The Pictou Sadist: A Bloody Mistake! | Twisted Tales

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[00:00:03]May 8th, 1988. 2:00 a.m.

[00:00:07]Undercover police in Ontario follow a rented car on a series of isolated gravel roads.

[00:00:17]>> This is almost [music] a herculean task to be able to do this at this time of night and not get spotted by the individuals, especially when headlights will will shine for miles up [music] in in a rural area.

[00:00:32]After daybreak, inside a section of woods, they find evidence of one of Canada's most brutal murders.

[00:00:41]>> You know, on a scale of 1 to 10, it was definitely up there in terms of the viciousness of the crime. This was right up there on the top scale.

[00:00:51]>> Along with police, there are those who chronicle the investigation up close on film, on paper, and on tape. They are the public's first witness. Through their lens, [music] they capture our darkest chapters of crime.

[00:01:14][music] [music] >> [music] >> On an average day, there are more than 35,000 people locked up in Canadian prisons. More than enough criminals to populate a small city. Some will spend their entire life behind bars. Others will return to society to lead peaceful, productive lives.

[00:01:56]But one group of inmates worries prison authorities above all. Those who must one day be released despite strong signs they will go on to commit even graver crimes. In the 1980s, one of those dangerous inmates is a man named Douglas Worth.

[00:02:16]Doug Worth at that point in his life was a career criminal. He >> [music] >> uh he got in trouble for the the typical young person [music] sort of issue of car theft. His record increased from there. He started traveling the the country. Ended up in Ontario [music] and there was a a serious sexual assault, a rape in on in Ontario.

[00:02:39]His last conviction was for raping a young native Indian girl.

[00:02:49]What he had done in that instance was to have uh basically grabbed a young woman and had dragged her into the back of of a of a truck and had strangled her with a with a belt. And in fact, what he had done was was brutally and sex sexually attack this young woman.

[00:03:09]Douglas Worth receives an 8-year [music] sentence for the rape, but as the years pass, he shows no signs of rehabilitation. If anything, his criminal [music] tendencies are growing worse.

[00:03:23]>> He uh would have outbursts where he would be involved in throwing urine and and and feces uh at other inmates as well as at correctional officers.

[00:03:36]In one instance in in his possessions was found a newspaper clipping that reported on the Yorkshire Ripper that had uh terrorized uh England and he had written on that article that this would be my greatest fantasy come true.

[00:03:54]He declared that he was going to wreak havoc on society [music] as revenge for the years that he had spent in prison.

[00:04:03]He declared that he was going to go to a schoolyard and with an axe chop up children.

[00:04:09]He declared that he was going to make the notorious serial murderer Clifford Olsen look like a choir boy.

[00:04:19]He was doing everything to show that he should not be released into the community.

[00:04:28]Douglas Worth is denied any chance of an early parole, but with a limited sentence, authorities will be unable to keep him behind bars forever.

[00:04:39]>> Once his sentence had been served, he would have to be released into the community [music] and there could no longer be any controls. There would be no parole. There would be no supervision in the community.

[00:04:53]Spring 1987, with only a few months left in Worth's sentence, a caseworker attempts to have the inmate declared [music] insane.

[00:05:05]In other words, they were so concerned they sought expert opinions to determine whether or not he was, as a result of uh his mental disorder, someone who was a danger to himself or others and should be involuntarily committed for that reason alone.

[00:05:21]Douglas Worth undergoes a 30-day assessment in a highsecurity psychiatric hospital.

[00:05:28]>> The mental health professionals who saw him took the view that the uh mental disorder that he suffered from was not one for which they had any treatment.

[00:05:38]They diagnosed him as essentially being a psychopath.

[00:05:43]It [music] was uh determined that those conditions in and of themselves wouldn't permit him to be [music] detained. uh in a psychiatric hospital.

[00:05:52]>> Uh but the law is the law. He served every day of his sentence and to the minute and they let him out if they had to.

[00:06:02]>> June 1987.

[00:06:04]Despite widespread concerns, Douglas Worth is released.

[00:06:10]Authorities learn his destination is Edmonton, Alberta, the scene of his last crime.

