Episode 48 - Can Dreams Kill? - The Ryan Ferguson Story
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4.5 • 18.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On Halloween night 2001 Chuck Erickson got blackout drunk with his friends. 2 years later a 19 year old Chuck, who had been plagued with dreams that he and his friend Ryan Ferguson had killed a man that night, went to the police and confessed to the murder of local man Kent Heitholt. Ryan was adamant this never happened, and there was no physical evidence linking either of them to the crime - so what really happened that night?
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| 1:20.8 | can dreams kill? Because for Ryan Ferguson, the only thing between him and a murder conviction |
| 1:26.8 | that could lead to the death penalty or life without parole was an eyewitness, |
| 1:32.1 | except it wasn't actually an eyewitness at all. |
| 1:35.6 | It was someone a pretty messed up someone who thought he might have had a dream about a murder. |
| 1:42.3 | This dream, along with absolutely no concrete evidence, was enough to land 19-year-old Ryan |
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