Wrongfully convicted man freed after 28 years meets longtime pen pal
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- čas přidán 20. 04. 2023
- Lamar Johnson and Ginny Schrappen struck up a fast friendship and corresponded constantly for decades while Johnson was in prison, serving time for a murder he didn't commit. When he was freed, they finally met for the first time. Steve Hartman has their story in "On the Road."
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This is what humanity looks like. I hope he is extremely compensated for the 28 years stolen from him.
I would have put a law suit on the state for wrongful exuse
No amount of money can replace his...
As it turned out, someone told me that he received NOTHING from the state. Unreal B.S.
@@sweetbermudaonions60 What the!!
@@Vincengo-ve9sj No one is saying that, this guy just released from prison for 28 years...falsely imprisoned and he gets NOTHING? WTF?
That hug and kiss on the cheek says everything I need to know about her character. She is the salt of the earth.😇
You can tell she sees the man and not the color, bless her!
@@angeesteiner8493 they do see color, they just are evolved beings who know it’s just that, color, and has no reflection on character.
True and so genuine no holds so pure
May God keep her for many, many, many more years and let her love flow through others, protect and keep.....Amen....
@@malkiawaalego2552 they lol that’s amazing.
When you are falsely accused, you want someone to believe in you, so that you don't give up on yourself.❤
Everyone is innocent in prison
@Jeremy A. Medlock
Too many actually are. America's so called judicial system is a broken mess!!!
Everyone wants that. Wrongfully accused or not.
That's the best statement I have ever heard in my life
Very deep
I did 5 years for a crime I didn't commit I'm glad for you, praise the Lord.
I am sorry that you were forced to serve time for a crime you didn't commit. Our system is very broken.
Thank you/ I will trust in the Lord 🙏
@followword6452 The Lord Jesus Christ is the only way, the truth and the life! Praise Him, I am very glad you have that peace that surpasses all understanding! Even in the "free" world, many people are in bondage, not understanding Christ and His sacrifice for our sins. This world is not our home, we are just passing through!
I'm sorry you went through that! I pray to God your life is now full of many blessings!
follow word my your journey be better and brighter
If anyone deserves EXTREME compensation it’s this man! Make it right
That is impossible. They can make it "better" but it will never be made right.
He should sue for 28 years of his life being stolen.
In Missouri, since DNA evidence wasn’t used to set aside his conviction, Johnson is not eligible for state restitution. The state of Missouri needs to change the law and offer this man compensation for robbing him of 28 years.
@@hardlines2635 Wow, smh, that's foul.
Exactly. People sue the police and everything else over small stuff and this man gets nothing???
The way she held his face each time she kissed him, just like a mother would do. Moved me to tears.
I know she aroused him 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
People like these two, give me hope for humanity.❤
They don't even no each other I might want to be a little Leary but congrats to dude 👍
This is why i can never go for the death penalty.Just imagine how many innocent have been executed and are locked up
NEVERRRRRRR....
Exactly
Exactly!!!!!!!
Oh I know, but then there are cases like Lori and Chad Daybell.
@@annette7154 If you can't give life don't take it..under no circumstances i will ever agree for death penalty even if i saw the person do it.Higher power will deal with them
It just takes that one person who believes in you...
Just ONE!.
@@bringthepayne7561 YES ! GOD for certain ... and 1 more Friend !
Instant tears 😢! Their embrace was full of love, compassion, and a genuine connection ❤ Her kisses on the cheek spoke VOLUMES to the bond and friendship that has been built over the years!! ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL
Yes indeed. Ditto. Filled my heart with love. ❤🥹
This is so terrible; 28 years of his life taken away. Bless him.
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
This is so sad that he stayed in prison almost 3 decades for a crime he didnt commit
Why are these stories always black people?🤔
@@ljeans531 I said that too ,stories like this is always a black guy that was falsely accused ,how many more black guy are innocent that are in jail?
@@ljeans531 Answer lies in the corrupt justice system.
