Donnerstag, November 24, 2011

CBC Fifth Estate: A Cold Case

In the summer of 1989, Duncan MacPherson was setting off to start a new life as a hockey coach in Europe. But the 23-year-old Saskatoon native and former NHL first-round draft pick took a holiday detour to snowboard in the Austrian Alps and then vanished -- for 14 years.

That disappearance plunged his family into a twenty-year search for the truth. Duncan's body was finally discovered in 2003, found frozen in a crevasse on a glacier near a popular ski run. Austrian police and operators of the Innsbruck-area resort have long maintained it a closed case -- claiming MacPherson's death was just an accident, the result of his venturing away from the safety of the designated course and into dangerous terrain. [more...trailer]