In the 1990s and early 2000s, police in Saskatoon, Canada often left people in the cold so they freeze to dea*th
In the 1990s and early 2000s, police in Saskatoon, Canada often left people in the cold so they freeze to dea*th.
On November 29, 1990, the body of 17-year-old Neil Stonechild was found face down in a field across the street from a manufacturing center five miles north of Saskatoon's city center. That night, the temperature had dropped to -18 degrees Fahrenheit, but Stonechild was dressed only in a T-shirt and jeans along with a lightweight jacket and just one shoe.
The last time anyone had seen Stonechild was five days earlier — when he was handcuffed in the backseat of a police cruiser with blood streaming down his face. And the last thing a friend remembers him saying was, "Help me. They're going to ki*ll me."
Image: Stonechild’s body was found face down
According to the Saskatoon police department's official report, Stonechild d*ied of hypothermia after getting drunk and walking away from a party in order to turn himself in at a police station for an open warrant.
But that version of events never made sense to those who saw Stonechild already in custody just before he vanished.
And it wouldn't be until two more strikingly similar deaths occurred a decade later that investigators determined that the two officers who picked up Stonechild had intentionally driven him miles outside of town before abandoning him to die in sub-zero temperatures. Continue reading
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