The Deadly Contract - Part 2 | 6

Crime Beat

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True Crime, News, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

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🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On January 16th, 2006 financier Jack Beauchamp was shot six times and left for dead on his office floor. Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt shares the conclusion of how investigators unravelled this shocking murder mystery. Contact: Instagram: @nancy.hixt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NancyHixtCrimeBeat/ Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Nancy. Before we begin today, I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to
0:05.7	Crime Beat early and add free on Amazon Music included with Prime. On January 16, 2006, Jack Bouchamp drove downtown, parked his SUV in a parkade, then entered his high-rise office building
0:25.9	through the second-story Skywalk, carrying a coffee and a briefcase.
0:31.1	The president of Moorbank Financial, a commercial mortgage lending company, took the elevator up to the 12th floor, and at 750 a.m. he swiped his security card to enter his office. Minutes later, Jack Bouchamp was
0:48.2	dead, shot multiple times by an unknown suspect.
0:54.0	It really only took minutes before staff from the company were saying that the victim had
1:00.0	had some conflict with somebody over the last few months.
1:08.7	I'm Nancy Hicks, a senior crime reporter for global news.
1:14.0	Today, on Crimebeat, I share how investigators unraveled
1:18.8	this shocking murder mystery.
1:21.4	This is the conclusion of the deadly contract.
1:24.4	Police often refer to the first 48 hours after a homicide as the most critical.
1:38.0	Following the brazen early morning shooting of Jack Beauchamp in his downtown Calgary office,
1:44.3	investigators were extremely busy with a gunman on the loose.
1:49.3	One of Jack's clients, Robert Deere, was considered a suspect.
1:55.0	The two men had been in a heated conflict over an outstanding commitment fee for a loan.
2:02.0	Deere was arrested hours after the murder, but released the following day charged only with criminal harassment in connection to emails he sent to Jack.
2:14.0	At that time, Superintendent Cliff O'Brien was a detective with the Calgary Police Homicide Unit.
2:21.0	Early in the investigation, he was tasked with reviewing CCTV of the office
2:27.3	building and the surrounding area. The veteran officer was convinced it would provide insight into who was responsible for the murder
2:37.9	Everybody thought we were I was going to see Bob Deere and I did not I even went back and looked at the lobby video a couple times in case
2:47.2	there was some disguise used and I missed him but Bob Deer was not seen on the video at all.
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