Charles Erickson: Missouri; Bulletin: The Midwest Innocence Project has taken on his case. Erickson is serving a 25-year sentence for second-degree murder in the 2001 death of Tribune Sports Editor Kent Heitholt..."The Kansas City-based organization works to exonerate wrongfully convicted people in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa and Nebraska."...... (Associated Press);

"The Columbia Daily Tribune reports the Midwest Innocence Project has taken the case of Charles Erickson, who's serving a 25-year sentence for second-degree murder in the 2001 death of Tribune Sports Editor Kent Heitholt. Erickson's testimony in the case, which he has since claimed was a lie, implicated Ryan Ferguson, who served nearly 10 years behind bars before he was released in 2013.

The Kansas City-based organization works to exonerate wrongfully convicted people in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa and Nebraska."

http://krcgtv.com/news/local/midwest-innocence-project-takes-columbia-case

 

See also Erickson's supporter's web site at the link below. (There is a thorough summary of the case and a section deals in some detail with false confessions); 

http://www.freecharleserickson.org/siteindex.html

 

See related Daily Beast story 'Escaping the hell of forced confessions' at the link below;

 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/27/the-prison-fitness-guru-out-to-help-the-wrongly-convicted.html