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Lynne's
Hitchhiking
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. The book "Until you
are Dead" reveals that the jurors never knew about three separate
OPP and military police reports that proved beyond a doubt
that her parents' first fears were indeed that Lynne had hitched
a ride to her grandmother's house in Port Stanley, Ontario.
According
to the official military logs the night Lynne disappeared,
the Lynne's father notified the air force police and they
sent this message to the police:
It
says: "Lynne Harper, age 12 years, five foot three inches
tall, 100 lbs. White print blouse, blue shorts. That she hadn't
been seen here since about 1900 hrs and that it was possible
she was hitchhiking to her grandmother's in Port Stanley,
Ontario."
Then
Cpl. William A.Webb at the RCAF guardhouse got a phone call
from Lynne's father at 11:25 p.m. Webb's knowledge of the
parents' fears their daughter hitchhiked to her grandmother's
house perhaps influenced his views on Steven's arrest and
subsequent conviction, because according to Bill Webb's family,
"he was convinced of Steven's innocence." Read his police
report on the call:
Lynne's
father reiterated his fear that his daughter had run away
when OPP Const. Donald Weston arrived at his house:
Read
more about Lynne's hitchhiking in Chapters 3 and 29 of "Until
you are Dead."
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