EMERGENCY?
>> UH, MY HUSBAND, HE'S NOT BREATHING.
>> THE PATHOLOGIST GAVE THE CAUSE OF DEATH AS ACUTE CARDIAC
ARRHYTHMIA >> HOW COULD THIS REALLY, REALLY
HEALTHY MAN SUFFER FROM A HEART ATTACK?
>> THEN, WHEN YOU ADD ON WHAT HAPPENED RIGHT AFTER THAT.
>> I GOT A PHONE CALL, AUNTIE BRIDGET, SHE'S GONE.
>> TWO DEATHS, SAME HOUSE, SAME FAMILY
>> Reporter: WAS THE FAMILY SAYING TO THE POLICE, "WE REALLY
SUSPECT FOUL PLAY. >> ABSOLUTELY.
>> THEIR FIRST SUSPECT WAS CALEB.
>> THERE WAS A MARK ON YOUR MOM'S CHIN
>> YEAH, LIKE THIS >> HE'S THE GUY WHO'S GOING TO
BENEFIT. >> CALEB IS FOUND DEAD IN BED.
>> THIS ISN'T A FLUKE. >> HOW ON EARTH DID TWO MORE
MURDERS HAPPEN AFTER UNCLE BILL? >> THERE ARE ONLY A COUPLE OF
PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD WHO IT MAKES ANY SENSE TO BE INVOLVED
WITH THIS. >> Reporter: YOU GET WORD THAT
THEY'VE BEEN ARRESTED. WHAT'S THAT MOMENT LIKE?
>> WE WERE RIGHT WE WERE RIGHT THE WHOLE TIME
>> I'M LESTER HOLT AND THIS IS "DATELINE.
HERE'S ANDREA CANNING WITH "THE HOUSE ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT."
>> Reporter: IT WAS A HOME FILLED WITH JOY.
HOLIDAYS, FAMILY CELEBRATIONS THIS IS WHERE THEY ALL GATHERED.
>> THAT -- THE HOME WAS -- IS A HOME OF HAPPINESS.
>> HE'S NOT BREATHING. >> Reporter: UNTIL THE HOUSE
BECAME THE SCENE OF ONE TRAGEDY -- THEN ANOTHER.
>> HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TWICE TO ONE FAMILY?
>> I COULDN'T RECONCILE IT >> Reporter: AND ANOTHER
>> IT'S JUST IN THE REALM OF - OF THE BIZARRE
>> HOW ARE WE GONNA ENDURE A THIRD DEATH?
>> Reporter: WAS THE HOUSE CURSED
>> IT GIVES ME CHILLS WHEN I THINK, HERE YOU ARE AT THE SAME
HOUSE. >> IT GIVES ME CHILLS NOW.
>> Reporter: IT SEEMED NO ONE WAS SAFE INSIDE THESE WALLS.
>> THIS ISN'T A FLUKE. >> SOMEBODY'S OUT TO GET THIS
FAMILY GUARANTEED
>> Reporter: BY ALL ACCOUNTS THEY SEEMED PERFECT FOR ONE
ANOTHER. BILL HARRISON, WITH HIS DASHING
LOOKS. >> I MEAN, HE WAS JUST SUPER
HANDSOME >> HE HAS MOVIE STAR LOOKS
>> I'M NOT GONNA ARGUE THAT. YEAH
>> Reporter: BRIDGET BLACKWELL, ONCE A TALENTED CHILD ACTRESS.
>> SHE WAS REALLY QUITE SPECTACULAR.
SHE WOULD BE BECKY IN "TOM SAWYER."
SHE WOULD BE -- IN THE CAROUSEL, SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER WHO -
THE-- FATHER SANG "YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE" TO
>> Reporter: BRIDGET'S BROTHER, DOUG BLACKWELL
>> WAS SHE DRAMATIC? >> AW!
>> JUST, ALL THE TIME? [ LAUGHTER ]
>> NO. SHE WAS A NATURAL.
SHE HAD FLAIR. >> Reporter: NIECE NICOLE
GALLANT REMEMBERS HEARING THE STORY OF HOW HER AUNT BRIDGET
WAS INSTANTLY SMITTEN WITH BILL. >> AND I DO REMEMBER HER SAYING,
YOU KNOW, "I MET HIM WHEN I WAS 16
AND I THOUGHT HE WAS THE MOST HANDSOME MAN I'D EVER SEEN."
AND THAT SHE WAS JUST SORT OF, LIKE, JUST COMPELLED TO HIM.
>> Reporter: THEY MARRIED AND EVENTUALLY MOVED INTO THIS HOME
ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT -- A QUIET SUBURBAN STREET OUTSIDE OF
TORONTO. BILL HARRISON WORKED IN
MANAGEMENT FOR ONE OF CANADA'S LARGEST GROCERY CHAINS
>> I THINK HE WAS JUST A NATURAL LEADER
>> Reporter: BRIDGET LEFT ACTING TO PURSUE A CAREER IN EDUCATION,
EVENTUALLY BECOMING A SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
>> SHE WAS KINDA FIERY AND A REAL -- A BIT OF A REBEL
AND UM -- AND A REAL, YOU KNOW, SEEKER OF JUSTICE.
>> Reporter: AND WHILE THEY WERE PASSIONATE ABOUT THEIR CAREERS,
THEY ADORED BEING PARENTS. THEY HAD ADOPTED THEIR SON CALEB
WHEN HE WAS A BABY >> HE WAS A HANDFUL.
HE NEVER SAT DOWN FOR MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES IN A ROW.
HE WAS CONSTANTLY ON THE GO. >> HOW WERE BILL AND BRIDGET AS
PARENTS? >> THEY WERE GREAT
THEY WERE VERY PRESENT >> Reporter: BRIDGET WAS THE
DISCIPLINARIAN -- THE STRICTER OF THE TWO -- WHILE BILL WAS THE
CALMER ONE, THE PEACEMAKER IN THE FAMILY
>> CALEB COULD PUSH BRIDGET'S BUTTONS, BUT HE COULD NEVER PUSH
BILL'S BUTTONS AND SO BILL WOULD BE THE BUFFER.
BILL WOULD BE THE GUY WHO WOULD, YOU KNOW, CALM CALEB DOWN AND
CALM BRIDGET DOWN. >> Reporter: THE HARRISONS LOVED
SPENDING TIME WITH THEIR LARGE EXTENDED FAMILY.
NIECE KATE BLACKWELL FONDLY REMEMBERS THE BIG GET TOGETHERS
IN THE HARRISON'S HOME >> I GREW UP THINKING THAT
EVERYONE'S INVITED IT WAS JUST A MENTALITY THAT I
GUESS I TOOK FOR GRANTED IT JUST WAS HOW IT WAS
>> Reporter: STEFANI DUNN GREW UP NEXT DOOR
THE HARRISONS WELCOMED HER LIKE ONE OF THEIR OWN
>> BEING FROM A VERY SMALL FAMILY WITH NOT A LOT OF
SIBLINGS, AUNTS, AND UNCLES, WE WERE LITERALLY LIKE ANOTHER
ADOPTION IN THEIR LIFE AN EXTENSION OF THEIR FAMILY
YOU KNOW, CHRISTMAS DAY WASN'T JUST WITH FOUR PEOPLE.
CHRISTMAS DAY WAS NOW WITH 24 PEOPLE.
>> Reporter: CALEB AND STEFANI, BOTH ONLY CHILDREN, BECAME BEST
FRIENDS. >> AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, WHAT DID
HE WANNA DO? >> CALEB ALWAYS WANTED TO GO
RIGHT INTO THE WORKFORCE HE ENDED UP DOING A LOT OF
SHIPPING AND RECEIVING STUFF HE LOVED THAT, BECAUSE HE WAS SO
GREGARIOUS AND ALWAYS CHATTY IN ANY OFFICE PLACE HE ALWAYS
ADOPTED A NEW GROUP OF FRIENDS >> Reporter: IN 2000, WHEN HE
WAS 27, CALEB TOLD STEFANI ABOUT ONE OF THOSE FRIENDS -- A
CO-WORKER NAMED MELISSA. >> WHAT DID HE SAY
>> HE WAS LIKE, "I'VE GOT THIS GIRL
I THINK SHE'S AMAZING. I REALLY, REALLY WANT YOU TO
MEET HER." >> Reporter: MELISSA MERRITT WAS
SEVEN YEARS YOUNGER THAN CALEB A LOCAL GIRL FROM TORONTO, WHO
CAME FROM A LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILY
>> SHE WAS LOVELY. SHE WAS VERY, VERY OUTGOING.
SO IT JUST SEEMED LIKE, WHERE'S THIS GIRL BEEN
YOU KNOW IT'S -- IT WAS A GREAT MATCH.
>> Reporter: CALEB AND MELISSA EVENTUALLY MARRIED AND HAD TWO
CHILDREN -- A BOY AND A GIRL NOW GRANDPARENTS, BRIDGET AND
BILL RELISHED THEIR ROLES AS "NANA AND POPPA.
>> I THINK THEY FELT VERY PROUD OF IT.
>> THEY WERE REALLY INTO THESE GRANDCHILDREN.
>> OH -- >> BILL AND BRIDGET.
>> INFECTIOUSLY, YES >> Reporter: BUT THE HAPPY
FAMILY BEGAN TO UNRAVEL. AFTER FIVE YEARS TOGETHER, CALEB
AND MELISSA COULDN'T SEE EYE TO EYE ANYMORE.
THEY SEPARATED CALEB DIDN'T TAKE IT WELL.
>> IT WAS JUST DEVASTATING TO HIM THAT THIS MARRIAGE WAS
ENDING THE POTENTIAL OF NOT SEEING HIS
CHILDREN ON A DAILY BASIS. >> Reporter: CALEB MOVED BACK
HOME WITH HIS PARENTS, AND SHARED CUSTODY OF THE TWO KIDS
WITH WIFE MELISSA. HE WAS STRESSED.
AND, HE WAS DRINKING >> HE WAS WITH A GROUP OF
FRIENDS FROM WORK, AND HE HAD BEEN DRINKING.
I THINK HE WAS TRYING TO PROBABLY FORGET ABOUT EVERYTHING
THAT WAS GOING ON. AND OBVIOUSLY, HE JUST WASN'T
MAKING CLEAR DECISIONS >> Reporter: AFTER SPENDING A
LONG NIGHT AT A BAR, HE GOT INTO THE CAR INTOXICATED AND SLAMMED
HEAD ON INTO A TAXI KILLING THE DRIVER
>> DID HE TALK ABOUT THE GUILT HE FELT ABOUT THE MAN DYING?
>> HE -- HE TALKED ABOUT IT UM, QUITE A BIT.
LIVING WITH THAT, THAT DEVASTATION, WAS AWFUL
>> Reporter: CALEB ENDED UP SERVING TIME IN JAIL FOR THE
ACCIDENT WITH HIS PARENTS' SUPPORT, HE
GOT THROUGH THAT ROUGH PATCH BUT IT WASN'T THE END OF
TROUBLING TIMES FOR THE HARRISONS.
DANGER WAS LOOMING AND IT WAS RIGHT INSIDE THEIR
VERY OWN HOUSE APRIL 16th, 2009
BRIDGET HARRISON WAS WORKING LATE
SHE ARRIVED HOME AROUND 9:00 PM, PREPARED TO HAVE DINNER WITH HER
HUSBAND BILL THE HOUSE WAS UNUSUALLY DARK
>> AND SURE ENOUGH SHE FOUND HIM IN THE WASHROOM HUNCHED OVER
>> Reporter: IT WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF WHAT WOULD BECOME
YEARS OF AGONIZING LOSS, UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, AND --
UNRELENTING FEAR >> WHEN WE COME BACK -- WHAT HAD
HAPPENED TO BILL HARRISON? WAS IT A HEART ATTACK?
OR SOMETHING MORE SINISTER WHEN WE RETURN -
>> IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE. IT SEEMED WEIRD THAT HE WAS IN
THE POSITION HE WAS. >> AND THIS WAS ODD --
THE BATHROOM DOOR WAS LOCKED >> IF I'M THE ONLY MAN IN THE
HOUSE, I AM NOT GOING INTO THE >> Reporter: APRIL 2009.
IN A SUBURB OF TORONTO, BRIDGET HARRISON HAD JUST ARRIVED HOME
FROM WORK. SOMETHING SEEMED OFF IN THE
HOUSE. IT WAS STRANGELY DARK AND QUIET.
BRIDGET CALLED OUT FOR HER HUSBAND BILL
>> Reporter: SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE CAME IN THE DOOR, DINNER WAS
ON THE TABLE SENDS A SMALL DRINK AT THE
TABLE. AND IT LOOKED LIKE HE HAD JUST
GOT UP TO GO TO THE WASHROOM >> Reporter: AND IT WAS THERE,
IN THE FIRST FLOOR BATHROOM, A TERRIFYING DISCOVERY
BRIDGET FOUND BILL UNCONSCIOUS, NOT BREATHING.
SHE IMMEDIATELY CALLED 911 >> 9-1-1 WHAT'S YOUR EMERGENCY
>> UH, MY HUSBAND, I JUST CAME HOME FROM WORK AND I SAW HIM
COLLAPSED ON THE BATHROOM FLOOR. >> OK, IS YOUR HUSBAND AWAKE
>> NO, HE IS NOT I CAN'T MOVE HIM
HE'S WEDGED AGAINST THE WALL, BETWEEN THE TOILET AND THE DOOR
AND EVERYTHING >> JUST STAY ON THE LINE MA'AM
>> YEAH I CANT MOVE HIM. HE'S NOT BREATHING
>> OKAY. >> I CAN TELL.
OH, MY GOD >> Reporter: BY THE TIME
PARAMEDICS ARRIVED, THEY CONFIRMED WHAT SHE DREADED
HER HUSBAND OF NEARLY 40 YEARS WAS DEAD
BRIDGET CALLED BILL'S SISTER, LIZ GALLANT.
>> SHE DID THE WHOLE THING OF, WHAT ARE YOU DOING
ARE YOU SITTING DOWN?" AND I SAID, "NO.
AND I SAID, "WHY?" AND -- SHE SAID -- SOMETHING
HAPPENED TO BILL >> Reporter: LIZ RUSHED OVER TO
HER BROTHER'S HOME >> AND I KIND OF DON'T THINK I
BELIEVED ANYTHING UNTIL I SAW THE AMBULANCE ON THE STREET AND
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE POLICE
>> Reporter: THE PEEL REGIONAL POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS HANDLING
THE CASE AN OFFICER LED LIZ INSIDE TO
BRIDGET. >> SHE TOLD ME ALL ABOUT -- NOT
BEING ABLE TO DO CPR AND HER WHOLE COMING HOME, ARRIVAL AND
IT WAS DARK. AND -- AND -- SHE COULDN'T FIND
HIM AT FIRST AND -- AND, THEN, SHE FOUND HIM
IN THE LOCKED BATHROOM >> Reporter: POLICE HAD BY NOW
CORDONED OFF THE BATHROOM AND TAKEN A STATEMENT FROM BRIDGET
>> I DON'T REMEMBER EITHER ONE OF US PANICKING.
WE WERE STILL BOTH CALM AND COOL
NO SCREAMING, NO CRYING, NO -- IT WAS A STRANGE -- IT WAS
STRANGE BEHAVIOR >> Reporter: AFTER EXAMINING THE
BODY, THE PATHOLOGIST CONCLUDED BILL DIED FROM CARDIAC
ARRHYTHMIA, IN OTHER WORDS HIS HEART STOPPED.
FAMILY AND FRIENDS WERE LEFT WITH SO MANY QUESTIONS
FOR STARTERS, AT 64, BILL WAS A FIT GUY.
