How I Escaped From Death Row...Then Proved Myself Innocent | Extraordinary Lives | @LADbible
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- Nick Yarris survived 22 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. He'll take us through the circumstances that led to him being sentenced, his life inside from meeting Ted Bundy to the terrifying 'Gladiator Matches' and his accidental escape.
Hear how Nick eventually became the first prisoner death row prisoner to use DNA to prove his innocence.
This is an episode of Extraordinary Lives, where we speak to people with a unique life story to tell. From a North Korea escapee to an undercover cop, a Cold War spy to a shipwreck survivor. Hosted by LADbible's Ben-Powell Jones, this series is a window into remarkable experiences - with stories that paint a picture of extraordinary lives.
Host: Ben Powell-Jones, Twitter: @BenPowellJones
00:00 - 00:01:59 - Introduction
00:01:59 - 00:02:42 - Brain Damaged By A Stranger
00:02:42 - 00:29:14 - Admitting To A Crime I Didn't Commit
00:29:14 - 00:37:48 - Death Sentence And Imprisonment
00:39:00 - 00:50:37 - 'Escape Attempt' and re-imprisonment
00:50:37 - 01:01:23 - Gladiator School
01:01:23 -01:08:29 - PTSD Attacks
01:08:29 - 01:15:07 - The Road To Exoneration
01:15:07 - 01:16:59 - Life Lesson
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Thanks to Nick for taking part!
You can find out about him here:
www.Nyarris.com
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Beautiful this has really helped me today listening to you x
1:01:26 be proud of yourself for sticking It out. As well when you get out you don't just go and enjoy your life you actually Work towards helping people and letting this torture be known. Be proud of yourself
I worked with Nick in Oregon, he is a lovely soul, I wish him nothing but the absolute best. God bless you Nick
Love Trixie ❤
He came to Ireland and we hung out and ate pizza, such an incredible guy, great storyteller
He is an incredible storyteller, he could have a career reading audiobooks.
He is also a murdering rapist. Please look into the facts of the case. Do not believe one word that comes out of Yarris' mouth.
Yep, he sure is an incredible story teller. No doubt about that!
It does sound like a practised speech.
@@kruglov I'm not surprised. This guy sets my bullshit alarm off full blast. I've been conned myself once. It was an instructive lesson. Even before that this psycho would not have fooled me for long .How can so many people be so gullible? It's truly a terrifying trait of humans. That's how you raise an army...
@@kruglov funny that DNA cleared him then. Don't be ridiculous
Has somebody wrote the script to the movie yet? I hope this guy gets some recompence for what he has been through, what a strong guy!
Fear of 13 its the movie
It was so good!
They changed the script and when nick complained they cut him from the movie. Netflix ripped him off. He explains it on joe rogan podcast.
@@clyde294 Thanks I'm gonna check it out.
I had tears running down my face at the end. I just wanted to hear his voice for longer and I'm so stoked he is here in the UK and that he likes it here. We are far better off as a nation for having him. God bless you Nick:)
This has to be one of the craziest stories I’ve heard in my entire life.. What an inspiring man.
After hearing his story, I simply cannot believe that he is so NORMAL. Most people would have simply collapsed and given up. His acceptance of responsibility for his ordeal , despite the fact that public officials, have committed far worse crimes than he ever did, in the course of their public duty, and are really responsible for what he endured, and yet he has reached a point where he views his small part in his life as eclipsing theirs. His story has certainly inspired me.
Hard to put words on what he went through. Tons of respect for him that’s for sure
He is likely not normal but is compensating really well.
He absolutely did murder the girl and got off years later on a technicality with a single piece of evidence.
But of course, he won’t tell you that. He feeds audiences with hypnotising narrative, always uninterrupted by the interviewer. Even when he was at Rogan.
There was a mountain of evidence against him, but there was also a random glove in the car that no one ever worked out how it got into victims car.
So it was assumed early in the investigation that the propitiator could have left the glove in the car.
And when, eventually, nicks dna was not found on the glove, it created enough reasonable doubt to let him out.
But that glove could have been anyone’s! The victim girl worked at the supermarket, she could have picked up a lost glove in the parking lot with intent to hand it in to lost property next day. Whatever!
And nick knew that the glove was not his.
That’s why he insisted so hard on dna testing.
