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4:00 in the morning, the alarm goes off,
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so that I can be at work at 5:30.
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When I arrive at the station, uh, put my coffee down,
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and the phone rang.
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The person on the other end with a very strong accent
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but a very quiet voice said,
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"Are you the lead investigator
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on the Skanda Navaratnam missing person case?"
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Now, the moment he said that to me, I have to tell you,
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my stomach dropped.
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I first heard of Skanda Navaratnam two years earlier
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when he was reported missing.
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For months, we searched for Skanda,
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and we never found out what happened to him.
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He definitely got, um, inside my head.
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The person on the other end then said he was a detective from Bern, Switzerland.
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He told me he had information
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that Skanda had been kidnapped, murdered,
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and then eaten by a cannibal.
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My stomach is so nervous doing this.
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I hate being in front of a camera.
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It's worse than being in the hot seat in court.
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I'm telling you, I just am not comfortable.
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- It doesn't come across.
- Okay.
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- So, is everyone good to crack on?
- We're good to crack on.
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When I joined the police service, I was 18.
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Anyone who has to call 911 is gonna be in one of the worst moments of their life,
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and if I could be that police officer that comforts them for a moment,
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that's what I wanted to do.
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When I received that phone call from Bern, Switzerland,
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I was working in the Village,
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the heart of the Toronto LGBTQ+ community.
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The detective had come across a website called Zambian Meat,
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a website about cannibalism.
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On the website,
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he started to speak to the member in Toronto.
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The username was Chefmate50.
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Chefmate50 told him that he'd kidnapped, murdered and eaten
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a brown-skinned man from the Village, in Toronto,
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somewhere between 2009 and 2011.
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The detective narrowed it down to possibly being Skanda Navaratnam.
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My gut is saying, "This is ridiculous."
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But then my head is saying,
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"Well, if there was, even in the remotest possibilities,
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a cannibal living in or around the city of Toronto,
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I had... I had to investigate that."
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I start typing in "Z-A-M-B-I-A-N Meat."
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Right on the front page of the website was two men,
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and they were roasting a woman on a spit.
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I couldn't get my head around what I was actually seeing on the screen.
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I was shocked.
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I was absolutely taken back at the fact that these websites existed.
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I had to find out who Chefmate50 was.
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The username had an associated email address
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of chefmate50@yahoo.com.
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Later in the evening, after getting judicial authorizations,
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I was able to review some of the emails that were provided through Yahoo Canada.
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And as I started opening up the second, and the third, and the fourth emails,
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my jaw was dropping.
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I had Chefmate50, um, sending emails to people all over the world,
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talking about how he wanted to torture them,
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how he wanted to eat them.
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I told Homicide, "I need to see you.
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There's possibly a cannibal right here in Toronto."
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Next day, I walked in the room full of the Toronto Police Homicide Unit.
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There's this, you know, aura around them.
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I'm in my, you know, normal store-bought suit,
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and they all look so professional.
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They have cuff links with their initials, and they all use the same tailor.
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I was anxious as to whether or not they would say,
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"Okay, you have enough to move forward in this investigation."
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But as they're going through the briefing package,
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and they're seeing some of the content of some of the emails,
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you can see them slowly slinking down in their seats.
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And they went from these detectives who'd seen everything
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to the same feelings that I had.
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This overwhelming, uh, feeling of, "Is this really happening?"
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I had a name through Yahoo Canada
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for the person depicting himself as Chefmate50.
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It was James Brunton.
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James Brunton was a family man who was married,
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who had a daughter.
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He lived in a very suburban neighborhood in Peterborough, Ontario,
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which is northeast of Toronto.
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And he had no criminal record.
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He worked at the local hockey arena.
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He also, uh, volunteered on a telephone hotline,
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uh, for people who were suicidal.
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And he seemed, on the surface,
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uh, to be someone who was committed to his community.
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But there was no definition of what a cannibal should look like.
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Homicide determined that it would be good to have a team set up,
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and I was assigned as the lead investigator
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on what was called Project Houston.
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I was extremely excited in the fact that they've taken me seriously,
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but now I've got to work in a way that I have never done before.
