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july in 1907 as a people for 1st time back the. long haul feel about the city and i guess. they are going to be old farm village apartment. and go. national one it was on fire. form village apartment put in much. an apartment and there's little income if you lend me money you know welfare could pick you up and stop the. complex at parties. everybody was. drinking and getting along. nicely. see the balcony. now how is anybody going to climb up that with
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a broken hand and a cash to. carry into containers and gasoline and pants and and drunk oh their mind is impossible can't be done. on july 29th 1986 there was a party at the old farm village apartment complex at the time kenny was suffering from depression and drinking a lot that night was no exception. and about 2 o'clock noon and carried on an early hours in the morning the mother slim chance until she was off. getting high. a couple a couple ads stopped my friends. they were them. she said yeah. maybe so.
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she came downstairs and measure me pass and me. and watch for me. should my head. at the trial collins claim that ricci had agreed to babysit her daughter while she was away. allegedly in exchange for letting him crash on her sofa that night however neighbors saw him fall into the bushes and passing out soon afterwards. passed over there where no one. in the bushes. and when he woke up. i went to my farm and. the local the mob on. my part much in the back. and then you went over here just to see was going on. came from the other side.
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how big was the fire. you could see a lot of smoke and flames. next thing. the body is and. all and pretty straight to see a little girl like up. there we are heading i don't know what dreams about what happen about seeing fear i mean where you sleep some bad dreams. no. no not a bother. we better get going. bro. how you doing. so you're at the.
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what's the address. it's just a bloody hard didn't sleep over this if you want. one so i just know. 2010 . years 8 years my name is steven ritchie and i'm cammies youngest brother how did we get along. good i mean. when we were younger i looked up to him. and there's a you know it's. 1213 you know i look up to. him for 21 years and. one rule is much of a relationship is in prison and so is when you know our relationship was
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a phone calls and that was a. calling concern about richie calling on his condition trial was pretty much a farce. they are having gilding for that trial started a murder trial and it takes 3 judges 45 minutes to. go to some guy he's guilty. you know the. death penalty. the ohio cord was told that kenny too could vanish of the sack at the neighbor in the apartment had been left with only the 2 year old victim inside and was alleged that his intention was for the fire to spread to the lower floor where he's ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend were sleeping the case relied on the testimonies of people attending the party who say. that ricci was drunk and that's
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threatening to burn down the building. there was to be people that said threaten to burn the building in some way. going to. be 3 different variations of it. you know i was garbage to the people who tracked statements people lie. and sometimes there's no explanation. almost cost me my life so far as some of the evidence goes the goes back to school back to the fire marshall. marshall stated that kenny had poured gasoline on his the on the porch also. and was tracing the gash on the floor. to please be seated. almost 20 years later
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gaining his lores would prove that the investigation had been flawed resulting in the wrong conclusions. there was a brand new porsche that was built. when the fire marshal stated that he didn't take chippings out of the charred poor chip wood chips for me brand new built. dead. but he stated they were charred while crime lab screwed up and didn't do it. their tests properly. or didn't read them properly and that was. we had the best experts in the world take a look at it and said no this is no gasoline. no pain and no false evidence you want to present and the judge just took it as for israel you see if you execute just one innocent person that's. reason enough not to have the death penalty. no they just don't do that we're going to. going to either kill you.
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all for gentle. and i'm too proud. old fears were stolen from you. trying to make up for that you're just so full life yourself together. tried. to be nice. just when things go good. the rug pulled out from under me. it's all part of the bloody life. at the time a still me jenny had no regular job or any kind of stable income.
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what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to go right to the press it's like the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters and look out. for sydney. the world is driven by shaped by the curse of those great. snow day or thinks. we dare to ask.
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in the depths. or a major in the shallows. in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage 3 parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks. population tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes to put these attacks was a p.r. you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the streets in belfast at the take more than $100.00 innocent civilians will. leave you can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent. to which the solution was involved in some of those cases that killers would later be named. i think it went to the very very top i think if he. was here
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where all the taste you know on the go ahead. my memories are all ramsey probably got more going on here and form this is very quarters are it offers. housing and restoration for at risk and homeless veterans they always have that. how you are. being imprisoned do you have a. little when you get the stigma attached to. you know how much of a life left i met mr rich and. in the october. 2002 so roughly a year ago gave him a place to stay at least a roof or recite it and hearing strange she would do menial. task around the house
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during the day did he appreciate what i've done for him. to be honest i'd have to say no he stopped paying me you know. you no longer paid me to $250.00 a week in the form that i was paying no rent. no utilities but i wasn't getting i wasn't getting any money. it threw me all of the a problem you know told me to leave communication north arnold be skinny a place to live on condition that he get his act together and find a job to secure a steady income but that never happened in his case he drank extensively. and he. was subject to drug use not only drug use but a lot of the also come along with prostitution. and that's just not the way to renovate your life and get back on a positive path he had an opportunity to redeem his life he had an opportunity to
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raise. years of imprisonment and even take full advantage of the opportunity i think to me hasn't forgiven himself for something he's been and i said hey man make it right because it's eating you alive you're just not happy with yourself. when he took me to must sell him put me in the. door slam it in. death row inmates or. recognized by the red stripe and it goes down the side of the pants son of the penlight. indicate sure. that you're in there for execution and every time you walk in the corridors with the president there's a dead man walking dead man walking. again he never would. and launched repeated
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appeals to have his case review his death sentence was postponed with each new submission but if one was refused any new date in time for the execution was scheduled over his 21 years in prison he was stolen 13 different occasions the exact date and time when he would die. mentally. but i bring every detail another or another piece of me died i know that on one day series. on drugs or not if you don't mind my life is full of bad memories. don't you cap. don't need to remember don't want to remember them.
