The Murder of Jagtar Gill
Canadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In 2014, a 15-year old went to the grocery store with her father. It was her parents’ 17th wedding anniversary - but her mother was recovering at home from a hernia operation she’d had the day before, so the teenager and her father went to pick out a cake and bring flowers back to her. But what they would be confronted with when they returned, would change their lives forever.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains coarse language, adult themes, and content of a violent and disturbing |
| 0:05.9 | nature. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:10.5 | It was a late January morning, almost lunchtime, in a suburb in the southwest end of Ottawa |
| 0:17.7 | called Barhaven. |
| 0:19.9 | Fifteen-year-old Sachi Gill was heading to the grocery store with her father. |
| 0:24.9 | It was her parents' 17th wedding anniversary, but her mother, Jagtar, was recovering at home |
| 0:30.8 | from a hernia operation she'd had the day before. |
| 0:34.4 | So, Sachi went with her father, Bupindapal, to pick out a cake and flowers to bring back to her mother as a surprise. |
| 0:43.3 | But when they arrived back home at about 1pm, Satchi noticed that something was not right. |
| 0:50.3 | The front door was unlocked. They hadn't left it that way. They never did. And then, as she entered the living room, holding a bouquet of red roses, she saw her mother Jagtar on the floor. At first, Sachi thought her mom had fallen off the couch. But then she saw blood. It was everywhere. |
| 1:12.4 | It looked like her mother's ear had been cut off. |
| 1:16.2 | Sachi froze and screamed for her father. |
| 1:20.3 | Bupindapal came running in and saw his wife lying on the floor, |
| 1:24.6 | distraught he didn't know what to do. |
| 1:30.7 | Sachi ran upstairs to the house phone to try and call 911, but there was no dial tone. Her father called 911 on his cell phone. The operator repeatedly |
| 1:40.4 | asked Bupendipal if he or his daughter could put Jagtar on her back because he needed |
| 1:46.7 | to check for a pulse and begin CPR. He replied that he couldn't do it. Quote, I need help |
| 1:54.5 | before I faint on myself, I can't see. But it was too late. The ambulance arrived followed by two police cars and 43-year-old |
| 2:06.2 | Jagtar Gill was pronounced dead. She was Ottawa's first homicide victim of 2014. This is Christy and you're listening to Canadian True Crime, Episode 71. One. |
| 2:46.0 | One of the first responders to the scene was Ottawa Police Constable Tina Galishon, who spoke with each member of the family. At one point, she glanced over at the window panel next to the front door and saw a woman outside the house. |
| 2:54.8 | She opened the door to find out who the woman was and of course to tell her that she couldn't come in because it was a murder scene after all. |
| 3:03.8 | The woman seemed frantic and said she was out of breath from running. |
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