All language subtitles for The Detectives - 02x06 - The Last Fare (English)

I always think about Lucie.

Thirty years after her death,
I still can't let it go away.

- Hey, Lucie.
- Hey!

You wanna take that last call
for the Banff Springs?

OK.

How horrific her death was.

It's horrendous. It's tragic.

People are
starting to realize that Banff

is no longer the quiet,
safe little place it once was.

I want a list of
every male employee in town

that matches the suspect's description.

There are police everywhere

and people here are shocked. They
can't believe what happened.

A small town with a transient population

where people are moving in and out

makes an investigation
much more difficult.

We need to go bigger.
Something international.

Somebody knew something.

Let's run the DNA on this blood.

At the end of the rainbow,

there's one guy with
that unique DNA that we want.

Hey!

It's one of those cases where

you'll never forget.
I'll never forget it.

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Nestled in the Rocky Mountains,

Banff has the look of a natural
and tranquil paradise.

Cases of violent crime

are extremely rare in Banff.

Banff is one of the most
beautiful places on Earth.

It's serene, it's quiet.

People come from around the world

to experience the mountains and
the mountain life and to ski.

Three million tourists and transients

pass through Banff every year.

People here were genuinely shocked

such a thing could happen
in this small resort town.

It's a very tourist type of town

so to have a serious crime
such as a murder

in that town is very odd.

Up until yesterday,

that was Banff's most recent murder...

It had been thirty years

since the last murder in Banff

and that's why we were called in.

Originally when I heard that
there had been a homicide

in Banff, I assumed that
it might've been as a result

of a fight in a bar,

certainly not that a young cab
driver had uh, lost her life

and was laying
in the middle of the road.

The first thing that caught
my attention was

this yellow blanket that was
laying over top of the body

and uh, that is basically a no-no.

Why is there a sheet
covering our victim?

You are?

Doug Morrison, Calgary office.

Nigel Paterson, Banff.

That's a... that's an elementary
school right there.

We don't want the kids seeing this.

My daughter goes there.

Well, your sheet ruined
what blood spatter

evidence we could've
collected from the body.

What are you thinking?

I'm thinking she was stabbed.

She has cuts on her hands,
defensive wounds.

She put up a fight.

Knowing the dynamics of the community,

actually, I was shocked.

This is a violent, violent act

done by a violent, violent person.

You find the murder weapon?

No.

What about her wallet?

No. But her name's Lucie Turmel.

Local cab driver.
She was last seen picking up

- a fare at 1:30 a.m.
- Who saw her?

Larry Laundreau. Works
at the same cab company.

Lucie was new to the cab industry

and on that night, she was working

the evening shift with Larry.

Detective Morrison, RCMP. I
understand you knew our victim.

Lucie. Yeah, I let her... take
the last ride from the Springs.

Get a good luck at the passengers?

He then told us Lucie had picked up

some passengers from
The Works night club,

which is situated in
the Banff Springs Hotel.

Larry was behind Lucie when
she picked up these people

and Larry was next in queue
to pick up the next fare.

Later on in the early morning hours,

Larry saw something uh, unusual.

Larry, have you seen Lucie?

She's not answering her radio.

Uh, no, not since I left the Springs.

Wait, uh, hold on? Yeah, you
know, I think I see her car.

How many cars you got out
on the road tonight?

Just you and Lucie.

OK, I call the police. I think
someone stole Lucie's car.

There's a guy driving it.
I'm gonna follow him.

Larry had told us that he had observed

an unknown male driving Lucie's taxi.

He managed to turn
around and give chase.

Was the man she picked up

the same person as the man you chased?

Could be, I don't know.

Where'd you chase him to?

Uh, to Mountain Avenue.

It's a couple of minutes
from here. Car's still there.

I got a guy guarding it.

I'd like to see her car.

So um... I stopped my car
right there and I jumped out.

Hey! Hey. Hey!

