Long before Ryan Wedding was one of the FBI’s most wanted, he was swept up in a U.S. drug case

This story contains details about sexual assault and violence that some readers may find disturbing. Colette Martin first met the man who nearly murdered her in 1997 at the Opera House, a now-defunct nightclub in Miramichi, New Brunswick. Then twenty-six, Martin lived in the nearby town of Baie-Saint-Anne, where she worked for her family’s fish- and lobster-buying company. She knew everyone in the small Acadian community, and everyone knew her. But the man she met that January night was originally from Montreal and visiting from Moncton, where he went to university and played for a...