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GREENWOOD -- Ricky Dority spends most of his days playing with his grandchildren, feeding chickens and working in the yard where he lives with his sons family.

An Oklahoma man serving a life sentence in prison used his pandemic relief funds to hire a private investigator to help exonerate him for a 1997 murder he did not commit.

An Oklahoma man who was freed after being imprisoned for decades on a murder conviction says there are more cases like his.

Ricky Dority spends most of his days playing with his grandchildren, feeding chickens and working in the yard where he lives with his son's family.

After more than two decades behind bars, Ricky Dority had no chance at being released — until he used his pandemic relief funds to hire a dogged private investigator.

Ricky Dority spends most of his days playing with his grandchildren, feeding chickens and working in the yard where he lives with his son’s family. It’s a jarring change from where he was just several months ago, locked in a cell serving a life prison sentence at Oklahoma’s Joseph Harp Correctional Center in a killing…

An Oklahoma man who was freed after being imprisoned for decades on a murder conviction says there are more cases like his.

An Oklahoma man who was freed after being imprisoned for decades on a murder conviction says there are more cases like his.

An Oklahoma man who was freed after being imprisoned for decades on a murder conviction says there are more cases like his.

GREENWOOD, Ark. (AP) — Ricky Dority spends most of his days playing with his grandchildren, feeding chickens and working in the yard where he lives with his sons family.