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Ricky Kidd: The man who spent 23 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit

39 minutes | Friday, 14 August 2026

The Debrief hears the extraordinary story of Ricky Kidd, sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without parole for two murders he did not commit. Ricky walks the team through it all, from the fateful day police first made contact to the moment the gavel came down in the courtroom and his life changed forever. He describes what it was like to walk into a maximum security prison for a crime he had no part in, and how, behind three layers of barbed wire, he somehow found his purpose again. It builds to the moment that had all of us in tears on air: being told, at last, that he was free to go.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ricky Kidd: The man who spent 23 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit
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