It was his only chance because he couldn’t argue with the mountain of other evidence against him. And the cops wrote up the glove as “likely to belong to the person who committed the murder”.
So when dna came back negative, it created enough reasonable doubt to drop the case and let this wonderful human being back into society.
I wonder why not a single interviewer presses him on it. The case facts are public record, none of the above is “conspiracy” of sorts.
Yet, all they do is allow him to come in and read his fairytales in a soft, angelic voice.
I wonder if this is kind of a paid promotion for nicks book or whatever… don’t know.
@@kruglov I would like to know more details about the evidence in this case. I find it hard to believe a jury would convict someone of a crime like this based on the testimony of an incarcerated criminal alone.
I have seen him interviewed before and he does kinda have this hypnotic narrative that seems to leave the interviewer unable to ask more probing questions.
If you know of anything where someone does look a bit deeper at the facts of the case I would appreciate a link.
@dazuk1969 Since Yarris became a bit of a celebrity, he has a publisher, who seems to be selling his story online so well that if one searches for actual facts of the case - these are not trivial to find.
It is important to understand that the story he recites during numerous interviews, is almost word for word lifted from his civil suite.
He also has a publishing contract. And there are numerous groups who are involved in his legal battle and/or publishing of his story and as such they are all vastly invested into this “unfairly accused” narrative.
He is financially benefiting from the story he tells.
And Yarris himself, his publisher(s) and interested groups around him have zero interest in making the facts widely known.
You could start researching the case with the Appeal from 1988(google it, i cannot seem to post links here) it provides a decent recount of actual facts.
First of all, Yarris fails to mention that he was stalking the girl.
There is evidence from her co-workers about Yarris coming to the store prior to the events and - as you pointed out yourself - Yarris has a particular hypnotising gaze and coupled with his appearance and his very distinct way of speaking would make it almost impossible to mistake him for someone else.
Quote: “… There was also testimony from one of the victim's co-workers, Natalie Barr, that on numerous occasions during the week prior to the crime, appellant had been lingering around the victim's sales booth at the shopping mall.
Appellant exhibited suspicious behaviour in the vicinity of the booth, repeatedly coming to the booth and asking the prices of the same merchandise over and over again.
The victim had mentioned to her husband that a man was stalking her and staring at her near the booth.
Also, Franklin Kaminski, a worker at an adjoining sales booth, testified that the victim had pointed out a man who had been staring strangely at her and scaring her, and the worker recognized appellant as being that man…”
Yarris also told police that he recently broke up with his girlfriend and that he “… should have killed the bitch.. “ and that “… he wanted to destroy the whole world…” because of the breakup.
And the girl he murdered looked very similar to his ex: “…Further, the Commonwealth introduced evidence that the victim bore a significant resemblance to appellant's former girlfriend, who had undergone a tumultuous and physically confrontational breakup with appellant during the week before the crime. An inference was created thereby regarding appellant's motive for focusing attention on the victim and for taking violent actions against her…”
The “paper in the cell” story is bogus. He was held for months on the maximum security ward before he called to voluntarily speak with the detectives.
“…In the following months, while appellant was being held in the maximum security section of a prison, awaiting trial on unrelated charges, he made a number of incriminating statements to prison officials and detectives.
First, on January 12, 1982, he told Sergeant Murphy, who served as a corrections officer at the prison, and the prison warden that he knew the person responsible for the murder of the saleswoman at the shopping mall.
Appellant said that he had taken the person to the mall, and that the person later told him of having murdered the saleswoman. Appellant made similar statements to detectives who were then summoned by the warden. He told detectives that the individual responsible for the crime was his "friend," James Brisbois, and that Brisbois admitted raping and stabbing the victim and abandoning the victim's car in Chichester, Pennsylvania.
Appellant also said that Brisbois described the car as being a light tan Chrysler Cordoba with a brown landau roof. Law enforcement authorities had not previously released to the public any information about a rape or about the victim's car having a brown landau roof….”
Note that the rape part and the brown leather roof of the car were details not publicly known.
Yarris later said that he simply “guessed” these details. Lucky guess, huh?
There is reason to believe that Yarris was hoping that Brisbois (his friend, by the way) would be shot by the police when arrested. Yarris said to the police several times that Brisbois was a dangerous drug dealer who always carried a gun.
