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Katherine Laidlaw

Crime Tech

The Nature of Tides

When a child vanished in Nova Scotia, online sleuths got involved in the search. Then they lost their way.

Katherine Laidlaw Wired Sep 2021 Permalink

Clash of the Islanders

On the Toronto Islands, an ugly real estate battle forces neighbours to ask: How do we define family?

Katherine Laidlaw Toronto Life Jun 2021 20min Permalink

Crime Health

Your Body, Your Self, Your Surgeon, His Instagram

An internet-famous plastic surgeon faces hard questions, and a lawsuit, after building his brand on his patients’ bodies.

Katherine Laidlaw Wired Jan 2021 Permalink

Crime

Heartbreaker

A prolific con artist, decades of grift, and a trail of shattered relationships.

Katherine Laidlaw Toronto Life Sep 2020 25min Permalink

Crime

A Family Massacre

Menhaz Zaman was always a good boy: obedient, respectful and studious. Or that’s what everyone thought, until one night last summer, when he confessed to slaughtering his entire family with a crowbar

Katherine Laidlaw Toronto Life Feb 2020 15min Permalink

Sports

This Will End Well

The world’s best ice climber is turning 50.

Katherine Laidlaw The Walrus Mar 2016 20min Permalink

Crime

The Man Behind the Yonge Street Van Attack

The untold story of Alek Minassian, a year after the deadliest mass murder in Toronto history

Katherine Laidlaw Toronto Life Apr 2019 20min Permalink

Crime

Inside the Mind of a Voyeur

Pete Forde was a good landlord and a great friend, or so his tenants thought. Then they discovered he was filming them in their most private moments.

Katherine Laidlaw Toronto Life Oct 2018 25min Permalink

Hold the Fort

A family loses everything in the Fort McMurray wildfire.

Katherine Laidlaw The Walrus May 2016 10min Permalink