Lock the doors. Replace the small piece of wood in the “crack” of the patio door. And screw metal bars to the windows in the basement.
Oh yes, also keep the cell phone handy to dial 911 in the event of a thud in the kitchen.
This is the kind of paranoid reaction triggered by watching the agonizing docuseries. The persuit Radio-Canada, which details the crimes of hooded maniac Septimus Neverson, author of a series of terrifying home robberies between 2006 and 2009.
The first episode of a series of five will play on Saturday, November 13 at 8 p.m. ET. For bulimics, the Extra from Tou.tv will offer the first three hours of The persuit burst from November 13.
Back to Septimus Neverson, also known as David Munroe, 58; he was the bête noire of the Montreal police officers for almost a decade.
In the middle of the night, he entered 13 houses in Montreal and Laval, tied up their occupants, stole jewelry and money, coldly murdered the artist-painter Jacques Sénécal and held a 10-year-old boy hostage by pointing a gun at him. temple.
All with chilling composure. This demonic-looking psychopath would sometimes take his victims to the ATM, then drive them home quietly. He wasn’t making any mistakes. He always wore gloves and a mask.
He refined his techniques, even tying his weapon with a rope to retrieve it if he ever dropped it in an argument. The people he terrorized saw only his dark eyes, two malicious little slits.
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Frank Iheanyi Dike, another victim of David Munroe, testifies in the series The persuit.
The persuit, a major investigation led by colleague Patrick Lagacé, is not inspired by true crime to the Making a Murderer, where twists and turns catapult history in unexpected directions. Septimus Neverson’s case was closed and tried in January 2020, after an interminable trial. The murderer will rot in prison for at least 25 years.
The high quality of The persuit, made by the same team as The last night, by Monic Néron, is to lift the veil on the investigative methods of the police forces who tried to capture Septimus Neverson with virtually no concrete clue.
After the first wave of crimes committed between May and October 2006 in the West Island, the detective sergeants had only a composite portrait and a blurred photo of the assailant, taken in a automatic teller machine. Their investigation stalled seriously before falling to neutral.
Because Neverson took a three-year hiatus to finally reoffend in 2009 by following the same modus operandi. Break and enter by sneaking through a window, balaclava, handgun, cable ties for victims, thefts and disappearance in the night.
Two innocuous things betrayed Septimus Nerveson. The woolen thread of one of his black gloves and a ladder. How and why ? It’s up to you to find out. Armed with these two thin leads, the cops managed to trace back to an anonymous informant who “had things to say”, to paraphrase Jean-René Dufort in Infoman.
The persuit brings together numerous testimonies from patrollers, investigators and even a profiler, in addition to visiting victims still traumatized by Neverson’s violent acts. It feels like the job of District 31, but in real life.
Special mention to the achievement of André St-Pierre (Second chance), very polished, never voyeur. A soft approach, which strikes as hard as a more frontal approach, let’s say.
Slip (again) Between two sheets !
I wrote it before and I will say it again: I love comedy Between two sheets on Noovo, which plays Wednesdays at 7:30 pm The writing of the sketches (by a collective of authors) breathes modernity and that changes us from series with a more traditional tone. I can replay certain sequences three times while laughing just as much.
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Guillaume Girard and Karine Gonthier-Hyndman in the series Between two sheets
My favorite couple remains that of overworked parents Marco and Virginie (Guillaume Girard and Karine Gonthier-Hyndman) followed very closely by JP and Simon (Simon Pigeon and Antoine Pilon), as well as Antoine and Lydia (Pier-Luc Funk and Virginie Ranger-Beauregard).
The addition of the couple of Jean-Pierre and Carole (Martin Drainville and Micheline Bernard), that is to say the parents of Thomas (Mathieu Pepper), makes it possible to cast an even wider net in the generations. They are awesome.
Also well liked the appearance of the father of Marie-Ève (Bénédicte Décary), played by Rémy Girard, as well as the visions of Lise (Guylaine Tremblay), the ex-wife of Luc (François Papineau). This is my candy of the week.