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‐ NARRATOR: They were a high society couple

with a seemingly storybook romance.

‐ They fell in love, they made plans

to live happily ever after.

‐ Their wedding, they came in in a big, white,

chauffeured limousine,

and they both marched in with these white fur coats.

‐ NARRATOR: But their marriage would be ripped apart

by a nightmarish crime.

‐ This was a violent type of homicide.

‐ It was an attack that the killer wanted to make sure

the victim was dead.

‐ [sirens blaring]

‐ NARRATOR: The search for the killer will stretch

across multiple continents,

and unearth a Pandora's box of secrets and scandals.

‐ There were a significant amount of emails

about a love affair.

‐ The only people that would know that is the killer

and the police.

‐ NARRATOR: And at the heart of it all

is a blood‐soaked betrayal rooted in lust and greed.

‐ I see this as a classic film noir with a femme fatale,

who is extremely narcissistic, no empathy, no conscience.

‐ This is a methodical, evil person.

‐ Relationships end. People don't need to die for it.

‐ ♪

‐ [muffled scream]

‐ [gasps]

‐ ♪♪♪

‐ NARRATOR: New Brunswick is one of four Atlantic provinces

on the eastern coast of Canada.

New Brunswick is also where

Allan Lanteigne was born and raised.

His close friend, Grazia Masi,

first met Allan when they worked together

in the catering industry.

‐ GRAZIA: Allan was a person that was always full of energy.

A person that has always has like...

bring some light into the room.

‐ NARRATOR: But growing up in the small New Brunswick town

of St. John wasn't always easy for Allan.

‐ GRAZIA: He was a solitary child.

He didn't have a lot of friends.

He never connected directly these things to the fact

that he was gay.

‐ NARRATOR: Eager to spread his wings,

Allan moved to Toronto shortly after graduating high school.

‐ Toronto is a very multicultural city,

and there is not so much judgment here

about who you are or who you hang out with.

When he came here,

he was able to be who the person was.

His personality came out.

‐ NARRATOR: For the next six years,

Allan flourished in Toronto,

working as both a caterer and restaurant server

while taking classes at business school.

Allan's close friend, Jarvis Belding,

watched Allan's career take off following his graduation.

‐ He graduated from the Ontario School of Business.

His major was in which would be accounting.

Most weekends he would work

at, uh, in the hospitality industry, as I did as well.

He was fun to be around, he was easy to work with.

‐ NARRATOR: Things kept getting better for Allan in 1997,

when he landed a coveted accounting job

with a national restaurant chain.

Then, in 2004, Allan‐‐ now 46‐‐met the man

who would change his life forever:

29‐year‐old attorney, Demitry Papasotiriou.

‐ He told me that he met him at a bus stop,

and he liked this guy and he start to talk to him.

‐ Demitry Papasotiriou was born in Athens, Greece,

and a some point, he moved to Toronto

where he studied law.

‐ NARRATOR: Demitry's former colleague, Calvin Berry,

recalls how talented Demitry was as an attorney.

‐ He was an extremely, extremely, uh, academic,

bright person.

Young, you know, uh, attractive.

Not just a lawyer, but a‐‐ quite a gifted lawyer.

He was this wiz kid.

I think he had a degree when he was 16. He's phenomenal.

He must have skipped about two or three grades.

‐ NARRATOR: Despite their 17‐year age difference,

it was clear to Allan's friends that he'd fallen hard

for the younger man.

‐ Demitry was this glamorous younger person, uh,

he dressed flashy, blonde hair, boyish looking.

He wanted someone to take care of him.

Allan was a very loving, trusting guy.

‐ NARRATOR: To his friends' surprise, Allan announced

he and Demitry were getting married

just four months after they met.

‐ CALVIN: I went to his wedding.

They came in, uh, in a big, white, chauffeured limousine,

and they both marched in with these white fur coats.

Almost like Elton John kind of stuff.

‐ NARRATOR: As the couple settled into

a new life together,

they purchased a house in Toronto's up‐and‐coming

Ossington neighborhood.

‐ MARK: Allan loved that house.

He adored it, and he spent a lot of money fixing up

the place and doing additions to it.

His house was his palace.

