Colin Thatcher and the Murder of JoAnn Wilson [3]
Canadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
[Part 3 of 3] Accusations of coaching witnesses and shaky alibis are levelled at the defenders and supporters of Colin Thatcher. His own contribution from the stand? Deny, deny, deny. And though the jury comes to a verdict, this story doesn’t end there.
*Additional content warning: this episode contains mentions of domestic abuse.
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| 0:35.6 | Apparently we're more productive at work after a good holiday. |
| 0:43.2 | So I'm counting this Caribbean rum distillery tour as professional development. |
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| 1:23.2 | This is the final part of a three-part series. |
| 1:35.5 | 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 |
| 1:45.9 | arranging to have Joanne killed. There was the recorded conversation with Gary and statements |
| 1:52.0 | reported by Colin's Palm Springs girlfriend, Lynn Mandel. There was his purchase of a revolver, |
| 1:58.7 | special ammunition and a holster in the United States, |
| 2:02.6 | which Lynn said had been hidden in a Barbie doll shower box and taken to Canada, |
| 2:07.7 | and the fact that the police found those items at his home in Moose Jaw. |
| 2:12.2 | There was the blue Oldsmobile seen surveilling Joanne's house in the days before she was murdered that matched |
| 2:18.8 | a car that Colin Thatcher had borrowed from the government, and the fact that his credit card |
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