police reported, gym mcnabb has that story. reporter: violence to the forest murder states, murders don t happen here by 31-year-old chris moore ton was found dead in the home s master bedroom. like a movie, the big yellow crime scene ribbons all around my house, cop cars everywhere. it was discovered by a neighbor. they saw the small child outside the house. when the sheriff told me chris was dead, i asked if it was murder, and he said yes. i asked to see her. i wanted not proof but, you know, i needed to see her, and the sheriff refused. neighbors said the family had gone out to eat last night. it was michael mortin s birthday. he was at work for a grocery store chain when he heard his wife was dead. an autopsy will tell the exact cause but she s said to have suffered a head injury. the sheriff is waiting on tests from the department of public
i have recommended relief. you do have my sympathies. you have my apoll jais. thank god this wasn t a capital case. i only had life. because it gave the saints at the innocence project time to do this. i would like to say this is one of the happiest days of my life, and i thank god for it. we are so thankful the truth finally came out. yes. and we re happy happy happy. okay. thank you all very much. it was a somewhat chaotic. there was a procession, cameras were everywhere. people, i didn t know which way we were going. all of this time rushed back at me. my time of only seven years, michael s of 25. i stopped with michael, and i
big mustache. did he have daddy s gun or mommy s purse? yeah. those were the things that were stolen. there is a critical question that rita had the sense to ask eric in that conversation. and that question was, where was daddy, eric? was daddy there? no, mommy and eric was there. but coming from rita kirkpatrick, chris s mother, talking about eric talking about a monster with red hands, and that person is clearly not michael morton is devastating to the state s case. and they sat on this information for 25 years. don wood says it. he said that rita said, you need to stop looking at michael and
something about, you know, what was going on. michael had an amazing capacity to kcome part mentaliz things so he didn t bring his grief into the office. i don t know what he did with it. i didn t think i would be convicted. it was going to be a long-ish trial but it would reveal there can be in there there. there is nothing to convict. there is nothing hard. there is nothing to say look, this guy did it. there is nothing beyond a reasonable doubt and i could not imagine what could possibly be manufactured to make 12 people think i killed my wife. ken anderson was the prosecutor. the elected district attorney in williamson county at the time. the morton case was the biggest case anderson was involved in.
but it s really nothing new for me. . it s an experience i m sure he ll tell you he wishes he never had to go through. but as much ace hate to admit it and he will, too it made me a better person. i think it made him one, too. woke him up. michael is in a doubly terrible position, because he not only was wrongfully convicted but he s a crime victim himself. he lost a wife that he loved. he lost his child. unbelievable. as a child, if i loved my