>> AND I REMEMBER THINKING, "THIS GUY'S GOT EVERY TYPE OF
HEALTH KICK GOING. HE MAKES SMOOTHIES EVERY MORNING
FOR HE AND HIS WIFE. HE'S SO ACTIVE
THEY'RE MEMBERS OF THE Y HE PLAYS BASKETBALL.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S DIED?" AND I'M THINKING, "OH MY GOSH,
IS THIS ONE OF THOSE, YOU KNOW, CASE SCENARIOS THAT YOU READ IN
THE NEWS LIKE, THE MOST FIT GUY THAT
RUNS, YOU KNOW, 2K A DAY AND ALL OF A SUDDEN DROPS DEAD FROM A
HEART ATTACK?" >> Reporter: THESE THINGS DO
HAPPEN BUT THE HARRISON'S NIECE NICOLE FOUND IT HARD TO GRASP.
>> ABSOLUTE DISBELIEF. >> Reporter: AND THIS IS THE MAN
WHO IS THE PICTURE OF HEALTH >> YEAH.
ABSOLUTELY THERE'S JUST NO -- NO WAY TO
UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY LIKE THAT JUST KEELS
OVER AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IS DEAD
>> Reporter: IT WAS ALSO UNBELIEVABLE TO BRIDGET'S
BROTHER DOUG BLACKWELL ESPECIALLY AFTER HE LEARNED SOME
ODD DETAILS. LIKE THE FACT THAT BILL WAS
LOCKED IN THE BATHROOM, DESPITE BEING HOME ALONE
>> WHAT WAS BILL DOING IN THE BATHROOM WITH THE DOOR LOCKED?
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOUR FAMILY, BUT IF I'M THE ONLY MAN IN THE
HOUSE, I AM NOT GOING INTO THE BATHROOM AND LOCKING THE DOOR.
>> IT -- IT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN. THAT SORT OF DIDN'T SEEM RIGHT
AND WHEN BRIDGET SAID SHE HAD TO JIMMY THE DOOR OPEN- - I -- IT
DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME. >> Reporter: INITIALLY IT HAD
BEEN A RED FLAG FOR POLICE TOO THEY WONDERED IF BILL HAD
PURPOSELY LOCKED HIMSELF IN THERE AND TAKEN HIS OWN LIFE
BUT THEY RULED THAT OUT AND CLOSED THE CASE.
SO, THEN -- A NATURAL DEATH MAKES SENSE.
>> A NATURAL DEATH COULD MAKE SENSE.
BUT -- IT SEEMED ODD.
AND IT SEEMED WEIRD THAT HE WAS IN THE BATHROOM.
IT SEEMED WEIRD THAT HE WAS IN THE POSITION HE WAS.
>> Reporter: BUT YET, AT THE SAME TIME, WHAT OTHER
EXPLANATION IS THERE >> WELL, WE DIDN'T KNOW.
>> Reporter: WERE YOU SATISFIED MOVING ON, MORNING THE DEATH OF
BILL AS A NATURAL DEATH? >> YES
YES. BRIDGET ASKED ME TO DO THE
EULOGY AND -- THERE WAS NO SUSPICION IN
MY MIND THAT IT WAS ANYTHING LESS THAN GOD CALLING HIM HOME
>> Reporter: BUT BRIDGET HAD DOUBTS
AN EERIE SENSE THAT WHAT HAPPENED TO BILL INSIDE THEIR
HOME WAS NOT NATURAL SHE CONFIDED IN CLOSE FAMILY
FRIEND, MIKE HARRINGTON, AS THEY WERE DRIVING TOGETHER TO BILL'S
FUNERAL. >> AND I TURNED TO BRIDGET, AND
I SAID, "WELL, I GUESS, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE LESSONS TO LEARN
HERE." AND SHE LOOKED, AND SHE SAID,
"MICHAEL, WHAT LESSONS DO WE HAVE TO LEARN HERE
BILL WAS DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT. HE DIDN'T DIE NATURALLY.
>> Reporter: WOULDN'T YOU START TO SAY, "WELL, WHO DID IT?
AND WHY? AND -- YOU JUST DIDN'T GET INTO
THAT >> YOU KNOW, IT SEEMED -- IT WAS
SO OUT IN LEFT FIELD WHO IN THE WORLD WOULD WANT TO
HARM THIS MAN? IT JUST DIDN'T MAKE ANY -- ANY
SENSE AT ALL >> Reporter: BRIDGET SHARED
SIMILAR SUSPICIONS WITH HER BROTHER, DOUG.
WHAT DID YOU TELL HER WHEN SHE HAD THESE THOUGHTS
THAT SOMETHING SEEMED A LITTLE SUSPICIOUS
>> ALL I SAID WAS, "IT-- IT COULD BE, BRIDGET.
I DON'T KNOW." BUT NONETHELESS -- BRIDGET HAD
TIME TO THINK ABOUT -- SHE MULLED ON IT
THE REST OF US, WE'RE JUST TRYIN' TO SUPPORT BRIDGET.
>> Reporter: AND IT WAS A TOUGH TIME FOR THE GRIEVING WIDOW TO
SAY THE LEAST. NOT ONLY WAS SHE DEALING WITH
HER HUSBAND'S SUDDEN DEATH, BUT HER SON CALEB WAS SERVING AN
18-MONTH JAIL SENTENCE FOR THAT DRINKING AND DRIVING ACCIDENT.
>> DEVASTATING TO HER THAT HER SON IS IN PRISON AND WILL ONLY
BE ALLOWED TO COME AND VIEW HIS FATHER IN HIS PRISON UNIFORM
AND THEN NOT BE ABLE TO SEE ANYONE ELSE.
AND NOT BE ABLE TO CON -- HUG HIM, SUPPORT HIM
OR HE, HER SO, THEY HAD TO DEAL WITH THIS
DEATH INDIVIDUALLY ON THEIR OWN
>> Reporter: A FEW MONTHS LATER, CALEB WAS RELEASED AND BACK HOME
WITH HIS MOTHER. READY FOR A FRESH START.
HIS LICENSE HAD BEEN SUSPENDED, SO HE COULDN'T DRIVE, BUT HIS
MOM WAS THERE TO TAKE HIM TO WORK AND HELP WITH THE CHILDREN.
SHE HAS HER SON HOME THE -- THE KIDS HAVE THEIR -
THEIR DAD BACK >> YES
>> Reporter: SO, WERE THINGS STARTING TO GET BACK TO NORMAL
>> I WOULD SAY YES, EXCEPT -- WE HAVE THE ISSUE THAT -- THE
BUFFER IS GONE THAT BILL IS NOT THERE AS THE
PEACEMAKER AND -- SO, OF COURSE, THERE'S
FRICTION AND --
>> Reporter: BETWEEN BRIDGET - >> BRIDGET AND -
>> Reporter: -- AND CALEB. THEY FOUGHT?
>> NAH -- NOT SO MUCH FOUGHT BUT JUST -- YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T
THAT WARM, HAPPY PLACE THAT YOU WALKED IN ALL THE TIME
>> Reporter: THE HARRISON'S NIECE, KATE, REMEMBERS THAT
FIRST CHRISTMAS AFTER HER UNCLE BILL DIED, HOW THE HOUSE FELT SO
VERY EMPTY >> OF COURSE IT WOULD NEVER BE
THE SAME AGAIN AND WE WENT THROUGH THE MOTIONS.
WE WERE -- WE FELT LOST. >> Reporter: A FEW MONTHS LATER,
IN EARLY SPRING 2010, KATE VISITED HER AUNT BRIDGET AGAIN
IT WAS AROUND THE ONE YEAR MARK OF BILL'S PASSING.
IT ALSO WOULD HAVE BEEN THEIR 41ST WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
>> I WENT TO VISIT AUNTIE BRIDGET AND -- THE -- THE PHONE
RANG AND IT WAS -- SOMEONE LOOKING FOR UNCLE BILL
AND, OH, AUNTIE BRIDGET JUST STARTED TO CRY, YOU KNOW
SHE SAID, "I'M SORRY HE'S PASSED AWAY
YOU COULD JUST SEE HOW RAW HER EMOTION WAS AND HOW MUCH SHE WAS
SUFFERING. IT WAS -- IT WAS HEARTBREAKING
>> Reporter: AND THERE WAS MORE HEARTBREAK TO COME IN THE HOUSE
ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT BECAUSE JUST DAYS AFTER KATE'S
VISIT, SHE RECEIVED A HARROWING PHONE CALL
>> I JUST IMPLODED I JUST I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT.
IT JUST FELT CURSED. >> Reporter: COMING UP -
A GROWING TOLL AND GROWING SUSPICION.
>> IT WAS EVEN MORE TRAUMATIZING
THERE WAS A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL OF DISBELIEF THAT SOMETHING LIKE
THAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED AND IT WAS SHOCKING.
>> Reporter: IT WAS AN APRIL AFTERNOON.
AROUND 3:30 WHEN AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY, JUST HOME
FROM SCHOOL, DISCOVERED HIS NANA LYING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE
STAIRS HE RAN TO FIND A NEIGHBOR WHO
CALLED FOR HELP. THE PEEL REGIONAL PARAMEDICS
WERE QUICKLY ALERTED >> WE'RE CALLED OVER THE RADIO
BY OUR DISPATCH THAT THEY HAVE A CODE FOUR FOR US, WHICH IS OUR
HIGHEST PRIORITY CALL. >> Reporter: PARAMEDIC PATRICK
MORIN AND HIS PARTNER JUMPED INTO THE AMBULANCE AND HEADED TO
A HOME ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT. SO ARE YOU -- SIRENS BLARING,
DRIVING HOW FAST >> AS FAST AS WE CAN
100 KILOMETERS AN HOUR >> Reporter: WHEN THEY PULLED UP
THE FRONT DOOR WAS OPEN. THEY HURRIED INSIDE, SAW A WOMAN
LYING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRCASE.
WHAT WAS HER POSITION? >> SHE WAS -- LAYING FLAT ON THE
FLOOR WITH HER HEAD -- PLACED ON THE FIRST STEP AND HER ARMS SORT
OF UP ON ONE OF THE STAIRS, I BELIEVE.
>> Reporter: SO SHE'S ON HER BACK
>> ON HER BACK YES.
>> Reporter: THEY LEARNED THAT THE WOMAN WAS 63-YEAR-OLD
BRIDGET HARRISON THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO
TO SAVE HER. SHE WAS GONE
DID YOU SEE ANYTHING THAT WAS CONSISTENT WITH A FALL
>> THE ONLY THING THAT WE SAW WAS BRUISING AROUND THE THROAT
AREA BUT IT WAS AN ASSUMPTION THAT
MAYBE SHE COULD HAVE FALLEN DOWN THE STAIRS
>> Reporter: BUT BRUISING AROUND THE NECK DOESN'T SEEM --
>> NO. >> Reporter: -- CONSISTENT WITH
A FALL >> IT DOESN'T SOUND --
CONSISTENT TO A FALL, NO NOW, THE POSITION THAT SHE WAS
FOUND IN, COULD SHE HAVE, YOU KNOW, FALLEN DOWN THE STAIRS,
HURT HER NECK, AND THEN GOT INTO THAT POSITION FROM HER INJURIES?
POTENTIALLY. >> Reporter: CALEB GOT A CALL AT
WORK, RUSHED HOME TO HIS SON AND BEGAN LETTING THE FAMILY KNOW.
>> I GET A PHONE CALL FROM KALEB SAYING "SIT DOWN
BRIDGET'S DEAD." MY SON FOUND HER AT THE BOTTOM
OF THE STAIRS WHEN HE CAME HOME FROM SCHOOL.
>> WHEN HE CALLED ME HE SAID, "I THINK THEY THINK SHE'S FALLEN
DOWN THE STAIRS. >> Reporter: THE POLICE HAD
ARRIVED, AND WERE CORDONING OFF THE HOME, BUT THEY ALLOWED
BILL'S SISTER LIZ -- A NURSE - INSIDE
>> CALEB ASKED THE POLICE IF I COULD COME IN.
AND THEY HADN'T MOVED THE BODY SO I COULD GO IN AND SEE HER
>> Reporter: AS LIZ STOOD IN THE FOYER, SHE REALIZED SHE WAS
STANDING JUST FEET FROM WHERE HER BROTHER DIED A YEAR EARLIER.
NOW LIZ WAS PUZZLED AS SHE LOOKED AT BRIDGET'S BODY
>> FIRST IMPRESSION WAS THAT SHE HADN'T FALLEN.
>> Reporter: WHY DID YOU THINK THAT
>> OH, BECAUSE OF THE POSITION SHE WAS IN
I THINK IF YOU FALL DOWNSTAIRS, YOU FALL FORWARD UNLESS YOU'RE
CATCHING YOURSELF OR SOMETHING BUT -- SHE WAS LAID BACK ON THE
STAIRS RIGHT NEAR THE BOTTOM IT JUST DIDN'T LOOK LIKE A FALL
DOWN THE STAIRS. >> Reporter: LIZ CALLED HER
DAUGHTER NICOLE. WHAT'S THAT MOMENT LIKE GETTING
THAT KIND OF NEWS ONE YEAR LATER THAT NOW YOUR AUNT HAS DIED?
>> IT WAS EVEN MORE TRAUMATIZING
THERE WAS A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL OF DISBELIEF THAT SOMETHING LIKE
THAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED AND IT WAS SHOCKING.
>> Reporter: NO ONE IN THE FAMILY COULD PROCESS THE
TRAGEDY. HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TWICE IN
SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME TO ONE FAMILY
>> I COULDN'T RECONCILE IT I JUST THOUGHT MAYBE SHE DIED OF
A BROKEN HEART I MEAN, I -- I'D SEEN HOW
DEVASTATED SHE WAS ON THEIR ANNIVERSARY.
>> Reporter: NIECE KATE BLACKWELL HAD SPENT TIME WITH
HER AUNT JUST DAYS EARLIER, SAW FIRST HAND HOW BRIDGET'S PAIN
WAS STILL SO RAW >> IN HER SADNESS, I THOUGHT
MAYBE IT HAD WEAKENED HER TO THE POINT THAT WHEN SHE TRIPPED OR
F -- SLIPPED, THAT SHE JUST SHATTERED.
>> Reporter: WHEN YOU SAY WEAKENED, LIKE, HER BODY WAS
FRAIL OR - >> POSSIBLY.
NOT EATING NOT EATING RIGHT
>> Reporter: TRUE. BRIDGET HAD BEEN DESPONDENT
SINCE HER HUSBAND'S DEATH BUT NIECE NICOLE WAS SKEPTICAL THAT
THIS WAS AN ACCIDENT >> THERE WAS NOTHING BELIEVABLE
ABOUT A PERFECTLY HEALTHY PERSON HAVING A CATASTROPHIC FALL DOWN.
>> Reporter: CARPETED STEPS. >> I DON'T -- I DON'T BUY IT FOR
A HOT SECOND >> Reporter: SHE AND THE OTHER
FAMILY MEMBERS COULDN'T HELP BUT THINK BACK TO BILL'S SUDDEN
DEATH ONE YEAR EARLIER AND THE THINGS THEY HAD FOUND UNSETTLING
AT THE TIME. >> IT WAS JUST -- A MUCKY STORY.
IT SEEMED ODD. AND IT SEEMED WEIRD THAT HE WAS
IN THE BATHROOM. IT SEEMED WEIRD THAT HE WAS IN
THE POSITION HE WAS. I THINK WE TRIED TO LIVE WITH
THIS CONTRADICTION AND -- AND NEEDED TO BE THERE
FOR CALEB, FOR THE KIDS, FOR BRIDGET.
