For years after West’s conviction for the Moorby/Ferguson murders, police investigations carried on in an attempt to establish West as the perpetrator of the egregious murders at the roadside stop on the Trans Canada Highway. “However,” Inspector Don MacNeil would explain, “we couldn’t get enough on West to give to the Crown Attorney, in fact, we were told that we unless we could put West in the motorhome, through trace evidence, there wasn’t enough”.