All language subtitles for The Detectives - 02x02 - The Second Chance (English)

The Louise Ellis
case was the most complex,

most difficult case that
I ever investigated.

It was hot.

Something you never want to experience.

Hello?

I found her car.

It's parked by the side of the
road, the river road, Wakefield.

I'll be right there.
I'm calling the police.

Where is Louise Ellis?

A huge puzzle right from the start.

Every day I was wondering

"what else can we do?
What have we done wrong?"

Any sign of her?

How did the vehicle get here?

Did somebody pick her up
and drive her away?

Where the hell is she?

What's going on?

Brett! Brett! Just wait for the police.

It was something
that I was obsessed about

and it's never going to leave
my memory and my mind.

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When we started this case in 1995,

my staff sergeant dropped
a missing person's report

on my desk and all he said was,

"Here, Pulley, have a look at this."

- Thanks for coming in.
- What have we got?

Louise Ellis, local journalist,

came up from Ottawa
to visit some friends,

never showed. Her husband called it in.

He's here, searching the woods.

Mr. Morgan, I'm Detective Pulfer.

This is Detective Savage.

You really shouldn't be searching
the woods like that, Sir.

You could be contaminating a scene.

Well, my wife's gone missing.

She's gotta be around here somewhere.

All her stuff's still in the car.

When's the last time you saw her?

Saturday. She's supposed
to be visiting a friend.

What friend?

John Maisonneuve, her
ex-boyfriend actually.

His daughter was having
a birthday party.

He's got a cottage around here.
He called looking for her.

She never showed.

All I can figure is she might have

pulled in here, stopped,
gone to the bathroom,

and got lost or something.

She's missing and I'll
do everything I can

to help find her.

Brett Morgan was
quite upset. Distraught almost.

Basically, started a
little mini search to see

"How can I help out here?"

Mr. Morgan, please
step this way with me.

I'd like to ask you a
few more questions.

We find this vehicle abandoned.

Usually if you see a car abandoned,

it's run out of gas or it's broken down.

But the car did start;
there was lots of gas in it,

and it was working top form.

There were some pajamas,
a gift for a friend,

and there was a bag with
some personal belongings.

And her wallet was in there.

This was quite bothersome to us.

It struck home something is wrong here.

Let's get a full search
team in here ASAP, huh?

Mr. Morgan, where did you
say your wife's ex lived?

Down this road right on 4.

I know where it is.

Get a squad car over there right away.

How did the vehicle get here?

Where is Louise Ellis?
Did she visit her ex?

What's going on here?

When was the last
time you spoke with Louise?

I guess that would have
been Thursday night.

I called her and invited
her to the party.

My daughter, she turned eleven.

Even after the breakup,
she was still close with Louise.

Your daughter with Louise?

No, an earlier marriage.

But Louise and I were
together five years.

She was quite close with my daughter.

Did she seem upset, uh, strange?

Was anything on her mind?

Well, she seemed fine.

She was happy to be
invited to the party,

but it was typical Louise,
very noncommittal.

She said she probably
wouldn't come to the party

but that she'd call or she'd
let me know if things changed.

We only spoke for just a few minutes.

Any idea where she might be?

I really wasn't expecting her.

You know, we found a present in
Louise's car for your daughter.

Maybe she was planning on surprising us

at the last minute.

Well, if you weren't expecting her,

why'd you call her
house looking for her?

I, um, well, I was just checking in.

It's not like Louise to not call
for my daughter's birthday.

To not come is one thing.
Not call, that's different.

We viewed John Maisonneuve definitely

as a person of interest
because Louise was supposed

to go and visit him. He
claimed that the meeting was

rather noncommittal. But yet
in her vehicle, we found

her overnight bag; we found
a gift for his daughter,

and pajamas and a bottle of wine.

So it was a red flag for us.

Oh, God. I hope she's OK.

I've known Louise for years.

How did you end up finding her car?

I noticed it, um, Saturday, I think.

I remember thinking it
looked like Louise's car,

but I didn't think
anything of it, you know,

until Brett called. Then I drove
right over to check the plates.

Did you and Louise have plans?