‐ It became a showpiece home.

Allan was pouring the money into it because Demitry

spent a lot of time studying and, um, going to school,

but he didn't have a working income.

‐ NARRATOR: That same year, Allan's career

took an unexpected shift

when the corporation where he worked closed

their Toronto headquarters.

Allan found a job as a bookkeeper,

but at a much‐reduced salary.

To make up for the lost income,

he was forced to take on a second job.

‐ He worked as an accounting bookkeeper

for The University of Toronto,

but he also worked his ass off as a caterer.

He was a workaholic.

‐ NARRATOR: Then, four years into their marriage,

Allan and Demitry's relationship faced a new challenge

when Demitry's career took him overseas.

‐ He actually went to Switzerland,

where he was studying as a Ph. D. student in law

at the University of Lucerne.

‐ NARRATOR: With their renovation still in full swing,

Allan made the difficult decision to stay behind

in Toronto.

But the couple made plans to rendezvous every few months

until Demitry finished his new degree.

‐ GRAZIA: The plan was is that Demitry was studying

in Switzerland and then he was supposed to come back

and work in Toronto.

‐ NARRATOR: But Allan and Demitry's plans

for the future would soon be rocked by an unforeseen tragedy.

March 3, 2011.

At 4 p. m., Allan's close friend, Grazia Masi,

shows up at his home to check on him.

Grazia is concerned.

Allan hasn't returned any of her calls,

which is unusual.

‐ GRAZIA: My concern was that he maybe didn't feel well.

So I went with a taxi there.

It was‐‐everything was black,

I mean, there were no lights inside.

I went into the backyard, and I checked out the car.

And the car was there.

‐ TAM: She goes back home again and waits until

the following day, and she starts to call Allan at work.

And she eventually gets someone on the phone who she knows

works with Allan, and they tell her,

"Oh, he didn't show up for work today.

Very unusual, and he didn't call in sick."

And so, she immediately goes back to the house,

and she phones 911.

‐ NARRATOR: When police arrive at Allan's home,

Grazia is waiting on them in the driveway.

‐ GRAZIA: This policeman arrived.

I explained briefly what was the issue.

‐ LESLIE: With everything that the officer knew, uh,

at the time, the information from Grazia

and the fact that, you know, Allan didn't show up for work,

not answering the phone.

He made a decision at that point,

"We're going to go in."

‐ TAM: The officer goes around back.

She actually kicks in the back door.

And she can see a‐‐what appears to be a person lying, uh,

on the floor by the front door.

‐ The moment that she opened the‐‐the kitchen door,

I saw, uh, Allan face down on the floor.

‐ She goes in to investigate, and he is obviously deceased.

‐ GRAZIA: I start to cry.

And the policeman came back to me, and said,

"You cannot go inside.

There's nothing else can‐‐ can be done for your friend."

‐ NARRATOR: Coming up, detectives try to piece together

what happened to Allan.

‐ He has obvious signs of injury

in and around his head.

‐ NARRATOR: And a mysterious visitor at his workplace

draws suspicion.

‐ MARCY: In the part where you're supposed to write

the cause the of death, he wrote "bludgeoning."

‐ The only people that would know that is the killer

and the police.

‐ ♪

‐ ♪

‐ NARRATOR: While performing a welfare check

at the home of 49‐year‐old accountant Allan Lanteigne,

Toronto police have just made a disturbing discovery.

‐ TAM: Allan's found deceased on the floor.

He has obvious signs of injury in and around his head.

‐ NARRATOR: Toronto detectives Tam Bui and Leslie Dunkley

arrive on the scene moments later.

‐ LESLIE: There was a large pool of blood.

We went through a number of different theories, you know,

"Did he fall down the stairs?"

But on the wall by the staircase

and by the front door is‐‐ is blood splatter.

And some injury to the back of Allan's head,

which would indicate that there was some blunt‐force trauma.

So ultimately, you know,

we determined he was hit very hard, and multiple times.

‐ Allan was found in the front foyer of his home.

He is wearing his winter jacket.

He's wearing, um, winter type shoes.

He has gloves on, except for he's removed his right glove

and, uh, his keys are in his‐‐ his other gloved hand.

