A Canadian Tragedy
A Canadian Tragedy (Revised): JoAnn and Colin Thatcher: A Story of Love and Hate (Revised) Maggie Siggins,
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 077108059X
DDC: 364
Edition: Paperback; 2001-04-24
Summary:
When this book was first published in 1985, it became an instant
bestseller and the basis for the popular CBC-TV series “Love and
Hate.” It’s easy to see why, when this true story reads like a crime
thriller. Colin Thatcher was a golden boy, growing up the son of
Saskatchewan’s Premier Ross Thatcher. But as he rose to political
prominence and to a seat in the Saskatchewan cabinet, his marriage to
JoAnn, the mother of his three children, began to unravel, amid
rumours of infidelity and of domestic violence. His children
disappeared; his estranged wife was shot at through her kitchen
window, but Thatcher denied any knowledge of either incident and
defied the law (and his old legislative buddies) again and again. The
law wrung its hands, until JoAnn was finally bludgeoned to death in
the family garage. At last, Thatcher had gone too far. In a dramatic
trial in Saskatoon that involved every major legal figure in the
province, he was found guilty of murder.At that point, Maggie
Siggins’s 1985 book was published. But the story was too big to end
there. In his Edmonton jail, Thatcher stayed in the news by
publishing his memoirs and exciting the media with news of dramatic
new evidence that would prove his innocence. It never appeared. He
was eventually moved to a minimum-security jail in British Columbia,
and seemed to be living a fairly good life. Nonetheless, though his
three children grew up believing in his innocence, rumours continued
to fly around the Regina underworld about him.In October 2000,
Thatcher was the subject of a trial to see if he deserved early
parole. Maggie Siggins was present, and this book gives a full
account of the trial and of what has happened to all of the actors in
this incredible case during the last 15 years.• Now updated, with
coverage of Colin Thatcher’s recent parole hearing• Television series
based on the book was a hit on both CBC and NBC• Maggie Siggins is an
experienced and articulate journalist, who won a Governor General’s
Award for her book Revenge of the Land
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