After Brisbois story was investigated by the cops and ruled out as impossible, Yarris again spoke to the detectives on at least three occasions in Feb 1982 where he initiated the interview himself. Waiving Miranda warning, he admitted to taking part in the crime.
Yarris recanted his story several times, claiming that he drove a friend to the scene, then that he only raped but the other guy did the stabbing, then he said that he would fully admit to everything, but only if a plea bargain could be arranged.
So, to summarise, the evidence against Yarris in 1988 consisted of:
1) identification by co-workers, lingering around victim, resemblance to x-gf.
2) Yarris volunteered information about the crime including car being brown colour and having leather roof - details not publicly known.
3) Yarris also said that the victim was raped and stabbed which was not public knowledge at the time.
Yarris appealed several times but the evidence against him stacked up.
Now the gloves...
The gloves were found in the car and were initially thought to be used during the crime. That’s why police booked them into evidence with description along the lines of “could belong to the perpetrator”.
But the gloves were too small for Yarris and were clearly not his.
To this day, we have no idea whose gloves they were. There were traces of DNA later found both inside the glove and on the victim’s clothing, therefore the gloves could have belonged to someone who knew the victim but it was never determined whose gloves they were or if they were used during the crime.
The only reason Yarris managed to get a re-trial is because his legal team argued - well, if there is no Yarris’ DNA on the gloves and police booked the gloves into evidence, gave the gloves some weight, even going as far as stating that the cloves could have belonged to the propetrator -- this in itself creates sufficient reasonable doubt to warrant a re-trial.
And during the re-trial, the Court determined (on precedent) that all doubt should be weighted in favour of the accused.
And since police wrote in evidence books “these gloves may have something to do with the crime” and since his DNA was not found on the gloves, that was enough reasonable doubt to drop the whole thing. Prosecution was given 90 days to consider re-prosecuting Yarris but by that time, it's been 22 years, most of the evidence would have been destroyed, it would have been too hard to build a new case. Yarris also served a harsh 22 year sentance and in a way has re-paied for the crime.
Dropping the charges opened a window for civil litigation, of course, by that's a different story.
Yarris is a cunning, calculated criminal. No words coming out of his moth should be believed.
@@kruglov Why am I not surprised? To me this idiot is obviously full of it, yet everyone thinks that he's a superhero. It genuinely terrifies me how easily most people seem to be led astry
He is an example to us all. What a fascinating, inspiring and loving man. Wow. If he can find it in himself to forgive, none of us have an excuse. A real example.
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He is the true fundamental epitome of JESUS'S MESSAGE! ❤ True example of why Jesus sacrificed his life for us!!
Hello everyone watching this video...im happy now im back in Los Angeles chasing my dreams and healing...with love always, Nicky
Please start reading audio books your voice put me too sleep ❤❤
Mr. Yarris you are proof that a person can turn their life around no matter how bad things get.
“It’s not horrendous, it’s real.” Jesus man I couldn’t imagine being there
This is hands down the greatest conversation I've ever experienced. Thank you Mr. Yarris
You can tell he's a bit traumatised by everything it's horrible. Best of Luck to him.
yarris is a pathological liar and manipulator.
Has to be. It was trauma after trauma.
Yeah I’d be a bit traumatised. Or a bit miffed, at least.
A bit? You mean a lot of trauma
People who have neurological differences are often viewed with suspicion and told that their reactions, the way they express themselves ect are not "normal".
I live with a wonderful guy who has Asperger's, and though he is kind, honest and loving I've heard people say he "sounds creepy" because he's overly precise in speaking. He can't help it. This guy is obviously "Neuro Divergent" as they call it ( I used to do Job placement for disabled people). I think he expressed himself very well, and is obviously very intelligent. I have also been though some really abusive, awful experiences, and one of the ways I cope at this point is sometimes by under reacting. For example, I broke my femur and they wouldn't believe it was actually broken until the x rays came back because I wasn't crying and screaming enough. We all cope differently to the traumas in our lives.
What a well spoken man! He has a lovely soothing voice! I’m only a few minutes in and can’t wait to hear everything.
except that yarris won't tell you the full story, especially the parts where he raped and murdered the girl. Please look into the case facts. Google the 1988 Court papers and the Appeal that followed for case facts.
@@kruglov @kruglov STOP. HI-JACKING. PEOPLES. COMMENTS.
