Kyle Unger

Kyle Unger

On Friday, June 22, 1990, nineteen-year-old Kyle Unger attended a rock music festival at a ski resort near his hometown of Roseisle, Manitoba. Brigitte Grenier, then sixteen years old and a high school classmate of Kyle’s, also attended the festival. Between midnight...
Sherry Sherret-Robinson

Sherry Sherret-Robinson

On January 23, 1996, Sherry Sherret-Robinson awoke to find her four-month-old son, Joshua, lying facedown in his playpen. Years later, she would write that “I will never forget the terror I felt when I reached down to pick him up and discovered that he was blue, and...
Romeo Phillion 

Romeo Phillion 

The story of Romeo’s wrongful conviction began on August 9, 1967, when a firefighter named Leopold Roy was stabbed to death by an unknown assailant. His wife, Mildred, described the man to Ottawa Police officers, who then placed Romeo and his identical twin brother,...
Jack White

Jack White

Jack White’s life has been marked by an astonishing series of horrific injustices. Jack was abandoned at birth by his mother and lived in foster homes until the age of nine. He was then diagnosed with a learning disability and placed in the Huronia Regional Centre, a...
Dinesh Kumar

Dinesh Kumar

Dinesh Kumar immigrated to Canada from India with his wife, Veena, and their son, Saurob, in 1991. Their second child, also a son, was born on February 11, 1992. They named him Gaurov. Unfortunately, Veena had a seizure on the day of Gaurov’s birth and was diagnosed...