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The Lost Night

March 26, 2011 8:20 PM

A father's mission to prove his son is innocent of a horrific crime. Erin Moriarty reports.

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by MRBAZER March 17, 2013 3:29 PM EDT
Police need to put the murder on someone, easy fit to blame it on bad kid of the community.

I think Ryan Ferguson is innocent.

Chuck Erickson on the other hand, is his own worst enemy.
Who knows what Chuck Erickson is capable of?
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by colbis123 February 22, 2013 6:09 PM EST
I think Chuck has some sort of OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) related illness going on. There are well known examples of this type of thought process. HOCD, for instance, is when a person has obsessive thoughts that they could be homosexual, despite the fact that they are heterosexual.

Some phobias work in a similar way, as they involve OCD thoughts. Some people are convinced that they will murder someone if they don't do certain things. Some people, with the right environment, can convince themselves that they have done all sorts of things. It's more common than you would think, but most of the time the thought process revolves around something more benign, like a paranoid fear that you will kiss anyone you see. I've suffered from this, and I had convinced myself that I must have kissed everyone I had ever met. It's bizarre. If someone had agreed with me and told me it was true I would buy it and expound on it even though it is absolutely false. Chuck needs to talk to therapists to get to the root of the story. People's lives are on the line. Do we care about justice and the truth or do we only care about being perceived as right?
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by Cooperkitty January 21, 2013 8:48 PM EST
What about the hair that was in his hand. I don't remember them saying if they did any dna on it. He is not guilty.
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by d2bd2b December 7, 2012 8:16 PM EST
https://www.facebook.com/FreeRyanFerguson
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by imbondz October 10, 2012 6:17 PM EDT
this is one of the first 48 Investigates that I actually think the guy is innocent. ugh.
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by WakeUpPeople001 August 9, 2012 11:54 AM EDT
I don't know what to believe.

1. Heitholt had hair in his hand. If Boyd is a suspect, get a DNA sample from him and compare it to the hair.

2. The composite drawing based on the female janitor's information seems to look like Erickson.

3. One of the suspects at the crime said, "Somebody's hurt". Seems like a non-involved, more sympathetic Ryan would say such words after his "friend" Erickson committed the crime.

4. I don't know too many non-druggies who have druggie friends. If Erickson was high the night of the crime, what about Ryan?

5. There are people who tell the truth. There are liars. And there's Erickson. What a space cadet!

6. Of course Ryan's father is trying to free his son. Wouldn't most fathers act the same way if any doubt about a son's guilt existed? The difference--the Ferguson family gets a "48 Hours" show.
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by dama350 August 5, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
I think chuck is running from freedom, and wants to be in prison. This is his way of committing suicide.

Chuck implemented Ryan, because the police told him the crime was not committed by him alone, so Chuck chose Ryan as the other person.

Everyone has to do their job well in order to keep their job, so placing someone in prison for a murder means that the detective have done their job.

I think the detective used Ryan to get a case closed.

Chuck needs help, because he is running from something, and wants to make sure he stays behind bars, or he might think he did a crime, because the police told him so much that lead him to believe he did the crime.

I think they should get Ryan out of prison, and deal with Chuck craziness, by getting him psychiatric help.

Other cases of the detective should be looked into, because he is not an honest detective.
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by cops1964 February 28, 2012 3:46 PM EST
12 jury people seen alot more to this case than what you seen on 48 hours.. those 12 people are sure they killed that man
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by sntia84 February 5, 2012 4:14 PM EST
I still believe till this day that the police did a f**cked up job in this investigation. I do believe both Chuck and Ryan are innocent. Chuck is a troubled child and Police took advantage of it.
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by martha2222 February 1, 2012 1:44 AM EST
Please ask Dave Letterman to bring up this story. The State of Missouri does nothing about it year after year. More info is on Dateline:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600/vp/44042127#44042127
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