Catch Him if You Can
March came from nothing. Now, he’s the 1%. He made his fortune in oil and cryptocurrency. He’s sweet, handsome and charming. It’s hard to believe he’s still single. Only, it isn’t. Because March isn’t real. He’s a border-hopping Canadian con artist who’s tricked women and men out of over a million dollars. He thought he was untouchable, but now he’s messed with the wrong women. From Pink Moon Studio, this is Catch Him if You Can. The story of Marcel Vautour, his survivors' real time crusade to catch him, and the broken legal system that’s allowed him to get away for over 20 years – told in 7 parts. Written and produced by Emilia King and Maggie Reid. You can find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @catchhimpod
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A live tip from Toronto social worker, James, leads us to suspect that Marcel may be at a drop-in centre in the west end of the city. While her newborn baby naps, Maggie covertly investigates to confirm if it’s actually him. The pursuit intensifies and tensions are high. Will we finally be able to catch him?
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SPEAKER_02Hello? Hey. So I just got off the phone with Jody and Kim. That guy that came forward with the tip, he thinks Marcel's in Toronto. Apparently he listened to our podcast, and there's a guy who came into his work. He fits the profile. And he's traveling with another younger man who he's claiming is his son.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god. Okay, this actually might be our chance to freaking get him. March O'Toore is the 1%. He made his fortune in oil and cryptocurrency. He's handsome, charming, and has a heart of gold. It's hard to believe he's still single. Only it isn't. Because March isn't real. He's a serial grifter and romance con artist who's tricked women and men across Canada, the US, Vietnam, and the Czech Republic out of over a million dollars. And that's just what we know of. His trail of destruction has led to heartbreak, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and even PTSD.
SPEAKER_01So he never took his mask off. Um, anytime we were interacting inside, he wore a bucket hat and a surgical mask.
SPEAKER_03My name is Amelia King. And I'm Maggie Reid. And you're listening to our four-episode update to season one of Catch Em If You Can. In the last episode, you heard the story of Kyra, a single mom in her twenties struggling to gain custody of her son. She trusted Marcel, led him into her home, and he got away with her money, her car, and her hope for getting her son back.
SPEAKER_02You also heard that Marcel isn't selling the rich oil tycoon story anymore. He's claiming to be homeless and traveling with an accomplice who he says is his son.
SPEAKER_03Marcel is in the wind again, maybe heading east, but maybe not. Just when we're starting to think the trail has dried up a we hear from a listener.
SPEAKER_01I remember very distinctly driving back into Toronto after a trip and hearing that last episode. I was convinced that I was making it up in my mind. What are the chances of this protagonist of this show that I'm listening to ends up on my doorstep?
SPEAKER_03For reasons that will soon become clear, I'm going to let Maggie tell you what happened next.
SPEAKER_02Chapter 9: Contact. It's early June 2022. We've just released the final episode of season one of this podcast. At this point, Amelia and I are in the trenches of early motherhood. The fourth trimester, they call it. We had our babies nine days apart, just as the first episode of season one was dropping. Let me say that releasing an investigative podcast while extremely pregnant and newly postpartum was a lot. Kind of insane when we reflect on it now. We were still working during this time because we own our own business, so it's just us. But we'd slow down a bit, hired help for the early days. One evening, when I was struggling to put my baby to sleep, I get a text from Andrea in our group chat. And emails come in through the Stop the March Madness website. It's a live tip from a listener, just like you. This listener, we're going to call James in our story. It's not his real name, and we've altered his voice to protect his identity.
SPEAKER_01I remember very distinctly driving back into Toronto after a trip and hearing that last episode, and I was excited because I was always excited when a new episode came out, but in this one, it was there was a recording of his voice featured on it.
SPEAKER_02James is talking about Fan and Andre's secret recording of Marcel from episode six. Before his vacation ends, he hears that final episode. James returns to work when he gets back to Toronto. He works at a drop-in center for the homeless in the west end of the city.
SPEAKER_01And it wasn't too long after I got back that I saw somebody coming to my place of work that I initially thought was March. I spoke to this gentleman, and the story that he told me was heartbreaking.
SPEAKER_02He was claiming to be homeless and traveling with another man.
SPEAKER_01That he was saying was his son that he had just reunited with after, you know, a lifetime of being apart, that they were just reuniting, reconnecting. Uh they told uh me that they had come from the West Coast, their car had broken down somewhere along the prairies, and they took a bus here to to do work, honest construction work.
SPEAKER_02The father-son duo went by the names Jay and Terry. James, of course, had his suspicions.
SPEAKER_01When I first saw him and heard his voice, I was convinced that I was making it up in my mind. I'm, you know, like surely this is just a coincidence. What are the chances of this protagonist of this show that I'm listening to ends up on my doorstep? I think maybe even a little bit of denial. I was like, there's no way.
SPEAKER_02But James is on higher alert now, and he pays close attention to Jay's behavior.
SPEAKER_01So he never took his mask off. Anytime we were interacting inside, he wore a bucket hat and a surgical mask.
SPEAKER_02This made it really hard for James to positively ID him. He also noticed some other peculiar behavior.
SPEAKER_01Unusual for other people to be like, hey, can you keep an eye on my bag? Or can I keep this bag in your office? You know, while I go do something. But with him, that was another, I mean, that was just one of many giveaways was that he would never be without the bag on his like physically holding it or right by his feet. And if he ever did have to go into like the bathroom or anything, he would bring the bag with him. And uh occasionally he would let Terry keep watch of the bag, but it was just inseparable from him for the most part.
SPEAKER_02From past stories, we know that Marcel often has fake IDs, different SIM cards, and sometimes stolen goods in his bag.
SPEAKER_01I did notice that when we would talk, he really liked to put down other people. Like he would make fun of people in a way that was just kind of gross and unnecessary, you know, like making fun of how someone looked or talked or smelled, things that are often beyond their control. There's more. When he was coming out after having changed, and he had a he always covered, he always had a tensor bandage on his leg and arm. He would wear shorts right where the tattoos are of March. And I remember he was he know he was changing, and it made no sense to like keep the it would have been so easy to just remove the bandage, but he did everything he could to not remove the bandage. He finally had to take it off, and I saw a tattoo on his leg. Quick second. It was just a quick second.
SPEAKER_02Marcel has a hollow maple leaf tattoo on the back of his leg. And even though Jay was so diligent with his mask, James caught brief glimpses of his face when he went out for smokes. Those glimpses and the tattoo sighting brought him to the Stop the March Madness website to match up what he'd seen with the pictures on the site.
SPEAKER_01Because he uh again always wore a bucket hat. He was very, very aware of not showing his arms, of kind of hanging out in the background.
SPEAKER_02James is starting to feel nervous and very on edge around this man. He's always been a fan of true crime, but never expected to become an investigator in one of these stories.
SPEAKER_01I uh felt very alone in this, so I did bring in a a coworker and asked, Am I crazy? Here's the information I have. And my coworker was kind enough to assure me that, oh no, this is the same person.
SPEAKER_02This is when he makes contact with the ladies.
SPEAKER_01I went to the website and reached out to them and emailed and said, Listen, I I live and work in a certain neighborhood in the city that uh and March is coming in every day and accessing our services.
SPEAKER_02James has a long talk with Jody. She thinks it's him. It's late in the evening Toronto time, but I jump on the phone with Kim and Jody and BC to find out more about the tip. Then I call Amelia to fill her in. Hello? Hey. So I just got off the phone with Jody and Kim. That guy that came forward with the tip, he thinks Marcel's in Toronto. Apparently, he listened to our podcast, and there's a guy who came into his work at a drop-in center, and he said he sounds just like March. He fits the profile, and he's traveling with another younger man who he's claiming is his son. Okay. Yeah. I know. How long has he been there? Do you know? So apparently for a few days, I think maybe like four or five days, he's been going to this drop-in center every day at the same time, every day.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god. Okay. We we need to strategize. Like this this actually might be our chance to freaking get him.
