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How the police create an imaginary criminal gang to trick homicide suspects into a confession and a prison cell. There are people in prison who got away with murder until they told the boss of a powerful criminal gang all about it. When the handcuffs were snapped on, the killers learned they'd been duped - that 'Mr. Big' was actually an undercover police officer. These killers ended up with lots of time to think about how tricky police can be. In this captivating book, we learn why Mr. Big is so good at getting killers to confess - and why he occasionally gets confessions from the innocent as well. We meet murderers such as Michael Bridges, who strangled his girlfriend and buried her in another person's grave. Bridges remained free until he told Mr. Big where the body was buried. We also meet people like Kyle Unger, who lied while confessing to Mr. Big and went to prison for a crime he did not commit. The 'Mr Big' Sting is essential reading for anyone interested in unorthodox approach

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Publié par	Ecw Press
Date de parution	14 octobre 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781773058276
Langue	English

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The “Mr. Big” Sting The Cases, the Killers, the Controversial Confessions
Mark Stobbe

Contents Dedication Acknowledgements Chapter 1 An Introduction to Mr. Big Chapter 2 The Good: R v. Bridges Chapter 3 The Bad: R v. Unger Chapter 4 The Murky: R v. Hart Chapter 5 The Anatomy of Mr. Big Chapter 6 Self-Accusation: The Power of Confession and Disclosure Chapter 7 Dogged Determination vs. the Disease of Certainty Chapter 8 Black and White and Many Shades of Grey Chapter 9 Mr. Big Travels the World Chapter 10 Mr. Big under Pressure: “Reining In” or “Getting Better”? Chapter 11 The Future of Mr. Big Appendix A Note on Sources and Further Reading About the Author Copyright

Dedication
This book is dedicated to the memory of the following victims of homicide:
Chelsea Acorn
Mr. Argent
Amanpreet Bahia
Dexter Bain
Jack Beauchamp
Karrissa Beaudreau
William Bedford
Fribjon Bjornson
Keith Black
Mark Bonkes
Daleen Bosse
Kevin Bowser
Myrol Brock
M. Marc Brûlé
Florine Brun
Cynthia Burk
Joleil Campeau
Catherine Carroll
Adam Cavanaugh
Erin Chorney
Shannon Collins
Sylvia Consuelo
Bruce Crawford
Vaughn Davis
Juan Dequina
Judy Dick
Darcy Drefko
James Dubé
Helen Dunlop
Evelyn Ellision
Adela Etibako
Benedicta Etibako
Edita Etibako
Stephane Etibako
Jo Anne Feddema
Alexandra Flanagan
Robert Forgan
Audrey Foster
Jodi Franz
Victor Fraser
Kulwinder Gill
Anthony Gordon
Connie Grandinetti
Raymond Graves
Santo Graves
Gwenda Gregory
Raymond Greenwood
Heather Hamill
Barry Head
Landis Heal
Olive Hill
Premier Hoang
Jenny Holtham
Leonora Holtham
Monica Jack
Lionide Johnson
Earl Jones
Roy Jones
Meika Jordan
Ryan Kam
Cindy Kaplan
Ali Khamis
Daryl Klassen
Theresa Klassen
Gordon Klaus
Monica Klaus
Sandra Klaus
Stacey Koehler
Theodor Keeper
Carol King
Carmela Knight
Douglas Kuntz
Laura Lamoureux
Gordon Langmead
Nick Larsen
Daniel Levesque
Robert Levoir
Keitha Llewellyn
Otto Loose
Clara Loski
Glen Martin
Luis Martins
Lyne Massicotte
Dylan McGillis
Monica McKay
Tiffany McKinney
Terry McLean
Joy Mendoza
Lisa Mitchell
Gloria Mott
Victoria Nashacappo
Zaher Noureddine
Melanie O’Neil
Bill Palmer
Brenda Pathammavong
Jaclynn Patterson
Shayne Preece
Basma Rafay
Sultana Rafay
Tariq Rafay
Isabella Rain
Susan Reinhardt
David Roberts
Josiah Roberts
Susan Roberts
Derk Roelfsema
William Rudy
Jeffry Sabine
David Sanha
Peter Sciemann
Gordon Seybold
Ashley Singh
Billy Smith
Julie Smith
Angela Steer
Beverly Taylor
William Terrico
Mr. Thandi
Judith Thibault
TM
Ed Vetere
Gladys Wakabayashi
Alyssa Watson
Joshua Williams
Elizabeth Zeschner
Anonymous [Publication Ban on Name]
These are all victims of homicides. Their killers would not have been brought to justice without Mr. Big. This list is incomplete — it includes only cases identified in researching this book.

