1970 Ontario Serial Murders Investigation: The Gormley Cold Case | 72 Hours | Real Crime
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- Опубліковано 8 січ 2024
- "72 Hours: True Crime" quadruple episode:
Ep 1 - Two murders shock a small farming community outside Toronto, but the crimes go unsolved; almost 28 years later, a veteran cop stumbles across vital evidence.
Ep 2 - When a lonely man calls a Houston dating service, he gets more than he bargained for; as he answers the door, he is robbed at gunpoint by his 'date'.
Ep 3 - Three towns, three sexual assaults and they are all identical, but the three detectives are not giving up.
Ep 4 - Firemen discover two bodies when they are called to extinguish a burning house; detectives learn the victims are two sisters who were sexually assaulted before their home was set on fire.
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Dead woman was shot 7 times.... and the Detective said he suspected it wasn't an accident. We're in safe hands.
Also Detective: two not-even-that-unbelievable coincidences and matching blood type. GUILTY!
Also Detective: two not-even-that-unbelievable coincidences and matching blood type. GUILTY!
Also Detective: two not-even-that-unbelievable coincidences and matching blood type. GUILTY!
Also Detective: two not-even-that-unbelievable coincidences and matching blood type. GUILTY!
Also Detective: two not-even-that-unbelievable coincidences and matching blood type. GUILTY!
Mr. Kennedy- Thank you for your excellent advocacy for this then young man. As a criminal defence lawyer in Ontario, Canada, I am regularly shocked by the tunnel vision of police and the community once a suspect is identified.
Aq
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Innocent until proven guilty
@@Whitewolf-xx6quCelery up your nose!
Greg Parsons is a humble, good, and admirable man. I hope he knows that.
Love seeing the old 70’s cars and clothes in these vids. Enjoy it almost as must as the stories.😊
me too! :)
1:13 The music is annoying and louder than the voices...horrific!
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I just commented on that! Annoying!
As bad as a BURTON CUMMINGS CONCERT!
It's, appropriate to use the term horrific to describe the crime, but not loud music. Please reconsider your choice of words. Thanks.
Love your shows. However, the background volume is way too high! Makes it a hard listen when something bothers you all the way, though.
Seriously, have mercy on your audience!
English?
There is a cure for ADD! Try listening to a crystal radio with 2 or 3 stations coming in at once, and then concentrate on one!
You really need to Turn Down the background
music...🔈😖🙉
Ikr?? It was really difficult to understand what everyone was saying because the music was overpowering the dialogue! And I’m not hard of hearing!! Imagine what this is like for people who ARE hard of hearing!
I'm hard of hearing, the background music makes it so difficult to hear, most of the time I can't go through with watching it.
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It’s free
Are these videos not from a television documentary series? I don't think they can do much about the volume of the music, when they're already a finished production. I'm not sure, just speculating 🤔
I wish Greg Parsons all the best , all the luck , and all the love in life. Greetz from the Netherlands
who cares... seriously.
@@lennarthagen3638 If your friend killed your mom, you'd care. If your complaining and replied about the Netherlands, keep that to yourself.
@@lennarthagen3638p
Nobody pays for fraud!
Except the little guy who takes the blame for the Company!
Don't ever say nobody knew what was going on?
The sentences for the biggest con artists are like 5 years or fines!
I say our Governments should hire con artists to defraud the con artists! Follow the money and get it back !
Then we can lower taxes
I am with you about this 💯 percent. 😮
18 years for such a brutal murder is simply wrong he could be out and doing the same thing right now.
I'm sure he is.
This stuff shows how good a "cops instincts" actually are. They were sure it was the guy who was innocent and never noticed the killer was a cop in their midst.
First you can’t blame the cops the song kill mom the friend of mom saying my son wants to kill me blood on he’s shoes hello can’t blame cops they do they thier job he did had blood in he’s shoes and not only that he had blood of mom and not look at what was the year of testing cops did they’re job he should’ve never made stupid song argue with mom it what all he’s friends stated so blame the witnesses and the real killer who gave he’s tape so no wasn’t cops was he’s friends who told on him so no it wasn’t cops was grit who told on him
So a cop went shooting with him, was in awe of the gun he had n didnt make the connection that that was the type of gun they were looking for? Talk about a blind eye. Why do ppl forget that a persons profession doesnt make them a good person.
They were cops from an entirely different city, and the cop who noticed the unique gun had no knowledge of the details of the murders. This stuff isn't splashed all over the media in Canada, and was even less so back in the 70's. And it's unlikely that the Toronto police had any details of the Gormly crimes, as it wasn't their jurisdiction. Or were you not paying attention to any of these details?
You obviously didn’t watch or listen, why comment?
@@thing_under_the_stairsStop making excuses.
@@thing_under_the_stairshe’s a cop he doesn’t need media
I love the fact that the Victoria Police were the ones to catch the world wide wanted con artist! They rock!
