Alex Kotlowitz

The interview lasted an hour and 15 minutes.

Larry didn't bring a lawyer.

He didn't feel he had anything to hide.

Larry returned to his life driving a truck and laying gas pipes.

He got married to a woman named Melody, and they thought about starting a family together.

Did you know what they were talking about?

This was in 1992, like Larry said, 12 and a half years after Christie Ringler's death.

A new sheriff had reopened the case and it quickly got a lot of publicity.

Larry, who's quiet and reserved, felt deeply embarrassed.

Had you ever been arrested before?

But Larry assumed that justice would just find its way.

This is Melody, his wife.

The prosecutors argued that Larry had bludgeoned Christy Ringler with a pint-sized bottle of Canadian Club whiskey.

Their key piece of evidence was the testimony by pathologists that the bottom ridge of the bottle matched Ringler's injuries.

At the trial, no mention was made of Carla's note and her subsequent interview with the detectives.

The suitors believed the prosecution buried it.

Larry was convicted and sentenced to 20 to 60 years.

There is, I suspect, nothing more confounding and debilitating than being sent to prison for something you didn't do.

And the years behind bars had their effect on Larry as well as on his wife, Melody.

Melody had a car accident after visiting Larry in prison and lost her factory job.