We are wondering if it was like a break‐and‐enter

that he had interrupted coming home, or a robbery in progress.

‐ NARRATOR: But the robbery theory seems less likely

when detectives note that nothing of value

seems to be missing from the home.

‐ Sometimes, you know, you interrupt a robbery,

and, you know, after the assault, uh,

the assailant, you know, flees the scene without,

you know, making good the actual robbery.

But there wasn't like a stereo system, uh,

and a DVD and computers that were all like wrapped up

in bags and ready to go by the front door

by any stretch.

‐ TAMARA: He also had his bag, which was on the floor.

That had his wallet inside, which had his identification

and about $365 of cash inside.

‐ NARRATOR: There's also no evidence of forced entry,

and hardly any signs of a struggle.

Except one item near the front door

that catches detectives' attention.

‐ TAM: The alarm panel is just inside the front door.

And the cover for the alarm panel‐‐

there's a little plastic cover that, uh, closes shut‐‐

it's ripped off the alarm pad.

‐ We need to find out how this alarm panel works.

‐ NARRATOR: Detectives reach out to the alarm company

to see what may have been picked up through their monitoring.

They're told it could take a while to get the report.

But they are able to gather one new piece of information.

‐ LESLIE: The alarm company told us that there were

two key holders,

one of them being Allan, uh, Lanteigne,

and the other one being his husband Demitry.

‐ TAM: You know, we were obviously interested in‐‐

in speaking to Demitry right away.

But everyone, you know, was under the impression

that Demitry, his husband, was somewhere in Europe.

‐ NARRATOR: Detectives try to find a way to reach Demitry

to let him know about Allan's passing,

but they have a hard time making contact with him abroad.

In the meantime, Allan's autopsy results come in,

and they confirm his death had been the result

of a prolonged and brutal assault.

‐ LESLIE: Allan had multiple injuries to his head that,

from the autopsy, appeared to be from what they call

an elongated, uh, instrument, which is gonna be an instrument

that has some type of ridges on it.

‐ It looked like he was actually bludgeoned to death

with a crowbar or a bat.

‐ GRAZIA: It's really, uh, upsetting that he didn't even

die, um, right away.

He knew that he was, somebody was attacking him,

and he knew that somebody was murdering him.

Just, that's the thing that really upset me.

‐ NARRATOR: Still, the autopsy does yield

one promising new piece of evidence.

‐ He managed to get some DNA from his attacker

underneath the fingernails of his right hand

either by trying to defend himself

or by swinging his arm through the air.

‐ NARRATOR: Allan's fingernail clippings

are sent off for further forensic testing.

But when the results come in, they only bring more questions.

‐ We uncovered a‐‐a male profile

underneath Allan's, uh, fingernails

that came back unknown.

It didn't match to any one known offender in the DNA data bank.

‐ NARRATOR: Detectives know they'll need to find a suspect

before they're able to make a match.

But then, the report from Allan's alarm system comes in.

‐ TAM: Lo and behold, it turns out that the alarm recorded

about‐‐I think the number was 150 transactions.

A transaction means every time that front door‐‐

even when the alarm's deactivated‐‐

is opened and closed‐‐

the sensors are registering an activity in the buffer.

‐ In our investigation of the alarm panel,

we learned that on the day that Allan was killed,

which was March 2, 2011,

the alarm was, uh, deactivated at 5:19.

‐ TAM: That was significant to us because we knew

that Allan had been witnessed by his coworkers leaving work

at around 5 p. m.

And then we knew from our own experience of walking

the routes ourselves and from speaking to Allan's friends

that it took about 35 minutes for Allan to walk home.

We hypothesized that someone had laid in wait,

coming in the home at 5:19, deactivated the alarm.

Allan left work at around 5 p. m. from the University of Toronto.

He walks 35 minutes home and comes in the door

and the ADT buffer registers an entry at 5:35.

He then activates the alarm

by punching in the code, I believe.

The assault then occurs.

Allan's killed.

And the killer leaves.

‐ NARRATOR: This means the suspect would have to know

Allan's home alarm code.

But when police speak with Allan's friend Grazia Masi,

she tells them that Allan was very cautious,

and that no one besides Allan or his husband Demitry

had access to the house.

