As Murdoch digs deeper, he finds that other surviving jurors are meeting with "accidents." With the help of Dr. Julia Ogden (who is quietly dealing with her own emotional turmoil following her breakup with Murdoch), he reexamines the original case. Using new forensic techniques—including analyzing old wound patterns and ballistic evidence—Murdoch becomes convinced that Tom Jackson was framed.
Title: Poor Tom Is Cold – Grave Secrets and the Ghost of a Wrongful Hanging
It’s the dead of winter in Toronto, 1898. A local constable stumbles upon a strange sight in a cemetery: the frozen body of a man named Elias, propped up against a headstone, clutching a handful of pennies and a newspaper clipping about the long-dead thief Tom Jackson. Initially ruled as exposure, Murdoch suspects foul play when he discovers the victim was a juror in Jackson’s murder trial two decades prior.