[00:06:18]When they knew that Doug Worth was going to be a problem, they contacted Edmonton and let them know that uh Doug Worth was [music] coming to their area.

[00:06:31]>> In Edmonton, Douglasworth reconnects with a woman named Mary Kelly and her young son Shawn.

[00:06:39]Mary Kelly first met Douglasworth when she went to visit a friend or someone that she knew at the prison where Douglas Worth was incarcerated. She came to know him and as a result of that um after he was released they continued a relationship. Sean Kelly was her son of another relationship.

[00:07:02]He was uh an abusive uh uh partner and uh was known to to beat her quite severely on occasion uh to the to the point where she would had to remain um inside for lengths of time uh because of the uh the very obvious injuries that that she suffered for a period of time. the uh OP as well as the Edmonton uh police uh uh noted his movements, but gradually he drifted away and as I understand it, he ended [music] up drifting back into Ontario.

[00:07:48]By fall, Douglas Worth's whereabouts are unknown. A dangerous exconvict is no longer under supervision.

[00:08:02]November 1987, Bmpton, Ontario, just west of Toronto.

[00:08:09]Although considered a [music] safe community, it faces its own unique challenges when it comes to enforcing the law.

[00:08:17]Bmpton had become [music] a center of of group homes and custodial centers for uh for for young people. [music] And they'd also had a lot of rooming houses around this downtown core that they had.

[00:08:31]They're rented by the day, the week, the [music] month, whatever it may be. And it's always been an issue with policing because you you do have people that are very transient and >> [music] >> uh it's tough to find people. It's tough to to conduct investigations when people are transient.

[00:08:49]>> December 1987, originally from Saskatchewan, a young matey girl named Trina Campbell is new to the city's downtown core.

[00:09:00]>> Trina Campbell was a little girl, 12 years old. She had uh series of problems in her life. Problems that were not of her doing. [music] Her parents had a number of significant issues to the point where she ended up having to live with foster parents. Trina was troubled uh [music] because of her past. So Trina had run away uh from the [music] uh foster parents and she'd run away a series of times to the point where they became concerned that they weren't able to control her.

[00:09:34]It was felt that the the best thing for Trina would maybe [music] to sort of distance her from the the family a little bit to to give her a more structured setting. So they they put her in a in a group home. She was placed in a in a group home in in Bmpton.

[00:09:49]Trina was 12 years old and I used to say [music] she was 12 going on 10 as opposed to a 12-year-old who was street wise and [music] sophisticated. And she wasn't any of those things. She was very much a little girl. um uh just needed a lot of attention.

[00:10:09]>> December 11th, Trina heads to school in the nearby community of Streetsville.

[00:10:15]>> She was delivered to school by school bus and uh after school, she was picked up and and uh dropped off at the location where she normally would be dropped off to to go back to the group home.

[00:10:27]>> She was seen getting off the bus by the bus driver and then she wasn't seen again.

[00:10:32]In light of Trina's past, workers at the group home initially assumed that she has run away.

[00:10:39]>> There was actually some thoughts that she uh she may have even come out west looking for her father [music] because that had been expressed by her as uh as something she wanted to do. As time went on, our our fears uh were were increasing. That's for sure.

[00:10:58]As the days [music] pass, police enlist the public and escalate the search around the Bmpton area.

[00:11:04]>> And if anybody sees her, we'd really appreciate a call.

[00:11:10]>> It was an intensive investigation. And at one point, I think we blanketed the city uh and and the Streetsville area with some 10,000 flyers [music] as a missing person.

[00:11:22]I mean, we were canvasing neighbors, canvasing the downtown area of of Bmpton, trying to find out [music] where this, you know, who had seen this girl last. And uh and unfortunately, there was a disadvantage there because she was new to the community, and not everybody not everybody knew her. We were doing everything we could to try and find this uh young girl.

[00:11:44]>> By early January, police are beginning to fear the worst.

[00:11:49]As the [music] days turned into weeks and the weeks turned into months, there was a a very real possibility [music] that something tragic had happened to Trina Campbell.

[00:12:00]>> Although no evidence points to foul [music] play, the case is transferred to the homicide division of the regional police. Two detectives now on the case are Edward Toy [music] and Lynn Favo.

