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Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast

Explore the unsolved mysteries of Ontario, Canada with our captivating true crime podcast, Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast. Join our team of dedicated detectives from Nicoll Investigations as they investigate cold cases, homicides, missing persons, and other crimes, all across Canada. Delve into forgotten crimes and help us remember the victims and bring justice and hopefully peace, to the families. Tune in to our engaging exploration of unsolved mysteries today and discover the chilling stories

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32:54

Unraveling a 40-Year Mystery: The Donna Awcock Case

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/18

Cigarettes at 2:30 A.M.: Who Took Donna Awcock? Unraveling a 40-Year Mystery: The Donna Awcock Case A balcony wave, a 100-metre errand, a child’s Halloween bag in her throat. Forty years later, the DNA’s ready and Tammy’s Angels won’t quit. Let’s light up the truth. October 13, 1983: 17-year-old Donna Awcock waves from the balcony, babysitting next door. 2:30 a.m.—pizza gone, she’s sent for cigarettes. Corner store: “She looked terrified.” Then—gone. Raped, strangled, rolled down a ravine at

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The Unsolved Case of Valerie Karen Stevens: A Search...

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/16

The Unsolved Case of Valerie Karen Stevens: A Search for Answers In the early hours of September 9, 1989, Valerie Karen Stevens, a 19-year-old mother from Toronto, left her young daughter in the care of a teenage couple and set out to meet friends at the popular Diamond Club in downtown Toronto. Pregnant at the time, Valerie was never seen alive again. Days after she vanished, the teenage couple, who had been watching her daughter for several days, reported her absence. Her welfare checks went

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21:59

Four Blocks from Home: The Abduction of Christine Prince

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/16

Four Blocks from Home: The Abduction of Christine Prince A rainy night, a dropped umbrella, and a killer who knew the road. DNA waits for a name. Welsh nanny Christine Prince, 25, arrived in Toronto dreaming of a new life. June 20, 1982: after donuts with her fiancé, she waves goodbye at Bathurst & St. Clair. Minutes from home, an umbrella drops in the rain. Abducted, raped, beaten, drowned—body dumped 40km away in Rouge River. Wallet tossed on Hwy 401. Missing: gold heart-ring, watch, Kodak

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Four Blocks from Home: The Abduction of Christine Prince

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/15

Four Blocks from Home: The Abduction of Christine PrinceA rainy night, a dropped umbrella, and a killer who knew the road. DNA waits for a name. She came from Wales to care for a little girl... One rainy night, four blocks from home, kindness became a trap. Abducted. Raped. Drowned. Trophies taken. Two men. One leader. DNA waits. Was Bernardo watching? A tree still grows where she walked. Ontario Cold Case: Name the killer. Coming Sunday November 16! Because every case deserves answers—and every

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The Mystery of the “Phantom Killer” of Texarkana

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/14

The Mystery of the “Phantom Killer” of Texarkana The Phantom Killer of Texarkana: (1946) Five dead, three wounded, zero arrests. February 22: Masked man pistol-whips Jimmy Hollis, assaults Mary Jeanne Larey with gun barrel. Both survive. March 24: Dick Griffin and Polly Ann Moore dragged from car, shot kneeling, bodies posed inside. April 14: Paul Martin shot four times, dragged 200 feet. Betty Jo Booker tortured two miles away—sax in ditch. May 3: Virgil Starks shot through window reading

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Disappearance - Who Killed Valerie Stevens?

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/14

Disappearance - Who Killed Valerie Stevens? September 9, 1989. Pregnant 19-year-old Valerie Stevens kisses her 17-month-old goodbye and heads to Toronto's Diamond Club. She meets friends... then vanishes. Four days later, babysitters alert police. Welfare checks uncashed. Bank untouched. What happened that night? Available Now! Because every case deserves answers—and every victim deserves justice. Subscribe now to Ontario Cold Cases: Canada’s True Crime Podcast. Episodes available wherever you get

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Valerie Stevens Last Dance: Pregnant, Vanished,...