I remember this. We lived on 19th Avenue in Gormley. Mom and all her friends were pretty damned scared. I was in Grade 8, attending Mark II.
Horrible man. Glad he was caught even if thirty years later
It was 30 years later? I didn’t catch that for some reason
@@samdoors5132 first murder in 1970. Was identified as killer in 1999. I don't think it says here. I read an article
As far as I am concerned Greg Parsons and his family went though hell and back. He was an easy target for the police and they went with the easy target, typical as far as I am concerned when it comes to the police in Canada. They did the same in the Bruce MacArthur case in Toronto. Too much work to be bothered 🤬🤬🤬
This and many other cases like it is why I don't generally trust the police. While there are magnificent exceptions, the majority I have known are not the brightest bulb but almost always willing to do whatever they are told. They believe in flowing orders and policy, rather than justice. Right and wrong are defined by these same orders and policy rather than law and morality. Due to this, I've always dreaded even being remotely associated with any crime after seeing so many cases of of the police locking in on one suspect to the exclusion of all others.
How the hell did they not realize the son didn’t do it (at least not personally) with that crime scene… she had clawed someone so badly she had flesh under her nails. The person stabbed her many many times. Do an examination, did he have wounds from being clawed, bruises from her fighting back, cuts on his hand from the knife getting slippery. Jesus that alone would rule him out.
The music!!!
Those comments about the mother's fear regarding her son being "attention seeking" and nothing else, are RIDICULOUS. He may not have done this, but what a truly ridiculous comment. He has done something to have made her that fearful
How do we know ? She’s not alive to even confirm that was said
Strange that the killer of the 2nd woman asked her to come to the aid of a sick girl in his car. She was also a nurse. Could the killer have known that?
Well, after listening to the rest of the video, if West knew the area, he probably did.
I guess when this show was made people didn't realize a serial killer or two were active in London Ontario in the mid 1960s.
Or more, given Michael Arntfield's assertions.
Just what I was thinking! An old friend of my mother's lived next door to one of the victims of the "Strathroy Slasher" in the late 60's! She still counts herself lucky. And she didn't even know about the murders happening in London at the time, until I lent her my copy of the book "The Forest City Killer" by Vanessa Brown. It's a good read!
I knew the strange child's coffin did not tally with the fact that the murderer never harmed any of the children.
Geez that Parsons one really made me sad and want to tear up. What a horrible thing for the son to go through. His poor mother being killed so viciously, unforgivable. This has always been my biggest fear, is being wrongly accused and put in jail. Such a terrifying idea and it can happen to anyone. Darn justice systerm.
Would have been better without the background music
Definitely a Hollywood script & blockbuster movie in the making.
Poor kid. Losing his mom and then being treated like a murderer. Bless him. Sending love xx
"DNA are my favorite letters of the alphabet" LOL after what you went through bro im not surprised
Can you make the full interview watchable in Australia please❤
Very unique story. Crazy!
Even in fall of 2013 with cameras & technology my abduction i survived was a nightmare with the court system even though they had the guy who took me, assaulted me & another girl. She did not survive. I was the only witness we know of to al of it once he took me after abducting her. Our system needs to change & their needs to be massive funding on multiple levels for victims. I had to move, lodt my deposit,replace 4 teeth, get thousands in cosmetic work for my teeth,jaw & lets not forget therapy,psychiatrists and tons of meds for ptsd etc. Our judicial system sucks in this century.
Background music too loud can't hear the narrator very poor post-production 45:08 45:08
“In true crime, investigation and conviction may take years, but every detective knows that the crucial clue is always there somewhere in the first 72 hours.”
Why always the annoying music ?
I’m pretty sure it’s music that won’t get them in trouble with copyright.
This was originally a TV show and the audio isn't balanced for the Internet.
OK. I'm only in 0:29 seconds and already the music is getting on my last nerve.
Please listen when your viewers say we would rather not have any music at all. If the story is good enough no music is necessary especially music with a lot of drumming. TY
It because of copi right
Yes, the "background" music is very distracting & way too loud!! 🤨 Interesting stories, though. 🙋♀️
If you open the description and scroll down slightly, you’ll find a button that says “Transcript” it will have every word written out and will highlight what part is being said as they talk. I suggest trying to follow along using the transcript.
@@alicej8068 Gee, thanks for the tip with the transcript.
If ever there was a personification of a good man Greg Parsons is it. Total respect! I hope the towns people who wouldn't employ him now feel ashamed and so they should.
Sometimes friends can betray you in the worst ways possible. Poor Parsons was framed for his own mother’s murder by a guy he thought was his friend. I can’t imagine how he must have felt when he found out that his “friend” had killed his mother and framed him for it. The police were so sure Parsons was the killer that they never thought to take a closer look at the “friend” who pointed the finger at him.
