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Good evening, I'm Antony Robart. This is Crime Beat.
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The stories behind some of Canada's most high profile homicides told by
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the reporters who walk the beat every day.
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And the families demanding justice. We'll reveal the shocking evidence as
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it was uncovered by investigators In their quest for justice.
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Tonight, a six-year-old girl whose life was cut short.
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This was a girl that I honestly don't think had the capability
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to have a bad day.
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I just kind of made an imprint in my own mind
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that this is not going to end well.
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She had bruising throughout her body.
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How did it ever get to that?
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There is no way to explain it.
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I'm sure you have a side to tell.
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We have a side to tell, but not right now.
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Here's Nancy Hixt with the story of Meika Jordan – the broken princess
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Meika Jordan loved to sing and dance.
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And she did it like no one was watching.
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At six years old, she had a very simple list of things that made her smile.
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At the top of that list: Ladybugs.
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She was a huge collector of ladybugs.
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I think it was honestly because she couldn't catch the butterflies.
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I mean, she would try, but they're, you know, just a little bit too quick and stuff, at
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least the ladybugs, she could kind of corral them and be able to scoop them up.
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She was more of the aspect of, you know, if I can catch it
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than I can keep it kind of thing. So we did that for a while.
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But she was always under the impression, too, that, you know, I don't want to keep it for
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too long because it might have a family.
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And, you know, it's mommy misses it. So I have to let it go eventually.
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So she would always return them back once she collected them.
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Keep them for a couple of days and then she let them go again.
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There was something so extraordinary about the way she could find good
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in any bad situation, you know.
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Oh, it's raining and we were supposed to go to the zoo. That's okay.
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I'll jump in a puddle instead. Oh, it's 300 degrees outside.
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That means it's sprinkler time.
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You couldn't take the smile off her face.
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Watch out, Levi
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That is so cool. Yeah.
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Way to go, Meika. Good job.
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Meika loved to try new things.
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Like the day she got on a skateboard for the first time.
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Are you making a video?
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I am.
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And even though she took a few falls.
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Shake it off.
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Shake it off.
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She would always get up, shake it off and try again.
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Take your time.
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Go a little further cause gonna tip on you.
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In the middle.
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Give a little push.
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There you go.
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This was a girl that I honestly don't think had the capability...
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to have a bad day.
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That's why what happened next was so hard to comprehend.
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November the 13th, 2011, at about 7:18 p.m.
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E.M.S. and C.P.S. responded to residents and on arrival
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found six-year-old
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Meika Jordan unresponsive and in full cardiac.
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Meika Jordan was rushed to hospital.
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Police were called to investigate.
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Could a six-year-old girl be that badly injured
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from a fall down the stairs?
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There is crime tape around the house and it was being contained as a crime scene.
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The man who lived next door told me he had seen a little girl at the home
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a few times and had wondered why she wasn't in school.
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He said she looked banged up and she had a look of fear in her eyes.
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I saw some scratches on her face, and I asked the
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mother what happened to your baby, lot of bleeding on her face.
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Then she says she falls a lot, she told me.
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Good evening.
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A little girl, who'd been rushed to the children's hospital last night, has died of her injuries.
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The family that lives at this temple home only moved in three weeks ago.
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But now police are treating the home as a potential crime scene.
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She had abdominal trauma.
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She had head trauma.
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She had bruising throughout her body.
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Severe burn on her left hand, matted hair.
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Obviously not an injury, but, but an interesting note.
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And she had a torn frenulum and lip.
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And usually that's the result of a blow to the mouth.
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Meika was kept on life support until the next day.
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And at approximately 1:47 p.m.
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on November the 14th. And I'll never forget it.
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Meika passed away.
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I first met Meika's mother and stepfather, Kyla and Brian Woodhouse,
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just days after Meika died.
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They were both still coming to terms with the fact she was gone.
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The first time we got to see her was when we finally realized how serious
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of a situation it actually was.
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I was extremely shocked.
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The true part of it is I am still in shock.
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There's still part of me that wants her to come walking
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through that door.
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And I'd kind of as soon as we came
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into the hospital room and I had seen the machines
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and the tubes and just all of that stuff, I just kind
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of made an imprint in my own mind that this
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is not going to end well.