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/13

Valerie Stevens Last Dance: Pregnant, Vanished, Betrayed? Serial Shadows or Someone She Knew? In 1989, 19-year-old pregnant Valerie Stevens vanished after a night out dancing in Toronto, leaving her toddler behind. Three years later, her skeletal remains surfaced in remote Burford woods—murder suspected, but cause unknown. Uncashed welfare checks, untouched bank accounts, and a possible hitchhike gone wrong. Dive into chilling links to five other unsolved young women's slayings, FBI-patterned

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FIRST BLOOD - The Phantom Killer of Texarkana

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/13

FIRST BLOOD - The Phantom Killer of TexarkanaFebruary 22, 1946. Midnight. Jimmy Hollis and Mary Jeanne Larey park on Richmond Road. A masked man blinds them with a flashlight. 'Take off your f—ing pants,' he snarls. Pistol-whips Jimmy's skull—crack. Blood sprays the dash. He chases Mary Jeanne into thorns, assaults her with the gun barrel. Both survive—to describe the Phantom. Because every case deserves answers—and every victim deserves justice. Subscribe now to Ontario Cold Cases: Canada’s True

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0:52

Valerie Stevens Last Dance: Pregnant, Vanished,...

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/13

Valerie Stevens Last Dance: Pregnant, Vanished, Betrayed? Serial Shadows or Someone She Knew? She was 19, pregnant, ready for a night out... Valerie Stevens vanishes from Toronto streets. Body found years later in remote woods. Hitchhiking? Serial killer stalking bus stops and clubs? Links to six unsolved murders. FBI patterns: trophies, neatness, dominance. Or was it family... friends... betrayal? Ontario Cold Case uncovers the truth. Subscribe now. Coming Thursday November 13th! Because every

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The Mystery of the “Phantom Killer” of Texarkana

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/12

The Mystery of the “Phantom Killer” of Texarkana In 1946, Texarkana—a town split by the Texas-Arkansas line—lived in terror. The "Phantom Killer" stalked lovers' lanes under moonlit pines, his white pillowcase mask hiding a .32-caliber pistol. Five dead, three wounded in savage ambushes: skull-crushing beatings, execution-style shots, dragged bodies in bloody woods. Sheriff Presley, Texas Rangers, and FBI hunted 400 suspects—but the killer vanished. Hear the facts: Jimmy & Mary Jeanne's

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Whispers in the Dark - A Mick & Mack Mystery

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/10

Whispers in the Dark - A Mick & Mack Mystery Tonight on Ontario Cold Cases—Whodunnit Wednesday and a Mick & Mack Mystery. Halloween, 1950. The Royal Ontario Museum sleeps under a restless sky. Inside, a night watchman hears whispers that call his name. Detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely meet Professor Arpad Korda—gothic as a cathedral—and his prize: a medieval manuscript that claims the dead walk where their likenesses dwell. At the séance, candles shudder. A glass breaks. Then

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1:49

Halloween’s Deadly Séance: Was Houdini Silenced by...

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/10

Halloween’s Deadly Séance: Was Houdini Silenced by Spiritualist Revenge? October 31, 1926. Halloween. Harry Houdini, the man who escaped every trap, took his final breath. Was it an accident… or murder? I’m Jay Nicoll, Ontario Cold Cases, and this is Historical True Crime Tuesdays. Houdini wasn’t just a magician. He was a crusader, exposing Spiritualist mediums who conned the grieving with fake séances. His 1924 book and Congressional testimony humiliated frauds like Mina Crandon. But every trick he

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The Mystery of the “Phantom Killer” of Texarkana

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/07

The Mystery of the “Phantom Killer” of TexarkanaThe year is 1946 in Texarkana. A Phantom Killer in a pillowcase mask. Five dead in lovers' lanes: pistol-whipped skulls, dragged bodies, shots through glass. 400 suspects. Wife confesses—then silences. FBI files: still unsolved. Coming Friday November 7th! Subscribe now to Ontario Cold Cases: Canada’s True Crime Podcast. Episodes available wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us for updates and more: @OntarioColdCases Ontario Cold Cases -