I invited her over but
she didn't commit.

She said, if she goes
to the birthday party,

she might drop by on her way
home, but that was it.

What about Brett Morgan?

She loved him. He loved her.

John Maisonneuve?

He seemed fine. He liked seeing
Louise from time to time

and he seemed all right with Brett.

Thank you.

Brenda Missen told us

a lot of things about Louise's life.

Brenda knew her as a very
lovely person to be with

and a good friend. Brenda was worried.

Forty-six-year-old Louise Elli,

a freelance writer,
disappeared Saturday.

While police concentrated their
efforts on the Gatineau River,

about thirty friends joined
the missing woman's family

in the ground search of the area
near where the car was found.

I just try to keep feeling very hopeful

that she is all right somewhere.

Friends have also put up posters.

Anyone with information
should call the Ottawa police.

Volunteers, friends of Louise,

they scoured bushes, rivers, roadways.

Nothing of interest was found for us.

Detective Pulfer, I'm Allen Ellis.

Louise's father.

I'm sorry, Mr. Ellis.
You must be going through

a very difficult time.

We'll find her. Have you
learned anything new?

We're still assessing
the situation, sir.

Please call me Allen.

I brought some photos.
I thought it might help you.

Did she have any enemies?

Any reason she might want to run away?

Oh, she was happy!

I'm as shocked as anyone at all this.

Any other problems,
ex-boyfriends, money issues?

No, nothing.

Well, all right, Allen. We'll,
uh, we'll continue doing

what we can to find her then.

Thank you. I'm here to help.
As you need.

If you'll excuse me a moment?

Yes, of course.

Allen was very distraught over the fact

that Louise was missing. He told us
"Whatever I can do to help you out,

I will do that for you cause
I want to find Louise,

because I love my daughter."

You got anything new?

Nothing, other than the
husband's fresh tracks

when he was looking around.

If she got out of the car and
she didn't go in the woods,

then she stayed on the road.
So she could have got

into another car or, uh, of course,

somebody else could have
parked this vehicle here.

Let's get her photo
out to the media, huh?

At this point, she could be anywhere.

What happened to Louise?

Did Louise just decide
to run away from her life

as she knew it? Did she go
and visit John Maisonneuve?

Did something happen? The
fact that nothing was found

was a huge puzzle.

We searched the river;
we searched the road;

we searched the bush.

I thought "Is she in
the water somewhere?"

Like I was... obsessed.

They called off the ground search.

They found no signs of Louise anywhere.

How's the family doing?

Well, father and husband
are taking it pretty hard.

They're gonna continue searching.

Let's do this.

OK. So we got Louise Ellis,

forty-six-year-old freelance writer.

Started off as a reporter;
now she's working

mainly government contracts.

She leaves Saturday.
She tells her husband

she's going to visit her ex.

Her ex wasn't sure if
she was showing up at all.

A successful career?

Husband and father seem to
think she was pretty happy,

so that's a tough sell.

Suicide?

Yeah. But again, it doesn't fit.

There were no warning signs.

Plus, the search dogs found no
evidence of her leaving the vehicle.

Could be foul play.

No body nearby. And again,

search dogs would have found something.

Killer could have left
the body somewhere else

and planted the car there as a decoy.

Where do we go from here?

Let's freeze the bank accounts.

If it was foul play, somebody
may try to access them.

And if she did run away,
she's likely to try, too.

And then we're gonna dig
deep into everyone she knew,

starting with Brett Morgan
and John Maisonneuve.

Do you guys have any ideas, suspects?

For now, we're just
gathering information, sir,

which is why we need to take
an official statement.

Am I a suspect?

At the moment, you are our best source

of information. That doesn't
make you a suspect.

Well, maybe I should be.

I wanna be up front about this,

but I want you to
understand the whole story.

I killed someone.

I was young, hooked on coke,

and things got messy.
It was an accident.

I was convicted of manslaughter.

This was a shocking revelation.

One of the first things he told us,

"I strangled a hooker
in Edmonton in 1978."

It was just unheard of for me
to have a confession like that,

interviewing someone
about a missing person.

