Lynne Harper, 12,
had been raped and strangled.
Police
photo of old bike tracks
Here is
the police photograph taken from the spot where Gord was standing.
It was a
central tenet of Steven Truscott's defence in the 1959 trial that
Lynne Harper
hitchhiked from the highway; it was a central principle
of the Crown's case that Lynne
was not the kind of girl who would do
that.
Police
gather near the crime scene
Officer
stands near the crime scene. Stakes mark the location of the body.
Woods where Lynne Harper's body was found
Ambulance waits to take Lynne Harper's body from the bush.
Steven Truscott peers out of a police car in 1966
as he arrives at the Supreme Court
for an appeal of his murder
conviction. The appeal was not successful.
Isabel LeBourdais, whose book raised questions about the Truscott
investigation,
talks with Steven Truscott in 1968 outside Collins
Bay Penitentiary.
Steven Truscott,
appearing on CBC’s The National in 2001, has always said he is
innocent.
Steven Truscott
Steven Truscott and his wife Marlene make their
way past a cameraman as they arrive at the Ontario
Court of Appeal
in Toronto, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007. Truscott expressed hope that
his nearly
half-century quest for exoneration had entered a final
chapter as the court resumed its review
of his 1959 murder
conviction.
