The main thing was that he was portraying himself as being a wealthy person. Tigner was hit on the head several times with a glass ashtray which probably caused a concussion, according to autopsy results. His death was caused by strangulation from a telephone cord. Tigner fought with his killers, but no one in the three-storey Lower Lonsdale apartment building heard anything. Death was estimated to have occurred between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m.
Police have DNA evidence in the case.
But DNA evidence alone will not prove a case in court. Investigators must make all the connections that place the suspects with the victim at the time of the murder. The day before Tigner died, he worked and then did some shopping at Pacific Centre Mall and on Granville Street. He came home to North Vancouver at supper time. Some time in the evening he went to the Westview shopping centre and bought liquor at the liquor store.