@@ljeans531 Only ~30 years ago from when this dude was arrested, the Jim Crow system was only starting to be dismantled. So you can imagine black people getting wrongly convicted was far more prevalent back then and they're starting to be found innocent now.
@@Omar-kl3xp a lot
Such a wonderful ending to a difficult tribulation. The Lord provided him a friend who would stick with him through it all. Bless them both !!
If the "Lord" can do that he should have helped this man a long time ago.
@@jdmmg4904 Exactly. These religious folks are expert at mental gymnastics.
@@vetiverose128 Ikr. The Lord works in mysterious ways. But won’t stop the genocide of millions of people all over the planet. The lord won’t stop that. Humans do.
I am crying. Thank goodness for the church that Lamar wrote to and The Innocents Project. Such a dreadfully long time to be wrongly imprisoned but I hope he has the mental, emotional, and financial support to live his very best life and thrive. His pen pal Ginny is an angel. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🐑🐑🇳🇿🇳🇿NZ
We need to hear more about this story. I am so glad for this man.
I hope they can continue to be good friends for each other in the remaining years. Quite a story. Nothing will make up for his lost years, but he has a new beginning. May Lamar have strength & courage & purpose for the road ahead.
NOTHING
She has her BBC ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
I just watched this a day ago and May God bless this woman for being a pen pal with this immate who was wrongly convicted of a crime he didnt commit and endured a 28 year nightmare in prison while the real killer was roaming free finnally exonerated. My heart goes out to all that were wrongly convicted. They deserve full compensation for time lost. I wish this man the best of luck on his new leaf on life and God bless this woman for not giving up on him. 🙏❤❤
This brought a smile to my face! I hope he gets paid for the injustice and they stay friends forever!!!!
I heard that he got nothing back
@@ninjapirate123 if that's true he should sue
@@anthonyc8238 yes but hows suing gonna help
Love just love these two people! Lamar Johnson and Ginny Schrappen, just love!
Such a amazing video 😊
Good afternoon Deb 👋
So many have lost valuable years of their life for things they didn’t do. It’s heartbreaking.
I live 30 minutes outside of St Louis... this is a story I was so grateful to see.. God Bless Ginny and Lamar and you too Steve Hartman ❤
This man gave half of his life for some thing he didn’t do, shame on the jury and shame on the one who did it and let somebody pay for another’s man crime, I hope he will get compensated and can build his life, I feel so sad that he had to go through this.
Empathy, understanding, communication and passion. Please say there's hope for humanity 🙏.
Yes there is…In Jesus. 🙏
Please someone anyone out there please give this man 28 years of lost time to him he deserves all the best memories and moments lost, that's an amazing pen pal he has great that you are back on the outside again
These stories remind me what humanity, compassion looks like.
You can really tell she sees him as her kin, the warmth in which they greeted one another was so wholesome.
This just made me smile sooooo hard! She didnt have to do something that seems so small to her, but enormous to the world. She potentially saved his life. She hugged and kissed him like he was her grandchild. So sweet, bless this ladys heart
Those kisses made something else hard for Lamar 😒😒😒😒😒😒😒
That’s so beautiful and amazing!
The justice system locks up too many innocent people.
A massive compensation should come to this man!
This makes me still believe that there’s still good people in this world. God Bless this great woman.
Godless America!
Aww. Such a nice hug and kiss.
Awesome story.
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shoot. i did not expect to be crying like i am. I pray they can have a continued relationship. Thank goodness she was kind enough to be the one to respond to him. Bless them both!
All it takes is kindness ♥️ God bless her for not giving up on the imprisoned 🙏🏾
Can barely comment can barely see what I’m typing, sobbing for joy for this inexplicably, incredible young man, and what he’s endured and this wonderful woman who had nothing to lose, but a stamp, and everything to gain in a lifelong friend. Abundant blessings to you both. ❤♥️🤗🤗🙏🏼🙏🏼
Such beauty... In both of them and in Steve for moving our souls!
