Wilson "Willie" Nepoose (died c. 1997–1998) was a Samson Cree man[1] who was wrongly convicted of second-degree murder in 1987.
[2] The conviction was overturned in 1992 after an inquiry that revealed perjury by the witnesses, poor police work, withheld evidence, and systemic prejudice against First Nations people in Canada.
[3] Nepoose was a member of the Samson Cree Nation in the Alberta unincorporated community of Hobbema (since 2014 called Maskwacis).
[3] Nepoose suffered from depression and at one point visited the Alberta Hospital mental health facility in Ponoka.
He was preparing for a civil suit against the RCMP when on 28 December 1997 he went missing after telling his brother Lester he needed time to himself.