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Kyla and Brian explained this was a split family.
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Meika and her little brother Levi spent half their time with them.
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Their biological mother and stepfather.
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They spent the other half of their time
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with Spencer Jordan and Marie Magoon,
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Meika and Levi's biological dad and stepmother.
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In 2011, there was a growing custody dispute between the parents.
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On the weekend, Meika was rushed to hospital.
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Meika and her little brother were supposed to be at kyla and Brian's.
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Instead, their father and stepmother kept them.
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A memorial was held for Meika six days after she passed away.
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Her tiny white coffin was at the front of the room, covered in flowers
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and there was a princess balloon floating above.
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I think of Meika and have to wonder
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how such a child so full of life.
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and possibility could be gone so quickly.
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But God knows.
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Meika's favorite song was played.
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While memories of her short life were shown on a big screen
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every night at bedtime when Meika was at Kyla and Brian's
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this is the song she would sing.
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That was just a song that she really, really loved to sing.
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When she was about four months old, we actually had went on a trip to
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Hawaii with her other grandparent.
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And so it was kind of one of those things that was always
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in her mind of knowing that she had been there and that was, you know, kind of
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Hawaiian themed song and that kind of thing.
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So I think it was just the the upbeatness of it to.
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As the pipes droned, people filed out of the funeral home.
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Given the extent of Meika's injuries.
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It was hard for anyone to believe she had simply fallen down the stairs.
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It wasn't long before police announced Mika's death
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was no accident.
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Police can now reveal that the blunt force trauma injuries sustained by Meika were
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to her head and abdomen.
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They are not consistent with a fall down
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a flight of stairs
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Coming up.
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Many unanswered questions for police as a major investigation gets underway
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A six-year-old girl dies after reports of a fall down the stairs, but
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police aren't buying that it was an accident.
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Now back to Nancy Hixt with the story of Meika Jordan, the broken princess.
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There were still so many unanswered questions, so I
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went to Meika's father and stepmother's home to try to get some answers.
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Hi there. Hi I'm just from Global News.
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We're just hoping we could talk to you about the death of Meikal Jordan.
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I have no comment.
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No comment? Would you mind if you could talk to you?
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No, not right now.
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I'm sure you have a side to tell.
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We have a side to tell but not right now.
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Like, are you supporting your wife?
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Yes, we're supporting each other in everything we're doing.
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Nobody's done nothing wrong. No comment.
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But the story Spencer and Marie gave to police didn't add up.
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The commonalities between the two interviews were that Meika fell down the stairs,
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number one.
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Neither of them saw her fall.
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Number two.
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Both of the caregivers in their interview lacked emotion.
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They were flatline.
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No emotion.
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Both made negative comments about Meika during the interview.
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Each one of those throws up a red flag for me as a investigator.
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And there were other red flags in this case.
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Just weeks before Meika's death, Brian and Kyla had called Alberta Child and Family Services.
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Apparently, Meika had some unusual scrapes and bruises when she returned
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home from a court ordered visit with Spencer and Marie.
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That matched the story the next door neighbour had already told me.
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And then there was the burn.
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When Mika was rushed to hospital, doctors discovered a third degree
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burn that covered the palm of her hand.
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You start to realize in your own head that with the amount of injuries
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and the extent of injuries and when you talk about
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internal injuries, blunt force injuries, third degree burns,
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at some point you're not even discussing abuse.
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You're talking about torture.
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There's a lot of anger, a lot of hurt.
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Just, you know, my my main question would be why?
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You know, what happened to make you feel that
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angry or upset that you took it out on a 6 year old little girl?
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Jordan and Magoon were caught on wire tap brainstorming
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stories to tell police to explain away Meika's fatal injuries.
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And we thought that, you know, Spencer, being the biological father
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of Meika, you know, was going to
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maybe take the high road and cut ties with Marie.
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But what we found is, you know.
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The police pressure in the investigation actually brought them closer together
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Is that unusual?
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It is a little bit because in these situations where a child
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passes away under suspicious circumstances, the biological
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parent is usually normally so upset.
