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Both had left before police could question them, heading north to the lockstation at Lower Brewers Mills. Scott ordered the locks at both Kingston and Brewers shut down and dispatched two detectives to intercept the boats.
    Unfortunately, those interviews proved unfruitful. Though the people on the sailboat and houseboat had been sleeping just metres away from where the car had gone into the water, they'd heard nothing unusual.
    Scott and his team also began assessing the situation based on the information brought to the surface by John Moore. One body could mean that the occupant had lost control of the vehicle and had an unlucky accident. On the other hand, the Quebec licence plate on the black Nissan Sentra might point to bikers from Montreal coming down Highway 401 to dispose of some bodies.
    As the body count in the submerged car increased, so did the perimeter that Scott ordered secured around the site. All potential crime scenes are contaminated to some degree. This was a very public place where boaters, tourists, and locals came all hours of the day and night to fish or picnic or watch the boats pass through.
    Some of the potential evidence had already been shifted — most notably the plastic letters, S and E, picked up off the stone lock wall and placed by staff on the top of the lock gate. In hindsight, Kingston Police also realized that driving their cruisers through the green gate onto the grassy area next to the lock had been a mistake that could potentially have covered up tracks left in the damp lawn from the night before.
    By noon, with the number of confirmed victims still at two, police at Kingston Mills were told that the Shafias had walked into the Kingston Police station and reported four family members and a Nissan Sentra missing. Police knew by then that the car was registered to the Shafias. But where were the other two missing people? The diver had only seen two bodies. Did they float off into the lake? Were they even in the car?
    "That's when we started to key in: Where are they?" recalled Koopman.
    Late in the afternoon of June 30, Ontario Provincial Police diver Glenn Newell confirmed the third and fourth bodies inside the car. Newell had been on a dive in the Orillia area when he got the call to assist Kingston Police. He arrived at the Mills at 4:10 in the afternoon, was briefed by city police at the scene, then set up a dive plan.
    Newell's first request was to have canal staff fill the top lock. The submerged car was outside the lock, butted up against the massive wooden gate. Water was streaming into the lock. He needed it topped up to equalize the pressure on either side of the gate and slow the current passing around the car.
    Newell also set up the communications system needed to videotape the underwater scene and allow him to talk through his dive mask, which was wired with a microphone. He suited up and went into the water, carrying the hand-held lens for the video system.
    Visibility in Colonel By Lake was about 15 ft that day. Using the camera lens, Newell carefully documented the scene, approaching the car from above. Video images later played in court showed the rear passenger side of the car wedged against the lock gate. The video moves from the dent in the right-front hood and scrapes and a dent on the left-front bumper to the open driver's side front window.
    Then a shadowy image of a person's head resting against the door post shows briefly, and Newell takes the camera to the back of the car. The rear left window is down about an inch; the rear left taillight is damaged; then the Quebec licence plate comes into view — 699 ZCD. Swimming back along the passenger side of the car, Newell thought he could see three or four bodies inside.
    "They were all piled on top of each other, almost. It was very strange," he said, describing the eerie underwater tableau. "It was difficult to tell which person would have been driving the vehicle."
    Newell offered the court the same