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Jocelyne
Gaudet
Jocelyne
says she was looking for Steve alongside the bush where they
had a secret date.
No
child witness was more important for the prosecution's case
against Steven Truscott than Jocelyne Gaudet, a classmate.
She told jurors she went looking for Steven along the county
road on June 9 because they had a secret date to go into the
bush. The Crown suggested Steven was on the prowl and when
Jocelyne couldn't make the date, he chose Lynne as his victim.
But
the Crown withheld police notes that shed a different light
on her story:
Who
was Gaudet looking for?
Jocelyne testified that she went to the bush looking for Steven
that evening as part of the arrangement for the secret date.
But these police notes, by Inspector Harold Graham, record
that Jocelyn first told the police she'd been looking not
for Steven Truscott but for Lynne Harper:
No
mention of Steve's visit to her home.
Jocelyne testified Steve came by her house before supper,
but she told him she was not sure she could make it. The defense
and jury did not see Jocelyne's first full statement to the
police in which she makes no mention of Steve's visit to her
house.
Her
timing
Jocelyne claimed she went looking for Steven first at a farm
near the school, then went to the bush. But the police statement
given by the farmer, Bob Lawson, on June 25 indicates she
went to the bush first, before visiting his barn:
This
is important, because by all accounts that would put Jocelyne
near the bush between 7:15 and 7:20 and at the farm around
7:25 to 7:30 - precisely the time Steven says he headed down
the county road with Lynne. That could explain why Jocelyne
never saw Steve and Lynne.
Read
more about Jocelyne Gaudet in Chapter 11 and 19 of "Until
you are Dead."
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