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Tom Thomson: Life, Art, and Canada's Enduring Mystery | Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast 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 the very landscapes he immortalized. His upturned canoe was found, but his body surfaced eight days later—an unusually long time—bearing a violent bruise on his temple and fishing line eerily wrapped around his ankle. Conflicting witness accounts, whispers of a drunken brawl, and a rumored secret pregnancy with a local woman only deepened the shadows. Was it a tragic accident, a desperate suicide, or something far more sinister? From the last sighting with a man who owed him money, to threats from a ...

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast - The Lost Boys of Pickering - A Canadian Tragedy | Free Listening on Podbean App 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 baffling mysteries. They were seen on grainy surveillance footage, heard revving a stolen motorboat—and then, nothing. No bodies. No wreckage. Not a single trace. For nearly thirty years, the families of Jay Boyle, Chad Smith, Robbie Rumboldt, Jamie Lefebvre, Michael Cummins, and Danny Higgins have waited. Hoped. Mourned. And asked the same chilling question: What really happened that night on the water? Was it a reckless joyride gone wrong? Or something far darker? In this gripping...

  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 Sunday, July 6th as we unravel one of Canada’s most baffling disappearances—from marina surveillance footage… to botched investigations… to the theories that won’t let this case rest. This is The Lost Boys of Pickering.
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The Gardner Museum Heist, Episode 1: The Heist | Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast 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, and Degas—valued at an astonishing half a billion dollars. Then, they vanished, leaving behind empty frames and a mystery that’s haunted the art world for 35 years.   Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast dives into this audacious crime with a gripping four-part World True Crime Thursday series. Hosted by Jay Nicoll of Nicoll Investigations, we’ll take you inside the Venetian palace-turned-crime scene, reveal the guards’ fateful decisions, and trace the trail of clues into Boston’s shadowy u...

Murder at Maple Leaf Stadium - Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast | Podcast on Spotify 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. Detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely are called in to keep a lid on the investigation before the press catches wind. But the deeper they dig, the stranger the box score becomes: a coded notebook disguised as stats, a batboy taking secret signals, and a charming ex-ballplayer turned flashy bookie with his fingers in every dugout from Buffalo to Baltimore. At the heart of the mystery is Patches O’Sullivan—too smooth to be innocent, too cocky to be clean—and the unstoppable Rosie “Reds” DeLuca, tavern queen and...

Hidden Horror: The Adam Strong Investigation | Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast 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, it marked the beginning of a harrowing investigation that would uncover years of hidden horror. In this episode of Ontario Cold Cases, host Jay Nicoll delves into the meticulous police work, the emotional trial, and the community’s quest for justice. Through detailed storytelling and expert insights, we honor Rori and Kandis’s memories while exploring the dark underbelly of a city that'll never be the same. Join us as we unravel one of Ontario’s most chilling cases and reflect on the enduring impact of these se...

Embeddable Player > Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast 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 scrutiny of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. A nearly 10,000-word opus entitled, Guardrails for Police Use of Investigative Genetic Genealogy in Ontario, obtained by the Toronto Sun, is packed with bureaucratese. The commission wants “guardrails” to derail police snooping in DNA databases. But cops don’t do that now. They are not allowed. Internet Genetic Genealogy has been the big bang in homicide investigations. In Toronto alone, 59 murders and sexual assaults have been cleared, along with the identification of those ...