The kindness approach on his shirt very appropriate can't help but love this guy 🥰🙏🫶😍
I cannot put into words the unbelievable level of respect I have for his man.
@candicehay3823 Please search actual case facts -- it will change the way you look at yarris. Start by googling "Com. v. Yarris :: 1988 :: 549 A.2d 513 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania" this is the Appeal from 1988 which has a summary of the original Court decision, the appeal argument and why the appeal was denied.
Ever since released, yarris got a publisher and money from the Civil Suite, constructed a fictional fairy tale, which paints him innocent, and goes around reciting this story to paying audiences. He is a cunning manipulator, who learned to sell his story really well.
But if you look at case facts, not only there is a mountain of evidence against yarris, he does not have an alibi for the night of the crime, he stalked the victim for days (her colleagues picked yarris as a man who frequented the store and spoke to the victim on a number of occasions days prior). When arrested, yarris knew intricate details about the case which were not public. And finally, yarris confessed to his involvement at first, then rape, then the whole thing and was asking for a plea deal. When police refused to give him a plea deal, he tried to get out of the statements he made but the Court did not let him.
The gloves story, if one looks at the actual facts, is a technicality which allowed to create enough reasonable doubt to warrant a case re-trial.
IMPORTANT: the gloves scenario did not prove yarris innocent! It only created enough reasonable doubt for a re-trial.
Prosecution was given 90 days to re-prosecute but at that point, it was 22 years later, people moved on and evidence was destroyed. The prospect of successful prosecution was now exceptionally slim. As such, the prosecution office decided to not proceed with another trial and yarris was freed.
yarris was never proven innocent. He is absolutely a rapist and a murdered. He got what he deserved inside -- if any of his tales are true. He may have rehabilitated and he may be safe for the community now. But he is by far, not innocent.
The respect this gentleman clearly shows and the love he talks of is how I was always told to try to be by my parents. Its very difficult but he is so right. To give love and care to everyone has a profound effect on many people and you can sleep well knowing that you have given the best you could in life. When at the end of life I have seen that people who have led a bad life are scared of death while those who tried to help others and gave love pass peacefully.
This, is why, I advocate civil rights even to inmates. Many are incarcerated on subjective evidence - which is substantial, yes, but is not objective. And it is important to remember that humans make mistakes, especially that on trial with subjective evidence.
What an incredible man
Who has found himself
Educated himself
Strengthened himself
I have listened to every eloquent word you spoke
You certainly deserve life and a good one at that …
I am so pleased you have discovered yourself and are full of love now 🙏
An incredible speaker …and yes kindness is the only way forward … I know that too Nick
What a lovely guy. Minute 48 made me cry. What a life! So terrible what the prison guards did.
Same.
@@ariadnekosmadaki4944 yarris is a great manipulator and is really good at selling his lies. Please look into the case facts. yarris absolutely raped and murdered this girl.
This is just so horrible. I can't even imagine being in his position and surviving to be that balanced. All the best with your new life.
Wow. I've never had a video make me feel as heavy as this one did. My mind is just blown. I think Nick Yarris is my favorite human
Look into the case details and actual reasons why he was released.
He absolutely did murder the girl.
He got out on a technicality with a single piece of evidence - a random glove found in the car.
There was a mountain of evidence pointing toward him which he chooses not to disclose.
He only talks about this random glove that was found in the girls car and there was no nicks dna on it.
This created enough reasonable doubt to release him after 20 years in lockup (or however long he was locked up for).
@@kruglov @kruglov STOP. HI-JACKING. PEOPLES. COMMENTS.
@@kruglov I looked into it - the facts are against you.
An attorney twisted the facts of the case in regards to the murder/rape in order to get a conviction.
The local court was driven to resolve - not solve - the case in order to bring the community to rest - so they focused on getting a conviction instead of continuing to investigate the case.
You, sir, are either a troll trying to make people angry, or you are sorely lacking in critical thinking skills.
What an incredible story. Unimaginable some of the things he has had to go through. Wow
Unimaginable is the key word here.
Hello Ben and Nick. Thank you both for this incomparable and inspiring story of failure and horror wrapped in a blanket of learning and love. Nick's vocal tone is so compelling with human honey flowing from his mouth; truly a God given gift. Not only a blueprint on how to be a great human for the downtrodden, but for all of who just roll through life missing some of the most valuable nuances that make it all simply gorgeous and meaningful.
