He needed to get stoned

On Monday, Ron Wilson told the Inquiry that he was dying to leave police custody because he needed to get stoned. CBC News reported that Ron took LSD every day for almost 20 years. Ironically, his memory of events is much clearer than that of Nicole John's.

Three months after Gail Miller's murder, the police picked up Ron in Regina, took him to Saskatoon, held him in jail and questioned him repeatedly. At that time, Wilson was taking LSD. Police drove him around the location where Gail's body had been discovered and showed him autopsy pictures of Gail and her blood-stained clothes. Ron sensed that the police wanted him to say that he and Milgaard had been separated for more than a few minutes in the alleyway; this would have given David time to have committed a murder.

Ron told the Inquiry that he had lied to law enforcement in order to get "all the heat" off him and get home as soon as possible. "I had to get stoned very quickly," he said. Naturally, Ron was also worried that the police would try to blame Gail Miller's death on him.

CBC News stated that by the time of David's trial, Ron had already served three terms in jail or prison. It wasn't until he stopped doing drugs in the 1980s that he realized how harmful his actions had been to David.

It's pretty sad when one of the most credible witnesses in an Inquiry was dropping acid every day for two decades! Really, how good can Ron Wilson's memory be? By definition, hallucinogens blur the line between reality and fantasy. Nicole, Ron, and Albert Cadrain were so impressionable when they were interrogated by the Saskatchewan police. They were young, they were scared and they were on drugs. No wonder they saved themselves by betraying David.