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Hey Unravel listeners, Alex Mann here,

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the co-reporter on Firebomb. If

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you're looking for a new true crime podcast to

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listen to while you wait for the next season

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of Unravel, I reckon you should take

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a listen to this new podcast from our friends

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at the CBC in Canada. It's

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called Crime Story, and each week

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they go deep with someone who

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has lived and breathed a particular

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true crime story. Here's a preview. Crime

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is a window into the world we live in.

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At its core, crime is about us.

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Every crime in one way or another

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and our reaction to it, the political

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reaction, the jurisprudential reaction, the emotional reaction,

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is a reflection of who we are

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as a people, as a city, as

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a country. I'm Kathleen

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Goltar and I'm the host of a new

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podcast. It's called Crime Story.

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Every week we bring you a different

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crime, told by the storyteller who knows

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it best. Gosh, I can

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still remember it so well. I burst

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into tears. I remember

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just this feeling of

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like complete disbelief. She

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said to me at first, people have been branded,

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and then a couple days later she

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said, I'm one of those people. You

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got one witness who can't be found.

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You got another witness who has changed

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his entire story. And you got a

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third witness who's murdered. I've

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been reporting on crime for more

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than two decades. I've covered everything

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from cults to fraudsters to murder.

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And there's one thing I can tell you with

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absolute certainty. It's really,

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really hard to tell a crime

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story well. We couldn't sugarcoat

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this story. It was a story of

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murder, of exploitation of a schoolgirl, of

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failure of a criminal justice system, of

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another era. The

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idea for this podcast is simple. I'm

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going to be talking to people who

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have spent months, even years, thinking about

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some of the most riveting and complex

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crimes in recent history. These

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are the people who know all the ins and

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outs, every twist and turn. And

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even if you think you know everything about a

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case, these storytellers are going to

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bring you something new. I

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was getting calls from Cosby's attorney threatening to sue

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every day. He was also sending letters to my

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editors threatening to sue. Too

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much of the story of Ted Kaczynski, I

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think, had been reduced to these caricatures. This

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happened to him when he was a baby.

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This happened to him at Harvard. And

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thus, he became a terrorist. And I just

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don't think life is that simple. New

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episodes of Crime Story are out every

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Monday. Find us wherever you get

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your podcasts. You can

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listen ad-free and a week early by

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subscribing to the CBC True Crime channel

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on Apple Podcasts. And

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follow CBC Podcasts on YouTube

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for exclusive behind-the-scenes video content.

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I think if you want to understand

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what crime really means, you

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have to understand that it is about, especially

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a murder, it is about a human

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being being obliterated by another human being.

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It's like a library being burned to the

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ground.