Episode 193: When the Predator is a Child: The Peter Woodcock Case

In 1956, a shadow fell over Toronto when a quiet teenager named Peter Woodcock committed a series of unthinkable crimes, shattering the city's sense of safety. Deemed legally insane, he was locked away in the fortress-like walls of Oak Ridge maximum-security psychiatric facility—presumably never to harm another soul. Decades quietly passed, and to the outside world, Woodcock became a forgotten ghost of the past. Until July 1991. After 34 years in psychiatric custody, the killer—now living under the name David Krueger—was granted his very first unescorted day pass. What was meant to be a test of rehabilitation quickly transformed into a nightmare: on that very same afternoon, Woodcock unleashed a lethal conspiracy inside the facility's walls, proving that time had done nothing to tame his darkest impulses. In this episode, we unravel the haunting story of Canada’s infamous "Day Pass Killer," the tragic systemic failures that allowed a predator to strike again, and the unsettling legacy of a man who manipulated the system to the very end.