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MOTIVE Festival - The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Steve Ryan

CP24 crime specialist and retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan worked in Toronto’s homicide squad for over a decade. The city’s most infamous crimes were much more than a headline for Ryan, they were his everyday life. Now, he takes to the MOTIVE stage to present his book The Ghosts That Haunt Me, in which he reflects on six of the many cases in his career that greatly impacted him. Hear from Ryan about what it is really like to face Toronto’s dark side, how he found glimmers of hope that good can prevail even while immersed in heartbreaking cases, and why he decided to reflect on some of his experiences in the written form.

The Ghosts That Haunt Me by Steve Ryan

After years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will never forget.

Retired detective Steve Ryan worked in Toronto’s homicide squad for over a decade. For Ryan, the stories of Toronto’s most infamous crimes were more than just a headline read over morning coffee — they were his everyday life.

After investigating over one hundred homicides, Ryan can never forget the tragedies and the victims, even after his retirement from the police force. In The Ghosts That Haunt Me, he reflects on six of the many cases that greatly impacted him — seven people whose lives were senselessly taken — and that he still thinks about nearly every day. While the stories are hard to tell for Ryan, they were harder to live through. Yet somewhere between the crimes and the heartache is a glimmer of hope that good eventually does prevail and that healing can come after grief.