I think about it every day.

It took me a while to
get myself straight,

and that's how I met Louise.

Louise help you get clean?

Not exactly. You know
who David Milgaard is?

The guy who was wrongly
convicted for killing a nurse?

Exactly. One day, I'm in jail
and my cellmate tells me

he's the one who killed that
nurse that put Milgaard in jail.

- What's his name?
- Larry Fisher.

Larry Fisher?

Yeah. He seemed like
he was telling the truth.

It bothered me that
Milgaard could be innocent

and was in jail so I told on him.

Skip ahead, there I am in court,

testifying against my own cellmate.

And I mean, you rat out
someone in jail and

it brings a set of problems.

So Louise was covering
the trial and, uh,

she was writing the story for
some paper. She saw me testify

and, uh, she started writing me letters.

And after I got out, we got together.

What happened to your ex-cellmate?

Well, here's the thing. I don't know.

I, I heard he was out of jail.

Perhaps Larry Fisher was taking out

some sort of revenge on Brett Morgan

for being a rat. We'd better
have a look at Larry Fisher.

Maybe he's involved in the
disappearance of Louise Ellis.

Mr. Morgan, do you mind
if I take a look around?

Yeah, yeah. Go ahead.

Thanks.

OK. Mr. Morgan, walk me
through the day Louise left.

I had a little peek around the house

while John was talking to Morgan.

I could see that the house was
very... very neat and tidy,

the way she kept it.

She was very organized, very meticulous.

I found financial records and
a handwritten will.

I decided to go into
the bathroom and I could smell

the new shower curtain,

and the hangers on the shower
curtain were askew.

And that was not Louise Ellis.

What happened in this bathroom
that he had to go out

and buy a new shower curtain?

That was it. I was home before midnight.

Is that a new shower curtain?

Yeah, yeah. Shredded the old
one in the washing machine

when I was doing the spring cleaning.

Louise asked me to buy
a new one before she left.

Whose files are these?

Louise's.

Would you mind if we took them?

They could go a long way in helping
us find out what happened.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Sure. Whatever you need.

Thank you.

Other than Larry Fisher,

is there anyone you can think of
that would wanna hurt Louise?

Her ex, John Maisonneuve.

She left him for me
and he's not over it.

She left him for you?

He didn't tell you?

He calls her all the time.

Thursday, before she disappeared,
we're trying to watch a movie

and he calls her and she's on the phone

talking to him for at least an hour.

I fell asleep on the couch.

An hour?

Yeah. He's possessive.

I don't trust him.

Louise and John Maisonneuve had a

lengthy relationship.
And now, all of a sudden,

on one of the nights
before Louise went missing,

John Maisonneuve calls their home and

talked for over an hour.

It was just a quick call,

maybe ten, fifteen minutes,
maybe a little more.

How much more?

I wasn't exactly recording it.

Uh, an hour?

I don't know.

When did you and Louise break up?

About three years ago.

Around the Milgaard trial.

You've spoken with Brett.

Yeah.

Mind if I take a look around?

Of course. Anything you need.

Look, that trial consumed her.

Is that the reason it ended?

You could say that.

Did it bother you, the, uh,

ex-con stealing your wife?

Of course.

You still hoping she comes back?

You could say that too.

Louise is a beautiful person,

vibrant, intelligent, passionate,

full of life,

full of love.

She always sees the good in people,

even terrible people.

Like who?

Morgan. Frankly, the guy's a jerk.

He used her. He played her.

He made her think that
he was reformed and brave.

He doesn't have a job,
doesn't have money.

And now she's missing.

So you think Morgan's
behind her disappearance?

Who else?

The guy's got a temper.

You mind if I take
a look around outside?

No.

Louise left John
Maisonneuve for Brett Morgan,

but John Maisonneuve
still loved Louise Ellis.

John Maisonneuve did not have
a strong alibi.

He was calm and cooperative
but pointing the finger

at somebody else.

In the driveway leading to his property,

It was surprising to find some
very deep ruts caused by tires.

Perhaps these tire ruts were
caused by Louise Ellis' vehicle

being there a few days before that.

