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