A Doctor’s Blood

John Schneeberger was a doctor from southern Africa who settled in Kipling, a small farming town in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was well liked, married to a local woman named Lisa.

On Halloween night in 1992, a 23-year-old patient named Candice came to him for treatment. He sedated her and sexually assaulted her. She went to police, but when Schneeberger’s blood was drawn that November, it did not match the evidence. He had placed a thin tube filled with another man’s blood under the skin of his arm and insisted the sample come from that arm. A second test in 1993 gave the same result. Candice kept pressing the case and hired a private investigator, whose covert sample did match, but police could not use it as evidence.

The deception fell apart in 1997, when Lisa learned he had also drugged and assaulted her teenage daughter. New samples of his blood, saliva and hair matched the evidence. In 1999 he was convicted of sexual assault, administering a drug and obstruction of justice, and sentenced to six years. He was paroled in 2003, lost his medical licence and his Canadian citizenship, and was deported to South Africa in July 2004.