RCMP Transmission of the Brutal Beheading Hits YouTube: Manitoba Victim's Family Speaks Out

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Barry Artiste. Now Public Contributor

Certainly distressing for a family who were the last to know about the brutal death and details of their son, yet YouTube have exclusive details of the entire event as RCMP arrived and witnessed a madman holding and eating a young man's severed head. 

How YouTube got the Radio transmission is under investigation to see if it was from their own communications forces or someone from the Public with a Police Radio scanner.

This is the first time the family has commented publicly on the death of their loved one Tim McLean.

http://www.thespec.com/news/article/413616

Family of beheaded man speaks out
August 03, 2008 Torstar News Service

WARNING: Contents may be disturbing to some readers.

WINNIPEG - A young man killed in a seemingly random attack aboard a Greyhound bus in Manitoba was a charmer who loved meeting people and saw the good in everyone, his family said, as they were still reeling not only from losing the 22-year-old, but from the horror of the way he died.

Tim McLean's family described the young carnival worker Saturday as a kind soul and a free spirit.

"Tim spent his life travelling and meeting new people and always saw the good in everyone," Alex McLean, Tim McLean's uncle, said, reading from a statement on behalf of the family.

"He was a little guy with a heart bigger than you could know."

Wednesday from Edmonton to Winnipeg told of seeing Tim McLean knifed to death and decapitated.

Also Saturday, a chilling recording of a radio transmission between RCMP officers responding to the killing received widespread attention on the Internet.

On the recording, one officer describes the suspect - who police code-named Badger, moving around the bus, which was barricaded by the driver and a passenger.

"Badger is armed with a knife and a pair of scissors and he is defiling the body at the front of the bus as we speak," an officer says on the transmission.

The approximately 80-second recording was posted on several websites, including YouTube, where it had registered more than 9,300 hits before it was made unavailable early Saturday afternoon.

The RCMP issued a news release stressing they had not given permission to use the transmission as they are "operational police communications and as such are not meant for public consumption."

"OK, Badger's at the back of the bus, hacking off pieces and eating it," the transmission ends.

Alone in the bus, the attacker carved up McLean's body and later came  to the front of the bus holding McLean's severed head, two witnesses reported.

Below is my time line of the entire event which occurred last Wednesday, July 31st, 2008 to time of this story on August 03, 2008.

I will also post more updates to follow as this story develops, as the trial is said to begin next week.

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/update-aug-04-08-man-stabbed-beheaded-manitoba-bus-hits-youtube