Quest for Innocence, the Connie Oakes Story | APTN Investigates

A recently unsealed affidavit has revealed more details about the coercive police tactics allegedly used on Wendy Scott, a woman with an IQ of 50 who became the foundation for the wrongful murder conviction of Connie Oakes. The affidavit, sworn by Scott, stated police interrogators told her she would “go down as a monster” and face a 25-year prison sentence if she didn’t implicate Oakes in the murder of Casey Armstrong. The 49 year old Medicine Hat man was found dead and fully clothed in the bathtub of his Medicine Hat trailer with a puncture wound through the neck that nearly decapitated him. Police never found the murder weapon or the source of large bloody boot print on the bathroom floor. Read more here: http://aptnnews.ca/2016/06/03/aptn-in...