Conspiracy of Silence by Lisa Preist is about the life of four boys after murdering a native girl name Betty Osborne just outside of The Pas. There were pieces of evidence to prove who killed Betty, but only a small amount of the evidence would hold up in a court of law. Elements of racism run throughout Conspiracy of Silence, and those racist threads played a significant role in the outcome of the trial. Racist themes are evident in every portion of the book.
             In Conspiracy of Silence, much evidence can prove who did or did not murder Betty Osborne. Evidence will assure that justice is served by anyone involved in the murder. One of the first pieces of evidence found was a cab driver seeing a car leaving the area of the murder that night. He managed to remember two numbers of the numbers on the license plate; 42. The police used a method very rarely used in a police investigation; they hypnotized him to recall that night to find new information. It worked, and he remembered four numbers of the license plate in sequence; 5342. This led them to the second piece of evidence, the death car. This was substantial evidence seven months after the murder. They only found a few hairs with similar characteristics to Betty Osborne's, proving that maybe sometime before her death, she had been in the car. They also found a small bloodstain, but they could only prove that it was human blood. Also, they found their third piece of evidence, a bra strap under the back seat of the car. They got an expert to fit the strap with the correct size and got the match 32AA, style 122. That was the exact size found at the murder scene that the victim was wearing. Now they had excellent physical evidence that Betty Osborne had been in the car that night. One of the very last pieces of evidence ever discovered was probably the most important information in the trial. In 1985 Andrea Wiwcharuk told police what she had heard about the murder from Dwayne John...