I needed to get a sample
of the dirt from his driveway

to compare it to what
was found on Louise's vehicle.

If these soil samples did match up,

maybe Louise was on
John Maisonneuve's property.

Maybe there was some involvement
by John Maisonneuve

in her disappearance.

At this point in the investigation,

we still had three persons of interest.

We had John Maisonneuve,
an ex-boyfriend.

And Brett Morgan, a convicted murderer

and Brett's cellmate, Larry Fisher.

Maybe he's involved in this.

Judge's reviewing David
Milgaard's conviction

have heard dramatic testimony,

testimony that may link someone else

to the murder of Gail Miller.

Milgaard has spent more than
twenty-two years in prison

for that killing, but he said
all along that he's innocent.

And now the Supreme Court
is trying to determine

if he is telling the truth.

Today it heard from three women
who all had damaging things

to say about another man, the
man Milgaard supporters believe

may be the real murderer.
Sasha Petrosic has the story.

Fisher's a convicted
sex offender in prison

for committing three rapes
in the same neighborhood

in the months before and
after Saskatoon police found

Gail Miller's body. She had ben
raped and stabbed to death.

Fisher told police
he was at work that day...

This case is so crazy to me.

The fact that Morgan actually spoke out

against him is a pretty big deal.

Morgan was right, Fisher's out of jail.

What?

If Milgaard is out,

why the hell isn't Fisher in prison?

Other than Morgan's testimony,
they didn't have any proof

that Larry Fisher killed Gail Miller.

So he served his time
for rape and he's out.

Well. Morgan's got good reason
to be nervous then, huh?

Except, Larry Fisher was pulled over for

a traffic violation the same day
Louise Ellis disappeared,

in Saskatoon.

Three thousand clicks from here.

Yes.

Got some bad news.

Soil on the car isn't a match
with Maisonneuve's farm.

So that means she never made
it to Maisonneuve's cottage.

Well, it doesn't completely absolve him,

but it certainly makes him look
a hell of a lot less guilty.

Uh, I wish I could say the same

for our friend Brett Morgan.

Look through Louise's will.

It basically leaves
everything to one person,

and it isn't Maisonneuve.

Brett Morgan was the total beneficiary

of her will, plus her RRSPs
and her home. He now moved

from a person of interest
to a very strong suspect

in that he was going
to benefit from her death.

I had to go to her bank myself
and find out

what Louise Ellis owned.

A few months ago, she was
thirty-five thousand dollars

in debt, and she didn't even know it.

Her husband was cashing false
checks on her line of credit

by forging her signature.

When she found out about it,
it was too late.

Did anyone call the police?

Louise didn't want to press charges.

Brett was on parole. This could
have put him back in jail.

Any other transactions on the accounts

since her disappearance?

There was a withdrawal on that same day

for $280 at her usual ATM
in Ottawa near her home.

What time was that at?

2:53 p.m.

She was supposed to be out
of town at that time.

Exactly.

And Louise's bank card is the only
one associated with the account.

Were you able to make
a copy of the image

of the transaction for me?

Yes.

- Her husband made the withdrawal.
- Yeah.

Thank you very much for this, Lisa.

Here's Brett Morgan using

her one and only bank card
at an ATM machine.

I saw the cheque; I saw the forgery;

I saw his picture in the bank. I thought

"This is our guy."

He's already murdered a woman before.

The victim was Gwen Telford.

Motel staff found her body
around 3:33 in the afternoon.

We figure she'd been dead
for twelve hours at least.

John MacLeod was
the investigating detective

in Edmonton in 1978.
He told us Morgan sat on

the chest of this woman,
put a pillow over her face,

put his hands on her throat,
and as he strangled her said

"Die, you bitch, die."

It should have been murder,
plain and simple.

The reason it was reduced
to manslaughter

is he lied through his teeth.
He denied everything.

He came up with a bunch of crazy excuses

to convince the courts
that it was an accident.

They settled, manslaughter.

Morgan is a master manipulator.

I mean, hell, he even
manipulated me for a while.

How so?

