Colin Thatcher and the Murder of JoAnn Wilson [2]
Canadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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[Part 2 of 3] After JoAnn Wilson was shot in the shoulder in her kitchen, she backed down from the custody fight. Colin Thatcher was rewarded for outlasting her, but his fixation was far from over. A series of witnesses would come forward with information almost impossible to believe, revealing a political liability hiding a multitude of secrets behind closed doors.
*Additional content warning: this episode contains mentions of domestic abuse.
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| 1:23.1 | This is part two of a three-part series. Where we left off, Joanne Wilson had divorced Colin |
| 1:30.6 | Thatcher and remarried, but their custody and property settlement had turned into a bitter |
| 1:35.9 | fight that lasted several years, because he refused to compromise. After Joanne was shot |
| 1:42.3 | in the shoulder in her own kitchen, she realized the personal cost she |
| 1:46.7 | was paying to stand up to her ex-husband was becoming too high, and she backed down. Colin had |
| 1:53.8 | outlasted her in the battle, and he was rewarded by getting what he wanted by default, custody of both of their boys. |
| 2:03.6 | In the following year's provincial election, not only was Colin Thatcher re-elected as the MLA for Thunder Creek, |
| 2:11.6 | but the incoming Premier Grant Devine named him Minister of Energy and Mines, a prestigious government position. |
| 2:21.1 | Five months after that, Colin arranged an abandoned farm meeting with his associate, Gary Anderson, |
| 2:27.8 | who would tell police that Colin gave him a magnum revolver and asked him to have a silencer made for it. |
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