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  VANISHED IN THE NIGHT: The Unsolved Mystery of Lisa Maas and Ontario’s Lost Daughters   In the pre-dawn haze of July 17, 1988, Lisa Maas—22, five months pregnant, and chasing a fresh start—drove into the darkness of Woodford, Ontario, and disappeared. Her green Plymouth Fury was found two days later, abandoned on a muddy farm lane, doors flung open, papers strewn like a cry for help. Her driver’s license surfaced miles away, tossed aside like a taunt.   Was it the shadowy male acquaintance who last saw her, his story unraveling under scrutiny?   A predator lurking on the lonely backroads?   Or a secret buried near the farmhouse she never escaped?   Thirty-seven years later, the truth remains elusive—yet the whispers of foul play grow louder.   But Lisa’s story isn’t alone. From Lois Hanna, vanishing weeks earlier, to Amber Potts Jaffary and beyond, Ontario’s lost daughters haunt the province’s quiet corners—young women stolen after nights of revelry,...

Vanished in the Night: The Unsolved Mystery of Lisa Maas and Ontario’s Lost Daughters (Trailer) | Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast Vanished in the Night: The Unsolved Mystery of Lisa Maas and Ontario’s Lost Daughters July 17, 1988. 4:30 a.m. The backroads of Woodford, Ontario, lie silent—until Lisa Maas vanishes. A 22-year-old dreamer, five months pregnant, drives into the night after a party. Her car’s found days later—stuck in mud, doors wide open, papers scattered like a scream frozen in time. Her license? Tossed miles away, a mocking clue. Thirty-seven years later, the shadows still hide her fate. This Sunday, March 30, on Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast , I’m Jay Nicoll of Nicoll Investigations, and we’re tearing into the enigma of Lisa Maas. Was it the male acquaintance who last saw her, his story fraying at the edges? A predator stalking the dark? Or a truth buried near that Annan farmhouse? And then there’s Lois Hanna, Amber Potts Jaffary—Ontario’s lost daught...

  Vanished in the Islands: The Disappearance of Faloma and Maleina Luhk
 Ontario Cold Cases – Canada’s True Crime Podcast It was a quiet morning on Saipan Island.
 The sun had just risen. The sea breeze was warm.
 Two young sisters—Faloma and Maleina Luhk—walked to their village bus stop like they did every school day.
 They sat down. They waited. Twenty minutes later, the bus pulled up.
 But the girls were gone. No witnesses. No footprints. No sign of a struggle.
 Just an empty bench—and a mystery that would haunt an entire island. What followed became the largest and most expensive missing persons investigation in the history of the Northern Mariana Islands.
 The FBI. Homeland Security. Navy helicopters. Air Force planes. Underwater divers. Jungle search dogs.
 Everyone searched.
 No one found them. Suspects came and went.
 Dark secrets surfaced.
 A possible sighting. A chilling discovery.
 Still—no answers. Now, over a decade later, this case remains unsolved.
 But someone, some...

Johnny Thunders: Unraveling the Mystery Behind a Punk Legend’s Death Johnny Thunders: Unraveling the Mystery Behind a Punk Legend’s Death He was chaos wrapped in leather and eyeliner. A guitar slinger with a sneer, a swagger, and a sound that could slice through the thickest smoke-filled club. Johnny Thunders didn’t just play rock ‘n’ roll—he was rock ‘n’ roll. From the streets of the Bronx to the neon-lit gutters of New York’s East Village, he carved his name into history as the wild heart of The New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers. His music inspired a generation of punks, his reckless spirit became the stuff of legend. But on April 23, 1991, in a rundown hotel in New Orleans, his story took a dark and final turn. Thunders was found curled in a fetal position, his body stiff with rigor mortis, his belongings gone. The official story? An overdose. Case closed. But the people who knew him weren’t buying it. His family claimed he was dying of leukemia.
 His friends whispered about a ro...

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast - Vanished Without a Trace: The Disappearance of Lois Hanna | Free Listening on Podbean App Vanished Without a Trace: The Disappearance of Lois Hanna She turned off the lights, but never made it to bed. July 3rd, 1988. A warm summer night in the quiet town of Lucknow, Ontario. As the Celebrate In ’88 festival came to an end, 25-year-old Lois Hanna said goodnight to her brother, stepped out of the arena, and disappeared into the dark. She made it home. That much is certain.
 Her pink dress was hung neatly in her closet.
 Her purse and keys were in their usual place.
 The television flickered in an empty room, a cup of tea left half-finished on the counter. But Lois was gone. No signs of a struggle.
 No forced entry.
 Just two drops of blood near the side door—and a chilling silence that has lasted nearly four decades. What happened to Lois Hanna? From frantic searches and whispered suspicions to DNA evidence and an unnamed man now living in Eastern Ontar...

