Marlene

Marlene Truscott is Canada’s Erin Brockovich, an ordinary housewife who fought for justice and for her husband Steven Truscott to be exonerated from a crime he did not commit.

The Truscott story became an international story when a 14 year old schoolboy was sentenced to hang for killing and raping a 12 year schoolmate.

Marlene became involved in the fight for justice at a young age, and when Steven was released on parole after 10 years, she met him and eventually fell in love with him. But the couple had to live a life of hiding as their children grew up, and Marlene couldn’t let the story die, determined that the truth would some day come out.

Steven’s case was truly a miscarriage of justice, as the police fingered Steven and ignored any evidence that pointed anywhere else, a story repeated to this day, as many innocents languish in jail. A very female story about an extraordinary woman.