And then, I chased him for a few
steps but uh, then he got away.

He was able to
give us a physical description

of the male that got out of that cab.

He was probably under the age of 25,

around six-foot tall, dark hair,
thin build and away he went.

Larry, if you wouldn't mind
um, waiting by my car

for a few minutes while
we have a look around?

Pretty good place to cut
and run? Right into the woods.

Yeah, what's uh...
what's beyond those woods?

Houses.

Maybe he lives there.
We should get our...

our officers canvassing the area.

Blood could be Lucie's or our killer's.

Maybe he stabbed her in the car

and then chased her out.

Or maybe his hand slipped
and he cut himself.

In most crimes with a knife,

the individual ends up stabbing
himself or cutting himself

and so he leaves a portion
of his blood behind.

So maybe this is not Lucie's blood.

This may be our perpetrator's blood.

We should check all area hospitals,

see if anyone's treated for cuts.

Let's uh, run DNA on this blood.

DNA?

DNA largely was
new to us in law enforcement.

Certainly across Canada.

And so that was all brand new
to all our uniform folks,

certainly in Banff.

- This is her last fare.
- Mm hm?

1:35, The Works, Banff Springs
Hotel. Drop off 600 Cougar.

Larry? You know who this is?

Yeah, that's uh, Jeff, her boyfriend.

He's a waiter at the Grizzly House.

That's downtown. They should
be opening pretty soon.

- I'll go talk to him.
- No. No.

Let's get this car impounded
and into forensics.

I'll um, notify Jeff and...
follow up on her last fare.

Lucie was from the province of Quebec.

Jeff was an Albertan, living in Banff.

Lucie and Jeffrey ended up
finding each other and they had

big plans that they were going
to end up getting married

and staying in Banff.

- We're getting married.
- I'm very sorry.

- We think she was robbed.
- Robbed!

She only had 130 bucks!

How do you know that?

She told me when I saw her.
She came by here last night.

Lucie stopped by to say goodnight to him

cause he was getting ready to go to bed.

she was still working her shift.

- Hey, beautiful.
- Hey!

- Have you hit your magic number yet?
- Mm mm.

- Where you at?
- $130.

Bars are still open
for another half-hour.

You can still pick up
a couple more fares.

Yeah. See ya.

Je t'aime.

I love you too.

She was trying to save up
for our wedding.

He was devastated.

Obviously, he loved the girl.

At first, he couldn't believe
because he'd just seen her.

And then uh, he broke down.

The tragedy of a young womans
murder has had consequences

for virtually everyone who lives here.

Lucie was a very pleasant
girl, she was always happy.

She uh, had a very positive
attitude about life.

What happened was devastating.

Seeing her laying out there and stuff

it just... it gets you thinking.

Lucie Turmel picked up

her last fare at The Works,

a night club in the Banff Springs Hotel.

Police say it's critical that they find

three people who got
into Lucie's taxi here

at the Banff Springs Hotel
Works night club

ABOUT 1:30 Thursday morning.

The three were Lucie's last fare.

We went to The Work night club

and spoke with a number of
employees that were working

Can I help you?

Can I help you?

Yeah, Doug Morrison, RCMP.

You heard about the cabbie
who was killed...

Lucie Turmel?

We also spoke with the manager.

She would've left with
a man and two women.

Would've called a cab around 1:15, 1:30?

I'm sorry. It was payday
for seasonals, so...

shoulder-to-shoulder all night.

All right. All right. Can you get me

a list of all your employees that
were working here last night?

As well as... anyone else you remember.

- Of course.
- Thank you.

We weren't able to substantiate

any of these people leaving
The Works that night.

Looking at her log book,

we know that Lucie took
those fares from The Works

in Banff Springs Hotel to an address

on Cougar Street.

We went to Cougar.

On the night of Lucie's death,
there was a house party

on Cougar Street that went till
the wee hours of the morning.

Hi! Big party last night.

