Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast

Who Is She? A Mick & Mack Mystery
 Inspired by a True Story Toronto, 1949.
 When a young wife and mother vanishes after her shift at a Danforth Avenue diner, detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely are called in to investigate. What begins as a routine missing persons case quickly turns into something darker: whispers of a man in a brown delivery truck, a suitcase found in the Don Valley, a...

The Gardener's Grim Harvest: The Bruce McArthur Story Episode 1: McArthur and the Victims In the heart of Toronto’s Gay Village, a sanctuary turned sinister.** Men began to vanish—fathers, dreamers, friends—leaving behind only whispers and weathered posters fluttering on lampposts. Unseen, a predator thrived among them: Bruce McArthur, the jovial landscaper whose hands shaped gardens and hid horro...

38 Years of Silence: The Hunt for Margaret McWilliam’s Killer A Routine Jog. A Brutal Attack. A Mystery That Refuses to Die. On a warm August evening in 1987, 21-year-old Margaret McWilliam laced up her running shoes and stepped out for a jog in Toronto’s Warden Woods Park. It was a routine she knew well—a moment of peace in her busy life as a student and part-time worker. But that night, she woul...

38 Years of Silence: The Hunt for Margaret McWilliam’s Killer A Routine Jog. A Brutal Attack. A Mystery That Refuses to Die. August 27, 1987. A warm Toronto evening. Margaret McWilliam, a 21-year-old student with a bright future, laces up her running shoes for a jog in Warden Woods Park. It’s a routine she knows well—until it becomes her last. Ambushed. Dragged into the shadows. Brutally murdered....

The Gardner Museum Heist Episode 3: The Mafia Connection  Uncover the Mob’s Secrets in the Gardner Museum Heist! Dive into the shadowy underworld of 1990s Boston with Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast as we continue our World True Crime Thursday series. In Episode 3: The Mafia Connection, host Jay Nicoll of Nicoll Investigations pulls you into the heart of the Isabella Stewart...

The Restorer’s Redemption
 A Mick & Mack Mystery “A forged past. A burning truth. And a ghost who never died…” When a priceless medieval manuscript is revealed to be a forgery during a glittering Toronto gallery gala, famed art restorer Nicholas Hawthorne becomes the prime suspect in a scandal that could destroy his career—and his freedom. But Nick insists the manuscript was real when it left...

The Unsolved Mystery of Superman's Fall: The Death of George Reeves The Man of Steel. The Hollywood Dream. The Unsolved Murder. On a quiet summer morning in June 1959, Hollywood reeled from an impossible headline: Superman was dead. Not the invincible hero, but George Reeves, the beloved actor who brought him to life for millions. His death, officially ruled a suicide, quickly became Tinseltown's...

The Bloody Palm Print: Unmasking the Killer of Lawrence Cowan In 1976, the quiet, close-knit community of Smiths Falls, Ontario, was shattered by a brutal act of violence. Lawrence Cowan, the beloved owner of Cowan's Dairy Bar—a cherished local landmark—was senselessly murdered during a masked armed robbery. The perpetrator vanished into the night, leaving behind a scene of horror and a single, ch...

The Bloody Palm Print: Unmasking the Killer of Lawrence Cowan (Trailer) In the quiet heart of Smiths Falls, Ontario, a chilling secret has festered for nearly five decades. September 3rd, 1976. A beloved local figure, Lawrence Cowan, owner of the iconic Cowan's Dairy Bar, is brutally gunned down during a masked robbery. The killer vanishes, leaving behind a scene of unspeakable horror... and one c...

The Gardner Museum Heist Episode 2: Early Leads and Suspects The Hunt for Stolen Masterpieces Begins! In the dead of night, they struck—a daring heist that stripped the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of $500 million in art. Now, the chase is on. Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast takes you back to 1990 Boston in Episode 2: Early Leads and Suspects of our World True Crime Thursday se...

The Private Investigators Convention A Mick & Mack Mystery
 As heard on Ontario Cold Cases – Canada’s True Crime Podcast They came to toast the best in the business. One of them came to kill. Toronto, 1950. The chandeliers of the Royal York Hotel gleam, the band plays smooth jazz, and the world’s greatest private eyes gather for a convention of crime-solvers, cloak-and-dagger panels, and one v...

Tom Thomson: Life, Art, and Canada's Enduring Mystery The wilderness held his genius. It also claimed his life. Tom Thomson , the visionary artist who captured the untamed soul of Canada, vanished into the depths of Algonquin Park in July 1917, just weeks shy of his 40th birthday. The official verdict: accidental drowning. But over a century later, the chilling questions persist, echoing through t...