[00:12:12]Their main task is to look deeper into the collection of vague tips from the public.

[00:12:19]There was lots of information which came in from individuals who were interested in in assisting us, trying to provide us information which would help us to locate Trina, but none of that information panned out at the time.

[00:12:32][music] And they were all just people that believe they saw someone that looked like Trina Campbell. No one that had actually spoken to her. We weren't able to really pin her down more than uh the night that she had gone missing.

[00:12:50]While investigators continue their search, there is one disturbing fact that they are unaware of. At the time, [music] ex-convict Douglas Worth is in the area. Having left Mary and Shawn Kelly in Edmonton, he has been living alone in a rooming house in downtown Bmpton, not far from the very location where Trina Campell was last seen.

[00:13:13]>> We had no idea. We had no idea that this sadistic [music] uh predator had moved into our area.

[00:13:22]>> In the weeks following the young girl's disappearance, those around Douglas Worth note his [music] strange behavior and growing paranoia. To many, he seems like a ticking time bomb.

[00:13:39]February 1988 in Bmpton, Ontario. It has been 2 months since 12-year-old Trina Campbell vanished. Despite fears that she may be the victim of foul play, police have no concrete leads. She is still classified as a missing person.

[00:13:59]At the same time, ex-convict Douglas Worth remains in the region living once again with his common law girlfriend Mary Kelly and her son Shawn. Despite Worth's violent tendencies, Mary has followed him east from Edmonton.

[00:14:18]March 1988. Along with the everpresent violence, Douglas Worth is growing paranoid, fearful that police will find some reason to put him back behind bars.

[00:14:28]In a confessional moment, he reveals to Mary his involvement in some kind of illegal activity. While leaving details of the crime vague, he asked her to help him rehide some incriminating evidence that he stashed away a few months earlier.

[00:14:47]>> He had told Mary that he had some guns stored in a ravine area that if he were caught with these guns that they would cause him, of course, a great deal of of of problem.

[00:15:00]After renting a car for the task, Mary Kelly drives Worth to a location near downtown Bmpton.

[00:15:08]>> He left the car with a hockey bag and went into this ravine area.

[00:15:15]He then was seen by Mary to come from there carrying this hockey bag. It was now laden with something.

[00:15:24]As Worth loads the cargo in the trunk, Mary notices a dark stain appearing on the bottom of the bulging bag, Worth tells her that it is transmission fluid leaking from inside.

[00:15:39]I think Mary asked some questions, but due to the the type of relationship that they had, I think she was she was somewhat reticent to ask too many questions.

[00:15:51]Leaving Bmpton, the couple searches for a secluded area where Worth can rehide the bag. More than an hour north of the city, they stop next to some woods.

[00:16:01]Worth disappears with his cargo while Mary waits in the car. Several minutes later, he returns empty-handed.

[00:16:14]Back in Bmpton, he orders Mary's son, Shawn, to clean out a stain left in the trunk of the car.

[00:16:23]But the young fellow and [music] his friend both felt that it was blood that was in the trunk of the car. Uh there was a smell and [music] uh he was suspicious about that at the time. However, they didn't say anything after that.

[00:16:38]With the stain still visible, Mary Kelly returns the car to the rental office.

[00:16:48]Within the next [music] few weeks, Douglasworth, Mary Kelly, and her son Shawn leave Ontario and move east to Nova Scotia, Douglas Worth's home province.

[00:16:58]Local resident Eric Daly notices their arrival.

[00:17:04]>> They came and uh they were there for a while. Uh they said uh you know set [music] up house kept very much to themselves. Didn't seem to be overly you know friendly.

[00:17:17]>> Many residents are unaware of Worth's long criminal past. But his extended family members living throughout Nova Scotia know all too well his pinchant for violence.

[00:17:31]The family wasn't happy when he came back. They were terrified of him. So were the local police because uh of that um ability to to hurt people with impunity.

[00:17:45]>> Their fears are wellfounded.

[00:17:48]Within a few weeks of arriving, Worth begins making more confessions.

