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Ryan Ferguson is a Missouri man freed from jail after nearly a decade of imprisonment. His freedom found a way when the Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced on Tuesday that his office would not retry or take any further action against Ryan Ferguson. Ferguson could not believe that his release was real. "I did not believe it until they took the shackles off me in Boone County Jail and I was able to hug my mother," said Ferguson, 29.
Ryan Ferguson was 21 when arrested in 2004 and had been serving a 40 year sentence for murdering Kent Heitholt, a newspaper sports editor. Heitholt was murdered near his car, in the newspapers parking lot, in 2001. A friend of Fergusons, Chuck Ericson told the police that he and Ferguson were responsible for the brutal murder even though none of the evidence found at the crime scene indicated so. Further interrogation by the police did not find any important details from Ericson and later the eyewitness who claimed to have seen Ferguson at the crime scene also backed off.
Ryan Ferguson was greeted by dozens of supporters and media personnel at a news conference on Tuesday night, where he thanked his friends, family and supporters. “To get arrested and to get charged for a crime you didn’t commit is incredibly easy, and you lose your life very fast,” said Ferguson. “But to get out of prison, it takes an army.”. He's looking forward to living his life as a free man and learning about his passion so he can act on it.
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