David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

“I remember thinking that somebody
probably left some gloves or
something,” Derksen said. She was
sitting in the backyard of her home in
Winnipeg in a garden chair as we talked.
She spoke haltingly and slowly, as she
remembered the longest day of her life.
She opened the door. There was a
stranger standing there. “He just said,
‘I’m a parent of a murdered child, too.’”
The man was in his fifties, a
generation older than the Derksens. His
daughter had been killed in a doughnut
shop a few years earlier. It had been a
high-profile case in Winnipeg. A suspect
named Thomas Sophonow had been
arrested for the killing and tried three