Doug Morrison, RCMP.

Lucie Turmel. She would've
dropped off a man and two women

here last night around
1:45 in the morning?

I'm sorry, it was a big party.

Yeah? For who?

Just friends. Mostly people I work with.

Was anyone injured?

Maybe cuts on the hand,
anything like that?

No.

Listen, I'm gonna need you
and your roommates to come

to the station...

and help us figure out who was
at your party, all right?

Sure, I'll let them know.

We'd spent a
lot of time trying to track down

who those passengers were.

In fact, we canvassed
that whole street and...

without any luck at all.

Lucie's last drop-off was on Cougar.

But her body was found

a half-hour later only two blocks away.

Was she called out again?

I can check that.

No. That was her last fare.

Is it possible she picked up
a fare without calling it in?

Maybe, you know, making a
little extra cash on the side?

Sure. It's part of
the business. I don't like it.

But it happens.

So it's possible we don't know
when or where her last fare was.

No. It's small fares, small town.

Those things slip through the cracks.

Thank you.

It's certainly possible that

Lucie saw this individual
and knew this individual,

the guy was standing on the
street corner and she pulled up

and he says "Hey, can you
give me a ride home?"

She picked him up and
he ended up being her killer.

At least fifteen Mounties and

a dozen park rangers are
now checking every lead.

The Mounties won't say whether the
victim was sexually assaulted

or how she died until
an autopsy is done tomorrow.

At this point, none of the information

that was provided to us
in those early morning hours

we could substantiate.

And so that was...

a mystery.

Who would want to kill this young lady

in the middle of the street.

We had no idea.

A lot of the
locals in Banff were fearful.

Somebody's been killed in
the middle of a bloody street

with a knife. Who's next?

I'm quite shocked about it all.

In fact, I'm even a little bit
concerned about myself

being out walking around
in the evenings.

People are probably starting
to realize, you know,

that there's crime here,
just like the city.

It's not something that you expect here.

People here
are realizing that their town is

no longer as quiet, peaceful
and safe as it used to be.

As police hunt for a killer,
many people here are

for the first time locking
their doors at night.

The autopsy report came back.

No sexual assault. She was
stabbed seventeen times

in the face and neck.

To exhibit that much rage

on another human being,

this guy is one dangerous guy.

We contact Lucie's family in Quebec?

Yeah. They took it pretty hard.

They want her body flown back
for the funeral.

Of course.

Can they think of any reason why anyone

would want to do something like this?

No. She was a pretty
popular girl back home.

Well-liked.

Popular here, too.

From all the information that I gathered

from all of her friends,

she was a free-spirit, she was
going out to experience Banff

and she would do jobs that other women

probably wouldn't do
and that's certainly

driving a cab and driving
a cab at night.

The search goes on. Dozens of Mounties

and park rangers combing
the outskirts of Banff,

looking for clues
that'll lead them to the kille.

At least one witness saw
a young man run into the trees

ABOUT 2:00 yesterday morning
after skidding to a stop

on Mountain Avenue in this taxi.

Now we're looking for
one individual in a town site

of probably at that time,
maybe 2,000 males that fit

that profile of that guy
jumping out of the cab

and running into the bush.

Thanks.

Just got a tip about
some French-Canadian guy

named Luc Benoit. Apparently,
he was seen getting drunk

and threatening people at a bar
the night Lucie was killed.

Says he was threatening people
with a big knife

strapped to his boot.

Let's bring him in.

The staff at a bar were concerned that

they had an individual in
there that was intoxicated.

He was waving a knife around.

And so this individual was
picked up and brought back

to the detachment.

And although he's a little bit
older than twenty-five,

he did fit that physical description

that Larry in the taxicab gave us.

Benoit's here. Found him
sleeping in his car.

Did he say anything?

Just that he's looking for work.

Spent his last couple
of bucks on a two-four.

Broke and desperate.
That's never a good mix.

