{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/60da2c841b25ce001aee112e/68eadefaa1ee1b85d314dde2?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Murder of Wayne Mallette and the Wrongful Conviction of Ron Moffatt","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60da2c841b25ce001aee112e/1760222549922-88e77ab9-9438-4190-a012-038bc5da9b69.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Seven-year-old Wayne Mallette vanished on the deserted grounds of Toronto’s Canadian National Exhibition on September 15, 1956. Within days, police zeroed in on 14-year-old Ron Moffatt, extracting a confession during a parent- and lawyer-free interrogation and securing a juvenile conviction—while the real predator, Peter Woodcock, remained free to kill again. In this episode, we trace the investigation, the tunnel vision that led to a wrongful conviction, and the 1957 courtroom turn that cleared Moffatt.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We’re joined by journalist and author Nate Hendley, whose book The Boy on the Bicycle documents the case and its legacy in Canadian justice: https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-boy-on-the-bicycle-a-forgotten-case-of-wrongful-conviction-in-toronto/9781988274515.html</p><p>--</p><p>This podcast is recorded on the territories of the Coast Salish people.</p><p>Music Composed by: Sayer Roberts - https://soundcloud.com/user-135673977 // shorturl.at/mFPZ0</p><p>Subscribe to TNTC+ on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/TNTC</p><p>Join our Patreon: www.patreon.com/tntcpod</p><p>Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/true-north-true-crime?ref_id=24376</p><p>Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tntcpod/</p><p>Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/truenorthtruecrime</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"truenorthtruecrime"}