On the early morning of January 7, 1922, the body of 24-year-old commerce student Raoul Delorme was discovered with six bullets in his neck and head on a frozen lot near Coolbrook and Snowdon Street in Montreal. The accused? His half-brother, Father Adélard Delorme of the Catholic Church, whose own testimony identified the victim. In a dramatic affair that challenged the power of the Church and introduced ballistic science in Canada’s courts, Detective Georges Farah-Lajoie led an investigation—yet after four trials between 1922 and 1924, Delorme was acquitted in October 1924. Despite a mountain of forensic and circumstantial evidence—including a large life-insurance policy taken out on Raoul just prior to his death—the priest walked free, and the case entered the annals of Canadian legal history as a “scandal” of faith, family and forensic firsts.