ABSTRACT
Steven Truscott maintained a low profile in Guelph until 2000, when a production on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Television's The Fifth Estate revived interest in his case. As with Mrs. Isabel LeBourdais's book thirty-four years earlier, the program suggested that significant evidence in favor of Steven's innocence had been ignored at the original trial. The task of demonstrating innocence is particularly difficult in case where in addition to the passage of almost a half-century since the crime, certain immutable facts cast some suspicion on the appellant. The Ontario Provincial Police assigned Criminal Investigation Branch Inspector Harold Graham, a very experienced homicide investigator, to the case. He immediately focused on Steven, simply because he was the last person seen with Lynne. On the evening of June 12, Steven was taken into custody and early on June 13, Steven Truscott was charged with murder. The clothing Steven had been wearing on June 9 was seized by the Ontario Provincial Police on June 12.