[00:17:53]He speaks openly [music] to his sister Sharon Lewis and her husband Wayne about a crime he committed in Bmpton. This time there is talk of murder.

[00:18:04]There was discussions where uh Doug was uh bragging about killing the man in Bmpton and how he had got into an argument with him, beaten the man, broken his leg, and how he wasn't going back to jail for anyone, so he had to kill him. Like, you know, he had no choice. He just had to do it, which scared the heck out of Wayne. Uh he didn't know what to say or do. You know, Doug was pretty open about what he had done and try to rationalize it that it was that, you know, what he had to do because they were all family and they all had to stick by him no matter what.

[00:18:42]Out of both fear and family [music] loyalty, Sharon and Wayne keep the discussion quiet. But they aren't the only ones who have heard Douglas Worth's confession.

[00:18:55]April 21st, 1988.

[00:18:58]Mary Kelly's son Sha meets with a guidance counselor, a children's aid worker, and local police officer, Hugh Mirror. Behind closed doors, he relates his fear of Douglas Worth and [music] his need to escape the violent household.

[00:19:14]>> He was quite quite upset, sobbing, and and [music] it took quite a while and various at various times to calm him down just to get him uh speaking again.

[00:19:25]He showed signs of having been assaulted. He had bruising about the the face and and red marks. He felt that eventually if he didn't get away that Worth would kill both him and his mother.

[00:19:41]>> Officer Muer asks him about the time they spent in Bmpton, Ontario. The questions soon lead to a startling revelation.

[00:19:52]He indicated to me at at various times uh that he had overheard uh a conversation worth had. Worth had admitted to them that he had [music] killed somebody.

[00:20:04]>> I was kind of stunned.

[00:20:06]>> That same day, officer Murick contacts police in [music] the Bmpton region.

[00:20:12]>> I got the call. He's talking about a a man in Stellin, Nova Scotia, who was bragging about killing a a man at the Hotel Bmpton. We didn't have any un unsolved homicides in the region.

[00:20:26]The officer from Skeleton, you know, to his credit, said, "Well, that's all well and good, but this man says he's killed a man in Bmpton. And if he says he's killed somebody, he's killed somebody because in his estimation, he's that type of person."

[00:20:42]With no body and no reports of a male homicide, police in Ontario have little to go on. But back in Nova Scotia, through further discussions with Shawn, Officer Muer learns of the stain in the rented car.

[00:20:58]In light of the new information, detectives Toy and Favo quickly move into action in Bmpton. Although rental agencies have no record of Douglas Worth on file, they single out the vehicle once rented by Mary Kelly.

[00:21:14]>> Well, we got the keys from the the fellow that was renting the car at the time. We went down to uh the car um and we uh popped open the trunk. There was a stain [music] dark just a dark stain.

[00:21:27]The story is starting to [music] come together that maybe it's not a drunken bravado by someone out at on the east coast that there's there's some credence to it.

[00:21:37]>> The car is towed to a lab in Toronto.

[00:21:40]Forensic expert Bill Tostiac photographs the deep staining before moving in for a closer look.

[00:21:49]and he pulled a couple of toughs of of [music] hair of uh carpet fiber out of the trunk, brought it up to his office and tested it right away.

[00:22:00]And he says it's human blood. And not only is it human blood, it's decomposed human blood. Person that lost his blood was already dead. And the blood type was it was rare. So he says it's rare, but it's very common among native Indians, this blood type.

[00:22:23]>> Although no unsolved male homicides are on police files, one ongoing investigation involves a young girl of partial native descent.

[00:22:35]There was no indication at that [music] point that it was connected to the disappearance of Trina Campbell, but at that point, Trina Campbell was our only long-term missing in [music] uh person.

[00:22:45]The scenario didn't fit, but we still felt that there was a loose chance that there might [music] be a connection.

[00:22:52]>> As investigators look into Worth's long criminal history, their hunch grows even stronger.

[00:23:00]We immediately see that there's been attacks on teenage [music] females, rapes, sexual assaults.

[00:23:05]>> His profile shows u Trina is an ideal [music] victim for him. He's attracted to young native Indian girls.

