S9E7: Ryan Ferguson w/ Maggie Freleng
Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff
Bob Ruff
4.6 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Bob is joined by the host of the Unjust and Unsolved podcast, Maggie Freleng. Bob and Maggie break down the wrongful conviction of Ryan Ferguson, and focus mostly on the fact that his co-defendant Charles Erickson remains behind bars to this day.
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| 0:00.0 | From NBI Studios, this is Truth and Justice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm Bob Ra. |
| 0:30.0 | Imagine that you wake up one day to discover that the police have a warrant for your arrest. |
| 0:39.0 | Charging you with a murder, that you know you didn't commit. |
| 0:43.1 | And later you find out that a friend of yours confessed to those police that the two of |
| 0:47.2 | you committed the murder together. |
| 0:49.7 | You would obviously be confused and even be trade. |
| 0:53.7 | And then you find out that you're about to stand trial for this murder because your |
| 0:57.2 | friend blacked out that night and doesn't actually remember what happened. |
| 1:01.3 | And he was convinced by detectives that together, you and your buddy killed a man. |
| 1:07.1 | That is exactly what happened to Ryan Ferguson. |
| 1:10.7 | Ryan spent nearly 10 years in prison for a murder that he didn't commit before finally |
| 1:16.1 | being exonerated after his co-defendant Charles Erickson recanted his testimony. |
| 1:21.8 | This story is full of bizarre twists and turns. |
| 1:26.2 | While Ferguson has been set free, his friend and co-defendant Charles remains behind |
| 1:31.5 | bars even to this day. |
| 1:33.7 | The breakdown is complicated. |
| 1:35.7 | In here with me today to help sort it all out is the host of the incredible new podcast |
| 1:40.7 | Unjust and Unsolved, Maggie Freeland. |
| 1:44.7 | Her deep dive into this case has put the focus on the miscarriage of justice that continues |
| 1:49.1 | to capture the freedom of Charles, even as we speak. |
| 1:53.2 | This is season 9, episode 7. |
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