If Anything Should Happen: The Ottey Sisters Murders
About this episode
The episode discusses the tragic murders of the Ottey sisters and the subsequent investigation that revealed a complex web of violence and obsession.
Episode 433: On August 16, 1995, Avis Ottey came home to her townhouse in Scarborough, Ontario, expecting to find her daughters packing for the future. Instead, she found nineteen-year-old Marsha Ottey and sixteen-year-old Tamara "Tami" Ottey murdered in the basement. Marsha was just two days away from leaving for Arkansas State University on an athletic scholarship she had worked years to earn. She had also confided something chilling to her mother while packing her bags: "If anything should happen to me, it's Rohan." What followed was a seven-month investigation that stretched beyond the murders of the Ottey sisters. Two unsolved sexual assaults, a seemingly unrelated killing at a Toronto subway station, that of TTC employee Dimitrija Trajceski, DNA evidence, and the largest manhunt in Toronto Police history ultimately exposed the truth behind a crime driven by obsession, control, and extraordinary violence…
People in this episode
Host: Dark Poutine
Topics covered
- true crime
- murder investigation
- family tragedy
- obsession
- violence
- DNA evidence
- manhunt
Keywords
- Ottey sisters
- murder
- investigation
- Toronto
- true crime
- obsession
- violence
- DNA evidence
- manhunt
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Toronto Police, CBC News
Places: Scarborough, Ontario, Toronto
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