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Welcome back to True Crime Cases. I'm your host, Laney.

You've probably heard of the term the butterfly effect. It comes from chaos theory. The idea that something as small and seemingly insignificant as a butterfly flapping its wings

could influence the path of a tornado that forms weeks later. While the term originated inside the context of weather science, the butterfly effect itself has bloomed into having a broader meaning.

What was a lesser known concept noted by mathematicians and meteorologists to explain seemingly inexplicable weather trends has developed into something that comes up in a lot of media, movies, TV shows, and video games.

More or less it's become a poetic way to describe cause and effect in general. It's something you could even trace in the world of True Crime.

A little girl deciding to go on a bike ride with her brother in the early 90s, only to never be seen again, leads to a nationwide system that pings an alert to the smartphone in your pocket, whenever a child goes missing in your area 30 years later, saving countless children from what could have been a similar fate.

In today's episode, the circumstances are vastly different from that of Amber Hagerman and the Amber Alert, which we will be covering in a special project soon that provides a more in depth telling of that case.

Today, an appeal in Arkansas could have led to a retrial for a man who had been given a death sentence in Idaho a year earlier after over 20 years of robberies, rapes, and murders.

Okay, on to the show.

Timothy Stewart-Ring, William L. Wood Ferguson, in James Herald Greenham, all had previous experience in working with law enforcement.

Ferguson had been a police officer while Greenham had been a detention officer as well as a bounty hunter tracking down bail jumpers on behalf of bond agencies.

Ring had carried out a number of similar roles, a police officer and detention officer in addition to working as a bounty hunter with Greenham, and he had also worked for an armored car company.

The company's tasked with transporting large amounts of money from stores or banks.

That last role in particular gave Ring the exact kind of information that three men needed to know in order to rob an armored car on November 28, 1994.

Little did the other two men know if their stories are to be believed that Ring intended to commit more than just robbery.

John McGonk worked as a driver for an armored car, employed by the bank Wells Fargo to safely transport deposits from clients to the bank.

John was 54 years old on the day he and his partner arrived at the Arrowhead Town Center in Glendale, Arizona, pulling up in the parking lot for what should have been a job like any other.

John waited inside the vehicle while his partner left the car, heading to collect a deposit.

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