Watergate Revisited

Constable Rusty Chartier told the inquiry that he and his partner were asked by detectives to secretly record polygraph tests on two of David's friends.

It was during those crucial interviews that the teenagers first stated that David was involved in Gail Miller's murder. However, the device that Chartier employed did not work particularly well and the quality of the audio was not good. Is it any surprise to those of us who have followed the Milgaard case over the years that these tapes have since disappeared? Consequently, they cannot be viewed by the inquiry. Disgraceful!

Chartier testified that installing "bugs" was common in his job with National Criminal Intelligence, but much of that work had to do with organized crime, not murder. Sounds as though he and his pals went a bit overboard in the Miller case.

Sigrid Macdonald