Welcome to the Shaline Show. Shaline is a New York Times best-selling author, celebrity

fitness trainer, and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

I want you to imagine this. We've all got that one friend or acquaintance who tells wild

tales. To say they exaggerate is the ultimate understatement. So one night you and this friend

find yourselves at the same party or bar or restaurant. And the next morning you wake

to read an article in the paper about a brutal murder. And you remember it, it stands out

because while it was right around the corner from where you were with this friend just

the night before. And this isn't a close friend, it's really more of an acquaintance. And

you know them to be just a little unstable. But you're a nice person and they just happen

to be in your circle of friends. Now imagine a year passes. Two years pass. And that

individual goes to the police to tell them that they're having dream-like memories of

that night. And that these dream-like memories have led them to believe that they and you

committed that heinous murder. Can you imagine being accused of the most brutal murder? Accused

by a friend who said you were there and in fact you were the person who ultimately killed

the victim. The scenario may actually sound familiar to those of you who followed the

wildly popular podcast serial. You can still find it on iTunes in those riveting cliffhanging

episodes. The podcast follows the story of a high school student convicted of murdering

his ex high school girlfriend. He was implicated by an acquaintance and acquaintance who said

the two of them did this together. And many believe to this day that Adnan Sayyad sits

in prison an innocent man. Statistics show that between 3 to 5% of those sitting in prison

today have been wrongly convicted. There are many experts who believe that number is far

higher than what we realize. Ryan Ferguson was 19 years old, happy outgoing, fun loving

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