Marty Stroud admitted in a letter published in a Louisiana newspaper last month that he was to blame for putting Glenn Ford behind bars in 1983 . The former sheriff of Bossier Parish and the father of three children who were killed when their car hit an overpass has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, according to court documents obtained by ABC News. I was not as interested in justice as I was in winning ' Ford , now 65 , was freed a year ago after evidence emerged showing he was not at the scene of the murder and has since been living on donations . He has also been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and has months to live . Stroud visited Ford 's home to apologize to him face-to-face but Ford told him he was not able to forgive him .
Marty Stroud admitted in a letter published in a Louisiana newspaper last month that he was to blame for putting Glenn Ford behind bars in 1983 . Stroud : ' I was not as interested in justice as I was in winning ' Ford , now 65 , was freed a year ago after evidence emerged showing he was not at the scene of the murder and has since been living on donations . He has also been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and has months to live . Stroud visited Ford 's home to apologize to him face-to-face but Ford told him he was not able to forgive him .