The Detectives (2018)

One of the largest mass murders in Canada is heinously committed In Wells Gray Park, B.C., as three generations of a family are brutally killed. For Detective Mike Eastham (John Pyper Ferguson), it’s mission that takes him across the country and back again as he pioneers the use of the media to catch his man. When the killer gets a plea, Eastham vows to put him behind bars, because for Eastham the case won’t be over for him until he’s gone.

Detective Herb Curwain (Eric Johnson) is finally promoted to the Homicide Unit and with this comes the assignment of an unsolved case he knows well — the disappearance of a young woman in Pickering, Ont. There’s evidence this may be connected to one man and a string of serial killings, but when red tape threatens to get in his way — Curwain does whatever it takes and changes the way serial killers are investigated in Canada to this day.

When a man is reported missing, things don’t add up. Edmonton Homicide Investigator Bill Clark takes charge and before long finds himself deep in the world of Internet homicide and the sickening potential that the murder was filmed and for sale to the highest bidder.

When leads dry up on a double homicide, Hamilton Detective Don Forgan turns to the only potential witness, the murder victim's three-year-old son.

Detective Rod Piukkala faces a gruesome crime scene, a bomb threat, and a killer threatening to strike again. The victim’s family helps change Canadian parole laws forever. What made this case unique? The Prioriello family were active in advocating for sentencing reform, to reduce the frequency of parole hearings from two years to five. In 2015, they succeeded in getting Bill C-479 passed, forever changing parole hearings for violent offenders from 2 to 5 years. This case marks the first time in Canadian history that latent prints were pulled directly off the skin of a victim, using a groundbreaking new technique.1 1 Geberth, Vernon J., Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques, Fourth Edition (Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations) - ISBN 0849333032 - p.711 About the detective Retired Detective Sergeant Rod Piukkala served for 34 years at the Peel Regional Police, Oxford Community Police Service and the Durham Regional Police. In 2006 he was awarded the Member of Merit (M.O.M.), Police Order of Merit. He retired in 2006 as Chief of Police.

Detective Debbie Harris searches for the arsonist behind the fire that destroyed Toronto's renowned Empress Hotel.

When a sex worker goes missing in Halifax and another is found badly beaten, Sergeant Penny Hart works to bring down barriers between police and sex trade workers to solve the case.

A man arrives from the Philippines to join his wife who's started a new life for them in Calgary but is brutally murdered less than a month later. Detective Thomas Barrow is proud of his ability to read people but is haunted when his instincts fail him.