  Vanished Without a Trace – The Disappearance of Lois Hanna (Trailer) coming this Sunday, March 23rd. July 3rd, 1988. A summer night filled with music, dancing, and celebration in the small town of Lucknow, Ontario. 25-year-old Lois Hanna was last seen leaving a community dance—radiant, responsible, and heading home for the night. She made it home.
She changed into her nightgown.
She brewed a cup of tea.
She turned on the TV. Everything was in its place... except Lois. No forced entry.
No struggle.
Just two drops of blood… and an empty house frozen in time. In this chilling episode, we peel back the layers of a decades-old mystery that continues to haunt a family, a town, and the investigators who have never stopped searching. From mysterious sightings and DNA breakthroughs, to a suspect who once sat at the Hanna family’s kitchen table—this is a story of heartbreak, silence… and secrets buried deep. Who followed her home that night?
Why was no one ever charged?
And could her kille...

Neon Lights & Dark Secrets: The Nightclub Murders of Vancouver - Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Neon Lights & Dark Secrets: The Nightclub Murders of Vancouver Vancouver, 1975. A city of flashing neon, smoky jazz clubs, and underground deals. A world where glamour and danger walked hand in hand. Three women—Gail Rogers, Barbara LaRocque, and Deborah Roe—each full of life, each drawn to the allure of the nightclub scene. A go-go dancer, a country singer, and a vibrant young woman with dreams bigger than the city skyline. And one by one, they were murdered. Gail vanished after her shift at the notorious Penthouse Nightclub. Three weeks later, her body was found, bound and beaten, discarded in a creek bed. Barbara was last seen outside a club on Howe Street, her bright future cut short when she was strangled with her own scarf. Deborah was found facedown in a shallow pool of water—assaulted, beaten, and left to drown. The police said their deaths were linked ...

WHISPERS THROUGH THE DRIFT | Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast WHISPERS THROUGH THE DRIFT A Mick & Mack Mystery A city buried under snow. A body hidden in the drifts. A crime no one was meant to uncover. When a snowstorm brings Toronto to a standstill, it also delivers a chilling surprise—a corpse frozen beneath the drifts in the shadow of City Hall. At first glance, it seems like another casualty of the cold, but detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely know better. The evidence points to murder—a carefully staged crime hidden in plain sight. As they dig deeper, Mick and Mack find themselves unraveling a mystery buried beneath the storm. Their investigation leads them through smoky jazz clubs, courthouse corridors filled with whispered deals, and the back alleys where power shifts hands in the dark. The victim had secrets—ones that someone was willing to kill to keep quiet. But the storm didn’t just cover up the crime—it left clues scattered like footprints in the snow. And as th...

  Frozen Betrayal – The Wood Chipper Murder of Helle Crafts "If anything ever happens to me, don’t think it was an accident." These were the chilling words Helle Crafts spoke to her lawyer in October 1986, weeks before she vanished without a trace. A devoted mother, an ambitious flight attendant, and a woman desperate to escape a failing marriage, Helle saw the darkness closing in—but not even she could predict the gruesome fate that awaited her. Her husband, Richard Crafts, was a man of secrets. A former Marine pilot with a past steeped in covert missions, he had built a life of discipline, deception, and control. When his carefully curated world began to crumble, Richard refused to let go—leading to a murder so calculated, so horrifying, that it became one of the most infamous true crime cases in history. For weeks, investigators searched for answers. No body, no crime scene, no clear evidence—just an eerie trail of inconsistencies. Then, a snowplow driver’s late-night sigh...

Vanished & Forgotten: The Lost Women of Hamilton (Part 2) - Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Vanished & Forgotten: The Lost Women of Hamilton (Part 2) Susan Gourley, Felicia Floriani and Project Advocate 📖 A True Crime Story of Murder, Mystery, and a Case That Went Cold Three women vanished. One was found murdered. One was lost for a decade before her remains surfaced in a farmer’s field. The third? Still missing. And the predator responsible? Never brought to justice. Hamilton in the early 2000s was a city under siege. Susan Gourley disappeared in 2001 and was never seen again. Fifteen-year-old Felicia Floriani vanished in 2002, her body discovered ten years later. Kimlyn Tolgyes was found murdered, her killer never identified. Were these crimes the work of a single, shadowy serial killer? Or were multiple predators hunting the city’s most vulnerable women? In Vanished & Forgotten, Ontario Cold Cases – Canada’s True Crime Podcast unravels a chilling m...

