Someone Knows Something - Introducing Season 10: The Jaclyn Ferland-Smith case

Episode Date: March 2, 2026

In Season 10 of Someone Knows Something, host David Ridgen investigates the sudden 2021 disappearance of Jaclyn Ferland-Smith, a Canadian expat living in Playas del Coco, a paradise veiled in rumour and fear on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Episode 1 launches Monday, March 9. Hear episodes early on CBC True Crime on YouTube, or subscribe to CBC True Crime Premium on Apple Podcasts for early, ad-free access to all episodes.

This is a CBC podcast. Grazie, it's good. The word that you're going to hear the most is pure vida. So just pure vida, and it's okay to say that? Yes, of course. Everybody uses for, thank you, allah, chow, all. Pure a vida.

Pure a vida. Costa Rica, tiny, lush, rich in species, and filled with expat Canadians trying to find a pure life. It's really exciting to think, you know, they're in their 40s at the time. and able to retire to Costa Rica. But sometimes the escape can become something else entirely.

I think she was in a situation where it was just too much for her to keep going. I came out of shower, dry myself, and I looked she was not there. Her engagement ring was there and her phone. From CBC Podcasts, I'm David Rigen, and this is... Someone knows something, season 10. I actually met Jacqueline on a couple of boat trips. Very quiet, girl, but super nice. Jacqueline Furland Smith, a 40-year-old former Canadian military trainer,

moves to Costa Rica to follow her dreams and find some peace with her husband. Yes, she was beautiful, she was intelligent. If she had no stress and were doing great, she was the best wife ever. But in the summer of 2021, while living in the close-knit tourist beach town of Playa Del Coco, Jackie vanishes without a trace. She'd never go out in the dark and not take her own car. Jackie wouldn't do that. For the first year after this happened, I was kind of a mess because how can a woman just go missing and us put out all that effort to find her? And she's still missing.

It just doesn't compute to my brain. Where did Jackie go? Man or a woman? He's the only that was somebody in the back of the taxi. What do people know? Yeah, but you know who I'm talking about? The woman that disappeared, the Canadian woman? I remember, yeah, one woman that I can see in the pictures and everything, yeah?

I saw her and it was quite awkward because it was the first time I ever saw her without a smile. You can disappear pretty easily, I guess, if you want to. And what's been happening with Jackie's case four years later and so far from home? He's saying that it's not possible to talk about this case, you'd have to go straight through his boss. A mothballed investigation and desperate family. You feel fine and then you start talking and all of a sudden it just comes out. Sorry.

A community of expats and locals who want answers. The guys from Oihota like a week later came and I was really pissed because nobody had been in the house a week later. It's supposed to like happen the same day. And a husband who knows that many eyes are on him. We all heard those things, right? Like if you want to know the guilty person, look for like the closest to them or look at the husband, right?

Like all those stereotypes. I just said the facts and what happened. I did not kill her, obviously, yes. But who am I to convince anyone? I traveled to Costa Rica to investigate a Canadian case. What is your theory about what he passed to Jacqueline? I don't think she just walked away, like this is what they were saying. That she just walked away.

No way. No way. Head northwest on Haile La Faza. Your destination will be on the left. Check, check. Here we go. I'm David Ridgeon, and this is Someone Knows Something, Season 10, the Jacqueline Furland-Smith case.

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