WATCH Video: Bad Day at Barrhead

Bad Day at Barrhead

Three years have passed since four young Mounties were cut down by cop-hater James Roszko on his farm in rural Alberta. Soon after those murders, the fifth estate began to investigate what really happened. The result of that investigation, 'A Hail of Bullets', raised troubling questions about how the RCMP policed Roszko and what could have been done to prevent those tragic killings. And even though two young local men were arrested this year and charged with four counts of first-degree murder, their role in the murder of the Mounties is far from clear.

Linden MacIntyre and a fifth estate team pick up their investigation to report on what has happened since those dark days and try to find out why there are still no answers to some very basic and serious questions.

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Credits

producers/directors: Kit Melamed, Scott Anderson
reporter/writer: Linden MacIntyre
editor: Leslie Steven Onody
cinematography: John Badcock, CSC
audio: Larry Kent
additional cinematography: Paul Seeler
graphic designer: Tim Kindrachuk
audio mix: Damian Kearns
website producer: Annette Bradford
website coordinator: Eleanor Besley
senior producer: Sally Reardon
executive producer: David Studer