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And not provided any explanation that usually the stress between
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the two results in a separation not a uniting.
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There was only one other person who saw what had happened to Meika.
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The problem was he was just a little boy.
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Meika's younger brother, Levi.
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It was very obvious through the interviews that Levi had witnessed
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abuse to Meika.
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But was too scared to talk about it.
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Levi has never opened up about what he saw happen to Meika.
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And he was four years old at the time.
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We attempted to interview Levi on three separate occasions over the next
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weeks in the early got going to the investigation.
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Levi was a very scared little fella.
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And we, I made the decision to rule
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him out as a as a possible witness just to
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protect him, I guess, from the investigation.
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Brian and Kyla were thankful Levi was spared from the investigation.
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He's made it clear he doesn't like talking about anything to do with Spencer or Marie.
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He even told them he hates his middle name.
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Spencer.
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For the next few months, if you were following the case closely, it would seem
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police had hit a dead end.
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Over the next year, Spencer Jordan and Marie Magoon, Mika's father
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and stepmother, moved on with their lives and they were living above their means.
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Spencer was unemployed and had been for quite some time.
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They were relying on a number of social agencies in
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order to pay the bills. But there's a lot of bills outstanding
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and they were in financial dire straits.
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But 2012 was a time of new beginnings, including
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new business opportunities.
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This employment opportunity for Spencer was
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a pretty good one. More money coming in.
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Perhaps less stress and life is kind of improving.
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During this same time.
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The police investigation was being scaled back,
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so that was another positive for them.
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You know, myself.
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I wasn't hassling them on a daily basis.
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Detective Cavilla was kind of going away if you will.
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There were also new friendships.
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Spencer and Murray finally had a social circle.
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Who understood them?
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They went on double dates and spent time just enjoying life.
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Drinks, poker games, concerts.
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Doing fun things like
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going bungee jumping, going to a hockey games.
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And their new friends didn't judge them like other people seemed to.
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And they felt they could trust them.
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Then, nearly a year after Meika's death, a major break in the case.
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Police arrested Spencer Jordan and Marie Magoon.
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Meika's own father and stepmother
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were accused of killing her.
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Calgary police homicide detective Dave Sweet interviewed Marie Magoon.
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Magoon told the detective Meika frequently lied
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and needed to be punished.
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The interview ended with Magoon repeatedly denying
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her involvement in Meika's death.
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Coming up, as Spencer and Marie continue to deny,
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do police have enough hard evidence against the company?
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Welcome back to Crime Beat. I'm Antony Robart.
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Spencer Jordan and Marie Magoon are accused of killing Spencer, six-year-old daughter Meika
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The couple maintain their innocence, but investigators are about
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to finally show their hand.
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We return to Nancy hixt with the story of Meika Jordan, the broken princess.
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The couple was ordered to stand trial for first degree murder.
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On March 23rd, 2015, about three and a half years
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after Mika's death.
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Details of her murder were revealed and they were really hard to hear.
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As suspected, her injuries were far
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worse than what could come from a simple fall.
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We located a doctor in Ottawa by the name of Dr. Christopher Milroy.
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And he is a forensic pathologist with a vast
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amount of experience in pediatrics.
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He's initially from the UK, but he's performed autopsies on hundreds of kids
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over the last 20 years.
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So I met with him and requested for him to assist
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us on the Meika case, to look at all of the medical evidence and then provide
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us an unbiased opinion as to the timeline of injuries.
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He was able to narrow that timeframe to 24 hours from
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her time of death.
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So keep in mind, the time of death was 16 hours after transport
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to the Alberta Children's Hospital.
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So that means her fatal injuries
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to the head and abdomen occurred on the Sunday that she was transported.
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The day of that she was transported to the Alberta children's hospital.
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So narrowed it to one day.
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So it couldn't have been an accident?
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Like it eliminated some scenarios?
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It did.
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It eliminated any, say, historical head trauma
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or abdominal trauma that Meika may have experienced as the result
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of, say, basketball to the face or a car accident weeks before.
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When paramedics found Meika at Spencer and Marie's house.
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She was lying a few feet from a set of stairs.
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She had no pulse. Her heart wasn't beating.
