The Third Suspect: The Shocking True Story of a Bitter Labor Struggle and the Cold-Blooded Murder of Nine Yellowknife Miners

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Giant Mine Yellowknife September 18 1992. Months into a bitter labor dispute a volatile situation is worsening. Some on the picket line are starting to call for blood. Already the mine has been vandalized with small bombings. At 8:30 a.m. this day nine strike breakers cross the picket line and board a man-car going into the mine. Minutes later all are dead in a horrendous explosion. Within forty-eight hours the police are calling it murder. What follows is one of the most intensive manhunts for a mass murderer in Canadian criminal history - told through the eyes of the town that lived through it the cops who cracked the case and the man finally convicted of killing nine innocent men.