PART 2 - The Harrison murders: Failing to catch a killer

Graphic by Joel Wittnebel

Until April 21, 2010. A year earlier, inside the home at 3635 Pitch Pine Crescent, Bill Harrison had been found dead.

On this spring day his wife, Bridget, was also found dead, at the foot of the main floor staircase.  

There were signs of strangulation and a raft of other clues connecting the two tragedies. But Peel police investigators didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. Once again, just like the year before, in the same house, they chalked up the death to another cause. 

There would be no homicide investigation.

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Three family members were killed inside their Mississauga home four years apart. Despite obvious signs of foul play, Peel Regional Police didn’t pursue a homicide investigation in the first two deaths. How was this allowed to happen?

In Part 2 of a three-part series, The Pointer looks at the death of Bridget Harrison and how egregious lapses in police judgement and poor management led to the entire Harrison case getting shelved, in the face of glaring clues. 

Published in The Pointer Brampton and The Pointer Mississauga on August 21, 2020