Vanished

A man rages in his home on April 4 1999 breaking furniture and dishes. A woman wants to leave him. You''re not going anywhere he tells her. Later that day a police officer reports to the house and finds human tissue and organs in a bag left out for garbage. The person of interest in the case is a steelworker named Sam Pirrera who lives in the house. But who is the victim? Sam''s current estranged wife Danielle? It is known that they had a stormy relationship; Sam had assaulted her as his coke addiction returned. Forensic detectives find traces of blood in the basement and then the entire corpse dismembered the parts hidden behind a false wall and packed in boxes each of the parts wrapped and doused in gasoline. The victim''s identity is discovered through prints to be a prostitute named Maggie Karer. The dismemberment defensive mutilation is calculated and deliberate and the detectives wonder: Are there more victims?Following an investigation led by veteran homicide detective Peter Abi Rashed who had once chased a young Sam Pirrera on the streets of Hamilton''s east end many years before Vanished takes us behind the scenes of a grisly real-life case and its shocking outcome.