The Cannington Cover-Up: The Unsolved Shearer Family Murders

The Cannington Cover-Up: The Unsolved Shearer Family Murders

In the dead of night, flames devoured a quiet farmhouse—and a family's secrets.

August 4, 2007. Cannington, Ontario—a sleepy rural haven where neighbors wave from unlocked porches—awakens to inferno. Firefighters battle the blaze on Cameron Street, only to unearth a nightmare: beloved teacher Don Shearer and his 16-year-old son Andrew, bludgeoned to death before the fire roared to life. The arson? A desperate bid to erase the evidence. And on the scorched lawn, the surviving son, Charles, clings to life amid his own burns—a lone witness, or something more?

This was no random tragedy. In a town that trusted too easily, the killer struck with intimate fury, vanishing into the shadows of Brock Township. For over a decade, Durham Regional Police and the OPP Cold Case Squad have chased ghosts: a tight circle of suspects, whispers of betrayal, and a fire's cruel deception. Was it rage? Revenge? Or a deeper, festering grudge?

Echoes of Evil: The Shearers' fate mirrors Ontario's darkest unsolved horrors—the 1999 Southwold slayings of Roger Smith and Wendy Haveron, beaten and burned to conceal the blows; the 2010 St. Catharines binding and blaze that claimed Livia Beirnes. Fires that hide homicides. Killers who walk free.

What twisted motive turned a father's home into a slaughterhouse? Unravel the chilling puzzle that has haunted investigators and a shattered community for years. The Cannington Cover-Up exposes the raw terror, the frantic probe, and the agonizing void of justice denied.

One call could crack it wide open. Will you be the voice that ends the silence?

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 your podcasts.

Follow us for updates and more: @OntarioColdCases

Ontario Cold Cases - Wordpress

https://nicollinvestigations.wordpress.com/

Ontario Cold Cases - Substack

https://substack.com/@ontariocoldcase

For more videos subscribe to: https://www.youtube.com/@OntarioColdCases?sub_confirmation=1

@PlayMorePods

#OntarioColdCases, #NicollInvestigations , #canadiancrime , #ColdCasePodcast , #ontariocrime, #OntarioMysteries , #PodcastMystery , #truecrimepodcast , #unsolvedmysteries, #ontario, #TrueCrimeCanada, #TrueCrimeOntario, #CanadianMysteries, #canada, #truecrime, #PodcastsOnAmazonMusic, #Murder, #Homicide, #Missing, #ColdCases, #CannigtonOntario, #DonShearer, #AndrewShearer, #ArsonMurder