A novel by former Prince George Citizen reporter Bev Christensen brings back to life the people who worked in the sawmills to build northern B.C.'s capital
only to turn his back on him afterward, and let randy jr. fall under suspicion for the murder. he says, they caught him, not me. i said, fix this or i will. that s what you said to your father? straight up. fix this, or i will? yes. that is when shawn turned his back on his father, and went to police, trying to save his brother, by informing on his dad. if that didn t stun the officers, then what shawn did next did. before we could even ask him to wear a wire, he offers to wear a wire. he wants his father to be held responsible for this. you ever see anything like that before? no. the son was going to become a police informant, wear a wire and try to get his own father to admit to a murder. the sound quality on the wire is poor, but for police, shawn randy sr. s guilt came through loud and clear. what s the part of the conversation that says to you,
investigators, it was a risk that he was willing to take. i ve jumped out of planes, what is the difference? you hop in your car. you ve got a danger of dying. at least this way if i go, doing this. and went doing something pretty interesting. no longer just a concerned citizen calling 9-1-1. he was now a police informant. and his mission was clear. with the recording device in hand, keep chrissy and her dad talking about the murder plot. you need to record everywhere that is spoken? yes ma am. and you re doing this on your own? yeah. and then i just call them when i have a recording and they can pick it up. but before patrick did anything, detectives needed to be sure that david was safe. so they asked police in georgia to check on him. we had been contacted by the east lake police department and they notified us that they were midway through an investigation. stephen, a major with the police department sent officers to the house to observe from a
next did. before we could even ask him to wear a wire, he offers to wear a wire. he wants his father to be held responsible for this. you ever see anything like that before? no. the son was going to become a police informant, wear a wire and try to get his own father to admit to a murder. the sound quality on the wire is poor, but for police, shawn randy sr. s guilt came through loud and clear. what s the part of the conversation that says to you, guilty, we got him? i think that when he tells shawn that we have no case, our case is weak. he tells shawn, she can t identify me, she can t even identify randy. putting himself there. what s more, this security video from the business next door to randy sr. s shop shows a man behind it, tending a big fire, a couple of hours after the murder.
nighttime. a police informant wears a wire as he talks to a partner in crime. i don t go to worry about you. yeah you know, i m not like that. he miguel quiroz, he s the pizza parlor owner turned small time drug dealer. and the middleman with a hit note in his car targeting garrett warren. now, he was cooperating with investigators. detectives already knew quiroz wasn t the shooter. quiroz told them the man was the man who pulled the trigger was a old friend of his name was jorge hernandez. as a deal with prosecutors, quiroz wore a body wire and approached jorge hernandez at a party.