Speaker 1: I remember it was a beautiful day. It was in
Speaker 1: a spring, a little strange. Even when I got on
Speaker 1: my mom's card. Something felt sprange that day, sins something
Speaker 1: to feel right. As soon as I got in the door,
Speaker 1: that was that knock, like doom, doom, doom. I had
Speaker 1: a lot of friends. Who are you know, Francis. I
Speaker 1: figured this is this is a joke of some kind.
Speaker 1: I walk outside and one of the investigators tells the
Speaker 1: other one he looks like a jack rabbit and they
Speaker 1: want to handcuffle. That's when I realized, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: not a joke. I found my wife at midnight, so
Speaker 1: I've been up since about seven that morning and they
Speaker 1: let me go five or six and next afternoon, so
Speaker 1: I've been up thirty some hours without sleep, under intense
Speaker 1: interrogation trying to get me to confess I was on
Speaker 1: house arrest there for I can't I can't remember a while,
Speaker 1: and my attorney would not let me take the stand.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I need to take the stand. I need
Speaker 1: to speak up for myself. I don't have anything to hide,
Speaker 1: and he's like, no, you look angry. What do you
Speaker 1: mean I look angry? Would you not be angry. Of
Speaker 1: course I'm angry. There was a laundry list of churches
Speaker 1: that they offered to plead. At first, I didn't want
Speaker 1: the plea. I was like, no, I about taking the police.
Speaker 1: I was furious. I think that it was voluntary manslaughter.
Speaker 1: I got to the point where I felt like I
Speaker 1: was just about snap, like I was about almost lose
Speaker 1: my mind, like a rubber band being stretched. I went
Speaker 1: out for parole after my twenty six year and he
Speaker 1: gave me a date. It was like thirty years off,
Speaker 1: so I was never gonna see any freedom. They weren't
Speaker 1: going to release me. And then later I heard about
Speaker 1: DNA technologies at DNA. What some guys have gotten out
Speaker 1: based on DNA technology. One question I'll always remember prosecutor
Speaker 1: asking me. She says, Mr Dillon, do you mean to
Speaker 1: tell me that all the people here are lying and
Speaker 1: that you're the only one telling the truth. And I said, yes, ma'am,
Speaker 1: not just the way it seems to me. And it
Speaker 1: took twenty seven years, but I approved it. I'm Philip Holloway,
Speaker 1: host of the podcast Sworn from Tenderfoot TV and I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. The first two episodes of Sworn Season two
Speaker 1: drop on July. Listen on the I Heart Radio app,
Speaker 1: Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.