The Predator in the Heat: Who Killed Kimlyn Tolgyes?

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The Predator in the Heat: Who Killed Kimlyn Tolgyes?

A scorching summer night. A predator on the prowl. A murder that remains unsolved.

On August 1, 2002, Hamilton, Ontario, was in the grip of an oppressive heatwave—the kind of night where the air is thick, the streets feel deserted, and shadows seem to stretch just a little too long.

That night, a white sports car idled at the corner of Barton and Wellington. Inside, a clean-cut blond man named Joe offered a ride.

One woman barely survived the terror that followed.

Four weeks later, another woman wasn’t so lucky.

The naked, battered body of Kimlyn Tolgyes, a 19-year-old mother, was discovered in Kerncliff Park, less than two kilometers from where Joe had struck before. She had been brutally murdered, struck in the head with a heavy object.

What followed was a tangled web of leads, suspects, and chilling disappearances.

🔎 Two hundred leads. A police task force. Multiple arrests.🔎 A city plagued by violent predators.🔎 A killer who was never brought to justice.

Who was Joe? Was he just a violent attacker—or was he Kimlyn’s murderer?
Or was there another shadow in the night, another hunter preying on Hamilton’s most vulnerable women?

Two decades later, the case remains ice cold—but the questions still burn.

Who was stalking the streets of Hamilton that summer?
Who got away with murder?
And most chilling of all—who is still out there?

🔎 Next week, we dive even deeper into Project Advocate and the chilling disappearances of Susan Gourley and Felicia Floriani. What police uncovered during the investigation will shock you—and could hold the key to unraveling more than one deadly secret.

Ontario Cold Cases - Canada’s True Crime Podcast, this is the story of a murder that refuses to be forgotten.

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