to this day they don t know what it was. by the next morning the youngsters wanted to be found. we d see a light off to the distance, and we d get to running toward it and it would be a big hole up in the top where the sun was coming down through the trees. the group came to this river and started across. i almost drowned. we had our clothes on and boots and everything else, plus we were weak from no food and no water and no sleep. tracy sank. her sister s boyfriend reached for her. he looked back and i was i had went under already and swallowed a bunch of the yucky water and then he looked back and just kind of slowed down and grabbed me by the jacket and just pulled me over to the side. saved you? saved me. the river was close to the airport. they stumbled up to the military guards there who sent for
fire station after his wife s death because he had had a prior run-in with the people there and didn t trust them. he said he called the hospital in chattanooga because that s where he had taken his mother years earlier. it was the only facility he was familiar with. after two hours of deliberation, the jury acquitted alvin ridley of all charges. he claims it was his wife, virginia, testifying through her letters who kept him from a life behind bars. i felt like my wife and the lord saved me, and the jury. alvin ridley still lives in the same dilapidated home on the outskirts of town and still talks about restarting his television repair business. he visits virginia s grave regularly, a privilege he enjoys because of the role science
by the next morning the youngsters wanted to be found. we d see a light off to the distance, and we d get to running toward it and it would be a big hole up in the top where the sun was coming down through the trees. the group came to this river and started across. i almost drowned. we had our clothes on and boots and everything else, plus we were weak from no food and no water and no sleep. tracy sank. her sister s boyfriend reached for her. he looked back and i was i had went under already and swallowed a bunch of the yucky water and then he looked back and just kind of slowed down and grabbed me by the jacket and just pulled me over to the side. saved you? saved me. the river was close to the airport. they stumbled up to the military guards there who sent for tracy s older brother. he come running up. i ll never forget the look on
saved me. the river was close to the airport. they stumbled up to the military guards there who sent for tracy s older brother. he come running up. i ll never forget the look on his face. it was like he had seen a ghost. tracy was taken to a small store nearby. i just laid there, and i thought, i ve already been through hell. what else could happen really doesn t matter. she was flown back to the guyanese capital to a reunion with her father at the police station. i knew when i saw him i m going home. i m going to be able to go home. and that was the first time i had ever really felt that since the day i had hit the gates to go in. ahead, 30 years of unending pain. whoever said time heals all wounds didn t know what the hell he was talking about. [ female announcer ] you know the little song he ll hum
to this day, they don t know what it was. by the next morning, the youngsters wanted to be found. we d see a light off to the distance, and we d get to running towards it and it would be a big hole up in the top where the sun was coming down through the trees. the group came to this river and started across. i almost drowned. we had our clothes on and boots and everything else, plus we were weak from no food and no water and no sleep. tracy sank. her sister s boyfriend reached for her. he looked back and i was i had went under already and swallowed a bunch of the yucky water, and then he looked back and just kind of slowed down and grabbed me by the jacket and just pulled me over to the side. saved you? saved me. the river was close to the airport. they stumbled up to the military