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🗓️ 28 September 2017
⏱️ 3 minutes
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0:00.0 | There are many, many people in prison who are not guilty and yet they're just not getting |
0:13.9 | relief. |
0:17.3 | My belief is that the jury got this right. |
0:21.4 | If you got my footprint on Mars and I tell you I wasn't at Mars, how did it happen? |
0:29.8 | Regardless of the fact that I was innocent of this, I still was paying for things that I |
0:35.6 | had done. |
0:38.1 | At least find out if this person is innocent and is in there wrongfully. |
0:44.1 | If somebody comes up and confesses to a crime that somebody else are even convicted for, |
0:50.8 | they don't open the jail and let him out. |
0:55.1 | She was a devout Christian, a mother of four children, a softhearted woman who spent |
1:00.2 | her free time counseling prison inmates. |
1:03.5 | But in 1987 in the town of Newport, Kentucky, Ritha Welch became best known as a murder victim. |
1:10.0 | It was somewhat horrifying to see the state that she was in. |
1:16.2 | She was found dead. |
1:17.9 | She was in a bathtub filled with her blood. |
1:22.6 | She had been bludgeoned. |
1:24.7 | The corner believes she was raped and just left to die. |
1:29.0 | There are very few things that have rocked my world so to speak. |
1:33.4 | That was one of them. |
1:35.6 | I suspect emerged within days and the next year a felon Ritha had met in prison was |
1:40.5 | tried and found guilty. |
1:42.9 | Twenty-eight years later his conviction would be overturned. |
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