Peter Demeter

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Peter Demeter was born in Budapest, Hungary on April 19, 1933. In 1956, Demeter immigrated to Canada and by 1962 he started a successful career as a land developer in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

He married an Austrian-born model, Christine Ferrari, in 1967. The marriage was strained, and on July 18, 1973, 33 year old Christine Demeter was found murdered in the garage of their family home in Mississauga, Ontario.

Peter Demeter was convicted in 1974 for arranging the murder of his wife.

The trial, one of the longest in Canadian history, attracted international attention as it exposed the elements of the Canadian/Hungarian underworld and the possibility that both Peter and Christine had been plotting to kill each other in order to collect a $1 million insurance policy. Peter Demeter was convicted even though the actual killer was never found.

While in prison, Demeter has been weakened by stroke, a heart attack and had chemotherapy administered three times.

Peter Demeter was convicted again, while still serving his sentence, for trying to arrange the murders of his cousin's son and a lawyer's daughter.

In May 2006 a judge ordered Peter Demeter to provide a DNA sample to the country's DNA data bank.

Demeter is currently serving his term at the medium-security Bath Institute in Ontario.

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