1 00:00:17,517 --> 00:00:18,885 EMERGENCY? 2 00:00:18,885 --> 00:00:21,554 >> UH, MY HUSBAND, HE'S NOT BREATHING. 3 00:00:21,554 --> 00:00:24,858 >> THE PATHOLOGIST GAVE THE CAUSE OF DEATH AS ACUTE CARDIAC 4 00:00:24,858 --> 00:00:27,394 ARRHYTHMIA >> HOW COULD THIS REALLY, REALLY 5 00:00:27,394 --> 00:00:30,630 HEALTHY MAN SUFFER FROM A HEART ATTACK? 6 00:00:30,630 --> 00:00:33,833 >> THEN, WHEN YOU ADD ON WHAT HAPPENED RIGHT AFTER THAT. 7 00:00:33,833 --> 00:00:38,672 >> I GOT A PHONE CALL, AUNTIE BRIDGET, SHE'S GONE. 8 00:00:38,672 --> 00:00:41,841 >> TWO DEATHS, SAME HOUSE, SAME FAMILY 9 00:00:41,841 --> 00:00:43,977 >> Reporter: WAS THE FAMILY SAYING TO THE POLICE, "WE REALLY 10 00:00:43,977 --> 00:00:46,112 SUSPECT FOUL PLAY. >> ABSOLUTELY. 11 00:00:46,112 --> 00:00:47,681 >> THEIR FIRST SUSPECT WAS CALEB. 12 00:00:47,681 --> 00:00:53,153 >> THERE WAS A MARK ON YOUR MOM'S CHIN 13 00:00:53,153 --> 00:00:55,155 >> YEAH, LIKE THIS >> HE'S THE GUY WHO'S GOING TO 14 00:00:55,155 --> 00:00:58,925 BENEFIT. >> CALEB IS FOUND DEAD IN BED. 15 00:00:58,925 --> 00:01:03,163 >> THIS ISN'T A FLUKE. >> HOW ON EARTH DID TWO MORE 16 00:01:03,163 --> 00:01:05,532 MURDERS HAPPEN AFTER UNCLE BILL? >> THERE ARE ONLY A COUPLE OF 17 00:01:05,532 --> 00:01:07,434 PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD WHO IT MAKES ANY SENSE TO BE INVOLVED 18 00:01:07,434 --> 00:01:10,403 WITH THIS. >> Reporter: YOU GET WORD THAT 19 00:01:10,403 --> 00:01:11,638 THEY'VE BEEN ARRESTED. WHAT'S THAT MOMENT LIKE? 20 00:01:11,638 --> 00:01:14,341 >> WE WERE RIGHT WE WERE RIGHT THE WHOLE TIME 21 00:01:14,341 --> 00:01:26,086 >> I'M LESTER HOLT AND THIS IS "DATELINE. 22 00:01:26,086 --> 00:01:36,129 HERE'S ANDREA CANNING WITH "THE HOUSE ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT." 23 00:01:36,129 --> 00:01:42,502 >> Reporter: IT WAS A HOME FILLED WITH JOY. 24 00:01:42,502 --> 00:01:48,341 HOLIDAYS, FAMILY CELEBRATIONS THIS IS WHERE THEY ALL GATHERED. 25 00:01:48,341 --> 00:01:51,578 >> THAT -- THE HOME WAS -- IS A HOME OF HAPPINESS. 26 00:01:51,578 --> 00:01:56,016 >> HE'S NOT BREATHING. >> Reporter: UNTIL THE HOUSE 27 00:01:56,016 --> 00:02:00,320 BECAME THE SCENE OF ONE TRAGEDY -- THEN ANOTHER. 28 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:05,492 >> HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TWICE TO ONE FAMILY? 29 00:02:05,492 --> 00:02:09,662 >> I COULDN'T RECONCILE IT >> Reporter: AND ANOTHER 30 00:02:09,662 --> 00:02:15,402 >> IT'S JUST IN THE REALM OF - OF THE BIZARRE 31 00:02:15,402 --> 00:02:18,138 >> HOW ARE WE GONNA ENDURE A THIRD DEATH? 32 00:02:18,138 --> 00:02:21,875 >> Reporter: WAS THE HOUSE CURSED 33 00:02:21,875 --> 00:02:24,077 >> IT GIVES ME CHILLS WHEN I THINK, HERE YOU ARE AT THE SAME 34 00:02:24,077 --> 00:02:26,312 HOUSE. >> IT GIVES ME CHILLS NOW. 35 00:02:26,312 --> 00:02:28,314 >> Reporter: IT SEEMED NO ONE WAS SAFE INSIDE THESE WALLS. 36 00:02:28,314 --> 00:02:30,483 >> THIS ISN'T A FLUKE. >> SOMEBODY'S OUT TO GET THIS 37 00:02:30,483 --> 00:02:32,552 FAMILY GUARANTEED 38 00:02:32,552 --> 00:02:35,221 >> Reporter: BY ALL ACCOUNTS THEY SEEMED PERFECT FOR ONE 39 00:02:35,221 --> 00:02:36,923 ANOTHER. BILL HARRISON, WITH HIS DASHING 40 00:02:36,923 --> 00:02:38,925 LOOKS. >> I MEAN, HE WAS JUST SUPER 41 00:02:38,925 --> 00:02:41,094 HANDSOME >> HE HAS MOVIE STAR LOOKS 42 00:02:41,094 --> 00:02:42,696 >> I'M NOT GONNA ARGUE THAT. YEAH 43 00:02:42,696 --> 00:02:45,365 >> Reporter: BRIDGET BLACKWELL, ONCE A TALENTED CHILD ACTRESS. 44 00:02:45,365 --> 00:02:48,535 >> SHE WAS REALLY QUITE SPECTACULAR. 45 00:02:48,535 --> 00:02:50,704 SHE WOULD BE BECKY IN "TOM SAWYER." 46 00:02:50,704 --> 00:02:53,873 SHE WOULD BE -- IN THE CAROUSEL, SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER WHO - 47 00:02:53,873 --> 00:02:55,475 THE-- FATHER SANG "YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE" TO 48 00:02:55,475 --> 00:02:56,543 >> Reporter: BRIDGET'S BROTHER, DOUG BLACKWELL 49 00:02:56,543 --> 00:02:58,478 >> WAS SHE DRAMATIC? >> AW! 50 00:02:58,478 --> 00:03:00,313 >> JUST, ALL THE TIME? [ LAUGHTER ] 51 00:03:00,313 --> 00:03:02,449 >> NO. SHE WAS A NATURAL. 52 00:03:02,449 --> 00:03:05,652 SHE HAD FLAIR. >> Reporter: NIECE NICOLE 53 00:03:05,652 --> 00:03:08,488 GALLANT REMEMBERS HEARING THE STORY OF HOW HER AUNT BRIDGET 54 00:03:08,488 --> 00:03:10,423 WAS INSTANTLY SMITTEN WITH BILL. >> AND I DO REMEMBER HER SAYING, 55 00:03:10,423 --> 00:03:12,592 YOU KNOW, "I MET HIM WHEN I WAS 16 56 00:03:12,592 --> 00:03:20,533 AND I THOUGHT HE WAS THE MOST HANDSOME MAN I'D EVER SEEN." 57 00:03:20,533 --> 00:03:29,075 AND THAT SHE WAS JUST SORT OF, LIKE, JUST COMPELLED TO HIM. 58 00:03:29,075 --> 00:03:33,847 >> Reporter: THEY MARRIED AND EVENTUALLY MOVED INTO THIS HOME 59 00:03:33,847 --> 00:03:36,483 ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT -- A QUIET SUBURBAN STREET OUTSIDE OF 60 00:03:36,483 --> 00:03:39,719 TORONTO. BILL HARRISON WORKED IN 61 00:03:39,719 --> 00:03:41,287 MANAGEMENT FOR ONE OF CANADA'S LARGEST GROCERY CHAINS 62 00:03:41,287 --> 00:03:43,990 >> I THINK HE WAS JUST A NATURAL LEADER 63 00:03:43,990 --> 00:03:48,228 >> Reporter: BRIDGET LEFT ACTING TO PURSUE A CAREER IN EDUCATION, 64 00:03:48,228 --> 00:03:51,464 EVENTUALLY BECOMING A SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT 65 00:03:51,464 --> 00:03:54,634 >> SHE WAS KINDA FIERY AND A REAL -- A BIT OF A REBEL 66 00:03:54,634 --> 00:03:58,371 AND UM -- AND A REAL, YOU KNOW, SEEKER OF JUSTICE. 67 00:03:58,371 --> 00:04:01,341 >> Reporter: AND WHILE THEY WERE PASSIONATE ABOUT THEIR CAREERS, 68 00:04:01,341 --> 00:04:03,176 THEY ADORED BEING PARENTS. THEY HAD ADOPTED THEIR SON CALEB 69 00:04:03,176 --> 00:04:05,845 WHEN HE WAS A BABY >> HE WAS A HANDFUL. 70 00:04:05,845 --> 00:04:11,051 HE NEVER SAT DOWN FOR MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES IN A ROW. 71 00:04:11,051 --> 00:04:12,786 HE WAS CONSTANTLY ON THE GO. >> HOW WERE BILL AND BRIDGET AS 72 00:04:12,786 --> 00:04:15,221 PARENTS? >> THEY WERE GREAT 73 00:04:15,221 --> 00:04:17,590 THEY WERE VERY PRESENT >> Reporter: BRIDGET WAS THE 74 00:04:17,590 --> 00:04:20,794 DISCIPLINARIAN -- THE STRICTER OF THE TWO -- WHILE BILL WAS THE 75 00:04:20,794 --> 00:04:25,065 CALMER ONE, THE PEACEMAKER IN THE FAMILY 76 00:04:25,065 --> 00:04:27,767 >> CALEB COULD PUSH BRIDGET'S BUTTONS, BUT HE COULD NEVER PUSH 77 00:04:27,767 --> 00:04:32,572 BILL'S BUTTONS AND SO BILL WOULD BE THE BUFFER. 78 00:04:32,572 --> 00:04:36,876 BILL WOULD BE THE GUY WHO WOULD, YOU KNOW, CALM CALEB DOWN AND 79 00:04:36,876 --> 00:04:40,580 CALM BRIDGET DOWN. >> Reporter: THE HARRISONS LOVED 80 00:04:40,580 --> 00:04:43,283 SPENDING TIME WITH THEIR LARGE EXTENDED FAMILY. 81 00:04:43,283 --> 00:04:46,219 NIECE KATE BLACKWELL FONDLY REMEMBERS THE BIG GET TOGETHERS 82 00:04:46,219 --> 00:04:48,655 IN THE HARRISON'S HOME >> I GREW UP THINKING THAT 83 00:04:48,655 --> 00:04:51,291 EVERYONE'S INVITED IT WAS JUST A MENTALITY THAT I 84 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:53,927 GUESS I TOOK FOR GRANTED IT JUST WAS HOW IT WAS 85 00:04:53,927 --> 00:04:57,130 >> Reporter: STEFANI DUNN GREW UP NEXT DOOR 86 00:04:57,130 --> 00:04:59,766 THE HARRISONS WELCOMED HER LIKE ONE OF THEIR OWN 87 00:04:59,766 --> 00:05:03,036 >> BEING FROM A VERY SMALL FAMILY WITH NOT A LOT OF 88 00:05:03,036 --> 00:05:05,638 SIBLINGS, AUNTS, AND UNCLES, WE WERE LITERALLY LIKE ANOTHER 89 00:05:05,638 --> 00:05:08,274 ADOPTION IN THEIR LIFE AN EXTENSION OF THEIR FAMILY 90 00:05:08,274 --> 00:05:10,343 YOU KNOW, CHRISTMAS DAY WASN'T JUST WITH FOUR PEOPLE. 91 00:05:10,343 --> 00:05:12,545 CHRISTMAS DAY WAS NOW WITH 24 PEOPLE. 92 00:05:12,545 --> 00:05:14,714 >> Reporter: CALEB AND STEFANI, BOTH ONLY CHILDREN, BECAME BEST 93 00:05:14,714 --> 00:05:17,384 FRIENDS. >> AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, WHAT DID 94 00:05:17,384 --> 00:05:19,519 HE WANNA DO? >> CALEB ALWAYS WANTED TO GO 95 00:05:19,519 --> 00:05:21,654 RIGHT INTO THE WORKFORCE HE ENDED UP DOING A LOT OF 96 00:05:21,654 --> 00:05:25,358 SHIPPING AND RECEIVING STUFF HE LOVED THAT, BECAUSE HE WAS SO 97 00:05:25,358 --> 00:05:28,595 GREGARIOUS AND ALWAYS CHATTY IN ANY OFFICE PLACE HE ALWAYS 98 00:05:28,595 --> 00:05:32,632 ADOPTED A NEW GROUP OF FRIENDS >> Reporter: IN 2000, WHEN HE 99 00:05:32,632 --> 00:05:35,468 WAS 27, CALEB TOLD STEFANI ABOUT ONE OF THOSE FRIENDS -- A 100 00:05:35,468 --> 00:05:39,773 CO-WORKER NAMED MELISSA. >> WHAT DID HE SAY 101 00:05:39,773 --> 00:05:42,976 >> HE WAS LIKE, "I'VE GOT THIS GIRL 102 00:05:42,976 --> 00:05:45,679 I THINK SHE'S AMAZING. I REALLY, REALLY WANT YOU TO 103 00:05:45,679 --> 00:05:48,448 MEET HER." >> Reporter: MELISSA MERRITT WAS 104 00:05:48,448 --> 00:05:51,084 SEVEN YEARS YOUNGER THAN CALEB A LOCAL GIRL FROM TORONTO, WHO 105 00:05:51,084 --> 00:05:54,254 CAME FROM A LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILY 106 00:05:54,254 --> 00:05:56,356 >> SHE WAS LOVELY. SHE WAS VERY, VERY OUTGOING. 107 00:05:56,356 --> 00:05:59,092 SO IT JUST SEEMED LIKE, WHERE'S THIS GIRL BEEN 108 00:05:59,092 --> 00:06:01,728 YOU KNOW IT'S -- IT WAS A GREAT MATCH. 109 00:06:01,728 --> 00:06:05,031 >> Reporter: CALEB AND MELISSA EVENTUALLY MARRIED AND HAD TWO 110 00:06:05,031 --> 00:06:07,634 CHILDREN -- A BOY AND A GIRL NOW GRANDPARENTS, BRIDGET AND 111 00:06:07,634 --> 00:06:09,135 BILL RELISHED THEIR ROLES AS "NANA AND POPPA. 112 00:06:09,135 --> 00:06:11,905 >> I THINK THEY FELT VERY PROUD OF IT. 113 00:06:11,905 --> 00:06:14,574 >> THEY WERE REALLY INTO THESE GRANDCHILDREN. 114 00:06:14,574 --> 00:06:18,712 >> OH -- >> BILL AND BRIDGET. 115 00:06:18,712 --> 00:06:22,615 >> INFECTIOUSLY, YES >> Reporter: BUT THE HAPPY 116 00:06:22,615 --> 00:06:25,251 FAMILY BEGAN TO UNRAVEL. AFTER FIVE YEARS TOGETHER, CALEB 117 00:06:25,251 --> 00:06:26,920 AND MELISSA COULDN'T SEE EYE TO EYE ANYMORE. 118 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:28,521 THEY SEPARATED CALEB DIDN'T TAKE IT WELL. 119 00:06:28,521 --> 00:06:31,224 >> IT WAS JUST DEVASTATING TO HIM THAT THIS MARRIAGE WAS 120 00:06:31,224 --> 00:06:34,327 ENDING THE POTENTIAL OF NOT SEEING HIS 121 00:06:34,327 --> 00:06:36,596 CHILDREN ON A DAILY BASIS. >> Reporter: CALEB MOVED BACK 122 00:06:36,596 --> 00:06:39,265 HOME WITH HIS PARENTS, AND SHARED CUSTODY OF THE TWO KIDS 123 00:06:39,265 --> 00:06:40,834 WITH WIFE MELISSA. HE WAS STRESSED. 124 00:06:40,834 --> 00:06:43,536 AND, HE WAS DRINKING >> HE WAS WITH A GROUP OF 125 00:06:43,536 --> 00:06:45,672 FRIENDS FROM WORK, AND HE HAD BEEN DRINKING. 126 00:06:45,672 --> 00:06:47,774 I THINK HE WAS TRYING TO PROBABLY FORGET ABOUT EVERYTHING 127 00:06:47,774 --> 00:06:50,977 THAT WAS GOING ON. AND OBVIOUSLY, HE JUST WASN'T 128 00:06:50,977 --> 00:06:53,947 MAKING CLEAR DECISIONS >> Reporter: AFTER SPENDING A 129 00:06:53,947 --> 00:06:56,316 LONG NIGHT AT A BAR, HE GOT INTO THE CAR INTOXICATED AND SLAMMED 130 00:06:56,316 --> 00:07:01,121 HEAD ON INTO A TAXI KILLING THE DRIVER 131 00:07:01,121 --> 00:07:03,256 >> DID HE TALK ABOUT THE GUILT HE FELT ABOUT THE MAN DYING? 132 00:07:03,256 --> 00:07:06,459 >> HE -- HE TALKED ABOUT IT UM, QUITE A BIT. 133 00:07:06,459 --> 00:07:11,297 LIVING WITH THAT, THAT DEVASTATION, WAS AWFUL 134 00:07:11,297 --> 00:07:14,567 >> Reporter: CALEB ENDED UP SERVING TIME IN JAIL FOR THE 135 00:07:14,567 --> 00:07:18,605 ACCIDENT WITH HIS PARENTS' SUPPORT, HE 136 00:07:18,605 --> 00:07:21,074 GOT THROUGH THAT ROUGH PATCH BUT IT WASN'T THE END OF 137 00:07:21,074 --> 00:07:22,542 TROUBLING TIMES FOR THE HARRISONS. 138 00:07:22,542 --> 00:07:27,414 DANGER WAS LOOMING AND IT WAS RIGHT INSIDE THEIR 139 00:07:27,414 --> 00:07:29,549 VERY OWN HOUSE APRIL 16th, 2009 140 00:07:29,549 --> 00:07:32,252 BRIDGET HARRISON WAS WORKING LATE 141 00:07:32,252 --> 00:07:35,455 SHE ARRIVED HOME AROUND 9:00 PM, PREPARED TO HAVE DINNER WITH HER 142 00:07:35,455 --> 00:07:38,658 HUSBAND BILL THE HOUSE WAS UNUSUALLY DARK 143 00:07:38,658 --> 00:07:44,564 >> AND SURE ENOUGH SHE FOUND HIM IN THE WASHROOM HUNCHED OVER 144 00:07:44,564 --> 00:07:49,903 >> Reporter: IT WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF WHAT WOULD BECOME 145 00:07:49,903 --> 00:07:58,945 YEARS OF AGONIZING LOSS, UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, AND -- 146 00:07:58,945 --> 00:08:03,450 UNRELENTING FEAR >> WHEN WE COME BACK -- WHAT HAD 147 00:08:03,450 --> 00:08:05,018 HAPPENED TO BILL HARRISON? WAS IT A HEART ATTACK? 148 00:08:05,018 --> 00:08:07,220 OR SOMETHING MORE SINISTER WHEN WE RETURN - 149 00:08:07,220 --> 00:08:09,356 >> IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE. IT SEEMED WEIRD THAT HE WAS IN 150 00:08:09,356 --> 00:08:11,458 THE POSITION HE WAS. >> AND THIS WAS ODD -- 151 00:08:11,458 --> 00:08:13,693 THE BATHROOM DOOR WAS LOCKED >> IF I'M THE ONLY MAN IN THE 152 00:08:13,693 --> 00:08:36,349 HOUSE, I AM NOT GOING INTO THE >> Reporter: APRIL 2009. 153 00:08:36,349 --> 00:08:38,485 IN A SUBURB OF TORONTO, BRIDGET HARRISON HAD JUST ARRIVED HOME 154 00:08:38,485 --> 00:08:42,922 FROM WORK. SOMETHING SEEMED OFF IN THE 155 00:08:42,922 --> 00:08:47,594 HOUSE. IT WAS STRANGELY DARK AND QUIET. 156 00:08:47,594 --> 00:08:51,331 BRIDGET CALLED OUT FOR HER HUSBAND BILL 157 00:08:51,331 --> 00:08:55,101 >> Reporter: SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE CAME IN THE DOOR, DINNER WAS 158 00:08:55,101 --> 00:08:59,339 ON THE TABLE SENDS A SMALL DRINK AT THE 159 00:08:59,339 --> 00:09:01,474 TABLE. AND IT LOOKED LIKE HE HAD JUST 160 00:09:01,474 --> 00:09:03,643 GOT UP TO GO TO THE WASHROOM >> Reporter: AND IT WAS THERE, 161 00:09:03,643 --> 00:09:05,178 IN THE FIRST FLOOR BATHROOM, A TERRIFYING DISCOVERY 162 00:09:05,178 --> 00:09:07,013 BRIDGET FOUND BILL UNCONSCIOUS, NOT BREATHING. 163 00:09:07,013 --> 00:09:08,915 SHE IMMEDIATELY CALLED 911 >> 9-1-1 WHAT'S YOUR EMERGENCY 164 00:09:08,915 --> 00:09:11,618 >> UH, MY HUSBAND, I JUST CAME HOME FROM WORK AND I SAW HIM 165 00:09:11,618 --> 00:09:14,054 COLLAPSED ON THE BATHROOM FLOOR. >> OK, IS YOUR HUSBAND AWAKE 166 00:09:14,054 --> 00:09:15,889 >> NO, HE IS NOT I CAN'T MOVE HIM 167 00:09:15,889 --> 00:09:18,358 HE'S WEDGED AGAINST THE WALL, BETWEEN THE TOILET AND THE DOOR 168 00:09:18,358 --> 00:09:20,260 AND EVERYTHING >> JUST STAY ON THE LINE MA'AM 169 00:09:20,260 --> 00:09:22,562 >> YEAH I CANT MOVE HIM. HE'S NOT BREATHING 170 00:09:22,562 --> 00:09:25,565 >> OKAY. >> I CAN TELL. 171 00:09:25,565 --> 00:09:30,403 OH, MY GOD >> Reporter: BY THE TIME 172 00:09:30,403 --> 00:09:35,308 PARAMEDICS ARRIVED, THEY CONFIRMED WHAT SHE DREADED 173 00:09:35,308 --> 00:09:38,912 HER HUSBAND OF NEARLY 40 YEARS WAS DEAD 174 00:09:38,912 --> 00:09:41,047 BRIDGET CALLED BILL'S SISTER, LIZ GALLANT. 175 00:09:41,047 --> 00:09:45,885 >> SHE DID THE WHOLE THING OF, WHAT ARE YOU DOING 176 00:09:45,885 --> 00:09:48,588 ARE YOU SITTING DOWN?" AND I SAID, "NO. 177 00:09:48,588 --> 00:09:52,325 AND I SAID, "WHY?" AND -- SHE SAID -- SOMETHING 178 00:09:52,325 --> 00:09:54,294 HAPPENED TO BILL >> Reporter: LIZ RUSHED OVER TO 179 00:09:54,294 --> 00:09:55,628 HER BROTHER'S HOME >> AND I KIND OF DON'T THINK I 180 00:09:55,628 --> 00:09:58,765 BELIEVED ANYTHING UNTIL I SAW THE AMBULANCE ON THE STREET AND 181 00:09:58,765 --> 00:10:01,968 THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE POLICE 182 00:10:01,968 --> 00:10:05,205 >> Reporter: THE PEEL REGIONAL POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS HANDLING 183 00:10:05,205 --> 00:10:08,475 THE CASE AN OFFICER LED LIZ INSIDE TO 184 00:10:08,475 --> 00:10:12,145 BRIDGET. >> SHE TOLD ME ALL ABOUT -- NOT 185 00:10:12,145 --> 00:10:14,247 BEING ABLE TO DO CPR AND HER WHOLE COMING HOME, ARRIVAL AND 186 00:10:14,247 --> 00:10:16,483 IT WAS DARK. AND -- AND -- SHE COULDN'T FIND 187 00:10:16,483 --> 00:10:18,485 HIM AT FIRST AND -- AND, THEN, SHE FOUND HIM 188 00:10:18,485 --> 00:10:22,255 IN THE LOCKED BATHROOM >> Reporter: POLICE HAD BY NOW 189 00:10:22,255 --> 00:10:24,924 CORDONED OFF THE BATHROOM AND TAKEN A STATEMENT FROM BRIDGET 190 00:10:24,924 --> 00:10:28,628 >> I DON'T REMEMBER EITHER ONE OF US PANICKING. 191 00:10:28,628 --> 00:10:32,399 WE WERE STILL BOTH CALM AND COOL 192 00:10:32,399 --> 00:10:35,602 NO SCREAMING, NO CRYING, NO -- IT WAS A STRANGE -- IT WAS 193 00:10:35,602 --> 00:10:39,339 STRANGE BEHAVIOR >> Reporter: AFTER EXAMINING THE 194 00:10:39,339 --> 00:10:42,008 BODY, THE PATHOLOGIST CONCLUDED BILL DIED FROM CARDIAC 195 00:10:42,008 --> 00:10:46,279 ARRHYTHMIA, IN OTHER WORDS HIS HEART STOPPED. 196 00:10:46,279 --> 00:10:48,481 FAMILY AND FRIENDS WERE LEFT WITH SO MANY QUESTIONS 197 00:10:48,481 --> 00:10:51,151 FOR STARTERS, AT 64, BILL WAS A FIT GUY. 198 00:10:51,151 --> 00:10:54,921 >> AND I REMEMBER THINKING, "THIS GUY'S GOT EVERY TYPE OF 199 00:10:54,921 --> 00:10:56,556 HEALTH KICK GOING. HE MAKES SMOOTHIES EVERY MORNING 200 00:10:56,556 --> 00:10:58,191 FOR HE AND HIS WIFE. HE'S SO ACTIVE 201 00:10:58,191 --> 00:11:01,394 THEY'RE MEMBERS OF THE Y HE PLAYS BASKETBALL. 