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The first thing I had to determine was, "Are there any other missing men
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I should be aware of and looking for?"
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So, I went to the Canadian National Missing Persons database.
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I immediately identified a second person.
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Abdul "Basir" Faizi,
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who'd gone missing in December 2010 from the gay village,
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just three months after Skanda.
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I took a look at the photo of this missing person
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and of Skanda Navaratnam.
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They were both brown-skinned,
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they were both middle-aged, they both had dark hair,
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they both had mustaches, they both had a small beard.
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I went back to the database,
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and I found a third missing person.
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Majeed Kayhan,
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missing from the gay village two years later, in October of 2012.
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I'm looking and thinking, "Oh, boy."
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I felt in my gut that it was the same person
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that was responsible for whatever happened to the three men,
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but without any bodies,
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I had no concrete evidence that there was a serial killer out there.
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I needed to see if there was any evidence linking James Brunton to the missing men.
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I needed an IT person who was tech-savvy,
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who could create a profile and enter Zambian Meat.
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We're in business.
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Never done it before. Yeah, it's strange. But it's interesting. It's neat.
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The first person I thought of was Charles Coffey.
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When you're a kid, you see the exciting movies and shows,
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and investigations were always like a puzzle.
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I've always loved that aspect of it,
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and always dreamed about being a police officer.
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I received a phone call from Detective Harris,
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and she explained to me how Skanda, Faizi and Kayhan,
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three missing males,
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were possibly victims of cannibalism.
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It's... It's a topic that you don't realize is real,
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and being asked to investigate such a topic,
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I was... I was excited, but I was also disturbed,
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realizing that there was cannibalism out there.
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The next day, I was able to create an account
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and successfully became a member of Zambian Meat.
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There was people who were looking to be killed or slaughtered,
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as well as people who were performing the slaughtering.
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I was able to create a glossary defining the hierarchy.
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A "Long Pig," which is a potential willing victim, uh,
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a "Chef," which is, uh, considered a qualified cannibal,
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and a "Master Chef," which is a qualified cannibal,
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uh, can butcher and prepare meat.
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It's, uh...
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You know, it's extremely surreal. I don't know how else to explain it.
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Brunton used the username Chefmate50,
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explaining that he was the real thing,
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that he has tasted and consumed human meat.
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Uh, he would go into great detail on how he had performed
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the slaughtering of... of human beings.
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Descriptions on how to properly kill,
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cook, and store, uh, human flesh.
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It was very direct, uh, very intricate,
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very knowledgeable.
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I needed to get more information on James Brunton
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to prove if this man was dangerous, or just a sick fantasist.
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We needed to get into his home and clone his computer,
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so that we could forensically go through it.
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For weeks, we were trying to get in the house surreptitiously,
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and there was never an opportunity.
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Either James was there himself or his wife was there.
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I would be working from 7:00 in the morning
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to 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning every day.
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I'd been setting up teams, going out doing surveillance.
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There was a lapse of eight days where I just didn't see my daughter.
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When I was 28, Julia was born.
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Her and I were on our own, uh, from when she was one year old.
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I raised her, um, as a single mother,
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and, uh, she's...
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You know, she's everything.
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When I came home,
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I would open her door and just quietly walk in.
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I just wanted to see her, I wanted to lie next to her.
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I would just take that deep breath in, and it would have that scent of her,
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and that scent was so calming for me.
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Julia and I would plan to do things,
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but as the investigation progressed,
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the more time I spent at work, and the less time I spent with Julia.
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In December,
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I received judicial authorization...
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...to get all of Brunton's emails in real time.
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I saw an email about James going to visit his daughter with his wife
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down in the United States for Christmas.
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Finally, that was our opportunity
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to safely get into the house without being discovered and clone the computer.
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But this was gonna be the first Christmas since the day that Julia was born
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that I wasn't going to spend with her,
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and it was just destroying me inside.
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I walked in the door, and she was waiting for me.
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She can just pick up my demeanor right away,
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and she's like, "What's wrong?"
