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Description: Firsthand accounts and re-enactments show what happened during Canada's highest-profile crimes.

Firsthand accounts and re-enactments show what happened during Canada's highest-profile crimes.

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In 1989, the entire town of Miramichi is held hostage by a monster. This troubled man with a heinous past embarks on a 7-month crime spree, including brutal beatings, rape, arson and serial murder.

Allan Legere: The Monster of Miramichi

An attack on two teenage girls, leaving one dead, starts a seven month siege of torment for the town of Abbotsford.

Terry Driver: The Abbotsford Killer

David Snow, the man behind the murder of a young husband and wife.

David Snow: The House Hermit

When two suburban housewives are killed in their homes within a week of each other in May 1970, it leaves the rural areas surrounding Toronto in fear.

Ronald Glenn West: The 22 Caliber Killer

A man who was once accepted into a small Quebec community and commonly referred to as Bill l'Anglais turns out to be a murderer, whose crimes cover nearly twenty years.

William Fyfe: The Killer Handyman

Trina Campbell's killer was found with help from the suspect's sister and brother-in-law after the girl was reported missing in December 1987.

Douglas Robert Worth: The Pictou Sadist

Known as the Vampire Rapist for his distinctive modus operandi, Wayne Boden would rape, strangle and bite the breasts of his victims. It was a bite mark that he left on his Calgary victim that proved he was the person responsible for these crimes.

Wayne Clifford Boden: The Vampire Rapist

David Shearing's confession to six murders solves the case of a missing family.

David Shearing: The Wells Grey Gunman

Five police services work together to end Peter John Peters' crime spree.

Peter John Peters: The Tattoo Man

In 1983 the ex-wife of Cabinet Minister Colin Thatcher is found brutally murdered in her garage. Police have their suspect, but pointing the finger at powerful politician Colin Thatcher is dangerous business.

The Conservative Killer

The death of a woman and her 11-year-old daughter lead police to arrest Michael Wayne McGray.

The Homocidal Drifter

The Casebook Rapist

On a single rain-soaked night during the Victoria Day weekend, police are called to the scene of three very similar crimes. Three sex-workers found dead only blocks away from each other, and each of them shot in the head execution style.

The Victoria Day Shooter

Women are being attacked in their beds at night. At each crime scene police find no trace of forced entry and are baffled as to how this intruder is gaining access to apartments sometimes more than 15 stories up.

The Bedroom Strangler

A hunter on the outskirts of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan stumbles across human remains. Police are called to the scene and over the next two months, two more full sets of remains are uncovered in the same vicinity.

The Lady-Killer

In the winter of 1968, the prairie city of Saskatoon is ravaged by a string of savage rapes. A few months later, fears are bolstered when a young nurse is found raped and murdered in an alley near her home.

The Elusive Rapist

Near Montreal, a husband comes home from work and finds his wife bound, gagged and shot in the head. There is no evidence of sexual assault or theft and police are left without a lead to go on.

The Butcher of St. Ustache

On a rainy night in Edmonton, Alberta police are called to a trucking yard where the body of a 6-year-old girl laying face down in the mud rattles the most seasoned homicide detectives.

The Boogeyman

In downtown Edmonton, a prominent business owner is found shot to death in his business. Police on the scene discover several suspicious clues, leading them to suspect a hired assassin from somewhere in Europe.

The Murderous Mastermind

For three weeks in May of 1994, a brutal killer had a nation on edge. A bloody spree of rapes, kidnappings, and murders resulted in the deaths of six Oklahoma residents, including a local radio personality and an elderly widower.

The Roaming Rapist

Ray and Faye Copeland, an elderly farmer and his wife, would become America's oldest couple on death row when a simple livestock scam escalated into murder.

The Elderly Executioners

In Sacramento in the mid 1980's, a ruthless killer was making his way through the fringe community of Oak Park. Behind him, he left a trail of victims, stuffed in closets, hidden under debris and even buried alive.

The Homicidal Handyman

When police find a body behind a Sacramento, Calif., boardinghouse, they suspect grandmotherly Dorothea Puente.

The Boardinghouse Killer

Robert C. Hansen was known for his hunting abilities. In the early 1980's, however, his taste for hunting took a sinister turn. A growing list of missing persons and the discovery of two dead bodies led the police to begin the search for a killer

The Human Hunter

One of the most intensive manhunts in the history of Texas took place over the summer of 1999 when brutal serial killer Angel Resendez Ramirez was on the loose.

The Railcar Killer

In the early 1990s, the tourist hotspot of New South Wales, Australia became a place of fear when backpackers started going missing. Over the course of a year, the bodies of seven missing backpackers were found.

The Backpacker Killer

Racist killer Ausonius decided to solve his problems with immigration in Stockholm by shooting immigrants in the street, using a laser-guided rifle.

The Laser Man

In 1985, a brutal killer had Southern Californians fearing for their lives. Richard Ramirez, known as "The Night Stalker", entered homes in the dead of night to terrorize the people inside.

The Night Stalker

On July 26, 1983, police in Vero Beach, Florida received a report of a nude man firing shots at a naked girl on a residential street. When they arrived on the scene, officers found the body of a 17-year-old girl hidden in the trunk of a car.