What about the knife?

Claims he lost it.

When he was sobered up the next morning,

I started to interview him.

You know why we brought you here?

Some fight.

No, it wasn't just some fight.

You were threatening
people with a knife.

Where's that knife, Luc?

Je sais pas.

I lost it.

You lost it.

What about Lucie?

Who?

Lucie Turmel.

Come on. You remember Lucie.
She's a nice girl,

pretty, Quebecois, just like you.

She was driving a cab
the same night that you were

running around threatening people

with that knife you lost.

Well, someone killed Lucie.

They stabbed her to death with a knife.

Ça pourrait être moi.

What was that?

I think I killed her.

I did it.

Just like that, this guy confessed.

So we've got a person that was in Banff,

he had a knife and he admitted

that he had killed Lucie Turmel,

but couldn't recall any of the details.

He thought he might have killed her.

And then we got a call.

This neighbor, in the general
vicinity, had found a knife

and it was covered in blood.

Homeowner found a knife
in their driveway.

Fancy blade.

Mahogany handle. Looks home-made.

But there it was.

A blood-covered hunting knife.

This is the knife that
maybe killed Lucie Turmel.

Maybe the killer threw it
here after he ditched the car.

Let's have forensics pick it up.

Maybe they can pull a print
or some DNA off of it.

The blood is the most critical thing

that we've got. We got that

in the cab. We know that the guy
got out of the cab and ran away.

And we've got a large
bloodied hunting knife.

Hey, you want the bad news first?

Don't tell me. All the blood
in the cab was Lucie's.

No. We actually found
three spots in there

with the killer's blood. It just wasn't

- Luc Benoit's.
- What?

Yeah, sorry. It's not
your guy. No match.

Didn't make any sense.

But you get one of
these guys, not in every

homicide, but you get one or
two of them that will admit

something, when in fact,
they're not responsible.

No one else in the system
matches the blood either.

Oh, some good news, though.
The knife that was recovered?

It is the murder weapon. It's
got Lucie's blood all over it.

So we had the
knife that killed Lucie Turmel

and the blood that was found
both on the steering wheel,

on the uh, signal light indicator,

were not Lucie Turmel's blood.

They were obviously
our perpetrator's blood.

So we find a match...

you find your killer. Simple as that.

And now the work begins

to figure out who left that blood.

Banff survives on tourism

and an unsolved murder
isn't good for business.

Tourist season
was gearing up in the Banff area

and there was pressure
there to solve the thing

and solve it quickly.

I want a list of
every male employee in town

that matches the suspect's description.

Every restaurant, hotel,
night club, whatever.

- That's thousands of people.
- Just get the list and

we'll whittle it down to just
those with a criminal record.

This is a brutal crime.
I doubt it was his first.

This guy is above and beyond
the normal bad guy.

It was an investigator's
nightmare so to speak.

A small town with a transient population

where people are moving in
and out makes an investigation

much more difficult

in tracking people and locating people.

It's been three months now and
we haven't caught the individual

responsible for Lucie Turmel's death.

So now we have to widen the
scope of our investigation.

It is one of those...
needles in a haystack.

What's this?

Every white male temp worker
in Banff with a criminal record.

All of this?

Apparently, Banff is a little
more dangerous than we thought.

Seventy percent of workers here
have criminal records.

- National average? Ten percent.
- What?

OK. Well, we need to trim this.

I want you to pull hospital
records, see if you can find

blood types for these people.

Blood type doesn't match,
the DNA won't either.

And most of them won't have
their blood type on file

at the local hospital.
They're temp workers.

Then we'll get blood samples
from the rest.

And if they say no?
Can we pull a warrant?

No such thing as a warrant for blood.

They say no? We take a closer look.

Alright.

If you had a criminal record

for dangerous driving or
for possession of marijuana,

does that necessarily mean that

you're gonna be a violent
criminal? And you're gonna be

killing people? No.

