Summary On June 22, 1990, the accused, Kyle Unger, attended a music festival at a ski resort near the town of Roseisle, Manitoba. All night long, the victim, sixteen-year-old Brigitte Grenier, was seen dancing with seventeen-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 a.m. They then entered the wooded area of ​​the ski resort. Unger told his friend that he had seen Grenier “attack a guy.” Unger and his friend separated between 2:00 and 2:30 a.m. When Unger rejoined his friends, he had no dirt on his clothes and no scratches on his body. Unger left the music festival by car at 4:00 a.m. Houlahan was seen between 4:00 and 4:30 a.m. He was covered in mud and had scratches on his face and blood on his chin. He claimed to have been beaten by a stranger. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not 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 came from Houlahan, as well as a pubic hair found on his sock. The only evidence implicating Unger was a strand of hair found on the victim's sweatshirt. RCMP met with Unger and Houlahan after the murder. 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 admitted to having consensual sex with Grenier. Houlahan claimed he did not see Kyle at the scene, but gave a description of his attacker that led RCMP to believe it was Unger who attacked Houlahan. Houlahan was also asked to give 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 murderer and gave 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 Unger was the murderer. The informant claimed Unger shared a cell with him while he was in pretrial detention. He said Unger confessed to killing Grenier before being released from the Winnipeg remand center after proceedings were stayed, but Unger was released from the courthouse and never returned to the remand center. The informant admitted that he had lied on the stand, but the Crown tried to suggest to him that the confession had taken place at the Public Security building in the hope of changing his version of the facts. Hoping to extract 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 parked a disabled vehicle near where Unger lived. Senior Officer Larry Trembay befriended Unger and was tasked with implicating him in the criminal organization. During the first week, Unger had mentioned several times that he had been wrongly imprisoned for murder. Unger was brought in to meet Corporal Larry Forbes who was assigned the role of "Mr. Big". Unger initially hesitantly confessed to the murder. He claimed it was to please his new boss in the hope of having.