[00:23:17]>> Late April 1988, detectives Fabo and Toy prepared to go to Nova Scotia to take a closer look at ex-convict [music] Douglas Worth. While they have yet to find a body and with it any concrete evidence, they feel confident they are on the trail of a murderer.

[00:23:37]Both my partner Ed Toy and I and we were convinced and that Dougworth had killed Tina Campbell.

[00:23:48]April 1988, 4 months after the disappearance of 12-year-old Trina Campbell, [music] detectives arrive in Nova Scotia to investigate their biggest lead to date, a man named Douglas Worth.

[00:24:01]Although no evidence ties the ex-convict to the missing girl, he has confessed to family members that he recently committed murder in the city of Bmpton, Ontario.

[00:24:16]With the help of local police units, Douglas Worth [music] is placed under surveillance. Photographs chronicle his daily movements in the small community of Picto, Nova Scotia.

[00:24:27]>> The profile of Doug Worth was as a pedophile. He uh is seen as a a child molester. His uh his prey of choice are young boys or girls.

[00:24:40]So even while we had Dougworth under surveillance, he was seen, following, [music] watching young native Indian girls, which was all the more motivation for the RCMP and the the Picto police to say, "Anything you need, anything you want, deal with this."

[00:25:00]>> Despite their growing hunch that Douglas Worth is behind the disappearance of Trina Campbell, police still have little evidence to act on.

[00:25:10]is at [music] this point we we're in a quandry as an investigators. We know that we we really truly do need a body.

[00:25:17]We need if if this is true, if this is what's happened, we know we need to be able to find that body.

[00:25:28]May 6th, 1988. After almost 2 weeks of interviews and surveillance, detectives get their biggest break since arriving in Nova Scotia. Although they initially refused to speak with police, Sharon and Wayne Lewis, Douglasworth's sister and brother-in-law, suddenly changed their minds.

[00:25:48]>> And at that point, their consciences got the better of them, and they they had to tell this story.

[00:25:54]>> Interviewing the couple separately, police confirm Douglas Worth's original confession of murder, but they also learn of an intriguing new development in the ex-convict's state of mind.

[00:26:07]As if sensing the noose tightening around him, [music] he has grown paranoid that somebody will find the body of the person he killed, identify it, and somehow connect it to him. His apparent solution is a gory one, cutting off and rehiding of a human head.

[00:26:28]They advised us that [music] Doug had approached them requesting assistance to get back to Bmpton so that he could retrieve the head of the victim. Doug told him that if you get the head of the victim, it would prevent anybody [music] from being able to identify the victim.

[00:26:48]The revelation provides police with the opportunity they're looking for. Perhaps Dougworth's paranoia can lead them directly to the evidence he so desperately wants to conceal.

[00:26:59]>> We wanted to find the body and it was so incredibly important to us that we hatched a plan. Let's give Doug Worth some money and rent him a car and tell him how important it is through the Lewis's through his family member that he's got to go take that body uh find it dig it up and dispose of it.

[00:27:20]In order for the plan to work, Sharon and Wayne Lewis will have to play a key role.

[00:27:27]>> Sharon was very reluctant to assist, but I I suppose we kind of went out on a limb a little bit at that point in sharing our belief that in fact Dougworth had not killed a man in Bmpton, but had killed Trina Campbell. We were very strongly convinced [music] that it was Trina Campbell that he had killed. I think what turned her around was the fact that she had already had Doug babysit her daughters who were one was 12. So very much like Trina Campbell very uh and then she realized she she just had to as a mother she she had to.

[00:28:07]That same evening, Sharon and Wayne Lewis approached Douglasworth, offering him $300 and a rented car provided by police. They play on his paranoia. They tell him that not only do they agree with his plan, they think it [music] should be carried out as soon as possible. The ploy works. Within the hour, Douglasworth and Mary Kelly are on the road, starting the more than 20our drive back to Bmpton, Ontario.

[00:28:35]>> We immediately began to follow him with the RCMP surveillance team.

[00:28:40]While the rented car moves through Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, police in Ontario monitor their progress, bringing two other surveillance cars into the plan.

[00:28:50]>> There was a couple of us that were in Bmpton, [music] sort of leading the investigation, if you will, and then being the point of contact for people that were involved in the surveillance.

