Tallio Day 3: A Mountie and a signed confession

Third in a seven-part series
Police at the Bella Coola RCMP detachment had one damning piece of evidence in hand before the 1983 murder trial of Phillip Tallio: a confession.
But that confession, though it apparently helped convince local cops they had their man, would later be challenged in court and ruled inadmissible by a judge.
Around 9 a.m. on April 23, 1983, Bella Coola Mounties brought Tallio, then 17, into the local RCMP detachment for questioning over the death of a 22-month-old re