202 00:11:01,394 --> 00:11:04,164 WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S DIED?" AND I'M THINKING, "OH MY GOSH, 203 00:11:04,164 --> 00:11:06,700 IS THIS ONE OF THOSE, YOU KNOW, CASE SCENARIOS THAT YOU READ IN 204 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:11,071 THE NEWS LIKE, THE MOST FIT GUY THAT 205 00:11:11,071 --> 00:11:13,206 RUNS, YOU KNOW, 2K A DAY AND ALL OF A SUDDEN DROPS DEAD FROM A 206 00:11:13,206 --> 00:11:15,308 HEART ATTACK?" >> Reporter: THESE THINGS DO 207 00:11:15,308 --> 00:11:19,579 HAPPEN BUT THE HARRISON'S NIECE NICOLE FOUND IT HARD TO GRASP. 208 00:11:19,579 --> 00:11:22,782 >> ABSOLUTE DISBELIEF. >> Reporter: AND THIS IS THE MAN 209 00:11:22,782 --> 00:11:26,686 WHO IS THE PICTURE OF HEALTH >> YEAH. 210 00:11:26,686 --> 00:11:30,290 ABSOLUTELY THERE'S JUST NO -- NO WAY TO 211 00:11:30,290 --> 00:11:35,595 UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY LIKE THAT JUST KEELS 212 00:11:35,595 --> 00:11:39,866 OVER AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IS DEAD 213 00:11:39,866 --> 00:11:44,671 >> Reporter: IT WAS ALSO UNBELIEVABLE TO BRIDGET'S 214 00:11:44,671 --> 00:11:48,908 BROTHER DOUG BLACKWELL ESPECIALLY AFTER HE LEARNED SOME 215 00:11:48,908 --> 00:11:53,313 ODD DETAILS. LIKE THE FACT THAT BILL WAS 216 00:11:53,313 --> 00:11:56,349 LOCKED IN THE BATHROOM, DESPITE BEING HOME ALONE 217 00:11:56,349 --> 00:11:59,019 >> WHAT WAS BILL DOING IN THE BATHROOM WITH THE DOOR LOCKED? 218 00:11:59,019 --> 00:12:00,553 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOUR FAMILY, BUT IF I'M THE ONLY MAN IN THE 219 00:12:00,553 --> 00:12:02,722 HOUSE, I AM NOT GOING INTO THE BATHROOM AND LOCKING THE DOOR. 220 00:12:02,722 --> 00:12:07,060 >> IT -- IT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN. THAT SORT OF DIDN'T SEEM RIGHT 221 00:12:07,060 --> 00:12:11,231 AND WHEN BRIDGET SAID SHE HAD TO JIMMY THE DOOR OPEN- - I -- IT 222 00:12:11,231 --> 00:12:13,366 DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME. >> Reporter: INITIALLY IT HAD 223 00:12:13,366 --> 00:12:17,637 BEEN A RED FLAG FOR POLICE TOO THEY WONDERED IF BILL HAD 224 00:12:17,637 --> 00:12:20,874 PURPOSELY LOCKED HIMSELF IN THERE AND TAKEN HIS OWN LIFE 225 00:12:20,874 --> 00:12:23,076 BUT THEY RULED THAT OUT AND CLOSED THE CASE. 226 00:12:23,076 --> 00:12:25,645 SO, THEN -- A NATURAL DEATH MAKES SENSE. 227 00:12:25,645 --> 00:12:28,314 >> A NATURAL DEATH COULD MAKE SENSE. 228 00:12:28,314 --> 00:12:31,484 BUT -- IT SEEMED ODD. 229 00:12:31,484 --> 00:12:34,688 AND IT SEEMED WEIRD THAT HE WAS IN THE BATHROOM. 230 00:12:34,688 --> 00:12:37,891 IT SEEMED WEIRD THAT HE WAS IN THE POSITION HE WAS. 231 00:12:37,891 --> 00:12:42,128 >> Reporter: BUT YET, AT THE SAME TIME, WHAT OTHER 232 00:12:42,128 --> 00:12:45,365 EXPLANATION IS THERE >> WELL, WE DIDN'T KNOW. 233 00:12:45,365 --> 00:12:47,500 >> Reporter: WERE YOU SATISFIED MOVING ON, MORNING THE DEATH OF 234 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:50,136 BILL AS A NATURAL DEATH? >> YES 235 00:12:50,136 --> 00:12:53,340 YES. BRIDGET ASKED ME TO DO THE 236 00:12:53,340 --> 00:12:57,110 EULOGY AND -- THERE WAS NO SUSPICION IN 237 00:12:57,110 --> 00:13:00,313 MY MIND THAT IT WAS ANYTHING LESS THAN GOD CALLING HIM HOME 238 00:13:00,313 --> 00:13:03,049 >> Reporter: BUT BRIDGET HAD DOUBTS 239 00:13:03,049 --> 00:13:05,185 AN EERIE SENSE THAT WHAT HAPPENED TO BILL INSIDE THEIR 240 00:13:05,185 --> 00:13:07,220 HOME WAS NOT NATURAL SHE CONFIDED IN CLOSE FAMILY 241 00:13:07,220 --> 00:13:09,389 FRIEND, MIKE HARRINGTON, AS THEY WERE DRIVING TOGETHER TO BILL'S 242 00:13:09,389 --> 00:13:12,659 FUNERAL. >> AND I TURNED TO BRIDGET, AND 243 00:13:12,659 --> 00:13:15,762 I SAID, "WELL, I GUESS, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE LESSONS TO LEARN 244 00:13:15,762 --> 00:13:18,431 HERE." AND SHE LOOKED, AND SHE SAID, 245 00:13:18,431 --> 00:13:21,101 "MICHAEL, WHAT LESSONS DO WE HAVE TO LEARN HERE 246 00:13:21,101 --> 00:13:23,203 BILL WAS DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT. HE DIDN'T DIE NATURALLY. 247 00:13:23,203 --> 00:13:24,804 >> Reporter: WOULDN'T YOU START TO SAY, "WELL, WHO DID IT? 248 00:13:24,804 --> 00:13:27,474 AND WHY? AND -- YOU JUST DIDN'T GET INTO 249 00:13:27,474 --> 00:13:30,076 THAT >> YOU KNOW, IT SEEMED -- IT WAS 250 00:13:30,076 --> 00:13:32,746 SO OUT IN LEFT FIELD WHO IN THE WORLD WOULD WANT TO 251 00:13:32,746 --> 00:13:35,482 HARM THIS MAN? IT JUST DIDN'T MAKE ANY -- ANY 252 00:13:35,482 --> 00:13:38,318 SENSE AT ALL >> Reporter: BRIDGET SHARED 253 00:13:38,318 --> 00:13:41,354 SIMILAR SUSPICIONS WITH HER BROTHER, DOUG. 254 00:13:41,354 --> 00:13:44,090 WHAT DID YOU TELL HER WHEN SHE HAD THESE THOUGHTS 255 00:13:44,090 --> 00:13:46,693 THAT SOMETHING SEEMED A LITTLE SUSPICIOUS 256 00:13:46,693 --> 00:13:48,294 >> ALL I SAID WAS, "IT-- IT COULD BE, BRIDGET. 257 00:13:48,294 --> 00:13:50,397 I DON'T KNOW." BUT NONETHELESS -- BRIDGET HAD 258 00:13:50,397 --> 00:13:52,098 TIME TO THINK ABOUT -- SHE MULLED ON IT 259 00:13:52,098 --> 00:13:54,668 THE REST OF US, WE'RE JUST TRYIN' TO SUPPORT BRIDGET. 260 00:13:54,668 --> 00:13:57,337 >> Reporter: AND IT WAS A TOUGH TIME FOR THE GRIEVING WIDOW TO 261 00:13:57,337 --> 00:14:00,273 SAY THE LEAST. NOT ONLY WAS SHE DEALING WITH 262 00:14:00,273 --> 00:14:05,378 HER HUSBAND'S SUDDEN DEATH, BUT HER SON CALEB WAS SERVING AN 263 00:14:05,378 --> 00:14:08,548 18-MONTH JAIL SENTENCE FOR THAT DRINKING AND DRIVING ACCIDENT. 264 00:14:08,548 --> 00:14:12,852 >> DEVASTATING TO HER THAT HER SON IS IN PRISON AND WILL ONLY 265 00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:14,954 BE ALLOWED TO COME AND VIEW HIS FATHER IN HIS PRISON UNIFORM 266 00:14:14,954 --> 00:14:16,623 AND THEN NOT BE ABLE TO SEE ANYONE ELSE. 267 00:14:16,623 --> 00:14:19,826 AND NOT BE ABLE TO CON -- HUG HIM, SUPPORT HIM 268 00:14:19,826 --> 00:14:22,495 OR HE, HER SO, THEY HAD TO DEAL WITH THIS 269 00:14:22,495 --> 00:14:24,097 DEATH INDIVIDUALLY ON THEIR OWN 270 00:14:24,097 --> 00:14:27,067 >> Reporter: A FEW MONTHS LATER, CALEB WAS RELEASED AND BACK HOME 271 00:14:27,067 --> 00:14:29,469 WITH HIS MOTHER. READY FOR A FRESH START. 272 00:14:29,469 --> 00:14:32,672 HIS LICENSE HAD BEEN SUSPENDED, SO HE COULDN'T DRIVE, BUT HIS 273 00:14:32,672 --> 00:14:35,675 MOM WAS THERE TO TAKE HIM TO WORK AND HELP WITH THE CHILDREN. 274 00:14:35,675 --> 00:14:37,944 SHE HAS HER SON HOME THE -- THE KIDS HAVE THEIR - 275 00:14:37,944 --> 00:14:40,613 THEIR DAD BACK >> YES 276 00:14:40,613 --> 00:14:44,351 >> Reporter: SO, WERE THINGS STARTING TO GET BACK TO NORMAL 277 00:14:44,351 --> 00:14:47,087 >> I WOULD SAY YES, EXCEPT -- WE HAVE THE ISSUE THAT -- THE 278 00:14:47,087 --> 00:14:53,693 BUFFER IS GONE THAT BILL IS NOT THERE AS THE 279 00:14:53,693 --> 00:15:00,367 PEACEMAKER AND -- SO, OF COURSE, THERE'S 280 00:15:00,367 --> 00:15:03,670 FRICTION AND -- 281 00:15:03,670 --> 00:15:07,440 >> Reporter: BETWEEN BRIDGET - >> BRIDGET AND - 282 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,577 >> Reporter: -- AND CALEB. THEY FOUGHT? 283 00:15:10,577 --> 00:15:13,780 >> NAH -- NOT SO MUCH FOUGHT BUT JUST -- YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T 284 00:15:13,780 --> 00:15:16,516 THAT WARM, HAPPY PLACE THAT YOU WALKED IN ALL THE TIME 285 00:15:16,516 --> 00:15:20,253 >> Reporter: THE HARRISON'S NIECE, KATE, REMEMBERS THAT 286 00:15:20,253 --> 00:15:24,057 FIRST CHRISTMAS AFTER HER UNCLE BILL DIED, HOW THE HOUSE FELT SO 287 00:15:24,057 --> 00:15:27,927 VERY EMPTY >> OF COURSE IT WOULD NEVER BE 288 00:15:27,927 --> 00:15:31,498 THE SAME AGAIN AND WE WENT THROUGH THE MOTIONS. 289 00:15:31,498 --> 00:15:34,167 WE WERE -- WE FELT LOST. >> Reporter: A FEW MONTHS LATER, 290 00:15:34,167 --> 00:15:37,370 IN EARLY SPRING 2010, KATE VISITED HER AUNT BRIDGET AGAIN 291 00:15:37,370 --> 00:15:38,905 IT WAS AROUND THE ONE YEAR MARK OF BILL'S PASSING. 292 00:15:38,905 --> 00:15:41,141 IT ALSO WOULD HAVE BEEN THEIR 41ST WEDDING ANNIVERSARY 293 00:15:41,141 --> 00:15:43,243 >> I WENT TO VISIT AUNTIE BRIDGET AND -- THE -- THE PHONE 294 00:15:43,243 --> 00:15:46,479 RANG AND IT WAS -- SOMEONE LOOKING FOR UNCLE BILL 295 00:15:46,479 --> 00:15:50,216 AND, OH, AUNTIE BRIDGET JUST STARTED TO CRY, YOU KNOW 296 00:15:50,216 --> 00:15:52,919 SHE SAID, "I'M SORRY HE'S PASSED AWAY 297 00:15:52,919 --> 00:15:56,623 YOU COULD JUST SEE HOW RAW HER EMOTION WAS AND HOW MUCH SHE WAS 298 00:15:56,623 --> 00:15:58,324 SUFFERING. IT WAS -- IT WAS HEARTBREAKING 299 00:15:58,324 --> 00:16:00,360 >> Reporter: AND THERE WAS MORE HEARTBREAK TO COME IN THE HOUSE 300 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,063 ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT BECAUSE JUST DAYS AFTER KATE'S 301 00:16:03,063 --> 00:16:07,334 VISIT, SHE RECEIVED A HARROWING PHONE CALL 302 00:16:07,334 --> 00:16:11,604 >> I JUST IMPLODED I JUST I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. 303 00:16:11,604 --> 00:16:13,773 IT JUST FELT CURSED. >> Reporter: COMING UP - 304 00:16:13,773 --> 00:16:15,308 A GROWING TOLL AND GROWING SUSPICION. 305 00:16:15,308 --> 00:16:19,045 >> IT WAS EVEN MORE TRAUMATIZING 306 00:16:19,045 --> 00:16:21,181 THERE WAS A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL OF DISBELIEF THAT SOMETHING LIKE 307 00:16:21,181 --> 00:16:38,264 THAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED AND IT WAS SHOCKING. 308 00:16:38,264 --> 00:16:39,366 >> Reporter: IT WAS AN APRIL AFTERNOON. 309 00:16:39,366 --> 00:16:43,069 AROUND 3:30 WHEN AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY, JUST HOME 310 00:16:43,069 --> 00:16:47,841 FROM SCHOOL, DISCOVERED HIS NANA LYING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE 311 00:16:47,841 --> 00:16:51,244 STAIRS HE RAN TO FIND A NEIGHBOR WHO 312 00:16:51,244 --> 00:16:53,747 CALLED FOR HELP. THE PEEL REGIONAL PARAMEDICS 313 00:16:53,747 --> 00:16:57,484 WERE QUICKLY ALERTED >> WE'RE CALLED OVER THE RADIO 314 00:16:57,484 --> 00:17:00,653 BY OUR DISPATCH THAT THEY HAVE A CODE FOUR FOR US, WHICH IS OUR 315 00:17:00,653 --> 00:17:03,456 HIGHEST PRIORITY CALL. >> Reporter: PARAMEDIC PATRICK 316 00:17:03,456 --> 00:17:05,025 MORIN AND HIS PARTNER JUMPED INTO THE AMBULANCE AND HEADED TO 317 00:17:05,025 --> 00:17:07,594 A HOME ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT. SO ARE YOU -- SIRENS BLARING, 318 00:17:07,594 --> 00:17:10,830 DRIVING HOW FAST >> AS FAST AS WE CAN 319 00:17:10,830 --> 00:17:14,034 100 KILOMETERS AN HOUR >> Reporter: WHEN THEY PULLED UP 320 00:17:14,034 --> 00:17:16,703 THE FRONT DOOR WAS OPEN. THEY HURRIED INSIDE, SAW A WOMAN 321 00:17:16,703 --> 00:17:19,372 LYING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRCASE. 322 00:17:19,372 --> 00:17:25,178 WHAT WAS HER POSITION? >> SHE WAS -- LAYING FLAT ON THE 323 00:17:25,178 --> 00:17:27,414 FLOOR WITH HER HEAD -- PLACED ON THE FIRST STEP AND HER ARMS SORT 324 00:17:27,414 --> 00:17:29,683 OF UP ON ONE OF THE STAIRS, I BELIEVE. 325 00:17:29,683 --> 00:17:31,551 >> Reporter: SO SHE'S ON HER BACK 326 00:17:31,551 --> 00:17:35,855 >> ON HER BACK YES. 327 00:17:35,855 --> 00:17:39,092 >> Reporter: THEY LEARNED THAT THE WOMAN WAS 63-YEAR-OLD 328 00:17:39,092 --> 00:17:41,261 BRIDGET HARRISON THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO 329 00:17:41,261 --> 00:17:43,930 TO SAVE HER. SHE WAS GONE 330 00:17:43,930 --> 00:17:45,565 DID YOU SEE ANYTHING THAT WAS CONSISTENT WITH A FALL 331 00:17:45,565 --> 00:17:48,068 >> THE ONLY THING THAT WE SAW WAS BRUISING AROUND THE THROAT 332 00:17:48,068 --> 00:17:49,369 AREA BUT IT WAS AN ASSUMPTION THAT 333 00:17:49,369 --> 00:17:50,870 MAYBE SHE COULD HAVE FALLEN DOWN THE STAIRS 334 00:17:50,870 --> 00:17:53,073 >> Reporter: BUT BRUISING AROUND THE NECK DOESN'T SEEM -- 335 00:17:53,073 --> 00:17:55,141 >> NO. >> Reporter: -- CONSISTENT WITH 336 00:17:55,141 --> 00:17:58,345 A FALL >> IT DOESN'T SOUND -- 337 00:17:58,345 --> 00:18:02,248 CONSISTENT TO A FALL, NO NOW, THE POSITION THAT SHE WAS 338 00:18:02,248 --> 00:18:04,751 FOUND IN, COULD SHE HAVE, YOU KNOW, FALLEN DOWN THE STAIRS, 339 00:18:04,751 --> 00:18:08,555 HURT HER NECK, AND THEN GOT INTO THAT POSITION FROM HER INJURIES? 340 00:18:08,555 --> 00:18:11,791 POTENTIALLY. >> Reporter: CALEB GOT A CALL AT 341 00:18:11,791 --> 00:18:14,694 WORK, RUSHED HOME TO HIS SON AND BEGAN LETTING THE FAMILY KNOW. 342 00:18:14,694 --> 00:18:18,198 >> I GET A PHONE CALL FROM KALEB SAYING "SIT DOWN 343 00:18:18,198 --> 00:18:21,935 BRIDGET'S DEAD." MY SON FOUND HER AT THE BOTTOM 344 00:18:21,935 --> 00:18:24,604 OF THE STAIRS WHEN HE CAME HOME FROM SCHOOL. 345 00:18:24,604 --> 00:18:28,908 >> WHEN HE CALLED ME HE SAID, "I THINK THEY THINK SHE'S FALLEN 346 00:18:28,908 --> 00:18:31,578 DOWN THE STAIRS. >> Reporter: THE POLICE HAD 347 00:18:31,578 --> 00:18:34,214 ARRIVED, AND WERE CORDONING OFF THE HOME, BUT THEY ALLOWED 348 00:18:34,214 --> 00:18:36,883 BILL'S SISTER LIZ -- A NURSE - INSIDE 349 00:18:36,883 --> 00:18:39,552 >> CALEB ASKED THE POLICE IF I COULD COME IN. 350 00:18:39,552 --> 00:18:41,688 AND THEY HADN'T MOVED THE BODY SO I COULD GO IN AND SEE HER 351 00:18:41,688 --> 00:18:45,425 >> Reporter: AS LIZ STOOD IN THE FOYER, SHE REALIZED SHE WAS 352 00:18:45,425 --> 00:18:49,162 STANDING JUST FEET FROM WHERE HER BROTHER DIED A YEAR EARLIER. 353 00:18:49,162 --> 00:18:51,831 NOW LIZ WAS PUZZLED AS SHE LOOKED AT BRIDGET'S BODY 354 00:18:51,831 --> 00:18:53,433 >> FIRST IMPRESSION WAS THAT SHE HADN'T FALLEN. 355 00:18:53,433 --> 00:18:55,602 >> Reporter: WHY DID YOU THINK THAT 356 00:18:55,602 --> 00:18:57,737 >> OH, BECAUSE OF THE POSITION SHE WAS IN 357 00:18:57,737 --> 00:19:02,008 I THINK IF YOU FALL DOWNSTAIRS, YOU FALL FORWARD UNLESS YOU'RE 358 00:19:02,008 --> 00:19:07,881 CATCHING YOURSELF OR SOMETHING BUT -- SHE WAS LAID BACK ON THE 359 00:19:07,881 --> 00:19:10,517 STAIRS RIGHT NEAR THE BOTTOM IT JUST DIDN'T LOOK LIKE A FALL 360 00:19:10,517 --> 00:19:15,321 DOWN THE STAIRS. >> Reporter: LIZ CALLED HER 361 00:19:15,321 --> 00:19:19,559 DAUGHTER NICOLE. WHAT'S THAT MOMENT LIKE GETTING 362 00:19:19,559 --> 00:19:27,734 THAT KIND OF NEWS ONE YEAR LATER THAT NOW YOUR AUNT HAS DIED? 363 00:19:27,734 --> 00:19:30,236 >> IT WAS EVEN MORE TRAUMATIZING 364 00:19:30,236 --> 00:19:32,906 THERE WAS A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL OF DISBELIEF THAT SOMETHING LIKE 365 00:19:32,906 --> 00:19:35,241 THAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED AND IT WAS SHOCKING. 366 00:19:35,241 --> 00:19:38,778 >> Reporter: NO ONE IN THE FAMILY COULD PROCESS THE 367 00:19:38,778 --> 00:19:40,447 TRAGEDY. HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TWICE IN 368 00:19:40,447 --> 00:19:43,550 SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME TO ONE FAMILY 369 00:19:43,550 --> 00:19:46,252 >> I COULDN'T RECONCILE IT I JUST THOUGHT MAYBE SHE DIED OF 370 00:19:46,252 --> 00:19:51,591 A BROKEN HEART I MEAN, I -- I'D SEEN HOW 371 00:19:51,591 --> 00:19:53,727 DEVASTATED SHE WAS ON THEIR ANNIVERSARY. 372 00:19:53,727 --> 00:19:55,395 >> Reporter: NIECE KATE BLACKWELL HAD SPENT TIME WITH 373 00:19:55,395 --> 00:19:58,465 HER AUNT JUST DAYS EARLIER, SAW FIRST HAND HOW BRIDGET'S PAIN 374 00:19:58,465 --> 00:20:00,667 WAS STILL SO RAW >> IN HER SADNESS, I THOUGHT 375 00:20:00,667 --> 00:20:04,371 MAYBE IT HAD WEAKENED HER TO THE POINT THAT WHEN SHE TRIPPED OR 376 00:20:04,371 --> 00:20:06,473 F -- SLIPPED, THAT SHE JUST SHATTERED. 377 00:20:06,473 --> 00:20:08,108 >> Reporter: WHEN YOU SAY WEAKENED, LIKE, HER BODY WAS 378 00:20:08,108 --> 00:20:11,311 FRAIL OR - >> POSSIBLY. 379 00:20:11,311 --> 00:20:13,980 NOT EATING NOT EATING RIGHT 380 00:20:13,980 --> 00:20:17,951 >> Reporter: TRUE. BRIDGET HAD BEEN DESPONDENT 381 00:20:17,951 --> 00:20:22,589 SINCE HER HUSBAND'S DEATH BUT NIECE NICOLE WAS SKEPTICAL THAT 382 00:20:22,589 --> 00:20:26,292 THIS WAS AN ACCIDENT >> THERE WAS NOTHING BELIEVABLE 383 00:20:26,292 --> 00:20:28,962 ABOUT A PERFECTLY HEALTHY PERSON HAVING A CATASTROPHIC FALL DOWN. 384 00:20:28,962 --> 00:20:31,731 >> Reporter: CARPETED STEPS. >> I DON'T -- I DON'T BUY IT FOR 385 00:20:31,731 --> 00:20:36,970 A HOT SECOND >> Reporter: SHE AND THE OTHER 386 00:20:36,970 --> 00:20:39,639 FAMILY MEMBERS COULDN'T HELP BUT THINK BACK TO BILL'S SUDDEN 387 00:20:39,639 --> 00:20:41,775 DEATH ONE YEAR EARLIER AND THE THINGS THEY HAD FOUND UNSETTLING 388 00:20:41,775 --> 00:20:44,511 AT THE TIME. >> IT WAS JUST -- A MUCKY STORY. 389 00:20:44,511 --> 00:20:47,714 IT SEEMED ODD. AND IT SEEMED WEIRD THAT HE WAS 390 00:20:47,714 --> 00:20:52,118 IN THE BATHROOM. IT SEEMED WEIRD THAT HE WAS IN 391 00:20:52,118 --> 00:20:55,255 THE POSITION HE WAS. I THINK WE TRIED TO LIVE WITH 392 00:20:55,255 --> 00:20:58,391 THIS CONTRADICTION AND -- AND NEEDED TO BE THERE 393 00:20:58,391 --> 00:21:02,095 FOR CALEB, FOR THE KIDS, FOR BRIDGET. 394 00:21:02,095 --> 00:21:05,331 >> Reporter: NOW THE FAMILY PUSHED POLICE TO INVESTIGATE 395 00:21:05,331 --> 00:21:07,434 BOTH DEATHS. AND THE CHIEF FORENSIC 396 00:21:07,434 --> 00:21:10,070 PATHOLOGIST WAS CONCERNED, TOO HE WANTED TO EXHUME BILL 397 00:21:10,070 --> 00:21:13,273 HARRISON'S BODY TO FURTHER EXAMINE HIS INJURIES 398 00:21:13,273 --> 00:21:16,976 ONLY, THAT WASN'T POSSIBLE BILL'S BODY HAD BEEN CREMATED. 