After making it thru half of a half dozen episodes, this is the one that made me subscribe after a few minutes. Well done and bravo!. Peace and love
@roxannetoth5026 yarris' distinct way of conversing and his mesmerising stare were among the traits that store staff described when they picked yarris from police line-up during investigation, when the store staff reported how yarris was frequenting the store for several days, stalking the victim. The poor girl even complained to her husband that a weird man keeps coming to her booth which made her feel uncomfortable.
From early on in the investigation, yarris knew intricate details about the case which were not public knowledge.
He did not have an alibi.
He later confessed first to being involved, then to rape, then to the whole thing. He asked for a plea deal and when there was no deal offered, yarris attempted to backpedal out of his statements which he gave voluntarily on at least 3 occasions, when yarris called for detectives to come into the prison to interview him. But the Court refused and yarris' confessions were admitted as evidence.
The glove solution was a genius find by yarris' legal team. They discovered a piece of evidence entered early in the case by police with a description along the lines of "these gloves could have been worn by the murderer". The lawyers argued that the gloves should have been admitted during the trial. The police argued back that the gloves were clearly not yearris' because they were too small.
Note that the dna test proved nothing new, it was just a way to get a closed case off the shelf, i.e. there is a new technological way to interrogate a piece of evidence, etc.
Eventually, the Court agreed and said that enough reasonable doubt exists to warrant a new trial. As such, previous conviction was set aside and prosecution were given 90 days to re-prosecute with a new case and a new trial. But obviously by now, 22 years later, it was no longer probable to get a successful conviction and prosecution did not proceed with a new case.
That's when yarris was free. He was never proven innocent. He was freed on a technicality and prosecution's inability to re-construct a new case for a new trial, 22 years later, when most of the evidence was already destroyed by then.
Since release, yarris filed a Civil Suite and got a publisher. He now goes around the world selling his lies and manipulating his story to make good people feel sad for this pathetic rapist and murderer.
He may very well have rehabilitated during the 22 years stay in prison. He may be safe for the Community. He may have paid his dews with 22 years of his life. But he is not innocent.
@@kruglov STOP. HI-JACKING. PEOPLES. COMMENTS.
He is so well spoken and intelligent. Wow! Amazing to listen to someone whom I have so much respect for Sir! Thank you for telling your story.
really, what an incredible story. he managed to pull himself out of such a dark place and find his ability to love on top of it. i actually cried at one point
Please spare a tear for the innocent girl yarris raped and murdered. Google actual Court documents, read up on the facts and you will have no doubt that yarris is a cold, cunning rapist and murderer. His 1988 Appeal transcript summary can be found if you search: "549 A.2d 513 COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Nicholas YARRIS, Appellant"
Amazing story, I also listened to him talk on soft white underbelly and I think that interview was better, Mark Laita is really good at not interjecting and just letting the speaker flow naturally and this man tells his story so well.
The power of Kindness ❤ Wow he had me captivated the whole way through. After seeing and feeling so much ugly, he still chose love, kindness, and forgiveness
This is easily the best extraordinary lives yet. What a guy!
I lived with him just before he went overseas haha met him because of a lost puppy. He gave me his car before he left. Great guy i tell ya. Miss ya bud
Thanks Chris get in touch please on Instagram or email
Terrifying place America as he is not the only one that has been freed from death row because of innocence. How many more are there? This gentleman truly is extraordinary!
How many have been executed?
what a brilliant story Ben as this has to be one of the best i have listened to.
Definitely Nick has the most compelling voice. This is the most astounding life story I've ever heard.
With every one of these cases I've seen in the US like James Bain, there are people in law enforcement and the court system that ABSOLUTELY knew he was innocent, but figured they stick some poor black kid in jail for his entire life. I can't say what I think should be done to those people, some still alive, as I could get in trouble for it.
This guys has a brilliant voice. Good story teller. Should narrate like red tree crime or EWU
A fantastic interview. Many thanks. I've seen the film and read the book "Fear of 13".
I watched this interview to remind myself of Nick's incredible, mind blowing story.
Really enjoyed that ... Thankyou
It really sounds as though he's reading from a book. His manner of speaking sounds like listening to an audio book
He has one of those Audio book voices, amazing!
