Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast

THE GIRL IN THE BOILER ROOM: The Murder of Andrea Atkinson A Toronto nightmare, a shocking betrayal, and a mother's decades-long fight for justice. In October 1990, six-year-old Andrea Atkinson left her Toronto apartment to play. Just hours later, she was gone. Ten agonizing days of frantic searching ended in terror when her body was found in the most unthinkable place: the boiler room of her own...

The Girl in the Boiler Room: The Murder of Andrea Atkinson (Trailer) October 1990. Toronto. A Sunday morning turned into a nightmare when six-year-old Andrea Atkinson vanished. Ten days later, her body was found in the most unthinkable place: the boiler room of her own apartment building. The killer? A trusted face, the building's caretaker. A case solved by groundbreaking forensics, but one that...

Unresolved Silence Delving into Ontario's Enduring Cold Case Mysteries In "Unresolved Silence," we uncover the haunting world of Ontario's unsolved homicides, where justice lingers in the shadows. From Toronto's high-profile enigmas like the Sherman murders and Bruce McArthur's victims to rural tragedies such as the Nation River Lady and Gerald Durocher, this gripping analysis explores decades of...

Unresolved Silence - Trailer In the heart of Canada's most populous province, silence hides the truth. Unsolved homicides that haunt families for decades. From Toronto's elite murders to rural river discoveries. Explore the code of silence, forensic revolutions like genetic genealogy, and cases that shocked the nation—the Shermans, Bruce McArthur, the Nation River Lady. Unresolved Silence: Because...

Midnight on King Street - Available Now! A Mick & Mack New Year’s Caper New Year’s Eve, 1950s Toronto. 
Snow drifts along King Street. Fireworks wait their turn. And inside the Royal York Hotel, a perfectly ordinary briefcase sparks extraordinary suspicion. When detectives Mick McCathie and Archie “Mack” MacNeely are assigned light duty at a glittering New Year’s party, the last thing they exp...

The Setup - Midnight on King Street (Available Now) New Year’s Eve in Toronto.
Snow on King Street. Champagne in the air.
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Midnight on King Street A Mick & Mack New Year’s Caper New Year’s Eve, 1950s Toronto. 
Snow drifts along King Street. Fireworks wait their turn. And inside the Royal York Hotel, a perfectly ordinary briefcase sparks extraordinary suspicion. When detectives Mick McCathie and Archie “Mack” MacNeely are assigned light duty at a glittering New Year’s party, the last thing they expect is a room ful...

Midnight on King Street A Mick & Mack New Year’s Caper New Year’s Eve, 1950s Toronto. 
Detectives Mick McCathie and Archie MacNeely are on light duty…
until a mysterious briefcase turns a celebration into a quiet panic. 
Rumors spread. Suspicions rise. 
And the truth is far more embarrassing than anyone imagined. 
Midnight on King Street —
a Mick & Mack mystery where no one dies,
but digni...

The Longest Night of the Year 
A Mick & Mack Mystery When time is stolen, someone always pays. Christmas Eve in 1950s Toronto should have been quiet. For Detectives Mick McCathie and Archie MacNeely, it begins as a routine errand—a sealed envelope, a short drive, no urgency. But when the envelope vanishes near St. Michael’s Cathedral and a petty thief is found frozen in an alley, clutching a p...

The Longest Night of the Year When time is stolen, someone always pays. Toronto, Christmas Eve. 
A routine errand goes missing… and a man is found frozen in an alley—
his watch stopped at 11:17. As snow falls and bells ring by hand, Detectives Mick McCathie and Archie MacNeely uncover a crime hidden in minutes, ledgers, and lives erased on paper. This Christmas, justice doesn’t arrive with sirens…...

Bowmanville Jane Doe: The Red Garnet Ring Mystery An unidentified young woman of Caribbean heritage, found in a remote Ontario marsh – who was she? In 2006, skeletal remains of a young woman were discovered in a marshy field near Bowmanville, Ontario. Estimated to be 18-25 years old at death, she had distinctive dental work, a healed nasal fracture, and genetic ties to the Caribbean, possibly St....

Bowmanville Jane Doe: The Red Garnet Ring Mystery An unidentified young woman of Caribbean heritage, found in a remote Ontario marsh – who was she? In 2006, skeletal remains of a young woman were discovered in a marshy field near Bowmanville, Ontario. Estimated to be 18-25 years old at death, she had distinctive dental work, a healed nasal fracture, and genetic ties to the Caribbean, possibly St....

Bowmanville Jane Doe: The Red Garnet Ring Mystery An unidentified young woman of Caribbean heritage, found in a remote Ontario marsh – who was she? Hidden in a boggy field off Highway 401... skeletal remains discovered in 2006. A young woman of Caribbean descent, with a distinctive red garnet ring and clues from the 80s and 90s. Investigators believe she was murdered – but who was she?   Nearly tw...

