Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast

  MURDER AT THE MIDNIGHT MATINEE A Mick & Mack Mystery Toronto, 1948. At the once-glorious Royal Grenadier Theatre, the midnight screening of an avant-garde film draws a curious crowd of cinephiles, censors, and skeptics. But when famed surrealist director Valentin Duprés is found strangled in the projection booth—his body tangled in celluloid and secrets—the show takes a deadly turn. As the reels keep spinning, Detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely step into a world of smoke and symbolism, where meaning hides behind metaphors and every suspect speaks in riddles. Among them: —A starry-eyed film student with something to prove —A crusading city councillor with a moral axe to grind —A projectionist who worships celluloid like scripture —A weary theatre manager with bills to pay —And a psychologist convinced that cinema can drive people mad The deeper Mick digs, the more he realizes the murder isn’t just about censorship or controversy—but about a hidden reel containing somet...

The Endgame: The Yorkshire Ripper’s Fall (Part 5 of 5) | Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast The Endgame: The Yorkshire Ripper’s Fall (Part 5 of 5) The hunt stumbles. The hammer falls. The north mourns. Step into the final chapter with Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast as we close the Yorkshire Ripper saga in Part 5: "The Endgame: The Yorkshire Ripper’s Fall." You’ve traced Peter Sutcliffe’s twisted roots in Part 1, flinched at his ’75 rehearsals in Part 2, crossed the bloody dawn of four kills in Part 3, and rode the savage peak of 13 murders and 7 survivors in Part 4. Now, the chaos crashes—five years of terror end not with a bang, but a fluke, and the reckoning’s a bitter pill. It’s late 1980—13 women dead, from Wilma McCann’s Leeds nightmare to Jacqueline Hill’s dorm-side doom, 7 clawing back from the brink, a £6-million manhunt drowning in its own mess. West Yorkshire Police chase ghosts—Wearside Jack’s taunting tape, nine missed chats with Sutcliffe, 2 milli...

  Twilight at Clinton: The Lynne Harper Tragedy and a Town’s Unraveling A Town Bathed in Twilight. A Crime That Shattered the Silence. Imagine a warm summer evening in 1959, the sun dipping low over RCAF Station Clinton, casting a golden glow across a military base nestled 180 kilometers west of Toronto. Here, 3,500 souls live in harmony—children chase the fading daylight, laughter spills into the streets, and trust binds this tight-knit community like a heartbeat. It’s small-town Canada at its most idyllic: military precision laced with neighborly charm, the air thick with the promise of summer. But on June 9, as twilight creeps over the Ontario horizon, a darkness stirs—unseen, unspoken, and poised to shatter this fragile peace forever. Twelve-year-old Lynne Harper, a cautious dreamer with quiet strength, slips into the dusk, her mind set on swimming passes and summer adventures. Steven Truscott, the base’s 14-year-old golden boy—athletic, popular, a kid with a grin that lights u...

  Twilight at Clinton: The Lynne Harper Tragedy and a Town’s Unraveling Picture a warm summer evening in 1959. The sun dips low, bathing RCAF Station Clinton in golden light. A military base 180 kilometers west of Toronto, where 3,500 souls live in harmony—children chase the twilight, laughter echoes through the streets, and trust binds this tight-knit world. But on June 9, as dusk settles over Ontario, a shadow stirs—a darkness that will tear this idyllic town apart. Meet Lynne Harper, a cautious 12-year-old dreamer, stepping into the fading light with summer on her mind. And Steven Truscott, the 14-year-old golden boy—athletic, popular, offering her a ride on his bike. They pedal off together, classmates from a small school, silhouettes against the amber sky. But what happens next will shock a nation. A girl vanishes. A frantic search grips the base. And in the tangled depths of Lawson’s Bush, a brutal truth emerges—Lynne’s body, her life stolen in a savage act. The town reels. S...

