Sensitive & Urgent

By facsimile (613) 952-2240

and to (519) 257-6820

November 20, 1996

Solicitor General of Canada,

The Hon. HERB GRAY , P.C., M.P.

13th Floor, 340 Laurier Ave. West,

Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P8

Dear Mr. Gray,

Re: 8 murders, rape, major drugs and the witness protection program

My family is presently in the R.C.M.P. witness protection program. If you are in receipt of this letter then nearly 48 hours have passed since the Hon. Anna Terrana has desperately, yet unsuccessfully tried to arrange a meeting between yourself and Deputy R.C.M.P. Commissioner Ryan and myself. At stake is the safety of my family. Upon sending you this facsimile that safety just became compromised ten fold, however, I have tried all other approaches to contact you. I can only pray that your staff will appreciate the seriousness of the business at hand and keep this letter in highest confidentiality while promptly bringing it to your attention. What you are about to read will seem like a Tom Clancy novel so I invite you to verify everything through any of the following R.C.M.P. officers; namely:

Deputy R.C.M.P. Commissioner Ryan in the Ottawa bureau of the R.C.M.P.

Corporal Brent Barbour @ (604) 264-2793, cellular: (604) 657-3196

Corporal Gary Straughan @ (604) 264-3600, cellular: (604) 312-4956

Sergeant Tom Hansen @ (604) 264-3084, cellular: (604) 889-0948

Sergeant Al Haslette @ (604) 264-3600

After Allan Rock last year was misled by his staff about the facts of the Joseph Philliponi murder in 1983 and refused to grant my father, Sidney Morrisroe a new trial, I infiltrated a major drug syndicate in which a family member of the Filliponi family is a key player. This person had earlier been incarcerated at Ferndale Institution with my father and had told myself and several others that my father had been the patsy in the whole affair. I had communicated this to Claude LeFrancois of the Department of Justice who was conducting an investigation into the Phillipone murder case for the Criminal Conviction Review Committee in the Department of Justice at the time. He sent this person a letter asking if this was true and instead of properly investigating this information, simply accepted this person's letter denying he had said any such thing.

This person was always trying to date me and in January of this year I accepted his invitation armed with a tape recorder in hopes of getting him to repeat what he had told me previously about the Philliponi murder case. By June I had found much more than I had bargained for and on July 5, I confided the matter to the R.C.M.P. and a news reporter who I have been keeping apprised almost step by step just in case I ever needed to confirm that I was not 'getting into' organized crime. A little later when I brought them a tape recording confirming the gravamen of the crimes involved, the Serious Crimes Unit became involved and I became an agent for the R.C.M.P. In September, while collecting evidence for the R.C.M.P., I was brutally raped by the very person I had been collecting information on. Solid evidence about multiple unsolved murders - some having just occurred - was fast coming to light and the decision was made to continue with the investigation with increased security.

I never asked for and, the R.C.M.P. have never made any promises to me about my father's case, in fact, they have taken meticulous steps to keep the two issues separate. The tapes reveal information which has in itself solved at least 8 murders. I find some solace in all this misery that the loved ones of some of the victims will soon see some justice for their loss as a direct result of my actions. The R.C.M.P. have also viewed the medical information recently furnished to yourself via the National Parole Board and thought there was a realistic chance that my father would soon be released upon medical grounds. If this were to have happened earlier I might have been pulled in then and we would all have been re-located as a family. I continued my role as an R.C.M.P. agent, however, and waited patiently while collecting even more information.

Just over one week ago, however, events dictated my earlier withdrawal from the front lines and my two children ages 3 and 6, my common law husband and my brother were formally entered into the witness protection program. We are currently housed in a secure environment and will shortly be physically re-located. The R.C.M.P. have at least 5 suspects under 24 hour surveillance and will shortly make arrests of monumental proportions. As the R.C.M.P. continues their investigation in the hopes of discovering still further crimes referred to in the tapes, I continue to maintain contact with the suspects on a telephone basis under the direction of the R.C.M.P. My excuse to the 'bad guys' as to why I am not physically in their midst, however, is on the verge of wearing thin. Were it not for my father's vulnerability as an inmate in CSC, we would probably already have been re-located. It is these events which the R.C.M.P. and I needed to apprise you of in person in light of other information gathered on those tapes.

The key person under investigation has bragged that his organization has police and judges on the payroll. Against the backdrop of known facts, these claims were taken very seriously and prompted very high security measures by the R.C.M.P. In fact, other police forces working on some of the murders know that information is being gathered through an informant, however, they only know that person as 'E3582'. I would urge anyone reading this facsimile not to disseminate its contents to anyone, even if the intended recipient is in law enforcement themselves. Security is gravely serious in this matter.

The National Parole Board has apparently forwarded their clemency recommendation to you. Although section 15.2 of your (NPB) policies on Clemency Interviews dictate that I was to have been copied the recommendation, as usual the Board has ignored due process and I have been left wondering what it is they sent you. If it is as full of out right mistakes as their tentative negative recommendation which nearly arrived on your desk earlier this year in which the NPB said my father had refused a medical examination and he looked just fine, then there's's not much hope of my father coming out of CSC but in a coffin. I have sent you our final submissions this morning by courier along with the NPB's own tape recording of the Clemency Interview on October 25, 1996. I implore you to read the submissions and listen to the tapes.

I fully understand that the Board's delay in this matter since last November when you ordered it to investigate this case has handicapped your ability to make a timely decision. However, while we are awaiting for your decision, in the hopes that you will release my father upon medical grounds so that we can be relocated as a family, havoc continues to creep into our lives. Earlier today I was informed that my house, wherein all items had been packed and were awaiting the relocation movers, was broken into and ransacked. My family and I feel grossly violated.

The issue of my father's guilt or innocence is presently not a priority consideration. My singular concern is his medical condition and his safety. If my father is not released upon medical grounds soon, we shall most definitely be bringing him home in a coffin, according to Dr. Spangehl. Also, if the information about my role as an informant for the R.C.M.P. becomes public while my father is still in custody then he's also sure to come out of there in a coffin. There is no amount of security or protective custody that can save an inmate in CSC if a contract is put out on him. If someone tries to assure you otherwise then ask them if they would trust that assurance if one of their family was in my father's predicament. I am respectfully assuring you that the reality is that there is no place in CSC custody where my father would be safe. In any event, he should not have to go into protective custody in a higher security institution nor would his health tolerate being moved from one institution to another anyway. To make matters even worse, one of the suspects who actually committed several of the murders was serving a life sentence and out on parole and is now back in CSC custody on a parole violation. He is well connected to other inmates.

I will not allow myself to be boxed in by politics to a choice that sees my family safe and not my father. If the Department of Justice had done its job properly in the first place then none of this would ever have been necessary. The way I see my choices now is to place confidence in you doing what no one before has yet had the courage to do - doing the right thing, or, ironically, seeking safety in going public and hope that the media and public are incensed enough by what hell I have had to go through to seek justice for my father that there will be a public outcry about our justice system. Anna has thus far persuaded me to try and reach you. The R.C.M.P. which I have specifically worked with have consistently treated myself and my family in a very honest and proper way, always doing what was right. Since these fine gentlemen are under your leadership I have taken Anna's advice. I pray to God I'm doing the right thing.

Yours very truly,

Tami Morrisroe

cc. Hon. Anna Terrana

Deputy R.C.M.P. Commissioner Ryan

Corporal Gary Straughan, R.C.M.P.

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