Murder of Anthony Joseph Dolff

Anthony Joseph Dolff, a farmer in Kamsack, Sasketchewan, Canada, was killed in 1993. He was stabbed 17 times, hit on the head with a television, and strangled with a telephone cord. Three Saulteaux people, members of the Keeseekoose First Nation, were convicted of the crime. One, Jason Keshane, 14 years old at the time of the crime, confessed to the killing and as a juvenile was sentenced to two years in prison for second degree murder. His cousins, sisters Nerissa and Odelia Quewezance, 19 and 21 at the time, were sentenced to life in prison. Neither confessed and both have maintained their innocence at all times.[1]

The sisters' convictions are considered by many people to be a miscarriage of justice.The confessed killer, Jason Keshane, maintains that his cousins were not invovled in the killing. The two sisters asked for a lawyer when they were arrested but were interrogated for five days in RCMP custody without access to a lawyer.[1] The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples has called for their exoneration and release, as has Innocence Canada.[1] Two retired judges, Harry LaForme, the first indigenous lawyer to serve on an appellate court in Canada, and Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré, the first Black judge in Quebec, have also called for their release.[2] David Milgaard, who was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder, also believes that they are innocent and has called for their release.[3]