Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast

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 that deserve to be remembered!

Episodes

October 29, 2025

THE GHOSTS OF QUEEN’S PARK

A Mick & Mack Mystery Toronto, Autumn 1950

Listen now — Ontario Cold Cases: The Ghosts of Queen’s Park.

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...

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THE GHOSTS OF QUEEN’S PARK (Trailer)

A Mick & Mack Mystery Toronto, Autumn 1950

Coming the Wednesday October 29, 2025!

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 marb...

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Amarillo’s Halloween Nightmare: The Murder of Sister Tadea Benz

On Halloween weekend 1981, the tranquility of the St. Francis Convent in Amarillo, Texas, was shattered by a brutal crime. 76-year-old Sister Tadea Benz was violently raped, stabbed, and manually strangled.

Police quickly arrested 17-year-old neighbor Johnny Frank Garrett. The prosecution presented overwhelming evidence—including fingerprints, pubic h...

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A Family’s Plea - The Unsolved Halloween Murder of James Adamski

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James Adamski was a brother, a son, a friend. In 1982, he was beaten to death after a Halloween party. His brother Andy says, ‘Not one day passes without this pain.’ Forty-three years later, no arrests. A $11,000 reward awaits. Know something? Speak up.

Because every case deserves answers—and every victim deserves justice.

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Her Last Walk

The Unsolved Murder of Kathleen MacVicar and Its Chilling Link to London

June 13, 2001. Wednesday night. 19-year-old Kathleen MacVicar walks from a friend's home at CFB Trenton. She vanishes. Two days later—stabbed and assaulted in woods minutes away.

Then detectives make a chilling discovry. The murder is connected to an assault and attempted murder in London months later.

24 years unsolved.

Because every...

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Murder in the Mummy’s Shadow

The Velvet Scholar

Fog coils around University College as a grad student turns up dead inside a circle of chalk—a jagged compass pointing straight at something older than the city. Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely follow whispers of midnight chants, a newly arrived sarcophagus at the ROM, and a professor with a velvet jacket and an unsettling smile. Is Elias Vane a scholar… or the arch...

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The Unsolved Murder of Kathleen MacVicar and Its Chilling Link to London

In 2001, 19-year-old Kathleen MacVicar vanished from CFB Trenton—her body found stabbed and assaulted in woods near home. 24 years unsolved. $75K reward.

This episode traces every fact: Her final Wednesday night walk. The brutal autopsy. ViCLAS linkage to a London, Ontario assault—same method, no DNA. Project Shadow's ongoing hunt. The Russe...

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The Unsolved Murder of Kathleen MacVicar and its Chilling Link to London

Coming Sunday October 26, 2025

2001: Kathleen MacVicar, 19, walks home from CFB Trenton on a Wednesday night. Two days later her body is found—stabbed and assaulted in woods minutes away. 24 years unsolved. ViCLAS links it to a London attack—same brutal method, same isolation, no DNA. Project Shadow launched in '01, still hunting the shadow. T...

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The Unsolved Halloween Murder of James Adamski (Short)

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Halloween 1982. Depew, New York. James Adamski, 18, leaves a bar party, steps into the night—and vanishes. Two months later, hunters find his body in a shallow grave, beaten to death. No suspects, no answers, 43 years later. Ontario Cold Cases digs deep. Can you help solve it? Subscribe now.

Because every case deserves answers—and every victim de...

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The Unsolved Halloween Murder of James Adamski

On Halloween night 1982, 18-year-old James Adamski left a raucous costume party at a Depew, New York, bar, never to return home. Bludgeoned to death and discarded in a shallow grave, his murder remains one of Erie County’s most haunting unsolved cases. Ontario Cold Cases – Canada’s True Crime Podcast crosses borders to unravel this chilling mystery with host Jay Nic...

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Murder in the Mummy’s Shadow

Fog coils around University College as a grad student turns up dead inside a circle of chalk—a jagged compass pointing straight at something older than the city. Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely follow whispers of midnight chants, a newly arrived sarcophagus at the ROM, and a professor with a velvet jacket and an unsettling smile. Is Elias Vane a scholar… or the architect of an awaken...

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Murder in the Mummy’s Shadow

Chalk Circle

Fog coils around University College as a grad student turns up dead inside a circle of chalk—a jagged compass pointing straight at something older than the city. Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely follow whispers of midnight chants, a newly arrived sarcophagus at the ROM, and a professor with a velvet jacket and an unsettling smile. Is Elias Vane a scholar… or the architect ...

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The Unsolved Halloween Murder of James Adamski (Trailer)

Halloween 1982. Depew, New York. James Adamski, 18, leaves a bar party, steps into the night—and vanishes. Two months later, hunters find his body in a shallow grave, beaten to death. No suspects, no answers, 43 years later. Ontario Cold Cases digs deep. Can you help solve it? Subscribe now.

Because every case deserves answers—and every victim deserves justi...

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Murder in the Mummy’s Shadow

A Mick & Mack Mystery

Toronto, October 1950. Fog coils around the towers of University College, and whispers of cults and curses haunt the lecture halls.

When a graduate student is found dead in a circle of chalk symbols, Detectives Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely are drawn into a world of midnight gatherings, cryptic inscriptions, and an Egyptian sarcophagus said to conceal a terrible...

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Power, Secrecy, and Scandal: The Redpath Mystery in Gilded Age Montreal

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In 1901 Montreal, the Redpath sugar fortune bought more than mansions—it bought secrecy.

When matriarch Ada and her son Clifford were found shot, the family didn't call the police. They called a coroner and convened a private inquest in their parlor.

The verdict: Murder-suicide by an epileptic son. The evidence was destroyed. The bod...

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Murder in the Mummy’s Shadow (Trailer)

Fog coils around University College as a grad student turns up dead inside a circle of chalk—a jagged compass pointing straight at something older than the city. Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely follow whispers of midnight chants, a newly arrived sarcophagus at the ROM, and a professor with a velvet jacket and an unsettling smile. Is Elias Vane a scholar… or the architect of...

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October 21, 2025

The Two Gun Contradiction

The question is simple: If Clifford used one gun, who brought the second?

Because every case deserves answers—and every victim deserves justice.

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Murder in the Mummy’s Shadow (Trailer)

Fog coils around University College as a grad student turns up dead inside a circle of chalk—a jagged compass pointing straight at something older than the city. Mick McCathie and Mack MacNeely follow whispers of midnight chants, a newly arrived sarcophagus at the ROM, and a professor with a velvet jacket and an unsettling smile. Is Elias Vane a scholar… or the architect of...

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Power, Secrecy, and Scandal: The Redpath Mystery in Gilded Age Montreal

A FORTUNE BOUGHT SILENCE. A MURDER DEMANDED IT.

In 1901 Montreal, the Redpaths commanded one of Canada’s greatest fortunes—a legacy built on sugar, prestige, and the absolute control of their private world. But that world shattered on the evening of June 13th, when matriarch Ada and her son, Jocelyn Clifford, were found dead from gunshots insid...

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Power, Secrecy, and Scandal: The Redpath Mystery. What did money hide? Coming this Tuesday, October 21st.

In 1901 Montreal, the Redpath sugar fortune bought more than mansions—it bought secrecy.

When matriarch Ada and her son Clifford were found shot, the family didn't call the police. They called a coroner and convened a private inquest in their parlor.

Because every case deserves answers—and every victim deserves...

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