Mississauga Confidential: Case 07 - Dead End: The Philip Rumbold Mystery

Welcome, dear listeners, to another tale of murder, scandal, and crime from Mississauga’s darker side.

 

Today's case examines a man living a double life. On the surface, Philip C. Rumbold was a wealthy, respected real estate magnate from Tonawanda, New York. What lay beneath the surface was a dark secret that may have gotten him killed.

 

On July 22nd, 1930, on a lonely road in Port Credit, Rumbold was found brutally murdered in his car. Was the crime a random act of violence against an innocent man? Or had Rumbold's dark past finally caught up with him?

 

Philip Rumbold's mysterious murder was one of the first major crimes in a decade of vice, murder and gangsters, tangled in an intricate web of crime: welcome to Mississauga's dirty thirties.

 

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“Mississauga Confidential, A True Crime Podcast” is a Heritage Bytes podcast produced by Heritage Mississauga.

Written by Bryan Ho and Nicole Mair.

Research by Bryan Ho, Nicole Mair and Matthew Wilkinson.

An adaptation of this story by Kayla Demers first appeared in the Heritage News.

Video Production Team: Bryan Ho, Nicole Mair and Ryan Parks.

 

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