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The skid tracks
What Gord Logan could see
Lynne's hitchhiking
The missing witness
Jocelyne Gaudet
The Kalichuk file
The other men
The June 11th bulletin
Doctored evidence
The lab reportAgonizing reappraisalThe lab report
Maps
The 1959 headlines
The arrest
The death penalty

"Until You Are Dead" combs through hundreds of boxes of police and prosecution records to unearth evidence that the jurors of 1959 -- and later the Supreme Court justice of 1966 -- never heard or saw.

Physical evidence

The bike and tire skid tracks
Why did the prosecution concentrate on bike tracks found on the trail leading to the bush where Lynne's body was found - tracks police officers admitted were made days before the murder - but ignore fresh car tire skid marks?

What Gord Logan could see
The prosecution claimed a boy who said he saw Steven and Lynne cross the bridge was too far away to identify anyone. But later police tests proved otherwise.

Oral evidence

Lynne's Hitchhiking
Lynne Harper's parents testified their daughter did not hitchhike. But three separate police reports the night she disappeared prove otherwise.

The missing witness
The Crown kept hidden a crucial witness who said she saw Steve and Lynne riding down the county road on the way to the highway.

Jocelyne Gaudet
She was the most important child witness to testify against Steven, but police notes reveal gaping holes in her story

The other suspects

The Kalichuk file
He had tried to lure a young girl into his car days before Lynne Harper was murdered. Read the secret military files on the air force sergeant classified as a "sexual pervert."

The other men
Police and prosecution files reveal other leads never seriously pursued

The June 11 bulletin
On Thursday night, June 11, 1959, the OPP issued a bulletin on Lynne's murder. See how the police viewed the case before they zeroed in on Steven Truscott.

Doctoring the evidence

The lab report

The pathologist's "agonizing reappraisal"
His testimony on time of death was central to convicting Steven Truscott. But read the stunning reversal Dr. John Penistan made in a 1966 article that was kept under wraps for decades .

 

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