Ten years since the first sudden death in the Harrison family home and more than a year after a triple-murder trial, authorities have offered no public explanation for how a father, mother and son died years apart, under suspicious circumstances, before police concluded a killer was targeting them.Peel Regional Police did not treat the 2009 death of Bill Harrison or the 2010 death of Bridget Harrison as homicides until their son, Caleb Harrison, was murdered on Aug. 23, 2013.After a jury returned guilty verdicts in two of the three homicide cases last year, relatives of the Harrison family alleged that police and coroners failed to adequately investigate the first two deaths and called for an independent public inquiry. In response, Peel police chief Jennifer Evans, who has since retired, and Dr. Dirk Huyer, Ontario’s chief coroner, launched internal reviews of the death investigations and promised to make their findings public.Instead of an independent inquiry, the family has been forced to accept a mixed bag of internal reviews — conducted by the same authorities whose mistakes devastated their family — that have dragged out their quest for a full explanation by an additional year and a half, with no end in sight.“By the time these isolated reports are released, months, years will have gone by,” said Wanda Jamieson, a close family friend who has been working with the Harrisons on the ongoing reviews. “And neither the family nor the public will have a fully factual account of what went wrong, why, and what corrective, systemic action is needed in death investigations.“This is very frustrating and worrying for us, as there is nothing to prevent something similar from happening to another family.”Police, coroners and pathologists completed their internal reviews of the original death investigations months ago, but now say they will not make their reports public while other reviews and investigations are in progress. ...
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