 Peter
Vronsky was born in Toronto,
Canada, and has been shooting and producing investigative
documentaries and
independent films since 1975. His first book was published in 2004.Currently Peter Vronsky is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at University of Toronto in the fields of criminal justice history and intelligence in international relations. He is completing his doctoral thesis on the origins of the Canadian army and secret services during the Civil War and Fenian Threat, 1858 - 1866. His study focuses on the 1866 battle near Fort Erie, Ontario fought by Canadian volunteers to stop a 1000 strong invasion force of heavily armed Fenian Irish-American insurgents. The dissertation will be published in 2011 as Ridgeway 1866! Limestone Ridge & The Maple Leaf Forever: The American Fenian Invasion and the Forgotten Battle That Made Canada, a volume in Penguin Canada's Turning Points in Canadian History series, edited by Robert Bothwell and Margaret Macmillan. Vronsky is the author of a definitive history of the psychopathology and culture of serial homicide and its investigation from the Roman Empire to the Washington Beltway: Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (New York: Berkley-Penguin, 2004.) The sequel, focusing on predatory female sequential offenders, Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters (New York: Berkley-Penguin, 2007) was recently translated and published in France as Femmes Serial Killers - Pourquoi Les Femmes Tuent? (Paris: Balland, 2009.) Vronsky has worked extensively in Europe, the former Soviet Union, South Africa and in Canada and USA. He has produced and directed numerous cutting edge investigative documentary television specials on subjects ranging from early punk rock and flashback syndrome in Vietnam war veterans to organized crime and nuclear materials smuggling in the break-away regions of the former Soviet Union and the history of the Venetian gondola. He is the creator of a body of formal video art works exhibited in the 1980s internationally, a former Sony Corporation artist-in-residence, a frequently cited historian of the phenomenon of serial murder, of Lee Harvey Oswald's journey to the USSR in 1959-1962, the Siege of Montsegur during the Albigensian Crusade in 1244, the history of the Toronto Police and of the disappearance of Ambrose Small in 1919. Vronsky currently teaches International Relations, the history of espionage, the American Civil War and the history of the Third Reich at Ryerson University.
He was the co-writer of the National Film Board of Canada feature documentary The Un-Canadians (1996). Vronsky is also the director of a dramatic feature film: Bad Company (1978). In between his own independent productions, Peter Vronsky has worked as a production manager, line producer, director of photography and new media artist. He field-produced Venice and Adriatic Region coverage for CNN and shot undercover and hidden camera sequences for CTV's W5 and CBC's The Fifth Estate, investigative TV programs. Vronsky's last undercover shoot took him to the troubled breakaway republic of Chechnya, where his hidden cameras documented the secret market for nuclear weapons materials for a CTV-Discovery Channel USA-FujiTv-ORF Stornoway Productions co-production of The Hunt For Red Mercury (1993).
In 2000 Vronsky was the founding Bureau Chief of the Queens Park/Toronto Bureau of Epress.ca, Canada's first accredited internet streaming video news portal. Later that year he joined GlobalNetFinancial.com, a Los Angeles-based global investment streaming video news and online trading platform with sites in Europe and North America, where he was their Broadband Content Specialist. GlobalNetFinancial perished in the 2001 dot-com stock market collapse. Vronsky is highly experienced in convergence of television and video with the Internet, non-linear interactive scripting and online streaming content design. In 1997-2000 Vronsky was the Head of Documentary and English Language Production in Italy for Panavideo, a service producer for RAI, the Italian national television broadcasting network. Vronsky produced live and taped television broadcasts in the Venice region and is an expert on the logistics of film and video production management in the water-bound city. Vronsky has extensive international production experience as a producer, director and/or director of photography on locations in Russia, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, UK, Austria, former Yugoslavia, Jamaica, South Africa, and in North America.
Peter Vronsky is fluent in English, Russian and Italian, and currently resides in Toronto Canada and Venice Italy.
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Vronsky was the Director of Photography on I'll
Fly Away Home (2004) and Life Could Be A Dream (2002), feature
documentaries for Bravo Canada/Bravo USA. 
Peter Vronsky's 1991-1992 research and journey to the USSR to
locate a series of never-before-interviewed witnesses to accused assassin Lee Harvey
Oswald's life there is a subject in professor John Newman's academic study of Oswald's
alleged CIA connections (Oswald and the CIA.) The results of
Vronsky's research and interviews have been featured in numerous books and television
programs,
including Norman Mailer's Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery, Vincent
Bugliosi's 2007 Reclaiming History: The Assassination of
President John F. Kennedy, best-selling author David Lifton's upcoming biography of Oswald, and PBS's
definitive 1993 television biography of Oswald produced by Frontline.
Vronsky maintains an often cited website focusing on Oswald's life in the
USSR and is a recognized authority on Lee Harvey Oswald's time in the USSR.