The Toronto Police Professional Standards-Investigative Unit is reviewing the conduct of the service in the case of Tess Richey. The brief announcement Monday gave no detail and speculation is flying in the media about just why this is being done. On CP24, there was a discussion of how and why police concluded that the death might be from natural causes. An autopsy revealed a crushed neck and homicide was called in. But the police have been most widely criticized over reports that they did not find the body during their preliminary search. That terrible duty fell to Ms Richey’s own mother, it is said. who came to Toronto from North Bay and conducted a search of Church St. with a friend. They found the young woman dead at the bottom of a stairwell of a vacant building. On social media, many people are asking why a police search did not find Tess first.
