1 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: I remember it was a beautiful day. It was in 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: a spring, a little strange. Even when I got on 3 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: my mom's card. Something felt sprange that day, sins something 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: to feel right. As soon as I got in the door, 5 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: that was that knock, like doom, doom, doom. I had 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: a lot of friends. Who are you know, Francis. I 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: figured this is this is a joke of some kind. 8 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: I walk outside and one of the investigators tells the 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: other one he looks like a jack rabbit and they 10 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: want to handcuffle. That's when I realized, Okay, this is 11 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 1: not a joke. I found my wife at midnight, so 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: I've been up since about seven that morning and they 13 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,239 Speaker 1: let me go five or six and next afternoon, so 14 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: I've been up thirty some hours without sleep, under intense 15 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: interrogation trying to get me to confess I was on 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: house arrest there for I can't I can't remember a while, 17 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: and my attorney would not let me take the stand. 18 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: I'm like, I need to take the stand. I need 19 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: to speak up for myself. I don't have anything to hide, 20 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: and he's like, no, you look angry. What do you 21 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: mean I look angry? Would you not be angry. Of 22 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: course I'm angry. There was a laundry list of churches 23 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: that they offered to plead. At first, I didn't want 24 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 1: the plea. I was like, no, I about taking the police. 25 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: I was furious. I think that it was voluntary manslaughter. 26 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: I got to the point where I felt like I 27 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,320 Speaker 1: was just about snap, like I was about almost lose 28 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: my mind, like a rubber band being stretched. I went 29 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: out for parole after my twenty six year and he 30 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: gave me a date. It was like thirty years off, 31 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 1: so I was never gonna see any freedom. They weren't 32 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: going to release me. And then later I heard about 33 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: DNA technologies at DNA. What some guys have gotten out 34 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: based on DNA technology. One question I'll always remember prosecutor 35 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: asking me. She says, Mr Dillon, do you mean to 36 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: tell me that all the people here are lying and 37 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: that you're the only one telling the truth. And I said, yes, ma'am, 38 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: not just the way it seems to me. And it 39 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: took twenty seven years, but I approved it. I'm Philip Holloway, 40 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 1: host of the podcast Sworn from Tenderfoot TV and I 41 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. The first two episodes of Sworn Season two 42 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 1: drop on July. Listen on the I Heart Radio app, 43 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.