Great-grand-nephew of a man who disappeared from his cabin in 1934 in a suit, dress shoes and fedora, tries to crack one of Canada’s oldest cold cases in true crime series
- Harold Heaven mysteriously disappeared from his secluded lakeside cabin in Minden, Ontario, about two hours northeast of Toronto, in October 1934.
- Ontario Provincial Police investigators at the time ruled his death was suicide – even though his body was never found
- However, his family never believed the suicide statement
- Now his great-grand-nephew Mike Mildon – who admittedly has no research experience – has taken up the case
- Mildon and his best friend Jackson Rowe are the filmmakers behind the new series, For Heaven’s Sake, which aims to discover what happened to Heaven.
Two amateur detectives have tackled one of Canada’s oldest cold cases as part of a new true crime documentary series in an attempt to find out what happened to a man who disappeared without a trace from his cabin 87 years ago.
Harold Heaven mysteriously disappeared from his secluded lakeside cabin in Minden, Ontario, about two hours northeast of Toronto, in October 1934.
Heaven, whose cabin door was open with an oil lamp still burning, disappeared with its rifle.
He is believed to have disappeared in a suit, dress shoes and a fedora.
Harold Heaven (above) mysteriously disappeared from his secluded lakeside cabin in Minden, Ontario, about two hours northeast of Toronto, in October 1934.
Police searched the nearby woods and dredged the adjacent lake, but Heaven was never found or heard of again.
Investigators from the Ontario Provincial Police at the time ruled that his death was suicide – even though his body was never found.
However, his family never believed the suicide statement.
Now his great-grand-nephew Mike Mildon – who admittedly has no research experience – has taken up the case.
Mildon and his best friend Jackson Rowe are the filmmakers behind the new eight-part series For Heaven’s Sake, which aims to discover exactly what happened to heaven eighty ago.
Growing up, Mildon learned theories about the disappearance of his great-grand-uncle from different generations.
The sky, whose (photo) door of the hut had been left open with an oil lamp still burning, disappeared with its rifle. He is believed to have disappeared in a suit, dress shoes and a fedora
His great-grand-nephew Mike Mildon – admittedly with no investigative experience – has taken the case up to date
Investigators from the Ontario Provincial Police at the time ruled that his death was suicide – even though his body was never found. However, his family never believed the suicide statement
One of the surviving theories is that the sky had collided with road workers building a highway near his cabin.
The series’ trailer shows how some believe the body of Heaven may have been buried under the highway or dumped in the lake near his cabin.
Mildon and Rowe’s fame prior to the series was a series of Funny or Die called Trophy Husbands, which was viewed about 5,000 times on YouTube at the time of filming.
The series, despite being based on a true crime, has a comical streak as the two amateur investigators try to unravel Mildon’s family mystery.
The pair, who are true crime fans, eventually managed to access the 1934 police report regarding Heaven’s disappearance.
They also interviewed several members of the Heaven family, including Mildon’s grandfather, and tried to track down people directly aware of the search.
The entire For Heaven’s Sake series is currently streaming on CBS’s new streaming service Paramount +.
Mildon (right), along with best friend Jackson Rowe (left), are the filmmakers behind the new eight-part series For Heaven’s Sake, who want to discover exactly what happened to heaven eighty ago.
The couple, who are true crime fans, eventually managed to access the 1934 police report regarding Heaven’s disappearance