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missing and they were in a Nissan."
Webb already knew about the situation being investigated at Kingston Mills. "As soon as they mentioned it," Webb said, "I asked them to take a seat. I knew [police] had found a vehicle underwater â a Nissan."
Webb asked the Shafias for more information. "The son said, actually, there were four people missing," recalled Webb. Hamed listed his three sisters and "a woman." The young man said something to his father in an undetermined language, "then he said it's his dad's cousin. She's about 50 years old." They told Webb they were staying at a motel on Highway 15 and that "they woke up this morning and the car was gone and the girls were gone."
At around the same time the Shafias arrived at police headquarters, Detective Constable Geoff Dempster was coming in to work. Dempster's scheduled shift was 2 pm to midnight, but he'd gotten a call around noon from Detective Guy Forbes, alerting him to the discovery of a car containing two bodies in the water at Kingston Mills. Dempster's superior officer, Chris Scott, told him to head out to the Mills to conduct interviews. Dempster was headed off by Barbara Webb who told him that Detective Brian Pete was in the foyer talking to three people believed to be connected with the underwater Nissan.
Dempster and Pete decided to bring the family to the victim-witness office where they would have more privacy. "I realized at that point we were going to be making a next of kin notification to them," recalled Dempster.
Hamed was speaking and translating for his parents. He told Dempster they were supposed to check out of the Kingston East Motel at 11 am but that his sisters and their 50-year-old "aunt" had disappeared. Hamed confirmed three digits on the Nissan licence plate.
"Hamed was telling me there were four people missing," said Dempster. The detective decided then he would have to break the bad news to the Shafias that their family members were likely dead. He arranged for a Persian-speaking interpreter to come to the station and translate.
The detective moved quickly to support the Shafias in their time of loss, arranging for volunteers from the victim referral service. The next step would also be difficult, but necessary: to question Mohammad, Hamed, and Tooba and gather as much information as possible about what had transpired over the previous day.
Dempster also learned from Hamed that they had dropped off three other siblings at a Tim Hortons on Highway 15 while they came to make the missing persons report. Hamed and Tooba drove back to get them, returning to the police station just after 2 pm.
Back at the sceneâ¦
OUT at Kingston Mills, events were moving rapidly. There was a hole in the usual Kingston Police line-up that day. Detective Mike Boyles, the sergeant in charge of the major crimes unit, was out of town on training. In an unusual turn of events, Chris Scott and the head of the detective division, Inspector Brian Begbie, both drove out to Kingston Mills. "That was so bizarre," Scott would later recall, "[that] a staff sergeant and inspector would both go out to a scene."
As Kingston Police would learn over the next two and a half years, however, there was nothing usual about the Kingston Mills murder case.
Scott and Detective Steve Koopman drove together to the scene at around 11:30 am. By this time the temperature had risen to a cool-but-comfortable 21-22ºC with clear skies and a gentle breeze. Koopman had been working on a murder case but suggested to Begbie that he, too, could help with the field investigation at the Mills. Begbie initially said no, but relented. Koopman would prove to be indispensable to the case, eventually writing a 400-page report tracing the Shafias' cellphone use in the days leading up to the deaths.
Taking control of the scene, Chris Scott began widening the parameters of the investigation. He learned about the two boats that had been moored overnight at the upper dock of Kingston Mills.
Webb already knew about the situation being investigated at Kingston Mills. "As soon as they mentioned it," Webb said, "I asked them to take a seat. I knew [police] had found a vehicle underwater â a Nissan."
Webb asked the Shafias for more information. "The son said, actually, there were four people missing," recalled Webb. Hamed listed his three sisters and "a woman." The young man said something to his father in an undetermined language, "then he said it's his dad's cousin. She's about 50 years old." They told Webb they were staying at a motel on Highway 15 and that "they woke up this morning and the car was gone and the girls were gone."
At around the same time the Shafias arrived at police headquarters, Detective Constable Geoff Dempster was coming in to work. Dempster's scheduled shift was 2 pm to midnight, but he'd gotten a call around noon from Detective Guy Forbes, alerting him to the discovery of a car containing two bodies in the water at Kingston Mills. Dempster's superior officer, Chris Scott, told him to head out to the Mills to conduct interviews. Dempster was headed off by Barbara Webb who told him that Detective Brian Pete was in the foyer talking to three people believed to be connected with the underwater Nissan.
Dempster and Pete decided to bring the family to the victim-witness office where they would have more privacy. "I realized at that point we were going to be making a next of kin notification to them," recalled Dempster.
Hamed was speaking and translating for his parents. He told Dempster they were supposed to check out of the Kingston East Motel at 11 am but that his sisters and their 50-year-old "aunt" had disappeared. Hamed confirmed three digits on the Nissan licence plate.
"Hamed was telling me there were four people missing," said Dempster. The detective decided then he would have to break the bad news to the Shafias that their family members were likely dead. He arranged for a Persian-speaking interpreter to come to the station and translate.
The detective moved quickly to support the Shafias in their time of loss, arranging for volunteers from the victim referral service. The next step would also be difficult, but necessary: to question Mohammad, Hamed, and Tooba and gather as much information as possible about what had transpired over the previous day.
Dempster also learned from Hamed that they had dropped off three other siblings at a Tim Hortons on Highway 15 while they came to make the missing persons report. Hamed and Tooba drove back to get them, returning to the police station just after 2 pm.
Back at the sceneâ¦
OUT at Kingston Mills, events were moving rapidly. There was a hole in the usual Kingston Police line-up that day. Detective Mike Boyles, the sergeant in charge of the major crimes unit, was out of town on training. In an unusual turn of events, Chris Scott and the head of the detective division, Inspector Brian Begbie, both drove out to Kingston Mills. "That was so bizarre," Scott would later recall, "[that] a staff sergeant and inspector would both go out to a scene."
As Kingston Police would learn over the next two and a half years, however, there was nothing usual about the Kingston Mills murder case.
Scott and Detective Steve Koopman drove together to the scene at around 11:30 am. By this time the temperature had risen to a cool-but-comfortable 21-22ºC with clear skies and a gentle breeze. Koopman had been working on a murder case but suggested to Begbie that he, too, could help with the field investigation at the Mills. Begbie initially said no, but relented. Koopman would prove to be indispensable to the case, eventually writing a 400-page report tracing the Shafias' cellphone use in the days leading up to the deaths.
Taking control of the scene, Chris Scott began widening the parameters of the investigation. He learned about the two boats that had been moored overnight at the upper dock of Kingston Mills.
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