399 00:21:16,976 --> 00:21:20,180 AND THEN THE CRIME SCENE IS GONE 400 00:21:20,180 --> 00:21:22,315 YOU CAN'T GO AND REEXAMINE A CRIME SCENE THAT DOESN'T EXIST 401 00:21:22,315 --> 00:21:24,651 ANYMORE. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 402 00:21:24,651 --> 00:21:25,985 >> Reporter: OR A BODY THAT DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE GIVEN THAT 403 00:21:25,985 --> 00:21:28,655 YOUR UNCLE WAS CREMATED. >> YEAH. 404 00:21:28,655 --> 00:21:31,191 YEAH IT -- I MEAN - 405 00:21:31,191 --> 00:21:32,959 >> Reporter: IT MUST BE SO FRUSTRATING. 406 00:21:32,959 --> 00:21:35,595 >> IT'S FRUSTRATING BECAUSE -- WE'RE A PRETTY REGULAR FAMILY 407 00:21:35,595 --> 00:21:37,731 AND JUST REALLY TRUSTED THAT - EVERYTHING HAD BEEN DONE 408 00:21:37,731 --> 00:21:39,866 >> Reporter: TWO DEATHS IN ONE YEAR INSIDE THE SAME HOME? 409 00:21:39,866 --> 00:21:43,103 THE FAMILY WAS LEFT WITH A HORRIFYING POSSIBILITY 410 00:21:43,103 --> 00:21:46,740 >> THIS ISN'T A CURSE. THIS ISN'T A FLUKE 411 00:21:46,740 --> 00:21:49,109 SOMEBODY'S MADE -- AN ACTION HERE 412 00:21:49,109 --> 00:21:51,111 BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW WHO >> Reporter: SOMEBODY'S OUT TO 413 00:21:51,111 --> 00:21:54,781 GET THIS FAMILY. >> GUARANTEED. 414 00:21:54,781 --> 00:21:58,551 >> Reporter: COMING UP - POLICE CALL IN CALEB, ONE OF THE 415 00:21:58,551 --> 00:22:01,721 LAST PEOPLE TO SEE HIS MOM ALIVE. 416 00:22:01,721 --> 00:22:03,356 >> THERE WAS A MARK ON YOUR MOM'S CHIN 417 00:22:03,356 --> 00:22:06,059 >> YEAH, LIKE THIS >> WAS THAT FROM A FALL? 418 00:22:06,059 --> 00:22:08,228 OR SOMETHING ELSE? >> IT WASN'T LIKE THAT IN THE 419 00:22:08,228 --> 00:22:27,213 MORNING, LIKE WHEN SHE DROPPED >> Reporter: THE EXTENDED 420 00:22:27,213 --> 00:22:30,950 HARRISON FAMILY WAS REELING IN THE SPRING OF 2010, AFTER LOSING 421 00:22:30,950 --> 00:22:34,688 BILL AND THEN HIS WIFE BRIDGET THOUGH THEY DIED A YEAR APART, 422 00:22:34,688 --> 00:22:39,492 BOTH HAD BEEN FOUND AT HOME, THE SAME HOME ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT 423 00:22:39,492 --> 00:22:42,729 THAT HAD BEEN THE HUB OF FAMILY GATHERINGS 424 00:22:42,729 --> 00:22:48,601 >> WE WERE -- WE FELT LOST WITHOUT HAVING AUNT BRIDGET AND 425 00:22:48,601 --> 00:22:51,805 UNCLE BILL TO KIND OF GROUND US TO BE HOME 426 00:22:51,805 --> 00:22:55,542 >> THEY WERE THE ONE CONSTANT? THEIR HOUSE. 427 00:22:55,542 --> 00:22:59,813 >> YES >> Reporter: THEIR 37-YEAR-OLD 428 00:22:59,813 --> 00:23:03,516 SON CALEB HARRISON WAS LEFT TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF THE LOSS 429 00:23:03,516 --> 00:23:06,686 OF NOT ONE PARENT BUT TWO. >> IT WAS A POWERFULLY SAD TIME. 430 00:23:06,686 --> 00:23:11,491 >> LOSING BOTH HIS PARENTS IN JUST OVER A YEAR 431 00:23:11,491 --> 00:23:13,660 >> AT THAT HOME. I MEAN - 432 00:23:13,660 --> 00:23:15,261 >> THE SAME HOME >> YEP 433 00:23:15,261 --> 00:23:17,430 THAT'S-- THAT-- THE HOME WAS-- IS A HOME OF HAPPINESS 434 00:23:17,430 --> 00:23:20,066 >> Reporter: CALEB'S FRIEND STEFANI SPOKE TO HIM ON THE 435 00:23:20,066 --> 00:23:22,769 NIGHT OF BRIDGET'S DEATH >> HE IS FEELING LIKE HE HAS 436 00:23:22,769 --> 00:23:24,904 LOST EVERYTHING THAT HAS KNOWINGLY RAISED HIM AND BROUGHT 437 00:23:24,904 --> 00:23:27,574 HIM INTO THIS WORLD. HE'S NOT TALKING 438 00:23:27,574 --> 00:23:31,845 HE FINDS HIMSELF A HOTEL ROOM. HE DOESN'T WANNA TALK ABOUT IT 439 00:23:31,845 --> 00:23:35,882 HE'S DEVASTATED BY IT. HE DOESN'T WANT TO HAVE ANY 440 00:23:35,882 --> 00:23:38,785 COMMUNICATIONS BEYOND WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN WITH THE POLICE. 441 00:23:38,785 --> 00:23:41,988 >> Reporter: AND POLICE WERE EAGER TO SPEAK WITH HIM RIGHT 442 00:23:41,988 --> 00:23:44,858 AWAY CALEB HAD BEEN LIVING WITH HIS 443 00:23:44,858 --> 00:23:48,962 MOTHER AND WAS LIKELY ONE OF THE LAST PEOPLE TO SEE HER ALIVE 444 00:23:48,962 --> 00:23:52,165 >> JUST SO YOU KNOW CALEB, UH, WE USE THIS ROOM FOR THE PURPOSE 445 00:23:52,165 --> 00:23:54,300 OF TAKING STATEMENTS FROM, UH, ANYBODY WE NEED TO TAKE A 446 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:56,536 STATEMENT FROM >> SURE. 447 00:23:56,536 --> 00:23:59,105 >> SO THERE'S A VIDEO CAMERA HERE 448 00:23:59,105 --> 00:24:02,308 SO EVERYTHING THAT WE SAY IS BEING RECORDED 449 00:24:02,308 --> 00:24:04,944 >> OKAY. >> Reporter: ALTHOUGH IT WAS 450 00:24:04,944 --> 00:24:07,714 JUST HOURS AFTER HE LEARNED OF HIS MOTHER'S DEATH, HE APPEARED 451 00:24:07,714 --> 00:24:10,283 CALM >> UM, I JUST WANNA SAY VERY 452 00:24:10,283 --> 00:24:14,054 SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS, AND I UNDERSTAND THERE ARE OTHER 453 00:24:14,054 --> 00:24:15,855 THINGS YOU'D RATHER BE DOING >> Reporter: THE INVESTIGATOR 454 00:24:15,855 --> 00:24:17,223 WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT BRIDGET'S DAILY ROUTINE. 455 00:24:17,223 --> 00:24:19,726 >> SO JUST TELL ME ABOUT UM. >> A NORMAL DAY? 456 00:24:19,726 --> 00:24:22,062 >> YEAH, LIKE WHAT YOUR MOM'S NORMAL ROUTINE WOULD BE AND -- 457 00:24:22,062 --> 00:24:26,800 >> OK. SHE'S UP EARLY, LIKE FIVE IN THE 458 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:35,308 MORNING-ISH. UH, KIDS AND I GET UP AT 7:05, 459 00:24:35,308 --> 00:24:38,645 THEN SHE'S CLEANING UP, SHE HAS BREAKFAST AROUND TWENTY AFTER 460 00:24:38,645 --> 00:24:41,214 8 WE LEAVE TO DROP THE KIDS AT SCHOOL 461 00:24:41,214 --> 00:24:43,350 AND THEN FROM THERE, WE GO TO MY WORK 462 00:24:43,350 --> 00:24:46,086 >> Reporter: CALEB EXPLAINED THAT BECAUSE HIS LICENSE WAS 463 00:24:46,086 --> 00:24:51,391 SUSPENDED, HIS MOTHER DID ALL THE DRIVING. 464 00:24:51,391 --> 00:24:56,730 >> THEN SHE GOES HOME, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW LAST YEAR, UH, 465 00:24:56,730 --> 00:24:59,399 WE WERE DEALT WITH MY FATHER'S PASSING. 466 00:24:59,399 --> 00:25:02,068 SO SHE'S BEEN, UH, STILL DOING STUFF FOR THAT I DON'T GET INTO 467 00:25:02,068 --> 00:25:09,542 IT, INTO IT WITH HER IT'S PERSONAL BUSINESS AND 468 00:25:09,542 --> 00:25:13,046 OBVIOUSLY, UPSETTING UM, AND SO DURING THE DAY, UH, 469 00:25:13,046 --> 00:25:16,049 SHE, SHE HAS STUFF TO DO >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS ASKED 470 00:25:16,049 --> 00:25:19,219 WHERE CALEB WAS THAT DAY AND WHEN HE LAST SAW HIS MOTHER. 471 00:25:19,219 --> 00:25:22,889 >> MOM DROPPED ME OFF AT, UH-, TODAY QUARTER TO, SAME AS USUAL, 472 00:25:22,889 --> 00:25:25,558 AND I DIDN'T SPEAK TO HER DURING THE DAY. 473 00:25:25,558 --> 00:25:27,694 THERE WAS NO NEED TO, UH, SPEAK TO HER 474 00:25:27,694 --> 00:25:30,296 IT WAS TEN TO 4 WHEN THE SCHOOL CALLED 475 00:25:30,296 --> 00:25:33,066 AND THEN THEY HAD CALLED ME AND CALLED THE POLICE. 476 00:25:33,066 --> 00:25:35,669 >> Reporter: THE QUESTIONS GOT MORE POINTED 477 00:25:35,669 --> 00:25:38,338 THE PARAMEDICS HAD NOTICED BRUISING ON BRIDGET'S NECK 478 00:25:38,338 --> 00:25:40,974 DID CALEB KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT 479 00:25:40,974 --> 00:25:44,244 >> THERE WAS A MARK ON YOUR MOM'S CHIN 480 00:25:44,244 --> 00:25:47,447 >> YEAH, LIKE THIS >> LIKE A BRUISE OR SOMETHING. 481 00:25:47,447 --> 00:25:50,283 >> YEAH. >> YEAH AND THE CORONER'S JUST 482 00:25:50,283 --> 00:25:53,553 NOT SURE >> YEAH, I TALKED TO HIM ABOUT 483 00:25:53,553 --> 00:25:55,955 THAT >> YEAH, ABOUT WHEN OR - 484 00:25:55,955 --> 00:25:59,726 >> 'CAUSE I SAID -- IT WASN'T LIKE THAT IN THE 485 00:25:59,726 --> 00:26:04,531 MORNING WHEN SHE DROPPED ME OFF. >> MM-HMM. 486 00:26:04,531 --> 00:26:08,802 >> Reporter: POLICE WONDERED HOW AN APPARENTLY FIT WOMAN HAD 487 00:26:08,802 --> 00:26:14,708 FALLEN TO HER DEATH. THEY ASKED CALEB IF HIS MOM HAD 488 00:26:14,708 --> 00:26:19,512 ANY HEALTH PROBLEMS. >> NO MEDICAL HISTORY THAT - 489 00:26:19,512 --> 00:26:21,815 >> NOT THAT I WAS AWARE OF, LIKE I SAID, UH, TO THE OTHER 490 00:26:21,815 --> 00:26:25,085 OFFICERS, UH, LIKE A SLIGHT, UH, CASE OF DIABETES 491 00:26:25,085 --> 00:26:27,053 >> OKAY. UM, AND OTHER THAN THAT, SHE'S 492 00:26:27,053 --> 00:26:29,689 NEVER BEEN HOSPITALIZED, SHE'S NEVER FAINTED? 493 00:26:29,689 --> 00:26:31,825 >> NO, NO. >> Reporter: POLICE HAD SCOURED 494 00:26:31,825 --> 00:26:33,960 THE HARRISON'S HOME LOOKING FOR CLUES. 495 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,096 SO FAR, THEY'D FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY 496 00:26:36,096 --> 00:26:38,198 NO UNUSUAL MARKS ON THE STAIRS, THE WALLS, THE BANISTER. 497 00:26:38,198 --> 00:26:40,367 AND NOTHING WAS DISTURBED INSIDE THE HOME 498 00:26:40,367 --> 00:26:43,069 THEY FOUND NO SIGNS OF FORCED ENTRY EITHER 499 00:26:43,069 --> 00:26:45,171 IN FACT, THEY TOLD CALEB THE DOORS WERE UNLOCKED. 500 00:26:45,171 --> 00:26:47,307 >> WOULD THAT HAVE BEEN NORMAL FOR -- 501 00:26:47,307 --> 00:26:49,976 >> IT WOULD'VE BEEN OPEN, YEAH MOST OF THE TIME WE LEFT IT OPEN 502 00:26:49,976 --> 00:26:52,679 BECAUSE MOM WOULD TAKE US AND THEN COME RIGHT BACK 503 00:26:52,679 --> 00:26:54,781 AND WE'RE NOT A BIG CRIME AREA THERE, I MEAN. 504 00:26:54,781 --> 00:26:56,349 >> YEAH. IT'S A NICE NEIGHBORHOOD 505 00:26:56,349 --> 00:26:58,551 >> YEAH, PEOPLE, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE LIVED THERE FOR A LONG 506 00:26:58,551 --> 00:27:01,154 TIME >> SO THEN THE DOOR JUST GETS 507 00:27:01,154 --> 00:27:03,356 LOCKED AT NIGHT WHEN YOU GO TO BED, TYPE OF THING, OR 508 00:27:03,356 --> 00:27:06,026 >> YEAH. >> YEAH, OKAY. 509 00:27:06,026 --> 00:27:08,628 >> OR IF WE'RE GONNA BE AWAY >> Reporter: AFTER ANSWERING 510 00:27:08,628 --> 00:27:10,730 QUESTIONS FROM POLICE, CALEB WENT BACK TO CONSOLE HIS TWO 511 00:27:10,730 --> 00:27:12,432 CHILDREN AND TO GRAPPLE WITH THE LOSS OF BOTH HIS PARENTS BUT THE 512 00:27:12,432 --> 00:27:14,267 POLICE STILL HAD A LONG LIST OF PEOPLE TO INTERVIEW. 513 00:27:14,267 --> 00:27:16,202 AND ONE OF THEM WOULD POINT AUTHORITIES IN A SURPRISING 514 00:27:16,202 --> 00:27:18,738 DIRECTION. >> I DON'T WANT TO BE LIKE, 515 00:27:18,738 --> 00:27:19,939 ALREADY BEEN TOLD THAT FINGERS ARE BEING POINTED. 516 00:27:19,939 --> 00:27:22,575 AND I'M NOT IN ANY WAY POINTING FINGERS, THAT'S NOT WHY I'M 517 00:27:22,575 --> 00:27:28,515 HERE >> COMING UP - 518 00:27:28,515 --> 00:27:32,752 >> HE DID SOME PRETTY SERIOUS STUFF TO ME. 519 00:27:32,752 --> 00:27:34,354 >> AN UGLY ACCUSATION FROM CALEB'S ESTRANGED WIFE 520 00:27:34,354 --> 00:27:35,922 ABOUT THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. 521 00:27:35,922 --> 00:27:52,072 >> HE DIDN'T HAVE A GOOD RELATIONIP 522 00:27:52,072 --> 00:27:56,142 >> Reporter: TWO WEEKS HAD PASSED SINCE BRIDGET HARRISON'S 523 00:27:56,142 --> 00:27:59,479 DEATH. THE FAMILY WAS LEFT TRYING TO 524 00:27:59,479 --> 00:28:02,148 MAKE SENSE OF THE TRAGEDY. A TRAGEDY THAT ONCE AGAIN 525 00:28:02,148 --> 00:28:04,384 HAPPENED IN THE SAME HOME ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT. 526 00:28:04,384 --> 00:28:06,419 >> WHAT'S EVERYONE DOING NOW THAT THERE'S BEEN A SECOND 527 00:28:06,419 --> 00:28:10,724 DEATH? >> I THINK EVERYBODY WAS JUST SO 528 00:28:10,724 --> 00:28:13,360 BOWLED OVER BY WHAT HAPPENED THAT WE WERE TRYING TO FIGURE 529 00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:16,563 OUT AS MUCH AS WE COULD. WE COULDN'T GET BACK INTO THE 530 00:28:16,563 --> 00:28:20,834 HOUSE FOR SEVERAL DAYS SO WE ASSUMED THERE WAS A LOT 531 00:28:20,834 --> 00:28:24,070 MORE UM-- EFFORT BEING MADE TO GET TO THE TRUTH 532 00:28:24,070 --> 00:28:27,273 >> Reporter: PEEL REGIONAL POLICE WANTED TO SPEAK WITH 533 00:28:27,273 --> 00:28:30,076 EVERYONE IN BRIDGET'S CIRCLE, INCLUDING CALEB'S ESTRANGED 534 00:28:30,076 --> 00:28:37,384 WIFE, MELISSA MERRITT. AFTER ALL, IT WAS MELISSA AND 535 00:28:37,384 --> 00:28:40,053 CALEB'S 8-YEAR-OLD SON WHO FOUND HIS 'NANA' COLLAPSED BY THE 536 00:28:40,053 --> 00:28:42,188 STAIRCASE. THE KIDS LIVED HALF THE TIME AT 537 00:28:42,188 --> 00:28:44,324 NANA'S HOUSE >> SO NOW I'M PICTURING MY 538 00:28:44,324 --> 00:28:47,560 LITTLE BOY, WHO IS 8 YEARS OLD SOMEHOW HE GOT FROM SCHOOL AND 539 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,263 HE WALKED IN AND FOUND HIS GRANDMOTHER DEAD 540 00:28:50,263 --> 00:28:53,466 >> Reporter: MELISSA CONFIRMED TO THE INVESTIGATOR WHAT CALEB 541 00:28:53,466 --> 00:28:56,636 TOLD POLICE, THAT BRIDGET HARRISON WAS A HEALTHY WOMAN 542 00:28:56,636 --> 00:29:00,407 >> SHE ALWAYS WAS IN GOOD HEALTH SHE WAS ALWAYS GOING TO THE GYM 543 00:29:00,407 --> 00:29:04,177 AND SHE WOULD GO TO THE YMCA AND WORK OUT 544 00:29:04,177 --> 00:29:07,681 >> Reporter: LIKE THE REST OF THE HARRISON FAMILY, MELISSA 545 00:29:07,681 --> 00:29:10,583 THOUGHT THE TIMING OF BRIDGET'S DEATH SEEMED A BIT STRANGE 546 00:29:10,583 --> 00:29:13,753 >> I THINK IT'S WEIRD THAT SHE PASSED AWAY LIKE A WEEK AFTER 547 00:29:13,753 --> 00:29:16,456 BILL, LIKE IT WAS ALMOST LIKE A WEEK BETWEEN THE ANNIVERSARY 548 00:29:16,456 --> 00:29:18,024 >> YEAH. >> OF, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU 549 00:29:18,024 --> 00:29:19,659 CALL IT BUT SAY THE ANNIVERSARY OF BILL PASSING AWAY 550 00:29:19,659 --> 00:29:21,294 >> YEAH, FOR SURE. >> HE PASSED AWAY ONE YEAR AND I 551 00:29:21,294 --> 00:29:22,862 THINK IT WAS ALMOST LIKE A WEEK LATER. 552 00:29:22,862 --> 00:29:26,533 >> YEAH. >> THAT SHE HAD PASSED AWAY, I 553 00:29:26,533 --> 00:29:29,803 THINK THAT'S ODD BUT, YOU KNOW I, YOU KIND OF 554 00:29:29,803 --> 00:29:33,573 THEN, WHEN YOU START THINKING ABOUT IT, IT'S LIKE WELL, IT WAS 555 00:29:33,573 --> 00:29:35,709 A YEAR ANNIVERSARY SINCE HER HUSBAND PASSED AWAY. MAYBE, YOU 556 00:29:35,709 --> 00:29:37,811 KNOW LIKE I SAID, I'VE HEARD THAT STRESS KILLED, I'VE, I'VE 557 00:29:37,811 --> 00:29:44,284 HEARD YOU KNOW, LIKE IT CAN KILL YOU. 558 00:29:44,284 --> 00:29:48,054 I THINK JUST EAT AWAY AT YOUR BODY OR WHATEVER 559 00:29:48,054 --> 00:29:49,622 >> Reporter: BUT MELISSA HAD ANOTHER THEORY, ONE MORE 560 00:29:49,622 --> 00:29:52,058 SINISTER IT HAD TO DO WITH CALEB. 561 00:29:52,058 --> 00:29:54,461 >> WHEN I WAS WITH CALEB, YOU KNOW I'M NOT, I DON'T WANT TO BE 562 00:29:54,461 --> 00:29:56,596 LIKE, ALREADY BEEN TOLD BY DETECTIVE AMAROSO THAT FINGERS 563 00:29:56,596 --> 00:29:59,532 ARE BEING POINTED. AND I'M NOT IN ANY WAY POINTING FINGERS. 564 00:29:59,532 --> 00:30:02,469 >> YEAH. >> CAUSE THAT'S NOT WHY I'M 565 00:30:02,469 --> 00:30:06,206 HERE BUT WHEN I WAS WITH CALEB HE 566 00:30:06,206 --> 00:30:08,641 DIDN'T HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS MOM 567 00:30:08,641 --> 00:30:10,543 >> OKAY. >> AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT'S 568 00:30:10,543 --> 00:30:13,847 ENOUGH TO DO SOMETHING TO HER, BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE A GREAT 569 00:30:13,847 --> 00:30:16,883 RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS MOM. >> Reporter: AND SHE SAID THERE 570 00:30:16,883 --> 00:30:19,119 WAS REASON TO BELIEVE CALEB MIGHT HAVE BEEN VIOLENT TOWARDS 571 00:30:19,119 --> 00:30:22,322 HIS MOTHER FIVE YEARS EARLIER, WHILE STILL 572 00:30:22,322 --> 00:30:24,991 A COUPLE, MELISSA REPORTED THAT CALEB HAD ATTACKED HER IN THEIR 573 00:30:24,991 --> 00:30:27,127 HOME HE WAS LATER CONVICTED OF DOMESTIC ASSAULT 574 00:30:27,127 --> 00:30:29,295 IT WAS THE REASON THEY SEPARATED, SHE SAID. 575 00:30:29,295 --> 00:30:31,765 >> AND HE DID SOME PRETTY SERIOUS STUFF TO ME. 576 00:30:31,765 --> 00:30:33,566 >> MM-HMM. >> I'VE HEARD OF PEOPLE WHO YOU 577 00:30:33,566 --> 00:30:36,770 KNOW, THEIR HUSBANDS WILL ASSAULT THEM AND IT'S JUST LIKE 578 00:30:36,770 --> 00:30:38,905 YOU GET IN AN ARGUMENT AND THEY SLAP YOU OR THEY HIT YOU OR 579 00:30:38,905 --> 00:30:41,574 WHATEVER HE WASN'T LIKE THAT. 580 00:30:41,574 --> 00:30:43,677 IF WE GOT IN AN ARGUMENT HE WOULD NOT DO ANYTHING UNTIL I 581 00:30:43,677 --> 00:30:45,812 TURNED MY BACK OR LIKE, WENT TO BED. 582 00:30:45,812 --> 00:30:48,481 SO HE WAS LIKE, SNEAKY ABOUT THE WAY HE WOULD ASSAULT ME. 583 00:30:48,481 --> 00:30:51,184 SO, I KNOW THAT HE HAS IN HIM A TENDENCY TO HARM PEOPLE IF THEY 584 00:30:51,184 --> 00:30:54,387 PISS HIM OFF >> I KNOW WHAT HE DID TO ME, AND 585 00:30:54,387 --> 00:30:57,023 I DON'T KNOW, LIKE AND AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE 586 00:30:57,023 --> 00:30:58,625 DIED, I DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF SHE 587 00:30:58,625 --> 00:31:01,594 WAS ASSAULTED, I DON'T KNOW IF SHE LOOKED, I DON'T KNOW 588 00:31:01,594 --> 00:31:04,497 ANYTHING ABOUT THAT. SO, I DON'T WANT TO BE MAKING 589 00:31:04,497 --> 00:31:10,403 ANY ASSUMPTIONS THAT HE BEAT THE HELL OUT OF HER AND SHE DIED 590 00:31:10,403 --> 00:31:12,939 BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW >> BUT THOSE LITTLE THINGS POP 591 00:31:12,939 --> 00:31:14,674 INTO YOUR HEAD BECAUSE I KNOW MY PAST WITH HIM AND I KNOW WHAT 592 00:31:14,674 --> 00:31:17,877 HE'S DONE AND WHAT HE'S CAPABLE OF DOING 593 00:31:17,877 --> 00:31:21,081 >> Reporter: MELISSA'S MESSAGE WAS CLEAR. 