“From the very outset, and by their own accounts, the investigative team assumed that (Markham’s) death was a suicide; reaching that conclusion before they had enough information to appropriately do so foreclosed any investigative avenues which might have led to different conclusions," the report said. “The investigative team neither challenged nor attempted to verify the account given by the deceased CPD member’s spouse (who was also a CPD member) of the events surrounding the deceased member’s death — despite their marriage having been marked by credit card debt, allegations of infidelity and volatile arguments.”