  The Somerton Man: A Name Without a Face On a balmy evening in 1948, Somerton Beach hums with the carefree laughter of couples strolling the shore. Against a seawall, a man in a crisp suit sits alone, a cigarette smoldering on his chest, his gaze lost to the horizon. To passersby, he’s just another soul soaking in the sunset. But by dawn, he’s a corpse—no name, no wounds, no answers. In his pocket, a single clue: a torn scrap bearing two cryptic words, Tamám Shud—“it is ended.” Seventy years later, the Somerton Man remains Australia’s most baffling mystery. A hidden code scrawled in a rare book of poetry, a bus ticket to nowhere, cigarettes that don’t belong, and a nurse whose secrets could unlock it all—or bury it deeper. Was he a Cold War spy, silenced before he could betray his masters? A lover chasing a forbidden heart, only to meet poison instead? Or a shadow who chose to vanish, leaving a puzzle no one could solve? Join Jay Nicoll of Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime ...

The Quietest Room in the House | Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast The Quietest Room in the House A Mick & Mack Mystery “In the quietest room, where echoes live, the truth hides with no need to forgive.” When the body of reclusive millionaire Benedict Arliss is found locked inside his study, slumped beside an untouched glass of brandy and a cryptic note, Detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely are called to investigate.
 What they find is a room without struggle, a poison without trace, and a man without mourners. The whispers in Rosedale say Arliss was cold, cruel, and unloved. His staff called him a ghost in a gilded cage. His rivals called him ruthless. And yet… something doesn’t add up. Why was a second copy of the suicide note hidden in someone else’s handbag?
Why are all the family portraits turned face down?
Why does the will bear a different name? As Mick and Mack peel back the layers of Arliss’s lonely life, they uncover a story not of murder, but of grief, guilt, and a ...

Peak of the Predator: The York…–Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast – Apple Podcasts Peak of the Predator: The Yorkshire Ripper’s Reign of Chaos (Part 4 of 5) The north burns—and the Ripper rules. Dive back into the abyss with Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast for Part 4 of our five-part descent into Peter Sutcliffe’s nightmare: "Peak of the Predator: The Yorkshire Ripper’s Reign of Chaos." You’ve tracked his twisted Bingley roots in Part 1, shivered through his ’75 rehearsals in Part 2, and crossed the bloody threshold with Wilma, Emily, Irene, and Patricia in Part 3—four kills that sparked the terror. Now, the storm explodes. Mid-1977 to 1980, northern England’s a slaughterhouse—Sutcliffe’s spree hits its savage peak, 13 women dead, 7 clawing back from the edge. Leeds bleeds, but Manchester, Huddersfield, and Halifax taste his shadow too. Jayne MacDonald, 16, bleeds out in a playground—shattering the ‘prostitute-only’ lie. Jean Jordan’s hacked apart in Mancheste...

Locked Door, Silent Killer The Unsolved Murder of Vicki Sicurella A locked door. A missing mother. A killer who vanished without a trace. On a cold December afternoon in 1991, 32-year-old Vicki Sicurella was found brutally stabbed inside her Hamilton townhouse. The door was locked. The home was untouched. No forced entry. No robbery. Just a quiet kitchen—and a devastating scene that would haunt a family and a community for decades. Vicki was a devoted single mother raising a son with special needs. Her routines were sacred, her care unwavering. So when she failed to pick up her son from school that day… alarms went off. Who walked through her front door that afternoon?
 Who silenced her voice—and locked the door behind them?
 And why, over thirty years later, has no one been held accountable? Ontario Cold Cases – Canada’s True Crime Podcast reopens one of Hamilton’s most chilling unsolved homicides. Through interviews, archives, and a relentless search for justice, this gripping episod...

Locked Door, Silent Killer – The Unsolved Murder of Vicki Sicurella (Trailer0 | Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast Locked Door, Silent Killer – The Unsolved Murder of Vicki Sicurella She was a devoted mother. Her home was locked. The killer vanished. On a frigid December afternoon in 1991, 32-year-old Vicki Sicurella was found stabbed to death in her quiet Hamilton townhouse. The groceries had just been unpacked. Her young son was waiting to be picked up from school. But Vicki… never came. There was no forced entry. No signs of a struggle.
 The weapon was left behind—
But the person who walked through that door… simply disappeared. Now, over three decades later, the case remains unsolved.
 No arrests. No justice.
 Just one enduring question: Who killed Vicki Sicurella? Join Ontario Cold Cases – Canada’s True Crime Podcast as we reopen one of Hamilton’s most chilling murders. Was it a crime of passion? A carefully planned betrayal? Or a secret someone has kept for far too long? If you kno...

Hogan’s Last Reel: The Unsolved Murder of Bob Crane | Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast Hogan’s Last Reel: The Unsolved Murder of Bob Crane 
Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast   A sweltering Arizona night, June 1978. Bob Crane—TV’s beloved Colonel Hogan—lies dead, his skull crushed, a cord tied around his neck, blood pooling beneath a bed surrounded by whirring cameras. From Waterbury drummer to Hollywood icon, Crane’s rise was pure American dream—until his secret obsession with filming women rewrote the script. Hundreds of tapes, a shadowy sidekick, a locked-room slaughter: this is no sitcom ending.   Join Jay Nicoll of Nicoll Investigations as Ontario Cold Cases crosses borders to unravel a 47-year-old mystery. Was it John Carpenter, his partner in vice, with Crane’s rare blood smeared in his car? A lover scorned from his private reels? Or a stranger who vanished into the desert dark? Fame faded, but the questions burn: Who silenced the star—and why?   Tune...

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Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast   A sweltering Arizona night, June 1978. Bob Crane—TV’s beloved Colonel Hogan—lies dead, his skull crushed, a cord tied around his neck, blood pooling beneath a bed surrounded by whirring cameras. From Waterbury drummer to Hollywood icon, Crane’s rise was pure American dream—until his secret obsession with filming women rewrote the script. Hundreds of tapes, a shadowy sidekick, a locked-room slaughter: this is no sitcom ending.   Join Jay Nicoll of Nicoll Investigations as Ontario Cold Cases crosses borders to unravel a 47-year-old mystery. Was it John Carpenter, his partner in vice, with Crane’s rare blood smeared in his car? A lover scorned from his private reels? Or a stranger who vanished into the desert dark? Fame faded, but the questions burn: Who silenced the star—and why?   Tune in for a tale of stardom, sex,...

A Dash of Death–Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast – Apple Podcasts A Dash of Death A Mick & Mack Mystery A sizzling chef. A perfect dish. A fatal garnish. It was supposed to be a feast for the senses — a live cooking demonstration in Toronto’s lively Kensington Market, headlined by celebrity chef and culinary heartthrob Giancarlo Moretti. But when the flamboyant chef takes a bite of his own masterpiece and drops dead on stage, it’s up to detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely to find the killer behind the cutting board. Was it Lucia, the sharp-tongued ex-wife with a motive as old as risotto?
 Or Madame Colette, the Parisian perfectionist with a recipe worth killing for?
 Could it be Kenny, the quiet apprentice with a simmering grudge?
 Or Saskia Bloom, the glamorous admirer whose love letter reads more like a warning? With a trail of clues spiced with secrets, sabotage, and sautéed egos, Mick and Mack must navigate a world where passion is plated, jealousy is served cold, an...

  Threshold of Terror: The Yorkshire Ripper’s Deadly Dawn (Part 3 of 5) The night grows colder—and the blood runs hot. Step back into the abyss with Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast as we tear open Part 3 of our five-part plunge into the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe: "Threshold of Terror: The Yorkshire Ripper’s Deadly Dawn." You’ve tracked his troubled roots and shivered through his brutal rehearsals—but now, the hammer falls, and the nightmare ignites. October 1975: Leeds’ foggy streets turn red as Wilma McCann staggers into Sutcliffe’s path—two hammer blows shatter her skull, 15 frenzied stabs rip her apart, his first kill a raw scream of rage. Three months later, Emily Jackson’s fate twists darker—52 savage screwdriver thrusts and a boot’s cruel stamp in Chapeltown’s ruins. By February ’77, Irene Richardson meets a chilling end in Roundhay Park—three hammer cracks, a knife’s deep cuts, her skirt lifted in a twisted pose. Then April strikes, and Patrici...

Uncertain Shadows: The Life, D…–Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast – Apple Podcasts Uncertain Shadows: The Life, Death, and Legacy of Sumaya Dalmar Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast In the pre-dawn chill of February 22, 2015, a lifeless body is found near Toronto’s Danforth and Main—a discovery that ignites a firestorm of questions. Sumaya Dalmar, a 26-year-old Somali-Canadian transgender woman, was a survivor of war and rejection, a radiant force in her chosen family. But that night, her bold, brilliant life ended in shadows. A witness swears she was chased through the streets. The police insist there’s no crime to solve. A decade later, the truth remains elusive—was it a silent tragedy, or a murder lost to apathy? Join Jay Nicoll of Nicoll Investigations as Ontario Cold Cases unravels a mystery where every clue blurs the line between accident and injustice, and Sumaya’s legacy demands answers that refuse to surface. Because every case deserves answers—and every victi...

