Their families never accepted the official account of their deaths. Now police are taking another look [Video]

“Nothing’s the same as it was before,” says Jenni Wannamaker, not far from the waters of the Bay of Quinte where she lost her brother 10 years ago.

Wannamaker lives in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, about 220 kilometres southwest of Ottawa.

For the past decade, the First Nation has been grappling with the sudden deaths and subsequent police investigations of Wannamaker’s brother, 26-year-old Matty Fairman, and Tyler Maracle, 21.

In the early hours of April 26, 2015, Fairman and Maracle set out on the bay to do some spearfishing, but they never returned home.

There followed a community-wide search and an investigation that was initially led by Tyendinaga Mohawk Police before being handed over to Ontario Provincial Police (OPP).

According to OPP records, fishers found the bodies of Maracle and Fairman nearly two weeks later, …