594 00:31:21,081 --> 00:31:23,750 SHE WAS SUGGESTING CALEB MIGHT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS MOTHER'S 595 00:31:23,750 --> 00:31:25,885 DEATH. >> I ASSUME I'M PROBABLY A BIT 596 00:31:25,885 --> 00:31:28,088 STRONGER OF A PERSON BECAUSE OF MY AGE. LIKE WHEN HE WAS 597 00:31:28,088 --> 00:31:31,224 ASSAULTING ME I WAS IN MY MID-20'S 598 00:31:31,224 --> 00:31:35,495 >> HM-HMM. >> THEN COMPARED TO A 63-YEAR 599 00:31:35,495 --> 00:31:39,799 OLD WOMAN. LIKE I SAID, I'M NOT POINTING 600 00:31:39,799 --> 00:31:41,968 FINGERS AT HIM THOSE ARE JUST YOU ASKED ME 601 00:31:41,968 --> 00:31:43,570 WHAT - >> NO, YEAH EXACTLY THAT'S WHAT 602 00:31:43,570 --> 00:31:46,272 I WANTED >> WHAT KINDA POPPED INTO MY 603 00:31:46,272 --> 00:31:48,375 HEAD AND THAT'S ALL, THAT'S REALLY 604 00:31:48,375 --> 00:31:51,111 ALL THAT POPPED INTO MY HEAD IS, I WONDER IF. 605 00:31:51,111 --> 00:31:53,213 >> Reporter: POLICE ALSO BROUGHT IN MELISSA'S BOYFRIEND CHRIS 606 00:31:53,213 --> 00:31:55,915 FATTORE. THEY HAD BEEN LIVING TOGETHER SINCE HER SEPARATION 607 00:31:55,915 --> 00:31:58,585 FROM CALEB AND THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN OF 608 00:31:58,585 --> 00:32:03,390 THEIR OWN. >> IS THERE ANYTHING YOU CAN 609 00:32:03,390 --> 00:32:05,492 SHED LIGHT ON WITH RESPECT TO BRIDGET? 610 00:32:05,492 --> 00:32:08,895 >> UH, I THINK THE FIRST THING THAT POPPED THROUGH MY MIND UH, 611 00:32:08,895 --> 00:32:11,398 IF ANYTHING WAS WRONG WAS AUTOMATICALLY CALEB JUST FROM 612 00:32:11,398 --> 00:32:13,600 HIS BACKGROUND I JUST THOUGHT I WAS LIKE YOU 613 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,269 KNOW MAYBE THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT, MAYBE THEY FOUGHT, MAYBE HE DID 614 00:32:16,269 --> 00:32:18,905 SOMETHING. I DON'T KNOW 615 00:32:18,905 --> 00:32:21,374 I SAID I'VE NEVER TRUSTED HIM. I THINK HE'S VIOLENT, HE HAS A 616 00:32:21,374 --> 00:32:22,942 VIOLENT PAST >> Reporter: CALEB HARRISON, SON 617 00:32:22,942 --> 00:32:24,844 IN MOURNING OR SUSPECT >> COMING UP 618 00:32:24,844 --> 00:32:27,547 POLICE HAD CALEB IN THEIR SIGHTS 619 00:32:27,547 --> 00:32:29,182 DID SOMEONE ELSE >> YOU WERE ACTUALLY WORRIED 620 00:32:29,182 --> 00:32:31,317 THAT CALEB - >> YES, I WAS. 621 00:32:31,317 --> 00:32:50,704 >> COULD BE NEXT >> Reporter: POLICE WERE 622 00:32:50,704 --> 00:32:55,008 INVESTIGATING THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF BRIDGET HARRISON. 623 00:32:55,008 --> 00:32:58,745 AN AUTOPSY CONCLUDED SHE DIED FROM NECK INJURIES 624 00:32:58,745 --> 00:33:00,914 POLICE DIDN'T KNOW IF SHE'D TAKEN A FALL DOWN THE STAIRS OR 625 00:33:00,914 --> 00:33:03,283 IF SHE'D BEEN MURDERED INSIDE THAT SAME HOME WHERE HER HUSBAND 626 00:33:03,283 --> 00:33:05,719 DIED A YEAR EARLIER. POLICE HAD ZEROED IN ON SOMEONE 627 00:33:05,719 --> 00:33:08,388 CLOSE TO BRIDGET HER SON, CALEB 628 00:33:08,388 --> 00:33:12,692 >> THEIR FIRST SUSPECT WAS CALEB. 629 00:33:12,692 --> 00:33:16,463 AND THAT MAKES SENSE TO ME >> Reporter: CALEB HAD SOMEWHAT 630 00:33:16,463 --> 00:33:19,666 OF A DARK HISTORY, INCLUDING THE DOMESTIC ASSAULT AND DRUNK 631 00:33:19,666 --> 00:33:22,535 DRIVING CONVICTIONS. AND HIS ESTRANGED WIFE, MELISSA, 632 00:33:22,535 --> 00:33:25,071 SUGGESTED HE MIGHT'VE HARMED HIS MOTHER 633 00:33:25,071 --> 00:33:28,775 >> I KNOW THAT HE HAS IN HIM A TENDENCY TO HARM PEOPLE IF THEY 634 00:33:28,775 --> 00:33:37,350 PISS HIM OFF >> Reporter: ALSO, AS AN ONLY 635 00:33:37,350 --> 00:33:41,121 CHILD, HE STOOD TO GAIN LIFE INSURANCE AND THE ESTATE 636 00:33:41,121 --> 00:33:44,891 INCLUDING THE HOUSE. >> HE'S THE MALE IN THE HOUSE. 637 00:33:44,891 --> 00:33:48,128 HE'S THE GUY WHO'S GOING TO BENEFIT IF YOU FOLLOW THE MONEY. 638 00:33:48,128 --> 00:33:50,263 HE'S THE BENEFICIARY >> Reporter: BUT THE VERY IDEA 639 00:33:50,263 --> 00:33:52,399 OF CALEB HURTING HIS MOTHER WAS INCONCEIVABLE TO CALEB'S UNCLE, 640 00:33:52,399 --> 00:33:54,534 AND FAMILY FRIEND MIKE HARRINGTON 641 00:33:54,534 --> 00:33:56,670 >> Reporter: WERE YOU AWARE THAT CALEB HAD BEEN LOOKED AT IN HIS 642 00:33:56,670 --> 00:33:59,372 MOTHER'S DEATH >> I'D HEARD THAT, AND I GUESS 643 00:33:59,372 --> 00:34:03,043 IT -- YOU LOOK -- I -- YOU'RE GONNA LOOK AT EVERYBODY. 644 00:34:03,043 --> 00:34:06,312 IT MADE SENSE FOR THEM TO LOOK AT CALEB FROM THAT POINT OF 645 00:34:06,312 --> 00:34:09,516 VIEW IT NEVER CAME TO MIND IN -- IN 646 00:34:09,516 --> 00:34:12,686 MY MIND THAT HE WOULD BE -- HAVE ANY KIND OF INVOLVEMENT AT ALL 647 00:34:12,686 --> 00:34:15,422 WOULD -- DID -- IT JUST DIDN'T MAKE SENSE, KNOWING CALEB'S 648 00:34:15,422 --> 00:34:19,159 CHARACTER. >> Reporter: DID YOUR MIND EVER 649 00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:23,329 GO THERE "WHAT IF 650 00:34:23,329 --> 00:34:25,632 WHAT IF CALEB SNAPPED? >> NO. 651 00:34:25,632 --> 00:34:29,369 >> Reporter: "JUST THINGS WERE HARDER THAN WE THOUGHT?" 652 00:34:29,369 --> 00:34:32,072 >> NO. IT WASN'T PART OF HIS NATURE 653 00:34:32,072 --> 00:34:34,174 YOU KNOW, I'D KNOWN THIS -- I'D KNOWN THIS GUY SINCE HE WAS SIX 654 00:34:34,174 --> 00:34:36,343 MONTHS OLD >> HE LOVED HER. 655 00:34:36,343 --> 00:34:38,645 IT WAS A COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP 656 00:34:38,645 --> 00:34:41,715 BUT HE LOVED HER HE'D NEVER HURT ANYONE LIKE 657 00:34:41,715 --> 00:34:44,384 THAT >> Reporter: THERE WAS A 658 00:34:44,384 --> 00:34:47,587 SUGGESTION THAT HE MIGHT HAVE WANTED THE LIFE INSURANCE, THE 659 00:34:47,587 --> 00:34:50,256 MONEY. >> NO. 660 00:34:50,256 --> 00:34:54,260 LIKE, NO NO 661 00:34:54,260 --> 00:34:56,129 AND -- AND YOU DON'T WANT THE MONEY IN LIEU OF THE LOVE OF 662 00:34:56,129 --> 00:34:57,731 YOUR PARENT. NO. YOU DON'T. 663 00:34:57,731 --> 00:34:59,399 >> Reporter: DESPITE CALEB'S DOMESTIC ASSAULT CONVICTION, HIS 664 00:34:59,399 --> 00:35:01,468 FRIEND STEFANI DIDN'T BELIEVE MELISSA'S ALLEGATIONS. 665 00:35:01,468 --> 00:35:03,636 >> I REMEMBER UH -- SPEAKING WITH CALEB AND NOT REALLY 666 00:35:03,636 --> 00:35:07,374 UNDERSTANDING WHERE ANY OF THESE ALLEGATIONS WOULD COME FROM? 667 00:35:07,374 --> 00:35:09,075 >> Reporter: WHAT WERE THEY? >> SHE WAS CLAIMING THAT THERE 668 00:35:09,075 --> 00:35:12,712 WAS ABUSE HAPPENING. BUT I WAS WITH THEM 90% OF THE 669 00:35:12,712 --> 00:35:15,415 TIME OR OUR CHILDREN WERE TOGETHER. 670 00:35:15,415 --> 00:35:17,951 AND I'M NOT SURE WHERE ANY OF THESE THINGS WOULD HAVE 671 00:35:17,951 --> 00:35:19,152 OCCURRED THERE WAS NEVER ANY EVIDENCE 672 00:35:19,152 --> 00:35:21,321 I DIDN'T SEE ANY EVIDENCE OF ANYTHING HAPPENING 673 00:35:21,321 --> 00:35:23,456 >> Reporter: DID YOU BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS A CHANCE THAT SHE 674 00:35:23,456 --> 00:35:25,558 WAS TELLING THE TRUTH, THAT HE WAS BEING ABUSIVE? 675 00:35:25,558 --> 00:35:29,329 >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. >> Reporter: WHEN POLICE CHECKED 676 00:35:29,329 --> 00:35:37,303 CALEB'S WHEREABOUTS ON THE DAY HIS MOTHER DIED, HIS STORY 677 00:35:37,303 --> 00:35:43,209 CHECKED OUT. HE WAS WORKING ALL DAY 678 00:35:43,209 --> 00:35:47,080 >> THEY KNEW HE COULD NOT POSSIBLY PHYSICALLY HAVE DONE 679 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,649 IT HE WAS -- HE HAD AN AIRTIGHT 680 00:35:49,649 --> 00:35:51,351 ABSOLUTE ALIBI, OKAY SO THEY -- THEY KNOW IT'S NOT 681 00:35:51,351 --> 00:35:53,420 CALEB. THERE'S NO WAY HE COULD'VE 682 00:35:53,420 --> 00:35:55,555 POSSIBLY BEEN INVOLVED IN -- IN THIS DEATH 683 00:35:55,555 --> 00:35:57,123 SO THEN I THOUGHT, WELL, NOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT IT'S NOT 684 00:35:57,123 --> 00:35:59,292 CALEB, WHO DO YOU THINK IT IS? >> Reporter: THE FAMILY WANTED 685 00:35:59,292 --> 00:36:00,894 POLICE TO LOOK AT AT OTHER PEOPLE, BUT FROM WHAT THEY 686 00:36:00,894 --> 00:36:03,563 UNDERSTOOD, POLICE DIDN'T HAVE ANY OTHER SUSPECTS 687 00:36:03,563 --> 00:36:07,067 WITH NO SOLID EVIDENCE LIKE FINGERPRINTS, DNA, OR WITNESSES, 688 00:36:07,067 --> 00:36:09,436 POLICE SEEMED STUCK. WEEKS PASSED 689 00:36:09,436 --> 00:36:12,639 >> Reporter: YOU'RE KIND OF IN LIMBO, NOT REALLY KNOWING WHAT'S 690 00:36:12,639 --> 00:36:16,910 GOING ON WITH YOUR SISTER'S INVESTIGATION. 691 00:36:16,910 --> 00:36:20,647 >> IN MY OPINION, THEY HAD FOCUSED ON CALEB BEING THE 692 00:36:20,647 --> 00:36:24,951 CULPRIT. SO, RATHER THAN BROADENING THE 693 00:36:24,951 --> 00:36:31,891 INVESTIGATION AS QUICKLY AND AS -- AS THEY SHOULD HAVE, THEY 694 00:36:31,891 --> 00:36:36,162 TENDED TO SIT ON IT. HOPING THAT THEY WOULD FIND 695 00:36:36,162 --> 00:36:39,332 SOMETHING TO BREAK ON CALEB. TO PROVE THAT HE -- YOU KNOW, 696 00:36:39,332 --> 00:36:43,103 HIS ALIBI WASN'T GOOD. >> Reporter: WAS THE FAMILY 697 00:36:43,103 --> 00:36:46,339 SAYING TO THE POLICE, "COME ON THIS IS ONE YEAR APART 698 00:36:46,339 --> 00:36:49,075 WE REALLY SUSPECT FOUL PLAY. >> ABSOLUTELY. 699 00:36:49,075 --> 00:36:53,313 THOSE CONVERSATIONS WERE HAD BUT I DON'T THINK THE FAMILY WAS 700 00:36:53,313 --> 00:36:56,516 EVER SATISFIED WITH THE AMOUNT OF CONTINUOUS INVESTIGATION THAT 701 00:36:56,516 --> 00:37:00,186 WE ALL FELT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED 702 00:37:00,186 --> 00:37:02,922 >> Reporter: WHAT WAS THE FINAL THING THEY SAID? 703 00:37:02,922 --> 00:37:05,592 >> WE'LL CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE. 704 00:37:05,592 --> 00:37:07,727 >> Reporter: AND THE POLICE DID. FOR A WHILE. 705 00:37:07,727 --> 00:37:10,930 BUT IN IN JUNE, TWO MONTHS AFTER BRIDGET'S DEATH, AUTHORITIES 706 00:37:10,930 --> 00:37:13,099 CONCLUDED THERE WAS NO FOUL PLAY 707 00:37:13,099 --> 00:37:15,735 NO FORCED ENTRY, NO SIGNS OF A STRUGGLE 708 00:37:15,735 --> 00:37:19,039 THE DEATH WAS CLASSIFIED AS UNDETERMINED 709 00:37:19,039 --> 00:37:22,175 AND NOT LONG AFTER, THE POLICE CLOSED THE CASE. 710 00:37:22,175 --> 00:37:24,044 >> THE FAMILY WAS NOT INFORMED THAT THIS WAS NO LONGER BEING 711 00:37:24,044 --> 00:37:25,879 TREATED AS A MURDER AS -- AS - AS A HOMICIDE. 712 00:37:25,879 --> 00:37:27,947 AND YET, WE HAVE HEARD THAT THE POLICE SEEMED TO THINK THEY DID 713 00:37:27,947 --> 00:37:30,150 INFORM US. AND I'M PRETTY SURE THAT IF THEY 714 00:37:30,150 --> 00:37:32,819 HAD TOLD ME THAT, I WOULD'VE REMEMBERED IT. 715 00:37:32,819 --> 00:37:35,288 >> Reporter: BRIDGET'S BROTHER, DOUG, SAYS THE FAMILY WAS KEPT 716 00:37:35,288 --> 00:37:38,191 IN THE DARK. >> I -- I -- I DON'T KNOW ANY 717 00:37:38,191 --> 00:37:40,860 OTHER FAMILY MEMBER WHO SAYS, "OH, YEAH, THEY TOLD ME THAT 718 00:37:40,860 --> 00:37:43,530 THEY WEREN'T INVESTIGATING IT AS -- AS A HOMICIDE. 719 00:37:43,530 --> 00:37:47,233 >> Reporter: I MEAN, HOW COULD YOU FORGET 720 00:37:47,233 --> 00:37:51,538 THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE MOST CRITICAL MOMENTS OF YOUR LIFE, 721 00:37:51,538 --> 00:37:55,942 HEARING THAT >> I'M JUST SAYING - 722 00:37:55,942 --> 00:37:57,944 >> Reporter: THAT YOUR SISTER'S INVESTIGATION IS - 723 00:37:57,944 --> 00:37:59,546 >> IT'S -- YEAH -- >> Reporter: IS -- IS DONE 724 00:37:59,546 --> 00:38:01,648 >> Reporter: DOUG FEARED HE'D NEVER KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS 725 00:38:01,648 --> 00:38:04,317 OLDER SISTER BUT HIS BIGGER FEAR NOW WAS FOR 726 00:38:04,317 --> 00:38:07,554 CALEB AND THE CHILDREN IF THERE WAS A KILLER STALKING 727 00:38:07,554 --> 00:38:09,656 THE FAMILY, HE WANTED THEM PROTECTED. 728 00:38:09,656 --> 00:38:11,825 >> Reporter: YOU WERE ACTUALLY WORRIED THAT CALEB - 729 00:38:11,825 --> 00:38:15,028 >> YES, I WAS. >> Reporter: COULD BE NEXT 730 00:38:15,028 --> 00:38:17,664 >> ABSOLUTELY. CALEB SAYS, "I'M A BIG BOY 731 00:38:17,664 --> 00:38:21,468 I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF. AND I SAID, "LOOK, CALEB, YOU 732 00:38:21,468 --> 00:38:23,603 KNOW, YOU COULD STEP OFF A CURB AND GET HIT BY A BUS 733 00:38:23,603 --> 00:38:25,705 AND THE RESULT IS THE SAME SO LET'S AT LEAST DRAW UP A 734 00:38:25,705 --> 00:38:27,807 WILL LET'S AT LEAST SAY WHO YOU WANT 735 00:38:27,807 --> 00:38:30,510 TO RAISE THE KIDS. >> Reporter: CALEB AGREED. 736 00:38:30,510 --> 00:38:32,679 AND EVENTUALLY HE SEEMED TO BE GETTING ON WITH HIS LIFE 737 00:38:32,679 --> 00:38:34,814 BY THE SUMMER OF 2013, THREE YEARS AFTER HIS MOM'S DEATH, 738 00:38:34,814 --> 00:38:38,051 CALEB HAD A GIRLFRIEND AND WAS STILL LIVING IN HIS CHILDHOOD 739 00:38:38,051 --> 00:38:40,620 HOME ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT, THE HOME WHERE BOTH HIS PARENTS HAD 740 00:38:40,620 --> 00:38:44,090 DIED AND DESPITE MISTAKES IN HIS 741 00:38:44,090 --> 00:38:46,559 PAST, CALEB WAS A DEVOTED FATHER TO HIS TWO KIDS AGES 10 AND 12 742 00:38:46,559 --> 00:38:50,296 HIS FRIEND PAOLO ZAFFINO SAYS THOSE KIDS WERE HIS WORLD. 743 00:38:50,296 --> 00:38:52,966 >> Reporter: WHAT KIND OF THINGS DID HE LIKE TO DO WITH HIS KIDS? 744 00:38:52,966 --> 00:38:56,202 >> WELL, HE COACHED BOTH OF THEM IN BASEBALL. 745 00:38:56,202 --> 00:38:59,372 HE'D TAKE HIS SON PAINTBALLING JUST ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING 746 00:38:59,372 --> 00:39:03,109 THAT THOSE KIDS WANTED TO DO, CALEB WAS UP FOR IT. 747 00:39:03,109 --> 00:39:06,880 HE WAS AN EXCEPTIONAL FATHER HE WAS A GREAT FATHER. 748 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,015 >> Reporter: AND STEPHANIE WAS THERE TO SUPPORT HIM AS WELL 749 00:39:09,015 --> 00:39:11,685 >> WE HAVE ACCEPTED THAT AUNT BRIDGET AND UNCLE BILL HAVE 750 00:39:11,685 --> 00:39:15,422 PASSED AWAY. AND THE NEXT STAGES ARE FOR US 751 00:39:15,422 --> 00:39:18,291 TO CREATE A FAMILY AND A VILLAGE THAT HELPS CALEB RAISE THESE 752 00:39:18,291 --> 00:39:20,360 CHILDREN >> Reporter: DID CALEB NOT FEAR 753 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,362 FOR HIS LIFE THOUGH? DID HE NOT WORRY THAT HE COULD 754 00:39:22,362 --> 00:39:25,031 BE NEXT? >> HE -- I CAN HONESTLY TELL 755 00:39:25,031 --> 00:39:28,301 YOU, HE NEVER, EVER SAID THAT TO ME 756 00:39:28,301 --> 00:39:32,539 >> Reporter: NO ONE COULD HAVE IMAGINED THAT THIS FAMILY WOULD 757 00:39:32,539 --> 00:39:36,276 BE FACED WITH ANOTHER AGONIZING LOSS INSIDE THAT HOME ON PITCH 758 00:39:36,276 --> 00:39:40,447 PINE CRESCENT. >>> COMING UP: 759 00:39:40,447 --> 00:39:42,148 CALEB GOES MISSING >> Reporter: WHAT ARE YOU 760 00:39:42,148 --> 00:39:43,783 THINKING AS YOU'RE KNOCKING ON THE DOOR 761 00:39:43,783 --> 00:39:45,952 >> I'M HOPING HE'S JUST NOT IN THERE. 762 00:39:45,952 --> 00:39:49,055 >>> AND, A PARAMEDIC HAS A CASE OF DEJA VU 763 00:39:49,055 --> 00:39:50,824 >> Reporter: IT GIVES ME CHILLS WHEN I THINK, HERE YOU ARE AT 764 00:39:50,824 --> 00:40:06,606 THE SAME HOUSE WITH -- >> YES 765 00:40:06,606 --> 00:40:10,377 >> Reporter: IT WAS A SUMMER DAY. 766 00:40:10,377 --> 00:40:12,512 AUGUST 23rd, 2013. IN A TORONTO SUBURB, PAOLO 767 00:40:12,512 --> 00:40:16,282 ZAFFINO HAD JUST ARRIVED AT WORK 768 00:40:16,282 --> 00:40:19,486 >> WHAT'S THE FIRST THING YOU DO 769 00:40:19,486 --> 00:40:22,655 >> TURN MY COMPUTER ON CHECK MY E-MAILS 770 00:40:22,655 --> 00:40:25,358 >> Reporter: CALEB'S GOOD FRIEND PAOLO WAS BUSY PREPARING FOR A 771 00:40:25,358 --> 00:40:28,028 BUSY WORK DAY AT THE COMPANY WHERE THEY BOTH WORKED 772 00:40:28,028 --> 00:40:30,663 >> CALEB AND I WERE SUPPOSED TO, LIKE, RELABEL OUR WHOLE 773 00:40:30,663 --> 00:40:33,333 WAREHOUSE. AND, YOU KNOW, AS THE MINUTES 774 00:40:33,333 --> 00:40:35,835 KEPT PASSING BY, AND I HADN'T HEARD ANYTHING, STARTING TO GET 775 00:40:35,835 --> 00:40:39,205 A LITTLE ANXIOUS SO I STARTED TEXTING HIM, AND 776 00:40:39,205 --> 00:40:41,875 AND CALLING HIM. >> Reporter: CALEB DIDN'T TEXT 777 00:40:41,875 --> 00:40:45,078 BACK DIDN'T PICK UP HIS PHONE 778 00:40:45,078 --> 00:40:47,213 >> HAD HE EVER JUST NOT SHOWN UP FOR WORK BEFORE? 779 00:40:47,213 --> 00:40:49,349 >> NO. HE HAD NEVER NOT SHOWN UP. 780 00:40:49,349 --> 00:40:52,018 BUT CALEB WAS ALWAYS, "IF I'M LATE" -- 781 00:40:52,018 --> 00:40:55,255 HE'D TEXT AND SAY, "I'M RUNNING A LITTLE BEHIND. 782 00:40:55,255 --> 00:40:57,457 OR HE'D CALL IN, LET SOMEBODY KNOW 783 00:40:57,457 --> 00:41:00,060 SO I THINK IT WAS ABOUT 20 MINUTES WHERE HE WAS LATE 784 00:41:00,060 --> 00:41:02,762 >> 20 MINUTES ISN'T THAT MUCH. DID YOU -- 785 00:41:02,762 --> 00:41:05,432 >> IT WAS FOR HIM. 'CAUSE, I MEAN - 786 00:41:05,432 --> 00:41:09,169 HE'S, "I'M 30 SECONDS LATE I'M CALLING YOU AND TELLING YOU 787 00:41:09,169 --> 00:41:11,871 I'M 30 SECONDS LATE. >> Reporter: THE GUYS IN THE 788 00:41:11,871 --> 00:41:13,640 OFFICE THOUGHT MAYBE CALEB WAS GOOFING OFF AT HOME WITH HIS 789 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,076 GIRLFRIEND >> THEY SAID TO ME AT WORK, 790 00:41:16,076 --> 00:41:17,677 "WELL, WHY DON'T YOU GO DRIVE BY HIS HOUSE?" AND THEN WE'LL JUST, 791 00:41:17,677 --> 00:41:19,312 YOU KNOW, MAKE FUN OF HIM FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE ABOUT IT 792 00:41:19,312 --> 00:41:21,448 BECAUSE THEY'RE AT HOME PLAYING HOOKY TOGETHER 793 00:41:21,448 --> 00:41:23,583 >> Reporter: SO PAOLO DROVE OVER TO CALEB'S 794 00:41:23,583 --> 00:41:25,685 HE RANG THE DOORBELL THE CLEANING LADY ANSWERED 795 00:41:25,685 --> 00:41:28,355 >> "CALEB HASN'T SHOWN UP FOR WORK TODAY 796 00:41:28,355 --> 00:41:30,523 HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? "OH, NO, NO. 797 00:41:30,523 --> 00:41:32,292 I HAVEN'T SEEN HIM I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. 