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And then I told her,
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"Honey, I'm not gonna be able to be here tomorrow for Christmas,
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and I'm really, really sorry."
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I know I started crying.
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Um...
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You know, I... I kept feeling like I was disappointing her.
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I had to leave my house at 4:00 in the morning.
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I'd got about four hours' sleep, and up and out the door I went.
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I drove to the car park
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close to Brunton's house.
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We had our mobile support teams there, tech crime teams there,
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we have our locksmiths there.
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Emotionally, I was drained,
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but you always have to put a game face on.
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I started handing coffees out and saying Merry Christmas to everyone.
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Got a few "Merry Fucking Christmases" back.
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They don't want to be there. They wanna be at home with their families.
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I stay out in the parking lot
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while the tech team sneak through the back lane
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and get in through the door.
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We didn't have warrants to search the entire home,
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so we started mirroring the hard drive
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from his computer onto an external drive.
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I was certainly hopeful that we'd find something on the computer
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because if it was just holiday snaps and innocent photos,
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I had ruined my Christmas Day with my daughter...
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...for nothing.
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Once the tech support team were able to clone the computer,
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that information was extracted and brought back to Charles.
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There's hundreds of thousands of pieces of information.
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Chats, uh, emails, um,
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photos, videos, web searches.
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Going through Brunton's emails,
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I came across a, uh, conversation where, uh, he had described a cabin
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two and a half hours north of Toronto, with a large room, three chairs.
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He talked about having killed people in the back portion of the cabin.
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And there was talk about a hoist
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to allow bodies to have their blood drained.
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It was almost shock and awe. Like, "Is this real?"
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This was big.
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We had a location where Brunton allegedly committed murder.
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We now had to determine, "Where is this cabin?"
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We threw a large map of the area on the table,
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and we did a large circle two and a half hours from Toronto.
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But it's hunting a needle in a haystack.
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You're talking hundreds of square miles.
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As I was looking at all of these possible areas,
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I thought back to Skanda's phone records.
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It showed that he'd made a call from the Bancroft area
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just two days before he went missing.
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Bancroft's a two-and-a-half-hour drive north of Toronto
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with a lot of dense woods surrounding it.
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This could be the place.
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We got police drones flying above the trees
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looking for any glimpse of where the cabin might be
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within that area of Bancroft.
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But the trees were so close together,
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it was difficult to get a good look at some of the cabins.
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We have to put boots on the ground and get people out there,
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and try to find hard evidence
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that links Brunton to any of these missing men.
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Debbie was saying we have to go find this cabin,
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and I was already kind of putting my hand up.
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That's something that I would totally be into doing.
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Josh McKenzie had been my partner for three years.
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- You're comfortable, Josh?
- I'm good.
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Josh is a farm boy.
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He can survive in... in his snowshoes and tracing through the wilderness.
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Debbie's one of the hardest-working people
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I ever worked with.
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She always treated me like an equal,
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you know, allowing me to run cases on my own
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and give me experience,
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and really helped shape me as an investigator.
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I always liked the work outside of the office.
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I liked going out, finding things, figuring things out.
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I drove to Bancroft with another investigator.
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We got out of the car and started walking.
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It's very remote. You know, it's trees everywhere.
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I saw one purple ribbon tied on a tree.
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And looked and saw a second one a couple of trees down.
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Somebody was trying to create a path
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leading somewhere more secluded.
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We took a few steps.
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A gunshot ricocheted through the trees and then suddenly stopped,
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and it was completely quiet.
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It's not hunting season.
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There's no reason why we should be hearing gunshots.
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I remember looking at my phone, and we didn't have any cell phone service.
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I started thinking, "Oh, man,
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should we need to call for backup or need help in any way,
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we couldn't do that."
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I was taking slower and slower steps...
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when I saw a long beam suspended probably about 15 to 20 feet in the air.
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It had hooks on it and ropes to a pulley system
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that you could raise to different heights
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and suspend, really, whatever you wanted on it.
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Behind the pulley system, there was a cabin.
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The other investigator and I, we separated,
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making sure that we had all of our surroundings covered.
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I looked through the window.
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I saw a table and three chairs,
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just like the one that was described in Brunton's emails.
