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True Crime: Lesser-Known Cases
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Description edit
A teen’s suspicious death, a shocking police cover-up and a mother’s search for the truth. In 1990, on a November night that hit –28 degrees Celsius, seventeen-year-old Neil Stonechild disappeared only blocks from his mother’s home. His frozen body was found three days later, eight kilometres... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Don Worme: A pathbreaking First Nations attorney
- Stella Bignell: Hardworking mother of a girl and four boys, who moved everyone to Saskatoon to give them the chance at a better life
- Norm Bignell: Raised Stella's children as if they were his own
- Neil Stonechild: Promising young man just getting out of his youthful-indiscretions phase
- Larry Hartwig: Nicknamed "Heartless" by his fellow police officers
- Lawrence Wegner: Young man with a bad anxiety problem and a worse drug habit
- Rodney Naistus: May have been hallucinating when he was last seen heading into his apartment
- Keith Jarvis: Taught note-taking to newer police officers
- Darrell Night: Broke the case wide open
Quotes edit
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“I don't need a lawyer, eh. I've done nothing wrong.”
Saskatoon police officer -
“When you answer to God, you can't take a lawyer with you. No lawyers where they're going.”
Stella Bignell
First Sentence edit
Early on the frigid morning of January 9, 1964, a curious four-year-old wandered about his new house, scouting his surroundings.
Glossary edit
- Starlight Tour: A bit of a local police tradition in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in which native people are picked up, driven out to the middle of nowhere and dropped off, forcing them to hike for miles to get back home
- Screen Test: Another regional police tradition in which the driver of a squad car hits the brakes suddenly, making the prisoner in the back seat slam into the metal screen between the passenger and the arresting officers
- Photogrammetry: The discipline of determining the exact measurements of an item in a photograph by comparing it to the known dimensions of another item in the same photo
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime: Lesser-Known Cases. (standard series)
This book is in True Crime: Race Hate. (community list)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House Canada
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0679313079
Page Count: 448
Publisher: Random House Canada
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0679313079
Page Count: 448
Notes for Parents edit
Reading Level: Young AdultsFine in most ways for young adults or the fully adult, but not an easy read for the squeamish -- contains autopsy photos.
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics
- Books › Nonfiction › Current Events
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