>> stroud: no.mebody had done that to me, i don't know if i could forgive them. >> whitaker: you say you destroyed his life. sounds like this incident destroyed your life, too. >> stroud: i've got a hole in me through which the north wind blows. it's... it's a sense of coldness, it's a sense of just disgust. there's just nothing out there that can fill in that hole that says i... it's all right. well, it's not all right. it's not all right. >> ♪ keep your eyes on the prize hold on ♪ hold on... >> whitaker: three weeks after we met him, glenn ford died, penniless. his final months, he lived off charity. donations covered the cost of his funeral. >> cox: there was a tragic outcome. and these tragic outcomes happen all the time in life. it's not like the glenn ford case is the only tragedy you'll ever see or i'll ever see in our lifetime. the question is, was there anything illegally done, improperly done that led to this. and... and i can comfortably say, based on the review of the record, no, there w

they didn't deserve to. >> stroud's victims were contractors working at the home stroud and his accomplicesbed. stroud ordered the men tied up and shot each in the head with a pistol. >> when i first walked on death row, the thing that hit me first was the silence. the absolute silence. walking on there was the type of silence that takes you in, the type of silence that's listening to you watching your every move to see how you're going to respond to it. i came on the unit 23 years old, trying to project courage, confidence and strength but on the inside, i was upset. i was confused and i was afraid. the thing i remember the most was the cold concrete floor underneath my bare feet. and it just sitting on the edge of that bunk, man, and i just broke down and started crying and crying for all the people that i hurt crying for justice crying for my mother. you know what i mean and during those three years, seven men, you know were executed they lost their lives. >> a change in indiana's capital punishment laws saved stroud from joining them. his sentence was commuted to three life terms withou

. >> saginaw county prosecuting attorney, michael thomas, and assistant prosecutor, jeff stroud. >> you were a kid when this murder took place. >> i was 14 years old, yes. i don't even think i ever anticipated being a lawyer at that time. >> he killed her. he choked her. he squeezed the life right out of her. >> and when ferris' trial began, it quickly became clear why police had focused on him. first, the state called the detective who was credited with cracking the cold case. >> tell us your name, please. >> roy allen walton. >> retired saginaw police detective roy walton took the stand. he's the one who reopened the case in 1994, 20 years after the murder and zeroed in on ferris as a suspect. >> did you ask him questions about the death of cheryl miller? >> i did. >> how did he describe his relationship in that december of 1994? >> he indicated to me that she was just one of about five girls he was [ bleep ] at the time. >> and that was his compression? >> that was his terminology, yes. >> prosecutors were trying to portray ferris as cold-hearted and they would next present a parade

. >> philip stroud, serving life without parole, used his inmate cam to reach out to the families of during a robbery. >> every day, every day i got to wonder what i did. i just wish that i could do it all over again. not for the sake of being in here. me being here, because i been locked up my whole life. but so y'all could have y'all loved ones back. >> is this place stressful? hell, yeah, it's stressful. this is one of the stressfullest things you can do. this is what i wake up to every morning. a steel door and a piece of glass. i mean, these places are so petty, they count the rolls of toilet paper you get. this is what you get every week. four rolls of toilet paper. you're allowed three khaki outfits. you're allowed one tote. you're allowed two blankets. everything is counted in here. >> oh, now you're recording. >> for joshua coffey, who was sentenced to six years for burglary, the only thing more frightening than prison was the thought of leaving. >> i got nine days. i got nine days before i'm thrust back out into society. and i'm not free. nobody thinks about freedom as some

. >> nobody had a menagerie to match that of philip stroud, who was serving three life sentences forrder at the wabash valley correctional facility in indiana. >> basically making origami figures. you've got the lion, you've got the swan, you've got the rabbit, little puppy, dinosaur, flower. my niece, she loves the little goldfish. this is my favorite one because it turns into like a kaleidoscope-type thing. the hardest one to make was probably the elephant because it got a lot of folds. i'm an artsy fartsy type of guy, i guess you could say. it's basically a way to spend my time, use my hands to make something that really means something that can bring a smile to somebody's face, instead of using -- using my time or using my hands to hurt somebody or to destroy something. i even sent some to nursing homes and stuff. the different animals remind me of when mom used to take us to the zoo or, you know, cartoons or stuff like that because in here, it's easy to grow cold. it's easy to become desensitized. and i was like that for a while. and i'm still trying to come out of that. so this