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The June 11 Police Bulletin
Sometime
during that evening of June 11, the OPP issued a "General
Information Broadcast" to alert police across the province
about Lynne's assailant. The only copy of that bulletin in
the police files is in Graham's handwriting:
This
document remained hidden in police files. It was a revealing
snapshot of how Graham and the police first saw Lynne's murder.
The
police were apparently aware that Lynne's killer had scratches
on his "face, neck, hands and arms." They passed these suspicions
on to the media: "Face of Killer Scratched," ran the headline
on this front page, June 12 article in the Globe and Mail.
The
emphasis on scratches to the killer's face and arms would
suddenly disappear once they arrested an unblemished fourteen-year-old.
Another
item in Graham's General Information Broadcast was the time
of death he selected. Graham was explicit that Lynne's murder
was "believed to have taken place around 9:00 p.m."
Any
reference to the 9 p.m. time of death vanished from the police
case history once they arrested Steve. Steve, after all, was
safe at home babysitting at the time when, according to Graham's
bulletin, Lynne's assailant was murdering her. Find out more
about the time of death.
Read
more about the June 11 bulletin in Chapters 6 and 30 of "Until
you are Dead"
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