John Schneeberger (born 1961) is a North Rhodesian-born criminal who drugged and sexually assaulted one of his female patients and also his stepdaughter while working as a physician in Canada.
For years, he evaded arrest by implanting a fake blood sample inside a plastic tube in his arm, which confounded DNA test results.
John Schneeberger was raised in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and received his medical degree at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
[2] On the night of 31 October 1992, Schneeberger sedated his 23-year-old patient, Candice (known on Forensic Files as "Candy"), and sexually assaulted her.
[3] Candy, still convinced that her recollections were true, hired Larry O'Brien, a private detective, to investigate the case.
[4] He broke into Schneeberger's car and obtained another DNA sample, which this time matched the semen on the victim's underwear and pants.
He was found guilty of sexual assault, of administering a noxious substance, and of obstruction of justice, and received a six-year prison sentence.
[8] His case was depicted in a 2003 true crime series, 72 Hours ("The Good Doctor") on CBC, and in a Canadian film, I Accuse.