798 00:41:32,292 --> 00:41:34,260 "OKAY, WELL, IS HE HOME? "WELL, I DON'T KNOW. 799 00:41:34,260 --> 00:41:35,895 I DON'T CLEAN HIS ROOM MAYBE HE'S IN HIS ROOM." 800 00:41:35,895 --> 00:41:38,531 SO I SAID, "OKAY." >> ARE YOU GETTING WORRIED NOW 801 00:41:38,531 --> 00:41:42,502 FINALLY AT THIS POINT? >> I'M PUZZLED AT THIS POINT 802 00:41:42,502 --> 00:41:44,371 >> SO SHE SAID, "DO YOU WANNA COME INSIDE? 803 00:41:44,371 --> 00:41:47,607 SO AT THAT POINT I WAS LIKE, "ALL RIGHT AND STARTED WALKING 804 00:41:47,607 --> 00:41:51,878 UP THE STAIRS. I ASKED HER WHICH BEDROOM IT 805 00:41:51,878 --> 00:41:56,816 WAS. AND SHE POINTED TO THE END OF 806 00:41:56,816 --> 00:41:58,852 THE HALL >> Reporter: AS PAOLO WALKED 807 00:41:58,852 --> 00:42:01,521 SLOWLY DOWN THE HALL, HE CALLED CALEB'S NAME OVER AND OVER 808 00:42:01,521 --> 00:42:05,759 AGAIN. WHEN HE GOT TO CALEB'S BEDROOM, 809 00:42:05,759 --> 00:42:07,894 THE DOOR WAS CLOSED. >> WHAT ARE YOU THINKING AS 810 00:42:07,894 --> 00:42:10,063 YOU'RE KNOCKING ON THE DOOR? LIKE, ARE YOU SORT OF AFRAID NOW 811 00:42:10,063 --> 00:42:11,598 OF WHAT YOU'RE GONNA FIND ON THE OTHER SIDE 812 00:42:11,598 --> 00:42:13,400 >> I'M HOPING HE'S JUST NOT IN THERE AT THIS POINT. 813 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,335 I'M HOPING THAT HE'S NOT HOME. >> Reporter: THE ROOM WAS DARK 814 00:42:15,335 --> 00:42:17,437 WHEN HE OPENED UP THE DOOR HE SAW CALEB LYING UNDER THE 815 00:42:17,437 --> 00:42:19,105 SHEETS IN BED WITH A SLEEP MASK COVERING HIS EYES. 816 00:42:19,105 --> 00:42:21,241 >> TIME STOPPED. SO I JUST KEPT, LIKE, CALLIN' 817 00:42:21,241 --> 00:42:22,809 HIS NAME, WALKING UP ALONG THE SIDE OF THE BED TOWARDS WHERE HE 818 00:42:22,809 --> 00:42:24,944 WAS LAYING I JUST PUT MY FINGERS ACROSS HIS 819 00:42:24,944 --> 00:42:28,148 NECK LIKE THIS AND HE WAS JUST ICE COLD 820 00:42:28,148 --> 00:42:30,950 >> Reporter: HE IMMEDIATELY CALLED 911 821 00:42:30,950 --> 00:42:34,087 >> WE'RE TOLD WE ARE GOING FOR ANOTHER VITAL SIGNS ABSENT 822 00:42:34,087 --> 00:42:38,825 PATIENT. >> OKAY. 823 00:42:38,825 --> 00:42:40,994 SO THIS IS ANOTHER URGENT CALL >> HIGHEST PRIORITY WE HAVE, 824 00:42:40,994 --> 00:42:42,662 YEAH >> Reporter: WHEN PARAMEDIC 825 00:42:42,662 --> 00:42:44,297 PATRICK MORIN PULLED UP TO THE HOUSE ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT, IT 826 00:42:44,297 --> 00:42:45,799 ALL CAME RUSHING BACK. >> I'M LIKE, HMM, I'VE BEEN HERE 827 00:42:45,799 --> 00:42:47,934 BEFORE AND I SORT OF MENTION IT TO MY 828 00:42:47,934 --> 00:42:49,536 PARTNER AT THE TIME. AND THEN WE GET OUT AND WE GRAB 829 00:42:49,536 --> 00:42:51,671 OUR EQUIPMENT AND WE START MAKING OUR WAY TO THE FRONT 830 00:42:51,671 --> 00:42:54,541 DOOR >> Reporter: REMEMBER, THREE 831 00:42:54,541 --> 00:42:56,476 YEARS EARLIER PATRICK HAD BEEN CALLED TO THE HARRISON HOME 832 00:42:56,476 --> 00:42:59,646 AFTER BRIDGET DIED >> IT GIVES ME CHILLS WHEN I 833 00:42:59,646 --> 00:43:01,781 THINK, HERE YOU ARE AT THE SAME HOUSE WITH - 834 00:43:01,781 --> 00:43:04,451 >> YES IT GIVES ME CHILLS NOW 835 00:43:04,451 --> 00:43:07,654 >> Reporter: PATRICK HURRIED TO CALEB'S BEDROOM. 836 00:43:07,654 --> 00:43:10,390 >> AND WE SAW SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT BRUISING, UNDER HIS 837 00:43:10,390 --> 00:43:13,493 CHIN AND AROUND HIS THROAT THERE WERE SCRATCH MARKS ON HIS 838 00:43:13,493 --> 00:43:16,763 CHEST, AND THEN ON HIS RIGHT HAND, THERE WAS BRUISING AND A 839 00:43:16,763 --> 00:43:21,067 LITTLE CUT, AS WELL. UM, AND RIGHT AWAY, WE KNEW THAT 840 00:43:21,067 --> 00:43:23,269 THIS WAS FOUL PLAY >> THIS TIME IT WAS BLACK AND 841 00:43:23,269 --> 00:43:25,338 WHITE. THERE WAS NO GREY AREA THIS 842 00:43:25,338 --> 00:43:27,474 TIME - >> NO. 843 00:43:27,474 --> 00:43:29,542 WE KNEW THAT IT WAS FOUL PLAY, AND WE TOLD THE POLICE OFFICERS 844 00:43:29,542 --> 00:43:32,278 RIGHT AWAY >> Reporter: 40-YEAR-OLD CALEB 845 00:43:32,278 --> 00:43:35,482 WAS DEAD OUTSIDE THE HOME, THE COMMOTION 846 00:43:35,482 --> 00:43:39,219 OF POLICE VEHICLES AND AMBULANCES SET OFF A CHAIN 847 00:43:39,219 --> 00:43:42,956 REACTION OF CALLS. >> YOU GET THIS NEWS THAT CALEB 848 00:43:42,956 --> 00:43:48,895 HAS DIED THE THIRD FAMILY MEMBER. 849 00:43:48,895 --> 00:43:55,135 >> AND I REMEMBER -- I REMEMBER BEING AT THE LAKE AND 850 00:43:55,135 --> 00:43:58,505 LOOKING OUT AT THE WATER AND THINKING, "HOW -- HOW ARE WE 851 00:43:58,505 --> 00:44:02,275 GONNA GET THROUGH THIS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WITH THESE 852 00:44:02,275 --> 00:44:04,911 CHILDREN AND WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THIS 853 00:44:04,911 --> 00:44:07,547 FAMILY HOW ARE WE GONNA ENDURE A THIRD 854 00:44:07,547 --> 00:44:09,649 DEATH? AND MY GOD, THE CHILDREN 855 00:44:09,649 --> 00:44:18,291 WHAT -- WHAT WERE THEY GONNA DO?" 856 00:44:18,291 --> 00:44:20,960 >> Reporter: WORD OF CALEB'S DEATH SPREAD QUICKLY 857 00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,596 >> THIS TIME, I COLLAPSED. THIS -- THIS ONE, LIKE, FLOORED 858 00:44:23,596 --> 00:44:26,266 ME IN A WHOLE WAY. SO THIS WAS DEVASTATING. 859 00:44:26,266 --> 00:44:27,967 >> AT THIS POINT, IS IT JUST ALMOST FEELING LIKE THIS IS NOT 860 00:44:27,967 --> 00:44:29,469 REAL ANYMORE >> IT'S JUST BIZARRE 861 00:44:29,469 --> 00:44:32,138 IT'S JUST -- IT'S JUST IN THE REALM OF -- OF THE BIZARRE 862 00:44:32,138 --> 00:44:34,274 >> Reporter: IT WAS LIKE A HORRIFYING VERSION OF "GROUNDHOG 863 00:44:34,274 --> 00:44:37,477 DAY. THE THIRD DEATH IN THE HOME IN 864 00:44:37,477 --> 00:44:39,546 FOUR YEARS >> BEYOND BELIEF 865 00:44:39,546 --> 00:44:41,715 AND WE STILL THOUGHT, WELL, WHO'S NEXT 866 00:44:41,715 --> 00:44:44,384 AND, LIKE, WHAT ELSE IS GONNA HAPPEN 867 00:44:44,384 --> 00:44:48,655 >> YOUR WORST FEAR HAS BEEN REALIZED 868 00:44:48,655 --> 00:44:52,392 >> I WAS EXTREMELY ANGRY I -- 869 00:44:52,392 --> 00:44:55,595 BUT I ALSO SAID TO MYSELF, YOU KNOW WHAT, THEY'RE GOING TO 870 00:44:55,595 --> 00:44:58,231 CATCH THEM THIS TIME >> Reporter: THERE WAS NO DOUBT 871 00:44:58,231 --> 00:45:00,900 IN THE MINDS OF ANYONE IN THE FAMILY 872 00:45:00,900 --> 00:45:03,570 THIS WAS NOT SOME FREAKISH COINCIDENCE. 873 00:45:03,570 --> 00:45:10,043 ALL THREE DEATHS HAD TO BE CONNECTED. 874 00:45:10,043 --> 00:45:12,112 >> HERE WE HAVE CALEB PROPPED IN BED WITH HIS EYE SHADES ON 875 00:45:12,112 --> 00:45:16,416 WE FIND BRIDGET AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS 876 00:45:16,416 --> 00:45:20,120 WE FIND BILL IN THE BATHROOM YOU KNOW, ALL STAGED LIKE THIS 877 00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,789 IS -- HAS BEEN AN ACCIDENT OR, YOU KNOW, SOME UNUSUAL EVENT 878 00:45:22,789 --> 00:45:26,559 SO, YOU KNOW, WE JUST -- THREE TIMES? 879 00:45:26,559 --> 00:45:29,729 COME ON, GUYS. EVEN THE POLICE COULDN'T, YOU 880 00:45:29,729 --> 00:45:32,432 KNOW, NOT SEE WHAT HAD HAPPENED HERE 881 00:45:32,432 --> 00:45:34,534 AND SO AGAIN - >> I THINK HOLLYWOOD WOULD 882 00:45:34,534 --> 00:45:38,271 REJECT THIS SCRIPT >> I HAVE SAID THAT MANY TIMES 883 00:45:38,271 --> 00:45:40,940 I SAID, "IF I WROTE THIS STUFF, THEY'D -- THEY'D SEND ME DOWN 884 00:45:40,940 --> 00:45:43,109 THE ROAD FOR THIS. >> Reporter: THE FAMILY'S 885 00:45:43,109 --> 00:45:51,084 DEVASTATION WOULD SOON TURN INTO DETERMINATION TO HOLD SOMEONE 886 00:45:51,084 --> 00:45:53,219 ACCOUNTABLE. >> COMING UP - 887 00:45:53,219 --> 00:45:55,321 TIME TO TALK TO CALEB'S ESTRANGED WIFE AGAIN 888 00:45:55,321 --> 00:45:57,991 ONE OF THE LAST PEOPLE TO SEE HIM ALIVE. 889 00:45:57,991 --> 00:46:14,841 >> WE DIDN'T SPEAK AT THE TIME JUST KIND OF ACKNOWLEDGED THE 890 00:46:14,841 --> 00:46:17,544 >> Reporter: WHEN CALEB HARRISON WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS HOME, IT 891 00:46:17,544 --> 00:46:21,815 WAS QUICKLY RULED A HOMICIDE HE'D BEEN BEATEN AND STRANGLED 892 00:46:21,815 --> 00:46:25,051 CALEB, WHO'D BRIEFLY BEEN A PERSON OF INTEREST IN HIS 893 00:46:25,051 --> 00:46:30,423 MOTHER'S DEATH, MET HIS FATE IN THE SAME HOUSE AS HIS PARENTS. 894 00:46:30,423 --> 00:46:34,160 THIS THIRD TRAGEDY IN THE HOME ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT STUNNED 895 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:38,431 THE QUIET SUBURBAN COMMUNITY HIS MURDER LEAD THE LOCAL NEWS 896 00:46:38,431 --> 00:46:41,134 >> THIS IS THE EVENING NEWS. >> TONIGHT THE FATHER OF TWO IS 897 00:46:41,134 --> 00:46:43,837 CONSIDERED A HOMICIDE VICTIM >> THE 41-YEAR-OLD WAS FOUND 898 00:46:43,837 --> 00:46:48,641 DEAD IN HIS MISSISSAUGA HOME ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT BY A 899 00:46:48,641 --> 00:46:53,413 CO-WORKER ON FRIDAY WHEN HE DIDN'T SHOW UP FOR WORK. 900 00:46:53,413 --> 00:46:57,751 >> Reporter: POLICE COULDN'T IGNORE THE POSSIBLE CONNECTION 901 00:46:57,751 --> 00:47:03,056 TO HIS PARENTS' MYSTERIOUS DEATHS 902 00:47:03,056 --> 00:47:07,360 >> OUT OF DUE DILIGENCE, WE ARE SERIOUSLY LOOKING INTO THOSE 903 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:09,496 CASES AS WELL. >> Reporter: THEY ALSO PUT 904 00:47:09,496 --> 00:47:11,264 CALEB'S LIFE UNDER A MICROSCOPE. >> POLICE SAY THIS VICTIM IS THE 905 00:47:11,264 --> 00:47:13,733 SAME MAN WHO IN 2009 WAS GIVEN AN 18-MONTH JAIL SENTENCE FOR A 906 00:47:13,733 --> 00:47:16,403 DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT THAT KILLED A TAXI DRIVER 907 00:47:16,403 --> 00:47:20,173 >> WE'RE DOING A COMPLETE 360 DEGREE INVESTIGATION ON THIS 908 00:47:20,173 --> 00:47:22,308 INDIVIDUAL THAT IS A BIG EVENT IN HIS LIFE, 909 00:47:22,308 --> 00:47:24,944 SO WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT ALL ASPECTS. 910 00:47:24,944 --> 00:47:27,814 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS WONDERED IF CALEB'S DEATH WAS 911 00:47:27,814 --> 00:47:31,918 PAYBACK FOR THAT FATAL DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT YEARS EARLIER 912 00:47:31,918 --> 00:47:35,121 PERHAPS SOMEONE SEEKING REVENGE FOR THE DEATH AND INJURIES HE 913 00:47:35,121 --> 00:47:37,824 HAD CAUSED POLICE ANNOUNCED THE LAUNCH OF A 914 00:47:37,824 --> 00:47:41,428 FULL-SCALE INVESTIGATION THEY ASKED FOR WITNESSES WHO 915 00:47:41,428 --> 00:47:42,595 MIGHT HAVE SEEN CALEB THE NIGHT BEFORE HIS BODY WAS FOUND. 916 00:47:42,595 --> 00:47:44,764 >> SO IF SOMEONE WAS IN A BAR AND SAW HIM, OR IF SOMEONE SAW 917 00:47:44,764 --> 00:47:46,900 HIM IN A PARKING LOT OR DRIVING, WE'D BE INTERESTED IN SPEAKING 918 00:47:46,900 --> 00:47:50,603 WITH THOSE PEOPLE. >> Reporter: DETECTIVES 919 00:47:50,603 --> 00:47:53,773 INTERVIEWED THE PEOPLE WHO KNEW CALEB BEST, INCLUDING HIS FRIEND 920 00:47:53,773 --> 00:47:56,476 FROM WORK, PAOLO YOU'RE THE ONE TO FIND CALEB'S 921 00:47:56,476 --> 00:47:59,679 BODY >> RIGHT 922 00:47:59,679 --> 00:48:01,781 >> Reporter: POLICE HAD TO LOOK AT YOU AS A POTENTIAL SUSPECT. 923 00:48:01,781 --> 00:48:04,084 >> WELL, MYSELF AND THE CLEANING LADY, YEAH 924 00:48:04,084 --> 00:48:07,187 THEY HAD US BOTH SITTING IN THE KITCHEN JUST SEPARATE FROM 925 00:48:07,187 --> 00:48:09,823 EVERYONE ELSE AT THAT TIME AND THEN THEY TOOK US EACH 926 00:48:09,823 --> 00:48:13,059 INDIVIDUALLY TO THE STATION TO BE QUESTIONED. 927 00:48:13,059 --> 00:48:16,296 I THINK THEY JUST WANTED TO KNOW, LIKE, MY SIDE OF WHAT 928 00:48:16,296 --> 00:48:20,033 HAPPENED THAT DAY -- JUST HOW I HAD FOUND HIM, WHY I WENT TO HIS 929 00:48:20,033 --> 00:48:23,236 HOUSE WHEN I DID, AND JUST PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER. 930 00:48:23,236 --> 00:48:26,940 >> Reporter: THE POLICE, WHEN THEY'RE SHOWING UP AT A CRIME 931 00:48:26,940 --> 00:48:30,510 SCENE, DON'T HAVE A CLUE WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOUR RELATIONSHIP 932 00:48:30,510 --> 00:48:32,278 IS -- IS TO CALEB. >> EXACTLY 933 00:48:32,278 --> 00:48:34,514 >> Reporter: I MEAN, THEY'VE GOTTA FIGURE ALL THIS OUT. 934 00:48:34,514 --> 00:48:37,117 >> RIGHT AND THE FACT THAT THE CLEANING 935 00:48:37,117 --> 00:48:40,320 LADY WAS THERE AS WELL CLEANING UP 936 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,056 AND WHAT THEY END UP SAYING IN THE END IS CLEANING UP 937 00:48:43,056 --> 00:48:46,259 POTENTIALLY ANY EVIDENCE AS WELL 938 00:48:46,259 --> 00:48:49,462 THEY WERE KIND OF CONCERNED BY THAT 939 00:48:49,462 --> 00:48:52,632 >> Reporter: DID THEY ASK YOU, "DID YOU KILL CALEB? 940 00:48:52,632 --> 00:48:55,835 >> NO, THEY DID NOT ASK ME THAT. >> Reporter: AFTER QUESTIONING 941 00:48:55,835 --> 00:48:58,071 THEM, POLICE TOLD PAOLO AND THE CLEANING LADY THEY WERE FREE TO 942 00:48:58,071 --> 00:49:00,674 GO THE TWO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 943 00:49:00,674 --> 00:49:03,910 THE MURDER HOPING TO LEARN AS MUCH AS THEY 944 00:49:03,910 --> 00:49:07,881 COULD ABOUT THEIR VICTIM, DETECTIVES INVITED CALEB'S 945 00:49:07,881 --> 00:49:09,749 ESTRANGED WIFE, MELISSA MERRITT, DOWN FOR AN INTERVIEW. 946 00:49:09,749 --> 00:49:13,019 >> NOW THAT IT'S A HOMICIDE THAT'S WHY YOU'RE HERE IS JUST 947 00:49:13,019 --> 00:49:16,156 TO TRY AND ELABORATE A BIT MORE SO WE CAN GET DETAILS BECAUSE IT 948 00:49:16,156 --> 00:49:18,324 IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE WE'RE INVESTIGATING, AND IT'S A VERY 949 00:49:18,324 --> 00:49:20,694 SERIOUS ONE, AND OBVIOUSLY - >> SERIOUS, YEAH 950 00:49:20,694 --> 00:49:23,663 >> Reporter: MELISSA TOLD THE DETECTIVE SHE AND CHRIS HAD LAST 951 00:49:23,663 --> 00:49:27,033 SEEN CALEB AT THEIR DAUGHTER'S BALL GAME THE EVENING BEFORE HIS 952 00:49:27,033 --> 00:49:29,035 BODY WAS FOUND >> WE ARRIVED THERE IN AND 953 00:49:29,035 --> 00:49:32,706 AROUND 6:15, SO SHE COULD GET READY FOR HER 6:30 START 954 00:49:32,706 --> 00:49:35,375 UH, CALEB WAS ALREADY THERE TO, UM -- HE WAS HELPING WITH THE 955 00:49:35,375 --> 00:49:39,112 TEAM THAT NIGHT. WE DIDN'T SPEAK AT THE TIME, 956 00:49:39,112 --> 00:49:42,749 JUST KINDA ACKNOWLEDGED THE FACT THAT HE WAS THERE. 957 00:49:42,749 --> 00:49:44,818 >> Reporter: MELISSA SAID AFTER THE GAME SHE AND CHRIS TOOK THE 958 00:49:44,818 --> 00:49:48,188 CHILDREN AND HEADED TO A NEARBY STRIP MALL FOR DINNER. 959 00:49:48,188 --> 00:49:52,158 >> UM, JUST UP FURTHER ON MISSISSAUGA ROAD PAST OUR HOUSE 960 00:49:52,158 --> 00:49:55,128 THERE'S A PLAZA WITH A WAL-MART. >> YEP 961 00:49:55,128 --> 00:49:58,365 >> AND IN THAT PLAZA THERE'S ALSO A SUBWAY AND A PITA PIT, 962 00:49:58,365 --> 00:50:02,068 RIGHT BESIDE EACH. SO WE PULLED INTO THE PLAZA JUST 963 00:50:02,068 --> 00:50:06,339 AT ABOUT THREE MINUTES TO 9:00 >> Reporter: AFTER FEEDING THE 964 00:50:06,339 --> 00:50:10,110 KIDS, THEY HEADED HOME >> WE WENT IN, GOT EVERYONE 965 00:50:10,110 --> 00:50:15,482 READY FOR BED. ALL TO BED, UM, IN AND AROUND 966 00:50:15,482 --> 00:50:20,787 9:30 OR SO >> OKAY. 967 00:50:20,787 --> 00:50:24,524 >> PROBABLY IN AND AROUND ELEVEN O'CLOCK OR SHORTLY AFTER, UM, 968 00:50:24,524 --> 00:50:27,293 CHRIS AND I HEADED UP TO BED AS WELL 969 00:50:27,293 --> 00:50:29,896 >> Reporter: MELISSA WAS CERTAIN SHE AND HER BOYFRIEND SLEPT 970 00:50:29,896 --> 00:50:32,032 THROUGH THE NIGHT. >> EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE SLEEPING, 971 00:50:32,032 --> 00:50:34,167 YOU CAN SAY THAT CHRIS WAS THERE THE WHOLE NIGHT? 972 00:50:34,167 --> 00:50:36,102 >> I GOT UP AT 4:00 O'CLOCK AND HE WAS THERE 973 00:50:36,102 --> 00:50:38,238 HE'S A PRETTY BIG GUY, YOU KNOW, 6'3, 300 AND SOMETHING POUNDS SO 974 00:50:38,238 --> 00:50:40,573 HE DOESN'T TREAD LIGHTLY WHEN HE GETS OUT OF BED THE 975 00:50:40,573 --> 00:50:43,243 WHOLE BED MOVES. >> OKAY, SO YOU WOKE UP, CHRIS 976 00:50:43,243 --> 00:50:44,844 WAS STILL IN BED >> YEAH. 977 00:50:44,844 --> 00:50:47,347 I HAD A SHOWER, GOT MYSELF DRESSED, PUT MY MAKE UP ON, DID 978 00:50:47,347 --> 00:50:49,749 MY HAIR. >> Reporter: THE NEXT DAY POLICE 979 00:50:49,749 --> 00:50:51,217 SPOKE WITH MELISSA'S BOYFRIEND CHRIS FATTORE. 980 00:50:51,217 --> 00:50:53,553 >> SO WHAT TIME DID BASEBALL END? 981 00:50:53,553 --> 00:50:54,921 >> UH, IT PROBABLY ENDED AROUND 8:30 982 00:50:54,921 --> 00:50:57,090 >> OKAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 983 00:50:57,090 --> 00:50:59,192 >> UH, WE LEFT BASEBALL. WE WENT OVER TO THE PLAZA THERE 984 00:50:59,192 --> 00:51:00,860 WHERE THERE'S THE WALMART, THE PITA PIT 985 00:51:00,860 --> 00:51:03,063 >> OKAY. >> AND WE GOT THERE. 