Professor Who Taught David Milgaard in Prison Reflects on His Story

Professor Who Taught David Milgaard in Prison Reflects on His Story
David Milgaard in a file photo. The Canadian Press
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When Carleton criminology professor Darryl Davies taught a sociology course at a Saskatchewan penitentiary in 1976, he had no idea that one of their convictions would be famously overturned.

Davies’ former student, David Milgaard, died at the age of 69 in Cochrane, Alberta on May 15. But in 1969, Milgaard was a 16-year-old Winnipeg boy passing through Saskatchewan with friends. The time coincided with the discovery of nurse Gail Miller’s body in a Saskatoon snowbank.

Lee Harding
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Lee Harding is a journalist and think tank researcher based in Saskatchewan, and a contributor to The Epoch Times.
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