After we found Gwen's body, he
drove around with me for days

pretending that he was looking
for the guy who did it.

Bob?

Surveillance says
Morgan's back at the scene

where he found Louise's car.
Says he's stopping vehicles,

taking statements, handing out flyers.

Oh, yeah. That's Morgan.

It seemed like this
was the way Brett Morgan operated,

trying to manipulate
the police, be the con man.

Here we have him in Ottawa
being very helpful,

going on television, going
for Ottawa Citizen interviews.

Excuse me, sir, but my wife
has gone missing. I'm hoping

to find anyone who may have seen her.

Oh, this, yeah. I saw this on the news.

Actually, I may have seen something.

Great, great. Can I get you to

write your name here,
and any contact info?

Sure.

Thank you. Really appreciate it.

- Have a good one.
- I will.

Thanks, guys.

We don't know what
is going on with Brett Morgan.

Was this part of his ruse,
part of this being a con?

The media left at two o'clock
in the afternoon.

At that point, Morgan thought
he was alone.

Walks over to the Gatineau river
and throws the piece of paper

he'd been writing on in the water.
Looked like he was so caring.

But in fact, threw the name
of the witness in the river.

In my eyes, the missing person
is now a homicide.

Brett Morgan?

He was the devil.

We had a lot of circumstantial evidence

pointing to Brett Morgan
as the person responsible

for the murder of Louise Ellis,
but there was one thing missing:

the body. Find Louise and we can
actually charge Brett Morgan.

With all the evidence we gathered,

we were able to apply for a
wiretap on Brett Morgan's phone,

his house and also we put
one into his vehicle.

It's so good to have someone to talk to.

You're the only one who really
listens anyway, Marie.

Marie? Who the hell's Marie?

Have you seen what they're
saying about me in the paper?

The whole frigging town
thinks I killed her.

The same thing happened to Milgaard.

The cops don't do their job
and an innocent guy gets blamed.

I just, I just want my wife.

That's why I'm here, Brett. Right?

And when we find Louise,
everyone will know

that they have misjudged you.

Is she buying his crap and
helping him look for Louise?

You're a brave man, Brett.

Thank you.

I've been thinking
a little about the case.

When you found the car,

was Louise's seat in the same position?

It was exactly the way Louise left it.

She's short. She likes to drive
close to the steering wheel.

Makes sense. Why was it there?

She was visiting Maisonneuve.

I'm telling you; we check
his property, we'll find her.

Well, then, you tell me
when and I'll come.

- Seriously?
- Absolutely.

If the police aren't gonna help
you, then I will. All right?

- Just let me know when.
- I will. I... Thank you, Marie.

I was extremely
worried about this woman.

Brett Morgan was capable
of great brutality.

We felt that we should speak
to Marie at the police station.

Would you mind telling us
what you were doing

at Brett Morgan's house?

Just talking about what
happened to his wife.

I see. How long have you known him?

Only a couple of days.

I saw him on TV.
He was looking for his wife.

And what, you felt sorry for him?

I did, yeah.

But not anymore.

What changed?

I've been thinking a little
about the case.

When you found the car,

was Louise's seat in the same position?

It was exactly the way I left...

exactly the way Louise left it.

Almost said, "Just
the way I left it," but he said,

"It was just the way Louise left it."

that was a major faux pas
by Brett Morgan.

Look, I don't wanna mess
anything up, OK?

But I can help.

I'm a private investigator.
Well, I'm taking courses.

And I told him that I could
help him find the body,

so now he trusts me.

And he needs to be stopped, right?

Let's stop him.

You're gonna have to give us
a couple of minutes.

So what are you thinking?

You're seriously considering this?

Well, it wouldn't be the
first time we worked

with a private investigator.

In training? I don't know.
I don't like it.

I think we gotta do it.
I think we have to.

It's our best chance to find
out what happened to Louise.

John and I weighed the pros and cons

of having this totally
unknown person involved

in this level of the investigation.

It was a very difficult decision,
but Brett Morgan trusted her;

she knew what we wanted to do,
and she had

a real gift of the gab. She could, uh,

probably talk Brett Morgan
into doing almost anything.