>> Reporter: NOW THE FAMILY PUSHED POLICE TO INVESTIGATE
BOTH DEATHS. AND THE CHIEF FORENSIC
PATHOLOGIST WAS CONCERNED, TOO HE WANTED TO EXHUME BILL
HARRISON'S BODY TO FURTHER EXAMINE HIS INJURIES
ONLY, THAT WASN'T POSSIBLE BILL'S BODY HAD BEEN CREMATED.
AND THEN THE CRIME SCENE IS GONE
YOU CAN'T GO AND REEXAMINE A CRIME SCENE THAT DOESN'T EXIST
ANYMORE. >> THAT'S RIGHT.
>> Reporter: OR A BODY THAT DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE GIVEN THAT
YOUR UNCLE WAS CREMATED. >> YEAH.
YEAH IT -- I MEAN -
>> Reporter: IT MUST BE SO FRUSTRATING.
>> IT'S FRUSTRATING BECAUSE -- WE'RE A PRETTY REGULAR FAMILY
AND JUST REALLY TRUSTED THAT - EVERYTHING HAD BEEN DONE
>> Reporter: TWO DEATHS IN ONE YEAR INSIDE THE SAME HOME?
THE FAMILY WAS LEFT WITH A HORRIFYING POSSIBILITY
>> THIS ISN'T A CURSE. THIS ISN'T A FLUKE
SOMEBODY'S MADE -- AN ACTION HERE
BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW WHO >> Reporter: SOMEBODY'S OUT TO
GET THIS FAMILY. >> GUARANTEED.
>> Reporter: COMING UP - POLICE CALL IN CALEB, ONE OF THE
LAST PEOPLE TO SEE HIS MOM ALIVE.
>> THERE WAS A MARK ON YOUR MOM'S CHIN
>> YEAH, LIKE THIS >> WAS THAT FROM A FALL?
OR SOMETHING ELSE? >> IT WASN'T LIKE THAT IN THE
MORNING, LIKE WHEN SHE DROPPED >> Reporter: THE EXTENDED
HARRISON FAMILY WAS REELING IN THE SPRING OF 2010, AFTER LOSING
BILL AND THEN HIS WIFE BRIDGET THOUGH THEY DIED A YEAR APART,
BOTH HAD BEEN FOUND AT HOME, THE SAME HOME ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT
THAT HAD BEEN THE HUB OF FAMILY GATHERINGS
>> WE WERE -- WE FELT LOST WITHOUT HAVING AUNT BRIDGET AND
UNCLE BILL TO KIND OF GROUND US TO BE HOME
>> THEY WERE THE ONE CONSTANT? THEIR HOUSE.
>> YES >> Reporter: THEIR 37-YEAR-OLD
SON CALEB HARRISON WAS LEFT TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF THE LOSS
OF NOT ONE PARENT BUT TWO. >> IT WAS A POWERFULLY SAD TIME.
>> LOSING BOTH HIS PARENTS IN JUST OVER A YEAR
>> AT THAT HOME. I MEAN -
>> THE SAME HOME >> YEP
THAT'S-- THAT-- THE HOME WAS-- IS A HOME OF HAPPINESS
>> Reporter: CALEB'S FRIEND STEFANI SPOKE TO HIM ON THE
NIGHT OF BRIDGET'S DEATH >> HE IS FEELING LIKE HE HAS
LOST EVERYTHING THAT HAS KNOWINGLY RAISED HIM AND BROUGHT
HIM INTO THIS WORLD. HE'S NOT TALKING
HE FINDS HIMSELF A HOTEL ROOM. HE DOESN'T WANNA TALK ABOUT IT
HE'S DEVASTATED BY IT. HE DOESN'T WANT TO HAVE ANY
COMMUNICATIONS BEYOND WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN WITH THE POLICE.
>> Reporter: AND POLICE WERE EAGER TO SPEAK WITH HIM RIGHT
AWAY CALEB HAD BEEN LIVING WITH HIS
MOTHER AND WAS LIKELY ONE OF THE LAST PEOPLE TO SEE HER ALIVE
>> JUST SO YOU KNOW CALEB, UH, WE USE THIS ROOM FOR THE PURPOSE
OF TAKING STATEMENTS FROM, UH, ANYBODY WE NEED TO TAKE A
STATEMENT FROM >> SURE.
>> SO THERE'S A VIDEO CAMERA HERE
SO EVERYTHING THAT WE SAY IS BEING RECORDED
>> OKAY. >> Reporter: ALTHOUGH IT WAS
JUST HOURS AFTER HE LEARNED OF HIS MOTHER'S DEATH, HE APPEARED
CALM >> UM, I JUST WANNA SAY VERY
SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS, AND I UNDERSTAND THERE ARE OTHER
THINGS YOU'D RATHER BE DOING >> Reporter: THE INVESTIGATOR
WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT BRIDGET'S DAILY ROUTINE.
>> SO JUST TELL ME ABOUT UM. >> A NORMAL DAY?
>> YEAH, LIKE WHAT YOUR MOM'S NORMAL ROUTINE WOULD BE AND --
>> OK. SHE'S UP EARLY, LIKE FIVE IN THE
MORNING-ISH. UH, KIDS AND I GET UP AT 7:05,
THEN SHE'S CLEANING UP, SHE HAS BREAKFAST AROUND TWENTY AFTER
8 WE LEAVE TO DROP THE KIDS AT SCHOOL
AND THEN FROM THERE, WE GO TO MY WORK
>> Reporter: CALEB EXPLAINED THAT BECAUSE HIS LICENSE WAS
SUSPENDED, HIS MOTHER DID ALL THE DRIVING.
>> THEN SHE GOES HOME, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW LAST YEAR, UH,
WE WERE DEALT WITH MY FATHER'S PASSING.
SO SHE'S BEEN, UH, STILL DOING STUFF FOR THAT I DON'T GET INTO
IT, INTO IT WITH HER IT'S PERSONAL BUSINESS AND
OBVIOUSLY, UPSETTING UM, AND SO DURING THE DAY, UH,
SHE, SHE HAS STUFF TO DO >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS ASKED
WHERE CALEB WAS THAT DAY AND WHEN HE LAST SAW HIS MOTHER.
>> MOM DROPPED ME OFF AT, UH-, TODAY QUARTER TO, SAME AS USUAL,
AND I DIDN'T SPEAK TO HER DURING THE DAY.
THERE WAS NO NEED TO, UH, SPEAK TO HER
IT WAS TEN TO 4 WHEN THE SCHOOL CALLED
AND THEN THEY HAD CALLED ME AND CALLED THE POLICE.
>> Reporter: THE QUESTIONS GOT MORE POINTED
THE PARAMEDICS HAD NOTICED BRUISING ON BRIDGET'S NECK
DID CALEB KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT
>> THERE WAS A MARK ON YOUR MOM'S CHIN
>> YEAH, LIKE THIS >> LIKE A BRUISE OR SOMETHING.
>> YEAH. >> YEAH AND THE CORONER'S JUST
NOT SURE >> YEAH, I TALKED TO HIM ABOUT
THAT >> YEAH, ABOUT WHEN OR -
>> 'CAUSE I SAID -- IT WASN'T LIKE THAT IN THE
MORNING WHEN SHE DROPPED ME OFF. >> MM-HMM.
>> Reporter: POLICE WONDERED HOW AN APPARENTLY FIT WOMAN HAD
FALLEN TO HER DEATH. THEY ASKED CALEB IF HIS MOM HAD
ANY HEALTH PROBLEMS. >> NO MEDICAL HISTORY THAT -
>> NOT THAT I WAS AWARE OF, LIKE I SAID, UH, TO THE OTHER
OFFICERS, UH, LIKE A SLIGHT, UH, CASE OF DIABETES
>> OKAY. UM, AND OTHER THAN THAT, SHE'S
NEVER BEEN HOSPITALIZED, SHE'S NEVER FAINTED?
>> NO, NO. >> Reporter: POLICE HAD SCOURED
THE HARRISON'S HOME LOOKING FOR CLUES.
SO FAR, THEY'D FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY
NO UNUSUAL MARKS ON THE STAIRS, THE WALLS, THE BANISTER.
AND NOTHING WAS DISTURBED INSIDE THE HOME
THEY FOUND NO SIGNS OF FORCED ENTRY EITHER
IN FACT, THEY TOLD CALEB THE DOORS WERE UNLOCKED.
>> WOULD THAT HAVE BEEN NORMAL FOR --
>> IT WOULD'VE BEEN OPEN, YEAH MOST OF THE TIME WE LEFT IT OPEN
BECAUSE MOM WOULD TAKE US AND THEN COME RIGHT BACK
AND WE'RE NOT A BIG CRIME AREA THERE, I MEAN.
>> YEAH. IT'S A NICE NEIGHBORHOOD
>> YEAH, PEOPLE, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE LIVED THERE FOR A LONG
TIME >> SO THEN THE DOOR JUST GETS
LOCKED AT NIGHT WHEN YOU GO TO BED, TYPE OF THING, OR
>> YEAH. >> YEAH, OKAY.
>> OR IF WE'RE GONNA BE AWAY >> Reporter: AFTER ANSWERING
QUESTIONS FROM POLICE, CALEB WENT BACK TO CONSOLE HIS TWO
CHILDREN AND TO GRAPPLE WITH THE LOSS OF BOTH HIS PARENTS BUT THE
POLICE STILL HAD A LONG LIST OF PEOPLE TO INTERVIEW.
AND ONE OF THEM WOULD POINT AUTHORITIES IN A SURPRISING
DIRECTION. >> I DON'T WANT TO BE LIKE,
ALREADY BEEN TOLD THAT FINGERS ARE BEING POINTED.
AND I'M NOT IN ANY WAY POINTING FINGERS, THAT'S NOT WHY I'M
HERE >> COMING UP -
>> HE DID SOME PRETTY SERIOUS STUFF TO ME.
>> AN UGLY ACCUSATION FROM CALEB'S ESTRANGED WIFE
ABOUT THE PAST AND THE PRESENT.
>> HE DIDN'T HAVE A GOOD RELATIONIP
>> Reporter: TWO WEEKS HAD PASSED SINCE BRIDGET HARRISON'S
DEATH. THE FAMILY WAS LEFT TRYING TO
MAKE SENSE OF THE TRAGEDY. A TRAGEDY THAT ONCE AGAIN
HAPPENED IN THE SAME HOME ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT.
>> WHAT'S EVERYONE DOING NOW THAT THERE'S BEEN A SECOND
DEATH? >> I THINK EVERYBODY WAS JUST SO
BOWLED OVER BY WHAT HAPPENED THAT WE WERE TRYING TO FIGURE
OUT AS MUCH AS WE COULD. WE COULDN'T GET BACK INTO THE
HOUSE FOR SEVERAL DAYS SO WE ASSUMED THERE WAS A LOT
MORE UM-- EFFORT BEING MADE TO GET TO THE TRUTH
>> Reporter: PEEL REGIONAL POLICE WANTED TO SPEAK WITH
EVERYONE IN BRIDGET'S CIRCLE, INCLUDING CALEB'S ESTRANGED
WIFE, MELISSA MERRITT. AFTER ALL, IT WAS MELISSA AND
CALEB'S 8-YEAR-OLD SON WHO FOUND HIS 'NANA' COLLAPSED BY THE
STAIRCASE. THE KIDS LIVED HALF THE TIME AT
NANA'S HOUSE >> SO NOW I'M PICTURING MY
LITTLE BOY, WHO IS 8 YEARS OLD SOMEHOW HE GOT FROM SCHOOL AND
HE WALKED IN AND FOUND HIS GRANDMOTHER DEAD
>> Reporter: MELISSA CONFIRMED TO THE INVESTIGATOR WHAT CALEB
TOLD POLICE, THAT BRIDGET HARRISON WAS A HEALTHY WOMAN
>> SHE ALWAYS WAS IN GOOD HEALTH SHE WAS ALWAYS GOING TO THE GYM
AND SHE WOULD GO TO THE YMCA AND WORK OUT
>> Reporter: LIKE THE REST OF THE HARRISON FAMILY, MELISSA
THOUGHT THE TIMING OF BRIDGET'S DEATH SEEMED A BIT STRANGE
>> I THINK IT'S WEIRD THAT SHE PASSED AWAY LIKE A WEEK AFTER
BILL, LIKE IT WAS ALMOST LIKE A WEEK BETWEEN THE ANNIVERSARY
>> YEAH. >> OF, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU
CALL IT BUT SAY THE ANNIVERSARY OF BILL PASSING AWAY
>> YEAH, FOR SURE. >> HE PASSED AWAY ONE YEAR AND I
THINK IT WAS ALMOST LIKE A WEEK LATER.
>> YEAH. >> THAT SHE HAD PASSED AWAY, I
THINK THAT'S ODD BUT, YOU KNOW I, YOU KIND OF
THEN, WHEN YOU START THINKING ABOUT IT, IT'S LIKE WELL, IT WAS
A YEAR ANNIVERSARY SINCE HER HUSBAND PASSED AWAY. MAYBE, YOU
KNOW LIKE I SAID, I'VE HEARD THAT STRESS KILLED, I'VE, I'VE
HEARD YOU KNOW, LIKE IT CAN KILL YOU.
I THINK JUST EAT AWAY AT YOUR BODY OR WHATEVER
>> Reporter: BUT MELISSA HAD ANOTHER THEORY, ONE MORE
SINISTER IT HAD TO DO WITH CALEB.
>> WHEN I WAS WITH CALEB, YOU KNOW I'M NOT, I DON'T WANT TO BE
LIKE, ALREADY BEEN TOLD BY DETECTIVE AMAROSO THAT FINGERS
ARE BEING POINTED. AND I'M NOT IN ANY WAY POINTING FINGERS.
>> YEAH. >> CAUSE THAT'S NOT WHY I'M
HERE BUT WHEN I WAS WITH CALEB HE
DIDN'T HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS MOM
>> OKAY. >> AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT'S
ENOUGH TO DO SOMETHING TO HER, BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE A GREAT
RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS MOM. >> Reporter: AND SHE SAID THERE
WAS REASON TO BELIEVE CALEB MIGHT HAVE BEEN VIOLENT TOWARDS
HIS MOTHER FIVE YEARS EARLIER, WHILE STILL
A COUPLE, MELISSA REPORTED THAT CALEB HAD ATTACKED HER IN THEIR
HOME HE WAS LATER CONVICTED OF DOMESTIC ASSAULT
IT WAS THE REASON THEY SEPARATED, SHE SAID.
>> AND HE DID SOME PRETTY SERIOUS STUFF TO ME.
>> MM-HMM. >> I'VE HEARD OF PEOPLE WHO YOU
KNOW, THEIR HUSBANDS WILL ASSAULT THEM AND IT'S JUST LIKE
YOU GET IN AN ARGUMENT AND THEY SLAP YOU OR THEY HIT YOU OR
WHATEVER HE WASN'T LIKE THAT.
IF WE GOT IN AN ARGUMENT HE WOULD NOT DO ANYTHING UNTIL I
TURNED MY BACK OR LIKE, WENT TO BED.
SO HE WAS LIKE, SNEAKY ABOUT THE WAY HE WOULD ASSAULT ME.
SO, I KNOW THAT HE HAS IN HIM A TENDENCY TO HARM PEOPLE IF THEY
PISS HIM OFF >> I KNOW WHAT HE DID TO ME, AND
I DON'T KNOW, LIKE AND AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE
DIED, I DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF SHE
WAS ASSAULTED, I DON'T KNOW IF SHE LOOKED, I DON'T KNOW
ANYTHING ABOUT THAT. SO, I DON'T WANT TO BE MAKING
ANY ASSUMPTIONS THAT HE BEAT THE HELL OUT OF HER AND SHE DIED
BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW >> BUT THOSE LITTLE THINGS POP
INTO YOUR HEAD BECAUSE I KNOW MY PAST WITH HIM AND I KNOW WHAT
HE'S DONE AND WHAT HE'S CAPABLE OF DOING
>> Reporter: MELISSA'S MESSAGE WAS CLEAR.
