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Something has gone terribly wrong at the highest levels of the RCMP. If the investigation into the murder of eight year old Mindy Tran is allowed to remain as is, this will be Canada's first documented case of a Police informant murdering Canadian children with the full knowledge and support of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

A troubling pattern of dead and obstructed witnesses occurred during this RCMP investigation. The first witness to identify a suspect to the RCMP was found shot in the head! Another key witness became the victim of a home invasion, others died suspiciously or never made it to court for unknown reasons. Two RCMP members involved in the investigation were themselves reported as attempted suicides. The only suspect in Mindy Tran's abduction was an RCMP agent, his "handler", Sgt. Tidsbury, was the lead investigator collecting the witness statements.

Shannon Murrin, was charged but acquitted, and is claiming to be a victim of malicious prosecution due to tunnel vision. He has provided proof that the RCMP are covering up reports of an undisclosed suspicious vehicle from the night of Mindy's abduction and is alleging that this is evidence of another suspect. 

The Kelowna RCMP did instruct the media not to report the description of the first vehicle suspected in the abduction just as Murrin is saying.
see-vehicle search

The driver of that vehicle has since come forward, identified himself as the new witness and disclosed that he had followed a suspect back to a previously unreported and uninvestigated location. The RCMP are refusing to allow this witness to sign or to even review his own statement. There is unsecured physical evidence available to corroborate the new information. This information would confirm the killer’s identify, the identity of his accomplices, and or provide additional witnesses. If Shannon Murrin were truly innocent he should be screaming for an investigation of this residence. He is not. If this investigation was blown due to the unauthorized actions of a single rogue cop or detachment, the Federal RCMP would be investigating. They are not. If this case was accidentally botched due to mistakes, the RCMP should be investigating and collecting the unsecured physical evidence, in order to confirm what went wrong and to prevent this from ever happening again. They are not! Instead, the RCMP appear to be secretly arranging to pay off Shannon Murrin for his silence. 
 see- News Report of Vehicle
see- Will police pay Murrin to go away

RCMP Sgt. Tidsbury has acted no differently than as if he were the killer's partner in this crime. He is responsible for turning what should have been an open and shut case into a series of questionable investigative actions, which resulted in the acquittal of his own agent, Shannon Murrin. Obviously Sgt. Tidsbury was following someone's orders or he would not have been able to get away with doing what he did. He won the investigator of the year award for his handling of this case. Tidsbury went on to commit perjury on the witness stand with his fellow cops providing the evidence and testimony against him. The case was blown as a result, yet no charges were laid.  
see- cop lies

Edited sections of Ray Ambler's Alberta RCMP investigation stated that Gary Tidsbury should have been removed from the investigation and that it was the Senior RCMP members involved who were responsible for the downfall of this case, with some even guilty of non RCMP behavior.  
see- RCMP Review

Despite this finding, RCMP Commissioner Zaccardelli went on to promote Tidsbury’s then boss Superintendent Forbes, who should have removed him, and Deputy Commissioner Busson who condoned them both, to the very top of the B.C. RCMP and then awarded them the order of merit in 2004 for "their exceptional level of commitment". 
see- RCMP awards presentation
Quote:
They have demonstrated an exceptional level of commitment and contribution to policing and to their communities.

This effectively ended any hopes for an RCMP initiated investigation. Sgt. Tidsbury retired, taking the heat for bungling this case while his superiors continue to shield him and Murrin from any proper investigation. 

As troubling as it was to find that there are people willing to aid a child killer, it is even more troubling to find that many of them are being promoted and placed in positions of power with the ability to affect all of our lives. Members of this group have quickly risen in political power. Successive Police departments are being taken over through the RCMP promotion process. These are some of the individuals whose actions have facilitated Murrin's acquittal and who are now hampering calls for an inquiry. If they had unknowingly obstructed justice by merely following orders in the performance of their duties, they now know the results of their actions and the onus is upon them to rectify what they have done.
see-(people responsible)

Why should you care?
The precedents being set here are simply too important to let stand as is and at some point could affect us all. This is the case that has in effect, legalized the murder of Canadian children by agents of their government. The Nurembourg trials said that following orders was not a valid defense for the Nazi participants then, nor is it for the RCMP now. Eight-year-old Mindy Tran was neither criminal, terrorist, nor spy. 

The RCMP claim that they will support and comply with the protocols of the new public (Amber Alert) child abduction program but how can they be trusted in any other case while violating all accepted practices and continuing to conceal the first vehicle and witness reported in this case?
see- Amber Alert Protocols

DNA evidence has been termed "The Finger of God pointing down". In Mindy Tran's case, "The Finger" fell into the wrong hands and points squarely back at the RCMP.  Sgt. Tidsbury ordered the conclusive Nuclear DNA evidence found on Mindy's clothes to be washed away without taking any samples. Tampering with DNA evidence needs to be made strictly taboo. Anyone can be wrongly convicted or falsely acquitted by this means alone. There are many upcoming cases dependent upon DNA evidence and the handling and integrity of the DNA evidence in the data bank needs to be strictly ensured. The RCMP in this case are characterizing the documented, deliberate, destruction of DNA evidence, as a mere mistake!
The DNA Evidence
www.lindseyslaw.com

