From playing for Canada on the soccer pitch to paying for a murder he says he didn’t commit. How did things go so wrong for Chris Sheriffe?
In episode 5 of the Murder on Mount Olive podcast, we learn more about who Chris Sheriffe is: an elite soccer player and aspiring carpenter from a good family.
Who is Chris Sheriffe? Elite soccer player. Aspiring carpenter. Good family. We hear from the people who knew him best, mother, sister, coach. We also learn about his experience growing up as a young Black teen in pc28– the frequent police stops and his complaint about the most egregious one. He’s in his Catholic school uniform, heading home from class at the end of the day and cops are tailing him for no reason at all. And that new prosecutor, she puts the first-degree murder case back on track.
Suspicion
Chief Investigative Reporter Kevin Donovan, who brought you the Billionaire Murders, is back with Murder on Mount Olive, an investigation of a crime the courts closed the book on in 2012. On a sunny day in August, 2009, a man is shot three times at a barbecue. What happens that day will put a budding young soccer star turned carpenter behind bars for life for a crime he says he didn’t commit. This is the story of Christopher Sheriffe and his fight for justice.
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Kevin Donovan is the Star’s chief investigative reporter based
in Toronto. He can be reached at 416-312-3503 or via email:
kdonovan@thestar.ca.
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