[00:28:59]We were with radios and [music] telephone contact with the investigators throughout their trip all the way back.

[00:29:08]May 7th, 100 p.m.

[00:29:12]Just inside Quebec, Lynn Favo and the RCMP pull back as a fresh team led by Detective Mike Cedarberg merges from an on-ramp to take over the next stage of the surveillance.

[00:29:27]>> We keep the vehicle under under observation the [music] whole time. It's never out of our sight. When she took over driving, she crept it up to almost 120 km an hour because he was asleep in the right front. We could tell as soon as he woke up, she backed it right back to 95, 90, 95, 100 at the most. Do not attract attention. That was the the whole theme behind that trip. Do not attract attention.

[00:29:54]8:00 p.m. Now in Ontario, Douglas Worth makes an unexpected exit into the city of Port Hope. He begins making inquiries at local establishments.

[00:30:07]>> We were a little bit mystified, you know, and as to what was going on. Or our surveillance unit would get out and they would follow them into the store and then when they'd left, one of them hung back and ask the [music] uh the proprietor what did what did that people or those people want? And they were looking for a shovel.

[00:30:26]Although the couple eventually leaves Port Hope without [music] finding the desired shovel, the detour leaves police more convinced than ever that their sting operation is working.

[00:30:38]>> We know we're on the right track. We know we've got them significantly motivated to do what we want them to do.

[00:30:44]They're coming back to Ontario and they're going to go to the body.

[00:30:48]>> And it he was very cold and calculated.

[00:30:50]He was going he was going to remove all evidence and that's what he came back to do.

[00:30:59]>> May 7th, 1988, 10:30 p.m.

[00:31:04]After a 20-hour drive from Nova Scotia, Douglas Worth and Mary Kelly arrive in Bmpton, Ontario, the same city where Worth claims he committed murder.

[00:31:15]With three surveillance vehicles following his every move, police hope his desire to [music] conceal evidence will lead them directly to the body of missing 12-year-old Trina [music] Campbell.

[00:31:30]>> This was an incredible plan that we weren't sure was going to work and it was working flawlessly. At this point, we had to keep visual surveillance on this individual.

[00:31:45]Although police feel the couple may be stopping for the night, they are soon proven wrong.

[00:31:51]After a quick drink by himself in a bar, Douglas Worth returns to the car and drives northward out of the city. Along the same road he once took a bag that he claimed was filled with guns.

[00:32:06]Said, "My god, they're going right to the they're going to do this now."

[00:32:11]followed him up into in north and into a very very rural area [music] where there are no other cars.

[00:32:18]The fact that our surveillance unit was able to do that without being spotted was incredible.

[00:32:24]>> A few hours later, Doug Worth begins making detours [music] around the small town of Teranova.

[00:32:32]>> It was the middle of the night. It was 2:00 and you could tell it was dark and you could tell that Doug Worth was having a tough time remembering exactly where he had buried this body.

[00:32:45]4:15 a.m. Douglas Worth parks the car on an isolated side road. Both he and Mary Kelly remain inside. Police feel the couple may finally be getting some sleep before resuming their search.

[00:33:03]But it was very [music] difficult to keep up surveillance on his vehicle at that point because of where he had chosen to park [music] without him noticing us.

[00:33:13]We had officers situated one side road east and one side road west. Um that we would see his headlights come on.

[00:33:22]That'll give us a chance to get away from where he's coming and let everybody else know that he's now moving again.

[00:33:30]5:00 a.m. Police continue to wait for movement from the rented car. The long hours are taking their toll.

[00:33:40]So, I've been awake almost 48 hours and I just fallen asleep. As it turns out, about4 to 6, one of the officers is yelling for me into the microphone and it startles me. I wake up, the officer is telling me that the car is gone.

[00:33:56]Obviously, that there had been another way out.

[00:33:59]Dawn was was upon us and the sun [music] was rising and Dougworth's vehicle was no longer where it was expected to be.

[00:34:07]After 2 days of cross-country surveillance, a dangerous murder suspect has mysteriously vanished. Police fear that their sting operation has just been foiled.

