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until then it will be both customs and favorite shows but this season don't forget to continue the conversation on social media as if i'd like you to channel america's best and i have you get paid all of us from the whole team to make going up or down. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i have a spare charts parents. and i have a little girl that died in the fire cynthia collins. and she had come to me to give
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him a massive messenger for your master while i really didn't. know because i had known details of where she was forgiving him to. be about the glad game reaches a degree sell on death row took place in the town of columbus grove for hire. in 1960 year old cynthia collinson burned to death in this house. and gagne aged just $21.00 just charged with murder and sound guilty. after 21 years in prison she was meant to be destined for the light to cheer. up.
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is anybody very sowers that. we're looking for it kenny ricci i mean you've done to. your knees that here i. very clearly believe i was found you. know once and i don't. often. have been told you're livin and sound but i. still can't believe this how long will you stay here already. a few weeks few weeks. just because you have no other place to just be you know the place to do. well by friends relatives think.
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you have money to pay rent you. wish but it wouldn't be here when i was reading about your story i came across the fact that by the time 20072008 when you were about to lease you have so much world wide that sounds so many famous people spoke out in your favor it just seemed like very much to get a 2nd chance to get a fresh start it's something one rock covering went wrong. my name is kenneth ritchie. 54 years old it's been $21.00 and a half years on death row and ohio. for a crime i didn't commit. a crime was arson my book.
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i would 2 year old child. get asked to reach it was tried in ohio for aggravated murder committed in the course of a salad. evidence showing that despondent set fire in their part enough his neighborhood colleagues in an attempt to kill his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend who were spending the night together in the apartment below the intended victims to skate on arms but how called in says 2 year old daughter cynthia died in the fire. nobody goal form village apartments from columbus grove. joy the fire started. and where my life ended. i haven't been to this place. in. july in 1907 as a people forced 1st time back the. long haul feel about the city and i guess.
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they are old farm village apartment. and go. national one of these on fire. old farm village apartment put in much. an apartment in the low income area my money on welfare could pick up and stop the. complex at parties. drinking and getting along. nicely. see the balcony off now how is anybody going to climb up with a broken hand and a cash to. carry into containers and gasoline and paint. and drunk o.
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their mind is impossible can 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 2 o'clock noon and carried on an early hours in the morning the mothers when. she was . getting high. a couple of. my friends. they were them. maybe. she came downstairs and measure was passed and me. and watch me. and shook my head. at the trial collins
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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 passin out soon afterwards. passed over there where no one. in the bushes. and when you woke up. i went to my. local to. my apartments in the back. and then you went over here just to see was going on. came from the other side. how big was the fire. you can see
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a lot of smoke and flames. next thing although the body gets into your cones. all and i'm pretty sick to see a little girl like that. and we're heading. out and like dreams about what happened about seeing fear i mean where you sleep some bad dreams. no. no no. we better get going. bro. how you doing. so you're at the house. which will address.
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just a bloody hug. 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 you know there's a you know it's. 1213 you know i looked up to me and i. know for 21 years it was. one really as much of a relationship is in prison and so is my you know our relationship was no phone calls and that was a. concerned about richie his condition trial
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was pretty much a farce. they are ahead and building for that trial started a murder trial and it takes 3 judges 45 minutes to. go to some guy he's guilty. to no. death penalty. the ohio accord was told that canning too could damage of the sack at the neighboring apartment had been left with only the 2 year old victim inside it 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 that just a moment as if people attending the party who stated under oath that ricci was drunk and that's threatening to burn down the building.
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has to be people it's threaten to burn the building in some way. and torch. going to. make 3 different variations of it. you know i was garbage to the people are attractive statements people lie. and sometimes there's no explanation a lie and almost cost me my life so far as some of the evidence goes in the goes back let's go back to the fire marshall. marshall stated that kenny had poured gasoline on his not on the porch also. and it was traced in the guest room on the floor. to please be seated. almost 20 years later gaining his lores would prove that they investigate. it had been so long resulting in the
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wrong conclusions. there was a brand new portion of this bill. when the fire marshal stated that he didn't take chippings out of the charred port to chip wood chips from the brand new build. 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's because. we had the best experts in the world take a look at it and said no this is not gasoline. no pain and no false i wouldn't you want to present it and the judge just took it as trees fell you see if you execute just one innocent person that's. reason enough not to have the death penalty then just don't do that we're going to. going to either kill you.
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fool match. you know i'm proud of stephen better put out. stephen has done great for themself there's a beautiful from lee and i said i'm. trying to jealous. since you have a brother living around way you can go to use a place to stay for a while until you get. he's never offered to you know. and i'm too proud to.
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all these years were stolen from you. trying to make up for that get yourself a life itself together outside of. mike every time. you. just when things go good. the world pulled out from under me. it's all part of the bloody life. and filming jenny had no regular job or any kind of stable income. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president and should. somehow want to be that's.
