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Hello everybody and welcome back to Truth and Justice.

I'm your host Bob Ruff and today we're going to find out just exactly why and how Edward

AIDS was convicted of the murder of El Noreg Ribbon.

Ed Zordiel was longer than most.

El Noreg was murdered on July 22, 1993.

And Ed was not convicted until August 12, 1998.

Over five years later.

Five years is a long time to wait for the state to get their conviction.

But in Ed's case it was a long and complicated road.

But at the end of the day, five years later, 12 jurors voted unanimously to convict him.

And that is the subject of today's episode.

The jury.

But before we get into the jury that convicted Edward AIDS in 1998, let's first rewind and

start at the first trial that happened in 1996.

Ed was first arrested for this murder, about 30 days after the fact in August of 1993.

He spent about eight months in the Smith County jail before he was finally able to bond out

in April of 1994.

By that time his life was already changing.

His relationship with Monica Bush was over, he needed to find a new job, which he eventually

did working for none other than Francis Johnson.

He spent that summer working with Francis, and then as you heard last week in October of

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