[00:34:21]>> There was a lot of concern that we may have lost him for good.

[00:34:28]With every minute crucial, they make a desperate attempt to salvage the investigation, fanning out in all directions across the large rural area.

[00:34:40]So, I start trying to remember, okay, where did we have him the night before?

[00:34:44]Okay, Teranova was a little village that was probably the furthest away.

[00:34:50]20 minutes later on another side road, Detective Cedarberg and his partner suddenly spot the rented car. It is empty.

[00:35:00]So I try to call the the the other officers in the surveillance and say, "We've got him over in Teranova, but I'm out of radio range from everybody." So I have to leave. I drive to the nearest highest hill I can find. And I basically holler into the mic that I've got him.

[00:35:20]He's over at Terteranova. And I can hear them crackling. Then I hear the other road boss, the other detective say, "Okay, he's acknowledged my transmission." So he's now rallying the troops who are now all over this whole area.

[00:35:35]>> As Cedarberg drives back down towards the parked car, he spots the couple emerging from the woods.

[00:35:44]Doug was carrying [music] a dark gym bag. I'll never forget that sight and that just immense wave of uh relief that washed over myself and when we saw the car parked there and then [music] saw Douglas Worth coming out of the bush carrying a gym bag. He didn't seem to pay us any mind.

[00:36:02]>> At that point, we knew, [music] you know, we we knew he'd probably done what we what we'd intended him to do and [music] go to the body and recover the skull.

[00:36:16]After picking up their cargo, Doug Worth and Mary Kelly begin driving back south.

[00:36:23]Rather than pull them over immediately, police decide to track the vehicle back to Bmpton. They want to eliminate any chance of an alibi.

[00:36:33]>> Now the question is when do we make the arrest?

[00:36:37]So you think of [music] any possible excuse or story that he could possibly tell in a court of law.

[00:36:45]>> We didn't want to give him the [music] opportunity to say, "I I found this and I'm turning it into a police station.

[00:36:52]I'm going to come into the police station."

[00:36:54]>> So we followed him and we let him drive right past our headquarters in the city of Bmpton. So that there's only one last place for him to go and that's back on the 401 home to Nova Scotia. So we felt now [music] is the time.

[00:37:10]>> Police move into position and prepare for what they term a high-risk takedown.

[00:37:16]>> He was virtually surrounded on all sides by surveillance cars. He just didn't know it at the time. This is probably the most crucial part of uh any takedown is the the actual stopping. [music] You just don't know if he has any weapons in the vehicle. You don't know if he's expecting it.

[00:37:34]>> May 8th, 1988.

[00:37:37]In Bmpton, Ontario, three unmarked police vehicles have quietly surrounded the car driven by ex-convict Douglas Worth. After trailing him across the country, they believe he is now in possession of crucial evidence. The human remains of a murder victim.

[00:37:57]And the [music] cars on all three sides start to slow down. And at first you he's not noticing what's happening to him, but they slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down. And then he's wondering, why is this guy going so slow? Why is this fool beside me? And then we had the last car come up onto the shoulder of the road to complete the box. And then dead stop.

[00:38:21]And all of a sudden, we all we kind of jump out. We run back to his vehicle. We try to do it as quick as possible. Um, and we try to overwhel overwhelm him with movement. He became very he startled [music] and he he never said anything.

[00:38:38]He's dumbfounded.

[00:38:39]>> His reaction was shock. He didn't know that he was under surveillance at that point.

[00:38:46]>> Douglasworth and Mary Kelly are placed under arrest and taken into custody. The contents of the rented car are left undisturbed until forensic expert Steven Rock shows up on the scene.

[00:39:01]>> They asked if I would uh photograph the scene as is per our normal procedure. We do 360° panoramic photography of all major crime scenes that was conducted and then we did closer up shots of the vehicle.

[00:39:15]Basically, when I put my head in the car and and you got that first odor and the odor was was very distinctive that of of decaying flashing and we knew immediately what we had. And when I looked in the back seat, uh there was a gray gym bag that seemed to be the source of the odor on the floor and photographed the gym bag, removed it and opened it and found a garbage bag inside. photographed that, took it out of the bag, and then one by one, as I opened up each of the garbage bags, there were more garbage bags, one inside the other. When I opened the last one, the skull was there.