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Meika was dirty. Her hair was matted with chunks missing.
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She had been tortured for days leading up to her death.
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Remember that Burn police had spoken about?
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This is a recording of a phone call
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Marie Magoon made to health link Alberta.
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The call was made November 12th, 2011, just after midnight.
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Nearly two days before Meika was rushed to hospital.
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That story was a lie.
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Remember when it appeared police had hit a wall with the investigation?
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When everything went quiet and the public wasn't hearing much about the case.
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That's when detectives were conducting an eight-month undercover operation.
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A Mr. Big Sting operation.
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It's a tactic used in a lot of major crimes investigations.
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Police officers create very realistic scenarios and try to get suspects to confess.
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So actually, on the day that Meika died that
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we codenamed this operation, Operation SASH.
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S-A-S-H, which stood for safe and sound in heaven.
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In this particular case, undercover officers befriended Spencer and
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Marie and they were invited into a made up criminal organization.
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They would have to prove they could be trusted by confessing to a crime
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they were known suspects in.
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The death of Meika Jordan.
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That would include each suspect paying a visit to Mr. Big.
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In reality, Mr. Big was an undercover officer who played
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the role of a crime boss.
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Mr. Big evidence was crucial. Without that evidence, we would not have had a prosecution
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that time of fun and new beginnings for Jordan and Magoon
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in 2012, the new friends and business opportunities,
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It was all a ruse.
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Each friend, hangout or business dealing was
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a scenario, an elaborate investigative technique used
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in these kinds of difficult cases.
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It was important to establish what each person did
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as it played a role in Meika's death.
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And here we had the stepmother and the biological father living together
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in a home where Meika was one of several children.
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So establishing who committed the acts of violence against Meika was important.
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Could have been one. Could have been both.
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So when you get to a Mr. Big operation, that's always...
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that is that at least in this case, that was the big question is who did what?
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How's it going?
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Stressed.
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Mr. Big told Spencer Jordan things weren't looking good
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that he'd heard Spencer would be charged with murder.
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The crime boss told Spencer he couldn't help him unless he trusted him.
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And in order to trust him, he needed to know exactly what
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happened to Meika.
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The conversation went on for hours.
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And then finally an admission.
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When we return, what Marie Magoon revealed to undercover police.
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Welcome back. Spencer Jordan reveals damning evidence to undercover
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police in a Mr. Big Sting operation.
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Now it was his wife's turn.
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Immediately following Spencer Jordan's confession to the undercover officer,
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he called Marie Magoon.
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That sparked some tense moments for homicide detectives.
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What Spencer said was that kind of felt like a police interview.
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And he was right.
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He was right.
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Marie, on the other hand, was less
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paranoid than Spencer. Spencer was always more careful and
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more paranoid out of two.
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He was always worried about the police investigation, about
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wiretap, about even the, you know, the undercover
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operation. So Marie, on the other hand,
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not so much. She just kind of accepted her new friends
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and didn't worry about stuff like whether their phone being tapped.
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Somehow, Magoon managed to calm Jordan's nerves.
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And then it was her turn.
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We did a second crime boss with Marie.
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Marie during that covert confession,
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if you will, provided more details as to the injuries that she
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had inflicted to Meika. That's when police finally learned the truth
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about that horrible burn on Meika's hand.
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She admitted that she had
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put make it in between her legs, grabbed her one hand
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and with a lighter with the other hand, burnt the palm, whole palm of the hand for 30
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seconds, which was very shocking
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to even the most seasoned cop to hear this.
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I've seen the photos of Meika's hand.
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They're awful.
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To know Marie Magoon purposely held a lighter under her hand
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as torture is beyond my comprehension.
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But that was only the beginning of days of torture.
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You have to listen carefully.
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The audio is a bit hard to hear.
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We disguised Mr. Big's voice to protect his identity and credibility
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as an undercover cop.
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At one point, Marie Magoon picked up a pillow from the couch
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and used it as a prop to show what she did to Meika.
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The Mr. Big clarified very much
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what each person did.
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Both of them spoke about what they did, how they did
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it and when they did it, and they both did that separately, each with Mr.
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Big or we'll see the undercover operator.