Love the music, but some lady is talking in the background...
😂
Close the annoying music!
But anyway a awesome Crime scenes!
If the music was HELLA quieter, that would be grand. It's terrible. Makes the whole thing bad. LoL
@@HeSsO19😅❤😅😅😅😅😅😅
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Sometimes the music overlaps the narrator's voice
It's Canada wonder if he really was in jail for life Or out in 25 yrs
This is him en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Rocancourt
@@MermaidDolphinNYC This Wikipedia entry is about a con artist. It doesn’t speak about these murders at all.
The last time west was up for parole, he was denied. He is now 74.
@@gaylegoodman9097 thank you
I remember when we didn’t lock doors.it was 1978.
lol I still don't very often but I live in a safe country
Spot on. That seems to be the year when things got worse...that's when we began. It was the year the Yorkshire ripper began..though he wasn't noted until a few years later. We left uk in 78 to find a nicer country.
please lower the background music!!
im from kingston Ontario!
we dont have as many messed up ppl in USA..
but Kingston does have alot of prisons. and bad offenders
He will be out in 10 years
@@todd880Actually, the last time he was up for parole, he was denied. He is now 74.
Humans can be very dangerous in many different ways
Wee shame.poor husband and baby.
The music is so loud do annoying you can’t even change it in the settings
Music must go
Atleast in the first case as bad as he is he didn't kill kids😢😢
Not Mr Big …again!
You’d think every criminal in Canada would know this ploy.
Thanks for the videos, but PLEASE mix down the background music so that the dialog can be heard!
Interesting cases but must you blast the music? Hard to hear talking over such loud music.
Government loves releasing the most dangerous criminals. But the petty crimes stay in jail
50:18 man I hope that’s the actual recording
That shyt went hard 🚽🧻🚮
Whoever did the sound editing needs find another line of work.
The voice was so muffled hard to hear what was being said with the drowning wrong choice of music. Two minutes in I had to stop find something else to watch
If you open the description and scroll down slightly, you’ll find a button that says “Transcript” it will have every word written out and will highlight what part is being said as they talk. I suggest trying to follow along using the transcript.
I simply cannot stand the thought of a baby or a child, crying or being fearful. I cannot imagine how frightened little ones are in these kind of situations.
So confusing cuz of this music around 😢
If you open the description and scroll down slightly, you’ll find a button that says “Transcript” it will have every word written out and will highlight what part is being said as they talk. I suggest trying to follow along using the transcript.
poor greg, being convicted on nothing but a song, thank goodness he got freed, wish him well
sorry but the rookie drinking the knock out drink is kinda funny
The music is so loud & annoying I had to stop watching
That song, tho. What a psyco
Facts, maybe a laughed a little bit
Yeah no not funny
11:00 shouldn't they need a warrant for that?
an open shed door on somebody's property has to be different than say, looking through a car window at a traffic stop or something.
Yes they should of but they always have their loop holes noticed how they said it was an unlocked shed I mean yes I always leave my shed unlocked especially with my rare guns and expensive tools dont you lol im sure they did violate his rights but when you are sadistic rapist and a killer should you really have rights bc to me they didnt give their victims any rights nor let them live so personally I could care less if the perps rights was violated ya know
If something is in open view then no they don't need a warrant, generally. How much was visible from the doorway is the question. And if it gave any reasonable indication of crimes committed. But this is also a small town in the 80s so who knows
I think that if they could see things like the child sized coffins through the open shed door, that would be enough probable cause to allow them to enter the unlocked shed without a warrant. I'm not an expert on the law, but please remember that American laws don't apply in this case, as it occurred in a rural Canadian town, and in the 1970's no less. I'm sure that procedures are a bit different.
The only complaint I have is that the background music is a little too loud.
Time to binge watch 🍿
The music is driving me mad!
So glad the real killer was caught and arrested and convicted, and Greg Parsons was exonerated. Also glad they apologized and gave him some money for his wrongful arrest. He was super strong to go through all that, and seems to have put it behind him (if that is really possible). God bless him.
Well, that second story was a mysterious and new one on me (and your background music doesn't bother me --I didn't even notice it until I read some of the comments 👀).
Im firstly going to say that a 9-shot .22 caliber revolver has never really been unusual. H&R produced many models and so did High Standard. In fact in the 1950s - about early 1970 Sears sold a Snub Nose High Standard revolver for between 35 dollars at 60 dollars. Yes, these were available in Canada at the time! This was also before the common transfer bar safety "firing pin should be kept on an empty cylinder". 7 shots also indicate a possible 8-shot revolver in 22 to which many of those existed as well. This was during a different time in Firearm laws etc in Canada. Going by a theory that may be reasonable, If the killing were done in an insane type of rage ( which could be reasonable) I would find it hard to believe that the killer would count out his or her shots. & shots more so indicates to me an 8-shot revolver with the hammer on an empty cylinder. A 7mm rifle is certainly NOT unusual!
