PART 3 - The Harrison murders: Peel police finally catch a killer, but expose their own failures

Graphic by Joel Wittnebel

On a late August morning in 2013, the cleaning lady at 3635 Pitch Pine Crescent in Mississauga went about her duties, unaware that in one of the rooms, a man was still in bed, the sheets tucked around him, a pillow over his head.

He was dead, killed overnight.

When a co-worker of Caleb Harrison, who also lived in the home, arrived looking for him because he didn’t show up for work, he and the cleaner entered his room and found him in repose. They called 911.  

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In the final story of this three-part series, The Pointer looks at the death of Caleb Harrison and how the ensuing homicide investigation shed new light on the deaths of his parents, forcing Peel Police officers to accept their own missteps. Bill and Bridget Harrison’s son might still be alive if trained investigators had done their job. 

Published in The Pointer Brampton and The Pointer Mississauga on August 22, 2020