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Since I started Canadian true crime, there have been a few cases that listeners never stop asking about.

One name comes up again and again, Guy Paul Moran. His wrongful conviction

captivated the nation for decades, becoming one of the most high-profile miscarriages of

justice in Canadian history. In 1985, police charged him with the abduction and murder of

nine-year-old Christine Jessop,

his neighbor in a small rural village north of Toronto.

For the Jessop family, devastated by their loss,

the arrest seemed like the first step towards justice.

But what followed was a media circus.

Headlines twisted facts, speculation became truth,

and both families, the grieving Jessop's and the accused Morans, were pulled into years of

pain and public scrutiny. Eventually, fresh evidence surfaced that proved what Guy Paul Moran had always said.

He was innocent.

His harrowing story of resilience in the face of decades of injustice exposed deep flaws in our justice

and helped spark meaningful reforms.

But Moran's exoneration laid bare a terrifying truth. The real killer was

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