The Lost Boys of Pickering - A Canadian Tragedy 
A True Crime Mystery from Ontario Cold Cases – Canada’s True Crime Podcast Six teenage friends. One late-night adventure. Zero answers. In the early hours of St. Patrick’s Day 1995, six high school boys vanished from the icy shores of Lake Ontario. What began as a night of celebration in Pickering, Ontario quickly turned into one of Canada’s most ba...

The Lost Boys of Pickering - A Canadian Tragedy (Trailer) 
Six teenage boys.
 A stolen boat. 
A freezing lake in the middle of the night.
 And then… nothing. On St. Patrick’s Day, 1995, six friends from Pickering vanished without a trace. No bodies. No wreckage. Not a single answer. Was it a tragic accident?
 Or something far more sinister? Join myself, Jay Nicoll of Nicoll Investigations, this Su...

The Gardner Museum Heist, Episode 1: The Heist The Heist That Shook the World In the early hours of March 18, 1990, as Boston reeled from St. Patrick’s Day revelry, two men in police uniforms slipped into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. In a brazen 81-minute spree, they outsmarted lax security, duped the night guards, and made off with 13 irreplaceable masterpieces—works by Rembrandt, Vermeer...

Murder at Maple Leaf Stadium
 A Mick & Mack Mystery 
Toronto, 1949. The crowd roars. The bat cracks. And a body hits the dirt. Slugger Johnny “Jolt” Jensen rounds third under the glow of the Maple Leaf Stadium lights—only to collapse dead at home plate. What looked like a thrilling game turns into a deadly scandal as whispers of poison, gambling, and game-fixing ripple through the stands. Dete...

Hidden Horror: The Adam Strong Investigation In the quiet city of Oshawa, Ontario, a seemingly ordinary man hid a monstrous secret. Adam Strong, a reclusive basement dweller, was a predator who preyed on the vulnerable. His victims, Rori Hache and Kandis Fitzpatrick , were young women with bright futures, their lives tragically cut short. When a plumber’s gruesome discovery led to Strong’s arrest,...

Siding with Bad Guys Activists targeting revolutionary crime-fighting tool “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”— Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan Particularly if you’re a crime victim in Canada. One of the most revolutionary developments in solving murders, sex assaults, and identifying John and Jane Does has now come under the s...

The Enduring Mystery of Mistie Murray On a warm spring evening in May 1995, 16-year-old Mistie Murray stepped out of her dance class in the quiet town of Goderich, Ontario—and vanished into the night. No footsteps, no witnesses, no trace. What happened next would shatter a family, stun a close-knit community, and leave a mystery that has defied answers for nearly three decades. In this pulse-pound...

The Enduring Mystery of Mistie Murray - Trailer On a warm spring evening in 1995, the quaint town of Goderich, Ontario—nestled along the shimmering shores of Lake Huron—was forever changed. Sixteen-year-old Mistie Murray stepped out of her dance class… and vanished into thin air. She was supposed to walk home. She never arrived. What happened to Mistie Murray? A small town gripped by fear. A famil...

The Bennington Triangle: Vermont's Unsolved Disappearances In the wild heart of Vermont’s Bennington Triangle, a chilling enigma unfolded between 1945 and 1950. Five people vanished without a trace—Middie Rivers, a seasoned hunter; Paula Jean Welden, an 18-year-old college student; James Tedford, a veteran who disappeared from a moving bus; Paul Jepson, an 8-year-old boy; and Frieda Langer, a camp...

The Canoe of Shadows 
A Mick & Mack Mystery Deep in the misty reaches of Algonquin Park, a local artist is found dead in Canoe Lake—eerily echoing the fate of famed painter Tom Thomson in 1917. Officially, it’s a tragic accident. Unofficially? The lake remembers. Detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely are sent north to investigate—but as they delve into the mystery, they uncover more than...

Case as cold as Snow By Brad Hunter, Toronto Sun Angelien Quesnelle was murdered in 1991 and, for 34 years, her family has lived without answers. OPP investigators have never stopped searching for her killer, relentless in their pursuit of the truth. On Monday, the OPP announced that they had arrested and charged suspected serial killer, David Snow in the long-unsolved cold case murder in the Banc...

Cold Cases Remain Unsolved Scolding, posturing has not solved one MMIWG cold case We all remember the scoldings. Daily, we were told that the crisis of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) was our fault. In some ways, it was true, but in most ways, it wasn’t. So we launched a commission that cost a zillion dollars and had a pre-determined outcome. Reality, however, scorched the...

The Disappearance of Jami Furnandiz On a crisp autumn morning in October 1997, 18-year-old Jami Furnandiz dropped off her toddler son, Stefan, at a daycare in Port Perry, Ontario—and vanished without a trace. A devoted young mother with her son’s name tattooed on her ankle, Jami was balancing high school and parenthood when she disappeared, leaving behind a shattered family and a small town grippe...