📍 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 Appeals
  https://www.staffordshire.police.uk
  (Search: “Steven Johnson taxi driver murder”)

• Unsolved UK Taxi Driver Murder Summary
  https://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 File
    https://www.taxi-library.org/canada/turmel-l.htm
    (Detailed timeline, evidence, conviction, and parole history)

  • Global News – Ryan Jason Love parole coverage
    https://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 Law
      https://www.justice.gc.ca
      (Criminal Code amendments influenced by forensic cases like Lucie Turmel’s)

    • DNA Collection & Cold Case Breakthroughs
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3547805/
      (Peer-reviewed overview of DNA’s role in cold case investigations)