In 2005, there were doubts swirling around the Chief Coroner’s Office in Ontario. Cases were coming to light about suspicious child deaths and the potential of wrongful convictions. Go into depth about forensic pathology, the systems that makeup death investigations in Canada, and the man behind many wrongful convictions.
Content warnings: death, dissection, murder, sexual assault, discussed child abuse
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