SHE WAS SUGGESTING CALEB MIGHT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS MOTHER'S
DEATH. >> I ASSUME I'M PROBABLY A BIT
STRONGER OF A PERSON BECAUSE OF MY AGE. LIKE WHEN HE WAS
ASSAULTING ME I WAS IN MY MID-20'S
>> HM-HMM. >> THEN COMPARED TO A 63-YEAR
OLD WOMAN. LIKE I SAID, I'M NOT POINTING
FINGERS AT HIM THOSE ARE JUST YOU ASKED ME
WHAT - >> NO, YEAH EXACTLY THAT'S WHAT
I WANTED >> WHAT KINDA POPPED INTO MY
HEAD AND THAT'S ALL, THAT'S REALLY
ALL THAT POPPED INTO MY HEAD IS, I WONDER IF.
>> Reporter: POLICE ALSO BROUGHT IN MELISSA'S BOYFRIEND CHRIS
FATTORE. THEY HAD BEEN LIVING TOGETHER SINCE HER SEPARATION
FROM CALEB AND THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN OF
THEIR OWN. >> IS THERE ANYTHING YOU CAN
SHED LIGHT ON WITH RESPECT TO BRIDGET?
>> UH, I THINK THE FIRST THING THAT POPPED THROUGH MY MIND UH,
IF ANYTHING WAS WRONG WAS AUTOMATICALLY CALEB JUST FROM
HIS BACKGROUND I JUST THOUGHT I WAS LIKE YOU
KNOW MAYBE THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT, MAYBE THEY FOUGHT, MAYBE HE DID
SOMETHING. I DON'T KNOW
I SAID I'VE NEVER TRUSTED HIM. I THINK HE'S VIOLENT, HE HAS A
VIOLENT PAST >> Reporter: CALEB HARRISON, SON
IN MOURNING OR SUSPECT >> COMING UP
POLICE HAD CALEB IN THEIR SIGHTS
DID SOMEONE ELSE >> YOU WERE ACTUALLY WORRIED
THAT CALEB - >> YES, I WAS.
>> COULD BE NEXT >> Reporter: POLICE WERE
INVESTIGATING THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF BRIDGET HARRISON.
AN AUTOPSY CONCLUDED SHE DIED FROM NECK INJURIES
POLICE DIDN'T KNOW IF SHE'D TAKEN A FALL DOWN THE STAIRS OR
IF SHE'D BEEN MURDERED INSIDE THAT SAME HOME WHERE HER HUSBAND
DIED A YEAR EARLIER. POLICE HAD ZEROED IN ON SOMEONE
CLOSE TO BRIDGET HER SON, CALEB
>> THEIR FIRST SUSPECT WAS CALEB.
AND THAT MAKES SENSE TO ME >> Reporter: CALEB HAD SOMEWHAT
OF A DARK HISTORY, INCLUDING THE DOMESTIC ASSAULT AND DRUNK
DRIVING CONVICTIONS. AND HIS ESTRANGED WIFE, MELISSA,
SUGGESTED HE MIGHT'VE HARMED HIS MOTHER
>> I KNOW THAT HE HAS IN HIM A TENDENCY TO HARM PEOPLE IF THEY
PISS HIM OFF >> Reporter: ALSO, AS AN ONLY
CHILD, HE STOOD TO GAIN LIFE INSURANCE AND THE ESTATE
INCLUDING THE HOUSE. >> HE'S THE MALE IN THE HOUSE.
HE'S THE GUY WHO'S GOING TO BENEFIT IF YOU FOLLOW THE MONEY.
HE'S THE BENEFICIARY >> Reporter: BUT THE VERY IDEA
OF CALEB HURTING HIS MOTHER WAS INCONCEIVABLE TO CALEB'S UNCLE,
AND FAMILY FRIEND MIKE HARRINGTON
>> Reporter: WERE YOU AWARE THAT CALEB HAD BEEN LOOKED AT IN HIS
MOTHER'S DEATH >> I'D HEARD THAT, AND I GUESS
IT -- YOU LOOK -- I -- YOU'RE GONNA LOOK AT EVERYBODY.
IT MADE SENSE FOR THEM TO LOOK AT CALEB FROM THAT POINT OF
VIEW IT NEVER CAME TO MIND IN -- IN
MY MIND THAT HE WOULD BE -- HAVE ANY KIND OF INVOLVEMENT AT ALL
WOULD -- DID -- IT JUST DIDN'T MAKE SENSE, KNOWING CALEB'S
CHARACTER. >> Reporter: DID YOUR MIND EVER
GO THERE "WHAT IF
WHAT IF CALEB SNAPPED? >> NO.
>> Reporter: "JUST THINGS WERE HARDER THAN WE THOUGHT?"
>> NO. IT WASN'T PART OF HIS NATURE
YOU KNOW, I'D KNOWN THIS -- I'D KNOWN THIS GUY SINCE HE WAS SIX
MONTHS OLD >> HE LOVED HER.
IT WAS A COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP
BUT HE LOVED HER HE'D NEVER HURT ANYONE LIKE
THAT >> Reporter: THERE WAS A
SUGGESTION THAT HE MIGHT HAVE WANTED THE LIFE INSURANCE, THE
MONEY. >> NO.
LIKE, NO NO
AND -- AND YOU DON'T WANT THE MONEY IN LIEU OF THE LOVE OF
YOUR PARENT. NO. YOU DON'T.
>> Reporter: DESPITE CALEB'S DOMESTIC ASSAULT CONVICTION, HIS
FRIEND STEFANI DIDN'T BELIEVE MELISSA'S ALLEGATIONS.
>> I REMEMBER UH -- SPEAKING WITH CALEB AND NOT REALLY
UNDERSTANDING WHERE ANY OF THESE ALLEGATIONS WOULD COME FROM?
>> Reporter: WHAT WERE THEY? >> SHE WAS CLAIMING THAT THERE
WAS ABUSE HAPPENING. BUT I WAS WITH THEM 90% OF THE
TIME OR OUR CHILDREN WERE TOGETHER.
AND I'M NOT SURE WHERE ANY OF THESE THINGS WOULD HAVE
OCCURRED THERE WAS NEVER ANY EVIDENCE
I DIDN'T SEE ANY EVIDENCE OF ANYTHING HAPPENING
>> Reporter: DID YOU BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS A CHANCE THAT SHE
WAS TELLING THE TRUTH, THAT HE WAS BEING ABUSIVE?
>> ABSOLUTELY NOT. >> Reporter: WHEN POLICE CHECKED
CALEB'S WHEREABOUTS ON THE DAY HIS MOTHER DIED, HIS STORY
CHECKED OUT. HE WAS WORKING ALL DAY
>> THEY KNEW HE COULD NOT POSSIBLY PHYSICALLY HAVE DONE
IT HE WAS -- HE HAD AN AIRTIGHT
ABSOLUTE ALIBI, OKAY SO THEY -- THEY KNOW IT'S NOT
CALEB. THERE'S NO WAY HE COULD'VE
POSSIBLY BEEN INVOLVED IN -- IN THIS DEATH
SO THEN I THOUGHT, WELL, NOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT IT'S NOT
CALEB, WHO DO YOU THINK IT IS? >> Reporter: THE FAMILY WANTED
POLICE TO LOOK AT AT OTHER PEOPLE, BUT FROM WHAT THEY
UNDERSTOOD, POLICE DIDN'T HAVE ANY OTHER SUSPECTS
WITH NO SOLID EVIDENCE LIKE FINGERPRINTS, DNA, OR WITNESSES,
POLICE SEEMED STUCK. WEEKS PASSED
>> Reporter: YOU'RE KIND OF IN LIMBO, NOT REALLY KNOWING WHAT'S
GOING ON WITH YOUR SISTER'S INVESTIGATION.
>> IN MY OPINION, THEY HAD FOCUSED ON CALEB BEING THE
CULPRIT. SO, RATHER THAN BROADENING THE
INVESTIGATION AS QUICKLY AND AS -- AS THEY SHOULD HAVE, THEY
TENDED TO SIT ON IT. HOPING THAT THEY WOULD FIND
SOMETHING TO BREAK ON CALEB. TO PROVE THAT HE -- YOU KNOW,
HIS ALIBI WASN'T GOOD. >> Reporter: WAS THE FAMILY
SAYING TO THE POLICE, "COME ON THIS IS ONE YEAR APART
WE REALLY SUSPECT FOUL PLAY. >> ABSOLUTELY.
THOSE CONVERSATIONS WERE HAD BUT I DON'T THINK THE FAMILY WAS
EVER SATISFIED WITH THE AMOUNT OF CONTINUOUS INVESTIGATION THAT
WE ALL FELT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED
>> Reporter: WHAT WAS THE FINAL THING THEY SAID?
>> WE'LL CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE.
>> Reporter: AND THE POLICE DID. FOR A WHILE.
BUT IN IN JUNE, TWO MONTHS AFTER BRIDGET'S DEATH, AUTHORITIES
CONCLUDED THERE WAS NO FOUL PLAY
NO FORCED ENTRY, NO SIGNS OF A STRUGGLE
THE DEATH WAS CLASSIFIED AS UNDETERMINED
AND NOT LONG AFTER, THE POLICE CLOSED THE CASE.
>> THE FAMILY WAS NOT INFORMED THAT THIS WAS NO LONGER BEING
TREATED AS A MURDER AS -- AS - AS A HOMICIDE.
AND YET, WE HAVE HEARD THAT THE POLICE SEEMED TO THINK THEY DID
INFORM US. AND I'M PRETTY SURE THAT IF THEY
HAD TOLD ME THAT, I WOULD'VE REMEMBERED IT.
>> Reporter: BRIDGET'S BROTHER, DOUG, SAYS THE FAMILY WAS KEPT
IN THE DARK. >> I -- I -- I DON'T KNOW ANY
OTHER FAMILY MEMBER WHO SAYS, "OH, YEAH, THEY TOLD ME THAT
THEY WEREN'T INVESTIGATING IT AS -- AS A HOMICIDE.
>> Reporter: I MEAN, HOW COULD YOU FORGET
THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE MOST CRITICAL MOMENTS OF YOUR LIFE,
HEARING THAT >> I'M JUST SAYING -
>> Reporter: THAT YOUR SISTER'S INVESTIGATION IS -
>> IT'S -- YEAH -- >> Reporter: IS -- IS DONE
>> Reporter: DOUG FEARED HE'D NEVER KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS
OLDER SISTER BUT HIS BIGGER FEAR NOW WAS FOR
CALEB AND THE CHILDREN IF THERE WAS A KILLER STALKING
THE FAMILY, HE WANTED THEM PROTECTED.
>> Reporter: YOU WERE ACTUALLY WORRIED THAT CALEB -
>> YES, I WAS. >> Reporter: COULD BE NEXT
>> ABSOLUTELY. CALEB SAYS, "I'M A BIG BOY
I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF. AND I SAID, "LOOK, CALEB, YOU
KNOW, YOU COULD STEP OFF A CURB AND GET HIT BY A BUS
AND THE RESULT IS THE SAME SO LET'S AT LEAST DRAW UP A
WILL LET'S AT LEAST SAY WHO YOU WANT
TO RAISE THE KIDS. >> Reporter: CALEB AGREED.
AND EVENTUALLY HE SEEMED TO BE GETTING ON WITH HIS LIFE
BY THE SUMMER OF 2013, THREE YEARS AFTER HIS MOM'S DEATH,
CALEB HAD A GIRLFRIEND AND WAS STILL LIVING IN HIS CHILDHOOD
HOME ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT, THE HOME WHERE BOTH HIS PARENTS HAD
DIED AND DESPITE MISTAKES IN HIS
PAST, CALEB WAS A DEVOTED FATHER TO HIS TWO KIDS AGES 10 AND 12
HIS FRIEND PAOLO ZAFFINO SAYS THOSE KIDS WERE HIS WORLD.
>> Reporter: WHAT KIND OF THINGS DID HE LIKE TO DO WITH HIS KIDS?
>> WELL, HE COACHED BOTH OF THEM IN BASEBALL.
HE'D TAKE HIS SON PAINTBALLING JUST ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING
THAT THOSE KIDS WANTED TO DO, CALEB WAS UP FOR IT.
HE WAS AN EXCEPTIONAL FATHER HE WAS A GREAT FATHER.
>> Reporter: AND STEPHANIE WAS THERE TO SUPPORT HIM AS WELL
>> WE HAVE ACCEPTED THAT AUNT BRIDGET AND UNCLE BILL HAVE
PASSED AWAY. AND THE NEXT STAGES ARE FOR US
TO CREATE A FAMILY AND A VILLAGE THAT HELPS CALEB RAISE THESE
CHILDREN >> Reporter: DID CALEB NOT FEAR
FOR HIS LIFE THOUGH? DID HE NOT WORRY THAT HE COULD
BE NEXT? >> HE -- I CAN HONESTLY TELL
YOU, HE NEVER, EVER SAID THAT TO ME
>> Reporter: NO ONE COULD HAVE IMAGINED THAT THIS FAMILY WOULD
BE FACED WITH ANOTHER AGONIZING LOSS INSIDE THAT HOME ON PITCH
PINE CRESCENT. >>> COMING UP:
CALEB GOES MISSING >> Reporter: WHAT ARE YOU
THINKING AS YOU'RE KNOCKING ON THE DOOR
>> I'M HOPING HE'S JUST NOT IN THERE.
>>> AND, A PARAMEDIC HAS A CASE OF DEJA VU
>> Reporter: IT GIVES ME CHILLS WHEN I THINK, HERE YOU ARE AT
THE SAME HOUSE WITH -- >> YES
>> Reporter: IT WAS A SUMMER DAY.
AUGUST 23rd, 2013. IN A TORONTO SUBURB, PAOLO
ZAFFINO HAD JUST ARRIVED AT WORK
>> WHAT'S THE FIRST THING YOU DO
>> TURN MY COMPUTER ON CHECK MY E-MAILS
>> Reporter: CALEB'S GOOD FRIEND PAOLO WAS BUSY PREPARING FOR A
BUSY WORK DAY AT THE COMPANY WHERE THEY BOTH WORKED
>> CALEB AND I WERE SUPPOSED TO, LIKE, RELABEL OUR WHOLE
WAREHOUSE. AND, YOU KNOW, AS THE MINUTES
KEPT PASSING BY, AND I HADN'T HEARD ANYTHING, STARTING TO GET
A LITTLE ANXIOUS SO I STARTED TEXTING HIM, AND
AND CALLING HIM. >> Reporter: CALEB DIDN'T TEXT
BACK DIDN'T PICK UP HIS PHONE
>> HAD HE EVER JUST NOT SHOWN UP FOR WORK BEFORE?
>> NO. HE HAD NEVER NOT SHOWN UP.
BUT CALEB WAS ALWAYS, "IF I'M LATE" --
HE'D TEXT AND SAY, "I'M RUNNING A LITTLE BEHIND.
