Jay Nicoll
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Explore the unsolved mysteries of Ontario, Canada with our captivating true crime podcast, Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast. Join our team of dedicated detectives from Nicoll Investigations as they investigate cold cases, homicides, missing persons, and other crimes, all across Canada. Delve into forgotten crimes and help us remember the victims and bring justice and hopefully peace, to the families. Tune in to our engaging exploration of unsolved mysteries today and discover the chilling stories that deserve to be remembered! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed narration connects Ontario's unresolved cases to the evidence, missed leads and procedural failures that have kept answers out of reach.
Jay Nickel builds episodes as narrated case files, laying out timelines, evidence and investigative turns in enough detail to show where certainty ends.
A DNA exoneration beside a fictional ferry murder: your case-file mood has options.
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A missing envelope, a slowed watch, and Christmas bells shape a careful Toronto winter mystery.
Christmas Eve in Toronto turns a routine police errand into a mystery about fear, timing, and what a winter night can hide. Detectives Mick McCarthy and Archie McNeely lose a sealed envelope near St.
A cold-case account held together by testimony, threats, and shifting stories.
Ontario Cold Cases frames Kelly Ann Monborquette's killing as a case file shaped by testimony, fear, and shifting accounts. Patricia's story anchors the episode, while the hard details stay unmistakable: Mr.
A methodical cold-case account of Debbie Silverman, where the unanswered parts matter as much as the details.
Jay Nickel follows Debbie Silverman's murder with a steady, investigator's-eye patience, moving from an Ontario cold-case file into other disappearances, an immunity bid that went nowhere, and the handling of remains.
A sober cold-case portrait that keeps the evidence, the doubt, and the grief in view.
Jay Nickel keeps the focus on the parts of Lizzie Tomlinson's killing that still carry weight: the park, Gregory Guerin's later arrest and charge, the family's view that the case against him was circumstantial, and the forensic argument over whether the attack was a panicked act…
A sober look at how old homicides can still move toward answers.
Ontario Cold Cases treats unresolved homicides as live investigations, not sealed history, and it does so with a measured, methodical voice. It moves from what makes a case cold to the tools that can still change it: forensic science, re-examined evidence, and the reminder that…
Crime stories with impact and consequence.
Betrayal, evidence, and the breaking point.
Epstein-case coverage with teeth.
This episode examines the unsolved 1989 abduction and murder of 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic in Bay Village, Ohio, detailing the extensive investigation, forensic evidence, and persons of interest over decades.
This episode introduces the unsolved 2017 murders of billionaire pharmaceutical mogul Barry Sherman and his philanthropist wife Honey, detailing their rise from humble beginnings, Barry's aggressive business tactics at Apotex that created many enemies, Honey's Holocaust-survivor background and charitable work, and the complex family and business dynamics surrounding the case.
On New Year's Eve in Toronto, detectives Mick McCarthy and Archie 'Mac' McNeely are assigned to keep peace at the Royal York Hotel's grand ballroom.
This episode investigates the 1910 disappearance of Dorothy Arnold, a wealthy New York socialite who vanished while shopping on Fifth Avenue.
This episode investigates the 1990 murder of 13-year-old Leah Sousa in Cumberland Beach, Ontario, examining the brutal home invasion that also left her mother Laura with traumatic brain injury.
Ontario Cold Cases opens with Toronto Police Service data showing an average homicide clearance rate close to 80% since 1921, then contrasts that with the unsolved files that remain in cold case units.
This episode investigates the unsolved murders of Barry and Honey Sherman, a high-profile cold case in Ontario, Canada.
This episode updates listeners on the case of 90-year-old Joseph, who went missing in Toronto and was later found deceased, with no signs of foul play.
This episode investigates the unsolved 2017 murders of billionaire philanthropists Barry and Honey Sherman in Toronto.
This episode previews the unsolved murders of billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman in Toronto, detailing the case and calling for justice.
A true crime podcast investigating unsolved cold cases in Ontario, Canada, focusing on a 1989 abduction case.
Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast follows Detectives Mick McCarthy and Archie McNeely after a sealed envelope disappears near St.
Ontario Cold Cases, hosted by Jay Nickel of Nickel Investigations, covers the murder of 14-year-old Kelly Monborquette after her body was found on Yorkland Boulevard in Toronto on October 19, 1987.
Ontario Cold Cases revisits the August 12, 1978 abduction of 21-year-old Debbie Silverman from the hallway of her Bathurst Street apartment building near Finch Avenue West in Toronto.
Ontario Cold Cases covers the 1980 murder of six-year-old Lizzie Tomlinson, who disappeared from Stinkies Park on May 24, 1980.
The ferry manifest places Councillor Edwin Raines on the island after he denied taking the trip.
Six boys aged 16 to 18 disappeared from Pickering, Ontario, after leaving a party around 12:50 a.m.
Genetic genealogy connected a preserved 1984 semen sample to Calvin Hoover with odds of 3 trillion to 1.