Pregnant Métis Woman Abigail Andrews Vanishes in Fort St. John, April 7, 2010 Abigail Andrews, a single Metis woman, lived in a basement suite in Fort St. John, British Colombia. She worked at FSJ Fashions, and The Frontier Bar and Grill. She was pregnant but not yet showing. Abigail was last seen on the evening of April 7, 2010 walking from her home towards a friend's house. Abigail was born in 1...

Lost in the Shadows: The Unsolved Murder of Kelly Mombourquette A City’s Dark Secret. A Murder Unsolved. A Girl Forgotten. In the shadows of Toronto’s neon-lit streets, 14-year-old Kelly Mombourquette vanished into the night—only to be found on October 19, 1987, her lifeless body discarded in a desolate parking lot on Yorkland Blvd. Brutally beaten, her throat slashed, Kelly’s murder sent shockwav...

Vanished in the Night: The Unsolved Murder of Debbie Silverman In the pre-dawn hours of August 12, 1978, 21-year-old Debbie Silverman stepped into the hallway of her Toronto apartment building—and vanished. A vibrant young woman with a love for disco, exotic perfumes, and dreams as big as her heart, Debbie was snatched in a violent ambush, her purse and broken gold necklace left scattered as haunt...

The Unsolved Tragedy of Lizzie Tomlinson A Chilling Mystery That Grips the Heart of Toronto In the spring of 1980, 6-year-old Lizzie Tomlinson vanished from “Stinky’s Park,” a seemingly safe haven in Toronto’s east end. Lured away by a bearded stranger with piercing blue eyes, the shy young girl’s fate was sealed in a brutal act of violence. Two days later, her body was discovered in a desolate in...

A Chilling Look at the Lyle Ford Case  The Unsolved Murders of Toronto’s Sex Trade Workers: A Mystery Awaits in Toronto’s Darkest Corners In the gritty streets of 1980s and 1990s Toronto, a shadow hunted the vulnerable. Five sex trade workers, their lives snuffed out by strangulation, their bodies moved under the cover of night. Were these brutal murders the work of a single, cunning serial killer...

The Unsolved Murders of Lori Pinkus and Toronto’s Sex Trade Workers Unraveled Secrets in the Shadows of Toronto In the dark streets of Toronto, a sinister pattern emerged from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s: five sex trade workers, including Lori Pinkus, brutally strangled and left in chilling scenes far from where they were last seen. Were these murders the work of a single predator stalking the...

Three women. Three decades. One invisible killer. For more than forty years, the murders of Christine Prince, Claire Samson, and Gracelyn Greenidge haunted Toronto: separate lives, separate eras, the same unseen predator. No connections. No suspects. Only the same trace of DNA that refused to speak until science finally caught up. In December 2025, Toronto Police and the OPP stood before the famil...

The Murder of Donna Oglive – A Cold Case Breakthrough A Cold Case Cracked. A Killer Caught. The Truth Unearthed. In the gritty streets of 1998 Toronto, 24-year-old Donna Oglive—a sharp, street-smart mother pregnant with her second child—was found strangled in a desolate parking lot, her body chillingly posed. Her murder joined a string of unsolved killings haunting the city’s sex trade workers, ea...

The Tragic Case of Susan Siegel and a Potential Serial Killer A City Stalked by Shadows. A Killer Still at Large. In the gritty underbelly of 1980s Toronto, a predator hunted the vulnerable. Susan Siegel, a 20-year-old sex trade worker, vanished into the night of December 16, 1984, only to be found strangled and abandoned by desolate railroad tracks. Her murder, chillingly similar to four others,...

Unveiling the Mystery of Benita Tarantino’s Murder A City Stalked by Shadows. A Killer Still at Large. In the neon-lit streets of 1980s Toronto, a predator hunted the vulnerable, leaving a trail of unsolved murders that haunt the city to this day. Among them: 17-year-old Benita Tarantino, a troubled teen who vanished one night in 1985, just days after her engagement. Her body, found weeks later in...

Five women. Five stranglings. One city that tried not to look. From the mid-’80s to the late ’90s, Benita Tarantino, Susan Siegel, Donna Oglive, Lori Pinkus, and Lyle Ford were all found strangled in or around downtown Toronto. Each moved from where they were last seen. Each working in the sex trade. Decades later, their murders are still unsolved. Was this one predator… or several men the city ne...

Toronto’s Forgotten Five: The Sex Trade Worker Stranglings Benita, Susan, Donna, Lori, Lyle – Was One Man Hunting Them All? From the mid-1980s to the late-1990s, five women walked Toronto’s streets and never came home. Benita “Bonnie” Tarantino, 17.
Susan Siegel, 20.
Donna Oglive, 24.
Lori Pinkus, 21.
Lyle Ford, 35. All were sex trade workers. All were moved from where they were last seen. All wer...