John Daly

When we get down to the point where you've got a missing nine-year-old kid who's six blocks from his home and disappears when he's at the corner store getting an ice cream or a candy bar, you've got a big problem. I was like a blowtorch on my butt, to be blunt.

When we get down to the point where you've got a missing nine-year-old kid who's six blocks from his home and disappears when he's at the corner store getting an ice cream or a candy bar, you've got a big problem. I was like a blowtorch on my butt, to be blunt.

It was kind of like, you get out there and you hunt this stuff down, you stay on these cops and you find out what they know and what they're doing, etc. And it got really, really intense after that.

It was kind of like, you get out there and you hunt this stuff down, you stay on these cops and you find out what they know and what they're doing, etc. And it got really, really intense after that.

She was afraid to do an interview. She didn't want to be questioned. She just wanted to make a statement. We said, fine. And she wouldn't make a statement with us present. So we set up the camera in a chair in the backyard, left the thing running, and we went for coffee so she could come out, sit down in the chair, and make her pitch.

She was afraid to do an interview. She didn't want to be questioned. She just wanted to make a statement. We said, fine. And she wouldn't make a statement with us present. So we set up the camera in a chair in the backyard, left the thing running, and we went for coffee so she could come out, sit down in the chair, and make her pitch.

And, you know, we came back, I guess it was 35, 40 minutes later, and, you know, she was gone. We had a truck and we had playback in it. We went into the truck and she had left basically a three-minute crying appeal to the kidnappers to get young Simon, nine-year-old Simon, back.

And, you know, we came back, I guess it was 35, 40 minutes later, and, you know, she was gone. We had a truck and we had playback in it. We went into the truck and she had left basically a three-minute crying appeal to the kidnappers to get young Simon, nine-year-old Simon, back.

It was heart-wrenching, absolutely heart-wrenching, and I think that really sent a chill through the spines of all British Columbians.

It was heart-wrenching, absolutely heart-wrenching, and I think that really sent a chill through the spines of all British Columbians.

That was, I think, a turning point where the police realized that the media were going to turn up the heat on them and that they better, you know, throw everything they've got at this.

That was, I think, a turning point where the police realized that the media were going to turn up the heat on them and that they better, you know, throw everything they've got at this.

And we shot these cops going in there carrying these books, their case books, under their arms. And that, I think, was the beginning of a massive task force. We didn't know it, but the RCMP started, you know, a list of potential suspects and surfaced Clifford Robert Olson.

And we shot these cops going in there carrying these books, their case books, under their arms. And that, I think, was the beginning of a massive task force. We didn't know it, but the RCMP started, you know, a list of potential suspects and surfaced Clifford Robert Olson.

I'm in the newsroom. And the assignment editor says to me, they've caught this child killer. It was pandemonium, but it was big. All hell broke loose.

I'm in the newsroom. And the assignment editor says to me, they've caught this child killer. It was pandemonium, but it was big. All hell broke loose.