By Colin Thatcher
In 1984 Colin Thatcher was once convicted of killing his ex-wife and sentenced to lifestyles in legal. The homicide and trial provoked a countrywide media frenzy, casting the once-prominent Saskatchewan baby-kisser because the villain.
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Several questions and vague responses later it was apparent this was a waste of time and little more than construction workers' pub talk. Even Anderson seemed surprised. I started to walk away, disgusted by the poor con job. “We can lay one on Graham for you,” he said, trying to keep the conversation going. I said no thanks. “Or your wife,” he said as I opened my truck door. I stepped into my truck and followed Anderson's car out of the yard, where we went in opposite directions. Two or three weeks later I encountered Anderson in front of the Caron Post Office.
Pat Hammond, Sandra's brother, had seen me driving on Saskatchewan Street near my home in Moose Jaw sometime after 5:30. Both swore affidavits. Barbara's observation put me nearly sixty miles from the Wilson home a scant thirty minutes prior to the murder. I was unaware of the evidence of Barbara Wright and Pat Hammond at the time of my arrest. Fifteen months had elapsed since the murder, and my whereabouts on that momentous day had been unimportant until now. In addition, someone else had also seen me, an individual who had followed me on Highway 1 into Moose Jaw.
He seemed genuinely puzzled. As I recall, he was about to leave for La Ronge and mentioned the $500. He also inquired about the possibility of a job with Saskatchewan Mining and Development Corporation (SMDC), the province's uranium company, of which I was minister in charge. He said he would see me sometime in hunting season. However, our next encounter was bizarre. I pulled off Albert Street into the legislative grounds on a chilly late-October morning. A light overnight snow had covered the ground.
