Death Dealer. Kate Clark Flora

      Quiet, handsome Greg Scott was the least outgoing of the group. A thoughtful, insightful family man with a deep-seated passion for justice, he hated interviewing but loved working behind the scenes. His compulsive nature was helpful for keeping orderly files. He was the go-to guy for analyzing documents, especially financial documents, for surveillance and undercover work, and for writing persuasive affidavits and watertight warrants that conformed to the law and covered all the bases. Again, it’s a job that might sound boring but is essential to the successful progress of investigations and to preserving the integrity of evidence at trial. Scott was described by the other members of the section as humble to a fault. They would also be the first to say that the section would be hard-pressed to function without him.

      Once they focused on Maria’s disappearance as suspicious and David as a suspect, the investigators acted quickly to draft a warrant, not wanting to let any more time pass during which he might clean up a crime scene or destroy evidence, aware that police were now focused on the situation.

      Shortly after midnight on February 1, two days after David’s interview at the police station, Constable Dewey Gillespie, accompanied by several patrol officers, knocked on the door of the Tanasichuk apartment. The outside temperature that night hovered around -13 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit). Police had been conducting surveillance on the residence so they knew that David Tanasichuk was home.

      When David answered, they presented him with a warrant to search the premises and arrested him for the culpable homicide of his wife, Maria.