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D'Amour Road
by
Sigrid
Macdonald
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Epilogue
This book is dedicated to Louise Ellis, an acquaintance of mine who was killed by her partner in 1995. Her death has haunted me for many years, as has the plight of other women and children who have gone missing.
I met Louise in 1993. We both shared an interest in the wrongful conviction of David Milgaard. At the tender age of 16, David was accused of raping and murdering Gail Miller, a young nursing aide in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He spent 23 tortuous years behind bars while his mother, Joyce, launched a one-woman campaign to free her son. Nicknamed by Homemaker Magazine as the "Gumshoe Mom," Joyce took David's case right up to the Supreme Court, along with lawyers Hersh Wolch and David Asper.
In 1992, the court ruled that keeping Milgaard in prison would constitute a miscarriage of justice, given the fact that the original witnesses, who had spoken up against Milgaard at his trial in January of 1970, had retracted their testimonies. They were frightened and confused teenagers at the time of Gail Miller's death, and had been coerced by the police into implicating Milgaard.
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