A friendly Toronto landscaper. A mall Santa. A man neighbours waved to on the street.

For seven years, Bruce McArthur hunted men in the Gay Village — strangling them, photographing their bodies, and hiding their remains in the very planters he delivered to clients’ gardens.

Eight victims. Most immigrants. Most living double lives. All failed by a system that refused to see the pattern.

This is the full story of Canada’s most prolific modern serial killer — and how he almost got away with it.

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On September 9, 1949, a Canadian airliner exploded mid-air, killing everyone on board — including four children. It wasn’t an accident. It was a calculated murder.

Jewelry salesman Joseph-Albert Guay wanted his wife dead so he could be with his teenage mistress. Divorce was nearly impossible… so he built a time bomb, put it on Flight 108, and walked away.

This is the shocking true story of Canada’s first solved airliner bombing, the worst mass murder in the country’s history, and the last woman ever hanged in Canada.

A cold, calculated crime that left 23 people dead — all for love, money, and a man who refused to lose.

In 1990s Ontario, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka seemed like any young suburban pair—charming, successful, newly married. Then police found the tapes.

What those recordings revealed about the murders of three teenage girls shocked an entire country and exposed one of Canada’s most disturbing true-crime cases.

From the Scarborough rapes to the plea deal that still enrages people decades later, this is the full story of the couple who hid pure evil behind a perfect smile.

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In 1981, eleven kids vanished from British Columbia. Their killer didn’t just murder them — he made the government pay him $10,000 for every body he led them to.

This is the full story of Clifford Olson, the Beast of British Columbia: the career criminal, the killing spree, the surveillance failures, and the most controversial deal in Canadian true crime history.

Yves “Apache” Trudeau didn’t look like a killer. Five-foot-six. Clean-shaven. Quiet.

But between 1970 and 1985, he became the most prolific hitman the Hells Angels ever produced in Canada—confessing to 43 murders by gun, bomb, beating, and strangulation.

He scalped victims. He built bombs that tore men apart in their cars and apartments. He worked for the club and the Irish mob. Then his own brothers decided he was a liability… and he turned on them instead.

Host Alexander Lawson tells the full story of the Mad Bomber, the Lennoxville Massacre, and the shocking deal that let Canada’s deadliest outlaw biker walk free after just seven years.

A true crime episode you won’t forget.

On a quiet pig farm outside Vancouver, women were vanishing — and the pigs were eating the evidence.

Robert Pickton, a soft-spoken farmer, lured vulnerable women from the Downtown Eastside to his property… then butchered them and fed their remains to his animals. For years, families begged for answers while police looked the other way.

In this episode, Alexander Lawson takes you inside one of Canada’s darkest true crime cases: the missing women, the farm that became a graveyard, the trial that shocked a nation, and the questions that still remain.

This is the story of the Pig Farmer Killer.

Thirteen dead. Thousands injured. Five plastic bags of liquid sarin punctured on rush-hour trains.

The man behind Japan’s deadliest terrorist attack wasn’t a foreign agent.

He was a half-blind cult leader who claimed to be the final enlightened being on Earth.

This is the true story of Shoko Asahara and Aum Shinrikyo—the doomsday cult that murdered a lawyer’s entire family, tested nerve gas on a city, and nearly brought a nation to its knees.

Alexander Lawson takes you inside the rise, the crimes, and the final hanging of one of the most dangerous men of the 20th century.

In 1948 Tokyo, police found five tiny bodies inside a maternity home. Then the ashes of dozens more.

The killer wasn’t a stranger. She was a trusted midwife — Japan’s most prolific serial killer.

Miyuki Ishikawa, the “Demon Midwife,” took money from desperate parents and deliberately let their infants starve and freeze to death. Her body count may have exceeded 100. Her sentence? Only four years.

This is the true story of the Kotobuki Maternity Home murders — and how one woman’s quiet atrocities helped change Japanese law forever.

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In the early hours of July 26, 2016, a former caregiver walked into a Japanese care home for the disabled with five knives and a hammer. He moved room to room, asking one chilling question before he killed. Nineteen people never woke up.

This is the true story of Satoshi Uematsu, the man who warned authorities in writing… and was released.

In a quiet apartment outside Tokyo, police opened coolers on Halloween 2017 and found something that still haunts Japan: nine human heads, arms, and legs carefully packed inside.

The man who lived there had been hunting on Twitter. He searched for people posting about ending their lives, offered them a way out, and promised to die with them. Instead, he raped them, strangled them, robbed them, and cut them into pieces.

Eight young women. One young man. Ages 15 to 26.

His name was Takahiro Shiraishi — the Twitter Killer.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson takes you inside one of Japan’s most disturbing modern serial murder cases: how a former red-light district scout used social media to lure the vulnerable, what really happened inside that Zama apartment, and how one brother’s refusal to stop searching finally brought the truth to light.

A chilling true story of isolation, deception, and pure predation.