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Some were taking a stroll through their neighbourhoods on a warm summer evening. Others were at home, tackling a few household chores. Still others were on their way to work, but the people in this book have one thing in common...they all vanished, without a trace: - Demolition crews discover a body buried beneath the cement floor of a Toronto business - Nicole Hoar, planning a surprise visit to her sister in Smithers, disappeared hitchhiking along BC's infamous Highway of Tears - Sex trade workers were disappearing from Vancouver's downtown Eastside for 20 years before law enforcement really began to look into the matter - After tucking her brother into bed and bidding her beau good night, Mabel Crumback put hair in curlers before bed and was never seen again - The families of Ontario's Lost Boys still wonder what became of them and the boat after the six borrowed a boat to cruise Lake Ontario in the dead of night - Jessie Foster's family uncovers hints of human trafficking when the young woman vanished after moving to Las Vegas from Kamloops to join her new boyfriend - No problem paddling the Amazon, but 25-year-old Alicia Ross disappeared from the backyard of her Toronto home in 2005 - Psychology student Natel King financed her education with a job in the adult entertainment industry but one day didn't return from a photo-shoot in 2004 - Following the Celebrate in '88 reunion, Lois Hanna made a cup of tea and slipped into her favourite PJs, but the next day her co-workers found her television on, her tea on the kitchen counter but no Lois - Despite national and international publicity no one has stepped forward to claim a young man dubbed Mr. Nobody after a brutal beating lands him in a Toronto hospital - Was she abducted? Or did she stage her own disappearance? The case of alderman Dar Heatherington during a business trip south of the border propelled the small city of Lethbridge into the media spotlight-and not in a good way. And more...

They have swept across this country like a wave since the 1990s, men and women in Canada who were convicted of murder, and after spending years and sometimes decades in prison, were later found innocent. Names like James Driskell, David Milgaard, Guy Paul Morin and Steven Truscott are the more well-known Canadians who have been wrongfully convicted of murder, but there are more dating back to the 1950s. Romeo Phillion, Gregory Parsons, Wilbert Coffin and Donald Marshall Jr. have also since been exonerated of murder convictions. However, Wilbert Coffin's innocence was discovered only after he was hanged. Wrongfully Accused tells the stories of these men who were the subject of police incompetence, malicious prosecution and faulty testimony.

Canadian women are not immune from violent behaviour. Some have done the unthinkable and murdered their spouses, their lovers, their children or complete strangers. They come from across Canada and across social backgrounds, and many of their cases have changed the Canadian criminal justice system: * Teresa Senner murdered her lover in a fit of jealous rage when he refused to leave his common-law wife or his three other girlfriends * After killing an undercover officer, Mary Taylor and Elaine Cece were jailed together, inciting a controversy over why the couple was allowed to stay together in prison * In 1999, Deanna Emard killed her husband after a history of abusing him * Danielle Blais, who loved her autistic son, drowned him in the bathtub and then tried to take her own life * While awaiting appeal on an extradition to face trial for the murder of an ex-boyfriend, Dr. Shirley Turner leapt to her death holding her baby * Canada's most famous female killer, Karla Homolka, assisted her husband in the rape and murder of her younger sister and two other teenage girls * Known as the 'Torso Murderer,' Evelyn Dick killed her husband and threw his dismembered body into a ravine * And more.

William 'Canada Bill' Jones once proclaimed that it was 'immoral to let a sucker keep his money.' As a result, confidence men and women looking to make a quick buck find it easy to exploit the trusting and compassionate Canadian nature. Many have misrepresented, misguided and lied their way through some of the most convincing schemes ever pulled in Canada: * In 2002, bank manager Nick Lysyk helped himself to $16 million in fake loans from the Bank of Montreal, and by the time he was arrested, he had amassed 17 homes and 40 vehicles * Richard Minard, the 'Con man for Christ,' claimed to be an ordained minister, and he convinced his trusting clients to invest money in time share condos that he did not own * Christophe Rocancourt was such a charismatic man that he managed to con many rich and powerful Hamptonites into believing he was really Christopher Rockefeller * Ferdinand Waldo Demara, 'The Great Imposter,' conducted medical procedures while serving in the Canadian Navy, including major chest surgery, even though he wasn't actually a surgeon. * And more.

Wanted posters featuring the mug shots of leering criminals trying to stay one step ahead of the law have been a common sight on post office and police station walls. Canada's Most Wanted brings you stories of Canada's most notorious fugitives and the dogged law enforcement officers sworn to bring them to justice: * Kevin Louis Vermett, one of Canada's most wanted fugitives, is the main suspect in the murder of three young men in 1997 after a petty disagreement turned deadly; before the police closed in, he disappeared into the wilderness near Kitimat, BC * James Charles Kopp, an anti-abortionist madman with murder on his mind, is wanted for the 1995 attack on Dr. Hugh Short, who was shot by a sniper through a window of his Ontario home * Machine Gun Molly, a petite woman with a big appetite for money, was the leader of a gang behind a string of bank robberies in Montréal during Expo '67 * The Mad Trapper of Rat River, a recluse wanted for the murder of RCMP Constable Edgar Millen, was finally brought to bay after a wild manhunt through the Canadian Arctic * Ronald Jeffrey Bax is the only suspect in the 1992 slaying of Krystal Senyk, shot at close range by someone lying in wait outside her Carcross, Yukon home; Bax disappeared after the murder never to be seen again.

