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Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander is a Chamber Clerk from Adelaide, Australia. Her interests include true crime, particularly the wrongful conviction of Ryan Ferguson, as well as photography, and motor racing. She runs websites at www.go-brooke.com and www.markskaife.net. She can be contacted via email at skaifey@ westnet.com.au.
Donations to support Ryan Ferguson's defense should be sent to: Ryan Ferguson Freedom Fund, PO Box 7249, Columbia, MO 65205.
Jane Alexander
One Murder, Two Victims: The Wrongful Conviction of Ryan Ferguson
July 22, 2007
(updated 02/16/09)
Ryan Ferguson
On a warm Halloween night in 2001, Kent Heitholt, the sports editor of the Columbia Daily Tribune, worked into the night. He logged off his computer at 2:08 a.m., chatted with some colleagues, and made his way out of the Tribune building to his car in the newspaper's parking lot. There he had a conversation with colleague Michael Boyd that lasted until approximately 2:17 a.m. Minutes after that, Heitholt was brutally beaten, hit 11 times over the head with a metal object, and strangled to death with his own belt.
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