Tallio Day 2: The hours following the 17-year-old's arrest for murder
Second in a seven-part series
Court documents paint a picture of a remote coastal B.C. village racked by horror and confusion in the hours after the discovery, in 1983, of a murdered child.
In the early morning of April 23, 1983, 17-year-old Phillip James Tallio found his 22-month-old cousin not breathing, and sprinted in a grief-stricken panic to wake up family members and relay the terrible news. That’s the account he has been telling for the past three decades.
Within three hours of tha
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