On the afternoon before her 20th birthday, Sian Simmonds, a hardworking student living in Surrey, British Columbia, was found dead in her basement suite. She had been shot and bludgeoned, her screams heard by nearby neighbors. Within days, police arrested David Schlender, who confessed that he had been hired to kill Sian in exchange for the forgiveness of a drug debt. The man who arranged the murder, Brian West, led investigators to an unexpected figure—the Simmonds family doctor, Josephakis Charalambous. Eighteen months earlier, Sian and her sister had accused Charalambous of sexual assault, and rather than face professional ruin, he ordered her death to silence her. The investigation exposed the respected physician as a predator who had hidden behind his medical reputation, and the murder of Sian Simmonds became one of the most shocking cases of betrayal and corruption in Canadian criminal history.