Dark evidence, handled with restraint.
Hunting Warhead follows high-risk reporting into child sexual abuse, online exploitation, and the people left to live with the damage. It moves patiently through interviews, courtrooms, family testimony, and investigative tape without turning the subject into spectacle.
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Hunting Warhead is investigative true crime at its most severe. The series centers on a criminal world built around online child sexual abuse, then follows the evidence outward into interviews, court proceedings, family conversations, and the psychology of secrecy. It does not hurry. That measured pace lets the reporting sit with the people who were harmed, the people who investigated the case, and the people forced to reckon with what someone close to them has done. Episode material from “Fallout” shows that range clearly: an anxious interview, a sentencing context, Kathy and Rob speaking about Faulkner, and a statement that reveals as much through self-focus as through confession. The show is interested in consequences. It is also interested in the cost of looking directly at facts most people would rather avoid. The feed’s recent additions place Hunting Warhead in a wider CBC true-crime ecosystem, including stories about the Satanic Panic, Jesse James, Clifford Olson, Christine Herron, unidentified bodies, false identities, and dangerous reporting environments. Those introductions are not the core case, but they show the same editorial appetite for buried records, recorded calls, unreliable memory, and institutions that fail under pressure. The strongest moments are quiet rather than sensational. A person asking for mercy and distance. A reporter describing fear after abduction. A family pushing against the easy label of runaway. A detective trying to name a body from almost nothing. Hunting Warhead belongs to listeners who want rigorous, emotionally serious crime reporting and can tolerate disturbing subject matter when it is handled with restraint. It does not offer comfort. It offers attention, evidence, and a sober account of harm.
Made for: For listeners who want serious investigative true crime with patient reporting, difficult interviews, and moral complexity. Best suited to adults comfortable with disturbing subject matter presented without sensationalism.
What sets it apart: Its force comes from restraint: long-form tape, court and family aftermath, and a refusal to make horror feel entertaining. The feed also connects the core investigation to adjacent CBC stories about high-risk reporting, old cases, and hidden identities.
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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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