‐ TAMARA: Grazia told police

that he was very security‐conscious.

He was not the type of person who would have ever given out

a copy of a key to his house or would have given out

the security code to his alarm system.

‐ GRAZIA: He didn't want to share this with anyone.

He told me just because he had very valuable stuff in his house

and he want to protect it.

‐ NARRATOR: As one of the only two people with access

to the house alarm,

is it possible that Allan's husband Demitry

might have traveled back to Canada

and was somehow involved in Allan's murder?

‐ Allan had just said he was in Europe,

but he could have been in Toronto for all I know.

‐ Where is his husband? Where is Demitry?

‐ ♪

‐ NARRATOR: Toronto police are investigating

the brutal murder of Allan Lanteigne.

As the only other person with access to the house alarm,

police need to question Allan's husband,

Demitry Papasotiriou‐Lanteigne, as soon as possible.

‐ It was really hard for them to get Demitry on the phone

to give an interview or to come back to Toronto

to give an interview after his husband Allan was murdered.

‐ NARRATOR: In the meantime, detectives try to learn

as much as they can about the marriage

from Allan's closest friends.

‐ We learned that after being married for about four years,

Demitry and Allan,

they encountered some marital problems.

‐ JARVIS: Demetry seemed to rub people the wrong way.

I remember one time he was over and we had a barbeque,

and apparently, I had said something to him.

I still today do not know what I‐‐[chuckles]‐‐

what I said to him that pissed him off.

When Allan and him moved to the house together,

I was not allowed to go to the house.

‐ GRAZIA: Allan said that Demitry didn't want anyone

in his house; um, and so...I never met him.

‐ NARRATOR: When Demitry eventually moved to Europe

for school, Allan's friends admit

they were relieved.

But for Allan, the distance only seemed

to add to the stress.

‐ TAMARA: In addition to covering all the costs

on their house on Ossington Avenue,

Allan was also sending significant sums of money

over to Europe to cover the lifestyle

that Demitry was leading.

‐ GRAZIA: I confronted him about that,

I'd say, "Why you continue to send money to Demitry?"

And he said, "Well, because we are married,

and I feel that it's my obligation."

‐ NARRATOR: As more and more questions

about Allan's marriage arise,

detectives finally hear back from Demitry.

‐ TAM: A few days after the homicide occurs,

Demitry phones the office and ends up getting

one of the investigators online.

‐ NARRATOR: It turns out that the reason police hadn't

been able to make contact with Demitry in Switzerland

is because he had left his PhD program

at the University of Lucerne and moved to Greece.

‐ We learn that Demitry was in Athens, Greece,

with his father.

‐ NARRATOR: When detectives inform Demitry

of his husband's murder,

his reaction catches them off‐guard.

‐ TAM: It's a very strange conversation‐‐

letting him know, like, "Your husband's been murdered,

we're investigating it."

It turns very confrontational very quickly, um,

to the point where Demitry says something along the lines‐‐

and I'm paraphrasing here‐‐you know,

"I'm a lawyer, I know my rights."

That certainly raised some alarm bells with us

as the investigators,

that kind of bizarre reaction to the first interaction

that the investigators are having with the grieving spouse.

‐ CALVIN: The police were just saying, you know,

"Why are you still over there? Why don't you come back?

"Because at the end of the day, you guys have all this, uh,

interconnection here."

‐ NARRATOR: That's when Demitry explains

that he and Allan had settled into their lives apart.

‐ The picture that Demitry painted for police

during this phone interview was that they had an open marriage.

‐ NARRATOR: While Demitry denies he's been involved

in any affair himself, the young lawyer claims

he encouraged Allan to date other people

while he was abroad.

Soon, Demitry says, Allan found new companionship

with several men he met online.

‐ CALVIN: He wanted to speak.

He wanted to clear his name, so to speak.

To say that, well, open marriage,

and Mr. Lanteigne liked other partners,

and so, "Obviously it wasn't me."

‐ NARRATOR: Without evidence to suggest that Demitry

was in Toronto at the time of Allan's murder,

detectives agree it's worth

looking into Allan's dating history.

