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Rocky Rambo Wei Nam Kam was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Dianna Mah-Jones and Richard Jones in Vancouver, British Columbia, and sentenced to life imprisonment with no eligibility to apply for parole for 25 years.

Mah-Jones, 64, was an occupational therapist, and her husband, Jones, 68, was retired. They lived near West 64th Avenue and Hudson Street in the Marpole area of south Vancouver. Kam, who was 27 by the time of his trial, lived in the same part of the city, but no connection between him and the couple was established in the evidence or reporting. Crown counsel Daniel Mulligan told the court the motive was straightforward: "He wanted to experience killing someone."

Vancouver police found the couple dead inside their home in late September 2017. The charges and most reporting place the killings on September 27, 2017, though some accounts date the attack to September 26. Both bodies were stacked in a shower stall. Officers described the scene as catastrophic. Jones had been struck with a hatchet and suffered more than 100 slash and stab wounds. Mah-Jones had her throat cut.

Kam testified that he attacked them elsewhere in the house before moving their bodies to the shower. He said he took about 30 dollars, a lighter, a pager and vehicle keys. He also said he drank milk and ate a peach before leaving.

Investigators traced the bar code on a hatchet left at the scene to a specific Canadian Tire outlet. Store surveillance video showed a man buying a hatchet, gloves and a baseball cap in the days before the killings. Police identified him as Kam and conducted a stakeout lasting about a month. An undercover officer obtained a DNA sample without alerting him by asking for help opening a bottle of water. Kam's DNA was found under Mah-Jones's fingernails and on a knife from the scene, while her blood was found inside the hinge of his glasses. The Vancouver Police Department later said the case involved more than 240 employees, more than 1,000 canvassed locations and roughly 600,000 dollars.

Police arrested Kam on November 6, 2017, about six weeks after the killings. Sergeant Leah Terpsma of the Vancouver Police Department interviewed him that day. Kam admitted nothing, repeatedly said he had nothing to say and did not want to talk about it, and questioned Terpsma about her age and years of service. He ate a chicken sandwich as officers showed him crime scene photographs. Terpsma told him the odds were about one in 19 billion that the DNA profile was not his. The recording became a trial exhibit and was later released publicly.

Kam pleaded not guilty but testified in his own defence and admitted killing both victims. His lawyer conceded manslaughter while arguing that the Crown had not proved the intent required for murder. The defence relied on a clinical psychologist who described a "gaming consciousness" state brought on by Kam's obsession with violent video games. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Laura Gerow gave that evidence little or no weight. She found that Kam acted with purpose and foresight and that his conduct was goal oriented, citing his purchase of the hatchet, gloves and hat about two weeks beforehand and internet searches for crime scene cleanup, stun guns and drugs to knock people out. She found him guilty on both counts on June 11, 2020.

Kam was sentenced on July 28, 2020. The Crown sought consecutive parole ineligibility periods totaling 50 years, but Gerow ordered them served concurrently. She called 50 years unduly long and harsh and found insufficient evidence that Kam would be a danger to the community in 25 years. No appeal has been reported.

The video is a police interview-room recording posted here in two parts, totaling about 182 minutes. It contains the interview itself without narration or a presenter, but covers only the first portion of an interview described in trial reporting as lasting about eight hours and listed by the uploader as nine hours.

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Part 2 of 2 of the recording described above.