People with violent crimes
or violent history

are very interesting. So we have
to work very quickly

to round these people up and
hopefully to get samples

of uh, their DNA.

You know, once you explain
the nature of the investigation

and what we were doing,
most fellas cooperated.

"I knew her, but I'm not responsible.

I'll give you any sample you want."

So we're working our way through
all of these names and stuff.

And at the end of the rainbow,
there's one guy

with that unique DNA that we want.

These guys are the last
of the blood tests.

- Then we're done with the list?
- Uh huh.

That's it. Nothing so far.

Nothing matches the blood
we found in the cab.

No. Looks like we hit a dead end.

All of those samples

that were sent to the lab
came back negative.

Forget the list.

I want to know where everyone
was that night. The whole town.

Every tourist, every
citizen, every worker.

I want everyone placed.
We need to find new suspects.

Doug. Hundreds of people come in and out

of Banff every day. Tourists.

They could be all over the world.

I'm gonna get the guest registry
from every hotel in town.

Track them down. We'll find out
where everyone was

and if they saw or heard
anything strange.

We find any new suspects,
we'll test their blood too.

We had never done
this kind of thing before,

but you don't wanna leave
any stone unturned.

We need to go bigger.

Something international.

Someone out there knows
what happened to Lucie Turmel.

We need to bring the story to them.

We have an enormous job ahead of us.

Banff is a major tourist town in Canada.

And people come and go left,
right and center.

So we had to expand our investigation.

Letters in various languages
were sent probably

to fifty nations around the world.

Anybody that actually stayed in Banff

during that time when
Lucie lost her life,

was contacted by a letter
from the Banff detachment.

The RCMP has opened hundreds of files

and sent questionnaires
to the thousands of people

who were in Banff that night.

We've had approximately
600 tips from across Canada,

North America and even in France.

This is where Lucie Turmel's
body was found.

We also did a massive media blitz.

A reward is being offered

to anyone who can help solve the murder.

Somebody knows something,

tell us what you recall.

Public solves the crime.

You gotta keep it in the papers,
you gotta keep it

front and center in everybody's
mind till finally

that person says

"Ah, no, I should phone the
police and tell them about that."

Please.

I came in cause I saw this.

Did you know Lucie?

No. But I know this knife.

You've seen it?

It belongs to this guy
I used to party with.

Ryan Love.

He used to work at
the Banff Springs Hotel.

In the end, the answer was in Banff.

We caught a break.

This lady saw this poster,
came forward and told us

"I know a guy that had
a knife exactly like that."

Now we're starting to link that knife

to somebody that actually was
in Banff during that period.

Here we go. Here we go.

Ryan Love. Worked at
the Banff Springs Hotel.

No record?

No, we would've had a blood sample.

Did we speak with him?

Never had a chance.

His roommate said he left town
before the murder.

OK, I want the time sheets
from the Banff Springs Hotel.

Yeah, I saw those a second ago. Hang on.

Here we go.

Ryan Love.

Yeah. It's got his address
in Duncan, BC.

Ryan Love worked in Banff,

fit the age, fit the
physical description.

He had a knife very similar
to the murder weapon.

So he was a person of interest.

Can I help you?

Doug Morrison, RCMP Staff Sergeant.

Is there something wrong?

I'm looking for Ryan Love.

I'm sorry, what's this about?

I'd just like to have
a few words with your son, Sir.

About what?

It's all right, Dad.
I'm sure it's nothing.

May I come in?

Ryan Love? He's
back home living with his parents.

Probably had maybe a
half an hour at length talk

and I said Ryan's name has
surfaced in our investigation

and we would like Ryan's cooperation.

You recognize this?

Sure. That's my knife.

You sure?

I'm positive.

You see that mark right there?

That's from jumping a car battery.

What happened there?

Oh, this?

I don't even remember.

Where'd you find my knife?

Banff.

It was used to murder someone.

Oh, my God!

