"Until You Are Dead": Steven Truscott's Long Ride into History
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (796 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0676973809 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 592 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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"That Smiling Face" according to Laura Ann Scaife. I was six years old when Lynne Harper died and Steven Truscott was sentenced to hang. At that age I had no idea what rape was, but I knew what murder was, and I simply could not connect the smiling face of the fourteen year old boy I saw in my father's newspaper with murder. Now, after reading Mr. Sher's terrific book, it makes sense. With two words Mr. Sher explained everything: frontier justice. And that's what Steven Truscott received. Back in 1959 people wanted the bad guy caught, tried and convicted as fast as possible. If the first guy they caught WAS the bad guy, . Amazon Customer said Wish I'd read this years ago. I devoured this book! Sad, tragic, unforgivable - a terrible piece of our Canadian history. I remember the story from my own childhood, as I am only slightly younger than Steven Truscott. But reading his tale had a huge impact on me. I am a mystery writer, writing about a character who is wrongfully convicted of murder. This book gave me the insight into the emotional scars that such an event leaves behind on absolutely everyone.. A Heart Wrenching Account of a True Story "Until You Are Dead" is a journalistic masterpeice. Julian Sher sets out to uncover the truth about one of Canada's most contraversial criminal cases. What he finds is a shocking story of haw one boy slipped through the cracks in the legal system and almost lost his life as a result. In this case, the facts arre far more astonishing, and appalling, than fiction.
Nor should anyone be complacent on the issue, for every time a case is closed with the wrongly accused, a killer is left free to roam among us. “Read this book. And we share his amazement, notwithstanding David Milgaard, Donald Marshall, Guy Paul Morin and Thomas Sophonow, all convicted until proven innocent Sher has written an important book. You will be jarred by the reality of our justice system. " — The Montreal Gazette, October 20, 2001"The CBC television producer who earned Truscott's trust and helped make a nati
Truscott readily agreed."Until You Are Dead” reveals witnesses not called upon to testify; other, more likely suspects, including a known pedophile, never questioned; and important leads that were kept from the defence, the judge and jurors. But on that hot summer day, when the body of a twelve-year-old girl turned up in a woody area near Clinton, Ontario, that innocence was shattered.The girl’s name was Lynne Harper and she had been raped and murdered. Now, in this gripping and shocking account, Sher gives us the full story of that investigation, including new material not revealed on television. If Sher and the fifth estate were to investigate one of Canada’s most contro