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Whispers in the Dark - A Mick & Mack Mystery

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/06

Whispers in the Dark - A Mick & Mack MysteryHalloween, 1950. The Royal Ontario Museum sleeps under a restless Toronto sky. Inside, a night watchman hears whispers that shouldn’t exist—voices that call his name. Detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely arrive to find a museum poised between reason and superstition: a Lugosi-esque professor, a cursed manuscript, and a gallery of wax figures that seem just a breath too alive. When the lights die during a séance, a vampire exhibit appears to

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0:48

Whispers in the Dark

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/05

Whispers in the Dark This is Ontario Cold Cases—Whodunnit Wednesday and a Mick & Mack Mystery. Halloween, 1950. In the Royal Ontario Museum, a night watchman hears his name whispered by empty halls. A professor unveils a manuscript that warns: ‘On All Hallows’ Eve, the dead walk where their likenesses dwell.’ The lights go out. A wax vampire moves. A guard drops. Science says ‘ink and mercury.’ Superstition says ‘curse.’ Mick and Mack say: follow the evidence— even when it burns without

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Halloween’s Deadly Séance: Was Houdini Silenced by...

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/04

Halloween’s Deadly Séance: Was Houdini Silenced by Spiritualist Revenge? On Halloween 1926, Harry Houdini, the escape artist who mocked death, met a chilling end. Officially, a ruptured appendix. But as the veil thins, whispers of murder grow louder. Did his crusade against Spiritualist frauds—exposing séance scams and feuding with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—provoke a deadly revenge? A stranger’s brutal punches, a botched death certificate, and hints of poison fuel suspicion. Join Jay Nicoll on Ontario

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Halloween’s Deadly Séance: Was Houdini Silenced by...

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/04

Halloween’s Deadly Séance: Was Houdini Silenced by Spiritualist Revenge? Harry Houdini defied death—until Halloween 1926. His war on Spiritualist frauds made enemies. Threats of poison. A curse. Then, a stranger’s brutal punches. Was it an accident… or a perfect murder? Join myself, Jay Nicoll on Ontario Cold Cases as we summon the truth behind Houdini’s final act. New episode, Historical True Crime Tuesdays coming November 4th. The veil is thin… Subscribe now. Because every case deserves

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The Bunny That Vanished: The Halloween Disappearance...

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/04

The Bunny That Vanished: The Halloween Disappearance of Cindy Song Good evening. Jay Nicoll, Nicoll Investigations, reporting for Ontario Cold Cases. Tonight: The 2001 Halloween vanishing of Penn State student Cindy Song. Hyun Jong 'Cindy' Song: Born 1980, Seoul. Immigrated 1995 to Virginia. Graduated 1998 honors. Fall 2001: 21-year-old senior, integrative arts major. Jobs: Night library shifts, Penn DOT. Lived Apartment 363, West Cherry Lane. 5'1", 110 lbs, long black hair. Stable life—Britney

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THE GHOSTS OF QUEEN’S PARK

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/02

THE GHOSTS OF QUEEN’S PARK A Mick & Mack Mystery Toronto, Autumn 1950 Available now! When a night watchman flees Queen’s Park claiming he’s seen a woman in white, Detectives Mick McCathie and Archie “Mack” MacNeely are called to keep the scandal quiet. But in a city where history never stays buried, reporter Roz Carver of the Toronto Telegram arrives first. Inside the marble halls of Ontario’s Legislature, a missing sword, a blood-stained handkerchief, and whispers of a long-dead nurse lead

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The Vanishing of Barney Laflamme: A Cold Case...

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast ·

2025/11/02

The Vanishing of Barney Laflamme: A Cold Case Crippled at the Start In May 1981, 24-year-old René Bernard Laflamme—known as "Barney"—vanished from Montreal just days before he was scheduled to begin a new life in British Columbia. Barney was a man with a plan, deep family ties, and a one-way ticket West. His complete, abrupt silence since May 29th was immediately suspicious. But his final days were spent in the company of an unnamed man in Montreal—an associate characterized by family as

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