Listening to you helped me today x
This is so fascinating, what a hero
Amazing story and amazing man.
What an exceptional story. Deeply impacted. Kindness is never a weakness. Be blessed Sir. Sue from South Africa
I hope Nick has a long and loving life. This story is wild.
Gift of gab. Its hard to discern whats real and whats been carefully crafted for a book he plans to write or maybe already has written.
Either way, glad dna proved his innocence in the murder of the woman.
Wow! This was intense!
I’m blown away by your divinity. You are a God send and lightworker. I don’t understand why you hold your young self accountable when you said you had brain damage that obviously caused the side effects of unlawful behaviors. Plus getting assaulted and almost sexually assaulted by a man causes the brain to catch fire with anger. This anger is going to also manifest in criminal behaviors in some cases. There’s always going to be a reaction to brain wiring being affected. I’m not saying forgive yourself I’m saying release that narrative of responsibility. The brain caused it. It’s no one’s fault. However this whole endeavor you experienced was your heavenly contract to expedite your higher spiritual consciousness to expand your understanding of love. Expand all of us well. Thank you for expanding my understanding of love. You are a gift.
Amazing interview.
I've listened to his story before & I find myself back here to listen again.
Amazing interview. God Bless this man.
This was a compelling watch! This man has truly travelled The Refiners Fire ❤❤❤
Thank you Sir for telling your truth
Woah this is amazing.
What a beautiful humble soul, I could listen to him for hours, thankyou for sharing nick godbless
Being woken up every 15 minutes for a week. That is absolutely horrific.
Torture, pure and simple. It was a favoured tactic of the KGB
It’s like when you first have a baby except it goes on for months
@@Wavelover33and different in many other ways as well!
Been there done that. It either makes you psychotic or it forces some people into subservience. Around day three you start hallucinating. You aren't sure if you are awake or asleep. They shine a torch in your eyes to blind you as well, can cause a sympathetic response that is almost like a seizure. Saying "you get woken up every fifteen minutes" is inaccurate though. You never get effective REM sleep and fifteen minutes is the shortest amount of time that you can perform these intervals for without killing the person.
This makes me feel like a massive waste! I’ve been heroin addict since 16 now 39 n now I wouldn’t mind if I passed away. I’m no longer active user but am feeling a massive loss of my life till now. All those years gone for no reason gives a huge regret! Then I see this guy and ffs I feel even more guilty !!!!!!!! Life can be so damn hard !
@@user-vw9be6ef2y thank you very much for your kind reply. I do apologise as I can’t see any god being so kind. I have been cursed in many ways with the mental health issues I have. For example I am ,against my choosing , a sadist. Sorry apart from god. The only thing keeping me going is the fact I can’t upset my family by leaving now also some days are ok n I actually wana see a tomorrow. The idea of helping people is very much what I should do but I have no care for anybody not my family. So on that note I am trying to become my Mums carer but I live 250 miles away from her n I’m not rich so this is becoming hard
Thanks for getting back to me mate 👍
@@user-vw9be6ef2y thanks again for getting back. I do feel you mate n the things you say are true. I am very isolated and very angry n have realised how much of a sadist I am n that unsettled me. I do feel like different people I must admit. Very hard to get my head working towards good. So easy to just give up. Also I’ve got some health stuff n im not set for a long life. With all this I just stay numb everyday n kinda wish for it all to stop
@@NPC-0013Sounds like you need to find a good therapist that works with personality disorders/addiction. Some work in dual diagnosis and this sounds like something that may help you. Are you clean now or still ising some?