Embeddable Player > Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast Uncertain Shadows: The Life, Death, and Legacy of Sumaya Dalmar only on Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast coming this Sunday, April 13, 2025 February 22, 2015. Toronto’s east end holds its breath under a frozen dawn. A call pierces the silence—a body lies lifeless near Danforth and Main. Her name? Sumaya Dalmar. A 26-year-old Somali-Canadian trans woman—bold, brilliant, unbreakable. She survived a war-torn childhood, defied rejection, and lit up the shadows of a city that never sleeps. But that night, something snuffed her out. A witness swears they saw her running—chased through the dark by a faceless figure. The police? They call it a dead end—no crime, no foul play. But the questions scream louder than the silence: Was it an accident? An overdose? Or a truth too dark to face? Ten years later, the echoes of Sumaya’s story still haunt Toronto’s streets—and her community demands answers. This Sunday, April 13, join...

The Unsolved Swing: The Mysterious Death of J. Douglas Edgar | Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast The Unsolved Swing: The Mysterious Death of J. Douglas Edgar On the eve of golf’s golden age, J. Douglas Edgar was a legend in the making—a daring Englishman whose revolutionary swing conquered Canada’s greens and captivated the world. But on a sultry Atlanta night in 1921, his brilliance bled out under a dim streetlamp, a single, surgical wound severing his femoral artery. Was it a jealous lover’s blade? A gambler’s desperate payback? Or a hit-and-run shrouded in lies? Found dying in a pool of his own blood, Edgar took his secrets to the grave, leaving behind a puzzle no detective could solve. From the roar of the Canadian Open to the silence of an unsolved murder, this is the gripping tale of a champion whose final shot landed in shadows. Step onto the fairway of history—where every clue is a hazard, and the truth remains out of bounds. Because every case deserves answers—and every victim ...

  The Man from Nowhere Inspired by the real-life mystery of the Somerton Man: Soon to be featured on World True Crime Thursdays A Mick & Mack Mystery: He washed up in Toronto Harbour with no name, no past, and a cipher no one could read. No wounds. No identification. No explanation. Just a well-dressed corpse, polished shoes… and a strange slip of paper tucked into his coat pocket. When Detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely are called to the scene, they expect a routine investigation. Instead, they find themselves unraveling a trail of coded messages, missing ships, and Cold War shadows hiding in plain sight. As more bodies appear and clues point to a ghost network of couriers and double agents, the case begins to echo a chilling true crime from halfway across the world — the real-life Somerton Man mystery. But this time, the dead man’s message isn’t lost. It’s just waiting to be understood. With help from the enigmatic Eve Whitmore, Mick and Mack must decode the truth bef...

Shadows of Violence: The Yorkshire Ripper’s Deadly Rehearsal (Part 2 of 5) | Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast Shadows of Violence: The Yorkshire Ripper’s Deadly Rehearsal (Part 2 of 5) The predator stalks closer… In the summer of 1975, northern England’s quiet corners became a testing ground for terror. Peter Sutcliffe—the man who would become the Yorkshire Ripper—was no longer a petty thief with a grudge. He was a shadow with a hammer, a blade, and a hunger growing sharper with every strike. Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast plunges into Part 2 of its gripping five-part series, "Shadows of Violence: The Yorkshire Ripper’s Deadly Rehearsal," peeling back the blood-soaked prelude to his murderous spree. From a crude sock-and-stone assault in Bradford’s red-light district in 1969, Sutcliffe’s rage erupted into a brutal rehearsal across West Yorkshire. Anna Rogulskyj’s skull cracked in Keighley’s alleys. Olive Smelt’s life shattered on Halifax’s dark streets. Tra...

