A starlight tour is a practice of police arresting Indigenous people and rather than bringing them to the station in town, police drop them off at the edge of the city. The police take their warm clothes in the middle of a winter night in Canada and force them to walk home. Often resulting in them freezing to death. Then we cover a story that started with a string of home invasions and robberies that began happening in 2008. Each time, two masked men were involved and were careful not to leave any evidence behind, so police had very little to go on in terms of suspects. When the perpetrators escalated by killing Karissa and Karen Lofton, and Delores and Ebony Dewitt - the police created a task force to solve the double murder.

Sources:
https://www.grunge.com/308625/the-messed-up-truth-of-canadas-starlight-tours https://www.youthofcanada.ca/post/anais-essay-the-starlight-tours
https://zeph456.medium.com/saskatoon-police-and-the-infamous-starlight-tours-a5d3c3015d6c
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/winnipeg-police-operating-starlight-tours-study
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-mmiwg-genocide-1.5161681
Dateline Season 23 Episode 17
https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/scott-jason-thomas.htm
https://www.oxygen.com/one-deadly-mistake/crime-news/jason-thomas-scott-convicted-as-maryland-mother-daughter-killer

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