Acknowledgements
Writing a book is a solitary activity, but it is not possible without help from many other people.
This book would not have been possible without support from family members — most importantly, my wife, Marilyn Totten, who patiently listened to far more accounts of vicious crimes than she wanted to hear about. My sons assisted both emotionally and practically. Nicholas Stobbe provided guidance on my discussions on legal issues and Jacob Stobbe provided many useful editorial suggestions. My parents, Margaret Munro and the late John Stobbe, helped instill both intellectual curiosity and determination to complete tasks.
Other people also played an important background role. Tim Killeen, Sandra Chapman, and Shannon McNicol provided me with role modelling in a commitment to making the criminal justice system deliver justice. Judge Jim Jacques provided a wise way to operationalize the concept of reasonable doubt. Professors Harley Dickinson and the late Joe Garcia provided me with a similar model for seeking truth in academic research and writing.
The professionalism of the staff at ECW Press made the publishing process a pleasure. Jack David was helpful and insightful in keeping the manuscript focused. Sammy Chin, Cat London, and Adrineh Der-Boghossian edited the manuscript with an eagle eye and a gentle pen. Any mistakes or problems are my responsibility.
This book was written with great respect for the police officers who have conducted Mr. Big operations with integrity in the pursuit of justice. Most of these officers are members of the RCMP. However, the book was written without the cooperation or support of the RCMP as an institution. Not only did the RCMP refuse to assist with allowing officers to share their insights and experiences, it failed to meet its legal obligations in providing basic information about Mr. Big operations in response to Access to Information requests. In November 2020, the Information Commissioner of Canada informed Parliament that “the RCMP’s inability to meet statutory timeframes under the Act is the norm, not the exception.” The RCMP was described as having a “culture of secrecy.” This is problematic because it undermines accountability mechanisms for Canada’s national police force. In the case of Mr. Big, it also has the perverse effect of hindering the ability to tell a positive story about the dedication, imagination, and skill of investigative officers.

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Mr. Big
Susan Roberts was tired but happy on the evening of July 18, 1995. As she drifted off to sleep, her loving husband massaged her back. Her three children were in their cribs. Three-year-old Jonathan was hers from a previous relationship, while the eighteen-month-old twin boys (David and Josiah) were fathered by her husband. Susan did not notice her husband slipping a rope around her neck. Her evening took a turn for the worse as she experienced terror, then pain, then death when he strangled her. Her husband then strangled Josiah and set the house on fire with the expectation that this would kill Jonathan and David. He threw Josiah’s corpse into a nearby wood and proceeded to a friend’s house in order to play the role of the grieving husband and father when the news of his family’s death was delivered to him. As it turned out, he was not completely successful in wiping out his family. Neighbours braved the flames to rescue Jonathan. David was scooped from his crib by firefighters but later died of smoke inhalation.
On May 6, 1978, Monica Jack was riding her bicycle. The twelve-year-old was headed to her home on the Quilchena reserve, located northeast of Merritt, British Columbia. It was a beautiful spring evening. As Monica pedalled her bike alongside Nicola Lake, she had no idea that the man urinating in the bushes beside a parked camper truck had been convicted of rape in the past. When Monica attempted to pass by, the man pulled her off the bike. The girl was thrown into the camper and her bike was thrown into the lake. The man drove to an isolated clearing in the forest. He raped Monica, then strangled her. He burned her body and clothing to destroy the evidence. After stuffing her charred remains under a log, the man departed. What was left of Monica’s body was not discovered for seventeen years.
On June 8, 1994, Timothy Langmead was at work — a marijuana grow op in Port Coquitlam. An old friend from high school showed up with two colleagues. It was not a social call. The trio tied Timothy to a chair while they stole 170 marijuana plants, a guitar, and a VCR. Either because they did not want to leave behind any witnesses or because they were incompetent drunks, the robbers wrapped Timothy’s head with twenty-four feet of duct tape. Timothy died. It is, after all, difficult to breathe through multiple layers of duct tape. Two of the robbers put Timothy’s body in his van. They threw Timothy into the Fraser River and pushed his van over the edge of a cliff.
July 16, 1996, was a beautiful summer day in Williams Lake, British Columbia. Jo Anne Feddema told her husband and children that she wanted to go for a bike ride. She set out for the Williams Lake dump — taking this road because it had little traffic. Unfortunately, one of the few people going to the dump that day was a distracted driver. He was changing stations on his pickup truck radio and did not see Jo Anne until the last second. He braked, but not in time. Jo Anne’s bike was knocked over. She was unhurt but unhappy. As she expressed her displeasure at the man’s driving, he decided the best way to shut her up was to hit her over the head with a pipe wrench. This caved in Jo Anne’s skull. The man threw the bike into the ditch and Jo Anne’s body into his truck. He drove a mile further down the road and then took her a short distance into the forest. He pulled off her clothes and mutilated her genitalia so that the police would look for sexual predators. He hurried home. His wife and children believed he had been home all morning.
In the spring of 2004, Daleen Bosse had just finished her third year of the education program at the University of Saskatchewan. On May 16, she went for supper with friends from her home on the Onion Lake First Nation reserve and then to a meeting of a First Nat