Marie Belanger

Decades-old crime remembered at Scarborough library branch

It happened more than 50 years ago yet the story still elicits gasps. And Toronto-based author Nate Hendley wrote the book about it. “Imagine being a 14-year-old boy who takes a classmate on a bike ride one spring evening,” he said, reading from his book Steven Truscott: Decades of Injustice. “In the days to follow, the classmate is found dead and you stand accused of rape and murder.”