Yuletide Bandit, The: A Seven—year Search For A Serial Criminal

by Mike McIntyre

Police dubbed Michael Syrnyk "The Yuletide Bandit" following a series of dramatic, daylight Christmastime robberies in 1998, 1999 and 2000 that left citizens fearing for their safety and police searching for an apparent psychopath. One of Syrnyk’s most notorious shoot—outs occurred during a December 2000 robbery outside Polo Park Shopping Centre, Winnipeg’s busiest mall. Dozens of Christmas shoppers — including senior citizens — dove for cover as bullets flew and glass shattered. Yuletide is a true crime thriller that chronicles Syrnyk’s crime spree across western Canada to his eventual capture in a brothel in Winnipeg’s red light district.

Genres: True Crime

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 11, 2004

About the author

Mike McIntyre is a justice reporter with the Winnipeg Free Press and a national radio show host. His previous books — Nowhere To Run: The Killing of Constable Dennis Strongquill (2003), The Yuletide Bandit: A Seven—Year Search for a Serial Criminal (2004), and To the Grave: Inside a Spectacular RCMP Sting (2006) have spent time on Canada's bestseller lists.