To Catch A Killer (2014-2015) Season 1

To Catch A Killer (2014-2015) Season 1 - Crime and Investigation Channel





A true crime series following Professor/Detective Mike Arntfield and a squad of civilians as they investigate unsolved murders in the Toronto area. When Donna Jean Awcock looked across to the balcony of her apartment from the building where she was babysitting to wish her mum goodnight, both had no idea it was the last time they would ever see one another. 30 years later, her mother mourns the murder of her daughter as if it happened yesterday.

The family desperately wants to know her 'stole her' away. Most troubling for the Awcock family is the behaviour of the Michelle Maynard, the woman who Donna Jean sat for the evening she disappeared. With virtually no contact between Maynard and the family, Arntfield and his team seek her out to re-question what she told police. Her story had been that upon returning from the bar she asked Awcock to purchase cigarettes while the stranger who drove her home remained in his car. All Maynard knows is that Awcock got to the convenience store and disappeared on her way back to her place.

While some of Mike Arntfield's team use old fashioned sleuthing to find Maynard, others turn to new technology ultimately uncovering multiple perpetrators who could have sexually assaulted and strangled the 17-year-old that fall evening. One was even wanted by the FBI.


IMDB Ratings: 8.3/10 from 56 users

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3497082/

Average Video Stats:

Format : MPEG-4
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 248 MB
Duration : 44mn 8s
Bit rate : 630 Kbps
Width : 716 pixels
Height : 402 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9

Release Debut Date: December 17, 2014


Season 1 Episode 1

As the team sifts through these news suspects, and return to the location where Awcock was last seen alive, Arntfield also finds a woman who was at the bar with Maynard and the stranger the night Awcock went missing. It's only then they discover the police composite they've been using was not right. With new technology they're able to re-work the image leading them closer to the man who left an innocent young woman dead on the banks of Fanshawe damn.



Season 1 Episode 2


Margaret McWilliam: Small-town girl Margaret McWilliam met an untimely end while jogging in Toronto.
With a long list of sexual predators active in Scarborough at the time, the squad has their work cut out for them.

Release Date: December 24, 2014



Season 1 Episode 3

David Buller: A disgruntled student or a jilted lover? A homeless man who stumbled into his office?
he squad turns over possible suspects in the unsolved murder of University of Toronto professor and artist David Buller.

Release Date: December 31, 2014



Season 1 Episode 4

Jackie English: The murder of Jacqueline English, who disappeared after working the evening shift at a local dairy bar,
shattered her family. In an attempt to thaw out this cold case, Jackie's sister turns over her diary.

Release Date: January 6, 2015



Season 1 Episode 5

Nadine Gurczenski: It took three weeks for police to identify the exotic dancer, murdered and left in a ditch.
Can the team identify Nadine Gurczenski's killer, 14 years after the fact?

Release Date: January 13, 2015



Season 1 Episode 6

Patricia Roach: Made to look like suicide, the 1982 murder of 26-year-old nurse Patricia Roach continues to haunt her family and foil police investigators. Can the team unravel the cover-up?

Release Date: January 20, 2015



Season 1 Episode 7

Lynda White:

She was just “a skeleton in the woods.”

Forty-five years after her disappearance, the mystery of Lynda White’s slaying and discovery gets the attention of a celebrity civilian team of investigators on Saturday night.



White was a Western student who vanished after writing a mid-term exam. Her body was found in 1972 in a wooded area in Norfolk County.

The show also connects White’s death to Soraya O’Connell, a 15-year-old London girl who disappeared in 1970 and whose remains were found near Stratford in 1973.

Not mentioned in the program, but clear from an earlier episode, is the connection to the slaying of Jackie English, 15, who vanished after working her shift at the Metropolitan store cafeteria on London’s outskirts on Oct. 4, 1969.

Her body was discovered in a creek near Tillsonburg in 1970. Can the team solve this very cold case?

Reference:

http://www.lfpress.com/2014/04/18/london-cold-case-slaying-thrust-under-new-spotlight

Release Date: January 27, 2015


Season 1 Episode 8 - Final Episode

Clyde Frost: A wealthy landlord, 80-year-old Clyde Frost disappeared from his Hamilton, Ontario home sometime between late evening and early morning on Jan. 24, 1999. His third wife and new bride, Julette Frost, arrived home from a trip to Jamaica the next day, alerting police that both Clyde and his beloved camper van are missing. In an attempt to find her husband, Julette hires a private investigator, to no avail. With foul play suspected, Hamilton Police execute a search warrant on the Frost home and a bloodstain is found on a basement carpet. Was Clyde taken from his home by force? Just over a week later in Toronto, a bylaw enforcement officer notices parking tickets collecting on the windshield of a camper van parked on a street near Regent Park.

Police identify Clyde Frost, with cause of death blunt force injury to the head. Within 24 hours of the discovery, police receive a mysterious fax. In it, the anonymous writer describes the circumstances of Clyde's murder, mentions two accomplices and claims the crime was the unforeseen result of a botched kidnapping scheme. Is the fax a real confession or a bogus and willful attempt to mislead investigators? The police aren't able to trace the sender and Clyde's case goes cold. Fourteen years later, Arntfield and his team dig deep into Clyde's past, his business associates and tenants, and find the kindly landlord was not without detractors.

Could Clyde's murder be the result of an ugly dispute? Clyde's daughters from his first marriage, who live in Nova Scotia, are eager to assist in the search for their father's killer. But those closest to him at the time of his death - including his much-younger widow and step-children - are elusive. Is there valuable information they could contribute to the case?


Release Date: Feb 4, 2015

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