The Detectives

THE DETECTIVES is a gripping eight-part factual series that brings to life the work of real detectives by blending the best of documentary storytelling with fully dramatized re-enactments.

Detective Mike Eastham goes across the country and back again to solve one of the largest mass murders in Canada.

Detective Herb Curwain does whatever it takes to solve the disappearance of a young woman in Pickering, Ont., and changes the way serial killers are investigated in Canada.

When a man is reported missing, things don’t add up. Edmonton Homicide Investigator Bill Clark takes charge and before long finds himself deep in the world of internet homicide, and the sickening potential that the murder was filmed for sale to the highest bidder.

A young couple is bludgeoned to death at home. Detective Don Forgan forms a close bond with the only witness: a 3-year-old boy.

Detective Rod Piukkala faces a gruesome crime scene, a bomb threat, and mysterious killer threatening to strike again. The victim’s family helps change Canadian parole laws forever.

Flames rage on in a Toronto heritage landmark, burning every piece of evidence. But tenacious detective Debbie Harris helps change the way the city’s police investigate fires.

A sex worker turns to Halifax detective Penny Hart for help before going missing. Solving the case means bringing down barriers between police and sex trade workers.

Less than a month after emigrating from the Philippines to Calgary, a man is brutally murdered. Detective Thomas Barrow is haunted when his instincts fail him on the case.