Richard Taylor was always exceptionally horrible with money, and was desperate to keep this secret from his wife. In order to hide his growing debt he deliberately set fire to his mother’s Dundas, Ontario home on July 9, 2018, killing both his mother Carla and stepfather Alan Rutherford in the blaze.
On November 21 1973, at around 11pm Jack Wayne Bender and his accomplice Dwight Douglas Lucas kidnapped Alan and Michael Hurd, and brutally attack the brothers with an axe in a field. Micheal Hurd sadly didn’t survive. By some miracle his brother Allan survived the attack and was able to stagger from this field just …
Eps. 22 Jack Wayne Bender, One of Canada’s Longest Serving Inmates Read More »
During the winter of 1992, a man nicknamed the House Hermit by police, was committing strange break and enters in the community of Caledon Ontario. Several months later, Nancy and Ian Blackburn suddenly disappeared from their cottage in Orangeville. They would be found murdered a week later, inside the trunk of Nancy’s car outside of …
In the summer of 2017, in Oshawa Ontario, Rori Hache suddenly went missing. A few weeks later, her torso would be found in Lake Ontario, and Durham police began an intensive homicide investigation . Police did not link her death to Adam Strong until January, 2018 after plumbers trying to clear a blockage in the …
Eps. 20 The Torso In The Lake – The Case of Adam Strong Read More »
In 2016, The Ryan family triple murder in Scarborough, Ontario would shock the country. Even more horrifying was the weapon of choice, a crossbow. Making this case even more bizarre, and within hours of the crime, the bomb squad would be dispatched to a downtown Toronto condo, with both scenes linked to the same suspect, …
Eps. 19 The Case of Brett Ryan – The Crossbow Killer Read More »
In 2009, Guy Turcotte, a Quebec cardiologist, killed his two children as they slept in their Piedmont home. His first trial rendered a verdict of not criminally responsible due to apparent mental illness. The prosecution would successfully appeal and overturn the NCR verdict. In December, 2015 he would be found guilty of second degree murder …
In Part 2, we will examine the crime scene, police investigation and first degree murder trial of the Shafias. On July 23, 2009, police arrested Mohammad, Tooba Yahya, and Hamed Shafia for the killings of Rona Amir, Zainab, Sahar, & Geeti. They were eventually found guilty in a Kingston, Ontario courtroom in January 2012, and …
On June 30, 2009, the Shafia sisters along with their step-mother Rona, were found dead in a vehicle underwater in the Kingston Mills Locks, a part of the Rideau Canal The scene looked suspicious, not like an accident. There was immediate speculation the family was involved, a suspected honour killing. After a 3 week investigation, …
During the summer of 1986, Alison Parrott was lured from her home in Toronto, Ontario to meet a man posing as a photographer. Her remains were found two days later under a bridge in Kings Mill Park. Her case would become one of Canada’s most expensive murder investigations ever. The unsolved murder remained a cold …
Thomas Svekla is a suspected serial killer from Edmonton Alberta, his crimes often compared to Robert Pickton. In 2004 he was investigated by Project KARE, and is thought to be responsible for the murders of 12 women, most from the Edmonton area. However, he would only be convicted for the murder of Theresa Innes, whom …
