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...