The Killing Cousins

On August 8, 1973, police in Pasadena, Texas received a phone call from a young man who had just committed murder. He claims that his victim, Dean Corll, was going to kill him just like he had done to so many others.

The Candy Man

The murder of a 9-year-old girl leads to the arrest of Australian serial killer Leonard Fraser.

The Rockhampton Rapist

When the body of a local beauty queen is found in a farmer's field near Sydney, Australia, the entire country is riveted.

The Blacktown Boys

Gerald and Charlene Gallego earned the title of the first husband-wife serial murderers when they raped and murdered 10 people across the western United States between 1978 and 1980.

The Love Slave Murders

In 1974, a man identifying himself as the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) Strangler started a killing spree in Kansas spanning the next two decades. He managed to kill ten people while eluding an intense manhunt by police.

The BTK Strangler

Six days into 2004, an unidentified man is found stabbed to death just outside of the booming oil city of Calgary, Alberta. Just when the police appear to have no leads, a witness comes forward after seeing an article about the murder.

The Teenage Terrors

A week-long search for a missing 10-yr-old Indiana girl ends sadly with her body being discovered in a nearby stream. The ensuing investigation puts police through the wringer as they are misled by false confessions and stories of secret meth labs.

The Menthol Murderer

In November 1986, a snowstorm rips through Connecticut, leaving wife and mother Helle Crafts missing. Her husband, airline pilot Richard Crafts, evades suspicion for weeks by claiming that Helle had left the country to visit her sick mother.

The Woodchipper Wife-Killer

US Coastguardsman Ricky Dale Hemphill and companion Charla Toma set out for a picnic along a river near Brookings, Oregon in the fall of 1979. A day later Ricky is found murdered and Charla is missing.

The Wilderness Murders

Several women went missing from the Kansas City area in the 1980s and 1990s, three shortly after traveling to Missouri to meet a man they had met online.

The Slave Master

A common-law couple was found guilty of the 1990 rape and murder of Taunja Bennett near Portland, Oregon. However, a letter signed with a happy face sent to a Portland newspaper claimed responsibility for the murder of Taunja and others.

The Happy Face Killer

Tara Lynn Grant was reported missing five days after her husband claimed she left their home in an unidentified black car.

The Missing Mom

American Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her family vanished in August 1995, leaving behind an ominous note claiming a family emergency.

The Abducted Atheists

On Valentine's Day weekend 1999, three tourists from Yosemite National Park disappeared and were found murdered a month later. At the time, handyman Cary Stayner was questioned but released due to lack of evidence.

The Yosemite Park Murderer

The murder of Jamie Paxton mirrors multiple deaths in the Ohio area; a psychological profile leads authorities to Thomas Lee Dillon as a prime suspect in the murders.

The Silent Sniper

When emergency services arrived at the office of respected neurologist Richard Boggs following the report of a patient's death, they had their suspicions regarding the circumstances, but an autopsy found that the man died of natural causes.

The Doctor of Death

On a wintry morning in Sweden, Alexandra Fossmo, wife of pastor Helge Fossmo, was found shot to death in her bed. Soon after, their former nanny Sara Svensson confessed to the murder, but investigators suspected there was more to the story.

Terror by Text

In November 1996, Raymond Collin went missing in his hometown of Timmins, Ontario. The discovery of his body days later in a snow-covered truck in downtown Timmins led police to an assortment of possible suspects.

The Arbitrary Assassins

When Erika DeNardo's mother and brother were murdered, she told police and neighbours it had been the work of Albanian thieves. Erika's story began to crumble, and when police uncovered contradictory physical evidence.

The Slaying Sweethearts

Cindy Zarzycki is 13 years old when she goes missing on her way to a Detroit ice cream store. Considered a runaway, Cindy remains just another missing child on a milk carton until Detective Derek "Mac" McLaughlin receives her file nine years later.

Girls Just Wanna Get Found

Just hours before her divorce hearing, Atlanta socialite Lita McClinton opens her front door for a flower delivery. The deliveryman, a small time hood named Tony Harwood, hands her a box of roses and then shoots her dead.

The Long Stemmed Killer

It's just another meeting for Los Angeles real estate developer Meyer Muscatel. Unfortunately Muscatel meets with Iouri Mikhel, a Russian immigrant with murderous intent.

The Russians Are Killing

Nancy, David and Susan Spangler are found shot to death in their home - the brutal slaughter is deemed a murder suicide. Over the next fifteen years, two more Spangler spouses, Sharon and Donna die in similarly suspicious circumstances.

A Way with Murder

Pamela George's beaten body was found and two boys from successful families are charged with first degree murder.

The Killer Schoolboys

in 1951 a hitchhiker is sentenced to hang for murder; public outcry reduces his sentence.

The Kid with the Hollywood Haircut

In 1996, nurses and patients at the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center in Northampton grow concerned. It seems that wherever nurse Kristen Gilbert goes, death follows.

The Lethal Injector

On November 14, 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk goes to a party at the Craigflower Bridge, near Victoria, Canada. It is there where her 'friends' swarm, burn and beat her down.

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