A look at the twisted crimes of Peter Demeter, one of Canada’s worst criminals
On a warm summer night in 1973, real estate developer Peter Demeter pulled a Mercedes full of visitors into his Mississauga, Ont. driveway after a shopping trip.
As the garage door opened, the headlights illuminated a horrific scene — the bludgeoned body of his wife, 33-year-old model Christine Demeter.
The crime made headlines across Canada and well beyond, launching an investigation by police and prosecutors. Shortly, they would uncover the sordid and seedy dealings of one of the country’s darkest and most dangerous psychopathic minds.
The ensuing trial for Peter Demeter was one of the longest in Canada’s history, as prosecutors laid out their evidence, painting a picture of an unhappy marriage, a mistress and a plot to cash in a recently acquired $1-million life insurance policy.
The crimes of Peter Demeter, which began with his wife’s death but certainly didn’t end there, happened more than 50 years ago, but remain some of the most gruesome and calculated in our nation’s history.
Now, Global’s true crime offering, Crime Beat, is looking back on the case for its 100th episode, with new interviews from the detectives who responded to the grisly scene, never-before-heard details from witnesses who were there the night Christine died and local journalists who have followed every twisted turn in Peter’s criminal life.
Read on to learn more about this fascinating case and to get a sneak peek of some of the new information highlighted in Crime Beat‘s centennial episode.
Peter Demeter was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933 to a wealthy family.
His family’s fortune, however, was ravaged by World War II and Peter lost both his father and brother in the war.
In 1956, in an effort to leave his grief-stricken life behind, he
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