Huh. I didn't know what happened to it.

I tell you it was used
to murder someone and...

and all you can say is that you
don't know what happened to it?

Look, Detective, he already
told you he doesn't know.

Obviously, someone took it.

Why obviously?

Because it means too much to me.

You see, my grandfather bought
it for me when I was fourteen.

Over down in Mexico, remember?

I wouldn't just give it away.
It was stolen. In Banff.

Yeah, that knife was stolen from me

at a party blah blah blah.

Or it went missing or
whatever the case might be.

And that was his way of diffusing

"well, I don't have
the knife anymore so..."

Um, that'd be that.

When did you leave Banff?

Uh, early May, last year.

So you were still there May 17th.

Wasn't that Grandma's birthday?

Yeah, I was on a plane

on the way to Thunder Bay,
Ontario for a family reunion.

That's right, I remember.

We bought him a plane ticket
and sent him $100

to take a cab to the airport.

Right. Yeah.

Then I went back to Banff,

stayed a few more days and uh,
came home for good.

And what time did you leave
Banff on May 17th?

I don't know.

Early, I guess. It was a long time ago.

So you were there the night before.

This feels like it's getting
into tricky lawyer questions.

I'm sorry, Detective.

I think we'd like to speak to our lawyer

before we take this any further.

I didn't murder anyone.

I just need a quick sample of your blood

and I will be on my way.

It's very simple. I mean,

just provide us with a sample.
We'll take the sample.

We'll go away. We'll get it analyzed.

And if he's not responsible,
he'll never see us again.

Mmmm, no.

I don't think so.

We were stymied.

Basically, he thought

"Well, if I never provide a
sample, they'll never catch me."

Back then, there was
no mechanism in Canadian law

that would allow us to get
body fluids from the suspect.

We couldn't go to the courts and say

"This is all the evidence that we have.

Would you sign a search
warrant so that we can go back

and get these samples physically
from Ryan Jason Love?"

And we definitely
can't get a warrant for his DNA?

Nope. There is no
warrant system in place for DNA.

Need someone to get it
off him voluntarily.

So what are we gonna do?

We need someone to go undercover.

We decided to go
ahead with an undercover operation.

So I put in a call to
my good friend, Al Haslett.

Al's probably one of the best
policemen I ever met.

He could walk into a bar
and within ten minutes,

be playing pool with the bad guy that

we'd all been trying to get close to.

Ryan Love. Yeah, I know him.
Hangs with the guys

we've been watching.
A bunch of local low-lifes.

We got eyes on the whole crew.

I bet if we open the door for
him, he'll just jump right in.

That's OK with you?

Whatever gets the bad guys. Yeah?

All right! See ya.

We needed to get
a DNA sample from Ryan Jason Love.

And that was our goal in
that undercover operation.

The plan was pretty simple.

On the pretext that
our undercover operator was

a small-time crook, we would
have Ryan Jason Love participate

in these petty crimes that
we're gonna rob a fishboat.

Love would be given some menial task

so we could get close to him.

This is the pier?

Yeah.

All you gotta do is keep a lookout.

You see that boat coming,
you flash the signal.

And when the boat gets there?

And the rest of us roll up,

we unload the smokes, then
we go make some money.

Who's that? I didn't...

Relax. I just ordered some
room service, that's all.

But I'm not hungry.

Who said anything about food?

We didn't have a mechanism to
get body fluids from an accused.

So we set up an undercover operation

where Ryan Jason Love would unknowingly

provide us with a DNA sample
that we could match

with the blood in the taxi

that was driven by Lucie Turmel.

You have this one
cowlick that I can't get down.

Yeah. Yeah, I know.

No matter what I do, it just...
sticks up like that.

Come on man, that's easy fix.

Your dad will teach you.

We're gonna find your natural part.

- Oh!
- Ow man!

See? No need to worry about it now.

All right. You got me.

OK! We got an early morning. Call it.