Vanished & Forgotten: The Lost Women of Hamilton - Susan Gourley, Felicia Floriani and Project Advocate (Trailer) | Patreon Vanished & Forgotten: The Lost Women of Hamilton - Susan Gourley, Felicia Floriani and Project Advocate (Trailer) Coming This Sunday, March 16 – Only on Ontario Cold Cases: Canada’s True Crime Podcast 🔎 Three women vanished. One was found murdered. One was lost for a decade before her bones were uncovered in a farmer’s field. The third? Still missing. And the killer? Never brought to justice. Last week, we explored the chilling murder of Kimlyn Tolgyes, a 19-year-old sex worker found decomposing near a Burlington park in 2002. Police believed she wasn’t the first victim. This week, we take you deeper into the darkness. 🕵️‍♂️ Susan Gourley disappeared in 2001. She was never seen again.
 💀 Felicia Floriani was just 15 years old when she vanished in 2002. Her remains were discovered a decade later in a remote field.
 🚨 Project Advocate—the police task for...

The Case of the Two Timelines - Ontario Cold Cases The Case of the Two Timelines - A Mick & Mack Mystery Time is a tricky thing—especially when it comes to crime. When smooth-talking conman Simon Ralston tries to swindle the wrong widow, private detectives Johnny Chandler and Vicky Langford step in to retrieve what’s been stolen. But just as they close in on Ralston, he offers them something much more valuable than a stolen heirloom—a name: Theodore Calloway. Hours later, Calloway is found dead in his Yorkville townhouse, and detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely are on the case. The crime scene is pristine, but something doesn’t add up. A business card from Ralston’s shop is left in plain sight. Too plain. Too convenient. As Johnny and Vicky follow Ralston’s trail of past marks, Mick and Mack dig deeper into Calloway’s life, uncovering a tangled web of high-society deception, counterfeit jewelry, and a deadly game of revenge. With sharp wit, relentless determination, and just...

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast - SHADOWS OVER WELLS GRAY: THE BENTLEY-JOHNSON FAMILY MURDERS | Free Listening on Podbean App SHADOWS OVER WELLS GRAY: THE BENTLEY-JOHNSON FAMILY MURDERS A remote wilderness. A vanished family. A nightmare beyond comprehension. In the summer of 1982, three generations of the Johnson-Bentley family embarked on a peaceful two-week camping trip into Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia. Parents Bob and Jackie Johnson, their daughters Karen and Janet, and grandparents George and Edith Bentley disappeared into the towering pines, expecting adventure and tranquility. But they were never seen alive again. For weeks, there were no answers—until a berry picker stumbled upon a burned-out car deep in the woods. Inside, authorities uncovered charred remains. And when they forced open the trunk, they found something even more horrific: the bodies of Karen and Janet, executed with chilling precision. Who had stalked them in the wilderness? How had an entire f...

The Predator in the Heat: Who Killed Kimlyn Tolgyes? | Patreon The Predator in the Heat: Who Killed Kimlyn Tolgyes? A scorching summer night. A predator on the prowl. A murder that remains unsolved. On August 1, 2002, Hamilton, Ontario, was in the grip of an oppressive heatwave—the kind of night where the air is thick, the streets feel deserted, and shadows seem to stretch just a little too long. That night, a white sports car idled at the corner of Barton and Wellington. Inside, a clean-cut blond man named Joe offered a ride. One woman barely survived the terror that followed. Four weeks later, another woman wasn’t so lucky. The naked, battered body of Kimlyn Tolgyes, a 19-year-old mother, was discovered in Kerncliff Park, less than two kilometers from where Joe had struck before. She had been brutally murdered, struck in the head with a heavy object. What followed was a tangled web of leads, suspects, and chilling disappearances. 🔎 Two hundred leads. A police task force. Multiple ar...

  The Predator in the Heat: The murder of Kimlyn Tolgyes Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast: The Predator in the Heat coming this Sunday March 9 on the murder of Kimlyn Tolgyes. A scorching night. A charming stranger. A brutal murder that remains unsolved. On August 1, 2002, Hamilton, Ontario, was suffocating under an intense summer heatwave. That night, a white sports car prowled the streets. The man inside—young, blond, and smooth-talking—offered a ride to a woman at the corner of Barton and Wellington. His name, he said, was Joe. She survived. Barely. But four weeks later, another woman wasn’t so lucky. On August 30, city workers in Burlington’s Kerncliff Park stumbled upon a gruesome scene—the naked, battered body of 19-year-old Kimlyn Tolgyes. A mother. A daughter. A young woman whose life had been violently stolen. Kimlyn was last seen a week earlier, stepping out of a red pickup truck in Hamilton. After that, she vanished. With 200 leads, multiple arrests, and ...

