For Heaven's Sake

[Record crackles, music starts]

[Keys jingle, door creaks open]

Ted: The mystery about Harold

was always something that all of us in the family

were sort of aware of.

It was a big story.

It made all the Toronto papers.

It just keeps coming up again and again.

We can't let go of it.

Irene: It's been a mystery that we've lived with.

He just disappeared.

- Nothing suggests that he was prepared to go out

on a long journey; the door had been left ajar.

The oil lamp had burned out, and a book was overturned.

- He left the cottage very suddenly,

and his gun was gone.

- I don't know what happened but I think Harold was killed,

and he was hidden.

Ted: So often, the police want to rush these investigations,

and put them to bed as soon as they can.

Irene: They searched the lakes, and they searched the forest.

And they never found him.

Ted: There's gotta be nothing worse

than losing a family member.

I would think every year that they come up

to open the cottage,

they probably think of Uncle Harold.

Or, Great-Uncle Harold now, I suppose.

Oh, well, there you go.

- I really haven't seen some of the investigation

work you've done, I know you're doing it,

but I haven't seen it, so I can't say

whether you're good detectives, or not.

You're interesting detectives.

You're-you're cute.

- You want my frank and honest opinion?

Mike: Yep. - No, I don't.

Crowd: Seven! Six! Five!

Four! Three! Two! One!

Happy New Year!

Woooo!

- I'll introduce you. - Who's here?

Everybody, the whole family.

- How are ya? Happy New Year, it's been a...

a few years since we've wished Happy New Year to you!

I know!

Happy New Year, have fun. Do you need some beer?

- No, I'm okay. - Alright.

Ted: The Heaven family has been closely bound

for a long, long time.

And we, fortunately, have been drawn together to Haliburton,

and we've just kept going back there.

Isabelle: There's so many different people

of the same family.

And every relative of the Heavens

is within walking distance.

Irene: I mean, Haliburton is very central.

I mean, everyone comes here.

But the Harold factor is something

that everyone talks about, and everyone has their theory.

And everyone, you know, talks about the mystery.

- All my life I've wanted to know what happened.

- So you really feel it would be good to solve the mystery,

not just put it to rest, yeah.

- Oh! I really want it to be- yeah.

- Hi. Jackson. - Hi. Hi, Jackson.

I've seen your picture. - I know, I know.

- He's gonna help me solve the mystery, he's my best friend.

- Very nice to meet you. - Thank you.

- Did I mention your hat is beautiful?

- Oh thank you, that's great. - Everyone is so nice,

and welcoming, and it's very cool, yeah.

It seems to be, yeah.

Ruth: Minden is quaint and small, and quirky,

and it's great, because it's stayed that way.

- Because I'm usually only up here in the summer.

Jackson: So you're a tourist, basically.

- I'm not-no! I'm not a tourist.

You have a summer home here.

- Yeah, like a summer cabin. - You show up,

you spend your money,

you smoke your cigars, and you go home.

- Sometimes you'll get the "cidiots,"

the city people.

Wow, this is the real deal.

And people say, you know,

oh, here come the Toronto people.

- Why didn't we just stay at your cottage?

The pipes are frozen.

It's a rental, it gave off a Harold vibe.

- Are we in the right place?

Oh yeah!

Oh, a fireplace, nice!

Everything's wood, is that supposed to be like that?

- Yeah, everything's wood up here.

Announcer: In the month of October, 1934,

Harold Heaven disappeared.

Now, Mike Milden and Jackson Rowe

are investigating his disappearance.

Canoe FM is providing Mike and Jackson

access to our communities through the radio medium.

- And we're delighted to have in the studio with us right now

Mike Milden, and Jackson Rowe.

Maybe I could start our conversation by asking you

to tell us what the documentary

that you're working on is all about.

- So the documentary revolves around my Great-Great-Uncle,

Harold Heaven.

He went missing on Horseshoe Lake Road in 1934.

So basically my family, over the years,

has created these theories.

And there's a long line of amateur detectives.

Going back Harold's brother, Boyd.

He's my Great-Grandfather, who looked into the case.

And then we have my Grandpa, my Papa,

who is kinda the family historian.

He's a filmmaker, he's a great storyteller,

so he's done a great job of getting me involved.

- You have to draw the audience in,

just in the same way that you, personally,

have got involved. Said, I'm interested in this,

I really wanna see what-- if my theory,

my theory holds any water, you know?

It's going to be serious in that sense, right?

Mike: My Uncle Paul, he's like a facts guy, he's a biologist.

- I like facts, that's all, man,

It's what I am, I'm a facts guy.

Mike: Then there's Paul's sister, my Auntie Kym,

who's a nurse in Minden,

who is really plugged in to the community.

- Ted Pilcher, and uh, Scott McNabb, um,

the best water-skiers on the lake.

Yeah, the boats would come by and circle for-

looking, checking out your Mum all the time.

Mike: Even cousins would go around with these notepads,

and ask the older generation what they knew about Harold.

- No way. - Um...

- Tell me, what do they think of all of this?

I don't think anybody thought,

hey, let's make an entire documentary

about the Harold case, but here we are, so.

- Like, this is really professional, this stuff.

Ruth: Oh, I know.

- And... there's lighting, and sheets,

and they are kind when they undress me.

They have to put microphones on- in my body.

Let me ask you, Jackson,

what brings you to this project?

Jackson: The story was just so compelling.

And I love working with Mike.

We're best buds, we're roommates.

We started making videos together a while ago.

- Anything that we might've seen?

Um... uh, unlikely.

- Did you have a chance to talk to corporate

about that promotion we discussed?

Yeah, uh...

we're going with Karen. - Really? Karen?

Yeah, Karen, alright?

Listen, your numbers are impeccable.

You're doing like, a bang-up job,

but Karen has that wow factor.

They're peeing on each other!

- Hey, fellas! - Mikey!

- Hey Mike! - Oh gee!

- Well, see ya later! - You won a prize for that?

- Well no, but uh, it's got like, 5,000 views.

- Wow. - On YouTube, yeah.

- Uh, we're just massive, massive fans of true crime.

Mike: But the real kicker is that my family

recently got a hold of the 1934 police reports

from Harold's case.

- Every time you come for a visit with my Grandpa,

you get a peppermint, so...

Jackson: And police reports like that are so rare.

It's like, no one ever gets those.

They're somewhere in here

with my Grandpa's history stuff.

- I'm gonna go grab some peppermints.

Let's just take the whole chest.

But we gotta be real careful.

- Then, when reading the reports,

it was just like oh, this checks all the boxes.

So we figured, how hard can it be

to make our own true crime doc?

- How many viewers do you think you're gonna get for this?