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๐๏ธ 9 July 2018
โฑ๏ธ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | In a perfect world, truth and justice always prevails, but we're far from perfect and so our justice system does falter, sometimes so much and can send |
0:15.8 | an innocent person to prison for a very long time. |
0:19.8 | These are five unbelievable true crime wrongful conviction cases. |
0:23.4 | Number 5, Philip Bivens. |
0:28.3 | In May of 1979, Ava Patterson was at home in Forest County, Mississippi when a man broke in. |
0:40.7 | Her husband was away working on an oil rig, and her four-year-old son was sleeping inside the next room. |
0:47.0 | Ava was violently raped and had her throat cut before stumbling through to her neighbor's garage trying to get help. |
0:54.4 | It was there she collapsed and died. |
0:57.0 | Her son Luke told police that a bad boy killed his mother. Shortly after cops picked up 19 year old Larry Ruffin and several weeks after his |
1:08.4 | arrest he admitted that he was the one that raped and killed Miss Patterson. He then recanted his confession, saying |
1:15.3 | police coerce them into it. Before the trial, police interviewed Bobby Ray Dixon |
1:21.0 | who had lived with Ruffin at the halfway house he was staying in at the |
1:25.1 | time of the murder. |
1:27.6 | Dixon said Ruffin had killed Patterson, and then he told them he was with him that night. |
1:33.4 | At the same time, he also mentioned that a man named Philip Bivens was with him as well. |
1:39.4 | Philip had just returned from California a few months earlier when he was arrested and told he could |
1:44.6 | face the death penalty unless he confessed to his participation. |
1:49.9 | Under pressure he eventually admitted to the crime even though he barely knew the other men involved. |
1:56.7 | By 1980 the trial was underway and most of it was based on the statements of the accused. |
2:02.8 | All three men, despite initially pleading guilty, |
2:06.3 | recanted their confessions and their stories never matched up |
2:09.5 | because they were falsified. |
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