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So that brought everything to light.
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And then when you look at the undercover evidence as a as a prosecution,
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you're looking at any evidence that is corroborated by other aspects
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of the case. So is what they say they did to meika,
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consistent with the medical evidence.
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And it was.
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Despite the overwhelming and damning evidence in the case, the prosecution
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had another hurdle to overcome.
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The problem was the undercover sting operation.
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The Mr. Big evidence wasn't automatically allowed as evidence
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in the trial. In fact, the sting was in danger of not
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being allowed as evidence at all because of a decision by Canada's top
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court. They're not automatically admissible.
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They're presumptively inadmissible.
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Which is a fancy way of saying that you need to establish
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that there are sufficient safeguards in the evidence in order for
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that evidence to be admissible.
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And that's to make sure that people aren't just talking out
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of thin air. There has to be some corroboration to what they're saying.
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In 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that confessions
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extracted through Mr. Big Police sting operations tend
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to produce unreliable confessions, are open to abuse
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and must be presumed inadmissible in court.
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So we were in unchartered waters.
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In addition to argueing confinement, we were in this context,
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we were also in new territory terms of arguing the admissibility of Mr.
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Big. So again, going back to corroboration and
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pulling out the aspects of the evidence that established corroboration.
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When we see corroboration, we're saying it matches.
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So every time they said they committed X Act, we look to
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the medical evidence to establish that this, in fact did happen, that it's consistent with.
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So we would look at we would look at each injury
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and the constellation of injuries on Meika and argue
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that it was corroborative evidence.
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That's part of it. The other part of it is establishing that the will
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of the suspect was not overborne to the extent that felt that
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they had to confess to Mr. Big.
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So we look at financial inducements.
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We look at any kind of vulnerabilities they might have.
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And the way that the undercover operation handled those vulnerabilities,
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whether they were exploited or not and how those vulnerabilities were handled.
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It was near the end of the trial right before final arguments that the justice
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presiding over the case ruled the confessions were both reliable
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and admissible.
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It was such a serious act of violence.
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I know that through the case throughout the case.
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There was evidence of animus towards Meika by her stepmother.
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And the theme that we saw through the evidence was that
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she perceived Meika to be someone in need of discipline.
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And this may have been a way of disciplining Meika.
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But again, there there is no plausible explanation for why anyone
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would torture a child in this way.
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But that is what the evidence was in this case.
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The little girl was repeatedly abused for four days.
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She was dragged up some stairs by her hair
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thrown into her room, and then she was pushed hard
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and hit her head on some ceramic tile in the kitchen.
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And then she was punched in the stomach, which then caused some significant
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internal injuries and pain.
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And then she was told to run the stairs.
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And then during that process, her hands were tied.
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And she was also pushed and fell during that process as well.
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How did it ever get to that?
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There is no way to explain it.
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Meika's mother collapsed outside of court after hearing these details.
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I've literally gone through every worst possible case scenario
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over and over again for the last three years.
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To actually know firsthand what they did to her.
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It's beyond any words or any emotion that I could ever
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try to come up with.
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After the break, the court verdict and the fate of Spencer Jordan and Marie Magoon.
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Welcome back. After a lengthy trial for the murder of a six-year-old girl,
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the court delivers its verdict.
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Now back to Nancy Hixt with the conclusion of Meika Jordan, the broken princess.
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After three and a half years.
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There is some measure of justice for six year old Meeka Jordan.
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Today, a judge found her father and stepmother guilty of second degree murder.
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Jordan and Magoon were sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole
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for 17 years.
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It's not what we were hoping for. We we pushed for first degree from the beginning.
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We knew it was going to be a really long, hard road to get to.
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A second degree isn't what we wanted, but ultimately guilty is guilty.
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They lose a few years of their life.
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We lost her.
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But that wasn't the end of the court process.
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There were a flurry of appeals and court rulings.
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Jordan and Magoon wanted their convictions overturned.
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Sentences reduced.
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The prosecution still felt this was first degree murder.
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First degree murder is reserved for crimes that are the most heinous in their nature.
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In Canada, murder is first degree when
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one of three things happen.
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One, it's planned and deliberate.