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There was a fire pit at the back of the building,
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and on top of that, there was a piece of an iron fence.
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Like a massive grate for a barbecue.
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Near the fire pit, there was a number of boots and shoes
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just nailed to this tree.
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Some of those shoes had burn marks on the toes.
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My mind started spinning at that point.
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I found this spot
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where I was able to get one bar of cell phone service.
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My phone rings, and I pick it up, and it's Josh.
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He's like, "Deb, you're not gonna believe this,
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but there are pairs of boots,
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and they're all just hanging from this tree."
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I knew what he was thinking,
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and he knew what I was thinking as well.
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You know, were these mementos?
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Were these shoes from men who have now been, um, cannibalized?
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I told Josh to gather the shoes so I could extrapolate some DNA
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to see whether they match any of the three missing men.
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A few days later,
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I was going through some of the emails that were on Brunton's computer.
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I could see that Josh McKenzie was getting up and walking towards me.
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The DNA from all of the shoes was negative
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for any of our missing men or anyone in the national data bank.
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We still didn't have any hard evidence
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to move forward in the investigation.
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Every time I spoke to a family member or a friend of one of the missing persons,
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they were wanting answers.
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I couldn't give them those answers,
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and that, internally, was constantly causing pressure.
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At work, I was very stoic,
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but the moment I got home,
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I wasn't as tolerant or as patient as I should be.
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Julia would just wanna tell me something simple,
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um, you know, about her day,
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and I would just block it out, or I wouldn't have the time to listen,
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and I would turn it into an argument.
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In those moments, she would just say, "It's okay,"
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and she would give me a hug, and I would just break down.
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I spent the next couple months
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searching through Brunton's computer for evidence.
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00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:19,082
I'd wake up and during breakfast, I'd already be thinking about the case.
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00:24:19,166 --> 00:24:23,420
It's some of the most disturbing material anyone will ever see.
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00:24:26,256 --> 00:24:30,469
I couldn't talk to my wife about the investigation.
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She never really fully understood
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00:24:34,014 --> 00:24:35,765
what I was going through.
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I'm not gonna bring my family into such a warped, horrific world.
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I discovered a series of emails
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in which Brunton was, uh, conversing with a, uh... a young male.
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In these conversations, I uncovered a contract
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that was from October, uh, 2009.
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"I, being of sound mind and body,
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and fully understanding of all the consequences,
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do hereby enter into an agreement
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with a person known as Chefmate from Zambian,
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hereafter known as Master.
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It is agreed that after my 18th birthday,
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I will enter into his hands and place myself in his full control."
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"After that,
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Master can have my body to butcher and eat as desired."
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Just absolutely disgusting.
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00:25:31,613 --> 00:25:34,533
This boy is one year younger than my daughter.
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And this predator is preying on him.
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00:25:43,333 --> 00:25:44,333
Just...
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Yeah.
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How can any human being...
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ever speak to somebody like that,
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00:25:59,182 --> 00:26:02,561
let alone take advantage of someone who's only 15 years old?
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Makes me sick.
365
00:26:10,151 --> 00:26:13,446
Through help with our Sexual Exploitation Unit,
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we traced the teenager's address to a home in Colorado.
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00:26:20,036 --> 00:26:21,454
Thank God he was alive.
368
00:26:24,457 --> 00:26:28,128
He explained that he had no intentions on going through with the contract.
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00:26:29,379 --> 00:26:31,798
But Brunton pressured the teenager to commit,
370
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and when the teenager refused,
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Brunton asked him to send pictures of him naked.
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Child pornography is one of the most heinous crimes
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that a person can do,
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00:26:46,938 --> 00:26:49,566
and I remember being angered by that. Um...
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I was personally angered.
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That gave me thought to further investigate everything
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00:26:57,741 --> 00:27:01,036
and see if there was any more evidence relating to that.
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00:27:02,996 --> 00:27:06,499
I opened a file from 2003, May 1st.
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I started realizing I was looking at a video
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of inside a locker room of a hockey, uh, arena with young males.
