Colin Thatcher and the murder of JoAnn Wilson [replay]
3/28/20261 hr 11 min
A three-part series—A man walking home from work suddenly hears screams coming from a house... then a single sharp crack.
He follows the sound to the garage, where he finds a woman bleeding out on the floor.
It's JoAnn Wilson, mother of three and ex-wife of Colin Thatcher, a high-profile Saskatchewan politician.
Her murder was the tip of the iceberg of a decades-long saga that gripped the nation and drew comparison to the show Dallas — but would prove far darker than anything on TV.
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First 90 secondsEric Crosby0:00
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Kristi Lee· Host0:11
Hi there. I hope you're well. As I mentioned in the update a couple of weeks ago, this is a carefully selected replay from the archives as we prepare to return with new episodes in late April. Thanks so much for your patience. Many of us have watched Yellowstone, the glossy modern Western TV show about the fictional Dutton family ranch. There's a powerful family patriarch with a giant ego who becomes the governor of Montana. There's high stakes family disputes, calculating power and land grabs, and a lot of moral ambiguity. Eventually, all subtlety packed up and left the ranch. The characters became self-parodies, and storylines spun in circles like that spinny horse maneuver that creator Taylor Sheridan seemed obsessed with. Decades before Yellowstone, the TV show Dallas did something similar with the ruthless Ewing family's fictional oil and ranching empire in Texas. While Dallas also leaned into melodrama, a real-life version of that story was unfolding just over the Canadian border, and that's today's case. Colin Thatcher came from a prominent ranching