‐ We looked at Allan's, uh, cellphone and, again,

interviewing his friends and family.

We learned that Allan would date other individuals online.

‐ NARRATOR: Detectives begin tracking down

each of these individuals to speak with them directly.

But after hours of interviews,

police are unable to point to any new suspects

in Allan's murder.

‐ LESLIE: From all accounts, he was a positive person, uh,

well‐liked by everyone, and didn't have, uh,

any issues with anyone that he was dating,

according to his friends and the people that we spoke with.

‐ NARRATOR: While the investigation into his murder

appears to have hit a brick wall,

Allan Lanteigne is laid to rest later that week.

‐ Allan's family was‐‐was holding‐‐hosting

the funeral service.

He had a lot of really close friends.

‐ NARRATOR: But there's one person noticeably missing

from the funeral ceremony.

‐ Demitry didn't come back for the funeral.

We don't understand why.

‐ If it had been an issue that Demitry couldn't have afforded

to come home, there would have been a way to work that out.

Um, but he told us he can adequately grieve from afar,

and you know, the funeral would just be too upsetting for him.

‐ NARRATOR: So far, police don't have any evidence

connecting anyone to Allan's murder.

That changes when police are alerted

to a suspicious inquiry into Allan's retirement accounts.

‐ TAMARA: Three weeks after the murder,

a man who identified himself as Michael Jones

showed up at the University of Toronto.

‐ TAM: There was a life insurance policy that Allan has,

being an employee at the University of Toronto.

And Michael Jones holds himself out to be an employee

of a law firm and has shown up at the University of Toronto

with the actual form claiming some of the death benefits.

‐ MARCY: In the part where you're supposed to write

the cause of death, it was blank.

So, the individual asked Michael

to fill that in.

And Michael wrote "bludgeoning."

‐ LESLIE: This raised some red flags for us,

because we hadn't released the cause of death,

so the only people that would know that

is the killer and the police.

‐ NARRATOR: Police are eager to find out more about

this mysterious Michael Jones.

But before police can track him down,

another tip comes in.

It turns out that there had also been an unusual inquiry

into Allan's retirement benefits at the restaurant company

he previously worked for.

‐ An employee received a voicemail from a Michael Ivezic,

who claims to be working for a law firm,

and is inquiring about any death benefits

that might be held in Allan's name.

‐ NARRATOR: Detectives learn that Michael Ivezic is the name

of a Toronto area con artist who's had several run‐ins

with police.

‐ We did some investigation in‐‐ in terms of who this person was,

and I‐‐I came to learn he had some negative contact

with the police in terms of frauds.

‐ NARRATOR: With two men named Michael showing up

at different locations in the same week

to collect Allan's death benefits,

detectives theorize that Michael Jones and Michael Ivezic

might be the same man.

‐ We go back and show photo lineups to the staff

at University of Toronto, and they pick out Mr. Ivezic,

so that's significant to us.

Michael Jones was the alias, uh, that Michael Ivezic used

at that interaction.

‐ NARRATOR: Police also learn that while making his inquiries

into Allan's life insurance, Michael Ivezic had claimed to be

working on behalf of Demitry Papasotiriou‐Lanteigne.

‐ We come to learn that Michael Ivezic has shown up

at the University of Toronto with the actual form

notarized and signed by Demitry, who we know is in Greece,

and it's notarized with the Greek stamp.

‐ NARRATOR: Were Michael Ivezic

and Demitry Papasotiriou‐Lanteigne

working together?

Was it possible Michael Ivezic had forged Demitry's signature?

And what, if anything, did Michael Ivezic have to do

with Allan Lanteigne's murder?

‐ TAM: We put a surveillance team on him with the hopes

we would observe him smoking or drinking

and collect that coffee cup or that cigarette butt,

examine it for DNA and submit it to the forensics lab

to see if it‐‐you know, it's a match to our crime scene.

‐ NARRATOR: But days into their surveillance on Michael Ivezic,

police receive an alarming update.

‐ The surveillance team called me and said, "Listen,"

you know, "Do you know anything about this guy?

"We were seeing him every day, he was out and about.

And then, you know, we didn't see him all day yesterday."

This guy's just vanished.