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They were changing in and out of their hockey gear
382
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and into their clothes,
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00:27:23,016 --> 00:27:27,937
and, um, Brunton was filming them while they were changing.
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00:27:32,192 --> 00:27:34,069
These boys, they're in a hockey rink
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where they feel that they're safe and in a safe environment,
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00:27:37,989 --> 00:27:40,617
and you have this predator in the changeroom
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00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:42,744
taking advantage of their trust.
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00:27:43,870 --> 00:27:46,956
This was child pornography and child exploitation,
389
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:48,917
and I now had grounds for an arrest.
390
00:27:54,297 --> 00:27:56,299
But if I arrested Brunton right now,
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I may never get the evidence that I need
392
00:27:58,677 --> 00:28:01,930
to connect Brunton to the three missing men.
393
00:28:03,098 --> 00:28:04,724
It was killing me inside.
394
00:28:04,808 --> 00:28:08,353
And knowing what he was doing in the ice hockey arenas,
395
00:28:08,436 --> 00:28:10,355
time was no longer on our side.
396
00:28:12,148 --> 00:28:15,026
Our plan of action was to get an undercover officer
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00:28:15,110 --> 00:28:19,030
to go onto Zambian Meat, to pretend to be a Long Pig,
398
00:28:19,114 --> 00:28:21,533
someone who wants to give himself up
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00:28:21,616 --> 00:28:24,661
and be eaten by a Master Chef.
400
00:28:26,538 --> 00:28:29,749
The moment the profile went live on Zambian Meat,
401
00:28:30,417 --> 00:28:35,588
Chefmate50 sent our profile an email asking to speak to him.
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00:28:36,881 --> 00:28:38,675
Brunton told our undercover officer
403
00:28:38,758 --> 00:28:41,553
he wanted to take him to his cabin in the woods,
404
00:28:42,053 --> 00:28:45,515
where he promised to slaughter and then eat him.
405
00:28:46,099 --> 00:28:50,603
Our undercover officer agreed to everything that Brunton wanted
406
00:28:51,187 --> 00:28:54,607
and gave details of a flight he'd be taking into Toronto
407
00:28:54,691 --> 00:28:57,444
on the morning of May 11th, 2013.
408
00:29:00,739 --> 00:29:03,158
It's like, "We've got him, he's coming,
409
00:29:03,241 --> 00:29:05,160
we're gonna get the answers we want."
410
00:29:05,243 --> 00:29:09,330
I'm so excited at this moment that all of this will finally happen
411
00:29:09,414 --> 00:29:11,541
after all of these months of investigation.
412
00:29:18,381 --> 00:29:20,091
On the day of the takedown,
413
00:29:20,175 --> 00:29:21,676
everything was in place.
414
00:29:23,178 --> 00:29:24,763
Outside of the airport,
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00:29:24,846 --> 00:29:26,514
I had hostage negotiators,
416
00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:28,725
I had SWAT teams on standby,
417
00:29:28,808 --> 00:29:31,269
and I had snipers up on the roof
418
00:29:31,352 --> 00:29:34,105
in case the undercover officer was put in jeopardy
419
00:29:34,189 --> 00:29:36,608
while getting into the car with Brunton.
420
00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:41,321
We had mobile support teams out in Peterborough
421
00:29:41,404 --> 00:29:43,615
so that they could keep an eye on Brunton's home,
422
00:29:43,698 --> 00:29:47,243
and everyone was reporting back to myself over the radio
423
00:29:47,327 --> 00:29:49,454
so that at any given time,
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00:29:49,537 --> 00:29:53,124
I would know what was happening in all of these different locations.
425
00:29:53,208 --> 00:29:55,752
I was anxious and excited at the same time.
426
00:29:59,589 --> 00:30:01,716
Brunton drove out of his driveway,
427
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,219
he went directly to the 115 highway.
428
00:30:04,302 --> 00:30:07,096
We had our mobile support teams following him.
429
00:30:10,350 --> 00:30:11,976
He got onto Highway 401,
430
00:30:12,060 --> 00:30:14,979
which is exactly the route you would need to do
431
00:30:15,063 --> 00:30:16,231
to get to the airport.