@@kiki29073 hi I’m clean now. The local mental health trust are the worst in my country hahaha. I have been with them twice but they discharge me as they are overwhelmed with too many patients
Hey man, I am 32 years old and a former heroin/cocaine addict. I also wasted 12 years of my life during that time. I have often compared my life to others and all the things I missed out on. My youth, my 20s, were filled only with darkness and drug use. No parties, no real friends. Even when I got clean, I was still depressed, but I felt I just had to move on. Accept the situation as it is, adapt to it, move on and be grateful for everything you have in life. My life is great now, I am happier than ever. And I have also accepted my past and would not change the fact that it made me the man I am today, despite all the things I have been through. You are on a good path. Remember the things that have gone wrong in your life, analyse the actions and decisions you have taken, your mistakes and use them to develop into a better person. Make decisions based on rational thought rather than letting your emotions sabotage you. The best medicine is to focus to rid yourself of dark, unproductive thoughts. For me, that was working in construction in the beginning. That kept me busy (mentally), I worked all day until my whole body ached, ate a big home-cooked meal after work and then fell asleep. Try meditating, five minutes a day, and then increase until you get to an hour. When the thoughts come up, treat them like a TV advertisement and do not react to them, but let them pass and keep focusing on your breath. Also, write down what you need to do the next day to structure your life. Stop comparing your life to others, you can still make something of it. Do not let therapists pump you full of pills. There is so much I could tell you, but that would be way too much for one comment.
What an amazing story teller.
Another fantastic interview by my friend Nick yarris
What a pleasant gentleman. I´m so happy he´s still here on Earth giving Humanity his best energy. What a strong spirit. A true kindred soul. 💫💫💫
Absolutely world class narration of a terrible young life.thankyou very much for your riveting articulated story.i hope youre well..n.ireland
Amazing interview God bless you nick
Omg more of the ever evolving story of Nick Yarris.
What do you mean, ever evolving, Neil?
I really hope he's doing ok and living a fantastic life now. Poor guy has been through a lot 🥺
Thank you Nick & Ben I wish only good luck to you Nick
This is an incredibly tragic story. I hope he is now happy and stress-free.
He reminds me of a Canadian guy I know who says he knows martial arts and that he could kill you in an instant and is the absolute best and most intelligent at everything. All his views are extreme, strongly expressed, and very macho, while doubt or nuance are alien to him. He has no interest in others, but can feign it, and wears you out after about five minutes.
Yep, definitely get those vibes. Guy is painful.
I saw his poscast with joe Rogan and even that one seemed fake af.
didn't he say previously when the helicopter was above him that he had no injuries on his face
This man deserves all the good in the world
Why? Because he murdered an innocent girl and got away with it?
@@kruglovbut dna didn't match then how?
@@m.abhishekvarma3655 you need to look at the full facts of the case to understand it.
when yarris was arrested, he disclosed to the police a lot of information which was not public at the time. For example, Yarris knew that there was a car involved, that the car was brown and that it had a leather roof.
he also said to the police that the girl was raped. This was not public info at the time.
the supermarket staff picked yarris as a stalker who frequented the store for days prior to murder. he stalked the victim and spoke to her many times which made her feel uncomfortable and she complained to her husband about this guy who keeps coming to our store etc.
yarris broke up with his gf at the time and victim resembled his x very closely. yarris said on multiple occasions that he should have killed his x.
when he says he "read about the murder in the paper" in fact he was kept in a maximum security ward, there were no papers there.
and it may come as a surprise to you, but yarris admitted to the crime in at least 3 interviews. first he said that he only drove some guy to the scene, then he said he only raped but the other guy did the stabbing, then he fully confessed but he was asking for a plea deal. when police did not give him a plea deal, he went back on his statements. but these were still accepted by the Court as admissible evidence because yarris called detectives in himself, he was not coerced or pressured in any way to give these confessions, he did it on his own accord.
now to dna.
the gloves found in the car were picked up by police and checked into evidence with description along the lines of "these gloves COULD have been worn by the criminal".
police knew 100% that the gloves were too small for yarris and never brought the gloves up.
but what yarris' legal team did was they went over all of the recorded evidence and said: hey, if you are saying that the gloves could have been worn by the murderer and since we all know (as result of size and dna tests) that gloves are not yarris' then you should drop the charges.
the police argued that ok, the gloves are not yarris' but we don't know whose gloves these are, whether these gloves even played any role in the crime or the victim found them in the parking lot with intention to hand them in. or whatever! we just dont know what these gloves are!
but yarris legal team found a legal precedent and argued that since police gave weight to these gloves in the evidence sheet and wrote them up as "could have been worn by the perpetrator" then this evidence needs to be weighted in in favour of the non-moving party -- yarris in this case.
and as such, charges were dropped
prosecutors were given 90 days to consider re-prosecuting yarris, but by that time most of the evidence was destroyed and it was just not going to work. besides, he did do 22 years of extremely harsh jail time (being a rapist-murdered he had it tough) so the prosecutors decided to not go ahead with it
ever since then, yarris, lawered up, filed a civil , got a publisher and goes around selling his bullshit story to ppl who are too lazy to look into the facts.
yarris is a rapist and murderer. no doubts about it at all.