OR HE'D CALL IN, LET SOMEBODY KNOW
SO I THINK IT WAS ABOUT 20 MINUTES WHERE HE WAS LATE
>> 20 MINUTES ISN'T THAT MUCH. DID YOU --
>> IT WAS FOR HIM. 'CAUSE, I MEAN -
HE'S, "I'M 30 SECONDS LATE I'M CALLING YOU AND TELLING YOU
I'M 30 SECONDS LATE. >> Reporter: THE GUYS IN THE
OFFICE THOUGHT MAYBE CALEB WAS GOOFING OFF AT HOME WITH HIS
GIRLFRIEND >> THEY SAID TO ME AT WORK,
"WELL, WHY DON'T YOU GO DRIVE BY HIS HOUSE?" AND THEN WE'LL JUST,
YOU KNOW, MAKE FUN OF HIM FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE ABOUT IT
BECAUSE THEY'RE AT HOME PLAYING HOOKY TOGETHER
>> Reporter: SO PAOLO DROVE OVER TO CALEB'S
HE RANG THE DOORBELL THE CLEANING LADY ANSWERED
>> "CALEB HASN'T SHOWN UP FOR WORK TODAY
HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? "OH, NO, NO.
I HAVEN'T SEEN HIM I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING.
"OKAY, WELL, IS HE HOME? "WELL, I DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T CLEAN HIS ROOM MAYBE HE'S IN HIS ROOM."
SO I SAID, "OKAY." >> ARE YOU GETTING WORRIED NOW
FINALLY AT THIS POINT? >> I'M PUZZLED AT THIS POINT
>> SO SHE SAID, "DO YOU WANNA COME INSIDE?
SO AT THAT POINT I WAS LIKE, "ALL RIGHT AND STARTED WALKING
UP THE STAIRS. I ASKED HER WHICH BEDROOM IT
WAS. AND SHE POINTED TO THE END OF
THE HALL >> Reporter: AS PAOLO WALKED
SLOWLY DOWN THE HALL, HE CALLED CALEB'S NAME OVER AND OVER
AGAIN. WHEN HE GOT TO CALEB'S BEDROOM,
THE DOOR WAS CLOSED. >> WHAT ARE YOU THINKING AS
YOU'RE KNOCKING ON THE DOOR? LIKE, ARE YOU SORT OF AFRAID NOW
OF WHAT YOU'RE GONNA FIND ON THE OTHER SIDE
>> I'M HOPING HE'S JUST NOT IN THERE AT THIS POINT.
I'M HOPING THAT HE'S NOT HOME. >> Reporter: THE ROOM WAS DARK
WHEN HE OPENED UP THE DOOR HE SAW CALEB LYING UNDER THE
SHEETS IN BED WITH A SLEEP MASK COVERING HIS EYES.
>> TIME STOPPED. SO I JUST KEPT, LIKE, CALLIN'
HIS NAME, WALKING UP ALONG THE SIDE OF THE BED TOWARDS WHERE HE
WAS LAYING I JUST PUT MY FINGERS ACROSS HIS
NECK LIKE THIS AND HE WAS JUST ICE COLD
>> Reporter: HE IMMEDIATELY CALLED 911
>> WE'RE TOLD WE ARE GOING FOR ANOTHER VITAL SIGNS ABSENT
PATIENT. >> OKAY.
SO THIS IS ANOTHER URGENT CALL >> HIGHEST PRIORITY WE HAVE,
YEAH >> Reporter: WHEN PARAMEDIC
PATRICK MORIN PULLED UP TO THE HOUSE ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT, IT
ALL CAME RUSHING BACK. >> I'M LIKE, HMM, I'VE BEEN HERE
BEFORE AND I SORT OF MENTION IT TO MY
PARTNER AT THE TIME. AND THEN WE GET OUT AND WE GRAB
OUR EQUIPMENT AND WE START MAKING OUR WAY TO THE FRONT
DOOR >> Reporter: REMEMBER, THREE
YEARS EARLIER PATRICK HAD BEEN CALLED TO THE HARRISON HOME
AFTER BRIDGET DIED >> IT GIVES ME CHILLS WHEN I
THINK, HERE YOU ARE AT THE SAME HOUSE WITH -
>> YES IT GIVES ME CHILLS NOW
>> Reporter: PATRICK HURRIED TO CALEB'S BEDROOM.
>> AND WE SAW SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT BRUISING, UNDER HIS
CHIN AND AROUND HIS THROAT THERE WERE SCRATCH MARKS ON HIS
CHEST, AND THEN ON HIS RIGHT HAND, THERE WAS BRUISING AND A
LITTLE CUT, AS WELL. UM, AND RIGHT AWAY, WE KNEW THAT
THIS WAS FOUL PLAY >> THIS TIME IT WAS BLACK AND
WHITE. THERE WAS NO GREY AREA THIS
TIME - >> NO.
WE KNEW THAT IT WAS FOUL PLAY, AND WE TOLD THE POLICE OFFICERS
RIGHT AWAY >> Reporter: 40-YEAR-OLD CALEB
WAS DEAD OUTSIDE THE HOME, THE COMMOTION
OF POLICE VEHICLES AND AMBULANCES SET OFF A CHAIN
REACTION OF CALLS. >> YOU GET THIS NEWS THAT CALEB
HAS DIED THE THIRD FAMILY MEMBER.
>> AND I REMEMBER -- I REMEMBER BEING AT THE LAKE AND
LOOKING OUT AT THE WATER AND THINKING, "HOW -- HOW ARE WE
GONNA GET THROUGH THIS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WITH THESE
CHILDREN AND WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THIS
FAMILY HOW ARE WE GONNA ENDURE A THIRD
DEATH? AND MY GOD, THE CHILDREN
WHAT -- WHAT WERE THEY GONNA DO?"
>> Reporter: WORD OF CALEB'S DEATH SPREAD QUICKLY
>> THIS TIME, I COLLAPSED. THIS -- THIS ONE, LIKE, FLOORED
ME IN A WHOLE WAY. SO THIS WAS DEVASTATING.
>> AT THIS POINT, IS IT JUST ALMOST FEELING LIKE THIS IS NOT
REAL ANYMORE >> IT'S JUST BIZARRE
IT'S JUST -- IT'S JUST IN THE REALM OF -- OF THE BIZARRE
>> Reporter: IT WAS LIKE A HORRIFYING VERSION OF "GROUNDHOG
DAY. THE THIRD DEATH IN THE HOME IN
FOUR YEARS >> BEYOND BELIEF
AND WE STILL THOUGHT, WELL, WHO'S NEXT
AND, LIKE, WHAT ELSE IS GONNA HAPPEN
>> YOUR WORST FEAR HAS BEEN REALIZED
>> I WAS EXTREMELY ANGRY I --
BUT I ALSO SAID TO MYSELF, YOU KNOW WHAT, THEY'RE GOING TO
CATCH THEM THIS TIME >> Reporter: THERE WAS NO DOUBT
IN THE MINDS OF ANYONE IN THE FAMILY
THIS WAS NOT SOME FREAKISH COINCIDENCE.
ALL THREE DEATHS HAD TO BE CONNECTED.
>> HERE WE HAVE CALEB PROPPED IN BED WITH HIS EYE SHADES ON
WE FIND BRIDGET AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS
WE FIND BILL IN THE BATHROOM YOU KNOW, ALL STAGED LIKE THIS
IS -- HAS BEEN AN ACCIDENT OR, YOU KNOW, SOME UNUSUAL EVENT
SO, YOU KNOW, WE JUST -- THREE TIMES?
COME ON, GUYS. EVEN THE POLICE COULDN'T, YOU
KNOW, NOT SEE WHAT HAD HAPPENED HERE
AND SO AGAIN - >> I THINK HOLLYWOOD WOULD
REJECT THIS SCRIPT >> I HAVE SAID THAT MANY TIMES
I SAID, "IF I WROTE THIS STUFF, THEY'D -- THEY'D SEND ME DOWN
THE ROAD FOR THIS. >> Reporter: THE FAMILY'S
DEVASTATION WOULD SOON TURN INTO DETERMINATION TO HOLD SOMEONE
ACCOUNTABLE. >> COMING UP -
TIME TO TALK TO CALEB'S ESTRANGED WIFE AGAIN
ONE OF THE LAST PEOPLE TO SEE HIM ALIVE.
>> WE DIDN'T SPEAK AT THE TIME JUST KIND OF ACKNOWLEDGED THE
>> Reporter: WHEN CALEB HARRISON WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS HOME, IT
WAS QUICKLY RULED A HOMICIDE HE'D BEEN BEATEN AND STRANGLED
CALEB, WHO'D BRIEFLY BEEN A PERSON OF INTEREST IN HIS
MOTHER'S DEATH, MET HIS FATE IN THE SAME HOUSE AS HIS PARENTS.
THIS THIRD TRAGEDY IN THE HOME ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT STUNNED
THE QUIET SUBURBAN COMMUNITY HIS MURDER LEAD THE LOCAL NEWS
>> THIS IS THE EVENING NEWS. >> TONIGHT THE FATHER OF TWO IS
CONSIDERED A HOMICIDE VICTIM >> THE 41-YEAR-OLD WAS FOUND
DEAD IN HIS MISSISSAUGA HOME ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT BY A
CO-WORKER ON FRIDAY WHEN HE DIDN'T SHOW UP FOR WORK.
>> Reporter: POLICE COULDN'T IGNORE THE POSSIBLE CONNECTION
TO HIS PARENTS' MYSTERIOUS DEATHS
>> OUT OF DUE DILIGENCE, WE ARE SERIOUSLY LOOKING INTO THOSE
CASES AS WELL. >> Reporter: THEY ALSO PUT
CALEB'S LIFE UNDER A MICROSCOPE. >> POLICE SAY THIS VICTIM IS THE
SAME MAN WHO IN 2009 WAS GIVEN AN 18-MONTH JAIL SENTENCE FOR A
DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT THAT KILLED A TAXI DRIVER
>> WE'RE DOING A COMPLETE 360 DEGREE INVESTIGATION ON THIS
INDIVIDUAL THAT IS A BIG EVENT IN HIS LIFE,
SO WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT ALL ASPECTS.
>> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS WONDERED IF CALEB'S DEATH WAS
PAYBACK FOR THAT FATAL DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT YEARS EARLIER
PERHAPS SOMEONE SEEKING REVENGE FOR THE DEATH AND INJURIES HE
HAD CAUSED POLICE ANNOUNCED THE LAUNCH OF A
FULL-SCALE INVESTIGATION THEY ASKED FOR WITNESSES WHO
MIGHT HAVE SEEN CALEB THE NIGHT BEFORE HIS BODY WAS FOUND.
>> SO IF SOMEONE WAS IN A BAR AND SAW HIM, OR IF SOMEONE SAW
HIM IN A PARKING LOT OR DRIVING, WE'D BE INTERESTED IN SPEAKING
WITH THOSE PEOPLE. >> Reporter: DETECTIVES
INTERVIEWED THE PEOPLE WHO KNEW CALEB BEST, INCLUDING HIS FRIEND
FROM WORK, PAOLO YOU'RE THE ONE TO FIND CALEB'S
BODY >> RIGHT
>> Reporter: POLICE HAD TO LOOK AT YOU AS A POTENTIAL SUSPECT.
>> WELL, MYSELF AND THE CLEANING LADY, YEAH
THEY HAD US BOTH SITTING IN THE KITCHEN JUST SEPARATE FROM
EVERYONE ELSE AT THAT TIME AND THEN THEY TOOK US EACH
INDIVIDUALLY TO THE STATION TO BE QUESTIONED.
I THINK THEY JUST WANTED TO KNOW, LIKE, MY SIDE OF WHAT
HAPPENED THAT DAY -- JUST HOW I HAD FOUND HIM, WHY I WENT TO HIS
HOUSE WHEN I DID, AND JUST PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER.
>> Reporter: THE POLICE, WHEN THEY'RE SHOWING UP AT A CRIME
SCENE, DON'T HAVE A CLUE WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOUR RELATIONSHIP
IS -- IS TO CALEB. >> EXACTLY
>> Reporter: I MEAN, THEY'VE GOTTA FIGURE ALL THIS OUT.
>> RIGHT AND THE FACT THAT THE CLEANING
LADY WAS THERE AS WELL CLEANING UP
AND WHAT THEY END UP SAYING IN THE END IS CLEANING UP
POTENTIALLY ANY EVIDENCE AS WELL
THEY WERE KIND OF CONCERNED BY THAT
>> Reporter: DID THEY ASK YOU, "DID YOU KILL CALEB?
>> NO, THEY DID NOT ASK ME THAT. >> Reporter: AFTER QUESTIONING
THEM, POLICE TOLD PAOLO AND THE CLEANING LADY THEY WERE FREE TO
GO THE TWO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH
THE MURDER HOPING TO LEARN AS MUCH AS THEY
COULD ABOUT THEIR VICTIM, DETECTIVES INVITED CALEB'S
ESTRANGED WIFE, MELISSA MERRITT, DOWN FOR AN INTERVIEW.
>> NOW THAT IT'S A HOMICIDE THAT'S WHY YOU'RE HERE IS JUST
TO TRY AND ELABORATE A BIT MORE SO WE CAN GET DETAILS BECAUSE IT
IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE WE'RE INVESTIGATING, AND IT'S A VERY
SERIOUS ONE, AND OBVIOUSLY - >> SERIOUS, YEAH
>> Reporter: MELISSA TOLD THE DETECTIVE SHE AND CHRIS HAD LAST
SEEN CALEB AT THEIR DAUGHTER'S BALL GAME THE EVENING BEFORE HIS
BODY WAS FOUND >> WE ARRIVED THERE IN AND
AROUND 6:15, SO SHE COULD GET READY FOR HER 6:30 START
UH, CALEB WAS ALREADY THERE TO, UM -- HE WAS HELPING WITH THE
TEAM THAT NIGHT. WE DIDN'T SPEAK AT THE TIME,
JUST KINDA ACKNOWLEDGED THE FACT THAT HE WAS THERE.
>> Reporter: MELISSA SAID AFTER THE GAME SHE AND CHRIS TOOK THE
CHILDREN AND HEADED TO A NEARBY STRIP MALL FOR DINNER.
>> UM, JUST UP FURTHER ON MISSISSAUGA ROAD PAST OUR HOUSE
THERE'S A PLAZA WITH A WAL-MART. >> YEP
>> AND IN THAT PLAZA THERE'S ALSO A SUBWAY AND A PITA PIT,
RIGHT BESIDE EACH. SO WE PULLED INTO THE PLAZA JUST
AT ABOUT THREE MINUTES TO 9:00 >> Reporter: AFTER FEEDING THE
KIDS, THEY HEADED HOME >> WE WENT IN, GOT EVERYONE
READY FOR BED. ALL TO BED, UM, IN AND AROUND
9:30 OR SO >> OKAY.
>> PROBABLY IN AND AROUND ELEVEN O'CLOCK OR SHORTLY AFTER, UM,
CHRIS AND I HEADED UP TO BED AS WELL
>> Reporter: MELISSA WAS CERTAIN SHE AND HER BOYFRIEND SLEPT
THROUGH THE NIGHT. >> EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE SLEEPING,
YOU CAN SAY THAT CHRIS WAS THERE THE WHOLE NIGHT?
>> I GOT UP AT 4:00 O'CLOCK AND HE WAS THERE
HE'S A PRETTY BIG GUY, YOU KNOW, 6'3, 300 AND SOMETHING POUNDS SO
HE DOESN'T TREAD LIGHTLY WHEN HE GETS OUT OF BED THE
WHOLE BED MOVES. >> OKAY, SO YOU WOKE UP, CHRIS
WAS STILL IN BED >> YEAH.
I HAD A SHOWER, GOT MYSELF DRESSED, PUT MY MAKE UP ON, DID
MY HAIR. >> Reporter: THE NEXT DAY POLICE
SPOKE WITH MELISSA'S BOYFRIEND CHRIS FATTORE.
>> SO WHAT TIME DID BASEBALL END?
>> UH, IT PROBABLY ENDED AROUND 8:30
>> OKAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
>> UH, WE LEFT BASEBALL. WE WENT OVER TO THE PLAZA THERE
WHERE THERE'S THE WALMART, THE PITA PIT
>> OKAY. >> AND WE GOT THERE.
