl.it/thenextcall

    Introducing: Boys Like Me

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2021 37:23


    Why are lonely, young men a growing threat to our safety? In 2018, a Toronto man drove a van down a busy sidewalk, killing 11 people and injuring many more. He was linked to the "incel" movement, a dark online world fueled by violent misogyny, extreme isolation and perceived rejection. In the wake of the attack, Evan Mead discovers a disturbing connection to the perpetrator. They were former high school classmates; both outcasts, existing together on the fringes of social acceptance. How did two young men who started in similar circumstances, end up on such drastically different paths? More episodes are available at: smarturl.it/boyslikeme

    Introducing: White Hot Hate

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2021 37:07


    The new investigative series White Hot Hate follows the extraordinary case of young Canadian journalist Ryan Thorpe who infiltrated an international neo-Nazi extremist network. While host Michelle Shephard explores the rise of white supremacist accelerationism: the ultra-violent ideology that drives believers to create chaos, in order to seize ultimate control. More episodes are available at: hyperurl.co/whitehothate

    Introducing: Life Jolt

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2021 36:15


    Life Jolt - prison slang for a life sentence - examines the lives of women navigating Canada's correctional system. The team gained unprecedented access to the Grand Valley Institution prison, the federal pen for women in Ontario, for a full year. They followed women going into prison for the first time, spoke with lifers who have been there for years, and parolees as they left. Hosted by Rosemary Green, a former inmate herself, Life Jolt focuses on individual women's stories and the realities of prison life, and explores a wide range of issues including parenting behind bars, segregation, the over-representation of Indigenous women, addiction, trauma and the many obstacles of reintegration. More episodes are available at: smarturl.it/lifejolt

    Introducing: The Village: Season 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2021 51:35


    Transgender women, and trans sex workers in particular, know what it means to be marginalized, overpoliced, and underprotected. In season two of The Village, host Justin Ling investigates the stories of two women, Alloura Wells and Cassandra Do, whose deaths remain unexplained, and whose cases expose the systems that failed them. More episodes are available at: smarturl.it/thevillagecbc

    Introducing: The Next Call with David Ridgen

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2021 3:36


    From David Ridgen, the creator of Someone Knows Something, comes the new investigative podcast The Next Call. Tackling unsolved cases through strategic phone calls. From the victim's family members to potential suspects, the investigation unfolds with The Next Call. More episodes are available at: smarturl.it/thenextcall

    Introducing: A Death in Cryptoland

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2021 37:44


    When the young CEO of Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is reported to have died while honeymooning in India, it sets off a cataclysmic chain of events that would leave about 76,000 people out of a quarter of a billion dollars and a trail of conspiracy theories around whether Gerald Cotten is dead or alive. A Death in Cryptoland is an original podcast series about a crypto-tycoon, his secret past, his sudden demise, and an online sleuth’s obsession to unravel the truth behind QuadrigaCX. More episodes are available at smarturl.it/cryptoland

    Introducing: The Lazarus Heist

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2021 32:22


    The Lazarus Heist is a new podcast from our partners at the BBC World Service. It’s about a devastating cyber-attack, Kim Jong-un, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and how the Lazarus Group hackers caused mayhem in Hollywood. And this is just the beginning. This is episode one, but you can subscribe to The Lazarus Heist and listen to more episodes wherever you get your podcasts. #LazarusHeist

    Introducing: Evil by Design

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2021 47:24


    More than 80 women from around the world have accused the fast-fashion mogul Peter Nygard of rape, sexual assault, and human trafficking in incidents across four decades and at least four countries. He denies it all, and claims his accusers are lying as part of a vast conspiracy. Nygard had built a sprawling international retail empire over the past 50 years — but now, his professional achievements are being overshadowed by a sinister personal life, earning him the moniker, ‘Canada’s Jeffrey Epstein’. Evil by Design is a new podcast that asks the key questions: Who are the women and men who have stepped forward? Which systems failed them? And how did Nygard get away with it for so long? More episodes are available at: smarturl.it/evilbydesign

    Introducing: Brainwashed

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2020 23:51


    Brainwashed investigates the CIA’s covert mind control experiments – from the Cold War and MKULTRA to the so-called War on Terror. It’s the story of how a renowned psychiatrist used his unwitting patients as human guinea pigs at a Montreal hospital, and the ripple effects on survivors, their families, and thousands of other people around the world. It also examines the cultural impact — how the CIA brought LSD to America and inadvertently created counterculture influencers such as author Ken Kessey and poet Allen Ginsberg. It’s an exploration of what happens in times of fear, when the military and medicine collide. And what happens when the survivors fight back. More episodes are available at: smarturl.it/brainwashedcbc

    Introducing: Recall: How to Start a Revolution

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2020 32:20


    The 1950s & 60s saw a wave of radical movements. Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution. The Black Panthers. Quebec and Canada had the FLQ — a showdown that dissolved into crisis. By October 1970, there were soldiers in the streets, communities on edge, kidnapping and terror in the headlines. But those frightening weeks were just the crescendo of a wave of terror and violence that was nearly a decade in the making. This series will reveal the stories of that time through immersive storytelling and the people who lived it: the bomb disposal expert on defusing live explosives, the survivors of terror, their families, and the radicals themselves. More episodes are available at http://hyperurl.co/recallcbc

    Introducing Someone Knows Something: Donald Izzett Jr.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2020 2:11


    In Someone Knows Something Season 6, Debra has been searching for her son, Donald Izzett Jr. for 25 years. The last time she spoke with him was Mother’s Day. He had called from a road trip, but sounded upset, saying he needed money. Then the phone went dead. Donnie’s friend told police that he dropped him off in New Orleans. But Debra thinks he was murdered. And decides to investigate the case herself. Here's an excerpt from the first episode. Full episodes are available at hyperurl.co/skscbc

    Episode 6: Fallout

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2019 54:08


    At Faulkner’s final sentencing hearing, we finally discover the true extent of his activities on the dark web. We thought we knew everything he had been up to. We were wrong.

    Episode 5: Becoming Warhead

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2019 66:02


    What led Benjamin Faulkner to become Warhead? And, more importantly, how do you prevent others like him from following the same path?

    Episode 4: Impact Statement

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2019 48:00


    Jenn was home alone with her children when she received a call from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. They needed to talk to her as soon as possible. It was about her relative, Ben Faulkner.

    Episode 3: Operation Artemis

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2019 44:35


    After the arrest of Canadian Benjamin Faulkner, Taskforce Argos has to learn how to become Warhead on Child’s Play, before its users realize that the site has been compromised. But time is running out — and very difficult moral decisions will have to be made.

    Episode 2: Rude Awakening

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2019 44:24


    All Gordon wants for his birthday is to travel to Washington, D.C., to visit museums and see the opera. He’s completely unaware that his companion on this trip has very different plans. His friend has an alter ego, Warhead, and it turns out police are not far behind.

    Episode 1: Hacker vs. Hacker

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2019 54:24


    Einar Stangvik is a white-hat hacker — an internet security expert with an expertise in cracking the most secure and disturbing parts of the web. He discovers a troubling phenomenon online and joins forces with journalist Håkon Høydal. It leads them to Australia, to confront two men who are running the largest child abuse site on the dark net.

    Trailer - Hunting Warhead

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2019 2:45


    A new investigative series from CBC Podcasts and the Norwegian newspaper VG, Hunting Warhead follows an international team of police officers as they attempt to track down the people behind a massive child-abuse site on the dark web — and the morally complicated lengths authorities will go to to do so. Coming November 2019.

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