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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.
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Searchers find Harper's body in a nearby wood. She had been raped and strangled.
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Police arrest Truscott.
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Police charge Truscott in Harper's murder.
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After 15-day trial, a jury finds Truscott guilty and he is sentenced to death.
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The death penalty is commuted to life imprisonment.
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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.
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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.
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