Nope somebody needs to get sued,28 yrs r u kidding me...
That guy needs to be compensated
They took away decades of his life...😢
I am happy he is freed...
To God be the glory ..
My heart breaks for him, I can’t imagine being locked up for something I didn’t do and wanting people to believe me…I go nuts if someone accuses me of using something that belongs to them when I didn’t. Wishing him all the best for his future. And for this beautiful soul of a lady, I wish her many years of happiness and health..❤🙏🏾
What a beautiful soul that woman possesses.
I cried so much, and grateful for the tears ❣️🌌 Love-love 💭🕊️
That makes me cry - that poor man. There’s no justice.
💔
This is so touching and beautiful story of love and friendship, she stood by him all these years and encouraged him to never give up, God richest blessings on you my dear.
You were like a mum and dear friend to him all these years.
Most of all you help him to never give up!!! This is the kind of love that this world needs.
We need more people like you.
So happy he came to see you and to see such a beautiful friendship like you two. Life could be very difficult but this story sure gives us hope.
There are still good people out there.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
What a nice story. So many men are in prison and are not quilty. You hear it over and over again. He should sue and get his life back.
Such a great video Pat ❤
What a great story love it !!
So heartwarming. I cried tears of happiness for him. Shame it took so long. I hope he has a happy life. The woman was a blessing.
Thank you to both of these wonderful people. I’m so sorry for him but thankful for his strength and her love. Feeling inspired
😢 can’t stop the tears 😭!! So wonderful to see these two together!! ❣️❣️❣️
Hi how are you doing?
Damn talk about a tear jerker. Wow. So happy for them both.
Beautiful Story!
A heartbreakingly beautiful story of inspiration and love for another human being
My heart is happy for this man. I hope he is able to build a good life going forward. God bless him.
We need people like her in this world, We need such stories to give us hope in life. She's an angel in disguise. Humanity speaks everything. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Damn man, this choked me up! Time is something you can never get back. The only commodity that you can recoup! God bless this lady for staying by his side and getting him probably through some very very tuff days!
Godless America!
Wow...amazing 😢
Amazing story. So grateful that there are people in the world who will support you
Acts and Friendships like this make me believe that there is still humanity in this cruel world. I love it! God bless Ms. Ginny and Mr. Johnson. 😊
Kindness is no disease and an example for us all.
The sad part he can't get back those 28 years the prison took from him.
We all need that one person who wont give up on us, what a story
Now this is what SHOULD be shown to the public. The friendship and love between races. What a beautiful thing these friends share 💜
This lady is an angel she cared enough to take a chance and she made all the difference God bless her for helping to free an innocent man.
What a great love story. Thank you, Phil Hartman....you always bring it home with wonderful, heart-warming stories!
A relationship/friendship that would not be if he wasn't sent to prison. However, he was an innocent man to begin with.
God bless her 🙏 He is so soft spoken and incredibly beautiful. He's going to be just fine ❤
This really touches my heart and then gets me mad the injustice this man had to go through and the years he lost and will never get back.
so inspiring but still sad this occurs in our country. god bless them both! ❤
I think the judges and prosecutors should go to prison every time this happens.
This brought me to tears. God bless them both🇿🇦
I am balling my eyes out. Every time someone is released after being exonerated I wonder knowing, what I now know , how many more Black people are wrongfully imprisoned? I love that there are organizations that do nothing but research these case. It restores SOME of my confidence in law enforcement.
Good stuff…..great people doing good everyday
Hopefully he gets a big sum for the years he was wrongfully imprisoned. Glad he is out and living his best life ❤
If Missouri is a state that pays out... states usually pay about $50,000 per every year falsely incarcerated. He did 28 years so that would be about $1,400,000. Definitely not enough for all that time he lost. His life was stolen. Many times states have loopholes to not pay out, but hopefully its different for this man. It might not be enough but after all that it's better than nothing since they can't give him back his time.