We needed her to find Louise's body.

Now as long as you have
this purse with you,

we'll be able to hear
everything that's going on.

OK. I've never been bugged before.

Marie, what you're about to do
is extremely dangerous. OK?

We'll do everything we can to
prevent you from being hurt,

but we can't guarantee your safety.

Now are you still sure you want
to go through with this?

Yeah. I'm sure.

It was a huge risk in allowing

this civilian to get knee-deep

into what we believed now
was a homicide investigation.

- Good morning.
- Good morning.

- Let's go.
- Let's go.

He took the hook. He took the bait.

We weren't too worried about her
danger cause we were very close.

I guess you could say
we were risk-takers,

but we did want to find
a body for evidence.

I spoke to my friend at the newspaper.

They said that John Maisonneue
failed a lie detector.

No surprise there.

You really think that he killed her?

Oh, yeah.

I think I know where she is too.

How?

I told you I killed someone before,

so I've been putting myself
in that mindset.

If I'm John Maisonneuve, I'm
looking for a nice quiet place

close to home.

There's a back road to this property.

Pull over here.

As they started to go off

the highway up in Quebec,
we're realizing how hard it is

to follow someone

in a rural area doing surveillance.

We had to back surveillance off.

We could not go in there into
John Maisonneuve's property.

If we would have pulled
in to follow them,

if he would have turned around,
we would have been burnt.

Dammit. We better not lose them.

That was a dicey situation.

Yeah. I think it's in through here.

Are we close?

Yeah. Just a little further this way.

I only sweat like this
when I'm about to have sex.

You're thinking about that
at a time like this?

Forget it. We won't find her today.

That was very, very frustrating for us.

Wondering what had we done wrong,

what does he know, what are we gonna do?

You wanna come back to my place?

Figure out where to look tomorrow?

Just let me, um, go to the washroom.

Hey. Let me get that.

We actually saw

Morgan lean over to kiss Marie Parent.

Knowing Brett Morgan,
we weren't surprised.

Be right back.

It was not the way we did things.

We said "OK, that's it; we're done."

"This is not the way this
investigation's going to go."

After the attempted kiss, we
told Marie Parent "You're done."

And that's the way we left it.

But Marie Parent still wanted
to get him searching again.

We had to take that risk. Unfortunately,

Brett Morgan did not seem
to be interested.

Why is he all of a sudden
getting cold feet?

Has he become aware of the wiretaps?

What's causing him to back off?

So we had to use another tactic.

Hi, Brett. Lisa Costello at the bank.

I have some bad news.

I'm afraid we won't be able to release

any part of Louise's estate
until she's officially deceased.

She would either have to be found

or missing for seven years.

I'm sorry.

Brett Morgan was the solel beneficiary

of everything that Louise Ellis owned.

Here in Ontario, unless you find a body,

a person must be missing
for seven years before

you can access the will.

We used that tool to get him
searching again

for Louise Ellis' body, and it worked.

He was a con man who got
conned by two better cons.

Hop in.

Oh, we're not gonna take my car?

We're gonna need a truck
where we're going.

Some pretty bad roads
on Maisonneuve's property.

So are you scared about
what we might find?

It won't be pretty.

What about you?

You scared to be alone with me?

No. No, I'm not scared.

So they drove for 25 minutes.

They got to this location
maybe two miles away

from John Maisonneuve's property.

We still had wiretaps in her purse.

Are you sure this is the place?

Positive. This is where
Maisonneuve took her.

I feel it.

Are you working for the cops?

The cops? What?

Are you wearing a wire?

What are you talking about?

A wire! Are you recording this?

Of course not! Why would I do that?

How do I know I can trust you?

- What are you saying?
- How do I know?

This is getting out of control.

OK. Frisk me.

OK. I trust you.

OK.

- Put these gloves on.
- Why?

Thorn bushes are bad
where we're heading.

It was touch and go for a while.

Were we concerned? Extremely concerned

but the play was going on.

Oh no. Did we lose the signal?
Or did we lose her?

I'm going in.

- Oh, my God.
- Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!

- What?
- Listen.