Child molesters don't just stop on their own and a child killer is the worst of the lot. This one still roams freely among us solely due to the actions of his RCMP handlers. This type of killer cannot be convicted by our present justice system as long as it is legal for the RCMP to conduct and obstruct an investigation in this manner. You would have to co-charge the cop as an accomplice in order to get to the killer. Currently no law exists to force the Police to collect or to present all the evidence. The Police and the Crown can acquit whom ever they will, based solely on what evidence they choose to present. The defense is not likely to protest when evidence of the suspect's guilt is with held from the jury by the prosecution. If the RCMP refuse to take the steps necessary to rectify this situation on their own, at least for murdered children, we must demand change from our government.
example- Mindy's law 

Quote from- Zaccardelli speech
The Canadian Experience: A Reason for Pride  
The simple truth is this: one of the essential components of a well-functioning civil society is an effective, well-disciplined police service, in which the citizens have implicit trust. When corruption takes hold within an organization whose very existence is based on integrity, that trust is shattered, and our entire society suffers

There have been many calls for an inquiry into the handling of this case, including from Murrin's own lawyers, the jurors, the witnesses, members of the public, and even the Attorney General at the time of the verdict said it should be seriously considered. The only one's not calling for an inquiry are the RCMP brass. 
Quote from Vancouver Sun; Wilson called for a public inquiry into the handling of the case, and NDP attorney-general Andrew Petter stated the request should be considered seriously once the police investigations into the handling of the case were completed. No inquiry was forthcoming. 

The majority of Kelowna's uniformed rank and file cops completely disagreed with the handling of this case but were unable to stop their superiors.
quote: As a result, says the report, the rift developed within the local RCMP, including among plain-clothes general investigation officers and among uniformed officers. The schism was still observed in April 2000, five years later.

The new witness filed a complaint  through the official RCMP complaints process but to no avail. The original complaint requested that the Mindy Tran information be sent to the appropriate department if it was not within the mandate of the Complaints Commission to investigate. In the Commission's reply, there is not one mention of Mindy Tran and there is no accounting for the evidence sent other than the Commission claiming it was irrelevant. The RCMP Complaints Commissioner is saying that they no longer even have the ability to investigate the Federal RCMP.
see- story

The Tran family filed a complaint against the RCMP following the trial but neither they nor the RCMP have spoken of it since.

Many people have lost trust in the Police over the handling of this case.. 
quote :- The cops pulled a coverup on the murder of Mindy Tran (an asian girl) and the whole town knows it.
from  discussion board

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the authorities do not want any one looking into this case, an investigation would not only confirm the identity of the killer and how he got away with murder, but would also reveal details of the inner workings of Canada's informant/agent handling division and the degree to which various Police Departments, the Canadian justice system, and even the media, are being forced into complicity. The RCMP have motives known only to them for obstructing this investigation. Whatever services Murrin has performed for the RCMP in the past is vastly outweighed by the crimes he himself is committing. Murrin does not warrant this continuing degree of protection from the RCMP unless abducting children was the service he has been providing to the RCMP .  Why would the RCMP and the Crown, go to this length, at the expense of their own reputations, to protect some low life criminal informant for the murder of an innocent child? National Security had even been cited during the trial as the reason for with-holding details of the investigation from the jury. Who had the authority to authorize this level of obstruction and why?  
see- conspiracy or cover-up?

Almost like a form of blackmail or extortion, Murrin has been claiming that he would have one hell of a story to tell if he went down for this crime but after he was acquitted, he never told the story and his " tell all book" has never materialized. A former B.C. judge, Chief Justice McEachern, is now representing Shannon Murrin as one of his personal attorneys and is orchestrating a pay off for Murrin and a former juror from his trial, (now Murrin's girlfriend), by way of a law suit against Murrin’s RCMP handler, the very police officer that botched the investigation ensuring Murrin's acquittal in the first place. Is any of this even remotely legal, a juror about to partake of profits derived from her jury decision to acquit a suspect who then becomes her boyfriend ? How does Murrin warrant having a former judge as one of his personal attorney's. Who is paying for Murrin's dream team of lawyers?
see- lawsuit

Given the silence coming from Murrin, the RCMP, the Crown, and the media, and with no inquiry forthcoming, the questions will continue.  Why is the B.C. Crown not obtaining the unsecured evidence in order to make a full and proper defense against Murrin's claim? Murrin's law suit was filed in 1995 and the pending trial has been used as an excuse on both sides to justify their silence ever since. Is the B.C. government merely acting out a legal charade in order to justify this continuing silence? Will there ever be a trial or has the government  already made a confidential out of court settlement? Why the media silence, is there a gag order on the proceedings? 

RCMP Commissioner Zaccardelli  comments on the "blue wall of silence" during a recent speech on police corruption. He states:
Quote: "And finally, we need to identify and develop strategies to deal with the most significant barrier to disclosure of corruption that exists in police organizations. The “Blue Wall of Silence” that I alluded to earlier is not only the stuff of Hollywood movies and Joseph Wambaugh novels.
Police culture enshrines confidentiality, the management of information, even secrecy. And yet these often positive qualities can lead to a breakdown in accountability and be abused for the purpose of hiding problems."
see- complete speech

To date, nothing has been done to prevent a similar crime and cover-up from happening again. Shannon Murrin could have been, and should have been stopped back in 1981 when Elizabeth disappeared. The RCMP prevented any investigation of Murrin then, and a code of silence which kept most of the public in the dark, eventually resulted in the murder of Mindy Tran. The RCMP have, and are continuing to, recklessly endanger the public by shielding this killer behind the confidential informant status, allowing him to operate in secrecy.
see- past events