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For a few years in the mid-2000\u2019s, Dane Cook was on top of the world. He performed high-energy stand up routines to countless adoring fans. He sold out Madison Square Garden. One of his stand up comedy albums went platinum. The next one went double platinum. He got movie deals. He created his own production company. At the risk of stating the obvious, Dane got rich. Super rich. Luckily, his half-brother Darryl McCauley was by his side the whole time, acting as Dane\u2019s business manager.\n
\n\nThen Brandi tells us a story that\u2019ll make your blood boil. In November of 2001, Kent Heitholt, a sports editor for the Columbia Daily Tribune, was discovered dead in the newspaper\u2019s parking lot. Kent had been brutally beaten and strangled. His murder went unsolved for two years. But a young man named Charles Erickson, who\u2019d been 17 at the time of Kent\u2019s murder, read about the crime and got a bad feeling. He and his friend Ryan Ferguson had been partying at a nearby bar on the night of Kent\u2019s murder. Charles had done cocaine, taken adderall, and been drinking that night. He couldn\u2019t remember the night in question, but he began having troubling dreams. Those dreams made him wonder whether he and Ryan had been involved in Kent\u2019s death. Charles eventually confessed to the crime. Police accepted the story, despite the fact that Charles\u2019 dreams didn\u2019t match the evidence.\n
\n\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.\n
\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:\nDane Cook\u2019s appearance on the podcast, \u201cYour Mom\u2019s House\u201d\nDane Cook\u2019s appearance on the podcast, \u201cInside of You\u201d\nDane cook\u2019s appearance on the podcast, \u201cBertcast\u201d\n\u201cDane Cook\u2019s half-brother, sister-in-law must repay $12 million,\u201d by Alan Duke for CNN\n\u201cDane Cook\u2019s manager-brother ordered to pay him $12 million,\u201d by Lindsay Powers for The Hollywood Reporter\n\u201cWife of Dane Cook\u2019s brother sentenced in embezzlement scheme,\u201d by Lisa Redmond for the Lowell Sun\n
\n\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cDream/Killer\u201d Documentary\n\u201cRyan Ferguson\u2019s Habeus Corpus Petition\u201d courts.mo.gov\n\n\u201cSaving Ryan Ferguson: One Lawyer\u2019s Story\u201d episode 48 Hours\xa0\n\u201cThe Ryan Ferguson Case: An examination of a strange murder and conviction\u201d by Chris Hamby\n\u201cRyan Ferguson Freed After Spending Almost a Decade in Prison for Murder\u201d by Lauren Effron and Victoria Thompson, ABC News\n\u201cRyan W. Ferguson\u201d wikipedia.org\n