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The Tragically Hip, "Wheat Kings"
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The wrongful conviction of David Milgaard, January 31, 1970
While both "38 Years Old" and "Wheat Kings" are inspired by the same event, it's "Wheat Kings" that rings truest to the case that saw David Milgaard wrongfully accused, arrested, and convicted for the rape and murder a Saskatoon nurse. Evidently, Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie was right: no one was interested in something [David] didn't do -- until 1997, when actual killer Larry Fisher was finally arrested.