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what's it like to be close it's like the full story of the whole can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of. the city. my name is on all ramsey prose the morning on here on this is called sanctuary for years offers. housing and restoration for at risk and homeless veterans they always have that. how you would be nice to be imprisoned do you have a film that i talked to the most pollution little once you get the stigma attached to you so that you know you've done it you know how much of
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a life left i meant to mr rich the. life you know and the october. 2007 so roughly a year ago gave him a place to stay at least a roof will recite it and. he would do menial tasks around the house through the day did he appreciate what i've done for. him to be honest i'd have to say you know he stopped paying me you know. he no longer paid me into $250.00 a week said he in the form that i was paying no rent. no utilities but i wasn't getting calls and give me money. through mail be a problem you know told me to leave communication or arnold be skinny a place. believe 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.
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he. was subject to drug use normally 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 raise. years of imprisonment and even take full advantage of the opportunity i think to have kenny hasn't forgiven himself for something he's been innocent man make it right because it's eating you alive you're just not happy with this from. when it took me to most elm put me in the. door slam it into. death row inmates or. recognized by the red stripe down the side of the. template. to indicate sure.
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that you're in there for execution and every time you walk in the corridors of the present there's a dead man walking dead man walking. again he never admitted guilt and launched repeated appeals to have his case review his death sentence was postponed with each new submission but if one was refused and you date in time for the execution was scheduled over his 21 years in prison he was stalled on 13 different occasions the exact date and time when he would die as depression. bring shit don't you know. it does something to you mentally. but pretty every detail of another or another piece of me died i know that on one day and for 34 are there. on drugs or not if you don't mind
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my life is full of bad memories. now money don't. don't need to remember don't want to remember the. people you see you. doing here you know what you. see the most with the old switcheroo cherry. leading you to your mind is very good did you. think it was so emotional because you know she loves me because so far away. she lost she lost me all those years ago and i always knew that he was innocent and read the truth that nobody but. i would prove them wrong.
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i've been down this road with him forever in almost 60 years. because it was. in the early 2000 and. 3 been sentenced to death and the states began to attract media attention on both sides of the pond. they had a reporter they contacted me wanting to talk to me and stuff and over to me the tango court. judge and. prosecutor. you know i was innocent when the article came out that just went from there it's like you know. newspapers phone tag to me and then people started writing me. the proclaimers.
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orders for a whole. you know and when did i go. to stand on national came out. publicly stated. my case was one of the most compelling case is a bit of power and the french the human to human rights campaigners. were seen. in 2000 someone again is laura skim sort of agreement with the prosecutors. the arson and murder charges swear a plea bargain down to child endangerment. this was enough to secure rich's release considering the amount of time he told what he spends in prison. only one person in the courthouse still believes in ken his guilt valerie basically. the victims. i have been here for up to the north to face get through it but i want to know you
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want nobody. you know. people who will tell. you i never can take any confusion he loves kids. who are those children to me he wouldn't be. there you know the idea why so many neighbors and other people who live. here in the testimonies to get a probably pissed off somewhere. they started asking me that the age old question about going to hell oh is a card about am i going to go to hell for what happened to cynthia collins. and i would tell him again for the millionth time you were to try to remember what
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happened any didn't know the baby. he 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 accent. he goes. i knew she was there and i knew exactly what i was doing. my name is karen diana ritchie and i am the ex-wife. of kenneth ritchie karen mary kay mean do you think i was in a lot of it 3 years after he 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
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wanted to know how the fire started and i thought how can i 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 a bunch of dumb asses like ok. because it was easy because you take a lit cigarette it will come back to it in the book. on 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 satan himself. she's a lawyer just give money you know. something like. 3 years to
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come forward with a. you know that's just her trouble. she called. cold cold cold didn't cope with me. because i went 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 on the bed. and right next to me again
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and. he said we need your hope. tokay that he's been forgiven. he says we need your help to save his soul. the next night. i go to bed and i heard these footsteps. on the carpet running to the side of the bed. of course i wake up and i look up and there's this little lying. little same size as my right there. and i'm in shock and she said. i need to deliver a message. and use it to tell kenny that i forgive him. i forgive him. and i said. ok.
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tuneup look. i have a spiritual experience. and i had the little girl that died in the fire cynthia collins. i have. had very few of that kind of thing happen where you shake to your core when you're around something so evil was kenneth ritchie that happened. among the. people that normally also. really know at times i'm too nice a potion. figure
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some of the story to. get through to us. so i. can give a. child control the pain. despite the claims of 3 she's ex-wives collinson murder 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 donald. gagne was unable to find a new job and the lack of money man had to move out of the rented apartment and back to his stand in the forest.
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