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Two, if you kill a police officer.
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And third, it's first degree murder.
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If you kill someone while committing certain other offenses,
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one of those is unlawful confinement.
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So we get confinement taking place through the course of a series of events,
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starting with the burn and then through the beatings that would have happened over the
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course of days, including confinement up at
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the at the stairs where there was a binding of the hands and controlling her liberty.
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She's not able to get out of that situation.
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She's only six years old.
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And that's how you get to confinement.
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I think we both kind of imagined that on the last day of the trial.
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That would be it. You see on TV, the judge bangs the gavel and then the
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jail bars close. And that's the end of it.
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And unfortunately, reality is that's not the end of it.
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Then, more than five years after Mika's death, a rare
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ruling by the Alberta Court of Appeal, the convictions for Jordan
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and Lagoon were upgraded to first degree murder.
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Unlawful confinement in a child homicide had never been
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tried before. Just haven't been.
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This was the first case. And for them to look at this as an unlawful
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confinement, which it was because after the burnt hand and they
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kept me at that house for three days, even though she's supposed to be back with bio mom,
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according to the court order, it was an unlawful confinement.
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But Spencer Jordan and Marie Magoon still didn't accept their guilt.
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So I went to the Supreme Court of Canada in November
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of 2017, and I was actually in the courtroom
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when the nine Supreme Court justices ruled that this
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was indeed a first degree murder case and that both were
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convicted of that with no chance of parole for 25 years.
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It's finally over.
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One of the best things I've ever heard in my life.
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We were anticipating, you know, a couple weeks to a couple months and basically
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waiting for an e-mail like we have with many of the other decisions.
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And for them to walk out of that room and actually say it
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right then and there that day is huge, huge for us.
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And for Meika, it was the end of the road for Jordan and Magoon.
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They were out of appeals.
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There was finally justice for Meika.
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Brian had always said, you know, they she had the power to change the world one day.
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And unfortunately, the loss of her life had to be
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the way that she did it. But this story has touched so many people.
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And sometimes you need that raw in your face emotion
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to be able to look at the world around you and say, hey, this isn't right.
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Something needs to change.
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It's probably one of the toughest cases
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that I've had to deal with.
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And when I say that, I say I say that on a personal level, on an emotional level
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and on a professional level.
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This would have been a grade one.
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Kyla and Brian do everything they can to keep Meika's memory alive.
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I can't believe it still works.
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She was very much into the Barbies and especially the collector's ones.
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These are the ones that were in the casket with her.
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They tried to focus on the good times,
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but all too often the bad,
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the loss of their little girl breaks them all over again.
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It's one of those things you never really know when it's gonna hit you or how hard it's
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gonna hit you. You don't know when, you don't know where.
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I mean, there's been times that I've been standing in the middle of Wal-Mart doing
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grocery shopping and a song will come on, you know, standing in the middle
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of the aisle.
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And I have to try not to lose my mind in the middle of grocery shopping.
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Meika's little brother, Levi, has his own way of remembering her.
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He calls her sissy.
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A little while ago, he stood up on a stage in his school at a talent contest.
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He sang a special tribute to Meika called Sissy's song.
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(Singing)
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It's a country song by Alan Jackson.
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Levi ends with the chorus.
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I know she's smiling, saying, don't worry about me.
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(Singing)
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At the end, everyone clapped and Levi took a little bow.
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He also carries a special memorial keepsake with him every day.
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It's a pendant with a glass window.
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Inside there are some of Meika's ashes, along with the ladybug charm.
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And when they really need some quiet time to remember Meika,
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this is where they go. I can show up there when I'm having one of the worst imaginable
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days. And I will lay in that grass and I will cry and I will scream and I will swear
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and I will shout. And fifteen minutes later I feel better.
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And on a day when they feel the lowest, they
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see a ladybug. And remember Meika's smile.
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And it's like she's there with them dancing like no one is watching.
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Meika Jordan's murder trial marked the first
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time in Canada that unlawful confinement was used in a child homicide case.
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And it continues to be a key tool for prosecutors seeking justice.
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I'm Antony Robart. Thank you for joining us tonight on Crime Beat.
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