Morrow traces the role of DNA evidence in two groundbreaking murder cases involving young girls killed two decades apart in the same town. In 1977, the industrial town of Port Alberni was shaken by the brutal murder of twelve-year-old Carolyn Lee, who had been abducted while walking home from her dance class. In 1996, the town was devastated again when eleven-year-old Jessica States disappeared while chasing foul balls at a local fast-pitch game, her lifeless body later found beaten in the woods. At the time of States's murder, Shayne Morrow was working as a reporter for the Alberni Valley Times. His interest in forensic science led him to cover the States case and relate it back to the Lee case, which had gone unsolved for years. Emerging DNA technology in the mid-1990s led to a renewed interest in the Lee case and ultimately to the conviction of her killer, Gurmit Singh Dhillon, in 1998. The technological mechanisms put in place during that case would lay the groundwork for the capture of States's killer, Roderick Patten, a year later.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2019.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 364.152/3097112
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-bc
- ISBN
- 9781772032475 9781772032505
- LCCN
- HV6535.C33
- LCCN Item number
- P634 2019eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (209 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00239899 (OCoLC)1110065989 (CaOOCEL)457550
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- DNA and the pursuit of justice in a frontier town
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Introduction 8
- Step Back in Time 14
- Enter the Bulldog 20
- Canada Enters the DNA Age 44
- Slow Progress in Boomtown 58
- The Law Catches Up with Science 71
- Echoes of a Nightmare 76
- A Double Landmark 94
- Landmark Trial Moves Forward 116
- Suspect on Ice 145
- Boy Tried as Man 173
- Epilogue 200
- Acknowledgements 212
- Afterword 214
- Index 216
