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An Oklahoma man who was freed after being imprisoned for decades on a murder conviction says there are more cases like his.

Ricky Dority used his pandemic relief money to hire a private investigator, who worked to free him along with students from Oklahoma City University’s Innocence Project. They found inconsistencies in the state’s account of a 1997 cold-case killing, and a judge vacated the 65-year-old's conviction in June.

A national database says thousands of people have been exonerated nationwide since 1989.