Milgaard Inquiry

Saturday, August 27, 2005

Week in Review

There was a lot of activity this week. I'm going to break it down into a couple of posts.

Predictably, the police denied having made any association between Larry Fisher's serial rapes and the Miller rape and murder. Jack Wood, who was third in command in the Saskatoon police force at the time of the investigation, could not adequately explain why Fisher was tried in Regina when his assaults occurred in Saskatoon. Betty Ann Adam of the Star Phoenix reported that Wood claimed that he had never heard of Larry Fisher nor was he told that Fisher had confessed to a series of rapes in Winnipeg and Saskatoon.

Former police detective Eddy Karst of Saskatoon heard Fisher's confession yet never connected it with the Miller murder although Gail's file mentioned a serial rapist, and Fisher stated that his sex crimes occurred close to the Miller rape location. This information about Fisher was available at the time of David's first appeal. If Karst had informed his superiors about Fisher's activities, David may have won his case and could have been spared almost two decades of misery.

Everyone passed the buck. Karst said that he thought that Charles Short had been the supervisor, and Wood had been officially in charge of the investigation. Wood said that Detective Sergeant's Ray Mackie and George Reid were in charge. Sounds very Clintonesque. (E.g. "I've never been involved with that Lewinsky woman.")

Fisher's actual confession can no longer be found. It is not on record, so we don't know what he actually said.

Sigrid Macdonald

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