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During the summer of 2015, 22 year old Samantha Higgins who was a mother of two, suddenly disappeared. Her remains would be discovered several days later in Hinchinbrooke Quebec, a rural area close to the American border. Her fiance Nick Fontanelli, who was not considered to be a suspect by friends and family would be arrested a short time later, shocking both his and her family. ★Support my work...

During the summer of 2008, Aleksandra Firgan-Hewie moved from small town Port Perry, to Mississauga Ontario. She was looking to make some new friends at both her school and her neighborhood. But less than 4 months later she would be murdered, and two older friends from the Clarkson tunnel, Michelle Liard and Rafal Lasota, would be standing trial 4 years later for her death. Subscribe for more True...

On September 15 2015, in Alberta's Crowsnest Pass region, Terry Blanchette was found murdered in his home and his daughter Hailey was missing. After an Amber alert was issued, a local man Derek Saretzky would confess to not only these shocking crimes, but also the murder of another beloved community elder, Hanne Meketech. ★Support my work here - Buy me a Coffee → buymeacoffee.com/TrueCrimeCana...

On Halloween night of 2011, in the small town of Armstrong British Columbia, Taylor Van Diest would mysteriously disappear while walking along the railroad tracks to meet up with friends. Five months later, Matthew Foerster as well as his father would be arrested in connection to her murder.★Support my work here - Buy me a Coffee → https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TrueCrimeCanada

In part one we cover the early life of former Colonel Russell Williams, who would would eventually be promoted to lead Canada's largest air force base at CFB Trenton. We also learned about the strange break and enters that were occurring in the suburb of Orleans Ottawa and the tiny village of Tweed, areas where the Colonel lived. Williams was leading a double life that would escalate during th...

Colonel Russell Williams was the commander of CFB Trenton, Canada's largest air force base. He was the last person anyone would suspect of the crimes taking place in the small town of Tweed Ontario. Strange break and enters were occurring in Tweed starting in September of 2007, and the Ontario Provincial police were unaware similar crimes were also taking place 200 kms away in Orleans, a subur...

Today's story is a historical case that occurred over 50 years ago. In 1973, 33 year old Christine Demeter was found dead in the garage of her home in Mississauga Ontario. Her husband Peter Demeter was immediately the prime suspect even though he had clear alibi. But when police searched further their homicide investigation seamed more like a movie script, that included models, mobsters and mi...

Jack Wayne Bender is a convicted axe murderer. He has been serving time in prison for over 50 years in Canada for the brutal murder of Micheal Hurd and attempted murder of Allan Hurd. On November 21st 1973, he and Dwight Lucas kidnapped the brothers during a botched robbery and beat them with an axe in a field just outside of Winnipeg.★Support my work here - Buy me a Coffee → https://www.buymeacof...

In January of 2008, Karissa Boudreau mysteriously disappeared from a grocery store parking lot in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. When her mother Penny Boudreau made a tearful public plea for her daughter's safe return, the community came together in an effort to find Karissa. But after 2 weeks of an intensive search by police and the community, Karissa body was found, and it was clear that she had...

It was one of Edmonton, Alberta's most horrific domestic murders. In August of 2015, Nadine Skow was killed by her ex-boyfriend Silva Koshwal. Several of her neighbors overheard her screams for help but didn't call the police. ★Support my work here - Buy me a Coffee → https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TrueCrimeCanada

Dianna Mah-Jones was a well respected occupational therapist who worked for GF Strong in Vancouver, British Columbia. In September 2017, when she failed to show up for work, her co-workers would conduct a wellness check. Both Dianna and her husband Richard were discover brutally murdered in their own home. Six weeks later a strange man with no apparent motive would be arrested for the crime. Watch...

It was one of Ottawa, Ontario's strangest cases. In May of 2010, Paula Leclair suddenly went missing and an odd man named Camille Cleroux had moved in to her apartment. He told her friends and family that Paula had won the lottery and was on vacation. Police were contacted, and Cleroux would eventually confess to her murder. While investigating their suspect police would discover that both of Cler...

Canadian Cult leader Roch Theriault was the founder of a wellness group turned doomsday group, from Saguenay Quebec. On August 14, 1989, Gabrielle Lavallée was found in the woods of Burnt River, Ontario. She was missing an arm, severely malnourished, and told a story of years of torture, abuse and finally murder at the hands of this sadistic leader who saw himself as a self proclaimed messiah. ★Su...

Gilbert Paul Jordan was a suspected Canadian Serial Killer operated between the years of 1965 and 1988. He was linked to the deaths of 8-10 women but was only convicted of manslaughter in the death of Vanessa Lee Buckner because of his unconventional choice of weapon. Alcohol.

The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist is one of the most bizarre crimes and most expensive heists in Canadian history. Between 2011 & 2012, Avik Caron, barrel roller Richard Vallières and their band of thieves managed to steal $18.7 million Canadian dollars worth of Quebec maple syrup from the The Canadian Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve warehouse located in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec, to s...

The 2008 unsolved killing of real estate agent Lindsay Buziak is one of British Columbia’s most haunting cold cases. In January of 2008, she received a strange phone call, looking to arrange a viewing at an expensive home for new clients. Lindsay never made it out of that house, and this case has been an unsolved mystery ever since.

The wrongful conviction of David Milgaard was one of the worst miscarriage of justice in Canadian history. In 1969, David was convicted of the murder of Gail Miller and spent 23 year in prison. The Supreme Court of Canada overturned his conviction in 1992 and DNA exonerated him completely in 1997 as well as proved who the real killer was, Larry Earl Fisher.

In 1970, at the age of 17, David Milgaard was wrongfully convicted of murdering Gail Miller, a nurse from Saskatoon. He would spend almost 23 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit before his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1992, and exonerated by DNA evidence in 1997. This DNA evidence would eventually convict Larry Fisher in 1999, 30 years after the killing took...

On August 24, 1992, Engineering Professor Valery Fabrikant went on a shooting spree at Concordia University, in Montreal Quebec, killing four colleagues and wounded one staff member. The warning signs were there from day one, but ignored for years by university administrators. What began as a campaign of harassment, ended in tragedy, with the deaths of Departmental Chair Phoivos Ziogas and Profess...