UPDATE: James Reyos Exonerated

Crime Junkie

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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? I love that
0:10.8	after almost six years we still have first together.
0:14.4	I remember the first time we all did fundraising together
0:17.8	and helped identify the Sumter County Dose
0:20.0	as Pamela Buckley and James Freund. I remember the first time we founded a nonprofit
0:25.1	together. Shout out to season of justice and I remember the first case that was
0:29.2	solved through season of justice funding in January 2022. It was the 1985 murder of
0:35.3	Javed Ahmed from Alaska. His killer was arrested and brought to justice. I
0:40.4	remember the first time I sat down with a victim's family and you got to hear
0:44.4	their story straight from them. Payton I still think about you all the time.
0:48.9	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
0:59.7	exonerated of a man who ultimately served 20 years in prison for that crime.
1:14.0	Well, on Wednesday, October 4th,
1:16.1	2023, James was officially declared innocent
1:19.9	of a crime he 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 don't think
1:28.8	like, oh, he was out of jail already for 20 years, no biggie.
1:32.4	He had been on parole, like I said as a
1:33.9	convicted murderer for those 20 years. The restraints put on people as convicted
1:38.9	felons are unbelievable. Your life is still not your own. And at 67 years old, James probably believed
1:47.2	he would die labeled a murderer. But two crime junkies, two of you who did the most simple thing we tell you to do all the time,
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