The 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!

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Halloween, 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 move, a guard collapses with puncture wounds, and a page of history burns without a spark. Is it chemistry, trickery, or something older than both?


Whispers in the Dark available now!

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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 a spark.
 Whispers in the Dark.
 Coming tomorrow, Wednesday November 5th, only on Ontario Cold Cases – Canada’s True Crime Podcast.

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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 Cold Cases’ Historical True Crime Tuesdays as we summon the truth behind Houdini’s final act. Was it fate… or a séance of vengeance? Subscribe and share your theories!

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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…

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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 tickets December 10.

October 31, 10 p.m.: Bunny costume—pink top, white skirt, ears. Player's Nite Club till 2 a.m. 4 a.m.: Dropped at Building 3. Waves, reaches door—last seen 4:03 a.m. November 4: Reported missing. Apartment: Backpack, phone, eyelashes found. Missing: Purse, keys, costume. Car untouched.

Ferguson PD: 21 binders. 2003 lead: Serial killer Hugo Selenski confesses abduction, trophy ears. 17 bodies exhumed—none Cindy. Died 2022. 5,000 tips cleared. No GPS era dead ends.

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

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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 them into a mystery carved from limestone and guilt. 
Each corridor echoes with footsteps from another century, and when the ghost of Captain Charles Redford—the Sergeant-at-Arms who never clocked out—descends the Grand Staircase, justice finally catches up with the living.

Because at Queen’s Park… some debates never end—even after death.

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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 "controlling and jealous"—with whom Barney had a heated financial dispute just before he disappeared.

Why was the lead suspect never properly investigated?

Host Jay Nicoll uncovers the tragic truth: the initial search for Barney was fatally compromised by "overlapping police turf" between the Ottawa and Montreal police, allowing critical evidence and the main person of interest to escape scrutiny.

Decades later, Barney's family is still fighting for the justice denied in 1981. This is the story of a preventable investigative failure.

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