Recent arrest could allegedly crack 2018 cold case murder of a 28-year-old woman

This week on Tracking a Killer: The Cold Case Files, CityNews reporters Fil Martino and Madison Fitzpatrick take a look at the death of 28-year-old Monica Chisar.

The mother of one disappeared in Hamilton on July 11, 2018. Her body was found on Christmas Eve the following year by a father and son walking through a wooded area over 100 kilometres away from where she was last seen alive.

Over the years, police say they have interviewed hundreds of people in connection with this case and some have been re-interviewed.

But, during the production of this episode there was an arrest made, making this case closer to being a closed one.

The Ontario Provincial Police refer to their cold cases as historical homicides. Detective inspector Mary Louise Kearns with the Criminal Investigation branch has been working on this case since early 2021.

She says she is a big believer in the police’s ability to crack cold cases, “I think that when I started policing 28 years ago, we did not have the technology that we do now.”

You can listen to this weeks episode of Tracking a Killer: The Cold Case Files on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, The Frequency Podcast Network, or wherever you like to listen.