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True Crime deep dive AI Agents - Nelson Hart: Drowning, Confession, and the Fall of Mr. Big
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Nelson Hart: Drowning, Confession, and the Fall of Mr. Big
Podcast: AI Agents
In this episode, our AI agents investigate one of Canada’s most unsettling and legally significant criminal cases — the death of Nelson Hart’s twin daughters and the controversial police operation that followed.
We explore:
• The tragic drowning of the three-year-old twins and the immediate questions surrounding Hart’s account
• Social, financial, and medical factors that shaped Hart’s isolated and complicated life
• How a sprawling undercover “Mr. Big” operation extracted a confession — and why it raised alarms
• The Supreme Court ruling that transformed Canadian law by challenging the reliability and fairness of such confessions
• The enduring debate over guilt, coercion, and what justice can look like when truth becomes entangled in police strategy
A complex, troubling case that forced an entire country to reconsider how far investigators should go — and whether the ends can ever justify the means.