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A Hail of Bullets

Item number (ISN):

370117

Series title:

The Fifth Estate

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

370117

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: VIA SATELLITE

Accession:

2005-0001

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

2005-12-07

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

reporter, Linden MacIntyre

Description:

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This program looks at the murder of four RCMP officers by James Roszko, who then shot himself. Linden MacIntyre's report points out discrepancies in the official RCMP version of the events of March 3, 2005 and reveals troubling information about how Roszko was dealt with by police in the years prior to the tragedy. The RCMP stated almost immediately that all four Mounties were shot by James Roszko inside his Quonset, but information uncovered by the CBC suggests that there was a furious gunfight and that the RCMP had sealed five search warrants related to their ongoing investigations. The Fifth Estate went to court and won the release of the search warrants. The warrant information provides some information on Roszko's actions from the moment he fled his farm on the afternoon of March 2 to the moment he returned the following morning and shot the four officers. During that time, Roszko called his mother, told her he had made a will and asked her to pray for him. The program also looks at Roszko's troubled history and how he managed to elude prosecution for his crimes. Roszko fended off charges of sexual assault against young boys. He harrassed Dale Mindus and his family for years. The police failed to protect Mindus and his family from James Roszko and to aggressively investigate Mindus' murder. In 1993, the RCMP pulled then-Constable Mike Statnyk off a sexual assault case against James Roszko after the farmer sued the Mountie. The sexual assault case against Roszko was later dismissed and the civil suit was dropped. <1h>

Language:

English

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1. Description is based on information from the CBC website.

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Vault ISN:

980274

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2005-12-0016

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

VIA SATELLITE

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1040455

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

370117.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2005-12-0016

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1040456

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

370117.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2005-12-0016

Status:

REF
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