Crime Junkies Help Solve a Case

Crime Junkie

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True Crime

4.7 • 352.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In May 2021, Crime Junkie covered the 1981 murder of Father Patrick Ryan and the subsequent conviction of James Reyos. Now almost 40 years since James' arrest, officials discovered that there was untested evidence that has been sitting idle...which proved James was innocent and was only uncovered because two Crime Junkies listening to our episode decided to make a little noise.

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0:00.0	Hi, crime junkies, I'm Ashley Flowers, and you know what I love.
0:10.3	I love that after almost six years, we still have first together.
0:14.8	I remember the first time we all did fundraising together and helped identify the Sumter County
0:19.6	Dose as Pamela Buckley and James Freund.
0:22.7	I remember the first time we founded a nonprofit together, shout out to season of justice,
0:27.5	and I remember the first case that was solved through season of justice funding in January
0:32.2	2022.
0:33.2	It was the 1985 murder of Javed Ahmed from Alaska.
0:37.9	His killer was arrested and brought to justice.
0:40.2	I remember the first time I sat down with a victim's family and you got to hear their
0:44.7	stories straight from them.
0:47.0	Peyton, I still think about you all the time.
0:49.5	Well, today, we all get to celebrate another first.
0:53.4	The first time that one of you took action after an episode and helped get a man fully
0:59.6	exonerated of a murder that he was wrongfully convicted of.
1:04.0	I'm talking about James Reos, the man convicted of the murder of father Patrick Ryan, a man
1:10.1	who ultimately served 20 years in prison for that crime.
1:14.0	Along Wednesday, October 4, 2023, James was officially declared innocent of a crime he
1:20.7	could have never committed in the first place.
1:23.9	And I hope you don't think for one second, this isn't as big of a deal as it is because
1:28.2	don't think like, oh, he was out of jail already for 20 years.
1:31.4	No biggie.
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