Before the final execution in 1962, more than 700 men and women were executed by hanging in Canada. Last Moments shines a light into a dark corner of a long and painful part of Canadian history that threatens to re-emerge. Here are dramatic stories of the characters whose finals moments and last words were tragic, unpredictable, poignant, eccentric and often bizarre: * The principal object of curiosity at executions, apart from the person about to die, was the executioner; before Confederation, these individuals were often recruited from among the condemned, and they were given two options -- kill or be killed * A Yukon execution was delayed because freezing spectators, tired of waiting in the cold, used the wooden trapdoor of the gallows to build a fire * George Dowie from PEI didn't believe in brief farewells; his final discourse was so long that officials brought an armchair onto the scaffold so he could sit while addressing the crowd * British Columbian Corky Vincent brawled with his executioner on the scaffold before onlookers leaped into the fray, overpowered him and held him on the trapdoor until he was dropped to his death * And so many more tantalizing and twisted tidbits...

Ryan Davis, a brilliant graduate student and languages scholar, is forced to learn a deadly new vocabulary when an attempted kidnapping shatters his quiet academic existence. After narrowly escaping, Ryan is plunged into a shadow world of danger and intrigue where he discovers shocking revelations about his life and himself. His uncle is not who he thought, his best friends may be his worst enemies and his long-dead father may actually still be alive. Yet it is Ryan’s own dormant instincts and innate abilities that surprise him most, giving him the edge he needs to battle the sinister forces he suddenly finds arrayed against him.

It is estimated that one in six Canadians will be victims of identity theft. Complaints of identity theft and fraud in Canada double and even triple each year, according to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. Fraud artists often use electronic means to steal millions of dollars from ordinary Canadians. In some cases, the appropriation of an individual's identity may go unnoticed for years, and some victims lose everything. But you can learn to safeguard your identity, recognize scams and protect yourself. This book examines: - how criminals target their victims - how they collect personal information - what they do with that information - why identity theft is so profitable and - the many types of fraud related to identity theft. It also explains ways to identify if you have been a victim of identity theft or fraud, and what you should do. Read the astonishing stories of people who have had their identity stolen, the heartbreak of their losses and how they recovered.

Notorious Ontario is a rogue's gallery of killers and robbers, exploring the lives and misdeeds of criminals many of whom have been all but forgotten...until now! From the wild shores of Lake Superior and the woods of Muskoka, to the depths of depression-era Toronto and the bucolic beauty of Niagara, Canada has had its share of villains, and many committed their crimes in Ontario: - For weeks in 1914, Muskoka was beset by fear and violence as Muskoka farmer turned outlaw William "Black Bill" Ruttan spread a reign of terror through the region, initiating a massive manhunt for a vengeful father with a vendetta against his neighbours - On the wild and remote shores of Lake Superior the long arm of the law struggled to reach four brothers - Joseph, Mohawk, Louis and Antoine Moses - who terrorized nearby communities, raping, stealing and murdering as they pleased for more than a decade

Canada is home to some very cool mysteries: buried treasure, haunted places, unsolved murders and mysterious events: · After more than a century of searching for clues to one of Canada's greatest mysteries, the whereabouts of the Franklin Expedition were finally discovered in early September 2014 when the intrepid researchers from Parks Canada discovered one of Franklin's two ships · For more than 250 years treasure seekers have descended on Oak Island off the coast of Nova Scotia in search of unknown riches believed buried there-possibly Marie Antoinette's jewels? · Almost 20 years ago, six young men went missing in Lake Ontario after a night of partying; no evidence has been found to indicate what may have happened to Pickering's "Lost Boys" · Group of Seven artist Tom Thomson was just beginning to enjoy the accolades of Canadian art lovers when he disappeared during a fishing trip in on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park; his body was discovered eight days later, but the cause of his death is still a mystery · A ghost ship, flames leaping from its deck but not consuming it, has been seen sailing the Northumberland Strait, since 1786, but what does it mean? No one really knows. And many more...

Writer Dawn Sutherland gathers together ghost stories from across the country in this eerie compendium of stories about spirits that stay on this earthly plane after death. They may have unfinished business linked to a grisly or shocking murder-one they've committed, or their own! · Fur trappers and prospectors would rather brave the snow and freezing temperatures of a Yukon winter night than take shelter in La Salle's cabin, where they may come face to face with the murdered man's malevolent spirit. · James King's six-year-old daughter knew her fur trader daddy wasn't coming home long before his body was found outside of what is now Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, when he visited her bedside to say goodbye · The legend of the decapitated nun is so familiar in New Brunswick that folks walking along the Miramichi River still glance around to see if they can find her head · Every seven years on Halloween since Mary Gallagher was decapitated with an axe, her ghost has wandered the corner of William and Murray streets in downtown Montreal · The ghosts of two brothers gone bad still haunt the alleyways of Fredericton, New Brunswick, long after they were hanged in 1949 for the brutal murder of a cab driver · When Charles Blessing wandered into Wellington Delaney Moses' Barkerville, BC, barbershop only to disappear before his very eyes, Moses knew something bad had happened to his friend.