The Next Call with David Ridgen

About The Next Call with David Ridgen

From David Ridgen, the creator of Someone Knows Something, comes the investigative podcast The Next Call. Ridgen works with victims’ family members, police and eye-witnesses to find answers. From investigators to potential suspects, the investigation unfolds with The Next Call. For the best in true crime from CBC, ad-free, visit apple.co/cbctruecrime.

Publisher

CBC

Category

true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 May 2021

Latest episode

19 May 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 22 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   19 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Next Call Introduces | The Expert Witness

   Host Sam Mullins interviews experts about AI's role as a witness in the criminal justice system and its implications for accountability.

2. 

   16 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Next Call Introduces: The Jaclyn Ferland-Smith Case

   David Ridgen is back with a brand new season of Someone Knows Something. In Season 10, David investigates the sudden 2021 disappearance of Jaclyn Ferland-Smith, a Canadian expat living in Playas del Coco, a paradise veiled in rumour and fear on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.More episodes of Someone Knows Something are available wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://link.mgln.ai/SKS10xTNC (https://link.mgln.ai/SKS10xTNC)

3. 

   28 Oct 2025

   The Next Call Introduces: The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall

   In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a massive scale — yet these thousands of alleged Satanists were nowhere to be found. Even so, the narrative became embedded in our cultural memory, warping everything it touched — including the lives of innocent people… And it never quite died out.In a new 8-part series, Sarah Marshall (You’re Wrong About) explores the tangled web of the Satanic Panic, in a journey that will take you everywhere from Victoria, B.C. to rural Kentucky to San Antonio, Texas. This is a show about the people who experienced the Satanic Panic in real-time — the believers, the skeptics, the bystanders, and the wrongfully-convicted. What was it like to be a psychologist told to look for Satanists in every case; a mother slowly recovering memories of supposed Satanic abuse; a teenager accused of conspiracy to murder? The stories of these eyewitnesses point us toward the real underlying problems — individual and societal — that the Panic was a response to. The fault, as ever, was not with Satanists, but in ourselves.You can find more episodes of The Devil You Know wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://link.mgln.ai/TDYKxTNC (https://link.mgln.ai/TDYKxTNC )

Inside a recent episode

The Next Call Introduces | The Expert Witness

Published 19 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The officer has got a badge and it says Akron. Immediately, I knew something very bad happened if they came in person. The officer asked if there was a place they could sit down to talk. preferably like a quiet place. And I keep thinking, okay, this is really bad. Sat down. The officer sat here. I sat here and he said three sentences. Your daughter was at a party last night. There were shots fired. She did not survive. And I let out the worst scream. There was a house party that spilled onto the street with hundreds of kids near the university campus. At some point, bullets tore through the night, and Maya McFetridge and another partygoer, Alex Beasley, were killed. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

1,446 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

589 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

24

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

94

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