SPEAKER_02I know. We could get him. I know. Okay, so this drop-in center, it's in the West End. This is actually like very close to my house. Should I should I go and see if it's him? Like, do we do we think that's safe?
SPEAKER_03Um, I okay. Okay. I you know what? I think if if we can be stealthy enough, you know what I mean? Like if he doesn't know that it's you, then maybe we could just friggin' do it. Maybe we should just do it. I think maybe you could do it.
SPEAKER_02Do you think you could do it? I think so. I think I could be stealthy. Jody puts us in touch with James to find out more about Marcel's comings and goings. We find out that he goes into the drop-in center at the same time every day, usually around 9 a.m. He showers, charges his devices, goes for several smoke breaks, eats, and guards his bag like a hawk, of course. This place is very close to where I live, and I want to go and see for myself. I should note that at this point my baby is two and a half months old. I'm breastfeeding around the clock, sleeping very little as I tend to my son's every need and figure out motherhood. I've been in a bit of a bubble, so the chance to go identify the con man we've been chasing for two years felt incredibly dangerous, ill-advised, and also pretty exciting. I talk it over with my partner. He's nervous, and so am I. We decide that I should keep my distance. I'll try to catch him smoking outside of the drop-in center, snap a picture or two to confirm it's him. What could go wrong? The next day, I put my baby down for a nap around 9, really hoping he sleeps. I should note he mostly sleeps on me at this point, and most times when I put him down in his bassinet alone, he sleeps for about 12 minutes. My partner is home but working, so I'm really on the clock here. I get in my car and drive the short distance to the center and park my car out front.
SPEAKER_11Okay, so I'm right outside. Marcel Andre Victor is inside. We've been given a tip by someone who works there that he's inside. He's working with an accomplice. He's been going there every single day for the last about week. And I'm just basically waiting in my car, seeing if I can get sight of him coming out. Apparently he's in the shower right now. And the accomplice he's working with, I think he is guarding his bag. His bag, to be sure, has a number of different IDs. I'm probably stolen goods, and so I'm just waiting here, trying to be stealthy.
SPEAKER_02I'm texting with James. Marcel hasn't been out for a smoke for a while now, so he should be coming out soon. I start to get antsy. I get out of my car and walk past the center. There's a lot going on outside. People smoking, small groups chatting, volunteers, food deliveries. It's a bit chaotic. I cross the street and pop into a coffee shop. I peek out the window and ask for an update from James. He tells me Marcel's out of the shower but is sitting in the back now, getting some food. He isn't coming out for a smoke. James and I are both on edge.
SPEAKER_01I always felt a little bit nervous around him, especially, you know, I think he's probably a pretty smart person and maybe could have even picked up on how I was behaving. Like I didn't interact with him much, but uh that day in specific, my nerves were really heightened.