>> YEP >> AND GOT EVERYONE ELSE'S
PITAS. >> SO WHAT TIME DO YOU FIGURE
YOU GOT IN, GOT INTO BED AT? >> UH, NO LATER THAN 10 AFTER
11:00. >> UM, AND WHAT TIME DID YOU
WAKE UP, THEN? >> UH, IT WAS PROBABLY ABOUT
>> Reporter: CHRIS ANSWERED ALL THE DETECTIVE'S QUESTIONS, AND
WENT HOME TO MELISSA AND THE CHILDREN
THE HOMICIDE SQUAD PRESSED ON TRYING TO FIND WHY SOMEONE
WANTED CALEB DEAD, AND WHAT, IF ANYTHING, HIS KILLING HAD TO DO
WITH THE DEATHS OF BILL AND BRIDGET HARRISON
COMING UP -- MISSING CHILDREN
AND A POSSIBLE MOTIVE FOR MURDER
>> THERE ARE ONLY A COUPLE OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD WHO IT
MAKES ANY SENSE TO BE INVOLVED WITH THIS.
>> Reporter: ONE BY ONE THEY DIED IN THIS HOUSE
A FATHER, A MOTHER, AND NOW THEIR SON.
THE INVESTIGATION INTO CALEB HARRISON'S MURDER WAS IN HIGH
GEAR >> HOMICIDE TOOK OVER THE
INVESTIGATION IMMEDIATELY. AND LEADING THE TEAM WERE NEW
INVESTIGATORS WHO HADN'T BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CASES BEFORE
>> Reporter: AMY DEMPSEY IS A REPORTER WITH THE "TORONTO
STAR," WHO COVERED THE STORY FOR FOUR YEARS
>> THE THINGS THAT WEREN'T DONE IN BRIDGET HARRISON'S DEATH
INVESTIGATION WERE ALMOST IMMEDIATELY DONE IN CALEB
HARRISON'S >> Reporter: WITH A MURDER ON
THEIR HANDS, POLICE WENT BACK INTO BRIDGET'S FILE, TO SEE IF
THEY COULD FIND ANY LINK BETWEEN THE TWO DEATHS
CALEB HAD BEEN STRANGLED, AND WHEN THE OFFICERS COMPARED HIS
AUTOPSY WITH HIS MOTHER'S, THEY SAW A STRIKING PARALLEL.
>> WHEN THEY SAW THAT CALEB HAD BEEN STRANGLED, IT CHANGED THE
WAY THEY LOOKED AT HIS MOTHER'S DEATH.
>> Reporter: BRIDGET DIED FROM NECK INJURIES.
BUT HER AUTOPSY COULDN'T DETERMINE WHETHER THEY WERE
CAUSED BY A FALL DOWN THE STAIRS, OR FROM STRANGULATION.
>> WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT SHE FELL DOWN THE STAIRS WHEN HER
SON WAS STRANGLED? IT NOW LOOKED LIKE THE
STRANGULATION THEORY WAS THE BETTER FIT
>> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS NOW SUSPECTED WHAT HAPPENED TO
BRIDGET COULD HAVE BEEN MURDER AND WHEN THEY DUG DEEPER INTO
HER CASE, THEY DISCOVERED THERE HAD BEEN A BATTLE RAGING INSIDE
THE HARRISON HOME -- A FIGHT OVER CUSTODY AND ACCESS TO CALEB
AND MELISSA'S CHILDREN >> THE HISTORY OF THE CUSTODY
DISPUTE BETWEEN MELISSA AND CALEB IS WRITTEN IN THEIR CASE
FILE NOTES FOR BRIDGET'S DEATH IT'S -- IT'S ALL THERE
>> Reporter: CALEB AND MELISSA HAD BEEN FIGHTING OVER THEIR
CHILDREN SINCE THEY SEPARATED IN 2005
FOUR YEARS LATER, THAT BATTLE BECAME ALL OUT WAR
BECAUSE CALEB WAS IN JAIL FOR THAT DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT,
BILL AND BRIDGET TOOK CARE OF HIS KIDS
THE GRANDPARENTS SHARED CUSTODY OF THEM WITH MELISSA, AND SHE
WASN'T HAPPY ABOUT IT. SO TENSIONS WERE HIGH WHEN BILL
DIED ON APRIL 16, 2009 AND IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED,
THEY ONLY GOT WORSE. >> WE FOUND THAT THE CHILDREN
HAD BEEN ABDUCTED BY MELISSA >> Reporter: AND HER BOYFRIEND
>> CORRECT >> Reporter: CHRIS FATTORE
>> CORRECT >> Reporter: FRANTIC, BRIDGET
AND HER BROTHER WENT TO THE POLICE
>> I WAS SITTING WITH BRIDGET IN THE PEEL POLICE STATION.
AND BILL WAS ACTUALLY AT THE FUNERAL HOME, THE BODY
AND BRIDGET SAID, "MY GRANDCHILDREN HAVE BEEN
ABDUCTED WE'D LIKE YOU TO PUT OUT AN
ALL-POINTS BULLETIN AND SEE IF THESE PEOPLE CAN BE BROUGHT
BACK." >> Reporter: BUT IT WASN'T THAT
SIMPLE BRIDGET HAD TO GO TO FAMILY
COURT FIRST, BEFORE THE POLICE WOULD ACT.
THREE FRUSTRATING WEEKS LATER, THE POLICE RECORDED THIS
STATEMENT FROM A COMPOSED, BUT VERY WORRIED GRANDMOTHER
>> THESE ARE THE CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED BY THEIR
MOTHER >> Reporter: SHE TOLD THE
OFFICER THAT THE DAY AFTER BILL DIED, SHE WENT TO THE KIDS'
SCHOOL TO TELL THEM ABOUT THEIR GRANDFATHER.
>> AND SO I WENT UP TO THE SCHOOL AND FOUND OUT THEY
WEREN'T IN SCHOOL. >> OKAY.
>> AND THERE'S A COURT ORDER THAT SAYS SHE'S NOT TO WITHDRAW
THEM FROM SCHOOL, EXCEPT FOR ILLNESS, AND IT HAD TO BE
ACCOMPANIED BY A DOCTOR'S NOTE >> Reporter: BRIDGET AND A
FRIEND THEN WENT TO CHRIS AND MELISSA'S HOUSE.
>> SO WE WENT BY THE HOUSE, ALL DARK, ALL LOCKED UP.
MADE ME NERVOUS. >> MM-HMM.
>> I CALLED HER DAD, PARTLY TO TELL HIM -- WELL, FIRST OF ALL
TO TELL HIM ABOUT BILL'S DEATH, BUT ALSO TO ASK HIM, PLEASE TO
TALK TO MELISSA AND MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO TELL THE
CHILDREN OURSELVES >> Reporter: THAT WAS ON A
FRIDAY THE WEEKEND PASSED AND THERE WAS
STILL NO SIGN OF THE CHILDREN. WHEN MONDAY CAME, BRIDGET HOPED
FOR GOOD NEWS FROM THE SCHOOL. >> I CALLED THE SCHOOL ON
MONDAY, THE KIDS WERE NOT IN SCHOOL
WENT BACK BY THE HOUSE, YOU KNOW, NOTHING THERE.
TUESDAY WAS OUR DAY, SO SHE'S IN BREACH OF THE ORDER --
>> MM-HMM. >> -- WHEN THEY'RE NOT IN SCHOOL
ON TUESDAY >> OKAY.
>> THAT'S -- THE FLAGS REALLY WENT UP THEN
>> Reporter: BRIDGET BARELY HAD TIME TO GRIEVE FOR HUSBAND
INSTEAD SHE BEGAN A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR THE CHILDREN.
>> SHE HAD TALKED TO PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS.
SHE HAD GONE TO CHILD FIND THEN THERE WAS A COUNTRYWIDE
BULLETIN TO PICK UP THE FATTORES AND THESE KIDS
SO THEY WERE ON NOTICE THROUGHOUT CANADA TO LOOK FOR
THEM >> Reporter: IT TOOK SEVEN
MONTHS FOR AUTHORITIES TO FIND THE COUPLE AND THE CHILDREN.
THEY WERE LIVING 1,100 MILES AWAY IN NOVA SCOTIA.
MELISSA WAS ARRESTED FOR PARENTAL CHILD ABDUCTION
THE KIDS WOULD RETURN TO LIVE IN THEIR GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE.
>> Reporter: SHE GOES TO GET THE KIDS AND BRING THEM HOME
IT MUST HAVE BEEN SUCH A RELIEF TO GET THEM BACK
>> OH, YES. DEFINITELY VERY RELIEVED, VERY HAPPY TO
HAVE THEM BACK >> Reporter: THEN IN 2010, ABOUT
A YEAR AFTER BILL DIED, MELISSA PLEADED GUILTY AND WAS TO BE
SENTENCED ON THE ABDUCTION CHARGE
BRIDGET WAS TO GIVE A VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AT THE HEARING.
SHE NEVER MADE IT. SHE WAS FOUND DEAD AT THE BOTTOM
OF THE STAIRS. BRIDGET DIES THE DAY BEFORE A
HEARING. >> SO THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO
TO COURT AT THAT TIME. >> Reporter: DOUG SAID AFTER
BRIDGET DIED, HE TOLD POLICE ALL ABOUT THE FIGHTS OVER THE
CHILDREN >> I GAVE THEM THE INFORMATION
THAT I THOUGHT THEY NEEDED I'M JUST SAYING, "LOOK AT IT."
[ LIGHT LAUGHTER ] THERE -- THERE ARE ONLY A COUPLE
OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD WHO IT MAKES ANY SENSE TO BE INVOLVED
WITH THIS. >> Reporter: SO HE WANTED POLICE
TO TALK TO PEOPLE CONNECTED TO MELISSA.
>> WHO'S ANGRY WITH BRIDGET AND BILL
IT'S THE MERRITTS. GO TALK TO THEM.
FIND OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY WERE DOING
DO THIS. >> Reporter: BUT HE SAID HIS
SUSPICIONS FELL ON DEAF EARS THEN, THREE YEARS LATER, IN
2013, CALEB WAS MURDERED STEFANI SAYS THE TIMING WAS NO
COINCIDENCE. >> MELISSA WAS ASKING TO HAVE
THE KIDS 50% OF THE TIME, CALEB WAS REALLY RELUCTANT TO DO THAT.
>> Reporter: THE ISSUE WAS NEVER RESOLVED
AFTER HIS DEATH, MELISSA WAS AWARDED FULL CUSTODY OF THEIR
SON AND DAUGHTER WHAT ARE YOU THINKING HAPPENED
>> OH, I'M THINKING ABSOLUTELY THAT THERE WAS CONSPIRACY
BETWEEN MELISSA AND CHRISTOPHER. I HAD NO DOUBT IN MY MIND.
THIS IS THE THIRD TIME THE FIRST TIME WAS ABDUCTING THE
CHILDREN THE SECOND TIME WAS -- YOU KNOW,
GETTING RID OF THE COURT HEARING WITH AUNT BRIDGET.
AND THIS THIRD TIME WAS AGAIN ABOUT THE CHILDREN
HER MISSION WAS TO GET THOSE CHILDREN AND GET THEM AWAY FROM
CALEB SO THAT SHE COULD CARRY ON WITH HER LIFE.
>> Reporter: IT TOOK CALEB'S DEATH, SHE SAYS, FOR POLICE TO
FINALLY PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THE FAMILY HAD BEEN TELLING THEM
FOR YEARS. >> AND NOW, THEY'RE ASKING,
"GIVE US SOME BACKGROUND ON MELISSA.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE CHILDREN?"
ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS ARE NOW COMING TO US
>> Reporter: A CLEAR MOTIVE WAS EMERGING
>> THE MOTIVE THAT POLICE WERE PURSUING IS THEY BELIEVED THAT
THE HARRISONS HAD BEEN KILLED POTENTIALLY OVER THE CUSTODY
BATTLE >> Reporter: DID IT FINALLY FEEL
LIKE REDEMPTION, THAT THE POLICE WERE LISTENING TO YOU?
THAT THEY WERE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THIS
>> IT DID. BUT FOR ME, PERSONALLY, AND I
THINK THE REST OF OUR FAMILY, WE JUST WANTED TO SAY "BUT WHY
CAN'T YOU ARREST THEM NOW? >> Reporter: POLICE HAD NO HARD
EVIDENCE TO MAKE AN ARREST SO THEY WERE ABOUT TO GET
CREATIVE >> COMING UP, MELISSA GETS A
GENEROUS NEW "FRIEND," AN UNDERCOVER COP
>> CHRIS AND MELISSA HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON UNDER THEIR
NOSES? >> THEY HAD NO IDEA THAT POLICE
WERE IN THEIR HOUSE SETTING UP THESE WIRE TAPS.
>> Reporter: POLICE WERE NOW INVESTIGATING NOT JUST CALEB
HARRISON'S MURDER, BUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT HIS MOTHER
MIGHT HAVE BEEN MURDERED AS WELL
>> EVIDENCE GATHERED THROUGH THIS INQUIRY OPENED NEW AVENUES
OF INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEATH OF BRIDGET HARRISON.
>> Reporter: AND THIS TIME, IT WAS AN INVESTIGATION THE FAMILY
HAD FAITH IN >> THE PEEL POLICE DEPARTMENT
WAS EXTREMELY GOOD AT KEEPING THE FAMILY GROUP INFORMED.
THEY HAD MEETINGS WHERE WE WERE CALLED IN.
AND THEY SAID, "THERE ARE THI -- CERTAIN THINGS WE CAN TELL YOU
THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE CANNOT TELL YOU.
BUT, YOU KNOW, TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT
WE ARE ON THIS." >> Reporter: YOU FELT CONFIDENT.
>> I WAS VERY CONFIDENT IN THEIR -- THEIR DEDICATION TO IT.
>> Reporter: SO IT WENT FROM, LIKE, ZERO TO 100.
>> WELL, ABSOLUTELY. >> Reporter: WITH CALEB'S DEATH.
>> YEAH, GUARANTEED. >> Reporter: POLICE SUSPECTED
MELISSA MERRITT AND CHRIS FATTORE WERE BEHIND CALEB'S
MURDER, BUT NEEDED HARD EVIDENCE TO MAKE THE CASE AGAINST THEM.
SO SEVERAL DAYS AFTER CALEB'S MURDER, A POLICE OFFICER WENT TO
THEIR HOUSE POSING AS A GARBAGE COLLECTOR AND PICKED UP THEIR
TRASH. THEY FOUND A PAIR OF RUNNING
SHOES. REPORTER AMY DEMPSEY
>> Reporter: WAS THERE ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS ABOUT THIS IN THE
MOMENT >> I THINK IT WAS SUSPICIOUS
THAT THEY APPEARED TO BE NEW SHOES.
>> Reporter: WHY WOULD SOMEONE THROW OUT A NEW PAIR OF RUNNING
SHOES? SOME OFFICERS WORKING THE CASE
HAPPENED TO RECOGNIZE THEM FROM WALMART.
>> SO THEY WENT TO THE NEAREST WALMART AND THEY LEARNED THAT
THERE HAD ONLY BEEN ONE PURCHASE OF THOSE SHOES RECENTLY AND IT
WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CALEB WAS MURDERED
>> Reporter: AND THAT WALMART WAS IN THE SAME PLAZA WHERE
CHRIS AND MELISSA TOLD POLICE THEY WENT TO AFTER THE BALL
GAME THE PLAZA WHERE THEY SAID THEY
BOUGHT FOOD AT THE PITA PIT AND SUBWAY
AND WHEN THE OFFICERS LOOKED AT THE WALMART SURVEILLANCE VIDEO
THERE WAS CHRIS BUYING THOSE SHOES.
