Colin Thatcher and the murder of JoAnn Wilson [3]
3/30/20261 hr 22 min
[Part 3 of 3] A surprise witness comes forward to testify against Colin Thatcher. His own contribution from the stand? Deny, deny, deny. Even after the jury reaches a verdict, Thatcher continues to make headlines for decades to come...
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First 90 secondsEric Crosby0:00
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Kristi Lee· Host0:15
Where we left off, it was 1984, and Colin Thatcher was on trial for the murder of his ex-wife, Joanne Wilson. The Crown had finished laying out its case, which included testimony about the various statements Colin gave to Gary Anderson and Charles Wilde about arranging to have Joanne killed. There was the recorded conversation with Gary, and statements reported by Colin's Palm Springs girlfriend, Lynn Mendell. There was his purchase of a revolver, special ammunition, and a holster in the United States, which Lynn said had been hidden in a Barbie doll shower box and taken to Canada, and the fact that the police found those items at his home in Moose Jaw. There was the blue Oldsmobile seen surveilling Joanne's house in the days before she was murdered that matched a car that Colin Thatcher had borrowed from the government, and the fact that his credit card receipt was found feet from the crime scene when it had no reason to be there. But there was one more surprise witness that the Crown hadn't banked on, and he likely wouldn't have come forward had he not had a chance encounter with investigators