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The Cannington Cover-Up: The Unsolved Shearer Family Murders
Season 3 · Episode 165

The Cannington Cover-Up: The Unsolved Shearer Family Murders

In the dead of night, flames devoured a quiet farmhouse—and a family's secrets.

Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast · Jay Nicoll

October 12, 20250m 52s

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The Cannington Cover-Up: The Unsolved Shearer Family Murders


In the dead of night, flames devoured a quiet farmhouse—and a family's secrets.


August 4, 2007. Cannington sleeps—until flames awaken a nightmare. Teacher Don Shearer, 16-year-old Andrew: Bludgeoned. Their home? Set ablaze to bury the brutality. Survivor son Charles escapes the inferno, but not the questions. Who in this trusting town turned family to ash? Like Ontario's fire-hidden horrors—Smith and Haveron beaten in '99, Beirnes tied and torched in 2010. The killer's circle tightens. Ontario Cold Cases exposes the cover-up. Because darkness hides in plain sight. Subscribe—answers demand it.


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