When a brutally murdered John Doe turns out to be a Catholic priest leading a double life, blame falls upon a young man who was in a different state at the time of the murder. A wrongful conviction paints a twisted picture—and is finally solved—in this episode of Last Seen Alive.
This episode is a comprehensive update / follow-up to an episode we aired in 2020 on the then-unsolved homicide of Father Patrick Ryan / wrongful conviction of James Harry Reyos. After more than 40 years, James Reyos has finally been legally-declared innocent, and Father Patrick Ryan’s real killers have been identified.
Pictured: Father Patrick Ryan (undated photo). Originally from Ireland, he was 49-years-old when he was murdered in Odessa, Texas.At age 49, Father Patrick Ryan was murdered in an Odessa, TX motel room he’d checked into under a false name.Pictured: James Harry Reyos sits in his small room in Austin, TX after his release from prison, decades ago. For years, he was confined to the room during nights and weekends, and surveilled with an ankle monitor. Today, he is finally legally-recognized as innocent.Leon J. Podles created this timeline, which illustrates the impossibility of James Reyos’ involvement in Father Patrick Ryan’s murder. What Leon J. Podles has known for years has finally been proven true, as of October 2023.James Harry Reyos–still a wrongfully convicted murderer–pictured after he was released from prison early for good behavior. In October of 2023, he was finally legally-declared innocent.
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