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it is easy. to do it here. as you do most with the old switcheroo cherry. leading you to. mine is very good did you. think it was so emotional because you know she loves me and because so far away. she lost she lost me all those years ago and i always knew that he was innocent as i read the truth that nobody but this. would prove them wrong. i've been down this road with him forever in almost 60 years now and i had to get to be around because it was. in the early 2000.
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and cold kenneth ricci has been sentenced to death and the states began to attract media attention on both sides of the pond. they haven't reported or they contacted me wanting to talk to me and stuff and over you me the trying to court. judge and. trying to prosecute. you know i was innocent when the article came out and just went from there it's like you know. phone talk to me and then people started writing me. due to. the proclaimers. orders for a whole chunk all over the car while. you were going to go. on a stand on national came out. publicly stated. my case with one of the most compelling
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case is a bit of power and emissions the human to human rights champion. were seen. in 2000 someone get his lawyers scheme sort of agreement with the prosecutors. the arson and murder charges swore a plea bargain down to child endangerment. this was enough to secure rich's release considering the amount of time he'd already spent in prison. only one person in the courthouse still believes in ken his guilt bellary basically. the victims. i have. here. tonight i'm going to face get through it but i want to know you want nobody. not. people who will. know i never can take any confusion he loves kids. who are those children really he
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wouldn't. be you know the idea why so many neighbors and other people who live. here in the testimonies to give him a probably pissed off somewhere. can you start asking me that the age old question about going to help. oh is a tart about am i going to go to hell for what happened cynthia call ins. and i would tell him again for the millionth viewer to drop charring member what happened any didn't know the baby was there and i really believed that and he turned around . and in the most evil voice i had ever heard come out of his mouth with an
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accent. he goes. i knew she was there and i knew exactly what i was doing. my name is karen i am rich and i am the ex-wife. of kenneth rich karen married gainey do you think i was an 113 years asked or it was finally released from prison. i had no idea what i was getting into i had no clue because i truly believed in his story about being incarcerated for 21 and a half years for a crime he didn't commit. and i thought ok i'll play into your ego because i really wanted to know how the fire started and i thought how can i ask this question how can i get this information from him without him. lying to me i said because you are just so incredibly smart you outsmart them he goes because they're
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a bunch of dumb asses like ok. because it was easy because you take a lit cigarette it will come back to fit in the boat. behind the couch and that i walk down the street 30 minutes later a place goes up in smoke and they can't connect me to the crime. i didn't expect that. i was just absolute shock. i am married to say. himself. she's a lawyer just to give money. something like. 3 years to come forward with. us just. trying to make money. she told. problem of cold cold
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cold didn't touch with me. because i ran into it there are other spirits that decided to intervene and one was his father. and his father came to me in the middle of the night open my eyes same the same time and i. see this figure in the doorway. shadow walk through the door around the bed. and right next to me again and. he said we need your help. and i need you to tokay that he's been forgiven. and. he says we need your help to save his soul. the next night.
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i go to bed and i heard these footsteps. on the carpet running to the side of the bed. course i wake up and i looked and there was this little game. on a little same size as my right there. and i'm in shock and she said. did you live with this is. and. an easy to tell kenny that i forgive them. i forget. i said it. ok. to not look. at the spiritual experience. and i had the little girl that died in the fire cynthia collins.
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i have. had very few of that kind of thing happen where you shake your core when you're around something so evil with kenneth richie that happened. some of the bush people would normally also think. what call bush oh really nice at times i'm too nice a potion. phobic about. figure some of the story to. get through to. so i. can do rebel.
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control the pain. despite the claims of kenneth reaches ex-wife the colon smirk case was now reopened. karen herself wanted us to make clear that she received no money for a given these interview. after their fall out with arnold. jenny was unable to find a new job and the lack of money man keith had to move out of the rented apartment and back to his stand in the forest.
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join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. when else charles seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me old yet to shape our disdain to become agitated and in detroit because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground . you know world big part of a lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the
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stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. during the great depression which old mr remember there was most of the family were unemployed working. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation the things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shape by the 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo debt engineer elections manufacture consent and other principle holds
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according to no on. one set of rules for the rich ops etc. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of wilf which will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.
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