David Milgaard

Analysis of the Case

Canadian teenager David Milgaard was wrongfully convicted for the murder and rape of nursing assistant Gail Miller at the age of 16. In January 1969 David and his friends took a trip across Canada, with drugs on them. While Milgaard was outside Aylesbury, Saskatchewan, his friends were picking up a friend Albert Cadrain at Saskatoon. This was the same location where a 20 year-old nurse was raped and stabbed to death in a back alley. Cadrain, who was interested in the money of $2000 as reward for information, testified that he had seen Milgaard return the night ...