Ladies?

Wait, I thought we were gonna...

Oh, you thought... you thought
these girls were for you?

Sorry, man, I got my own thing going on.

Besides, you gotta get
your sleep, huh? Let's go.

The girls were with us.

They were undercover RCMP officers.

The pulled hair was very clever,

but we were uncertain that that
evidence would hold up in court.

The act of reaching across
and physically removing hair

from a person's head,
the courts may look on that

as an infringement on
his constitutional rights

and that evidence may get
kicked out and not allowed

as evidence proper in his trial.

We wanted to make sure that
if that sample got kicked out,

then we had another
sample to back it up.

So the day before, we stripped
down his motel room...

and put in pornography magazines.

We had switched all the sheets,
put brand new sheets on.

We're trying to get him
sexually excited so that

when the girls then leave...

Wait, I thought we were gonna...

He sexually relieves himself...

onto the sheets that we put on the beds.

That's uh, not exactly what happened.

Next morning, we went back into
the room and checked the sheets.

No hair.

No stains on the sheets.

Damn it. Hang on a second.

Is that what I think it is?

We found nothing, other than

the tissue, which was the most
important item that we found.

We get the samples of the mucous
and the hair in analyze

and we knew if we matched
his DNA, we had our killer.

We got him!

Ryan Jason Love's DNA sample matched

the DNA sample that we got
out of Lucie Turmel's cab.

We had found our man.

Nigel Paterson and myself,
we go back out to Duncan

to make the arrest of Ryan Jason Love.

You know, no matter what
we said to him that we have

your samples of your DNA
and stuff like that

and it's matched the blood
in the cab and stuff,

so we know you're
the person responsible,

it was just kinda like pfff...
right over top of his head.

Dozens of RCMP investigators have waited

a long time for this day to come.

It took two-and-a-half years,
but police finally arrested

twenty-one-year-old Ryan Love
in Duncan, British Columbia.

They've interviewed more
than five thousand people

in an effort to make an arrest.

Today, they arrived at
the airport with the man,

they believe, killed Lucie Turmel.

Love smirked throughout the arrest.

I think he still felt that,
with the help of his lawyer,

he was going to be able
to escape the grasps of prison.

Last May, a preliminary hearing found

there was enough evidence
to put Love on trial...

The Crown
and Defence argued over the way

undercover policemen collected
samples of Ryan Love's hair

and mucous. Both samples
were tested and linked Love

to the crime scene. The hair
was plucked from Love's head

after he complained of
having a cowlick....

In court Love's lawyer insisted
police had no legal right

to take the sample and argued his
client's rights were violated.

In the end,
the DNA evidence was admitted.

Love lost.

He was given a life sentence
with no possibility for parole

until after twenty years.

Although we are elated,

it's hard to fathom
that someone would uh,

exhibit that much rage.

For what? Money?

Why'd you do it?

I needed cash.

To get to the family reunion.

You had money. Your
parents gave you money.

I spent it all.

On booze and drugs.

So you... killed an innocent girl,

a girl who had her whole
life ahead of her...

for a hundred bucks?

My parents would've been so
pissed if I missed that plane.

You never get
over an incident like that.

It uh, basically stays with you
for the rest of your life.

It was sad for uh, the
parents, obviously,

her friends... even the townfolk.

It represents one of
the more intensive cases

certainly in Alberta history
I would say.

If it weren't for the assistance
that we received

from police forces and
other RCMP detachments

in every province and
territory in the country,

we wouldn't have been able to
conduct a successful investigation.

We are satisfied,
but it's very hard too.

Something... somebody has killed

our daughter and it's hard.

The Turmels were very appreciative.

Yeah. Did our job.

The funeral was huge.
I think everybody that worked

in the same industries
as Lucie and Jeff were there.

Most of the people that were
associated at all with Lucie

loved the girl.

She was a... she was a...

from all indications,
just a neat, a neat kid.

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