"At the End of My Rope"

Joyce Milgaard said that she was at the end of her rope in 1990 while she was waiting for the Section 690 to be reviewed by the federal Justice Department. She continued with her quest to free her son and was fortunate enough to receive an anonymous tip through her lawyer, from a man who claimed that Larry Fisher had killed Gail Miller.

Private eye, Paul Henderson from Seattle, accompanied Joyce on a trip to Saskatchewan in the to interview Linda Fisher, Larry Fisher's ex-wife. Linda explained that her husband had acted strangely on the morning of Miller's death. She had even laughingly accused him of killing Miller and Larry Fisher turned white; this reaction puzzled and worried her. Linda Fisher was also missing her kitchen paring knife and it was known that Gail Miller was stabbed to death repeatedly with such an instrument. She had reported this to the police but nothing was done about it.

CBC Saskatchewan quoted Joyce as saying, "Chills just went up and down my spine when she gave me that information," she said. "I went out of there saying, 'We are going to get you out David, we are going to get you out.'"

Joyce reiterated her conviction at that time that she was getting nowhere with the criminal justice system -- especially after she had been dismissed by Kim Campbell when she had approached the Justice Minister in person in order to hand her a report by a forensic pathologist that Joyce thought established David's innocence. Rebuffed, Joyce concluded that the best way to obtain justice for her son was to reach out to the media.

Sigrid Mac