‐ NARRATOR: Coming up, police scramble

to track down Michael Ivezic

before he can disappear for good.

‐ Canada doesn't really track

outbound travel from our country,

so there's no easy fix.

‐ NARRATOR: And a new witness exposes evidence

of a deadly conspiracy.

‐ TAMARA: She would physically track him

when he would go from place to place.

One of the places that she followed him to

was to Allan and Demitry's house.

‐ ♪

‐ ♪

‐ NARRATOR: Toronto police have been tailing

a local conman they believe may be connected

to the murder of Allan Lanteigne.

But days into their surveillance,

Michael Ivezic has suddenly skipped town.

‐ TAM: This guy's just vanished.

We were very interested in Mr. Ivezic at that point.

Canada doesn't really track

outbound travel from our country.

So, there's no easy fix.

So, we immediately begin to look into

the background of Mr. Ivezic.

‐ Michael Ivezic was born in the former Yugoslavia

and at some point came to Canada.

He was 51 years old.

‐ He was married with three kids.

‐ NARRATOR: Detectives know Michael has a history

of alleged fraud,

though he's never officially been charged.

But as they dive deeper into his business practices,

they find that it's far from an isolated event.

‐ He was an unsuccessful entrepreneur

who had many failed businesses.

He would make false promises to, uh‐‐to individuals.

And these individuals would pay him a certain amount of money

to invest in, uh, whatever the business was that Michael

was trying to do.

And ultimately, he couldn't deliver

on the promises that he made.

‐ NARRATOR: As suspicions grow around Michael Ivezic,

detectives know it's imperative that they track him down

right away.

‐ TAM: We reached out to our partners

at the Department of Homeland Security,

and we learn that Michael Ivezic had landed in Boston

and declared to the US Customs

that he was on his way to Athens, Greece.

‐ NARRATOR: Greece is also where Allan Lanteigne's

estranged husband, Demitry Papasotiriou‐Lanteigne,

is currently living.

‐ We were very interested in Mr. Ivezic at that point.

Knowing that Demitry was in Greece,

in Athens specifically,

we hypothesized that at the very least there was

some kind of connection between

Michael and Allan's husband, Demitry.

‐ NARRATOR: But what was that relationship?

Hoping to find out,

detectives meet with Michael's wife.

‐ One of the things we learned is...

that his wife found out that Michael was having

a sexual relationship with Demitry.

One of the things she did is, she would keep a journal

in relation to, uh,

everything that she was finding out about Michael.

‐ TAMARA: She would track his online chat conversations,

and she would physically track him when he would go

from place to place.

One of the places that she followed Michael to

was to Allan and Demitry's house.

‐ She also mentioned to us that he disappeared

for long periods of time where no one was able

to get a hold of him.

Michael had visited Switzerland, Greece, many times,

on several occasions back and forth.

‐ But she said he was in the Toronto area

at the time of Allan's murder.

‐ NARRATOR: The new evidence adds fuel to the theory

that perhaps Michael and Demitry had conspired together

to kill Allan.

But as illuminating as Michael's wife's interview is

to the investigation, detectives know

it's not admissible in court.

‐ TAM: Because of the spousal privilege,

we weren't able to compel her as a witness.

‐ NARRATOR: Hoping to find more evidence to support

Michael's wife's claims,

detectives obtain search warrants

for Allan and Demitry's phone and email correspondences.

‐ TAM: We found that there was an email where Allan

is expressing his frustrations to Demitry that Michael‐‐

or a person by the name of Michael‐‐

has a key to the house.

Allan is very upset about that.

So that was significant to us.

‐ This was an indicator for police

that A: Michael and Demitry were in a relationship,

and also that Michael had access to the house.

‐ NARRATOR: The emails leave little doubt

that Michael had the opportunity to murder Allan Lanteigne,

but what about a motive?

‐ TAMARA: One email exchange that police uncovered

between Michael and Demitry,

Michael is telling Demitry that he loves him,

that he thinks about him day and night,

and that he was willing to leave his family to be with him.

‐ TAM: Demitry and Michael were making plans to build

a house in Greece,

but Demitry's only income that we could establish

was that he was sent money by Allan.