- My poor Louise.
- Listen.

My God. My poor Louise.

My God.

Louise Ellis
was never afforded a burial.

She was just dumped in the ground,

covered up with sticks,
and just left her there

to rot. It was horrific.

Driving back into Ottawa,
John and I did not talk much.

The investigation was done.

We had enough evidence
to arrest Brett Morgan

as the person responsible
for the murder of Louise Ellis.

I really wanted him to say to us,

"Yes, I killed Louise Ellis and
here's the reason I did it."

How'd you find her, Brett?

I looked, day in and day out,
like you should have been doing.

Really. Is that why
you only found Louise

after the bank told you
the estate wouldn't pay out

until you had a body?

We did a little digging of our own, too.

We found Louise's signature forged

on 35 thousand dollars'
worth of cheques.

I was gonna pay her back.

And then, of course,
there's the picture of you

withdrawing money from an ATM

using Louise's bank card.

So what? I used her card
all the time. She trusted me.

Look at the date and time on it.

Saturday, the day she disappeared,

2:53 p.m., long after you said
she'd left for Maisonneuve's.

So I took money out after she left.

We found her bank card in the vehicle.

What does that prove?

There was only one card
on Louise's bank account,

which means you planted it
in the vehicle long after

it had been abandoned
on the side of the road.

Her bank card was used at 2:53 p.m.

If she left at 2:00, how is
that bank card in her vehicle?

Impossible.

Unless Brett Morgan put it
in the car after she was dead.

How'd you kill her, Brett? Huh?

I'll tell you how.

It was Saturday morning. Louise told you

she was going to Maisonneuve's.

But you didn't like that, did you?

So you got angry and you beat her,

like you had so many times before.

I never touched her.

That's not what her diary said.

Louise wrote about
what her relationship was like

with Brett Morgan in her diary,

having beer poured over her head,

being hit on the ankle,
held down like a dog.

But this Saturday, beating
her wasn't enough, was it?

She knew about the cheques. She knew
she was never gonna see that money.

You were afraid she was gonna blow
the lid off your little scheme,

tell her family. You'd wind up
back in prison. So you decided

to cash in, didn't you? You'd
take her money and her property,

but to do that,
you had to get rid of her.

So you snuck up on her in the shower

and you killed her
and then you wrapped her

in the shower curtain and you
took her out to where you found

her body.

And you dumped her in what you
thought was Maisonneuve's property,

but it wasn't.

We found your little map, Brett.

You were so
hell-bent on framing Maisonneuve

for the murder, you didn't
realize the map was wrong.

It was nowhere near his property.

Morgan, that day, used a map that was

out-of-date and in fact,
did not put the body

on John Maisonneuve's property.

He tried to frame John Maisonneuve,

but it didn't work. We got him.

She gave you a roof over
your head and a second chance.

She helped you get out of prison
and you put her in one.

And then when she wanted out,

you killed her and you dumped
her body in the woods.

Well, you're going back to prison, pal.

Count on it. Hopefully for
the rest of your pathetic life.

We told him
every piece of evidence we had

against him and it did not faze
him; he never confessed to it.

After a six-month trial

and two-and-a-half days of deliberation,

a jury found Brett Morgan
guilty of first-degree murder.

About a dozen of Louise Ellis' friends
and family were in the courtroom

as the verdict was announced.

Many were overwhelmed by
emotion, bursting into tears.

Morgan was automatically
sentenced to life imprisonment

with no chance of parole
for twenty-five years.

Judge Colin McKinnon told Morgn
that Louise Ellis was in

the prime of life. "She gave
everything to assist you.

She had so much life to live,
and the jury found

you took that from her."

What Brett
Morgan did to Louise Ellis was

unimaginable and despicable.

Allen Ellis, Louise's father,

he just wailed that night.
It just totally destroyed him.

Louise Ellis
firmly believed in Brett Morgan.

They became friends and lovers.

To see how long she put up
with the physical and verbal

and financial abuse was very troublesome

because all she wanted
to do was help him.

It's been twenty-three years now,

but I do think about her and the case.

It was uh... it was a haunting case.

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