Wrongfully Yours

Exoneration is often seen as the end of the story, but in reality, it's just the beginning.

In this episode, we explore what really happens after the prison doors swing open. There’s no support plan, no transition program, and no guarantee of compensation.

Monique and Kelly unpack the hard truth: those who are wrongfully convicted are often left with nothing but trauma and a system that’s quick to forget them.

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The next episode of Wrongfully Yours isn't just about wrongful convictions. It’s about judgment and what happens when we choose compassion instead.

Monique reflects on the quiet strength she witnessed growing up: families who didn’t turn away in the face of scandal, pressure, or pain.

She also reminds us how often we judge based on the “Instagram version” of people’s lives without asking: What’s really going on?

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“I want to look past the headlines… What’s the real story? What are we not hearing?”

In this thoughtful episode, Kelly and Monique continue their conversation and Monique reflects on how her early experience with Ron Dalton’s wrongful conviction has shaped how she views the world and the media today. Her reflections remind us why wrongful convictions are never just one person’s tragedy.

In this episode, we talk about the ripple effec...

In this powerful episode of Wrongfully Yours, Kelly speaks with Monique, who was just 13 when Ron Dalton was accused of murdering his wife. As a family friend of Ron’s sister and brother-in-law, Monique grew up adjacent to a wrongful conviction and bore witness to the emotional chaos and social stigma from a unique vantage point.

She shares:

• What it was like to be a teen watching a family trying to cope 
• How stigma ripples into co...

At just 13 years old, Monique was trying to process a tragedy no child should have to.

With Ron Dalton jailed in Newfoundland and his three young children suddenly in the care of her family friends in PEI, she found herself consumed with questions: Where would everyone sleep? Would there be a funeral? Would he be allowed to attend?

This episode explores the emotional and logistical ripple effects of a wrongful conviction through the ...

As a teenager, Monique found herself on the edge of something she knew was far from normal.

A family suddenly doubling in size, now raising six children. A man accused of murder granted bail and living just down the road. And a community quietly trying to hold itself together.

This episode offers a rare perspective from someone who watched the fallout of Ron Dalton’s wrongful conviction unfold from the periphery with eyes wide open.

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At just 13 years old, Monique was suddenly pulled into a world of grief, shock, and uncertainty.

In this episode, she reflects on how her family friends, who were already raising three young kids, took in three more, after Ron Dalton was wrongfully jailed for the death of his wife.

This is a story about the ripple effects of wrongful convictions on children, on families, and on entire communities.

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In this emotional continuation of Wrongfully Yours, Linda Gallant shares more of her family's journey through the trauma of her brother Ron Dalton’s wrongful conviction.

This episode dives deeper into:

• The long-term emotional strain on families 
• The relentless resilience needed to survive the justice system 
• Why advocacy isn’t a choice, it’s a necessity

Wrongful convictions don’t just happen to individuals. They happen to ...

Ron Dalton survived one of the most well-known wrongful convictions in Canadian history, but he didn’t stop there.

In this powerful episode, his sister Linda Gallant reflects on the toll his incarceration took on their family, and how Ron now channels that pain into advocacy through his work with Innocence Canada.

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What does it say about a justice system when, more than a decade later, police show up at a school to question a child about the night her mother died - a child who had already lost everything?

In this emotional episode, Linda Gallant recounts the moment Ron’s daughter, who was 16 years old at the time, was approached by RCMP investigators at school, and the strength it took to say No.

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What would you do if someone you loved was facing life behind bars for a crime you knew they didn’t commit?

In this moving episode, Linda Gallant shares what happened after she and her husband made the extraordinary decision to post bail and open their home to her brother, Ron Dalton, who had been wrongfully accused of murder.

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This week on Wrongfully Yours, Kelly speaks with Linda Gallant, sister of exoneree Ron Dalton, about the hidden toll of wrongful convictions on families.

Linda opens up about:

• The chaos that followed her brother’s arrest
• The emotional strain on their family
• What it means to trust (or lose trust in) the justice system

This episode is a powerful reminder that when someone is wrongfully convicted, the entire family serves the time...

“When the judge asked how much money we could come up with, I said 30. We’d planned on 20, but I didn’t know if that would be enough. I just didn’t want Ron to stay in.”

In this preview from our next episode, Linda Gallant shares what it took to secure bail for her brother, Ron Dalton, who was wrongfully accused of murdering his wife. With fear, uncertainty, and urgency swirling around her, Linda found herself making a split-second ...

“When we arrived, the RCMP wouldn’t let us into the house. They said it was secured… We had no idea why.”

In this powerful preview, Linda Gallant recalls the moment she and her mother flew to Newfoundland after the sudden death of her sister-in-law, Brenda. What they found when they arrived was confusion, grief, and the first signs that something was deeply wrong.

Linda’s brother, Ron Dalton, would soon be accused of murder. But at t...

“When Ron and Brenda visited us that summer, they asked if anything ever happened to them, would we take care of their kids. We had no idea what was coming.”

In this emotional preview, Linda Gallant shares the early moments of what would become a 12-year ordeal after her brother, Ron Dalton, was wrongfully incarcerated in 1989. 

This is not just a story of one man’s wrongful conviction. It's the story of a family unexpectedly th...

In Part 2 of his powerful story, Ron Dalton shares the long and painful road from wrongful conviction to eventual acquittal.

With the support of lawyer Jerome Kennedy and nine internationally respected forensic pathologists, Ron’s team dismantled the flawed Crown theory that stole nearly a decade of his life.

But the road to justice wasn’t easy. A mistrial. Delays. Emotional exhaustion. And all the while, Ron missed milestones in his...

For decades, wrongful convictions were Canada’s “dirty little secret.” But the work of organizations like Innocence Canada is changing that.

In our next episode, Ron Dalton reflects on how far the movement has come: from being ignored and dismissed to now being invited to help train staff at the National Parole Board.

Ron shares what it means to see Innocence Canada recognized by the very systems that once failed the wrongfully convi...

“There was no crime. And yet, I was convicted.”

Ron Dalton’s story is one of unimaginable injustice. After the sudden death of his wife, Ron was arrested and convicted of murder despite the fact that what happened wasn’t criminal at all. It took years to clear his name.

In this powerful episode, Ron shares how flawed forensic evidence and systemic tunnel vision led to his wrongful conviction and how many others across Canada have exp...

In our next episode, Ron Dalton recounts the tragic night his wife was rushed to a rural Newfoundland hospital with breathing difficulties and how a critical medical error changed everything.

An inexperienced medical student, filling in on a short-term rotation, made a fatal mistake while trying to save her life. What followed was a devastating loss and the beginning of Ron’s unimaginable journey into the justice system as an innoce...