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📣 INÉDIT DANS CRIMES l Près de 50 ans pour résoudre une erreur judiciaire • La fin de l'affaire Steven Truscott 👇

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Why does doubt still persist 65 years later about what really happened to Lynn Harper in 1959?

The episode opens by noting the Steven Truscott case has lingered in Canadian memory for 65 years with persistent doubt. In 1966, journalist Isabelle Le Bourdet published a book criticizing the trial as a judicial error, which led Parliament to re-examine the file, though the Supreme Court upheld the verdict. Canada abolished the death penalty in 1976 amid public agitation from the case. In March 2000, a CBC documentary called "His World Against History" revealed police reports and child testimonies never presented at trial, including issues with witnesses Butch George and Jocelyne Gordet. The documentary showed police ignored inconsistencies, such as a farmer refusing to alter his testimony to match Jocelyne's. Police reports also mentioned potential scratches on the suspect from the victim, but Truscott had none. In 2001, the case reopened, and Lynn Harper's body was exhumed in 2006, though no usable DNA was found. Investigators re-evaluated the time of death, originally estimated by Dr. Peniston as 7:15-7:45 PM based on gastric content. New experts deemed this method unreliable, and a hidden report from Peniston widened the window to 12-48 hours. A medical report from Truscott's arrest showed no lesions, and an expert stated sexual assault rarely causes such injuries. All evidence was circumstantial, leading to Truscott's acquittal on August 28, 2007, at age 62, though he was not declared innocent. The episode then explores three alternative suspects never seriously investigated: Alexander Kalitschuk, a known pedophile aviator whose psychiatric file disappeared; Clayton Dennis, a base repairer with a rape conviction who fled after the murder; and Matthew Maron, an aviator later convicted of violence and abuse. The police may have ignored these men to protect the military base's reputation. Steven Truscott, now 81, lives peacefully, but the real killer remains unknown.

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