  The Unsolved Murder of Sonya Cywink Ontario Cold Cases - Canada's True Crime Podcast In the dead of night on August 26, 1994, Sonya Cywink vanished from the gritty streets of London, Ontario. Four days later, her battered body—24 weeks pregnant—was found hidden in the eerie woods of the Southwold Earthworks, a sacred Indigenous site. Thirty years later, her killer walks free, and the questions burn: Was it a random act, or a calculated betrayal? Join Jay Nicoll of Nicoll Investigations as we unravel Sonya’s story—a life of resilience shadowed by addiction, a brutal death shrouded in mystery, and a sister’s relentless quest for justice. From the haunting last sighting near Dundas Street to the chilling forensic twists, this is more than a cold case—it’s a piece of Canada’s dark legacy of missing and murdered Indigenous women. The truth is out there, locked in silence. Will you help break it? Tune in to Ontario Cold Cases—because every victim deserves answers. Because every case de...

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast - The Unsolved Murder of Sonya Cywink (Trailer) | Free Listening on Podbean App The Unsolved Murder of Sonya Cywink (Trailer) Coming Sunday, April 6, 2025 August 26, 1994. 2 a.m. A red convertible cuts through the shadows of London, Ontario’s Old East Village. Sonya Cywink, 31 and pregnant, steps into the night—and vanishes. Four days later, a forager stumbles onto a horror in the woods—Sonya’s body, battered and abandoned at the Southwold Earthworks, a sacred Indigenous site. Blunt force trauma. No witnesses. No answers. I’m Jay Nicoll of Nicoll Investigations, and this Sunday on Ontario Cold Cases, we’re diving into a mystery that’s haunted Canada for 30 years. Was it a random killer—or someone she knew? Two DNA profiles, a party gone wrong, and a sister who won’t quit—Meggie Cywink—risking it all for justice. The billboards scream ‘Find My Killer.’ The reward’s at $60,000. And the truth? It’s out there—buried in silence. This isn’t just a cold case—i...

The Murder of Julia Wallace: A…–Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast – Apple Podcasts The Murder of Julia Wallace: An Impossible Mystery
 From the creators of Ontario Cold Cases – Canada’s True Crime Podcast A locked room. A vanished killer. A crime so baffling it defies reason. Liverpool, 1931. In a modest red-brick row house on Wolverton Street, Julia Wallace is found bludgeoned to death—her body crumpled in the parlor, a raincoat soaked in blood beneath her. Hours earlier, her husband, William Wallace, received a peculiar phone message summoning him across the city to a meeting with a man who didn’t exist… at an address that couldn’t be found. What followed stunned the nation and confounded experts for nearly a century. Was the mild-mannered insurance man a diabolical killer who staged the perfect alibi? Or the victim of a malevolent trap, framed by someone who knew his every move? With no murder weapon, no eyewitnesses, and a crime scene soaked in contradiction, the case became a r...

I Witness - Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast | Podcast on Spotify I Witness Six witnesses. One robbery. A thousand contradictions. A Mick & Mack Mystery “Everyone’s a hero. Until the facts walk in.” When a mid-morning bank job shakes up downtown Toronto, Detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely are sent to investigate what should be a straightforward case. But something doesn’t sit right. The bank manager insists he bravely negotiated with the thief.
 One teller says she saved the day with a letter opener.
 Another claims he nearly tackled the man himself.
 Even the customers have wild tales — of chases, threats, and split-second heroics. Everyone saw everything.
 And yet… nothing adds up. As Mick and Mack dig through the tangled web of timelines, tall tales, and self-serving statements, they begin to suspect that the real story isn’t what was said — it’s what was left out. With sharp wit, fast banter, and a case full of colourful characters, I Witness is a classic Mick & Mac...

The Making of a Monster: The Yorkshire Ripper’s Descent into Darkness (Part 1 of 5) | Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast The Making of a Monster: The Yorkshire Ripper’s Descent into Darkness (Part 1 of 5) A chilling journey begins… In the quiet Yorkshire town of Bingley, a shy boy named Peter Sutcliffe grew up unnoticed—bullied, reserved, and harboring dark secrets. But beneath the surface of an ordinary life, a monster was stirring. From voyeuristic shadows to petty theft, from a sock filled with stone to a hammer poised for slaughter, his evolution was a slow, terrifying descent into the abyss. By 1975, northern England would tremble under his reign of terror—a predator unleashed, leaving 13 women dead and a nation scarred. Welcome to Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast , where the haunting echoes of history come alive. In this electrifying first installment of a five-part series, we peel back the layers of the Yorkshire Ripper’s origins—tracing the sinister steps of a k...