People Who Were Incarcerated For Crimes They Didn’t Commit

Steve Truscott, 14, Gave A Classmate A Bike Ride & Was Accused Of Raping & Killing Her

Canadian man Steven Murray Truscott was convicted of raping and murdering his classmate Lynne Harper in 1959. Steve, 14, had given her a ride on his bicycle and was the last person to see her alive. He was initially sentenced to death by hanging, but his sentence was later commuted to life in prison. He was given parole in 1969. Although he became a free man again, Truscott spent almost 50 years seeking justice to clear his name. In 2007, he was acquitted by the Ontario Court of Appeal due to the fact that forensic evidence submitted during his trial was much weaker than it appeared to be.

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