In 1986, after I left my home in the suburbs for a regular day at work, my wife Christine was brutally murdered while our three-year-old son, Eric, watched. Upon returning home from work that day, I found that I was the prime suspect in her murder, and six weeks later I was arrested. In 1987, I was sentenced to life in prison after my family and I had exhausted our financial resources in my defense against a District Attorney who withheld key evidence in this case. That evidence was later discovered by the Innocence Project and my pro-bono lawyer John Raley. That evidence ultimately freed me in October 2011, after I had spent nearly 25 years in prison for a crime I did not commit.