‐ TAMARA: We know from friends of Allan's that in the weeks,

even months leading up to his murder, he was frustrated.

He didn't want to be covering all these bills.

He was sick of sending, uh,

so much money over to his husband Demitry.

‐ GRAZIA: He said, "I told him that enough is enough.

"He could do whatever he wants, he could‐‐he could, uh,

"you know, come back or stay there,

but I will not send any money to him anymore."

And I was kind of, I mean, shocked and happy

about that because I said, "Well, finally, he start‐‐

"he's starting, you know, to realize that maybe

there's something else that can be done."

I remember that discussion because this happened

just few days before he was killed.

‐ NARRATOR: Detectives already know that Michael Ivezic

was trying to collect on Allan's retirement

and insurance accounts from his jobs.

But that's not all the couple stood to benefit from

in Allan's death.

‐ TAMARA: In addition to the $50,000

from the U of T insurance through Allan's job,

Allan Lanteigne had a $2 million

life insurance policy that he had taken out at some point

before the murder happened

that names Demitry as the sole beneficiary.

‐ LESLIE: They had two million reasons to kill Allan.

And, uh, with that amount of money,

I guess they felt that life would be good.

‐ NARRATOR: But detectives have yet to link either man

to the DNA collected from the crime scene.

With Michael and Demitry both presumably still abroad,

police turn to the next best thing.

‐ TAMARA: Remember now that Michael was a father of three,

so police decided they would get a sample

from one of his teenage sons.

‐ TAM: So, again we asked the surveillance team,

"Can you get back out there, and, you know,

get us another sample?"

‐ TAMARA: After his son had been eating

at a restaurant one day,

police were able to seize a chopstick that his son had used.

They got conclusive evidence at that point that the DNA

that had been found on that chopstick that they seized

belonged to the biological son of whomever they believed

to have killed Allan Lanteigne,

and that, of course, was Michael Ivezic.

‐ TAM: And so, at that stage, we had reasonable grounds

to arrest Michael Ivezic for the first‐degree murder

of Allan Lanteigne,

and because we had grounds to arrest, um, Michael,

we had the circumstantial grounds to also arrest Demitry.

‐ NARRATOR: But with Michael and Demitry

still living outside of Canada,

Toronto police will need some assistance.

‐ LESLIE: So, we're in communication with Interpol,

who can, you know, ultimately flag individuals

that are traveling, you know, from one place to another

throughout, uh, Europe.

They put what they call a red flag notice.

So any time he would attempt to get on a plane,

fly from one place to another, Switzerland to Greece,

he would be flagged, and we would be ultimately notified.

‐ TAM: We issue the warrant and the Interpol Red notice, uh,

for the arrest of Michael Ivezic in Greece,

and then we waited until January of 2013,

with very little interaction from the Greek authorities,

and, you know, we're blowing up Interpol's, uh, like,

phone and email trying to find out what's going on

with the investigation.

Eventually Michael is arrested.

‐ NARRATOR: But things prove more complicated in the arrest

of Demitry Papasotiriou‐Lanteigne.

‐ TAM: Demitry is a Greek citizen,

and Canada has no extradition agreement with Greece.

‐ NARRATOR: Detectives can only hope that Demitry

will eventually find a reason to travel outside of Greece,

at which point they would be able to make the arrest.

Then, nine months later, a surprising call comes in.

‐ It's Halloween. I'm out with my kids, uh,

they're trick‐or‐treating.

And this Interpol notice has popped up.

Demitry has landed at Pearson International Airport

and is clearing Customs.

So, I know he's back in the country, uh,

so we scramble a surveillance team.

‐ We knew it was a matter of time

that the police would find him.

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‐ NARRATOR: Nine months after Michael Ivezic

was arrested for the murder of Allan Lanteigne,

his lover and presumed accomplice,

Demitry Papasotiriou‐Lanteigne,

has landed back on Canadian soil.

‐ TAM: We come to learn that Demitry had taken legal action

against the insurance companies

that hold Allan's death benefits.

‐ Both of these insurance providers wouldn't end up

paying the death benefit.

‐ LESLIE: What the insurance company wanted was for him

to come back and do a deposition hearing.