[00:39:58]After an examination of the facial features, investigators on the scene realized their worstcase scenario is a reality. The skull belongs to the same young girl who went [music] missing off the streets of Bmpton 5 months earlier.

[00:40:16]Looking at her picture and looking at the remains, there were some [music] very specific dental abnormalities in her front teeth. And it was at that point that we realized [music] that uh we'd recovered the skull of the victim, Trina Campbell.

[00:40:35]At police headquarters in Bmpton, Douglas [music] Worth is charged with murder. In his first interview with police, the violent ex-convict shows little remorse.

[00:40:47]>> He just looked at us as as we talked. It wasn't a matter of whether he had killed Tina Campbell or not. All we really needed to know at this point was was why.

[00:41:00]We knew he'd done it. We just needed to know why. And at that point, uh the first time he showed any emotion, he he jumped up from his chair.

[00:41:10]He punched both fists in the air and he screamed at the top of his lungs, "Who the are you?"

[00:41:17]He was very defiant and extremely arrogant in his manner. He had a look, quite frankly, of evil about him. He just oozed evil.

[00:41:33]That same day, [music] police returned to the woods north of Bmpton and recovered the rest of Trina Campbell's remains.

[00:41:40]Although decomposition makes it difficult to determine a cause of death, there are clear signs that the young girl was brutalized before she was murdered.

[00:41:52]We were able to find her uh [music] her skeletal remains and we were able to tell that he had broken her leg uh prior to death. Uh we could tell that by the the blood staining on the bone. [music] This poor child had been tortured and then killed.

[00:42:11]News of the brutal crime sends shock waves across the country.

[00:42:18]>> Oh, it was horrible. I mean, it was [music] just absolutely horrible.

[00:42:24]I just thought, you know, that's just not any way for any any person to go to have that that indignity um performed on a human body. It's It's just I I just It's mindboggling.

[00:42:42]>> As they prepare for trial, police find an invaluable witness in Douglasworth's girlfriend, Mary Kelly.

[00:42:49]Although originally charged with being an accessory after the fact, the charges are eventually dropped.

[00:42:56]There is little doubt that she was an unwilling participant in Douglasworth's efforts to cover up his crime.

[00:43:04]She was a broken individual. She had been so badly um abused over the course of her relationship with Doug Worth that that she was merely a puppet under his control.

[00:43:20]On March 22nd, 1990, [music] in one of the shortest jury deliberations in Canadian legal history, Douglas Worth is found guilty of secondderee murder. He reacts with a final outburst.

[00:43:35]>> Dougworth um screamed out, "I'm not an animal."

[00:43:41]And how ironic.

[00:43:44]Exactly what we were all thinking.

[00:43:47]>> That same day, he is sentenced [music] to life in prison with no chance of parole for 23 years.

[00:43:55]>> The community, of course, was was relieved. [music] They were extremely glad that this person had this monster had been taken off the streets. And that's exactly what he was. He was a monster.

[00:44:08]The tragic loss of Trina Campbell went on to help influence changes in Canadian laws. The fact that Douglas Worth was let out of prison just 6 months before he murdered her despite his own claims that he would reaffend fueled debate over better ways to deal with long-term violent criminals.

[00:44:32]And there was a lot of controversy about the release of Dougworth and controversy about what could have been done to protect the public. The system failed.

[00:44:42]We all deserve better protection than that.

[00:44:48]In 1997, the criminal code was amended, giving authorities much stronger tools to keep the most dangerous, high-risisk offenders behind bars for good.

[00:45:00]>> When I think about about this case, I I see the the picture of Trina Campbell, that innocent, beautiful smile of hers, and uh how happy she seemed in that that photograph, and how tragically her life ended.

[00:45:18]And we didn't save Trina Campbell, but we certainly saved future Trina Campbell from Dougworth.

[00:45:25]>> And it's a sense of accomplishment to be able to be part of a team that gets somebody, especially the likes of of uh this individual involved off the streets.

[00:46:10]>> [music]