The Fifth Estate

Death In Thunder Bay: No Foul Play (42x5)

: 11, 2016

It was a tale all too common - a young Indigenous man drowned in Thunder Bay. Stacy DeBungee was last seen alive by some friends on the evening of October 18, 2015. What happened that night was a mystery, but three hours after finding the body the next morning Thunder Bay police issued a press release saying they found nothing suspicious about the death. It was the same rush to judgement they had been accused of in many other deaths of young Indigenous people. So the fifth estate went looking for answers and found several people who were there that night – but they had never been properly interviewed by the police. Gillian Findlay investigates.