As the interrogation approached three hours, Cpl. John Snider placed a photo on the table and asked Thesingarasan Rasiah if he remembered the news about the deaths on the river.
The photo, a still image from an airport terminal security camera, showed four people — two women, two men — carrying backpacks.
Rasiah sat slumped and leaning over his chair’s left armrest inside the Cornwall RCMP detachment, his greying hair and beard grown long from months in provincial jail.
“Do you remember one of the families that died on the river?” said Snider.
