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Date of Murder
Steven Truscott, 14, takes his classmate Lynne Harper, 12, on a short bicycle ride near an air force base outside Clinton, Ont., about 180 km west of Toronto. -
Body Found
Searchers find Harper's body in a nearby wood. She had been raped and strangled. -
Steven Truscott is Arrested
Police arrest Truscott. -
Charged
Police charge Truscott in Harper's murder. -
Sentenced to Death
After 15-day trial, a jury finds Truscott guilty and he is sentenced to death. -
No More Death Penalty
The death penalty is commuted to life imprisonment. -
Spring of 1966
Isabel LeBourdais's The Trial of Steven Truscott questions the quick police investigation and trial procedures. The book sparks a public uproar and leads the federal government to ask for a Supreme Court review. -
Truscott Goes Public First Time
Truscott goes public for the first time, proclaiming his innocence in a documentary broadcast on the CBC's The Fifth Estate. The program unveils new evidence to suggest that police may have been too hasty in pinning the death on Truscott.