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Ricky Dority used his pandemic relief funds to hire a dogged private investigator who started the effort that cleared his name.

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.

Ricky Dority spent decades in jail on a wrongful murder conviction. He used pandemic relief funds to hire a private investigator, which led to his exoneration.

Several months ago, Ricky Dority was locked in a cell, serving a life prison sentence at Oklahomas Joseph Harp Correctional Center for a killing he said he didnt commit.

Ricky Dority spent more than two decades behind bars for murder until he used his pandemic relief funds to hire a 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&# ...

Now that he's free, 65-year-old Ricky Dority is learning to use a smartphone and the television remote control. He's thankful to the Innocence Project.

An Oklahoma man used his COVID stimulus check to hire investigators who helped him get his murder conviction dropped and freed from prison.

After more than two decades behind bars, the 65-year-old has walked free.

An Oklahoma man, who spent decades behind bars for a 1997 cold-case killing, has been exonerated. The man used pandemic relief funds to hire a private investigator.