986 00:51:03,063 --> 00:51:05,165 >> YEP >> AND GOT EVERYONE ELSE'S 987 00:51:05,165 --> 00:51:06,833 PITAS. >> SO WHAT TIME DO YOU FIGURE 988 00:51:06,833 --> 00:51:08,902 YOU GOT IN, GOT INTO BED AT? >> UH, NO LATER THAN 10 AFTER 989 00:51:08,902 --> 00:51:11,538 11:00. >> UM, AND WHAT TIME DID YOU 990 00:51:11,538 --> 00:51:14,774 WAKE UP, THEN? >> UH, IT WAS PROBABLY ABOUT 991 00:51:14,774 --> 00:51:16,376 >> Reporter: CHRIS ANSWERED ALL THE DETECTIVE'S QUESTIONS, AND 992 00:51:16,376 --> 00:51:19,079 WENT HOME TO MELISSA AND THE CHILDREN 993 00:51:19,079 --> 00:51:23,850 THE HOMICIDE SQUAD PRESSED ON TRYING TO FIND WHY SOMEONE 994 00:51:23,850 --> 00:51:27,587 WANTED CALEB DEAD, AND WHAT, IF ANYTHING, HIS KILLING HAD TO DO 995 00:51:27,587 --> 00:51:30,824 WITH THE DEATHS OF BILL AND BRIDGET HARRISON 996 00:51:30,824 --> 00:51:33,993 COMING UP -- MISSING CHILDREN 997 00:51:33,993 --> 00:51:37,230 AND A POSSIBLE MOTIVE FOR MURDER 998 00:51:37,230 --> 00:51:39,366 >> THERE ARE ONLY A COUPLE OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD WHO IT 999 00:51:39,366 --> 00:51:56,483 MAKES ANY SENSE TO BE INVOLVED WITH THIS. 1000 00:51:56,483 --> 00:52:00,787 >> Reporter: ONE BY ONE THEY DIED IN THIS HOUSE 1001 00:52:00,787 --> 00:52:05,425 A FATHER, A MOTHER, AND NOW THEIR SON. 1002 00:52:05,425 --> 00:52:07,527 THE INVESTIGATION INTO CALEB HARRISON'S MURDER WAS IN HIGH 1003 00:52:07,527 --> 00:52:11,464 GEAR >> HOMICIDE TOOK OVER THE 1004 00:52:11,464 --> 00:52:16,269 INVESTIGATION IMMEDIATELY. AND LEADING THE TEAM WERE NEW 1005 00:52:16,269 --> 00:52:19,472 INVESTIGATORS WHO HADN'T BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CASES BEFORE 1006 00:52:19,472 --> 00:52:22,642 >> Reporter: AMY DEMPSEY IS A REPORTER WITH THE "TORONTO 1007 00:52:22,642 --> 00:52:25,345 STAR," WHO COVERED THE STORY FOR FOUR YEARS 1008 00:52:25,345 --> 00:52:27,981 >> THE THINGS THAT WEREN'T DONE IN BRIDGET HARRISON'S DEATH 1009 00:52:27,981 --> 00:52:30,850 INVESTIGATION WERE ALMOST IMMEDIATELY DONE IN CALEB 1010 00:52:30,850 --> 00:52:34,287 HARRISON'S >> Reporter: WITH A MURDER ON 1011 00:52:34,287 --> 00:52:37,090 THEIR HANDS, POLICE WENT BACK INTO BRIDGET'S FILE, TO SEE IF 1012 00:52:37,090 --> 00:52:40,260 THEY COULD FIND ANY LINK BETWEEN THE TWO DEATHS 1013 00:52:40,260 --> 00:52:43,430 CALEB HAD BEEN STRANGLED, AND WHEN THE OFFICERS COMPARED HIS 1014 00:52:43,430 --> 00:52:46,666 AUTOPSY WITH HIS MOTHER'S, THEY SAW A STRIKING PARALLEL. 1015 00:52:46,666 --> 00:52:49,369 >> WHEN THEY SAW THAT CALEB HAD BEEN STRANGLED, IT CHANGED THE 1016 00:52:49,369 --> 00:52:52,005 WAY THEY LOOKED AT HIS MOTHER'S DEATH. 1017 00:52:52,005 --> 00:52:54,674 >> Reporter: BRIDGET DIED FROM NECK INJURIES. 1018 00:52:54,674 --> 00:52:58,411 BUT HER AUTOPSY COULDN'T DETERMINE WHETHER THEY WERE 1019 00:52:58,411 --> 00:53:03,283 CAUSED BY A FALL DOWN THE STAIRS, OR FROM STRANGULATION. 1020 00:53:03,283 --> 00:53:05,919 >> WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT SHE FELL DOWN THE STAIRS WHEN HER 1021 00:53:05,919 --> 00:53:08,588 SON WAS STRANGLED? IT NOW LOOKED LIKE THE 1022 00:53:08,588 --> 00:53:11,291 STRANGULATION THEORY WAS THE BETTER FIT 1023 00:53:11,291 --> 00:53:13,960 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS NOW SUSPECTED WHAT HAPPENED TO 1024 00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,629 BRIDGET COULD HAVE BEEN MURDER AND WHEN THEY DUG DEEPER INTO 1025 00:53:16,629 --> 00:53:19,866 HER CASE, THEY DISCOVERED THERE HAD BEEN A BATTLE RAGING INSIDE 1026 00:53:19,866 --> 00:53:23,103 THE HARRISON HOME -- A FIGHT OVER CUSTODY AND ACCESS TO CALEB 1027 00:53:23,103 --> 00:53:25,805 AND MELISSA'S CHILDREN >> THE HISTORY OF THE CUSTODY 1028 00:53:25,805 --> 00:53:29,075 DISPUTE BETWEEN MELISSA AND CALEB IS WRITTEN IN THEIR CASE 1029 00:53:29,075 --> 00:53:32,746 FILE NOTES FOR BRIDGET'S DEATH IT'S -- IT'S ALL THERE 1030 00:53:32,746 --> 00:53:35,548 >> Reporter: CALEB AND MELISSA HAD BEEN FIGHTING OVER THEIR 1031 00:53:35,548 --> 00:53:38,618 CHILDREN SINCE THEY SEPARATED IN 2005 1032 00:53:38,618 --> 00:53:42,389 FOUR YEARS LATER, THAT BATTLE BECAME ALL OUT WAR 1033 00:53:42,389 --> 00:53:44,491 BECAUSE CALEB WAS IN JAIL FOR THAT DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT, 1034 00:53:44,491 --> 00:53:47,193 BILL AND BRIDGET TOOK CARE OF HIS KIDS 1035 00:53:47,193 --> 00:53:49,329 THE GRANDPARENTS SHARED CUSTODY OF THEM WITH MELISSA, AND SHE 1036 00:53:49,329 --> 00:53:58,405 WASN'T HAPPY ABOUT IT. SO TENSIONS WERE HIGH WHEN BILL 1037 00:53:58,405 --> 00:54:02,676 DIED ON APRIL 16, 2009 AND IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED, 1038 00:54:02,676 --> 00:54:05,912 THEY ONLY GOT WORSE. >> WE FOUND THAT THE CHILDREN 1039 00:54:05,912 --> 00:54:09,115 HAD BEEN ABDUCTED BY MELISSA >> Reporter: AND HER BOYFRIEND 1040 00:54:09,115 --> 00:54:13,386 >> CORRECT >> Reporter: CHRIS FATTORE 1041 00:54:13,386 --> 00:54:18,058 >> CORRECT >> Reporter: FRANTIC, BRIDGET 1042 00:54:18,058 --> 00:54:20,894 AND HER BROTHER WENT TO THE POLICE 1043 00:54:20,894 --> 00:54:24,097 >> I WAS SITTING WITH BRIDGET IN THE PEEL POLICE STATION. 1044 00:54:24,097 --> 00:54:27,667 AND BILL WAS ACTUALLY AT THE FUNERAL HOME, THE BODY 1045 00:54:27,667 --> 00:54:31,071 AND BRIDGET SAID, "MY GRANDCHILDREN HAVE BEEN 1046 00:54:31,071 --> 00:54:34,240 ABDUCTED WE'D LIKE YOU TO PUT OUT AN 1047 00:54:34,240 --> 00:54:36,910 ALL-POINTS BULLETIN AND SEE IF THESE PEOPLE CAN BE BROUGHT 1048 00:54:36,910 --> 00:54:39,079 BACK." >> Reporter: BUT IT WASN'T THAT 1049 00:54:39,079 --> 00:54:42,282 SIMPLE BRIDGET HAD TO GO TO FAMILY 1050 00:54:42,282 --> 00:54:45,352 COURT FIRST, BEFORE THE POLICE WOULD ACT. 1051 00:54:45,352 --> 00:54:47,087 THREE FRUSTRATING WEEKS LATER, THE POLICE RECORDED THIS 1052 00:54:47,087 --> 00:54:49,289 STATEMENT FROM A COMPOSED, BUT VERY WORRIED GRANDMOTHER 1053 00:54:49,289 --> 00:54:51,925 >> THESE ARE THE CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED BY THEIR 1054 00:54:51,925 --> 00:54:55,128 MOTHER >> Reporter: SHE TOLD THE 1055 00:54:55,128 --> 00:54:59,499 OFFICER THAT THE DAY AFTER BILL DIED, SHE WENT TO THE KIDS' 1056 00:54:59,499 --> 00:55:02,102 SCHOOL TO TELL THEM ABOUT THEIR GRANDFATHER. 1057 00:55:02,102 --> 00:55:07,073 >> AND SO I WENT UP TO THE SCHOOL AND FOUND OUT THEY 1058 00:55:07,073 --> 00:55:09,642 WEREN'T IN SCHOOL. >> OKAY. 1059 00:55:09,642 --> 00:55:14,047 >> AND THERE'S A COURT ORDER THAT SAYS SHE'S NOT TO WITHDRAW 1060 00:55:14,047 --> 00:55:18,284 THEM FROM SCHOOL, EXCEPT FOR ILLNESS, AND IT HAD TO BE 1061 00:55:18,284 --> 00:55:19,853 ACCOMPANIED BY A DOCTOR'S NOTE >> Reporter: BRIDGET AND A 1062 00:55:19,853 --> 00:55:22,055 FRIEND THEN WENT TO CHRIS AND MELISSA'S HOUSE. 1063 00:55:22,055 --> 00:55:25,225 >> SO WE WENT BY THE HOUSE, ALL DARK, ALL LOCKED UP. 1064 00:55:25,225 --> 00:55:27,327 MADE ME NERVOUS. >> MM-HMM. 1065 00:55:27,327 --> 00:55:30,063 >> I CALLED HER DAD, PARTLY TO TELL HIM -- WELL, FIRST OF ALL 1066 00:55:30,063 --> 00:55:32,632 TO TELL HIM ABOUT BILL'S DEATH, BUT ALSO TO ASK HIM, PLEASE TO 1067 00:55:32,632 --> 00:55:35,502 TALK TO MELISSA AND MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO TELL THE 1068 00:55:35,502 --> 00:55:38,071 CHILDREN OURSELVES >> Reporter: THAT WAS ON A 1069 00:55:38,071 --> 00:55:40,707 FRIDAY THE WEEKEND PASSED AND THERE WAS 1070 00:55:40,707 --> 00:55:43,910 STILL NO SIGN OF THE CHILDREN. WHEN MONDAY CAME, BRIDGET HOPED 1071 00:55:43,910 --> 00:55:47,647 FOR GOOD NEWS FROM THE SCHOOL. >> I CALLED THE SCHOOL ON 1072 00:55:47,647 --> 00:55:49,816 MONDAY, THE KIDS WERE NOT IN SCHOOL 1073 00:55:49,816 --> 00:55:53,086 WENT BACK BY THE HOUSE, YOU KNOW, NOTHING THERE. 1074 00:55:53,086 --> 00:55:55,155 TUESDAY WAS OUR DAY, SO SHE'S IN BREACH OF THE ORDER -- 1075 00:55:55,155 --> 00:55:57,257 >> MM-HMM. >> -- WHEN THEY'RE NOT IN SCHOOL 1076 00:55:57,257 --> 00:56:00,527 ON TUESDAY >> OKAY. 1077 00:56:00,527 --> 00:56:04,230 >> THAT'S -- THE FLAGS REALLY WENT UP THEN 1078 00:56:04,230 --> 00:56:07,033 >> Reporter: BRIDGET BARELY HAD TIME TO GRIEVE FOR HUSBAND 1079 00:56:07,033 --> 00:56:10,136 INSTEAD SHE BEGAN A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR THE CHILDREN. 1080 00:56:10,136 --> 00:56:12,806 >> SHE HAD TALKED TO PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS. 1081 00:56:12,806 --> 00:56:15,442 SHE HAD GONE TO CHILD FIND THEN THERE WAS A COUNTRYWIDE 1082 00:56:15,442 --> 00:56:17,777 BULLETIN TO PICK UP THE FATTORES AND THESE KIDS 1083 00:56:17,777 --> 00:56:19,245 SO THEY WERE ON NOTICE THROUGHOUT CANADA TO LOOK FOR 1084 00:56:19,245 --> 00:56:22,382 THEM >> Reporter: IT TOOK SEVEN 1085 00:56:22,382 --> 00:56:24,718 MONTHS FOR AUTHORITIES TO FIND THE COUPLE AND THE CHILDREN. 1086 00:56:24,718 --> 00:56:28,288 THEY WERE LIVING 1,100 MILES AWAY IN NOVA SCOTIA. 1087 00:56:28,288 --> 00:56:31,057 MELISSA WAS ARRESTED FOR PARENTAL CHILD ABDUCTION 1088 00:56:31,057 --> 00:56:34,227 THE KIDS WOULD RETURN TO LIVE IN THEIR GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE. 1089 00:56:34,227 --> 00:56:38,498 >> Reporter: SHE GOES TO GET THE KIDS AND BRING THEM HOME 1090 00:56:38,498 --> 00:56:41,735 IT MUST HAVE BEEN SUCH A RELIEF TO GET THEM BACK 1091 00:56:41,735 --> 00:56:45,972 >> OH, YES. DEFINITELY VERY RELIEVED, VERY HAPPY TO 1092 00:56:45,972 --> 00:56:49,709 HAVE THEM BACK >> Reporter: THEN IN 2010, ABOUT 1093 00:56:49,709 --> 00:56:53,446 A YEAR AFTER BILL DIED, MELISSA PLEADED GUILTY AND WAS TO BE 1094 00:56:53,446 --> 00:56:55,582 SENTENCED ON THE ABDUCTION CHARGE 1095 00:56:55,582 --> 00:56:57,717 BRIDGET WAS TO GIVE A VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AT THE HEARING. 1096 00:56:57,717 --> 00:56:59,886 SHE NEVER MADE IT. SHE WAS FOUND DEAD AT THE BOTTOM 1097 00:56:59,886 --> 00:57:02,522 OF THE STAIRS. BRIDGET DIES THE DAY BEFORE A 1098 00:57:02,522 --> 00:57:05,759 HEARING. >> SO THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO 1099 00:57:05,759 --> 00:57:09,029 TO COURT AT THAT TIME. >> Reporter: DOUG SAID AFTER 1100 00:57:09,029 --> 00:57:15,935 BRIDGET DIED, HE TOLD POLICE ALL ABOUT THE FIGHTS OVER THE 1101 00:57:15,935 --> 00:57:21,875 CHILDREN >> I GAVE THEM THE INFORMATION 1102 00:57:21,875 --> 00:57:26,312 THAT I THOUGHT THEY NEEDED I'M JUST SAYING, "LOOK AT IT." 1103 00:57:26,312 --> 00:57:29,315 [ LIGHT LAUGHTER ] THERE -- THERE ARE ONLY A COUPLE 1104 00:57:29,315 --> 00:57:30,917 OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD WHO IT MAKES ANY SENSE TO BE INVOLVED 1105 00:57:30,917 --> 00:57:32,585 WITH THIS. >> Reporter: SO HE WANTED POLICE 1106 00:57:32,585 --> 00:57:34,154 TO TALK TO PEOPLE CONNECTED TO MELISSA. 1107 00:57:34,154 --> 00:57:36,256 >> WHO'S ANGRY WITH BRIDGET AND BILL 1108 00:57:36,256 --> 00:57:38,425 IT'S THE MERRITTS. GO TALK TO THEM. 1109 00:57:38,425 --> 00:57:41,127 FIND OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY WERE DOING 1110 00:57:41,127 --> 00:57:43,229 DO THIS. >> Reporter: BUT HE SAID HIS 1111 00:57:43,229 --> 00:57:46,466 SUSPICIONS FELL ON DEAF EARS THEN, THREE YEARS LATER, IN 1112 00:57:46,466 --> 00:57:49,669 2013, CALEB WAS MURDERED STEFANI SAYS THE TIMING WAS NO 1113 00:57:49,669 --> 00:57:53,406 COINCIDENCE. >> MELISSA WAS ASKING TO HAVE 1114 00:57:53,406 --> 00:57:56,676 THE KIDS 50% OF THE TIME, CALEB WAS REALLY RELUCTANT TO DO THAT. 1115 00:57:56,676 --> 00:57:58,845 >> Reporter: THE ISSUE WAS NEVER RESOLVED 1116 00:57:58,845 --> 00:58:02,615 AFTER HIS DEATH, MELISSA WAS AWARDED FULL CUSTODY OF THEIR 1117 00:58:02,615 --> 00:58:04,718 SON AND DAUGHTER WHAT ARE YOU THINKING HAPPENED 1118 00:58:04,718 --> 00:58:08,021 >> OH, I'M THINKING ABSOLUTELY THAT THERE WAS CONSPIRACY 1119 00:58:08,021 --> 00:58:10,623 BETWEEN MELISSA AND CHRISTOPHER. I HAD NO DOUBT IN MY MIND. 1120 00:58:10,623 --> 00:58:12,258 THIS IS THE THIRD TIME THE FIRST TIME WAS ABDUCTING THE 1121 00:58:12,258 --> 00:58:15,495 CHILDREN THE SECOND TIME WAS -- YOU KNOW, 1122 00:58:15,495 --> 00:58:18,164 GETTING RID OF THE COURT HEARING WITH AUNT BRIDGET. 1123 00:58:18,164 --> 00:58:20,867 AND THIS THIRD TIME WAS AGAIN ABOUT THE CHILDREN 1124 00:58:20,867 --> 00:58:24,070 HER MISSION WAS TO GET THOSE CHILDREN AND GET THEM AWAY FROM 1125 00:58:24,070 --> 00:58:32,045 CALEB SO THAT SHE COULD CARRY ON WITH HER LIFE. 1126 00:58:32,045 --> 00:58:35,415 >> Reporter: IT TOOK CALEB'S DEATH, SHE SAYS, FOR POLICE TO 1127 00:58:35,415 --> 00:58:38,084 FINALLY PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THE FAMILY HAD BEEN TELLING THEM 1128 00:58:38,084 --> 00:58:39,719 FOR YEARS. >> AND NOW, THEY'RE ASKING, 1129 00:58:39,719 --> 00:58:41,821 "GIVE US SOME BACKGROUND ON MELISSA. 1130 00:58:41,821 --> 00:58:45,058 WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE CHILDREN?" 1131 00:58:45,058 --> 00:58:49,863 ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS ARE NOW COMING TO US 1132 00:58:49,863 --> 00:58:54,167 >> Reporter: A CLEAR MOTIVE WAS EMERGING 1133 00:58:54,167 --> 00:58:57,337 >> THE MOTIVE THAT POLICE WERE PURSUING IS THEY BELIEVED THAT 1134 00:58:57,337 --> 00:59:01,875 THE HARRISONS HAD BEEN KILLED POTENTIALLY OVER THE CUSTODY 1135 00:59:01,875 --> 00:59:06,012 BATTLE >> Reporter: DID IT FINALLY FEEL 1136 00:59:06,012 --> 00:59:09,683 LIKE REDEMPTION, THAT THE POLICE WERE LISTENING TO YOU? 1137 00:59:09,683 --> 00:59:10,750 THAT THEY WERE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THIS 1138 00:59:10,750 --> 00:59:12,385 >> IT DID. BUT FOR ME, PERSONALLY, AND I 1139 00:59:12,385 --> 00:59:14,521 THINK THE REST OF OUR FAMILY, WE JUST WANTED TO SAY "BUT WHY 1140 00:59:14,521 --> 00:59:16,156 CAN'T YOU ARREST THEM NOW? >> Reporter: POLICE HAD NO HARD 1141 00:59:16,156 --> 00:59:17,757 EVIDENCE TO MAKE AN ARREST SO THEY WERE ABOUT TO GET 1142 00:59:17,757 --> 00:59:19,893 CREATIVE >> COMING UP, MELISSA GETS A 1143 00:59:19,893 --> 00:59:21,027 GENEROUS NEW "FRIEND," AN UNDERCOVER COP 1144 00:59:21,027 --> 00:59:23,129 >> CHRIS AND MELISSA HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON UNDER THEIR 1145 00:59:23,129 --> 00:59:24,831 NOSES? >> THEY HAD NO IDEA THAT POLICE 1146 00:59:24,831 --> 00:59:26,399 WERE IN THEIR HOUSE SETTING UP THESE WIRE TAPS. 1147 00:59:43,083 --> 00:59:45,719 >> Reporter: POLICE WERE NOW INVESTIGATING NOT JUST CALEB 1148 00:59:45,719 --> 00:59:48,388 HARRISON'S MURDER, BUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT HIS MOTHER 1149 00:59:48,388 --> 00:59:51,057 MIGHT HAVE BEEN MURDERED AS WELL 1150 00:59:51,057 --> 00:59:54,227 >> EVIDENCE GATHERED THROUGH THIS INQUIRY OPENED NEW AVENUES 1151 00:59:54,227 --> 00:59:56,930 OF INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEATH OF BRIDGET HARRISON. 1152 00:59:56,930 --> 01:00:01,234 >> Reporter: AND THIS TIME, IT WAS AN INVESTIGATION THE FAMILY 1153 01:00:01,234 --> 01:00:05,505 HAD FAITH IN >> THE PEEL POLICE DEPARTMENT 1154 01:00:05,505 --> 01:00:08,675 WAS EXTREMELY GOOD AT KEEPING THE FAMILY GROUP INFORMED. 1155 01:00:08,675 --> 01:00:11,878 THEY HAD MEETINGS WHERE WE WERE CALLED IN. 1156 01:00:11,878 --> 01:00:15,081 AND THEY SAID, "THERE ARE THI -- CERTAIN THINGS WE CAN TELL YOU 1157 01:00:15,081 --> 01:00:17,751 THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE CANNOT TELL YOU. 1158 01:00:17,751 --> 01:00:20,954 BUT, YOU KNOW, TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT 1159 01:00:20,954 --> 01:00:23,123 WE ARE ON THIS." >> Reporter: YOU FELT CONFIDENT. 1160 01:00:23,123 --> 01:00:26,326 >> I WAS VERY CONFIDENT IN THEIR -- THEIR DEDICATION TO IT. 1161 01:00:26,326 --> 01:00:29,562 >> Reporter: SO IT WENT FROM, LIKE, ZERO TO 100. 1162 01:00:29,562 --> 01:00:32,232 >> WELL, ABSOLUTELY. >> Reporter: WITH CALEB'S DEATH. 1163 01:00:32,232 --> 01:00:35,468 >> YEAH, GUARANTEED. >> Reporter: POLICE SUSPECTED 1164 01:00:35,468 --> 01:00:38,705 MELISSA MERRITT AND CHRIS FATTORE WERE BEHIND CALEB'S 1165 01:00:38,705 --> 01:00:41,341 MURDER, BUT NEEDED HARD EVIDENCE TO MAKE THE CASE AGAINST THEM. 1166 01:00:41,341 --> 01:00:44,544 SO SEVERAL DAYS AFTER CALEB'S MURDER, A POLICE OFFICER WENT TO 1167 01:00:44,544 --> 01:00:47,747 THEIR HOUSE POSING AS A GARBAGE COLLECTOR AND PICKED UP THEIR 1168 01:00:47,747 --> 01:00:49,883 TRASH. THEY FOUND A PAIR OF RUNNING 1169 01:00:49,883 --> 01:00:52,052 SHOES. REPORTER AMY DEMPSEY 1170 01:00:52,052 --> 01:00:55,755 >> Reporter: WAS THERE ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS ABOUT THIS IN THE 1171 01:00:55,755 --> 01:00:58,992 MOMENT >> I THINK IT WAS SUSPICIOUS 1172 01:00:58,992 --> 01:01:02,729 THAT THEY APPEARED TO BE NEW SHOES. 1173 01:01:02,729 --> 01:01:04,597 >> Reporter: WHY WOULD SOMEONE THROW OUT A NEW PAIR OF RUNNING 1174 01:01:04,597 --> 01:01:06,766 SHOES? SOME OFFICERS WORKING THE CASE 1175 01:01:06,766 --> 01:01:09,135 HAPPENED TO RECOGNIZE THEM FROM WALMART. 1176 01:01:09,135 --> 01:01:10,804 >> SO THEY WENT TO THE NEAREST WALMART AND THEY LEARNED THAT 1177 01:01:10,804 --> 01:01:12,839 THERE HAD ONLY BEEN ONE PURCHASE OF THOSE SHOES RECENTLY AND IT 1178 01:01:12,839 --> 01:01:17,177 WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CALEB WAS MURDERED 1179 01:01:17,177 --> 01:01:20,347 >> Reporter: AND THAT WALMART WAS IN THE SAME PLAZA WHERE 1180 01:01:20,347 --> 01:01:24,117 CHRIS AND MELISSA TOLD POLICE THEY WENT TO AFTER THE BALL 1181 01:01:24,117 --> 01:01:28,922 GAME THE PLAZA WHERE THEY SAID THEY 1182 01:01:28,922 --> 01:01:31,624 BOUGHT FOOD AT THE PITA PIT AND SUBWAY 1183 01:01:31,624 --> 01:01:35,395 AND WHEN THE OFFICERS LOOKED AT THE WALMART SURVEILLANCE VIDEO 1184 01:01:35,395 --> 01:01:38,598 THERE WAS CHRIS BUYING THOSE SHOES. 1185 01:01:38,598 --> 01:01:41,935 >> AND NOT ONLY THAT, THEY HAD A DEBIT CARD PURCHASE ON CHRIS' 1186 01:01:41,935 --> 01:01:45,105 DEBIT HISTORY FOR THE EXACT AMOUNT FOR THE SHOES 1187 01:01:45,105 --> 01:01:48,775 >> Reporter: ODDLY, IN THEIR INTERVIEW, THE COUPLE NEVER 1188 01:01:48,775 --> 01:01:52,012 MENTIONED GOING INTO WALMART TO BUY THE SHOES, WHICH SUGGESTED 1189 01:01:52,012 --> 01:01:54,714 THEY WERE TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING. 1190 01:01:54,714 --> 01:01:57,917 AND THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE DISCOVERED IN THAT TRASH, A PAIR 1191 01:01:57,917 --> 01:02:00,620 OF GLOVES. >> ON THE GLOVES THEY FOUND THE 1192 01:02:00,620 --> 01:02:03,823 DNA OF BOTH CHRIS AND CALEB. SO VICTIM AND SUSPECT. 