SPEAKER_02I don't really know what to do at this point. I don't want to leave. Any day could be the last day he comes in here, and I don't exactly have a lot of opportunities to stake this place out. Impulsively and irrationally, I decide to enter the drop-in center, asking to use their bathroom. An employee tells me I can go in, hands me a mask, and directs me to the woman's washroom. I walk in and instantly feel a pit in my stomach. This place is empty. There are less than 10 people inside. Everyone inside is homeless. A few people are sleeping on benches. There's a large projector and screen in the middle of the room, and I'm wearing a matching gray sweatsuit and sticking out like a sore thumb. I catch a glimpse of two men, one in a bucket hat at the back of the room as I beeline to the bathroom. When I get to the bathroom, I feel panicked. I couldn't get a good look at his face, but how can I do this without being seen? I also start thinking: has Marcel listened to the podcast? Does he know who we are? Surely he's Googled us. Then I remember the large screen in the middle of the room. I can use this. I wash my hands for no reason and exit the bathroom, making my way to the other side of that screen. I position myself so my body is covered by the screen and I pretend to be watching what was playing on it. From this vantage point, I'm able to peek out. I look to the back of the room and I see the man in the bucket hat with his mask pulled down. It's Marcel. I know this instantly with every fiber of my being. He doesn't see me. I make my way out of the drop-in center and get in my car. Immediately I call Amelia, who's at home with her baby girl. It's him, Amelia. Oh my god, I saw his fucking face. I'm shaking. Like, what do we do? I don't even know what to do. Oh my god, it's him? Did he see you? I don't think so. I don't think he recognized me. I was wearing a mask. I tried to be very inconspicuous, but like, oh my fucking god.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god. Okay. Okay, so I'm gonna call the Toronto police. I'm gonna see if they could do something. I I I can't even this is like honestly, Maggie, this is freaking insane. It's him. It's him. It's him. Okay, you're gonna call the police. I'm gonna call them right now. Just okay, give me a few minutes. Okay. Okay. I'll call you right back. Okay, call me back. Okay, bye. Okay, bye.
SPEAKER_02While I wait for Amelia to talk to Toronto police, I turn on my car and start driving home. I check my baby monitor and somehow my son is still sleeping.
SPEAKER_11Update. I'm back home. Um I I went in and I saw him. I saw him. And I did all of this during my baby's nap. Did you sleep for an hour and a half so mommy could go on a sting? Did you? Did you do that? Did you do that? Did you do that? He did. He did. He slept the whole time.
SPEAKER_02I'm not exaggerating when I say my son has never napped this long in his life. I guess he just knew. I feel almost high. I'm still very freshly postpartum. I've spent very little time away from my baby. I've been in the trenches of early motherhood. And this kind of jolts me out of a fog. Soon after, I hear back from Amelia.
SPEAKER_03Hello? Okay. Okay. So what did they say? Oh, that's not a good sign. No. Oh my God, Maggie. It's the same frigging story. Okay. So so they I call them and I'm like, okay, this is the deal. We've got him. He's this friggin' con man. He's been conning people across Canada, news articles, yada yada. And they basically said they can't search him without just cause, okay? Because that would be a violation of his rights. And if they find anything, because I told them I'm like, he probably has those credit cards and his bag and sim cards and all that kind of stuff. And they said they wouldn't be able to do anything with it because then it would be, quote, like improperly obtained. I'm like, but we have just cause, right? We know it's him. And they claim that they that's not enough.
SPEAKER_02But he has he has open warrants for his arrest. Does that not matter?
SPEAKER_03They told me that they're not in Ontario. So that doesn't give them just cause for Ontario. Oh my God.
SPEAKER_02So it's just the same thing. Yeah, it's it's the same thing. We have him. We know where he is, and they're not gonna do anything.
SPEAKER_03You literally saw his face. They're not gonna do anything. All right.
SPEAKER_10We I I guess we should have a call with the ladies and and see what we should do.
SPEAKER_02We phone the ladies. They talk about confronting Marcel. He's literally in our backyard. He doesn't know we're on to him. It could be a very powerful and cathartic moment. But we have to tread very carefully here. The risk, of course, is if we do that, he bails, he's in the wind again, and we don't know when we'll find him. Just like when Jody confronted him in the Naimo in 2019, or worse, he does something erratic. We resist the urge to reveal ourselves. We decide that we want him to think he's safe, that no one's the wiser, that he can continue on doing his thing. We asked James to keep us apprised of Marcel's wheelings and dealings so we can keep track of his movement. We hear some updates.
