![]() ![]() For her own mental health, she says she had to distance herself from him. He is blocked from contacting his only child - at her request. (Andrea Demeter Scratch)ĭemeter Scratch, 47, who now lives in London, Ont., hasn't visited or exchanged any correspondence with her father in a dozen years. Despite maintaining his innocence, he was sentenced to life in prison.Ĭhristine Demeter was a fashion model from Austria. His trial in 1974, one of the longest in Canadian history, ended with the jury finding him guilty of capital murder. Publicly, Demeter offered a $10,000 reward to help find the killer, but privately, he left his wife's grave without a tombstone.Ī month after the slaying, Demeter was arrested and charged with plotting his wife's murder. ![]() The person who carried out the murder has never been found. ![]() The jury that found Demeter guilty of arranging the hit on his spouse heard that the wealthy Hungarian immigrant, who had a mistress, wanted his wife dead in order to collect a $1-million insurance policy. The couple had been married almost six years when the bloody murder took place in the garage at the family's upscale home in Mississauga, Ont., on July 18, 1973. The man who arranged to have her beautiful mother killed is her biological father, Toronto-area land developer Peter Demeter, now 84, who has spent most of his adult life behind bars. Corrections Canada knows Andrea Demeter Scratch only wants to hear one last thing about the man responsible for her mother Christine's murder decades ago. ![]()
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