Fri, Mar 28, 2014
48 Hours updates the case of Ryan Ferguson who was convicted of the murder of newspaper sports editor Kent Heitholt. After two witnesses admit to lying in court about the murders, the conviction against Ferguson is vacated and he is released from prison after spending almost a decade behind bars.
Mon, Jul 4, 2005
This story originally aired on July 5, 2005. It was updated on Jan. 31, 2008. In 1957, Gerald F. Mason raped a 15-year-old girl and then killed two El Segundo police officers, Milton Curtis and Richard Phillips. The case went cold for 46 years. Gerald Mason was arrested in 2003, pleaded guilty and went to prison, where he died in 2017.