8 episodes
Hunting Warhead CBC True Crime
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4.9 • 512 Ratings
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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 Daemon Fairless tracks down the investigators, survivors and criminals themselves. A co-production of CBC Podcasts and the Norwegian newspaper VG. For the best in true crime from CBC, ad-free, visit apple.co/cbctruecrime.
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Hunting Warhead Introduces: The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam
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
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Episode 6: Fallout
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.
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Episode 5: Becoming Warhead
What led Benjamin Faulkner to become Warhead? And, more importantly, how do you prevent others like him from following the same path?
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Episode 4: Impact Statement
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.
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Episode 3: Operation Artemis
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.
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Episode 2: Rude Awakening
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.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/hunting-warehead-transcripts-listen-1.5346693
Customer Reviews
A podcast to remember
I listened to this podcast a while back and was new to podcasts and did not leave a review at the time . This is something that has stayed with me , the subject matter was fascinating but very disturbing too. It was riveting from episode one!!! I have recommended it to many people. Highly recommend a listen .
Hunting war head
The best pod cast I have listened to date. 2021best pod cast to date. Should be a documentary on tv to open the eyes of the real world. Scary place.💯👍👍👍
Excellent podcast
But why the extra bonus podcast about the autistic guy dating/incel van attack? It’s really weird tonally to bung this on the end and it’s not introduced by the original host and has nothing do with Hunting Warhead. Why do this? I can only think that the bonus episode podcaster is the niece or family friend of the Hunting Warhead team or something to capitalise on the popularity. It’s a bizarre inclusion.
Hunting Warhead? That’s amazing! A must listen. Could be two seasons as it’s obvious a lot of background research was done.