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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 son's 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 Oklahoma's Joseph Harp Correctional Center for a killing he said he didn't commit.
Ricky Dority spent more than two decades behind bars for murder until he used his pandemic relief funds to hire a private investigator.