Unusual in this case doesn't mean 'rare', it means not every Tom, Dick and Harry has one. Arisakas etc in 7mm weren't the common hunting thing that everyone did have. I think their point was that it wasn't a 7.62mm like a .308 that virtually everyone DID have. I do think you're right about it likely being an 8 shot carried with the hammer on an empty chamber and the perp emptied it, makes most sense to me anyway.
Google this case and see the update. Ex Cop charged and going through trial now. Cheers.
I once owned a 9 shot H&R 22lr revolver. Back in the 1980s. There were tons of them around and they were like $90 in my local area of California in 1987. I knew a bunch of kids my age that had one similar to mine. My dad had a 9 shot Ruger 22lr in single action cowboy style. I think it was a Ruger.
I figured about half way through, that Avery didn’t exist.
All that coded papers?? And no person?? I think they are good in convincing someone the person did not exist than to be committed and tried for murder. Self- harm is not easy and the other person who still believes that Avery existed??? I wonder is he was supported by this person!! Even if the daughter was abducted; then what about that person who aided in crime for abduction. Was that investigated?? Still does not sum up!!
It would be nice if the "background" music wasn't louder than the voices of the people speaking.
This is really good video but but but the music is far too loud...
Yep, things were just swept underneath the rug and not dealt with in the past 😢
Music in the background are hindering us from hearing properly.
hey greg u should have said one word and one word only bro. lawyer
They still have tunnel vision!
Why did one female only get 10 yrs & the other got 30 yrs for their robberies
Greg was innocent but wtf did he do to make 40 people, who claimed to be his friends, rag on him to police and ruin his life :| ??
They thought he killed his mother and that doesn't go well with anybody. And that snake Doyle probably had a hand in the way people perceived him after the murder.
I did not donate $1.99 why does this keep showing up whenever I watch your videos? Should I report it?
I'm not sure as it hasn't happened to me. I'm not sure what you should do. Hope you sort it.
Geez makes you wonder if he's killed others.What was his motive
They ruined that young mans life
Can’t watch this, the music takes over and kills my concentration. 🥴
If you open the description and scroll down slightly, you’ll find a button that says “Transcript” it will have every word written out and will highlight what part is being said as they talk. I suggest trying to follow along using the transcript.
Guess maybe people in the area SHOULD have been locking their doors.
I’m so sorry for what you went through Greg and for losing your mother. What doesn’t kill us or destroy us makes us stronger and you are one strong young man! God bless you
"They say the past is another country." What a sloppy opening to this episode.The actual quote is: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." by Leslie Poles Hartley.
Now that's a DIRTY COP
The pd can keep covering and protecting this corrupt cop therefore implicating themselves as corrupt as well
I want to know why he did it why he chose those two women
Bullets recovered from a human skull NEVER look like those
Shot in the back and he has a feeling it wasn't foul play? Really? A 6 year old with a squirt gun could make that deduction...
Where are the " Diversity Is Our Strength" People , Where are you ?
"he was drunk and stoned and left the party to go murder this lonely mother" and people dont think demon possession is a real thing... Satan is such a loser. and the guy who confessed to a random undercover cop is a sick and pathetic loser
burton Cummings…
@@missnellafuldemon possession? Go to see a psychologist!
46:49 police tell son who just found his mother dead in the bathroom to go home and rest? 🙄 really? what kind of care is that? 45:24 911 call
While they have tunnel vision in Greg,the real murderer is getting away
They thought it was Scott Wilson because the murders were committed… In Cold Blood.
That poor boy what hell he must have went through...he should have had counseling right away after his Mom's death They need to go with facts not kitchen ass gossip .Im so glad he got compensation Newfoundland is lucky to have him serving people.
30 years to ask the child is that the killer or not?
Or he hated her so much he reloaded...…
Sad,sad
I guess in America they’re quicker…. The first 48….😂
Other than that, I totally felt for Greg Parsons. I’m glad they caught the REAL killer. Instead of framing her son. And I’m definitely glad Greg is now a Fireman.
And who do you contact if you might have info to an alleged killing that took place possibly in the 60's or 70's, in a different state? I say might, because the individual was pretty hammered but, he is a family member who recently passed away. Supposedly took place in a N. MN small town.
Call police in that small town ask for detectives
1970- Ontario - A man went to work but when he returned home he was to face an unimaginable tragedy. His wife Kathleen had been raped and shot to death. Then another murder an 8 year old boy called police about his mother lying on the floor. An Ontario serial killer on the loose. Police found that both women murdered were nurses. The ending of this story is unimaginable!
I have a 9 shot 22. i didn't think they were rare, maybe in 2024, but they were common back in those days
This woman sounds like she reading a story to children