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The following episode contains difficult subject matter and accounts of sexual assault.

Please take care.

I started the Free Press in 1986 to 2016, so actually I think was 85 to 2016, yeah.

Catherine Mitchell spent years as a reporter at the Winnipeg Free Press, the city's largest daily newspaper.

I met her when I first started working on this story, looking into Peter Nygaard.

Decades earlier, her groundbreaking reporting had begun to reveal early hints of the allegations Nygaard. Decades earlier, her groundbreaking reporting had begun to reveal early hints

of the allegations Nygaard faces today. But there was always some mystery surrounding her work.

A rumor I'd heard about how her investigation had somehow been cut short.

You asked me in terms of regret, and I guess the one regret that I had was that story

deserved to be told.

A story buried by wealth and power.

I think that's why I'm here, because this woman was hurt and was abused.

I don't think that she ever had appropriate justice for what happened.

I just wanted to support what she is saying still to this day.

I'm Timothy Sawa, and this is Evil by Design.

Episode 5.

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