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Sneak peek: Ryan Ferguson: Wrongfully Convicted — Transcript

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  1. 0:00[Music]
  2. 0:03I haven't had time to actually think
  3. 0:05about what it is to be free what it
  4. 0:07means to be free what it is to have this
  5. 0:09life
  6. 0:10[Music]
  7. 0:11[Applause]
  8. 0:13[Music]
  9. 0:15back I get out and such a different
  10. 0:18world there's so much more going on I'm
  11. 0:20ready for anything really I kind of want
  12. 0:22some Dairy
  13. 0:26Queen all right please
  14. 0:34I'm Erin morard I've been following the
  15. 0:37case of Ryan Ferguson since 2005 when he
  16. 0:41went on trial for the murder of
  17. 0:42newspaper sports editor Kent heid hold
  18. 0:46from the beginning there was just
  19. 0:47something not right about this
  20. 0:50[Music]
  21. 0:53case there is no physical evidence
  22. 0:56whatsoever to connect Ryan to the crime
  23. 0:59scene
  24. 1:01recording this will be detective
  25. 1:06stroer a lot of it's kind of foggy kind
  26. 1:09of fuzzy to you as to what you
  27. 1:12remember your honor the state calls
  28. 1:15Charles Erics I looked
  29. 1:18up and Ryan was over the victim he had
  30. 1:22his foot on his back and he was pulling
  31. 1:24up on the
  32. 1:26Belt the reality is that he chose to lie
  33. 1:29about
  34. 1:30me as to count one guilty of murder in
  35. 1:34the second
  36. 1:37degree it just sucked the air right out
  37. 1:40of
  38. 1:41us we were absolutely
  39. 1:49devastated Ryan Ferguson never should
  40. 1:51have been tried for this
  41. 1:54murder this case is full of holes it's
  42. 1:59just full of holes
  43. 2:00Ryan Ferguson is actually
  44. 2:04innocent I think I saw Ryan it is oh my
  45. 2:07God I it's there oh my gosh look
  46. 2:11at it cannot get better than
  47. 2:15that oh my
  48. 2:19[Applause]
  49. 2:23God I think I've proven my innocence I
  50. 2:26think most people in the world in the
  51. 2:28whole world can see that
  52. 2:32end of story not yet not for Ryan
  53. 2:36Ferguson it's very daunting you don't
  54. 2:39know what you're doing in this world and
  55. 2:41you don't know how to navigate it and
  56. 2:42operate in it and not for his accuser it
  57. 2:46was really easy for the police and the
  58. 2:49prosecutors to manipulate me I'm angry
  59. 2:53I'm angry at myself I feel like I've
  60. 2:56been played for a fool and I feel like I
  61. 2:58should be released from prison I know
  62. 3:00that Charles Erikson is absolutely
  63. 3:03innocent when you've got innocent people
  64. 3:05locked up you've got the murderer still
  65. 3:07on the
  66. 3:08street they need to find the real killer

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