From injusticebustersblog, September 7, 2004 | Milgaard Inquiry: Pankela took the file home | Terry Arnold: parallels in Winnipeg

Dueck's crimes

Investigation of Superintendent Dueck must extend to his involvement with Beryl and Hugh Stonechild

Beryl Stonechild and his brother Hughie were fostered by Richard Klassen's grandparents, Abe and Marie Peters in the 1970s.

Last year during the Klassen/Kvello civil trial it became clear to me that Dueck was intending to use false testimony from Beryl Stonechild in his defence against plaintiff Richard Klassen.

Dueck claimed that in 1990, shortly after Beryl Stonechild had been arrested for the double murder in Regina, his brother Hugh had come into the police station to complain. The complaint was turned over to Dueck who went to Stonechild's place of residence to investigate. Dueck testified that Stonechild was intoxicated on drugs and was not coherent enough to answer questions so Dueck left his card on the coffee table and asked Hughie to call him when he was straight.

The next day Hughie was brutally murdered with a rake shoved into his anus.

This is an unsolved Saskatoon murder which should be investigated. Hugh was gay and he was also living on the economic edge. He was using illegal drugs so he had connections with criminals. When Dueck visited him he was too incoherent to talk. Yet Dueck left his calling card.

Wouldn't any prudent police officer know that to leave a police business card in plain view in the dwelling place of an incoherent complainant was to put that complainant in danger? The murder of Hugh (Beck) Stonechild is one cold case which should be opened up by police who have no association with the Old Guard. The last I heard Murray Zoorkan had been put in charge of the Cold Squad.

Cold Squads are glamorous these days because according to TV shows they are solving many old cases. In Winnipeg, Jim Thiessen is on a squad investigating unsolved cases of murdered street women.

The Hugh Stonechild murder is one for the media, the police and the public to get interested in.

Cold case cover-up

This is one of those threads from the Klassen/Kvello civil trial which requires further investigation. We hear about unsolved murders but we don't hear the name Hugh Beck or Hugh Stonechild come up. We know from the Klassen/Kvello civil trial that Dueck had visited Hugh's brother Beryl in the P.A. pen with no other intent than to get from this convicted murderer evidence that Richard Klassen was part of an intergenerational Satanic sex cult. Dueck concealed the fact that he had a tape of this interview from his legal counsel. When Richard Klassen brought the matter up during the plaintiff's case, the court went into a confusing flurry. Dueck's counsel disappeared for a while and then returned to the court to announce that Dueck had suddenly "found" the tape in the back of a drawer. The lame excuse for not having previously disclosed the tape was that in the moving of offices (Dueck's promotion from Sgt. to Superintendent?) it had worked its way to the back of a drawer.
We had to wait for the police transcribers to type the thing up and, when we got the tape and the transcription, most of it was inaudible.

Nonetheless enough words came through to make very clear that Dueck was encouraging perjury from Beryl Stonechild in return for a promise that Dueck would help provide him with witnesses at his trial. These witnesses would testify that Beryl became a crazed drug fiend and double murderer because of trauma he had suffered at the hands of the Klassen intergenerational cult.

This was the malicious plan. It didn't work out because even Crown prosecutor Matthew Miazga couldn't make the Satanic cult part of the allegations fly and the Crown had backed off the most unbelievable aspects of the original allegations. (This was made clear when retired prosecutor Terry Hinz testified.

This was a clear case of suborning perjury and deceiving the court. We provided Chief Russell Sabo with this and other examples of criminal offences Dueck had committed. He assured us that he would send the file to an arms-length investigator, outside Saskatchewan, to determine if criminal charges could be laid. We actually believed him. When we asked why it was taking so long, Sabo assured us that the outside investigators were going through the report with a fine-toothed comb and that everyone wanted to make sure the report was thorough so that any charges coming out of it would stick. So we were more than a bit ticked off when we learned the file had been sent only to Regina and they had done nothing more than dip it in a bucket of whitewash.

We have now been told that Dueck is outside the range of a criminal investigation. If this is true, the Dueck career should provide the perfect template for larcenous and corrupt officers throughout the land. Frankly, I don't think it is true. I still believe that our justice system provides for the prosecution of cops -- even retired ones -- who break the law.

There can be no statute of limitations on the truth.

There is no statute of limitations on murder and we suggest that if Saskatoon Police really want to persuade the public they are cleaning up their act they should re-open the file on Hugh Beck. And the investigator should not be Murray Zoorkan or any others of the Old Guard.-- Sheila Steele, April 15, 2005

Revitalizing the archives From 1998 until 2002, injusticebusters was in the throes of identity crisis. What was it? What were we doing? We grappled with editorial policy at the same time we were learning the nuts and bolts of building and posting a website. Once we had a secure, paid site I had full editorial control, although I talked regularly to Richard Klassen who was forced to move his family several times and did not always have access to the internet. Rick's pages: one | two We posted our earliest and later actions. Early versions of the site can be found on the Wayback Machine. I began following other threads to stories of police and prosecutorial misconduct and the site's character took on another facet: a newsclipping scrapbook where stories could live longer than they would in print form. I also began picking up other stories of wrongfully convicted people. It was an explosion. By 2003 there were over 700 pages. I also had contact with several other people (Don Smith, Leon Walchuk, Monique Turenne, the Vopnis) and kept these stories going. It was the story of the Ross children's treatment at the hands of the Saskatchewan government which grabbed the attention of The Fifth Estate. The civil claim (The $10M Lawsuit as we called it) was only mentioned briefly at the end of their show which aired in November, 2000. When Richard Klassen began to make progress in bringing his civil claim to court, the government and police defendants alleged he was breaking the rules of court by publishing discovery material on the internet. MacNeil clinic (the document which started it all) The Thompson Papers Carol Bunko-Ruys reports This claim was absolutely false. However, rather than risk being thrown out of his civil claim, Klassen undertook before Judge Mona Dovall to sever all ties with the website. The court fights: Les Perreaux report QB271 These pages have links which lead to other pages from that era. Now that some of the dust has settled, I have been going back through the material we had posted in the early days. In the spirit of keeping the scrapbook alive, I have been reformatting and placing links. The original material remains intact. I hope the information, which chronicles our struggle is useful to you. The identity crisis is over. We know who we are --Sheila Steele, March 28, 2005

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Blogging

Blogging has been in the news. It is the new, trendy thing with 40,000 new blogs being created each day. I established a blog for this website last September and it is now "taking off." These are a few of the pages with ongoing discussions.

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Milgaard Inquiry

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The Old Boys' Club Must Go!

Vancouver activists

John Hudak: Falsely accused mountie

City of intolerance

Constable Larry Lockwood: Exciteable!

Eric Cline

This is a great way for like-minded people to communicate and share our views. It is easier than making a website and marginally more difficult than a forum.

People who want to contribute simply have to punch the "comment" link and they will be taken to a page with a box which allows them to write their comment, preview and post it. It takes a while for the comment to show up and some people get impatient and repost. That's fine, I trash the duplicate posts and no harm done.

Please, please give it a try. The internet is distinguished from other media in that it is really and truly interactive. Blogging makes it possible to express your viewpoint even if you don't have a computer. You can go to the library or a friend's place or an internet cafe. Once you've mastered the basics (and believe me, if I can do it, you can do it) you will be participating in one of the most democratic -- and potentially powerful -- media the world as we know it has ever seen.

Come on. Don't be shy. Join the Weblog World! -- Sheila Steele, March 20, 2005

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