432
00:30:20,401 --> 00:30:21,569
And then all of a sudden,
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00:30:21,653 --> 00:30:24,823
the mobile team tells us he's turned off the highway.
434
00:30:26,324 --> 00:30:28,743
And I'm thinking, "Why is he turning off the highway?
435
00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:29,828
What's going on?"
436
00:30:33,248 --> 00:30:35,875
Brunton turned into a parking lot of a mall.
437
00:30:35,959 --> 00:30:39,295
So, the mobile team followed behind him.
438
00:30:42,340 --> 00:30:45,093
They're letting me know Brunton's in the washroom.
439
00:30:46,219 --> 00:30:48,721
I'm thinking, "Okay, it was a pit stop.
440
00:30:48,805 --> 00:30:52,392
He's gonna get back in his car, and he's gonna continue to the airport."
441
00:30:54,102 --> 00:30:56,688
I'm getting real-time information from the mobile team
442
00:30:56,771 --> 00:30:58,565
that Brunton is leaving the mall.
443
00:31:03,820 --> 00:31:05,446
He's passed the 401 West exit.
444
00:31:06,698 --> 00:31:08,741
He's now getting on the 401 East.
445
00:31:10,702 --> 00:31:12,120
I'm thinking, "What?
446
00:31:12,203 --> 00:31:15,248
He's coming to the airport, he's gotta go west, not east."
447
00:31:16,332 --> 00:31:18,710
What's happened? Did he spot the mobile team?
448
00:31:18,793 --> 00:31:20,670
Or did he get cold feet?
449
00:31:22,046 --> 00:31:24,841
They follow Brunton right back to his house.
450
00:31:25,842 --> 00:31:29,304
He goes inside, and he doesn't come back out.
451
00:31:31,598 --> 00:31:32,765
I felt defeated.
452
00:31:33,516 --> 00:31:36,769
But we can't let him still stay out in the public
453
00:31:36,853 --> 00:31:38,771
when we know what he's doing
454
00:31:38,855 --> 00:31:42,650
in regards to child exploitation and child pornography.
455
00:31:42,734 --> 00:31:45,528
We have to arrest him now. We have to effect the arrest.
456
00:31:51,034 --> 00:31:54,329
Brunton was arrested in his house and brought to the station.
457
00:31:57,665 --> 00:31:58,750
In the last 48 hours,
458
00:31:58,833 --> 00:32:01,085
I would have been lucky if I had two hours' sleep.
459
00:32:01,169 --> 00:32:03,463
I'm thriving on adrenaline at this point.
460
00:32:05,214 --> 00:32:07,717
As I'm walking towards the interview room,
461
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:13,389
I know that Brunton is waiting on the other side of that door.
462
00:32:15,558 --> 00:32:18,770
I didn't know what to expect, what personality I would see.
463
00:32:18,853 --> 00:32:21,105
Is he the husband and father,
464
00:32:21,189 --> 00:32:23,524
or is he Master Chef?
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00:32:35,078 --> 00:32:36,454
He's got his head down,
466
00:32:36,537 --> 00:32:38,706
and he's got his hands crossed on the table.
467
00:32:40,416 --> 00:32:41,709
And he's not looking at me.
468
00:32:46,214 --> 00:32:47,048
I said,
469
00:32:47,131 --> 00:32:50,176
"We have evidence from your computers
470
00:32:50,259 --> 00:32:53,763
that you've been filming boys in the hockey arenas out in Peterborough."
471
00:32:56,015 --> 00:32:59,477
I'm reading off what his charges were, and he had no reaction.
472
00:33:01,354 --> 00:33:04,482
"We have evidence that you're involved in a cannibal website.
473
00:33:05,566 --> 00:33:08,987
We have evidence, virtually, that you've admitted to killing somebody."
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00:33:11,781 --> 00:33:14,033
You could see his whole demeanor change.
475
00:33:14,117 --> 00:33:15,910
Like he was proud of it.