This guy sounds _exactly_ like Ray Liotta's narration voice in Goodfellas
Absolutely speechless ❤❤❤
Those women in the hair salon are already hero’s for thinking they were saving them from an abuser but goodness, they have no idea the kind of life they saved 🙏🏾🙌🏾. Just fascinating.
love this
How could people do this. Damn. Death row for something that you dont do. Wow.
Thank you x
Wow. Captivated. Saddened. Just all the things. Powerful story.
I'm still on the fence about this guy,remember that he confessed,under "Duress" as he says,I don't know ED but my gut is telling me he did it and the DNA was a fluke
@@user-ki9xh6ol8r He did it, absolutely, no doubt. Read his Court paperwork, do not rely on his lies: 519 Pa. 571 (1988) COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Nicholas YARRIS, Appellant.
@@user-ki9xh6ol8rHm, I don’t know….I have a slightly uncomfortable feeling with him, too, but dna clearance is rarely a fluke, and false confessions are very prevalent.
Mesmerised. Such a brilliant man.
The victim was also mesmerised by him. Enough at least to get in the car with him and drive out into a wooded area on a dirt side road.
He absolutely did murder that girl.
He was let off on a technicality with a single piece of evidence - a random glove found in victim’s car.
The other mountain of evidence pointed at him as the murderer.
But because there was no dna of his on this glove it created enough reasonable doubt for the judge to set him free.
But he would not tell you that, he wants to sit there like a beautiful white python with bunch of mesmerised bunnies listening to his fairy tales.
Look into his case, facts are public record.
I'm not from Scotland, Wales or England, I'm from sri Lanka I still feel you, leart a lot and and yeah I came to know where I stand right now and where I should , I feel like I just red a meaningful book, and thanks Ben for doing this
The finest speaker alive 😂😂😂 he's a great guy and truly unfortunate notwithstanding
that was brilliant
Nick is very inspirational ❤
Amazing story
I found it so sad yet funny how Nick laughed when asked if the gladiator fights were prosecuted
16:20 sounds like he is reliving how the prosecution painted the picture that day in court.
"Following another divorce, Yarris returned to the UK and married for a fourth time, moving from Somerset to Oregon.[18] The couple separated in February 2021. Yarris was arrested roughly a week after. He pled guilty to criminal mistreatment and theft, leading to a month in jail and a sentence of two years' probation in Curry County, Oregon."
This guy sounds like he’s trying to convince you real hard.
Like ok bro, we get it..
He acknowledged that he put himself in prison. Possibly if he hadn’t been have dead from drugs if not, but what a price. It’s amazing he had the capacity to have other people freed.
INCREDIBLE STORY
The American justice system is sooooo corrupt!!! 😢😢😢😢😢💔.
This is the most insane story ever
Never ever heard such a brilliant oration
I remember this man on the Joe Rogan podcast and what a crazy story he has absolutely shocking what happened to him and luckily proved that he was innocent
I had to look his story up to believe it 😅 it was just too incredible. 😂
Amazing man.
Yarris raped and killed that girl. He got off on a technicality and due to prosecutors' being unable to re-prosecute 22 years later, when most of the evidence was physically destroyed. Please look into the facts of the case. Do not buy this story off yarris on face value alone.
Incredibly moving
What an inspiration ❤
The best podcast interview I've ever heard bar none at least up until this point. For some reason I believe this guy. I may be nieve but I really don't think so.
He’s had ALOTTTTTTT OF TIMEEEE to build and “TELL” his story….like he’s reading from a book he sounds like it’s been “written” in his head and he’s just been WAITINGGGG to tell it all…..good for GOD to bring this innocent man into justice…too bad our justice system doesn’t give us all fair and pure feelings..always being bias in SOME TYPE of way and having the “chosen” jury for what the crime and how the feeling of the “personal” kind of mind…….glad your out, GOD BLESS, and keep your nose clean lol
When's the movie being made?
Tfw body langauge is wonderful cus now there is more info about narcissistic ppl and using your own tequenes against them
Wow! What an amazing man. ♥️