SPEAKER_01He came in every single day for a good six weeks, and it was always the same. He would come in with um that other man that he said was his son, and uh it was charming and nice to staff. He would remember all of our names, you know. We tend to sometimes get people that are in difficult situations, and it means that sometimes people can be in bad moods and be hard. And so he was the opposite. He was very pleasant, he was very pleasant to work with.
SPEAKER_02Marcel was also very persistent on getting into a shelter.
SPEAKER_01He was claiming to be homeless, he was claiming to be living in a tent out in the out somewhere in High Park, and so he wanted us to get him a shelter. We would spend hours on the phone on his behalf, and uh eventually what happened was, you know, he was also saying like he would also be informed us that he was going to do these under-the-table construction jobs and he was working in the afternoons, he'd come here and see us in the mornings or whatever, and then in the afternoons he'd go out and look for work. Uh so there is a shelter program in the city that is specifically they save beds just for guys who are working, and a colleague thought, oh, this would be a perfect program for this guy. It's uh a hard program to get into because it's a good shelter of you know, in terms of how shelters can be. And so my colleague got him into that program. Uh so he went off there.
SPEAKER_02James is in a tight spot. I asked him how it felt to have to do his job for someone like Marcel.
SPEAKER_01It felt totally awful. It's like it really was disturbing for me and confusing. Not because I I felt nothing about like him, but it was like no one there's no crash course in like how to deal with an active con man.
SPEAKER_02So Marcel and Pinky have left for the men's shelter and stopped visiting the drop-in center. In the meantime, the ladies start working a different angle. Without the cops on our side, the best we can do is try to keep track of his movements and mobilize the police in the other provinces. Jody is fired up again about her case. We know where Marcel is, at least for now. Could this be the motivation the crown needs to actually prosecute her case? Remember, Jody is pursuing fraud and forgery charges against Marcel in British Columbia for the forty-nine thousand dollars she lost in 2018. She starts following up on the status of her case relentlessly. Meanwhile, Andrea reaches out to the police in Quebec. She thinks they might be able to act on the open warrant there for Marjolaine's case, the working class woman from Drummondville, who Marcel fraudted for over $80,000. And then an update happens in Jody's case that leaves all of us just devastated. Her pushing finally leads to a response, but it's not the one we were hoping for and expecting at this point. The BC Crown rejects all of the charges against Marcel in her case. And after desperately trying to speak to the Crown. Directly to get some semblance of an understanding, she gets a five-minute call.
SPEAKER_07Sorry, I'm just trying, I'm just trying to understand why my charges didn't go through.
SPEAKER_04Well, it's the uh the charge assessment decision is twofold. There's the first part if there's a substantial likelihood of conviction, second part if it's in the public interest to proceed. Okay. And uh, you know, in my assessment of the case, there's some shortcomings in terms of the evidence necessary to successfully prosecute it in the criminal court.
SPEAKER_02Jody asked him to elaborate on the quote evidence shortcomings. If you remember, she has sworn testimony of forgery from Marcel's former colleague. She has cell phone records, text messages. Here's what he had to say.
SPEAKER_04When I talk about proof, it's not just in terms of you know what you know happened because of your experience. It's, you know, getting the necessary witness and the necessary, you know, witnesses, necessary records to uh present that evidence in court.
SPEAKER_02Jody pushes him further.
SPEAKER_07So there's no possible way of getting her to court to say, yes, that looks like my signature, but it's and my company, but it's not, and he only worked for me for two months back in 2015.
SPEAKER_04Well, Jody, I'm not I'm not gonna get into uh you know a detailed you know breakdown, but but to prove uh you know the allegations against Mr. Vantur uh, you know, would would would not be a uh insignificant matter in terms of the resources that would have to you know be expended, uh further work that would have to be done, uh, you know, time, court time, and and so forth, bringing people from different provinces. Uh and so uh you know it's it's it's it's uh not as uh simple as uh as straightforward as uh you know sometimes you know we're led to believe just through, for example, the media.
