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A new documentary hopes to shed light on the 2018 disappearance of a Canadian man in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta.
Malcom Madsen, 68, was last seen having drinks with his girlfriend, Mexican national Marcela Acosta, on October 27, 2018, according to the film Malcom is Missing.
A surveillance camera at Andale's bar that was obtained by Madsen's daughter, Brooke Mullins, shows Madsen and Acosta having a conversation at a table. Acosta can be seen digging through her purse and then getting closer to Madsen before she dumped something into his glass.
Acosta, who was 43 years old at the time, then stirs the drink with a straw and allows Madsen to have a couple of sips before she pushed the glass away. The security camera shows Madsen slowly walking behind Acosta before they exited the bar.
Madsen, a real estate agent and jeweler from Sutton, Ontario, was never seen again after he left the bar.
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Canadian national Malcom Madsen (right) disappeared October 27, 2018 after visiting a bar in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, with his girlfriend, Marcela Acosta (left)
A surveillance camera shows Marcela Acosta and Malcom Madsen at the Andale's bar in Puerto Vallarta, the night he disappeared
Brooke Mullins participated in the filming of Malcom is Missing, a documentary directed by Jari Osborne and Robert Osborne that sheds light on the 2018 disappearance of Mullins' father, Malcom Madsen
In the documentary, which was screened Sunday at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in Toronto, Mullins said her father was dating Acosta, a mother of two teenage boys who lived with her parents. He ended up buying a house with five bedrooms for Acosta and her children to live in.
Acosta told authorities that the couple had taken a taxi and gone back to her home and went to sleep. She said Malcom had already left the home when she woke up in the morning. She reported him missing five days after their date at the bar.
'He was truly in love with this woman,' Mullins said. 'And he could not see that she was using him for money.'
Mullins kept her father's disappearance a secret for the better part of the first year.
As part of the investigation, authorities in Mexico arrested Ramos in July 2020 and apprehended her brother, Alejandro Acosta, in September 2020. Her son, Andres Romero, was taken into custody in September 2021.
The creators of Malcom is Missing, Robert and Jari Osborne, first approached Mullins about the possibility of working on the film after they came across a story about Madsen's disappearance in the Vancouver Sun and her ongoing battles with the Mexican government.
Mullins became part of the project and traveled with a crew on
