One hot summer day, the body of a twelve-year-old girl turned up in a woody area near Clinton, Ontario. The girl’s name was Lynne Harper and she had been raped and murdered. The summer was barely over before a popular schoolboy named Steven Truscott, fourteen years old at the time, was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang. Truscott spent ten years in prison after the federal cabinet commuted his death sentence. He has always maintained his innocence. From the news that a young girl had gone missing in 1959 to the efforts four decades later by lawyers -- those who assisted Guy Paul Morin and others -- preparing an application to the federal justice minister for a verdict of wrongful conviction, this is a thorough examination of the case that rocked the country, and the man who continues to reside at its centre.

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