SPEAKER_07But the bottom line is he he intentionally falsified a check to pay me back. He willingly, knowingly falsified a check. Like I just don't understand why that can't be given a charge, even if it's just the check itself. Like, and even that's what the detectives they kept saying this is even worthy of a Canada wide warrant. Like to go from being like hopeful of a Canada wide warrant to just getting nothing, it just I I just don't understand.
SPEAKER_04You know, the police may think, well, you know, we've got enough. And you know, and sometimes they may be correct, sometimes they they may not be. So in terms of you know, investigations and you know, and prosecutions, um they they can be uh more time consuming and more resource uh heavy than at first blush, for example. Uh, you know, we have uh just because of you know popular culture and you see stuff in the media, TV shows, and movies, we sort of have a tendency to think that uh uh you know things can be done in five minutes, we can just hand a document.
SPEAKER_02I have to quickly note how condescending the crown attorney is being here. In a way, he's right. The media does sometimes portray justice as swift and bereft of bureaucracy. But Jody has been battling the criminal justice system for over four years, trying to gather evidence in her own case and get the police on her side. She knows it's not simple or quick. She wants to know that there is recourse in the system for what happened in her case. In my opinion, that's not unreasonable. The crown then goes on to talk about the matter of the quote public interest and how that factored into his decision.
SPEAKER_04I'm very sympathetic to what happened to you, and I don't doubt this is, you know, you know, what he did. Um, but you know, in my view, uh uh the prosecution of this matter uh is not in the public interest.
SPEAKER_07So even though he's been doing this for 27 years and does this all across Canada, it's not you don't feel that it's in any way protecting the public by by giving it.
SPEAKER_04I can't. I can't. I can't comment on you know what's going on in other provinces, and I, you know, you know, I you know, I don't know. I mean, maybe uh there's a strong case against them in Quebec, maybe not. I you know, I don't know. You know, I you know, I'll do things um individually.
SPEAKER_02Individually. I have to flag the crown's use of this word. This seems to be one of the biggest problems with serial fraud. One case might not seem to be worth public resources to prosecute and not be deemed in the public interest. But when you see the pattern and the cases stacked together, how can this not be in the public interest? Another thing is the decision making feels very subjective. If you remember, in Lisa Bittencourt's case from over 20 years ago, Marcel stole 27,000 from her. And she's the only victim we know of who got her money back through the criminal courts. The Crown did decide it was in the public interest to prosecute Lisa's case. They obtained a Canada-wide warrant in BC, and it was for less money than Jody. 27,000 to Jody's 49,000. And while Marcel had a criminal record at that point, he didn't have the sea of alleged victims we know of today. Here's Lisa speaking to that.
SPEAKER_10They decided on my behalf that it was gonna be Canada-wide. I I didn't know anything about BC Warrants versus Canada wide, but they felt quite compelled with my story. But I do remember they asked me explicitly, have you been in any romantic relationship with Marcel? And I said no. And that was a big question that they put a lot of importance to. And I don't know if that makes a difference, unfortunately.
SPEAKER_02But there's also a huge stigma associated to victims of this crime. It's often treated as he said, she said, or presumed to be a jilted ex-lover situation. We don't know that these were motivating factors for this crown attorney. It could very well be a resource issue, as he seems to suggest. Either way, this doesn't sit right. So here are Kim and Jody reflecting on the misogyny they felt in their experiences with the legal system.
SPEAKER_05They put the responsibility on us and thinking that we'll just back down, that you know, we're just probably a bunch of weak women that we're taking advantage of. So we'll just go away.
SPEAKER_06You know, we weren't duped, we were conned because he's a professional con artist. You know, it and it it should not take away from who we are as individuals because it happened to us. We are all independent, strong, intelligent women who don't need men to, you know, support us. We all support ourselves.
