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This is Christy, and welcome to Canadian True Crime, Episode 24, The Murder of Lynne Harper.

Before I begin, I wanted to say a big thank you to acclaimed Toronto true crime author Nate Henley

for being the primary writer of this episode,

which is based on his 2012 book, Stephen Truscott, Decades of Injustice.

Injustice. All of the cases I've covered have had elements of it.

Injustice because an innocent victim lost their life in a horrific way.

Injustice because of systemic racism, bias and intolerance.

Injustice because of people who didn't do their jobs properly.

Injustice because of poor medical and psychological treatment, on and on it goes.

And this story is no different.

In fact, it's one of those cases that is ingrained in the Canadian psyche, an important

tale with two separate injustices that have endured for decades.

The story begins with a tragedy that ended the life of a 12-year-old girl,

and, in the blink of an eye, a 14-year-old boy would find himself merged into the story

and their lives would be forever inextricably linked.

But this story would take on a whole new life of its own, going off in a new direction,

morphing from the devastating loss of a 12-year-old girl to being completely overshadowed

by what would become the longest legal drama in Canadian history.

So much so that many would actually forget her name.

Her name was Lynn Harper.

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