Rachel Shannon

Then by spring of 2002, Aaron's parents had actually received a letter from somebody who claimed to know what happened to Aaron.

The writer of this letter said that he was sorry for what he did.

He said that he had actually tried to dig up Erin's body from where he originally buried her, but he was unable to.

Obviously, the letter was anonymous, so police tried to get DNA and or fingerprints from the letter, but they were unable to.

Then another letter was found in a public restroom.

Once again, the letter was written by somebody who said that they're sorry and they actually said that a friend had urged them to contact police, but they couldn't.

Once again, police did not know who wrote this letter, but they did get this idea to put out an ad in the newspaper directed at this writer in hopes that this person would write a third letter to police.

And it worked.

he wrote the third letter and in the letter he said that he knows that Erin is still buried where he left her he said that police were very close to finding her and this was obviously very frustrating but this did ignite a new search into Erin's case and trying to find her and clearly someone was out there taunting police someone was clearly out there checking in on the spot that they had buried Erin so

this definitely lit a fire under their tail to go and actually find her now at this point i'm sure you are very frustrated that police aren't able to find anything that is connecting michael to this crime when it seems almost obvious that he is the one responsible well police felt the same way they discussed any strategy that they could use from here on out

And by 2003, they decided that they were officially going to use the sting operation called Mr. Big.

So Mr. Big is a police procedure used pretty much only by the Royal Mounted Canadian Police.

This tactic is controversial and it isn't used in the US or Great Britain.

This is pretty much a last ditch effort to try and get charges against someone who they believe committed a crime.

So essentially what happens is a cop will go undercover and they'll befriend the suspect and try to get close to them and build trust with them.

Then the cop will eventually say that they're involved in some sort of criminal organization.

So once this relationship is established, the undercover officer will start asking the suspect to do

different tasks for them so that they could eventually join this criminal organization.

Most of the time, the person who initiates this relationship isn't the person who the suspect is going to confess to.

There's this motivation of making money and moving up within the ranks of the organization until they get to meet the leader