the fifth estate uncovers evidence that a possible suspect was never investigated by the OPP. more

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JOCEYLN GAUDET

Gaudet testified that she went to the bush looking for Steven that evening as part of the arrangement for the secret date. But these police notes, by Inspector Harold Graham, record that Jocelyn first said she'd been looking - not for Steven Truscott... but for Lynn Harper. See the police notes.

Jocelyn Gaudet testified that just before six on the evening of the murder Truscott stopped by her house to remind her of their date in the bush. However, the fifth estate discovered notes that cast doubt on that testimony. They're from an early interview with the police -- one of several -- and there's no reference at all to that visit. See the police notes.

There is evidence that it was Jocelyn herself who was interested in making dates. Another boy in the class, Gary Gilkes, testified that she had twice asked him to go into the bush to look for new-born calves. The fifth estate located Gilkes and asked him to elaborate:

Gary Gilkes

GILKES: Well there was a bunch standing at bunch of kids standing at the back of the classroom talking and when I came up to them, she turned around and started talking to me and asked me if I would had wanted to go to Bob Lawson's bush to look for calves.

MACINTYRE: That would've been a kind of date, wouldn't it?

GILKES: To me it was sort of asking me to go out there because as far as I ever knew there was no calf missing.