Michael March, 56, drove on weekends for Arrow Taxi. By day he was a full-time accounting clerk for Canadian National Railways. He was married with three children. At about 10:45 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25, 1988 Mr. March picked up a 22-year-old man and 17-year-old woman outside a bowling alley on Rexdale Boulevard. The man was carrying a briefcase containing a sawed-off .22 rifle. The man directed Mr. March to the rear of an industrial unit on Slough Street near Airport and Derry Roads, then forced him out of the cab at gunpoint and made him lie face down on the ground. After robbing Mr. March of $180 he shot him once in the chest. Mr. March bled to death from the wound. Police were alerted by Mr. March's wife when he failed to show up for work Monday morning. That afternoon a couple walking their dog found Mr. March's body in a grassy area behind the industrial unit. A neighbour, Ramdulagi Singh, said that Mr. March was "forever helping people in time of need. Why would anyone want to kill such a wonderful man?" Her husband Baldao said that Mr. March had been "his right hand" ever since he suffered a stroke a few years earlier. Police issued a Canada-wide alert for Mr. March's late-model Chevrolet cab. At about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday New York customs officials became suspicious of a car that was attempting to cross the Thousand Islands Bridge near Kingston. The car, with a man and woman inside, appeared to be a cab that had its roof light and signs removed. While border guards were checking the license plates the car sped away. Within minutes six New York State police cars were involved in a 40 kilometre pursuit that reached speeds of 150 km/hr. The couple were captured and sent back to Canada. The killer had robbed Mr. March to pay off a drug debt. He was sentenced to life in prison for second degree murder with no possibiity of parole for 16 years. The female accomplice was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery (the killer had told her of his intention to rob a taxi driver), possession of a stolen car and possession of a prohibited weapon.

Michael March. (Source: Toronto Star, September 29, 1988, p. 7) The killer showed no remorse at his trial got into trouble several times for dealing in contraband while in prison. In August, 2000, now 33, he briefly escaped from a minimum security jail near Kingston. In 2019, now 52, the killer was working on the prison farm at Collins Bay. He had taken courses in plumbing, cooking, carpentry, welding, sewing, and upholstery through the Correctional Service of Canada. Now married, he and his wife owned a hectare of land near the prison. "I'd like to have that chance to go home, if that's possible," he told an interviewer. "If not, I'm going to continue trying and continue moving forward and continue helping on the farm."