***SPOILERS*** True story of the biggest massacre of Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RCMP, in that country's history. It all began as a simple seizure of James Roszko's, Brian Maricinson, pick-up truck that he was late as much as six months in back payments. This soon mushroomed into a full scale firefight with Roszko opening fire on a squad of Canadian Mounties who were called in to help apprehend him! Roszko ended up killing four of them as they tried enter his farmhouse! What so unusual about all this is that Roszko was an accident just waiting to happen and what he ended up doing was anything but accidental.it was pre-planned and executed with deadly accuracy!
The made for TV movie "Menace" cuts back from the deadly incident at Mayerthrope on March 3, 2005 back to the period of 1992-1996 when Roszko was involved in pedophilia and illegal drug and gun running in the Canadian province of Alberta.
We get to see how Roszko was able to manipulate the justice system by intimidating those whom he preyed upon; teenage boys. Mixing with boys half his age Raszko started getting them involved in sex acts with him after winning over their confidence by buying them gifts and giving them free pot, that he grew in his farm, to get high on. Whenever one of his victims got out of line Roszko not only worked them over and threaten to kill them, with his arsenal of illegal firearms, but blackmailed them with photos he took of them preforming sex act on him! With of course Raszko's face was never seen in any of the photos!
It was local police Corporal Alex Stanton, Henry Czerny, who tried to get the very dangerous Roszko off the streets and behind bars before he eventually killed someone. No matter what Corporal Stanton did Roszko and his court appointed attorneys alway found a way to have the case thrown out court. The law finally caught up with Roszko over a very minor infraction, non-payment for a pick-up truck, of it which ended up costing the lives of four Canadian Mounties! It was in Roszko getting away with all the crimes he committed over the last 15 years that emboldened him to think that he was untouchable from the law! As things turned out Roszko was by him not any court of law or law enforcer doing to himself what the law should have done for some 15 years! Put him out of circulation once and for all!
The made for TV movie "Menace" cuts back from the deadly incident at Mayerthrope on March 3, 2005 back to the period of 1992-1996 when Roszko was involved in pedophilia and illegal drug and gun running in the Canadian province of Alberta.
We get to see how Roszko was able to manipulate the justice system by intimidating those whom he preyed upon; teenage boys. Mixing with boys half his age Raszko started getting them involved in sex acts with him after winning over their confidence by buying them gifts and giving them free pot, that he grew in his farm, to get high on. Whenever one of his victims got out of line Roszko not only worked them over and threaten to kill them, with his arsenal of illegal firearms, but blackmailed them with photos he took of them preforming sex act on him! With of course Raszko's face was never seen in any of the photos!
It was local police Corporal Alex Stanton, Henry Czerny, who tried to get the very dangerous Roszko off the streets and behind bars before he eventually killed someone. No matter what Corporal Stanton did Roszko and his court appointed attorneys alway found a way to have the case thrown out court. The law finally caught up with Roszko over a very minor infraction, non-payment for a pick-up truck, of it which ended up costing the lives of four Canadian Mounties! It was in Roszko getting away with all the crimes he committed over the last 15 years that emboldened him to think that he was untouchable from the law! As things turned out Roszko was by him not any court of law or law enforcer doing to himself what the law should have done for some 15 years! Put him out of circulation once and for all!