Summary On June 22, 1990 the accused, Kyle Unger, attended a music festival at a ski resort near the town of Roseisle Manitoba. Throughout the night the victim, 16-year-old Brigitte Grenier, was seen dancing with 17-year-old Timothy Houlahan. All parties involved were under the influence of alcohol. All three attended the festival separately. Neither Unger nor Grenier were friends with Houlahan. Grenier and Houlahan were last seen dancing together at 1:30 am. They entered the wooded area of ​​the ski resort. Unger told his friend that he saw Grenier "bumping into a guy." Unger and his friend got separated between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. When Unger reached his friends he had no dirt on his clothes or scratches on his body. Unger left the music festival in his car at 4:00 am. Houlahan was seen between 4:00 and 4:30 am. He was covered in mud and had scratches on his face and blood on his chin. He claimed that he had been beaten by an unknown person. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay The evidence against Houlahan was strong. The victim's blood was found on his shoes, a hair found on Grenier's pants was Houlahan's, as was a pubic hair found on his sock. The only evidence implicating Unger was a lock of hair found on the victim's sweatshirt. The RCMP met with both Unger and Houlahan after the murder. The RCMP noted that Houlahan had visible marks on his face, but no statement was taken. Houlahan made his first two statements on June 27 in which he confessed to having had consensual sexual intercourse with Grenier. Houlahan said he did not see Kyle at the scene, but gave a description of his attacker that led the RCMP to believe it was Unger who attacked Houlahan. Houlahan was also asked to provide a description of Unger and the description was very different from his description of the attacker. In Houlahan's second statement he directly implicated Unger as the killer and provided a detailed description of the murder that corroborated the forensic evidence. He claimed he was forced to help Unger move the body out of fear for his own well-being. The Crown used a prison informant to prove that Unger was the killer. The informant claimed that Unger had shared a cell with him while in pre-trial detention. It stated that Unger confessed to killing Grenier before being released from the Winnipeg Detention Center after proceedings were adjourned, but Unger was released by the court and never returned to the Detention Centre. The informant admitted he lied during the trial, but the Crown tried to suggest to the informant that the confession occurred at the Public Safety building in hopes of changing his story. Hoping to obtain a confession from Unger, the RCMP conducted Operation Mr. Big. RCMP officers went undercover to lure Unger into a fake criminal organization to extract a confession. Operation Mr. Big began on June 13, 1991. Two officers staged a broken-down vehicle near where Unger lived. Lead officer Larry Trembay befriended Unger and was assigned to implicate him in the criminal organization. In the first week Unger had mentioned several times that he had been wrongly imprisoned for murder. Unger was brought to meet Corporal Larry Forbes who was given the role of “Mr. Great". Unger initially hesitantly confessed to the murder. He claimed it was to please his new boss in hopes of looking better. As it progressed.