Steven Truscott: A story of Innocence

A Filmforce Original Documentary

Editing, Narration & Music by Evan Stephens

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Steven
• truscott
• murder
• lynne
• harper
• wrongfully
• convicted
• canada

[Honewsgirl]

ok....why is the Narrator trying to do a half assed impersonation of Alan Rickman?

[mystiesdream]

he was inniocent its not ru=ight on the justice system to do that

[joerush25]

hah this is like some ghetto school project

[thegirl44]

@lolitathebitch

Hypothetically, he drops Harper off at the crossroads, doubles back, rides a bit, looks back and sees her getting into the strange car, that was reported by others in the area. Being a kid and being late, home is his main objective but a sense of responsibility hits him later that night or early the next day, when everyone else is out looking, and he returns to where he last saw her and searches the area coming across the body. He said he saw the body, not that he killed her.

[thegirl44]

@SkInHoUnD

They had comparitive hair tests and they could blood type semen, if the donor was a secreter, in the 1950's. It doesn't make it any more likely that they would have collected or retained those samples, as they pretty much had Truscott fingered from the night it happened, but it wouldn't have made the collection of them "useless", as you said.

We had criminology method before DNA came along.

[thegirl44]

@lolitathebitch

Did you not understand the decomposition evidence in the review that said that the death could have occurred anywhere from sunset of the day of to well into the next day?

[malscott]

@malscott when was the polygraph offered that made the defence team say they would not submit if it was offered a long time down the road it could hardly be accurate wouldnt you agree?

[malscott]

@lolitathebitch well if i were a 14 year old boy living in the 50s as steven did. i dont think i would be sophisticated enough to offer to take one without it being offered. in the 80s 90s or 00s ya sure maybe i would 

[lolitathebitch]

@malscott Truscott's legal team said from the beginning that their client would NOT be taking a polygraph. So, not it wasn't offered. But, the question is "Why didn't Truscott offer to take a polygraph test if he was so innocent? I mean what did he have to lose? The last thing the OPP wanted to do was arrest a 14 year old kid. That guaranteed legal problems for them. I read the 1966 review of his case and his guilt to me is crystal clear.

[malscott]

@lolitathebitch i havent heard if a polygraph test was ever offered to steven. to my knowledge one wasnt submitted to court , has any one asked anyone if he was offered one or not.