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Introducing Season 10: The Jaclyn Ferland-Smith case

3/2/20265 min

In Season 10 of Someone Knows Something, host David Ridgen 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. Episode 1 launches Monday, March 9.

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Clips

Husband faces suspicion head-on
‘How can a woman vanish?’
Tears and a stalled investigation
‘She didn’t just walk away’
Leads, sightings, and dead ends

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. David Ridgen· Host0:00

    [intro music] This is a CBC podcast.

  2. Speaker 2· Guest0:03

    [birds chirping] Gracias is good. The word that you want to hear the most is pura vida.

  3. Speaker 3· Guest0:14

    So just pura vida.

  4. Speaker 4· Guest0:16

    Pura vida.

  5. Speaker 3· Guest0:16

    And it's okay to say that?

  6. Speaker 4· Guest0:17

    Yes, of course.

  7. Speaker 3· Guest0:18

    Okay.

  8. Speaker 4· Guest0:18

    Everybody uses for gracias, hola, ciao, though.

  9. Speaker 3· Guest0:21

    Pura vida. Pura vida.

  10. David Ridgen· Host0:23

    [laughs] Costa Rica. Tiny, lush, rich in species, and filled with expat Canadians trying to find a pure life.

  11. Speaker 5· Guest0:33

    It's really exciting to think, you know, they're in their 40s at the time and able to retire to Costa Rica.

  12. David Ridgen· Host0:40

    But sometimes the escape can become something else entirely.

  13. Speaker 6· Guest0:46

    I think she was in a situation where it was just too much for her to keep going. I came out of shower, dry myself, and I look. She was not there. Her engagement ring was there and her phone.

  14. David Ridgen· Host1:03

    From CBC Podcasts, I'm David Ridgen, and this is Someone Knows Something, Season 10.

  15. Speaker 7· Guest1:09

    I actually met Jacqueline on a couple of boat trips. Very quiet girl, but super nice.

  16. David Ridgen· Host1:16

    Jacqueline Ferland Smith, a 40-year-old former Canadian military trainer, moves to Costa Rica to follow her dreams and find some peace with her husband.

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