Wortman's 3 Mountie relatives seem to have kept their beliefs that he was a violent paranoid career criminal to themselves

How many relatives you got that are cops ? Me too.  How many of them are close relatives? Ditto, ditto.

Most of us are not career criminals with a violent, paranoid streak. And most of us don’t have any relatives that are cops - let alone a whole pile of close relatives that are cops.

But career-criminal-since-his-teens Gabriel Wortman had at least three relatives (that we know about so far) that were RCMP lifers : two uncles and a cousin !

Odd isn’t then that these police, who knew Gabe the very best of all - these cops who had grown up with him, were totally unable to convince their fellow officers to keep a extra-vigilant eye out for their wayward relative.

Far from it, Gabriel Wortman skated again and again away from crimes for which you and I would have been sent up river for a long stretch.

If I were a lawyer preparing a wrongful death civil suit I’d be looking very closely indeed at these three Mountie relatives to find out why their close personal knowledge of career criminal Wortman never seemed to have motivated their police force - or indeed any police force - to keep Gabriel front and centre on their “watch closely” list...