John Schneeberger

The case also inspired works of fiction, including "Serendipity", a fifth season episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and the first episode of the 2009 Japanese drama Kiina.

In 2003, Schneeberger was released on parole after serving four years in prison. He was stripped of his Canadian citizenship (granted in 1993) due to having obtained his citizenship illegally, as he had lied to a Canadian citizenship judge in claiming that he was not the subject of a police investigation. In December 2003, Canada authorities revoked his citizenship and ordered his deportation. Being a permanent resident of South Africa, he was returned there in July 2004. He moved to Durban to live with his mother. According to a report by the Mercury News in Durban, Schneeberger applied to the Health Professions Council of South Africa to work in medicine less than three weeks after his arrival in Durban. The Council was considering the former doctor's registration until Schneeberger suddenly withdrew it in mid-October.

His case was depicted in a 2003 true crime series, 72 Hours ("The Good Doctor") on CBC, and in Canadian film, I Accuse. It was also featured in an episode of Forensic Files ('Bad Blood') on Court TV, now TruTV.

The case was featured on Autopsy episode 7, "Dead Men Talking" (2001) on HBO.

During his 1999 trial, Schneeberger revealed the method he used to foil the DNA tests. He implanted a 15 cm Penrose drain filled with another man's blood and anticoagulants in his arm. During tests, he tricked the laboratory technician into taking the blood sample from the place the tube was planted.

In 1997, Lisa Schneeberger found out that her husband had repeatedly drugged and raped her 15-year-old daughter from her first marriage. She reported him to the police, who ordered a fourth DNA test. This time, multiple samples were taken: blood, mouth swab, and hair follicle. All three matched the rapist's semen.

Schneeberger's blood sample was, however, found not to match the samples of the alleged rapist's semen, thus clearing him of suspicion. In 1993, at the victim's request, the test was repeated, but the result was negative, as well. In 1994, the case was closed.

On the night of 31 October 1992, Schneeberger sedated his 23-year-old patient, Candice (known by Forensic Files as simply "Candy") , and raped her. While Versed—the sedative he used—has a strong amnesic effect, Candice was still able to remember the rape. She reported the crime to the police.

In 1991, he married Lisa Dillman who had two children from a previous marriage. Schneeberger and Dillman had two daughters during their marriage. In 1993, he acquired Canadian citizenship and still retained his other citizenship.

John Schneeberger was raised in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and received his medical degree at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. In 1987, he moved to Canada. He lived in the town of Kipling, Saskatchewan and practiced in the Kipling Medical Centre.

John Schneeberger (born 1961) is a North Rhodesian-born former physician who drugged and raped one of his female patients and his stepdaughter while a physician in Canada. For years, he evaded arrest by planting a fake blood sample inside his own body to confound DNA tests.