>> AND NOT ONLY THAT, THEY HAD A DEBIT CARD PURCHASE ON CHRIS'
DEBIT HISTORY FOR THE EXACT AMOUNT FOR THE SHOES
>> Reporter: ODDLY, IN THEIR INTERVIEW, THE COUPLE NEVER
MENTIONED GOING INTO WALMART TO BUY THE SHOES, WHICH SUGGESTED
THEY WERE TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING.
AND THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE DISCOVERED IN THAT TRASH, A PAIR
OF GLOVES. >> ON THE GLOVES THEY FOUND THE
DNA OF BOTH CHRIS AND CALEB. SO VICTIM AND SUSPECT.
>> Reporter: THIS IS NOW PLACING THESE TWO TOGETHER IN SOME FORM.
>> YES IT WAS DEFINITELY STRONG
EVIDENCE AGAINST CHRIS >> Reporter: AND POLICE HAD EVEN
STRONGER EVIDENCE -- CHRIS' DNA WAS FOUND UNDER CALEB'S
FINGERNAILS. BUT REMARKABLY, THERE WAS NO
ARREST WHY DID THEY NOT ARREST CHRIS
FATTORE RIGHT AWAY ONCE THEY GOT THE DNA MATCH.
>> I THINK THAT THEY HELD OFF BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO BUILD
THEIR CASE AGAINST MELISSA THEY HAD PRETTY STRONG EVIDENCE
AGAINST CHRIS IN -- IN CALEB'S DEATH, BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE
STRONG EVIDENCE AGAINST CHRIS IN BRIDGET'S DEATH AND THEY DIDN'T
HAVE -- DIRECT EVIDENCE AGAINST MELISSA.
>> Reporter: IN SEPTEMBER 2013, A MONTH AFTER CALEB'S MURDER,
MELISSA AND CHRIS MOVED THEIR FAMILY TO NOVA SCOTIA, ONCE
AGAIN. BY NOW, THE COUPLE HAD SIX
CHILDREN FOUR OF THEIR OWN, AND THE TWO
HARRISONS. THE POLICE KEPT A CLOSE WATCH ON
THE FAMILY, AS OFFICERS BUILT THEIR CASE, SETTING UP WHAT
WOULD TURN OUT TO BE AN ELABORATE STING.
THIS IS A REAL UNDERCOVER OPERATION.
>> IT REALLY WAS THERE WAS A LOT OF OFFICERS
INVOLVED AND THEY WERE PULLING OUT ALL
THE STOPS AT THIS POINT. >> Reporter: AND KEY TO THAT
OPERATION WAS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER NAMED SUE ANDREWS.
>> SUE STARTED E-MAILING MELISSA, JUST OFFERING HELP
SAYING SHE WAS, YOU KNOW, A WOMAN OF MEANS WHO CAME FROM A
GROUP OF LADIES WHO LIKED TO HELP PEOPLE OUT WHEN THEY WERE
IN DISTRESS AND HAD HEARD ABOUT MELISSA AND ALL HER KIDS
AND WANTED TO DO WHAT SHE COULD TO HELP THEM OUT
>> Reporter: DID MELISSA BUY THIS SUE
>> AT FIRST, MELISSA WAS A LITTLE BIT STANDOFFISH
BUT THEN THEY GOT TO TALKING BACK AND FORTH IN E-MAILS.
AND SUE STARTED OFFERING GIFT CARDS FOR GROCERIES AND BEST BUY
AND THINGS THAT THEY NEEDED. AND AT THE TIME, MELISSA AND
CHRIS WERE REALLY IN NEED OF MONEY.
>> Reporter: SO THE POLICE ARE BASICALLY CATFISHING MELISSA
MERRITT? >> YEAH.
POLICE ARE TRYING TO KEEP THIS CONNECTION BETWEEN SUE AND
MELISSA TO SEE WHAT CAN COME OF IT
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT COMES OF IT IS THEY HELP THEM WITH
RENT IN THIS HOUSE ON THE EAST COAST OF CANADA.
>> Reporter: AND THE GIFTS KEPT COMING
A FREE WEEKEND AT AN AMUSEMENT PARK
AND EVEN PAID FOR TRAIN TICKETS TO GET THEM THERE.
BUT THE WEEKEND WAS A RUSE POLICE WANTED THE FAMILY OUT OF
THE HOUSE, SO THEY COULD MOVE IN AND LAUNCH THE FINAL PHASE OF
THEIR NOVA SCOTIA TAKEDOWN >> SO WHILE MELISSA AND CHRIS
WERE AT THE AMUSEMENT PARK FOR THE WEEKEND, POLICE WERE IN
THEIR HOUSE SETTING UP WIRE TAPS EVERYWHERE AND IN THEIR CAR.
>> Reporter: CHRIS AND MELISSA HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON
UNDER THEIR NOSES? >> THEY HAD NO IDEA THAT POLICE
WERE IN THEIR HOUSE SETTING UP THESE WIRE TAPS.
>> Reporter: BUT EVEN WITH THE HOUSE BUGGED, POLICE KNEW THAT
THERE WAS NO GUARANTEE THEY'D CATCH THE COUPLE SAYING
SOMETHING INCRIMINATING. >> BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE
COMMITTED A CRIME DON'T JUST SIT AROUND TALKING ABOUT WHAT THEY
DID IN THE PAST ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE BUSY TAKING CARE OF SIX
CHILDREN >> Reporter: POLICE HAD YET
ANOTHER PLAN TO TRY TO PROMPT THEM TO TALK
WITH THE WIRETAPS IN PLACE, THEY BEGAN SENDING MELISSA MORE
E-MAILS. THIS TIME THEY CAME FROM A
PERSON CLAIMING TO BE A VICTIM LIAISON OFFICER WHO PASSED ON
TIDBITS ABOUT THE MURDER INVESTIGATION.
>> IT'S SORT OF A STRANGE SITUATION BECAUSE MELISSA WAS A
SUSPECT AT THE TIME. BUT SHE AND CHRIS SEEMED TO
BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE GETTING THESE E-MAILS BECAUSE THEY WERE
THE PARENTS OF CALEB'S CHILDREN AND THEY WERE PART OF THE
GREATER VICTIM FAMILY. >> Reporter: SO THESE E-MAILS
WERE -- WERE SENT TO GET THEM TALKING?
>> THE E-MAILS WERE SENT TO GET THEM TALKING
>> Reporter: WHAT DID THEY START TALKING ABOUT?
>> IT GOT THEM TALKING ABOUT THE CASE
POLICE WOULD OFTEN SEND THE E-MAILS STRATEGICALLY AT TIMES
WHEN THE CHILDREN WERE IN BED. BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THEY COULDN'T
BE TALKING ABOUT THIS WHEN THE CHILDREN WERE AWAKE.
AND SO THE CONVERSATIONS WERE WHISPERED, OFTEN, AND LATE AT
NIGHT. >> Reporter: SOME OF THE
RECORDINGS WERE BARELY AUDIBLE POLICE HAD TO LISTEN OVER AND
OVER AS IN THIS CONVERSATION WHERE
THE COUPLE SEEMED WORRIED ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION.
>> WHAT ARE YOU THINKING >> I'M JUST SCARED
>> Reporter: POLICE SENT ONE E-MAIL WHICH MENTIONED THERE WAS
UNKNOWN DNA UNDER CALEB'S FINGERNAILS THAT SEEMED TO GET
CHRIS TALKING ABOUT FIGHTING WITH SOMEONE
WAS IT CALEB >> HE DID GRAB ME BY THE NECK.
>> Reporter: AND MELISSA APPEARED TO REASSURE HIM THAT
NOT MUCH OF HIS DNA WOULD BE LEFT ON CALEB.
>> EVEN IF, BY CHANCE, HE DID GET YOU ON THE NECK, BY CHANCE,
THAT WOULD BE A MINUSCULE AMOUNT
>> POLICE ARE LISTENING TO THESE WIRE TAPS, LISTENING TO THEIR
CONVERSATIONS DAY AND NIGHT. >> Reporter: AND THE WIRE TAPS
SEEMED TO PAY OFF. ONE NIGHT, WHAT THEY HEARD CHRIS
SAY, APPEARED TO POINT TO CALEB'S MURDER
>> I WENT IN THERE AND THE COWARD DIDN'T FIGHT.
>> Reporter: IN ANOTHER CONVERSATION, THE COUPLE
APPEARED TO BE TALKING ABOUT BRIDGET'S DEATH.
AT ONE POINT, IT SOUNDS AS IF CHRIS BELIEVED HE HAD AN
IRON-CLAD ALIBI. >> YOU'RE GOING TRY TO TELL ME
WHILE I WAS OUT RUNNING ERRANDS THE DAY THAT BRIDGET DIED THAT
SOMEHOW I GOT INTO BRIDGET'S HOUSE AND I KILLED HER AND THEN
I WENT ON AND CARRIED ON WITH MY DAY WITHOUT ACTING -- WITHOUT
ACTING WEIRD, THAT SOMEONE WITH NO CRIMINAL BACKGROUND
WAS ABLE TO KILL SOMEBODY AND MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A NATURAL
DEATH. >> Reporter: POLICE LISTENED IN
FOR OVER TWO MONTHS, POURING OVER HOURS AND HOURS OF
CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN MELISSA AND CHRIS.
THEN, IT WAS TIME TO MOVE. >> POLICE FELT THAT THEY HAD
ENOUGH, THAT THEY WERE READY TO MOVE IN AND MAKE AN ARREST
>> Reporter: COMING UP - PLAYING CAT AND MOUSE WITH AN
ACCUSED KILLER >> THE DAY THAT IT HAPPENED, I
WAS OUT RUNNING ERRANDS THE WHOLE DAY.
>> YOU COULD NOT HAVE KILLED BRIDGET BECAUSE YOU WERE DOING
ERRANDS. >> I'M SAYING I DIDN'T KILL
BRIDGET BECAUSE I DIDN'T KILL >>> POLICE HAD BUGGED MELISSA
MERRITT AND CHRIS FATTORE'S NOVA SCOTIA HOME FOR OVER TWO MONTHS.
BY JANUARY, 2014, OFFICERS HAD ENOUGH FOR AN ARREST
THEY CHARGED THE COUPLE WITH THE MURDERS OF BRIDGET AND CALEB
HARRISON THE NEWS WAS BITTERSWEET FOR THE
HARRISON FAMILY. >> Reporter: YOU GET WORD.
>> YEP >> Reporter: THAT THEY'VE BEEN
ARRESTED WHAT'S THAT MOMENT LIKE WHEN YOU
GET THAT PHONE CALL? >> UH -- OVERWHELMING JOY.
BUT DEVASTATINGLY UPSET THAT WE WERE RIGHT
BECAUSE IT'S -- IT'S JUST AWFUL. AWFUL TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE WERE
RIGHT THE WHOLE TIME >> Reporter: HOURS AFTER HIS
ARREST, CHRIS FATTORE WAS IN A NOVA SCOTIA POLICE STATION,
UNDER INTERROGATION. >> I'M HERE TODAY, IN THIS ROOM,
BECAUSE OF FACTS OKAY
FACTS HAVE LED US HERE TOGETHER. >> POLICE PRESENTED ALL THE
EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM >> Reporter: INCLUDING DNA
EVIDENCE >> THEY HAD DNA EVIDENCE
AND THEY HAD RECORDINGS OF HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH MELISSA
THEY PUT IT ALL ON THE TABLE THEY SAID, "HERE'S WHAT WE'VE
GOT. AND CHRIS WAS, AT FIRST,
DEFIANT. >> Reporter: DEFIANT ABOUT DNA
>> I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, YOUR DNA IS UNDER THE
FINGERNAILS OF CALEB >> WELL, THEN IT GOT THERE SOME
OTHER WAY 'CAUSE IT WASN'T FROM ME
>> Reporter: DEFIANT ABOUT KILLING BRIDGET.
>> THE DAY THAT IT HAPPENED, I WAS OUT RUNNING ERRANDS THE
WHOLE DAY. >> OK.
>> THAT DOESN'T PUT ME ANYWHERE NEAR BRIDGET
>> YOU COULD NOT HAVE KILLED BRIDGET BECAUSE YOU WERE DOING
ERRANDS? >> I'M SAYING I DIDN'T KILL
BRIDGET 'CAUSE I DIDN'T KILL BRIDGET.
>> Reporter: CHRIS LISTENED TO THE WIRE TAPS.
HE SAID THEY PROVED NOTHING. THE SOUND ON THE TAPES WAS TOO
HARD TO UNDERSTAND >> I CAN'T MAKE OUT A LICK
>> FAIR ENOUGH >> SO --
>> I'M NOT - >> I'M NOT GOING TO ADMIT THAT I
AM SAYING ANYTHING ON THESE WHEN I CAN'T MAKE IT OUT.
>> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE PRESSED HIM OVER AND OVER ON ALL
THE EVIDENCE CHRIS CONTINUED TO INSIST THAT
NONE OF IT MEANT HE WAS A MURDERER
HOURS WENT BY. THEN HE BEGAN TO BREAK
>> WHAT ARE YOU THINKING >> I DON'T KNOW.
MIND'S GONE EVERYWHERE I'M THINKING ABOUT MELISSA, I'M
THINKING ABOUT MY KIDS >> Reporter: WHAT DO YOU THINK
WAS THE TURNING POINT, AFTER ALL THESE DENIALS?
>> I THINK WHAT MOTIVATED CHRIS WAS THE IDEA THAT BOTH HE AND
MELISSA WOULD BE IN JAIL AND THEIR CHILDREN WOULD HAVE
NEITHER PARENT >> Reporter: CHRIS FINALLY
CONFESSED. IT BEGAN WITH AN APOLOGY
>> I'M SORRY I LIED TO YOU AND TRIED TO PULL THE WOOL OVER YOUR
EYES I WAS JUST SCARED.
I DIDN'T LIKE CALEB HARRISON IT WAS AN AWFUL FAMILY
>> Reporter: THEN, THE WORDS POLICE WAITED TO HEAR.
>> I KILLED BRIDGET HARRISON AND CALEB HARRISON
>> HOW DID YOU KILL BRIDGET? >> I KNOCKED ON HER DOOR
SHE OPENED THE DOOR. I PRETENDED TO HAVE A LETTER TO
GIVE TO THE CHILDREN SHE REFUSED THE LETTER, SO I
THEN FORCED MY WAY INTO THE HOUSE AND I ATTACKED HER
>> WHAT DID YOU DO >> I HIT HER A COUPLE TIMES.
I THEN PROCEEDED TO SQUEEZE HER NECK UNTIL SHE STOPPED BREATHING
AND LAID ON THE FLOOR. >> WAS THERE A PLAN BEFOREHAND
>> I WOULDN'T SAY THERE WAS A PLAN
AND I JUST THOUGHT IN THE BACK OF MY MIND, "WHAT IF?"
AND THEN, I DON'T KNOW I WAS JUST DRIVING AROUND AND
FOUND MYSELF CLOSE TO THE AREA, AND I JUST, AND THEN I WENT AND
DID IT >> Reporter: AS FOR CALEB, CHRIS
SAID HE SNEAKED OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO KILL HIM.
>> MELISSA HAD NO IDEA I LEFT AND WENT THERE.