1193 01:02:03,823 --> 01:02:05,959 >> Reporter: THIS IS NOW PLACING THESE TWO TOGETHER IN SOME FORM. 1194 01:02:05,959 --> 01:02:08,094 >> YES IT WAS DEFINITELY STRONG 1195 01:02:08,094 --> 01:02:11,297 EVIDENCE AGAINST CHRIS >> Reporter: AND POLICE HAD EVEN 1196 01:02:11,297 --> 01:02:13,967 STRONGER EVIDENCE -- CHRIS' DNA WAS FOUND UNDER CALEB'S 1197 01:02:13,967 --> 01:02:16,102 FINGERNAILS. BUT REMARKABLY, THERE WAS NO 1198 01:02:16,102 --> 01:02:20,373 ARREST WHY DID THEY NOT ARREST CHRIS 1199 01:02:20,373 --> 01:02:26,813 FATTORE RIGHT AWAY ONCE THEY GOT THE DNA MATCH. 1200 01:02:26,813 --> 01:02:30,583 >> I THINK THAT THEY HELD OFF BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO BUILD 1201 01:02:30,583 --> 01:02:33,787 THEIR CASE AGAINST MELISSA THEY HAD PRETTY STRONG EVIDENCE 1202 01:02:33,787 --> 01:02:39,159 AGAINST CHRIS IN -- IN CALEB'S DEATH, BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE 1203 01:02:39,159 --> 01:02:45,098 STRONG EVIDENCE AGAINST CHRIS IN BRIDGET'S DEATH AND THEY DIDN'T 1204 01:02:45,098 --> 01:02:48,234 HAVE -- DIRECT EVIDENCE AGAINST MELISSA. 1205 01:02:48,234 --> 01:02:51,971 >> Reporter: IN SEPTEMBER 2013, A MONTH AFTER CALEB'S MURDER, 1206 01:02:51,971 --> 01:02:56,643 MELISSA AND CHRIS MOVED THEIR FAMILY TO NOVA SCOTIA, ONCE 1207 01:02:56,643 --> 01:02:58,378 AGAIN. BY NOW, THE COUPLE HAD SIX 1208 01:02:58,378 --> 01:03:00,080 CHILDREN FOUR OF THEIR OWN, AND THE TWO 1209 01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:02,682 HARRISONS. THE POLICE KEPT A CLOSE WATCH ON 1210 01:03:02,682 --> 01:03:05,352 THE FAMILY, AS OFFICERS BUILT THEIR CASE, SETTING UP WHAT 1211 01:03:05,352 --> 01:03:09,122 WOULD TURN OUT TO BE AN ELABORATE STING. 1212 01:03:09,122 --> 01:03:12,325 THIS IS A REAL UNDERCOVER OPERATION. 1213 01:03:12,325 --> 01:03:16,629 >> IT REALLY WAS THERE WAS A LOT OF OFFICERS 1214 01:03:16,629 --> 01:03:18,765 INVOLVED AND THEY WERE PULLING OUT ALL 1215 01:03:18,765 --> 01:03:22,068 THE STOPS AT THIS POINT. >> Reporter: AND KEY TO THAT 1216 01:03:22,068 --> 01:03:24,170 OPERATION WAS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER NAMED SUE ANDREWS. 1217 01:03:24,170 --> 01:03:27,907 >> SUE STARTED E-MAILING MELISSA, JUST OFFERING HELP 1218 01:03:27,907 --> 01:03:31,144 SAYING SHE WAS, YOU KNOW, A WOMAN OF MEANS WHO CAME FROM A 1219 01:03:31,144 --> 01:03:34,314 GROUP OF LADIES WHO LIKED TO HELP PEOPLE OUT WHEN THEY WERE 1220 01:03:34,314 --> 01:03:36,483 IN DISTRESS AND HAD HEARD ABOUT MELISSA AND ALL HER KIDS 1221 01:03:36,483 --> 01:03:40,820 AND WANTED TO DO WHAT SHE COULD TO HELP THEM OUT 1222 01:03:40,820 --> 01:03:43,490 >> Reporter: DID MELISSA BUY THIS SUE 1223 01:03:43,490 --> 01:03:46,159 >> AT FIRST, MELISSA WAS A LITTLE BIT STANDOFFISH 1224 01:03:46,159 --> 01:03:51,531 BUT THEN THEY GOT TO TALKING BACK AND FORTH IN E-MAILS. 1225 01:03:51,531 --> 01:03:55,301 AND SUE STARTED OFFERING GIFT CARDS FOR GROCERIES AND BEST BUY 1226 01:03:55,301 --> 01:03:57,470 AND THINGS THAT THEY NEEDED. AND AT THE TIME, MELISSA AND 1227 01:03:57,470 --> 01:03:59,572 CHRIS WERE REALLY IN NEED OF MONEY. 1228 01:03:59,572 --> 01:04:01,207 >> Reporter: SO THE POLICE ARE BASICALLY CATFISHING MELISSA 1229 01:04:01,207 --> 01:04:05,311 MERRITT? >> YEAH. 1230 01:04:05,311 --> 01:04:07,080 POLICE ARE TRYING TO KEEP THIS CONNECTION BETWEEN SUE AND 1231 01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:10,316 MELISSA TO SEE WHAT CAN COME OF IT 1232 01:04:10,316 --> 01:04:12,952 AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT COMES OF IT IS THEY HELP THEM WITH 1233 01:04:12,952 --> 01:04:17,290 RENT IN THIS HOUSE ON THE EAST COAST OF CANADA. 1234 01:04:17,290 --> 01:04:21,594 >> Reporter: AND THE GIFTS KEPT COMING 1235 01:04:21,594 --> 01:04:24,264 A FREE WEEKEND AT AN AMUSEMENT PARK 1236 01:04:24,264 --> 01:04:29,936 AND EVEN PAID FOR TRAIN TICKETS TO GET THEM THERE. 1237 01:04:29,936 --> 01:04:32,806 BUT THE WEEKEND WAS A RUSE POLICE WANTED THE FAMILY OUT OF 1238 01:04:32,806 --> 01:04:36,076 THE HOUSE, SO THEY COULD MOVE IN AND LAUNCH THE FINAL PHASE OF 1239 01:04:36,076 --> 01:04:39,312 THEIR NOVA SCOTIA TAKEDOWN >> SO WHILE MELISSA AND CHRIS 1240 01:04:39,312 --> 01:04:43,583 WERE AT THE AMUSEMENT PARK FOR THE WEEKEND, POLICE WERE IN 1241 01:04:43,583 --> 01:04:46,219 THEIR HOUSE SETTING UP WIRE TAPS EVERYWHERE AND IN THEIR CAR. 1242 01:04:46,219 --> 01:04:48,355 >> Reporter: CHRIS AND MELISSA HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON 1243 01:04:48,355 --> 01:04:51,624 UNDER THEIR NOSES? >> THEY HAD NO IDEA THAT POLICE 1244 01:04:51,624 --> 01:04:54,294 WERE IN THEIR HOUSE SETTING UP THESE WIRE TAPS. 1245 01:04:54,294 --> 01:04:56,529 >> Reporter: BUT EVEN WITH THE HOUSE BUGGED, POLICE KNEW THAT 1246 01:04:56,529 --> 01:05:00,233 THERE WAS NO GUARANTEE THEY'D CATCH THE COUPLE SAYING 1247 01:05:00,233 --> 01:05:04,504 SOMETHING INCRIMINATING. >> BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE 1248 01:05:04,504 --> 01:05:07,140 COMMITTED A CRIME DON'T JUST SIT AROUND TALKING ABOUT WHAT THEY 1249 01:05:07,140 --> 01:05:10,343 DID IN THE PAST ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE BUSY TAKING CARE OF SIX 1250 01:05:10,343 --> 01:05:13,046 CHILDREN >> Reporter: POLICE HAD YET 1251 01:05:13,046 --> 01:05:15,715 ANOTHER PLAN TO TRY TO PROMPT THEM TO TALK 1252 01:05:15,715 --> 01:05:19,486 WITH THE WIRETAPS IN PLACE, THEY BEGAN SENDING MELISSA MORE 1253 01:05:19,486 --> 01:05:23,223 E-MAILS. THIS TIME THEY CAME FROM A 1254 01:05:23,223 --> 01:05:25,859 PERSON CLAIMING TO BE A VICTIM LIAISON OFFICER WHO PASSED ON 1255 01:05:25,859 --> 01:05:28,495 TIDBITS ABOUT THE MURDER INVESTIGATION. 1256 01:05:28,495 --> 01:05:31,731 >> IT'S SORT OF A STRANGE SITUATION BECAUSE MELISSA WAS A 1257 01:05:31,731 --> 01:05:34,668 SUSPECT AT THE TIME. BUT SHE AND CHRIS SEEMED TO 1258 01:05:34,668 --> 01:05:37,604 BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE GETTING THESE E-MAILS BECAUSE THEY WERE 1259 01:05:37,604 --> 01:05:41,374 THE PARENTS OF CALEB'S CHILDREN AND THEY WERE PART OF THE 1260 01:05:41,374 --> 01:05:43,510 GREATER VICTIM FAMILY. >> Reporter: SO THESE E-MAILS 1261 01:05:43,510 --> 01:05:45,679 WERE -- WERE SENT TO GET THEM TALKING? 1262 01:05:45,679 --> 01:05:48,281 >> THE E-MAILS WERE SENT TO GET THEM TALKING 1263 01:05:48,281 --> 01:05:49,983 >> Reporter: WHAT DID THEY START TALKING ABOUT? 1264 01:05:49,983 --> 01:05:52,085 >> IT GOT THEM TALKING ABOUT THE CASE 1265 01:05:52,085 --> 01:05:54,254 POLICE WOULD OFTEN SEND THE E-MAILS STRATEGICALLY AT TIMES 1266 01:05:54,254 --> 01:05:56,423 WHEN THE CHILDREN WERE IN BED. BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THEY COULDN'T 1267 01:05:56,423 --> 01:05:59,592 BE TALKING ABOUT THIS WHEN THE CHILDREN WERE AWAKE. 1268 01:05:59,592 --> 01:06:02,829 AND SO THE CONVERSATIONS WERE WHISPERED, OFTEN, AND LATE AT 1269 01:06:02,829 --> 01:06:04,931 NIGHT. >> Reporter: SOME OF THE 1270 01:06:04,931 --> 01:06:08,134 RECORDINGS WERE BARELY AUDIBLE POLICE HAD TO LISTEN OVER AND 1271 01:06:08,134 --> 01:06:10,270 OVER AS IN THIS CONVERSATION WHERE 1272 01:06:10,270 --> 01:06:14,040 THE COUPLE SEEMED WORRIED ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION. 1273 01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:18,144 >> WHAT ARE YOU THINKING >> I'M JUST SCARED 1274 01:06:18,144 --> 01:06:21,548 >> Reporter: POLICE SENT ONE E-MAIL WHICH MENTIONED THERE WAS 1275 01:06:21,548 --> 01:06:24,217 UNKNOWN DNA UNDER CALEB'S FINGERNAILS THAT SEEMED TO GET 1276 01:06:24,217 --> 01:06:27,420 CHRIS TALKING ABOUT FIGHTING WITH SOMEONE 1277 01:06:27,420 --> 01:06:30,657 WAS IT CALEB >> HE DID GRAB ME BY THE NECK. 1278 01:06:30,657 --> 01:06:33,393 >> Reporter: AND MELISSA APPEARED TO REASSURE HIM THAT 1279 01:06:33,393 --> 01:06:37,330 NOT MUCH OF HIS DNA WOULD BE LEFT ON CALEB. 1280 01:06:37,330 --> 01:06:39,799 >> EVEN IF, BY CHANCE, HE DID GET YOU ON THE NECK, BY CHANCE, 1281 01:06:39,799 --> 01:06:41,935 THAT WOULD BE A MINUSCULE AMOUNT 1282 01:06:41,935 --> 01:06:45,705 >> POLICE ARE LISTENING TO THESE WIRE TAPS, LISTENING TO THEIR 1283 01:06:45,705 --> 01:06:48,375 CONVERSATIONS DAY AND NIGHT. >> Reporter: AND THE WIRE TAPS 1284 01:06:48,375 --> 01:06:51,611 SEEMED TO PAY OFF. ONE NIGHT, WHAT THEY HEARD CHRIS 1285 01:06:51,611 --> 01:06:56,416 SAY, APPEARED TO POINT TO CALEB'S MURDER 1286 01:06:56,416 --> 01:07:01,221 >> I WENT IN THERE AND THE COWARD DIDN'T FIGHT. 1287 01:07:01,221 --> 01:07:03,356 >> Reporter: IN ANOTHER CONVERSATION, THE COUPLE 1288 01:07:03,356 --> 01:07:06,459 APPEARED TO BE TALKING ABOUT BRIDGET'S DEATH. 1289 01:07:06,459 --> 01:07:09,262 AT ONE POINT, IT SOUNDS AS IF CHRIS BELIEVED HE HAD AN 1290 01:07:09,262 --> 01:07:12,032 IRON-CLAD ALIBI. >> YOU'RE GOING TRY TO TELL ME 1291 01:07:12,032 --> 01:07:14,634 WHILE I WAS OUT RUNNING ERRANDS THE DAY THAT BRIDGET DIED THAT 1292 01:07:14,634 --> 01:07:18,405 SOMEHOW I GOT INTO BRIDGET'S HOUSE AND I KILLED HER AND THEN 1293 01:07:18,405 --> 01:07:22,142 I WENT ON AND CARRIED ON WITH MY DAY WITHOUT ACTING -- WITHOUT 1294 01:07:22,142 --> 01:07:24,277 ACTING WEIRD, THAT SOMEONE WITH NO CRIMINAL BACKGROUND 1295 01:07:24,277 --> 01:07:26,946 WAS ABLE TO KILL SOMEBODY AND MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A NATURAL 1296 01:07:26,946 --> 01:07:30,116 DEATH. >> Reporter: POLICE LISTENED IN 1297 01:07:30,116 --> 01:07:33,420 FOR OVER TWO MONTHS, POURING OVER HOURS AND HOURS OF 1298 01:07:33,420 --> 01:07:37,090 CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN MELISSA AND CHRIS. 1299 01:07:37,090 --> 01:07:41,861 THEN, IT WAS TIME TO MOVE. >> POLICE FELT THAT THEY HAD 1300 01:07:41,861 --> 01:07:45,598 ENOUGH, THAT THEY WERE READY TO MOVE IN AND MAKE AN ARREST 1301 01:07:45,598 --> 01:07:50,403 >> Reporter: COMING UP - PLAYING CAT AND MOUSE WITH AN 1302 01:07:50,403 --> 01:07:52,105 ACCUSED KILLER >> THE DAY THAT IT HAPPENED, I 1303 01:07:52,105 --> 01:07:53,606 WAS OUT RUNNING ERRANDS THE WHOLE DAY. 1304 01:07:53,606 --> 01:07:55,709 >> YOU COULD NOT HAVE KILLED BRIDGET BECAUSE YOU WERE DOING 1305 01:07:55,709 --> 01:07:57,377 ERRANDS. >> I'M SAYING I DIDN'T KILL 1306 01:07:57,377 --> 01:08:17,130 BRIDGET BECAUSE I DIDN'T KILL >>> POLICE HAD BUGGED MELISSA 1307 01:08:17,130 --> 01:08:21,768 MERRITT AND CHRIS FATTORE'S NOVA SCOTIA HOME FOR OVER TWO MONTHS. 1308 01:08:21,768 --> 01:08:26,806 BY JANUARY, 2014, OFFICERS HAD ENOUGH FOR AN ARREST 1309 01:08:26,806 --> 01:08:28,942 THEY CHARGED THE COUPLE WITH THE MURDERS OF BRIDGET AND CALEB 1310 01:08:28,942 --> 01:08:31,711 HARRISON THE NEWS WAS BITTERSWEET FOR THE 1311 01:08:31,711 --> 01:08:33,179 HARRISON FAMILY. >> Reporter: YOU GET WORD. 1312 01:08:33,179 --> 01:08:35,849 >> YEP >> Reporter: THAT THEY'VE BEEN 1313 01:08:35,849 --> 01:08:38,051 ARRESTED WHAT'S THAT MOMENT LIKE WHEN YOU 1314 01:08:38,051 --> 01:08:40,653 GET THAT PHONE CALL? >> UH -- OVERWHELMING JOY. 1315 01:08:40,653 --> 01:08:44,391 BUT DEVASTATINGLY UPSET THAT WE WERE RIGHT 1316 01:08:44,391 --> 01:08:47,260 BECAUSE IT'S -- IT'S JUST AWFUL. AWFUL TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE WERE 1317 01:08:47,260 --> 01:08:52,432 RIGHT THE WHOLE TIME >> Reporter: HOURS AFTER HIS 1318 01:08:52,432 --> 01:08:57,804 ARREST, CHRIS FATTORE WAS IN A NOVA SCOTIA POLICE STATION, 1319 01:08:57,804 --> 01:08:58,972 UNDER INTERROGATION. >> I'M HERE TODAY, IN THIS ROOM, 1320 01:08:58,972 --> 01:09:01,541 BECAUSE OF FACTS OKAY 1321 01:09:01,541 --> 01:09:03,209 FACTS HAVE LED US HERE TOGETHER. >> POLICE PRESENTED ALL THE 1322 01:09:03,209 --> 01:09:05,278 EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM >> Reporter: INCLUDING DNA 1323 01:09:05,278 --> 01:09:09,049 EVIDENCE >> THEY HAD DNA EVIDENCE 1324 01:09:09,049 --> 01:09:11,785 AND THEY HAD RECORDINGS OF HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH MELISSA 1325 01:09:11,785 --> 01:09:17,590 THEY PUT IT ALL ON THE TABLE THEY SAID, "HERE'S WHAT WE'VE 1326 01:09:17,590 --> 01:09:21,294 GOT. AND CHRIS WAS, AT FIRST, 1327 01:09:21,294 --> 01:09:24,230 DEFIANT. >> Reporter: DEFIANT ABOUT DNA 1328 01:09:24,230 --> 01:09:27,200 >> I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, YOUR DNA IS UNDER THE 1329 01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:29,869 FINGERNAILS OF CALEB >> WELL, THEN IT GOT THERE SOME 1330 01:09:29,869 --> 01:09:32,038 OTHER WAY 'CAUSE IT WASN'T FROM ME 1331 01:09:32,038 --> 01:09:33,673 >> Reporter: DEFIANT ABOUT KILLING BRIDGET. 1332 01:09:33,673 --> 01:09:35,241 >> THE DAY THAT IT HAPPENED, I WAS OUT RUNNING ERRANDS THE 1333 01:09:35,241 --> 01:09:36,843 WHOLE DAY. >> OK. 1334 01:09:36,843 --> 01:09:39,045 >> THAT DOESN'T PUT ME ANYWHERE NEAR BRIDGET 1335 01:09:39,045 --> 01:09:41,181 >> YOU COULD NOT HAVE KILLED BRIDGET BECAUSE YOU WERE DOING 1336 01:09:41,181 --> 01:09:42,782 ERRANDS? >> I'M SAYING I DIDN'T KILL 1337 01:09:42,782 --> 01:09:44,384 BRIDGET 'CAUSE I DIDN'T KILL BRIDGET. 1338 01:09:44,384 --> 01:09:45,952 >> Reporter: CHRIS LISTENED TO THE WIRE TAPS. 1339 01:09:45,952 --> 01:09:48,188 HE SAID THEY PROVED NOTHING. THE SOUND ON THE TAPES WAS TOO 1340 01:09:48,188 --> 01:09:49,756 HARD TO UNDERSTAND >> I CAN'T MAKE OUT A LICK 1341 01:09:49,756 --> 01:09:51,358 >> FAIR ENOUGH >> SO -- 1342 01:09:51,358 --> 01:09:53,460 >> I'M NOT - >> I'M NOT GOING TO ADMIT THAT I 1343 01:09:53,460 --> 01:09:55,061 AM SAYING ANYTHING ON THESE WHEN I CAN'T MAKE IT OUT. 1344 01:09:55,061 --> 01:09:57,230 >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE PRESSED HIM OVER AND OVER ON ALL 1345 01:09:57,230 --> 01:09:59,399 THE EVIDENCE CHRIS CONTINUED TO INSIST THAT 1346 01:09:59,399 --> 01:10:00,967 NONE OF IT MEANT HE WAS A MURDERER 1347 01:10:00,967 --> 01:10:07,540 HOURS WENT BY. THEN HE BEGAN TO BREAK 1348 01:10:07,540 --> 01:10:14,948 >> WHAT ARE YOU THINKING >> I DON'T KNOW. 1349 01:10:14,948 --> 01:10:17,617 MIND'S GONE EVERYWHERE I'M THINKING ABOUT MELISSA, I'M 1350 01:10:17,617 --> 01:10:19,786 THINKING ABOUT MY KIDS >> Reporter: WHAT DO YOU THINK 1351 01:10:19,786 --> 01:10:24,057 WAS THE TURNING POINT, AFTER ALL THESE DENIALS? 1352 01:10:24,057 --> 01:10:27,827 >> I THINK WHAT MOTIVATED CHRIS WAS THE IDEA THAT BOTH HE AND 1353 01:10:27,827 --> 01:10:30,997 MELISSA WOULD BE IN JAIL AND THEIR CHILDREN WOULD HAVE 1354 01:10:30,997 --> 01:10:34,234 NEITHER PARENT >> Reporter: CHRIS FINALLY 1355 01:10:34,234 --> 01:10:38,505 CONFESSED. IT BEGAN WITH AN APOLOGY 1356 01:10:38,505 --> 01:10:44,411 >> I'M SORRY I LIED TO YOU AND TRIED TO PULL THE WOOL OVER YOUR 1357 01:10:44,411 --> 01:10:49,282 EYES I WAS JUST SCARED. 1358 01:10:49,282 --> 01:10:53,019 I DIDN'T LIKE CALEB HARRISON IT WAS AN AWFUL FAMILY 1359 01:10:53,019 --> 01:10:55,088 >> Reporter: THEN, THE WORDS POLICE WAITED TO HEAR. 1360 01:10:55,088 --> 01:11:03,697 >> I KILLED BRIDGET HARRISON AND CALEB HARRISON 1361 01:11:03,697 --> 01:11:11,738 >> HOW DID YOU KILL BRIDGET? >> I KNOCKED ON HER DOOR 1362 01:11:11,738 --> 01:11:19,212 SHE OPENED THE DOOR. I PRETENDED TO HAVE A LETTER TO 1363 01:11:19,212 --> 01:11:24,084 GIVE TO THE CHILDREN SHE REFUSED THE LETTER, SO I 1364 01:11:24,084 --> 01:11:27,320 THEN FORCED MY WAY INTO THE HOUSE AND I ATTACKED HER 1365 01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:30,490 >> WHAT DID YOU DO >> I HIT HER A COUPLE TIMES. 1366 01:11:30,490 --> 01:11:42,802 I THEN PROCEEDED TO SQUEEZE HER NECK UNTIL SHE STOPPED BREATHING 1367 01:11:42,802 --> 01:11:45,538 AND LAID ON THE FLOOR. >> WAS THERE A PLAN BEFOREHAND 1368 01:11:45,538 --> 01:11:49,309 >> I WOULDN'T SAY THERE WAS A PLAN 1369 01:11:49,309 --> 01:11:54,614 AND I JUST THOUGHT IN THE BACK OF MY MIND, "WHAT IF?" 1370 01:11:54,614 --> 01:11:58,918 AND THEN, I DON'T KNOW I WAS JUST DRIVING AROUND AND 1371 01:11:58,918 --> 01:12:02,155 FOUND MYSELF CLOSE TO THE AREA, AND I JUST, AND THEN I WENT AND 1372 01:12:02,155 --> 01:12:05,692 DID IT >> Reporter: AS FOR CALEB, CHRIS 1373 01:12:05,692 --> 01:12:09,396 SAID HE SNEAKED OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO KILL HIM. 1374 01:12:09,396 --> 01:12:14,968 >> MELISSA HAD NO IDEA I LEFT AND WENT THERE. 1375 01:12:14,968 --> 01:12:18,171 >> Reporter: HE WAS WEARING THOSE SHOES FROM WALMART AND THE 1376 01:12:18,171 --> 01:12:22,442 BLACK GLOVES HE USED CALEB'S SON'S KEY TO 1377 01:12:22,442 --> 01:12:24,678 ENTER THE HOUSE. >> I PROCEEDED TO GO INTO THE 1378 01:12:24,678 --> 01:12:27,247 BEDROOM. I HIT HIM IN THE CHEST AND WHEN 1379 01:12:27,247 --> 01:12:33,086 HE SPRUNG UP, WE BEGAN TO STRUGGLE 1380 01:12:33,086 --> 01:12:36,289 I DIDN'T SPEAK TO HIM. I JUST KNOCKED HIM TO THE GROUND 1381 01:12:36,289 --> 01:12:42,696 AND I PROCEEDED TO CHOKE HIM >> WHAT DID YOU HIT HIM WITH 1382 01:12:42,696 --> 01:12:46,499 >> A BASEBALL BAT. >> Reporter: THE INTERROGATION 1383 01:12:46,499 --> 01:12:51,237 WAS A 13-HOUR MARATHON, BUT CHRIS HAD FINALLY COME CLEAN 1384 01:12:51,237 --> 01:12:55,008 >> IT WAS A GREAT OUTCOME FOR POLICE, ESPECIALLY GIVEN WHERE 1385 01:12:55,008 --> 01:12:57,644 THEY STARTED WHEN CALEB DIED WITH TWO DEATHS FROM BEFORE THAT 1386 01:12:57,644 --> 01:13:03,049 WERE ESSENTIALLY, LIKE, COLD CASES. 