476
00:33:16,953 --> 00:33:19,497
He said that he had admitted to killing,
477
00:33:20,206 --> 00:33:23,292
he had admitted to eating human flesh,
478
00:33:24,627 --> 00:33:27,964
but it was all fantasy-based, and that he'd never really done that.
479
00:33:30,550 --> 00:33:31,926
I didn't wanna believe him.
480
00:33:33,803 --> 00:33:35,388
But I couldn't prove otherwise.
481
00:33:37,181 --> 00:33:38,933
It's extremely frustrating,
482
00:33:39,017 --> 00:33:41,853
because we still don't have the answers that we're looking for.
483
00:33:44,564 --> 00:33:47,567
I had the officers come in and take him to his cell.
484
00:33:48,109 --> 00:33:49,652
I watched him walk out,
485
00:33:50,361 --> 00:33:53,531
and I still wondered, "Are we gonna find anything at the home?"
486
00:33:56,743 --> 00:33:59,537
The entire house was forensically examined.
487
00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:01,622
What was located was more evidence
488
00:34:01,706 --> 00:34:05,126
in relation to child pornography and child exploitation charges,
489
00:34:05,209 --> 00:34:08,212
but nothing in relation to the three missing men.
490
00:34:11,382 --> 00:34:12,717
Learning that,
491
00:34:14,218 --> 00:34:15,218
that was hard.
492
00:34:17,472 --> 00:34:20,933
I was thinking to myself, "Now what? Like, where else do we go?
493
00:34:21,017 --> 00:34:22,393
What else do we look at?
494
00:34:24,353 --> 00:34:26,147
How are we gonna solve this?"
495
00:34:27,607 --> 00:34:30,318
Sixty-five-year-old James Alex Brunton
496
00:34:30,401 --> 00:34:31,736
walked out of court today
497
00:34:31,819 --> 00:34:34,030
after being sentenced for making, possessing,
498
00:34:34,113 --> 00:34:36,032
and distributing child pornography.
499
00:34:36,699 --> 00:34:38,242
I really have nothing to say.
500
00:34:39,410 --> 00:34:42,830
I'm, uh, very sorry for what happened for my wife and family.
501
00:34:43,956 --> 00:34:47,376
Today, he was sentenced to time served plus three years' probation.
502
00:34:49,170 --> 00:34:53,257
There was nothing that linked Brunton to the three missing men.
503
00:34:53,883 --> 00:34:56,052
Did I want there to be something? Absolutely.
504
00:34:56,135 --> 00:34:59,097
Did I want to find some closure for those families?
505
00:34:59,180 --> 00:35:00,681
Absolutely.
506
00:35:02,308 --> 00:35:03,935
But Brunton wasn't our guy.
507
00:35:11,818 --> 00:35:13,778
The case had taken a toll on me.
508
00:35:14,862 --> 00:35:17,907
Meanwhile, you know, I had a daughter at home
509
00:35:17,990 --> 00:35:20,034
who was also needing her mother,
510
00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:23,788
and I wasn't there as much as I should have been.
511
00:35:23,871 --> 00:35:26,499
Um, and that was pulling. That was pulling on me.
512
00:35:29,001 --> 00:35:33,047
It was just the best decision for us as a family
513
00:35:33,131 --> 00:35:35,174
for me to retire from policing.
514
00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:46,936
I would still go back to the Village quite often.
515
00:35:48,187 --> 00:35:50,565
I still couldn't let go of the missing men.
516
00:35:51,190 --> 00:35:53,151
They continually haunted me.
517
00:35:56,154 --> 00:35:59,282
I wanted that closure for the community and for the families,
518
00:36:00,074 --> 00:36:02,535
and selfishly, for myself as well.
519
00:36:12,795 --> 00:36:15,381
I'd been away from the police service for two years.
520
00:36:16,841 --> 00:36:20,094
I'm relaxing with Julia, we're watching some TV...
521
00:36:21,095 --> 00:36:23,306
...when I received a phone call
522
00:36:23,389 --> 00:36:26,934
from my boss from the time that I was investigating the missing men.
523
00:36:30,855 --> 00:36:31,689
He said,
524
00:36:31,772 --> 00:36:33,107
"It's happened again."
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