>> Reporter: HE WAS WEARING THOSE SHOES FROM WALMART AND THE
BLACK GLOVES HE USED CALEB'S SON'S KEY TO
ENTER THE HOUSE. >> I PROCEEDED TO GO INTO THE
BEDROOM. I HIT HIM IN THE CHEST AND WHEN
HE SPRUNG UP, WE BEGAN TO STRUGGLE
I DIDN'T SPEAK TO HIM. I JUST KNOCKED HIM TO THE GROUND
AND I PROCEEDED TO CHOKE HIM >> WHAT DID YOU HIT HIM WITH
>> A BASEBALL BAT. >> Reporter: THE INTERROGATION
WAS A 13-HOUR MARATHON, BUT CHRIS HAD FINALLY COME CLEAN
>> IT WAS A GREAT OUTCOME FOR POLICE, ESPECIALLY GIVEN WHERE
THEY STARTED WHEN CALEB DIED WITH TWO DEATHS FROM BEFORE THAT
WERE ESSENTIALLY, LIKE, COLD CASES.
>> Reporter: AFTER CONFESSING, CHRIS ASKED FOR SOMETHING IN
RETURN HE MADE A TEARFUL APPEAL FOR
MELISSA. >> I DON'T WANT ANYTHING BAD TO
HAPPEN TO MELISSA. I'M HONESTLY TELLING YOU SHE DID
NOT KNOW ANYTHING UNTIL AFTER CALEB, WHEN ALL THE QUESTIONS
STARTED TO ARISE AND I GOT SCARED AND I THOUGHT I COULD
CONFIDE IN HER SHE DIDN'T TELL ANYBODY PROBABLY
BECAUSE I ASKED HER NOT TO >> Reporter: AT THE END, THE
DETECTIVE STEPPED OUT OF THE ROOM, THEN RETURNED TO ASK ONE
FINAL QUESTION >> WE'VE TALKED ABOUT CALEB.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BRIDGET >> YES
>> I GOTTA ASK ABOUT BILL. >> Reporter: BILL HARRISON HAD
HE BEEN CHRIS FATTORE'S FIRST VICTIM
>> COMING UP, CARELESS WHISPERS IN AN AIRPORT.
>> THE AUDIO TAPES WOULD'VE [ BLEEP ] US ANYWAYS
>>> AND AFTER THREE DEATHS, ONE JURY
>> IT WAS AN EXTREMELY COMPLICATED CASE
A VERY DIFFICULT CASE FOR A JURY >> Reporter: CHRIS FATTORE HAD
CONFESSED TO MURDERING BRIDGET AND CALEB HARRISON
BUT THE INTERROGATION WASN'T OVER
>> I GOTTA ASK ABOUT BILL. >> THAT'S FINE
>> Reporter: BILL HARRISON THE FIRST OF THOSE THREE DEATHS.
>> BILL, I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT BILL
>> OKAY. >> I WILL SAY THAT FROM THE
BOTTOM OF MY HEART BILL -- OUT OF THE THREE OF
THEM, WAS THE NICEST MAN OUT OF THE FAMILY
>> Reporter: SO CASE CLOSED? NOT QUITE.
THREE DAYS LATER, CHRIS AND MELISSA, BOTH IN CUSTODY, WERE
TAKEN TO THE AIRPORT IN NOVA SCOTIA
POLICE PUT THEM IN A PRIVATE ROOM WHILE THEY WAITED FOR A
FLIGHT BACK TO TORONTO THE ROOM WAS BUGGED.
INVESTIGATORS WEREN'T THROUGH WITH THEIR UNDERCOVER STING JUST
YET. THE COUPLE TALKED IN WHISPERS
WHILE A HIDDEN MICROPHONE RECORDED IT ALL.
>> I'M TAKING THE RAP FOR IT, TO GIVE YOU ACCESSORY AFTER THE
FACT >> WHY DID YOU DO THAT
>> BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO GO GET OUR CHILDREN
>> HE TELLS MELISSA THAT HE CONFESSED TO KILLING CALEB AND
BRIDGET TO GIVE HER ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT
IN OTHER WORDS, SO THAT SHE'LL GET AN ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT
CHARGE AND NOT A MURDER CHARGE >> Reporter: THAT DIDN'T SEEM TO
GO OVER WELL MELISSA KEPT ASKING QUESTIONS.
>> WHY'D YOU ADMIT TO BRIDGET THEY HAD NOTHING ON HER?
THEY HAVE NOTHING ON HER >> WHAT'S THAT
>> THEY HAVE NOTHING ON HER. >> EVERYTHING I SAID ABOUT HER
TOO WAS EXACTLY WHAT THEY TOLD ME THEY HAD IN EVIDENCE I DIDN'T
GIVE THEM ANYTHING NEW >> YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID
ANYTHING TO THEM >> HUH
>> YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID ANYTHING
>> I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE CHILDREN
>> Reporter: THE COUPLE TALKED FOR OVER TWO HOURS
TOWARDS THE END, POLICE HEARD ONE WHISPER THEY BELIEVED WAS
PROOF MELISSA KNEW ABOUT THE MURDERS ALL ALONG.
>> THE AUDIO TAPES WOULD'VE [ BLEEP ] US ANYWAYS
>> Reporter: WITH THOSE TAPES, CHRIS' CONFESSION, AND DNA
EVIDENCE, POLICE FINALLY HAD ANSWERS TO TWO DEATHS IN THE
HARRISON FAMILY. BUT ONE QUESTION STILL LINGERED.
WHAT HAPPENED TO BILL HARRISON IN 2015, A NEW PATHOLOGIST
REVIEWED HIS AUTOPSY HE SAW THAT BILL HAD INJURIES TO
HIS CHEST AND NECK BUT THIS DOCTOR, DIDN'T BELIEVE
THOSE INJURIES HAPPENED WHEN BILL COLLAPSED IN THE BATHROOM
>> THE CHIEF FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST IN ONTARIO WROTE A
REPORT SAYING THAT WHAT THE AUTOPSY ACTUALLY SHOWED WAS THAT
BILL HAD BEEN ASSAULTED BEFORE HE DIED.
>> Reporter: REMEMBER BILL'S FAMILY ALWAYS HAD DOUBTS THAT HE
HAD A HEART ATTACK SO TO THEM, THAT REPORT REVEALED
ONE MORE INFURIATING BLUNDER, ONE THEY BELIEVE HAD TRAGIC
CONSEQUENCES IF BILL'S 2009 AUTOPSY HAD SHOWN
HE WAS ASSAULTED, IT WOULD HAVE TRIGGERED AN INVESTIGATION AND A
KILLER MIGHT HAVE BEEN CAUGHT. >> WHERE WAS THE CORONER
WHERE WERE THE POLICE? WHY ELSE WAS THIS MAN IN THIS
POSITION IN A BATHROOM, WITH THESE INJURIES, AND, YOU KNOW,
THINGS LIKE -- MARKS AROUND HIS THROAT
>> Reporter: WITH THIS NEW CONCLUSION, PROSECUTORS HAD
ENOUGH TO CHARGE CHRIS FATTORE WITH THE MURDER OF BILL
HARRISON THEY ALLEGED THAT CHRIS KILLED
HIM DURING A CONFRONTATION OVER THE CHILDREN
>> HOW DID YOU FEEL WHEN YOU LEARNED THAT HIS DEATH WOULD BE
A PART OF THIS TRIAL >> WE LOST EVERYBODY BY 2015
UM -- YOU KNOW, SIX YEARS AFTER HE'D -- BEEN KILLED, THAT'S WHEN
WE HEARD THAT THIS -- CHARGE WAS BEING BROUGHT, SIX YEARS LATER
THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH SATISFACTION YOU GET FROM
KNOWING THAT IT TOOK THAT LONG TO GET AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION
THAT YOU'D BEEN OBSESSED WITH FOR YEARS.
>> Reporter: IN SEPTEMBER 2017, MELISSA MERRITT AND CHRIS
FATTORE WENT ON TRIAL. >> THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST
COMPLICATED CASES I'VE SEEN THREE DEATHS IN ONE TRIAL, TWO
DEFENDANTS, DIFFERENT CHARGES. >> IT WAS AN EXTREMELY
COMPLICATED CASE A VERY DIFFICULT CASE FOR A JURY
TO TAKE ON >> Reporter: CHRIS AND MELISSA
WERE BOTH ACCUSED OF THE MURDERS OF BRIDGET AND CALEB
CHRIS ALONE WAS CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF BILL
THE COUPLE PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO ALL THE CHARGES.
>> WHAT WAS THE PROSECUTOR'S THEORY OF THE CASE
>> PROSECUTION ARGUED THAT ALL THREE HARRISONS WERE KILLED AT
KEY MOMENTS IN THE ONGOING ACRIMONIOUS CUSTODY BATTLE OVER
THE CHILDREN WITH MELISSA. AND THEY ARGUED THAT MELISSA AND
CHRIS PLANNED TO THE TO MURDER CALEB AND BRIDGET, BUT THAT
CHRIS ALONE COMMITTED THE ACTS >> I KILLED BRIDGET HARRISON AND
CALEB HARRISON >> Reporter: AND PROSECUTOR'S
HAD CHRIS' CONFESSION AS PROOF EXCEPT, HE TOOK THE WITNESS
STAND AND RECANTED >> CHRIS SAID THAT HE NEVER
KILLED BRIDGET HARRISON. THAT HE ONLY SAID HE DID BECAUSE
HE WANTED TO PROTECT HIS WIFE AND BECAUSE HE WAS UNDER DURESS
AFTER A LENGTHY POLICE INTERVIEW.
AND FELT THAT THE ONLY WAY OUT OF THAT ROOM WAS CONFESSING.
>> I JUST KNOCKED HIM TO THE GROUND AND PROCEEDED TO CHOKE
HIM. >> Reporter: CHRIS DID ADMIT TO
KILLING CALEB, THE DNA EVIDENCE WAS OVERWHELMING
BUT HE SAID HE DIDN'T MEAN TO. HE WENT TO CALEB'S HOUSE JUST TO
"ROUGH HIM UP. >> CHRIS SAID THAT HE WENT TO
CALEB'S HOUSE TO BEAT HIM UP SO THAT THEY COULD MAYBE HAVE A FEW
EXTRA DAYS WITH THE CHILDREN AND ONCE -- ONCE HE GOT THERE,
THEY BEGAN TO STRUGGLE AND HE KILLED HIM IN A STRUGGLE.
>> Reporter: WHEN IT CAME TO MELISSA, HER ATTORNEY'S ARGUMENT
WAS SIMPLE >> MELISSA'S DEFENSE ARGUED THAT
THERE WAS REALLY NO EVIDENCE AGAINST HER.
THAT THE ONLY THING, AT WORST, WAS THAT SHE WAS AN ACCESSORY
AFTER THE FACT >> Reporter: THE DEFENSE
ATTORNEYS ALSO CHALLENGED ALL THOSE MONTHS OF WIRETAPS
THEY POINTED TO THE HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF TRANSCRIPTS WHICH HAD
MISSING WORDS, MARKED "UNINTELLIGIBLE.
>> SO -- THE DEFENSE PICKED APART THE TRANSCRIPTS TO ALL OF
THESE WIRE TAPS SAYING THAT THE MEANING CHANGED WHEN YOU TOOK
INTO ACCOUNT THAT MUCH OF THE CONVERSATIONS WERE MARKED AS
UNINTELLIGIBLE >> Reporter: THE FAMILY CAME OUT
IN FORCE FOR THE TRIAL THAT LASTED FOUR LONG MONTHS.
IT TOOK THE JURY FOUR DAYS TO REACH ITS VERDICTS
>> YOU COULD JUST FEEL THE TENSION IN THAT ROOM
AND THE JURY FOREMAN STOOD UP. AND GAVE HIS VERDICTS IN A
WHISPER. >> Reporter: CHRIS WAS FOUND
GUILTY OF MURDERING BRIDGET AND CALEB.
HE WAS NOT GUILTY IN THE MURDER OF BILL.
MELISSA'S VERDICT WAS MIXED -- GUILTY IN CALEB'S MURDER, BUT
THERE WAS A HUNG JURY IN BRIDGET'S.
>> WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION TO THE VERDICTS
>> I WAS PLEASED THAT BOTH OF THEM HAD RECEIVED -- A
FIRST-DEGREE MURDER CONVICTION FOR CALEB, BECAUSE THAT SAID
THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GET 25 YEARS WITHOUT CHANCE OF
PAROLE >> BUT MELISSA MERRITT, HUNG
JURY ON -- >> HUNG JURY ON MELISSA -- I
TRULY BELIEVE THAT MELISSA WAS THE MASTERMIND OF EVERYTHING
I THINK THAT SHE SET UP CHRIS FATTORE -- YOU KNOW.
AND IT -- IT WAS GOING TO BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR THE
POLICE TO MAKE A MURDER CHARGE AGAINST HER.
>> Reporter: AND EVEN THOUGH MELISSA AND CHRIS WOULD FINALLY
BE PUT BEHIND BARS, NICOLE BELIEVES OTHERS SHOULD ANSWER
FOR THE HARRISONS' DEATHS AS WELL
>> I THINK THE -- THE REALLY IMPORTANT STORY HERE IS THAT
IT'S NOT JUST THE ACTUAL KILLERS WHO ARE ACCOUNTABLE.
THERE ARE -- THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THIS -- IN THE POLICE
DEPARTMENTS, THE CORONER'S OFFICE, THEY'RE ACCOUNTABLE,
TOO. HOW ON EARTH DID TWO MORE
MURDERS HAPPEN AFTER UNCLE BILL? >> WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO ALL THE
PEOPLE INVOLVED, FROM THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE TO THE
POLICE DEPARTMENT -- >> IF EVERYBODY HAD DONE THEIR
JOB THE WAY THEY SHOULD HAVE, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE DEATH
AND BRIDGET AND CALEB WOULD STILL BE ALIVE
>> Reporter: THE PEEL REGIONAL POLICE DEPARTMENT DECLINED TO
COMMENT FOR OUR REPORT IT CONDUCTED AN INTERNAL REVIEW
OF HOW THE HARRISON DEATHS WERE INVESTIGATED
THE FAMILY HAS ASKED FOR A BROADER, PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO HOW
THE POLICE, THE PATHOLOGIST AND CORONER'S OFFICES ALL HANDLED
THE CASES. >> SO IS THE TRIAL OVER?
YEAH BUT ARE WE STILL PURSUING
QUESTIONS? ABSOLUTELY
>> Reporter: AS FOR THE CHILDREN WHO WERE THE CENTER OF THIS
TRAGEDY, STEFANI SAYS THEY'RE WITH FAMILY AND DOING WELL
>> THEY'RE FANTASTIC KIDS. >> Reporter: NO HARRISONS LIVE
ON PITCH PINE CRESCENT NOW, THE HOUSE HAS BEEN SOLD.
ALL THAT'S LEFT ARE PRECIOUS MEMORIES OF THE LIVES THAT WERE
LOST >> HOW DO YOU WANT THIS FAMILY
TO BE REMEMBERED >> BRIDGET, BILL AND CALEB
THEY'RE ALWAYS GONNA BE REMEMBERED
I KNOW THE IMPACT THESE HUMAN BEINGS HAD
WE WERE GOING THROUGH BRIDGET'S EFFECTS AND IT WAS FULL OF THANK
YOU LETTERS FROM PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES SHE HAD INFECTED
I STILL FISH WITH THE GUYS THAT FISHED WITH BILL
AT CALEB'S EULOGY, A WHOLE BUNCH OF LITTLE KIDS WHO PLAYED
BASEBALL CAME BECAUSE HE HAD THAT MUCH OF AN IMPACT TO THEM
WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM BEING REMEMBERED.
THEY'RE THERE. >> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION
OF "DATELINE." WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY
AT 9:00/8:00 CENTRAL, AND, OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU EACH
WEEKNIGHT FOR NBC NIGHTLY NEWS I'M LESTER HOLT.