Nope he was award any money!!
Very heartwarming story. Thank you.
These are the stories the media needs to tell more often - we have many, many good people in this country who are very generous with their time, their resources and skills, including apparently, the lost art of written correspondence. If our media chose to share more stories like this story we might find ourselves trying a bit more to get along with one another. We might find hope for our nation’s future.
So beautiful. God bless them and their families ❤️
Hello how’re you doing?
@@morrisonscott702 HI. I'm good. How are you.
@@suheilaknio4664 I’m doing great thanks, it’s nice meeting with you here. Where are you texting from?
@@morrisonscott702 I'm sorry but I don't like chatting with people I don't know. I recently chatted with someone for the first time in over 15 years and it wasn't the person I thought. I prefer not to chat please. Take care and God bless you .
@@suheilaknio4664 That’s sad to hear, I’m sorry to hear that but ain’t right to assume everyone as the same am just a gentleman who’s trying to be friendly.
This was truly heartwarming. There still is goodness in the world.
Absolutely amazing! Glad he is out and was able to thank his pen pal.
What a wonderful story, I hope they have many years of friendship ahead of them.
Its painstaking to know this man was falsely accused and to what degree a lack of intelligence was used to finally figure it out. The justice system sucks but of course there are good people within in it. Thank God for this motherly woman who gave this man a lifeline and led hin through his dark days.
God Grace this man with a blessed life ahead. Amen.
I love these stories but good grief, I really hate reading about how so many innocent people are spending literally decades behind bars for crimes they didn't commit. They should be given some type of guaranteed income for what the state put them through instead of them just saying "sorry about that, you're free now."
Beautiful story, so happy he was found
Innocent and released. Glad also he has
a long time friend ship with someone who
believed in him, and helped him indure all
those years while in prison. God bless
them both.
I’ve seen and heard about one tragedy happening after another a lot recently- this was a breath of fresh air and reminds me that there are still good individuals who exist on this earth. For however long that woman has left here, I hope they’re both able to connect even further. She is his guardian angel.
Us teachers are such good judges of characters!! Brought tears to my eyes. That poor man has missed out on so much !! I hope he has the best time from hereon. What a lovely lady 🎉
What a nice thing to see
Wow! She was only 55 when she started writing to him! She's been writing to him for almost a third of her life. That's dedication.
Thankful for everyone involved 🙏
I love GOOD NEWS, I wish it was reported more than the bad news.
This isn’t a feel good story it’s a tragedy!! The state stole his life and the woman who wrote to him gave him hope…. I hope that he was well compensated for his trauma 🥺😞
Thank you Steve. Your stories save me and inspire me to do and be better.❤
I’m in tears. He’s such a gentle man and she, an angel.
God bless! 🥰❤ This has made my heart so glad 🎉👏🏾
It's such a shame that he spent so many years in prison despite his innocence 😭 I'm grateful that things have turned around and he's free now!
What a great story, this man was dealt a terrible injustice, I hope and pray he can overcome this trauma and find himself and learn to survive in todays' crazy world. God bless both of you and hang in there Lamar, there is nothing you can ever do to make God love you more than He does right now.
This made me tear up.
This is the most touching video I have seen.May God continue to strengthen these two with love and kindness.
I hope he sued and gets compensation
Sad thing is,this happens every day in America. Absolutely pathetic it still does. I have no faith whatsoever,in our judicial system! Good for him!
A innocent man did twenty eight years in jail, I really hope that he was well compensated!!!
State of Missouri pay up. 28 years of injustice....she is heaven sent. They are both two wonderful people. God bless them.
God bless America, God damn America
Sad to say there are many more Lamar Johnsons out there suffering!!!!
Bless this Lady for giving hope and compassion when most would have not and did not. He did deserve it so much.
Beautiful people…
Beautiful story…
Beautiful outcome…
THIS is the epitome of humanity. The justice system doesn’t always get it right, BUT if we love and listen, we can never go wrong.
God bless 🙏