1387 01:13:03,049 --> 01:13:09,456 >> Reporter: AFTER CONFESSING, CHRIS ASKED FOR SOMETHING IN 1388 01:13:09,456 --> 01:13:12,692 RETURN HE MADE A TEARFUL APPEAL FOR 1389 01:13:12,692 --> 01:13:14,294 MELISSA. >> I DON'T WANT ANYTHING BAD TO 1390 01:13:14,294 --> 01:13:16,930 HAPPEN TO MELISSA. I'M HONESTLY TELLING YOU SHE DID 1391 01:13:16,930 --> 01:13:19,599 NOT KNOW ANYTHING UNTIL AFTER CALEB, WHEN ALL THE QUESTIONS 1392 01:13:19,599 --> 01:13:22,302 STARTED TO ARISE AND I GOT SCARED AND I THOUGHT I COULD 1393 01:13:22,302 --> 01:13:25,505 CONFIDE IN HER SHE DIDN'T TELL ANYBODY PROBABLY 1394 01:13:25,505 --> 01:13:28,174 BECAUSE I ASKED HER NOT TO >> Reporter: AT THE END, THE 1395 01:13:28,174 --> 01:13:32,979 DETECTIVE STEPPED OUT OF THE ROOM, THEN RETURNED TO ASK ONE 1396 01:13:32,979 --> 01:13:36,182 FINAL QUESTION >> WE'VE TALKED ABOUT CALEB. 1397 01:13:36,182 --> 01:13:42,088 WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BRIDGET >> YES 1398 01:13:42,088 --> 01:13:44,257 >> I GOTTA ASK ABOUT BILL. >> Reporter: BILL HARRISON HAD 1399 01:13:44,257 --> 01:13:50,130 HE BEEN CHRIS FATTORE'S FIRST VICTIM 1400 01:13:50,130 --> 01:13:52,265 >> COMING UP, CARELESS WHISPERS IN AN AIRPORT. 1401 01:13:52,265 --> 01:13:55,435 >> THE AUDIO TAPES WOULD'VE [ BLEEP ] US ANYWAYS 1402 01:13:55,435 --> 01:13:57,570 >>> AND AFTER THREE DEATHS, ONE JURY 1403 01:13:57,570 --> 01:14:00,273 >> IT WAS AN EXTREMELY COMPLICATED CASE 1404 01:14:00,273 --> 01:14:20,093 A VERY DIFFICULT CASE FOR A JURY >> Reporter: CHRIS FATTORE HAD 1405 01:14:20,093 --> 01:14:23,830 CONFESSED TO MURDERING BRIDGET AND CALEB HARRISON 1406 01:14:23,830 --> 01:14:25,932 BUT THE INTERROGATION WASN'T OVER 1407 01:14:25,932 --> 01:14:29,235 >> I GOTTA ASK ABOUT BILL. >> THAT'S FINE 1408 01:14:29,235 --> 01:14:31,905 >> Reporter: BILL HARRISON THE FIRST OF THOSE THREE DEATHS. 1409 01:14:31,905 --> 01:14:34,074 >> BILL, I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT BILL 1410 01:14:34,074 --> 01:14:37,243 >> OKAY. >> I WILL SAY THAT FROM THE 1411 01:14:37,243 --> 01:14:39,946 BOTTOM OF MY HEART BILL -- OUT OF THE THREE OF 1412 01:14:39,946 --> 01:14:44,718 THEM, WAS THE NICEST MAN OUT OF THE FAMILY 1413 01:14:44,718 --> 01:14:49,522 >> Reporter: SO CASE CLOSED? NOT QUITE. 1414 01:14:49,522 --> 01:14:53,226 THREE DAYS LATER, CHRIS AND MELISSA, BOTH IN CUSTODY, WERE 1415 01:14:53,226 --> 01:14:56,429 TAKEN TO THE AIRPORT IN NOVA SCOTIA 1416 01:14:56,429 --> 01:14:59,599 POLICE PUT THEM IN A PRIVATE ROOM WHILE THEY WAITED FOR A 1417 01:14:59,599 --> 01:15:02,302 FLIGHT BACK TO TORONTO THE ROOM WAS BUGGED. 1418 01:15:02,302 --> 01:15:05,505 INVESTIGATORS WEREN'T THROUGH WITH THEIR UNDERCOVER STING JUST 1419 01:15:05,505 --> 01:15:08,675 YET. THE COUPLE TALKED IN WHISPERS 1420 01:15:08,675 --> 01:15:12,412 WHILE A HIDDEN MICROPHONE RECORDED IT ALL. 1421 01:15:12,412 --> 01:15:15,081 >> I'M TAKING THE RAP FOR IT, TO GIVE YOU ACCESSORY AFTER THE 1422 01:15:15,081 --> 01:15:19,386 FACT >> WHY DID YOU DO THAT 1423 01:15:19,386 --> 01:15:23,656 >> BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO GO GET OUR CHILDREN 1424 01:15:23,656 --> 01:15:25,792 >> HE TELLS MELISSA THAT HE CONFESSED TO KILLING CALEB AND 1425 01:15:25,792 --> 01:15:29,062 BRIDGET TO GIVE HER ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT 1426 01:15:29,062 --> 01:15:32,265 IN OTHER WORDS, SO THAT SHE'LL GET AN ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT 1427 01:15:32,265 --> 01:15:35,468 CHARGE AND NOT A MURDER CHARGE >> Reporter: THAT DIDN'T SEEM TO 1428 01:15:35,468 --> 01:15:39,773 GO OVER WELL MELISSA KEPT ASKING QUESTIONS. 1429 01:15:39,773 --> 01:15:43,476 >> WHY'D YOU ADMIT TO BRIDGET THEY HAD NOTHING ON HER? 1430 01:15:43,476 --> 01:15:45,078 THEY HAVE NOTHING ON HER >> WHAT'S THAT 1431 01:15:45,078 --> 01:15:47,847 >> THEY HAVE NOTHING ON HER. >> EVERYTHING I SAID ABOUT HER 1432 01:15:47,847 --> 01:15:49,883 TOO WAS EXACTLY WHAT THEY TOLD ME THEY HAD IN EVIDENCE I DIDN'T 1433 01:15:49,883 --> 01:15:52,085 GIVE THEM ANYTHING NEW >> YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID 1434 01:15:52,085 --> 01:15:54,454 ANYTHING TO THEM >> HUH 1435 01:15:54,454 --> 01:15:56,289 >> YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID ANYTHING 1436 01:15:56,289 --> 01:15:57,924 >> I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE CHILDREN 1437 01:15:57,924 --> 01:16:03,296 >> Reporter: THE COUPLE TALKED FOR OVER TWO HOURS 1438 01:16:03,296 --> 01:16:04,864 TOWARDS THE END, POLICE HEARD ONE WHISPER THEY BELIEVED WAS 1439 01:16:04,864 --> 01:16:07,600 PROOF MELISSA KNEW ABOUT THE MURDERS ALL ALONG. 1440 01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:10,804 >> THE AUDIO TAPES WOULD'VE [ BLEEP ] US ANYWAYS 1441 01:16:10,804 --> 01:16:14,040 >> Reporter: WITH THOSE TAPES, CHRIS' CONFESSION, AND DNA 1442 01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:20,447 EVIDENCE, POLICE FINALLY HAD ANSWERS TO TWO DEATHS IN THE 1443 01:16:20,447 --> 01:16:23,116 HARRISON FAMILY. BUT ONE QUESTION STILL LINGERED. 1444 01:16:23,116 --> 01:16:27,053 WHAT HAPPENED TO BILL HARRISON IN 2015, A NEW PATHOLOGIST 1445 01:16:27,053 --> 01:16:31,157 REVIEWED HIS AUTOPSY HE SAW THAT BILL HAD INJURIES TO 1446 01:16:31,157 --> 01:16:34,394 HIS CHEST AND NECK BUT THIS DOCTOR, DIDN'T BELIEVE 1447 01:16:34,394 --> 01:16:37,597 THOSE INJURIES HAPPENED WHEN BILL COLLAPSED IN THE BATHROOM 1448 01:16:37,597 --> 01:16:43,470 >> THE CHIEF FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST IN ONTARIO WROTE A 1449 01:16:43,470 --> 01:16:45,605 REPORT SAYING THAT WHAT THE AUTOPSY ACTUALLY SHOWED WAS THAT 1450 01:16:45,605 --> 01:16:48,375 BILL HAD BEEN ASSAULTED BEFORE HE DIED. 1451 01:16:48,375 --> 01:16:50,910 >> Reporter: REMEMBER BILL'S FAMILY ALWAYS HAD DOUBTS THAT HE 1452 01:16:50,910 --> 01:16:55,181 HAD A HEART ATTACK SO TO THEM, THAT REPORT REVEALED 1453 01:16:55,181 --> 01:17:00,387 ONE MORE INFURIATING BLUNDER, ONE THEY BELIEVE HAD TRAGIC 1454 01:17:00,387 --> 01:17:03,723 CONSEQUENCES IF BILL'S 2009 AUTOPSY HAD SHOWN 1455 01:17:03,723 --> 01:17:06,426 HE WAS ASSAULTED, IT WOULD HAVE TRIGGERED AN INVESTIGATION AND A 1456 01:17:06,426 --> 01:17:09,129 KILLER MIGHT HAVE BEEN CAUGHT. >> WHERE WAS THE CORONER 1457 01:17:09,129 --> 01:17:12,832 WHERE WERE THE POLICE? WHY ELSE WAS THIS MAN IN THIS 1458 01:17:12,832 --> 01:17:18,705 POSITION IN A BATHROOM, WITH THESE INJURIES, AND, YOU KNOW, 1459 01:17:18,705 --> 01:17:23,043 THINGS LIKE -- MARKS AROUND HIS THROAT 1460 01:17:23,043 --> 01:17:28,348 >> Reporter: WITH THIS NEW CONCLUSION, PROSECUTORS HAD 1461 01:17:28,348 --> 01:17:32,652 ENOUGH TO CHARGE CHRIS FATTORE WITH THE MURDER OF BILL 1462 01:17:32,652 --> 01:17:35,855 HARRISON THEY ALLEGED THAT CHRIS KILLED 1463 01:17:35,855 --> 01:17:39,092 HIM DURING A CONFRONTATION OVER THE CHILDREN 1464 01:17:39,092 --> 01:17:41,728 >> HOW DID YOU FEEL WHEN YOU LEARNED THAT HIS DEATH WOULD BE 1465 01:17:41,728 --> 01:17:44,898 A PART OF THIS TRIAL >> WE LOST EVERYBODY BY 2015 1466 01:17:44,898 --> 01:17:48,134 UM -- YOU KNOW, SIX YEARS AFTER HE'D -- BEEN KILLED, THAT'S WHEN 1467 01:17:48,134 --> 01:17:52,372 WE HEARD THAT THIS -- CHARGE WAS BEING BROUGHT, SIX YEARS LATER 1468 01:17:52,372 --> 01:17:55,575 THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH SATISFACTION YOU GET FROM 1469 01:17:55,575 --> 01:17:59,346 KNOWING THAT IT TOOK THAT LONG TO GET AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION 1470 01:17:59,346 --> 01:18:04,150 THAT YOU'D BEEN OBSESSED WITH FOR YEARS. 1471 01:18:04,150 --> 01:18:07,387 >> Reporter: IN SEPTEMBER 2017, MELISSA MERRITT AND CHRIS 1472 01:18:07,387 --> 01:18:10,023 FATTORE WENT ON TRIAL. >> THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST 1473 01:18:10,023 --> 01:18:12,726 COMPLICATED CASES I'VE SEEN THREE DEATHS IN ONE TRIAL, TWO 1474 01:18:12,726 --> 01:18:15,428 DEFENDANTS, DIFFERENT CHARGES. >> IT WAS AN EXTREMELY 1475 01:18:15,428 --> 01:18:19,232 COMPLICATED CASE A VERY DIFFICULT CASE FOR A JURY 1476 01:18:19,232 --> 01:18:21,935 TO TAKE ON >> Reporter: CHRIS AND MELISSA 1477 01:18:21,935 --> 01:18:24,604 WERE BOTH ACCUSED OF THE MURDERS OF BRIDGET AND CALEB 1478 01:18:24,604 --> 01:18:28,375 CHRIS ALONE WAS CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF BILL 1479 01:18:28,375 --> 01:18:31,578 THE COUPLE PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO ALL THE CHARGES. 1480 01:18:31,578 --> 01:18:34,781 >> WHAT WAS THE PROSECUTOR'S THEORY OF THE CASE 1481 01:18:34,781 --> 01:18:39,085 >> PROSECUTION ARGUED THAT ALL THREE HARRISONS WERE KILLED AT 1482 01:18:39,085 --> 01:18:43,056 KEY MOMENTS IN THE ONGOING ACRIMONIOUS CUSTODY BATTLE OVER 1483 01:18:43,056 --> 01:18:46,593 THE CHILDREN WITH MELISSA. AND THEY ARGUED THAT MELISSA AND 1484 01:18:46,593 --> 01:18:49,763 CHRIS PLANNED TO THE TO MURDER CALEB AND BRIDGET, BUT THAT 1485 01:18:49,763 --> 01:18:52,599 CHRIS ALONE COMMITTED THE ACTS >> I KILLED BRIDGET HARRISON AND 1486 01:18:52,599 --> 01:18:57,270 CALEB HARRISON >> Reporter: AND PROSECUTOR'S 1487 01:18:57,270 --> 01:18:59,906 HAD CHRIS' CONFESSION AS PROOF EXCEPT, HE TOOK THE WITNESS 1488 01:18:59,906 --> 01:19:03,810 STAND AND RECANTED >> CHRIS SAID THAT HE NEVER 1489 01:19:03,810 --> 01:19:09,482 KILLED BRIDGET HARRISON. THAT HE ONLY SAID HE DID BECAUSE 1490 01:19:09,482 --> 01:19:12,118 HE WANTED TO PROTECT HIS WIFE AND BECAUSE HE WAS UNDER DURESS 1491 01:19:12,118 --> 01:19:16,690 AFTER A LENGTHY POLICE INTERVIEW. 1492 01:19:16,690 --> 01:19:19,592 AND FELT THAT THE ONLY WAY OUT OF THAT ROOM WAS CONFESSING. 1493 01:19:19,592 --> 01:19:22,295 >> I JUST KNOCKED HIM TO THE GROUND AND PROCEEDED TO CHOKE 1494 01:19:22,295 --> 01:19:25,031 HIM. >> Reporter: CHRIS DID ADMIT TO 1495 01:19:25,031 --> 01:19:28,234 KILLING CALEB, THE DNA EVIDENCE WAS OVERWHELMING 1496 01:19:28,234 --> 01:19:32,038 BUT HE SAID HE DIDN'T MEAN TO. HE WENT TO CALEB'S HOUSE JUST TO 1497 01:19:32,038 --> 01:19:35,175 "ROUGH HIM UP. >> CHRIS SAID THAT HE WENT TO 1498 01:19:35,175 --> 01:19:38,411 CALEB'S HOUSE TO BEAT HIM UP SO THAT THEY COULD MAYBE HAVE A FEW 1499 01:19:38,411 --> 01:19:42,148 EXTRA DAYS WITH THE CHILDREN AND ONCE -- ONCE HE GOT THERE, 1500 01:19:42,148 --> 01:19:45,352 THEY BEGAN TO STRUGGLE AND HE KILLED HIM IN A STRUGGLE. 1501 01:19:45,352 --> 01:19:49,622 >> Reporter: WHEN IT CAME TO MELISSA, HER ATTORNEY'S ARGUMENT 1502 01:19:49,622 --> 01:19:54,427 WAS SIMPLE >> MELISSA'S DEFENSE ARGUED THAT 1503 01:19:54,427 --> 01:19:57,664 THERE WAS REALLY NO EVIDENCE AGAINST HER. 1504 01:19:57,664 --> 01:20:01,368 THAT THE ONLY THING, AT WORST, WAS THAT SHE WAS AN ACCESSORY 1505 01:20:01,368 --> 01:20:05,071 AFTER THE FACT >> Reporter: THE DEFENSE 1506 01:20:05,071 --> 01:20:10,443 ATTORNEYS ALSO CHALLENGED ALL THOSE MONTHS OF WIRETAPS 1507 01:20:10,443 --> 01:20:13,646 THEY POINTED TO THE HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF TRANSCRIPTS WHICH HAD 1508 01:20:13,646 --> 01:20:15,782 MISSING WORDS, MARKED "UNINTELLIGIBLE. 1509 01:20:15,782 --> 01:20:17,884 >> SO -- THE DEFENSE PICKED APART THE TRANSCRIPTS TO ALL OF 1510 01:20:17,884 --> 01:20:20,053 THESE WIRE TAPS SAYING THAT THE MEANING CHANGED WHEN YOU TOOK 1511 01:20:20,053 --> 01:20:22,756 INTO ACCOUNT THAT MUCH OF THE CONVERSATIONS WERE MARKED AS 1512 01:20:22,756 --> 01:20:25,392 UNINTELLIGIBLE >> Reporter: THE FAMILY CAME OUT 1513 01:20:25,392 --> 01:20:28,461 IN FORCE FOR THE TRIAL THAT LASTED FOUR LONG MONTHS. 1514 01:20:28,461 --> 01:20:30,764 IT TOOK THE JURY FOUR DAYS TO REACH ITS VERDICTS 1515 01:20:30,764 --> 01:20:35,035 >> YOU COULD JUST FEEL THE TENSION IN THAT ROOM 1516 01:20:35,035 --> 01:20:38,772 AND THE JURY FOREMAN STOOD UP. AND GAVE HIS VERDICTS IN A 1517 01:20:38,772 --> 01:20:41,408 WHISPER. >> Reporter: CHRIS WAS FOUND 1518 01:20:41,408 --> 01:20:44,678 GUILTY OF MURDERING BRIDGET AND CALEB. 1519 01:20:44,678 --> 01:20:48,381 HE WAS NOT GUILTY IN THE MURDER OF BILL. 1520 01:20:48,381 --> 01:20:51,618 MELISSA'S VERDICT WAS MIXED -- GUILTY IN CALEB'S MURDER, BUT 1521 01:20:51,618 --> 01:20:53,687 THERE WAS A HUNG JURY IN BRIDGET'S. 1522 01:20:53,687 --> 01:21:01,161 >> WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION TO THE VERDICTS 1523 01:21:01,161 --> 01:21:04,964 >> I WAS PLEASED THAT BOTH OF THEM HAD RECEIVED -- A 1524 01:21:04,964 --> 01:21:09,069 FIRST-DEGREE MURDER CONVICTION FOR CALEB, BECAUSE THAT SAID 1525 01:21:09,069 --> 01:21:18,745 THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GET 25 YEARS WITHOUT CHANCE OF 1526 01:21:18,745 --> 01:21:22,515 PAROLE >> BUT MELISSA MERRITT, HUNG 1527 01:21:22,515 --> 01:21:25,785 JURY ON -- >> HUNG JURY ON MELISSA -- I 1528 01:21:25,785 --> 01:21:27,854 TRULY BELIEVE THAT MELISSA WAS THE MASTERMIND OF EVERYTHING 1529 01:21:27,854 --> 01:21:30,090 I THINK THAT SHE SET UP CHRIS FATTORE -- YOU KNOW. 1530 01:21:30,090 --> 01:21:32,158 AND IT -- IT WAS GOING TO BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR THE 1531 01:21:32,158 --> 01:21:33,760 POLICE TO MAKE A MURDER CHARGE AGAINST HER. 1532 01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:35,929 >> Reporter: AND EVEN THOUGH MELISSA AND CHRIS WOULD FINALLY 1533 01:21:35,929 --> 01:21:38,631 BE PUT BEHIND BARS, NICOLE BELIEVES OTHERS SHOULD ANSWER 1534 01:21:38,631 --> 01:21:40,700 FOR THE HARRISONS' DEATHS AS WELL 1535 01:21:40,700 --> 01:21:43,370 >> I THINK THE -- THE REALLY IMPORTANT STORY HERE IS THAT 1536 01:21:43,370 --> 01:21:46,106 IT'S NOT JUST THE ACTUAL KILLERS WHO ARE ACCOUNTABLE. 1537 01:21:46,106 --> 01:21:50,310 THERE ARE -- THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THIS -- IN THE POLICE 1538 01:21:50,310 --> 01:21:53,546 DEPARTMENTS, THE CORONER'S OFFICE, THEY'RE ACCOUNTABLE, 1539 01:21:53,546 --> 01:21:56,750 TOO. HOW ON EARTH DID TWO MORE 1540 01:21:56,750 --> 01:21:58,985 MURDERS HAPPEN AFTER UNCLE BILL? >> WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO ALL THE 1541 01:21:58,985 --> 01:22:01,554 PEOPLE INVOLVED, FROM THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE TO THE 1542 01:22:01,554 --> 01:22:04,758 POLICE DEPARTMENT -- >> IF EVERYBODY HAD DONE THEIR 1543 01:22:04,758 --> 01:22:08,495 JOB THE WAY THEY SHOULD HAVE, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE DEATH 1544 01:22:08,495 --> 01:22:11,731 AND BRIDGET AND CALEB WOULD STILL BE ALIVE 1545 01:22:11,731 --> 01:22:14,968 >> Reporter: THE PEEL REGIONAL POLICE DEPARTMENT DECLINED TO 1546 01:22:14,968 --> 01:22:17,070 COMMENT FOR OUR REPORT IT CONDUCTED AN INTERNAL REVIEW 1547 01:22:17,070 --> 01:22:23,476 OF HOW THE HARRISON DEATHS WERE INVESTIGATED 1548 01:22:23,476 --> 01:22:26,179 THE FAMILY HAS ASKED FOR A BROADER, PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO HOW 1549 01:22:26,179 --> 01:22:29,382 THE POLICE, THE PATHOLOGIST AND CORONER'S OFFICES ALL HANDLED 1550 01:22:29,382 --> 01:22:34,721 THE CASES. >> SO IS THE TRIAL OVER? 1551 01:22:34,721 --> 01:22:37,390 YEAH BUT ARE WE STILL PURSUING 1552 01:22:37,390 --> 01:22:40,627 QUESTIONS? ABSOLUTELY 1553 01:22:40,627 --> 01:22:44,364 >> Reporter: AS FOR THE CHILDREN WHO WERE THE CENTER OF THIS 1554 01:22:44,364 --> 01:22:47,567 TRAGEDY, STEFANI SAYS THEY'RE WITH FAMILY AND DOING WELL 1555 01:22:47,567 --> 01:22:51,338 >> THEY'RE FANTASTIC KIDS. >> Reporter: NO HARRISONS LIVE 1556 01:22:51,338 --> 01:22:56,209 ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT NOW, THE HOUSE HAS BEEN SOLD. 1557 01:22:56,209 --> 01:23:00,947 ALL THAT'S LEFT ARE PRECIOUS MEMORIES OF THE LIVES THAT WERE 1558 01:23:00,947 --> 01:23:05,785 LOST >> HOW DO YOU WANT THIS FAMILY 1559 01:23:05,785 --> 01:23:12,058 TO BE REMEMBERED >> BRIDGET, BILL AND CALEB 1560 01:23:12,058 --> 01:23:15,395 THEY'RE ALWAYS GONNA BE REMEMBERED 1561 01:23:15,395 --> 01:23:18,098 I KNOW THE IMPACT THESE HUMAN BEINGS HAD 1562 01:23:18,098 --> 01:23:21,801 WE WERE GOING THROUGH BRIDGET'S EFFECTS AND IT WAS FULL OF THANK 1563 01:23:21,801 --> 01:23:25,071 YOU LETTERS FROM PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES SHE HAD INFECTED 1564 01:23:25,071 --> 01:23:28,575 I STILL FISH WITH THE GUYS THAT FISHED WITH BILL 1565 01:23:28,575 --> 01:23:30,377 AT CALEB'S EULOGY, A WHOLE BUNCH OF LITTLE KIDS WHO PLAYED 1566 01:23:30,377 --> 01:23:34,114 BASEBALL CAME BECAUSE HE HAD THAT MUCH OF AN IMPACT TO THEM 1567 01:23:34,114 --> 01:23:37,851 WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM BEING REMEMBERED. 1568 01:23:37,851 --> 01:23:40,954 THEY'RE THERE. >> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION 1569 01:23:40,954 --> 01:23:43,757 OF "DATELINE." WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY 1570 01:23:43,757 --> 01:23:46,659 AT 9:00/8:00 CENTRAL, AND, OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU EACH 1571 01:23:46,659 --> 01:23:49,596 WEEKNIGHT FOR NBC NIGHTLY NEWS I'M LESTER HOLT.