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast - WHAT HAPPENED TO SUZY LAMPLUGH? (Part 2) | Free Listening on Podbean App WHAT HAPPENED TO SUZY LAMPLUGH? (Part 2) A Routine Appointment. A Vanishing Without a Trace. A Mystery That Still Haunts Britain. On July 28, 1986, 25-year-old estate agent Suzy Lamplugh stepped out of her London office for a house viewing with a client known only as "Mr. Kipper." She never returned. Hours later, her white Ford Fiesta was found abandoned near Fulham Football Club—unlocked, her purse inside, the driver’s seat pushed back, and the handbrake off. But there was no sign of Suzy. In the decades that followed, investigators pursued every possible lead: 🔎 A £50 million mortgage fraud with deadly implications.
 🔎 A serial rapist and murderer, named in 2002 as the prime suspect—but never charged.
 🔎 A black BMW, seen in the area, where witnesses reported a desperate struggle.
 🔎 The cryptic diary entry: "12:45 - Mr. Kipper - 37 Shorrolds Road." Was ...

  WHERE IS LIAM GABRIEL TOMAN? Missing since February 2, 2025 after leaving a local après ski bistro in the Village of Mont Tremblant, Quebec     The family of Liam Toman is urgently appealing to the media and public to help in the on-going search of this young Ontario man, who vanished on a group ski trip on February 2nd and has still not been found. Ontario Cold Cases: Canada’s True Crime Podcast. Subscribe today on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows to stay updated on cold cases that continue to demand answers. Ontario Cold Cases - Wordpress https://nicollinvestigations.wordpress.com/ Ontario Cold Cases - Substack https://substack.com/@ontariocoldcase For more videos subscribe to: https://www.youtube.com/@OntarioColdCases?sub_confirmation=1 @PlayMorePods #OntarioColdCases, #NicollInvestigations , #canadiancrime , #ColdCasePodcast , #ontariocrime, #OntarioMysteries , #PodcastMystery , #truecrimepodcast , #unsolvedmysteries, #ontario,...

The Echoes of the Blade: A Mic–Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast – Apple Podcasts   The Echoes of the Blade: A Mick & Mack Mystery Toronto, 1948. A city on the cusp of change, where the past lingers like a specter in the alleyways and the future arrives in the form of neon lights and the hum of streetcars. But some ghosts refuse to stay buried. When a prominent doctor is found murdered—his throat cut with chilling precision—Detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely are drawn into a case unlike any they've faced before. The crime bears an unmistakable resemblance to a series of unsolved killings from a decade earlier—murders that haunted their boss, Chief Bernard Stuart, long before the war changed everything. As Mick and Mack retrace the footsteps of the long-dormant killer, they find themselves unraveling a mystery that stretches back to a botched surgery, a hidden scandal, and a sister's unyielding thirst for revenge. From the shadowed corridors of Toronto General Hospit...

Part 3 - H.H. Holmes: The Conf–Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast – Apple Podcasts Part 3 - H.H. Holmes: The Confession, Execution, and the Jack the Ripper Theory "I was born with the devil in me." With those chilling words, H.H. Holmes sealed his fate. After years of fraud, deception, and unspeakable murder, America’s first documented serial killer finally faced justice. But for a man who had spent a lifetime manipulating everyone around him, Holmes had one final game to play. In his final days, Holmes spun a tangled web of half-truths, outright fabrications, and eerie confessions—claiming to have killed 27, 100, or even 200 victims. Some of the people he "murdered" were later found alive. Others disappeared without a trace, their fates forever lost to history. Even as the noose tightened around his neck, Holmes seemed to revel in the legend he had created, smirking as if he still had one last trick up his sleeve. And then there’s the ultimate mystery: Could H.H. Ho...

A Murder Foretold: The Unsolved Killing of Robert Wagner - Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast | Podcast on Spotify   A Murder Foretold: The Unsolved Killing of Robert Wagner “They were out to get him… and they got him.” Robert Wagner knew he was living on borrowed time. Just weeks before his brutal murder, he confided in a family member that he had three weeks to live. He didn’t say who was after him. He didn’t say why. But he was certain—his days were numbered. On January 22, 1991, Wagner’s body was found inside his Cambridge, Ontario apartment. Stabbed multiple times, his murder was vicious, personal, and unsolved to this day. Police believed the 31-year-old welder had a dangerous secret—a double life that may have gotten him killed. Three months after his death, investigators revealed that Wagner had been selling small amounts of hashish and cocaine on the side. Their theory? He was murdered by a customer. But his family has never been convinced. They say Wagner’s ties to the Camb...