After about a four-year hiatus from my semi-professional work on stage and screen, last fall I accepted a role in a community theatre production of My Darling Judith. Then in the winter I rejoined Mystery Unlimited in London to perform in mystery dinner theatre productions.
This weekend, my son (David Ricardo Palmer) and I will both be doing some acting for a television documentary (acting? for a documentary? if that makes little sense, read on).
From the producer:
We are a crime recreation show called Extreme Forensics, we are based in NYC though we film all over the country and our show is syndicated all over the world. We are filming in Clinton Ontario this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. ... Our episode features the Steven Truscott case. [link added]
They've cast me as a pathologist and my son as a police officer. From Wikipaedia,
Steven Murray Truscott (born January 18, 1945 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian man who was sentenced to death in 1959, when he was a 14-year old student, for the alleged murder of classmate Lynne Harper. His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and he continued to maintain his innocence until 2007, when his conviction was declared a miscarriage of justice and he was formally acquitted of the crime.
The murder occurred on the outskirts of my present hometown, Clinton, Ontario, which is why this episode of Extreme Forensics is being filmed here.