Ultimately, you know, Demitry being the confident,

cocky lawyer that he was, truly believed

he was gonna actually be successful

in obtaining this claim,

so he took that chance to come back.

‐ NARRATOR: But what Demitry didn't count on was that

Toronto police would be monitoring his every move.

‐ We scramble a surveillance team on to Demitry,

and eventually we survey him to the law firm

where the deposition occurs.

Demitry gives evidence, uh, in his legal claim under oath,

and then we have him arrested.

‐ NARRATOR: On November 27, 2017,

seven and a half years after the death of Allan Lanteigne,

Demitry Papasotiriou‐Lanteigne and Michael Ivezic

face trial together in a Toronto courtroom.

‐ MARCY: The Crown's theory was that Demitry was no longer

going to be cared for.

Wined and dined by Allan,

and knew about the $2 million

life insurance policy and decided that he would use

his lover, Michael, to commit the murder.

‐ CALVIN: The defense for Demitry was very strategic.

He was really throwing the co‐accused under the bus.

He didn't do this, this guy did it.

‐ You had Michael's DNA underneath the fingernails,

and there was evidence that Michael had a key at some point.

‐ NARRATOR: Prosecutors introduce emails that they claim

reveal the depths of Demitry and Michael's relationship.

‐ TAMARA: We don't know exactly how Demitry and Michael

got together, but according to police,

their relationship appears to have begun in 2008 or 2009,

and it by no means appeared to be a fling.

‐ This was an intimate relationship,

something that's developed over years of revealing emails.

It was a romantic relationship.

Michael referred to Demitry as "baby boy."

‐ LESLIE: They fell in love, and they had all these plans

to move in together at the expense of Allan Lanteigne.

‐ TAMARA: The day of the murder, on March 2, 2011,

Demitry sent Allan an email

asking if they could talk that night. He told Allan,

"Don't dilly‐dally on your way home from work."

It was clear he wanted him to be there at his usual time.

But really of course, it was the Crown's theory

that Demitry was just luring Allan to his death.

‐ MARCY: On the basis of that email

that probably gave the Crown their theory that Demitry

was the kingpin, or he was the one that was behind it.

‐ NARRATOR: The trial goes on for nearly seven months.

Finally, on June 3, 2018,

the jury is able to reach a verdict.

‐ They find both Michael Ivezic and Demitry Papasotiriou

guilty of first‐degree murder.

In Canada, first‐degree murder, there is a mandatory sentence,

it is life in prison,

and you're not entitled to your first parole hearing

until you serve 25 years.

So that means that you are a ward of the Canadian state

for the rest of your natural‐born life.

‐ JARVIS: When the‐‐the jury verdict came down,

we were extremely happy,

extremely happy with the verdict.

‐ NARRATOR: But the relief for Allan's friends and family

is short‐lived.

Just three months later, in September of 2018,

Demitry Papasotiriou‐Lanteigne appeals the verdict

on the basis that the case against him

was only circumstantial.

While his appeal is pending, Demitry also convinces

the Ontario Court of Appeals

to release him from prison on bail.

‐ JARVIS: We were all just taken aback that a Justice would let

someone that's convicted of first‐degree murder,

sentenced to life in prison.

I don't care whether you're a flight risk or not,

he‐‐that was one of the reasons why he let him out on bail.

‐ CALVIN: He's basically shackled, and, uh,

under complete house arrest with his ankle bracelet,

with‐‐with the IT technology.

If he steps a foot outside the door,

a...alarm'll go off and the police will come and arrest him

for breach of his bail, then he'll go in jail.

‐ NARRATOR: Until the case is settled by the Court of Appeals,

Allan's loved ones can only wait.

‐ It remains to be seen yet whether or not, you know,

the case is gonna be settled.

But time will tell.

It's been a couple years already, but the appeal

could take up to six years or maybe even longer.

‐ TAMARA: This lovely, selfless, intelligent man,

as he was described, uh, by so many people to me,

was stolen away from so many people who loved him.

Who, through no fault of his own,

was murdered because somebody wanted to collect

two million dollars of life insurance,

and that somebody never even ended up banking, uh,

that money, so what was it for?

Nothing. It was for nothing.

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