SPEAKER_02The crown tells Jody she can send her case to another crown attorney and see if they decide differently. But Jody's feeling pretty crushed by the news. She's been working for years only to finally hear that her case isn't in the public interest. And it's precisely because charges were not pursued in her case that another BC resident, single mom Kyra, got taken by Marcel. How can this sit right with the crown? How is this not in the public interest of BC citizens? In the meantime, after this news, Andrea is more motivated than ever to put pressure on the Quebec police as we try to keep track of Marcel's whereabouts. We know from what James told us that he's in a men's shelter near Fort York, but we don't know how long he'll stay there.
SPEAKER_09So I've been just communicating with the Quebec police here and there. Um, I you know, I kept my complete con uh contact with Marjoline uh over this time. I was really communicating with them, sending them information, pictures, and stuff like that. And here and there they'd send pictures. Is this him? No. And uh, you know, I had asked if they would extend the warrant or collaborate with Toronto, and um they were trying to do that.
SPEAKER_02In the meantime, we try to keep track of Marcel's whereabouts. James is in touch with Marcel after he leaves the drop-in center.
SPEAKER_01The last thing I heard from March is that he was so he was in this shelter for men at work, and he had called us to ask if we could write a letter uh kind of vouching that he was indeed homeless, which we couldn't. We had no idea of like there are people we know are homeless because we see where they live.
SPEAKER_02He was trying to secure subsidized housing through the government of Ontario.
SPEAKER_01And he needed this letter because he was applying to a program that would uh basically, from what I understand, cover fifty to seventy-five percent of his rent for eight years, um up to you know, I think three thousand dollars a month.
SPEAKER_02While James wanted to continue keeping tabs on Marcel, he couldn't in good conscience do this.
SPEAKER_01When I found that out, I told my other colleagues that we cannot write this letter for him. I couldn't take it anymore. And I explained to them who he was. And uh we had a you know, a talk. Yeah, because I didn't want to contribute in any way to him accessing this service that is really meant for the most vulnerable, you know, people.
SPEAKER_02James has helped us a lot at this point. I asked him why he risked so much, including his job, to help us.
SPEAKER_01I absolutely felt a moral obligation. Unquestionable. I felt compelled to come forward after hearing on the podcast the stories of the victims. I was willing to risk certain things and deal with the fallout if it meant I could have any sort of hand in leading to stopping him.
SPEAKER_02The case goes cold for a couple of weeks when James loses contact after refusing to write him the letter. We don't know where Marcel is. Andrea eventually hears from Toronto police saying they went to the men's shelter, his last known location, near Fort York in Toronto.
SPEAKER_09You know, that one time they went and they asked for March, but it wasn't him uh or Marcel uh and it wasn't him. The Toronto police did. So I thought they were gonna give up. So I had sent them a message saying, you know, we are uh, you know, having a difficult time now because the uh BC charges from the crown were not, uh they did not give us the warrant and it and uh you know we're really down and we need some good news. Are you guys still working on it? You know?
SPEAKER_02Months go by and we don't hear anything. At one point, the police think they found him, but when they sent a picture, it turned out to be someone else. Then, on an unsuspecting day in early October 2022, we wake up to an urgent phone call from Andrea.
SPEAKER_09This morning I got the message he's been arrested and he'll be going in front of the judge here in Drummondville, Quebec this morning.
SPEAKER_08Wow.
SPEAKER_09Amazing.
SPEAKER_03We got him on the next episode of Catch Him If You Can, we get word from Drummondville Police. March is in cuffs.
SPEAKER_09I'm concerned that he'll be released on bail and we'll never see him again.
SPEAKER_08He said that he wants to go to rehab and get clean for his kids so he could be a good father. Whatever. Fucking bullshit. Come on now.
SPEAKER_00Jodie told me that he was supposed to be in rehab, but forget it, the rehab is in Vietnam now.
SPEAKER_08He said Donald would not forget his tattoos and he wouldn't forget his face because he stole from him. We need a vision, we need to get a photo.
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