Murdered: Steven Johnson & Lucie Turmel

📍 Staffordshire, England 📍 Banff, Alberta, Canada 🎧 Chapter 28: The Final Trace of Steven Johnson & Lucie Turmel In 1990, on opposite sides of the world, two taxi drivers began ordinary night shifts — and never made it home. Steven Johnson was murdered in rural England. His case remains unsolved.Lucie Turmel was murdered in Banff, Alberta — and years later, science revealed her killer. Though they never knew each other, their stories share chilling similarities: last fares, isolated roads, and clues left behind in the dark. In this episode, we explore both cases side by side — one solved, one still waiting — and ask whether the same advances that brought justice for Lucie could one day bring answers for Steven. 🔎 EPISODE RESOURCES & FURTHER READINGSteven Johnson — Staffordshire, England (1990) BBC Crimewatch (case appeal & coverage)https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mg3c(Search archives reference Steven Johnson case; Crimewatch featured the murder in 1991) Staffordshire Police – Cold Case Appealshttps://www.staffordshire.police.uk(Search: “Steven Johnson taxi driver murder”) Unsolved UK Taxi Driver Murder Summaryhttps://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=660(Independent UK cold case archive referencing Steven Johnson) Lucie Turmel — Banff, Alberta, Canada (1990) Taxi-Library.org – Lucie Turmel Case Filehttps://www.taxi-library.org/canada/turmel-l.htm(Detailed timeline, evidence, conviction, and parole history) Global News – Ryan Jason Love parole coveragehttps://globalnews.ca(Search: “Ryan Jason Love Banff taxi driver murder parole”) Secrets of Forensic Science (2001 dramatization)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274295/(Episode dramatizing the forensic investigation; victim renamed in reenactment) Forensic & Legal Context RCMP & DNA Evidence in Canadian Lawhttps://www.justice.gc.ca(Criminal Code amendments influenced by forensic cases like Lucie Turmel’s) DNA Collection & Cold Case Breakthroughshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3547805/(Peer-reviewed overview of DNA’s role in cold case investigations) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices