Facts - 10/23/05
  by the Free Ryan Ferguson Committee
 

 

#1

By George's closes at 1:30am as per the manager, City Ordinance and state statute that requires they close at 1:30 --- Erickson claims that they went back approx. 2:45am and stayed for 1 1/2 hours. Police Report 268
   
#2 Ryan Ferguson and Chuck Erickson depart By George Night Club at approximately 1:30am, November 1, 2004 -- Ryan Ferguson drives Chuck Erickson to his house and continues on to his home, arriving approximately 1:40am. (Ryan's statement to the police)
   
#3 Ryan's Sprint cell phone records -- Ryan's first cell phone call was made after By George's closed, some 11 minutes later at 1:41am November 1st. He continued talking to various people from 1:41 to 2:09am. This fact was never mentioned by Erickson until after he had received the police reports through discovery which was before his October 1st revised story. Police report #332. 
   
#4 911 call placed by Tribune employees at 2:26am. Police report #1.
   
#5 K-9 search -- From the crime scene, police used a special trained tracking dog to follow blood trail of the perpetrators shortly after the 911 call. The dog initially traveled south down 4th street from the Tribune parking lot which was the opposite direction that Chuck tells the police he went in his initial statement the morning of his arrest. It wasn't until Chuck's October 1st 'proffer' (after reading the police reports about the route) that Chuck first becomes aware that a police dog tracked the perpetrators the night of the crime. -- police report #42. That's when Chuck begins to claim he traveled this same route. Once at Flat Branch Park, Erickson states he traveled due west thru the creek and up onto Providence where he claims to have stopped and had a conversation with Dallas Mallory in the middle of the intersection of Locust and Providence, while Dallas was sitting in his car waiting at a stop light.  (see Mallory's affidavit)  According to MODOT, the light was blinking yellow at that hour of the night and could not have been red.  (why would Mallory stop at a flashing yellow light on one of Columbia's busiest streets at approximately 2:30 in the morning?)  Also, according to Mallory's affidavit dated 12/01/04, he states that he would not have driven that night because he did not have a valid driver's license and had sold his car prior to Nov. 1, 2001.(See fact #13) Meanwhile, the trained dog continued south from Flat Branch Park to Locust east to 5th Street and south to the university.  At this point the trained police dog handler states that his dog "began sniffing and pulling aggressively, displaying to me he had again located the scent of the man we were tracking."  They then continued on, reaching McReynold's Hall and finally McDavid Hall.  At this point, the police dog handler and his dog are 3 1/2 blocks southeast of where Chuck says he turned west.  More specifically, Chuck places himself in completely the opposite direction at the intersection of Providence and Locust continuing in a northwesterly direction toward By George's Nightclub. Police report #42 and #332.

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