Cold a Long Time An Alpine Mystery Author:John Leake In August of 1989, twenty-three-year-old Duncan MacPherson?a pro hockey player from Canada?vanished without a trace in Europe. With no help from the police, his parents, Lynda and Bob, drove all over the Alps looking for him, and finally found his car at the Stubai Glacier, a popular ski resort near Innsbruck, Austria. Thus began their twenty-... more »year struggle to find out why their son had disappeared after taking a snowboarding lesson on a beginner slope. Had he, as the local police suggested, wandered off the beaten track and died in a remote area, or had he been the victim of something sinister? In 2009 they asked author John Leake to help them with their ongoing search for answers, and after a two-year investigation, he discovered the shocking reality of what happened to Duncan. Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery recounts the strange and agonizing odyssey of the MacPherson family. It is a story about enduring love, perseverance, and the irrepressible desire to know the truth, literally at all costs. It is also the story of a twisted cover-up perpetrated by employees of the Stubai Glacier, the local police, and high-ranking authorities in Innsbruck. Leake's findings are the subject of the television documentary "A Cold Case," produced by the fifth estate?Canada's premier investigative news program.« less