CBC: “For the victim to have the strength, and the investigative team [to have the] determination[…] is almost unheard of,” said Sgt. Joëlle LaChance.
Facing the man who assaulted her, her estranged brother-in-law, “Agent Layla” presses him for answers over the course of 70 minutes. Luke ultimately elicits a confession that surpassed even the highest hopes of the RCMP team gathered in a nearby hotel room listening in over a wire. The breakthrough was so moving that it brought tears to a hardened undercover officer accustomed to working with drug dealers and murderers.
“She literally took her life back in her hands,” said one of the officers from the undercover unit, working with LaChance…