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A DNA mismatch redirects Crime Beat's Dwayne Demkiw investigation

"Chasing a Ghost Part 1" retraces the search from a burned car in Calgary to a troubling discovery about the identity police were pursuing.

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Crime Beat TV Story of November 1, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 46,463 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (4,588).

Crime Beat: Chasing a Ghost Part 1 | S8 E3

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2:18Contacts on an iPod inside Demkiw's burned car help police reach his brother and friend.
10:20Surveillance shows an unidentified figure waiting around Demkiw's workplace and hiding inside a dumpster.
26:38Blood evidence inside the car leads investigators to treat the disappearance as a homicide.
37:55DNA on a ballcap and chewing gum matches, but not the identity investigators had been pursuing.
41:18A family identification check reveals that the person police are pursuing has been using someone else's name.
42:50Washington facial-recognition software supplies a new identification for the cross-border investigation.

The name didn't match. Detectives investigating Dwayne Demkiw's disappearance had DNA from a discarded ballcap and chewing gum, but the profile did not match the identity they had been working with.

That discovery comes late in "Crime Beat: Chasing a Ghost Part 1 | S8 E3", which drew roughly 46,000 views in its first day, about ten times Crime Beat TV's usual start for a regular video.

The episode returns to May 2015, when Demkiw's car was found burning inside a Calgary parking garage. The Edmonton limousine driver was missing. His family and friends called his phone and searched for him while investigators began piecing together his movements after work.

Some of the documentary's most consequential evidence comes from ordinary objects and security cameras: a cap and knife sheath near a dumpster, footage of an unidentified figure waiting around the workplace, and records pointing to Demkiw's damaged phone beside an Edmonton road.

Testing later revealed extensive traces of his blood inside the car. Detectives explain why that evidence changed the missing-person investigation into a homicide case.

The search eventually extended to Vancouver and across the U.S. border. But the episode's central turn concerns identity, not distance: investigators discovered that the person they were pursuing had been using someone else's name. Part 1 closes with that discovery reshaping the manhunt.

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