S9 Trailer: The Dead File
5/15/20263 min
Island Crime Season 9: The Dead File — In 1959, Curly and Lizzie Kostyniuk were stabbed to death in their rural home near Nanaimo, BC — a double murder that was never solved and virtually forgotten for over six decades. Now, host Laura Palmer is reopening the case, chasing paper trails and reexamining evidence with the help of the victims' descendants, who have long suspected the truth is darker than the official robbery theory. This is her oldest cold case yet.
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First 90 secondsLaura Palmer· Host0:00
[suspenseful music] Newspaper accounts at the time described the murders as brutal, savage, the crime scene one of the most gruesome the island has ever witnessed. And yet, until I begin working on this case, I know absolutely nothing about it. In June of 1959, in a quiet rural neighborhood just south of Nanaimo, Curly and Lizzie Kosteniuk are stabbed to death in their bedroom. First Lizzie, and then six to 12 hours later, Curly. It's a double murder, a knife slaying, and it's never solved. When I begin researching the case, there is zero public information online, no TV news stories, no podcasts, no news articles, nothing. For more than six decades, it's as if the case just vanishes. But then I hear from a young woman named Shawna, Curly and Lizzie's great-great-granddaughter.
Shawna· Guest1:14
I found a box of letters that were my grandma's, and there's letters from her dad from prison in 1958, '59, and I was like, "Oh my gosh."
Laura Palmer· Host1:27
Curly and Lizzie live in a small home