Ominous Ontario
Ominous Ontario is Southern Ontario's local true crime podcast. Covering murders in Ontario, Canada, host Steph Gick digs deep to find the important details to present to you.Join us on every Monday as we discuss crimes you may have never heard about, from Canada's most populated province.If you like Ominous Ontario, please consider supporting the show by sharing it with friends and leaving a 5 star review!
Episodes
Diane Werendowicz
Diane Werendowicz was days away from her 24th birthday when children playing in the woods would find her body. It would take 17 years to find her killer - and his conviction would only be the first chapter in a legal drama that would make h…
Melonie and Dwayne Biddersingh
On September 1, 1994, Toronto firefighters would find the burned remians of an emaciated girl in a suitcase in an industrial area of Vaughan. It would take 17 years to learn her identity, and the horrors she endured in her short time in Can…
Julie Crocker and Paula Menendez
On a cold winter night in 2007, a 911 call came in reporting an apparent suicide in a residential garage in Markham. As the caller entered the house, a murder scene was revealed inside. What happened at the family home that February night? …
The Luft Family Murders
It started as an average summer day for the family of 6 in Kitchener, Ontario in the summer of 2000. What family would find the next morning would cause a grief that consumed a whole community and left more questions than answers.Episode No…
Christine Jessop
In October of 1984, the small village of Queensville was shaken when a 9-year-old girl was murdered. Police honed in on a suspect, and what would result is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice Ontario would ever see. Sources: Toronto…
The Nursing Home Murders
For 9 years, a serial killer was operating completely unsuspected in Woodstock, Ontario. While she was preying on the most vulnerable people in society, she was also confessing to her crimes - but no one was listening. EPISODE CORRECTION: A…
Bill, Bridget, and Caleb Harrison
When Bill and Bridget Harrison bought their home in Mississauga, they knew it would be their forever home. What they didn't know was that one by one, the whole family would die in it over a 4 year span. Sources:Improbable Cause: The Harriso…
The Letson Family Massacre
Rural West Montrose is a picturesque village with a covered bridge that attracts tourists from all around the province - most of whom have no idea about the horrific murder-suicide that took place just a couple hundred feet away. Sources:Wi…
Kandis Fitzpatrick & Rori Hache
When a torso is fished from a harbour off an Oshawa pier, police are baffled. A few months later, plumbers will unlock the mystery and Oshawa will learn about a monster among them. Sources https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2021/2021onsc…
Sonia Varaschin
On August 30,2010, police discovered an abandoned car, which led them straight to a bloody crime scene. Fifteen years later, and the killer of Sonia Varaschin has still not been found. Please listen carefully - you may be the key to finding…
The OC Transpo Shooting
On April 6, 1999, one Ottawa workplace was forever changed when a former employee opened fire, taking four lives. This is a case that shone a harsh light on workplace bullying and harassment in the province. Sources:https://ottawacitizen.co…
Tori Stafford
When two monsters cross paths, it would spread fear through every parent and child in Woodstock - and would rob them of their sense of security forever. Sources:Crime Beat: Tori Stafford — Never Forget Part 1 | S2 E13EXCLUSIVE: Tori Staffor…
John Dick & Peter White
Five children find the torso of a man on a Hamilton hillside. What happens next would become one of the most most sensational trials to ever occur in the city. Sources: Deadly Canadian Women - Patricia MacQuarrie, dist. Quagmire Press The I…
Darlene "Dolly" Prioriello
It was a case so horrific that two police officers would leave their positions and never return. Join me as I discuss Darlene Prioriello and the changes her case made to both parole laws and forensics in Canada. Sources: David Dobson | Murd…
Laura Babcock, Tim Bosma, and Wayne Millard
How could Toronto police have the name of a killer for nearly a year and do nothing as he went on to kill 2 more people? Join me this week as I discuss the murders of Laura Babcock, Wayne Millard, and Tim Bosma. Sources: Dark Ambition - Th…
The Shooting at Brampton Centennial
Imagine the place you are supposed to be safe becoming your worst nightmare. In this episode , I take you back to the first recorded high school shooting in North America.Sources:https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/05/23/brampton-centenni…
The Bathtub Girls
Over a dozen people knew a murder had occurred, yet it was almost never considered a murder at all.In this episode, we discuss how two teenagers served less than a half dozen years combined for murder.Sources:https://globalnews.ca/news/7458…
The Murder of Alison Parrott
An 11-year-old girl is lured away from her safe Toronto neighbourhood and found dead two days later. Will the evidence the jury didn't get to hear let a killer walk free?Sources: https://globalnews.ca/news/6729686/alison-parrott-leader-of-t…
The Murder of Leianne Hunter
In Cambridge, ON in 1987, a mother is brutally slain in the middle of the day. Her killer is never found.Sources: https://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news-story/8766466-ontario-cold-case-family-still-searching-for-closure-31-years-later/?fbclid=I…