Lewis “Jim” Fogle speaks with the media outside the Indiana County Courthouse after District Attorney Patrick Dougherty dismissed an indictment against Fogle on Sept. 14, 2015. Fogle's 1982 murder conviction was vacated last month based on new DNA evidence proving his innocence and pointing to an unidentified male as the likely perpetrator.
Jim Fogle holds his granddaughter Olivia Fogle, 21 months, outside the Indiana County Courthouse during a press conference held after District Attorney Patrick Dougherty dismissed an indictment against Fogle on Monday, Sept. 14, 2015.
During the press conference announcing that Jim Fogle would remain free after DNA evidence cleared him of the murder for which he served 34 years in prison, Jim holds hands with his wife Deb. The couple married three months before he was sent away to prison.
Jim Fogle, 63, sits on the bed of his small apartment just off of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus in Indiana, Pa. on Sept. 28, 2015. The apartment, an efficiency one-room in a building usually occupied by college students, is temporarily being paid for by The Innocence Project, a non-profit legal clinic that seeks to overturn false convictions using DNA evidence. The Innocence Project helped to secure Fogle's release and exoneration after he served 34 years in prison.
Jim Fogle sits alone in his one-room apartment and looks through the paperwork surrounding his case on Sept. 28, 2015. Before his exoneration due to DNA evidence, Fogle spent 34 years in prison after being convicted of the 1976 murder of Deann “Kathy” Long, 15, of Cherry Tree, Indiana County. He now has a large trunk of legal paperwork, statements, and transcripts that he hopes will help him contribute to proving who actually murdered the girl.
A tattered transcript from Jim Fogle's trial sits on a dresser in his apartment on Sept. 28, 2015. Fogle's supposed involvement in the Long girl's murder was ascertained when authorities put a man in an psychiatric hospital under hypnosis five years after the murder.
Jim Fogle purchased a typewriter after having difficulties figuring out how to use a laptop computer that was purchased for him. He can use a cell phone, but some other modern technologies are completely foreign to him after 34 years in prison.
Jim Fogle walks through Oakland Cemetery in Indiana, Pa. on Oct. 28, 2015. Fogle feels much more comfortable outside, and will often take long walks through Indiana to escape his small apartment, which reminds him of his cell.
Jim Fogle takes a call on his cell phone in his one room apartment in Indiana, Pa. on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. "I didn't really feel like I had my life back until just recently...A few days ago, you know, I had to depend too much on other people. I was running out of money. No way to get any income, whatsoever. You know. They took that and granted me the SSI. Now I've got an income. Now I can start to start moving forward. You know, before I was stuck in one place. It was like still being in prison. Just like this place here. The ceiling and the walls are the same color as my prison cell."
Jim sits in the passenger seat of his wife Deb's car on Nov. 18, 2015 while driving through Indiana, Pa. Jim has PTSD from his 34 years in prison.
Jim Fogle and his wife Deb leave her home to take him back to his apartment on Nov. 18, 2015. While still married, the two didn't communicate for more than a decade, until Jim was exonerated. Now they live apart, but spend the evenings together in Jim's apartment or Deb's mobile home.
A family photograph hangs on Deb's wall showing she and her husband Jim, her son from a previous marriage Stephen, left, and their son Bob, who was only 8 months old when Jim was incarcerated.
Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette 20151122MWHfogle Local 11/18/2015 Jim and Deb Fogle embrace and kiss while at her home in Indiana, Pa. on Nov. 18, 2015. The couple married three months before Jim was sent to prison for 34 years.
Jim Fogle, prepares to speak to an IUP journalism class on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Fogle was invited to IUP to speak to journalism and sociology classes about his experience being wrongly incarcerated for 34 years.
Jim Fogle speaks to an IUP journalism class on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Fogle was invited to IUP to speak to journalism and sociology classes about his experience being wrongly incarcerated for 34 years.
Jim Fogle picks up a bowie knife he purchased at a flee market in his apartment on Nov. 18, 2015, while on the phone with the mother of his former cellmate. In Pennsylvania, there is no wrongful conviction compensation statute. Jim is left with no money for his 34 years in prison, and he's unequipped with the modern skills necessary to find work.
At the behest of Barry Watson, left, whose daughter is married to Fogle's son, Jim Fogle of Indiana crawls out from underneath the Indiana First Church of the Nazarene while volunteering his time to help fix a leaking water pipe on Feb. 3, 2016. Fogle worked as a plumber for 18-years in prison while he was serving a sentence for the murder of a teenage girl named Deann "Kathy" Long. Fogle was freed after DNA testing on evidence that was found by lawyers from The Innocence Project cleared him of the crime. As a plumber in prison, Jim earned 42 cents an hour for six hours a day.
Jim Fogle remains covered in mud after crawling out from underneath the church.
Fogle carries donated food past a donation box while preparing for a closed gathering featuring his paintings at the Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown, West Virginia, on Sept. 9, 2016.
Jim Fogle speaks to those attending a closed gathering featuring his paintings at the Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown, West Virginia, on Sept. 9, 2016.
Jim Fogle, the Indiana, Pa. man who was exonerated after spending 34 years in prison, speaks to Michael Blumenthal, a teacher at WVU's College of Law, while attending a closed gathering featuring Fogle's paintings at the Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown, West Virginia, on Sept. 9, 2016.
Jim Fogle, the Indiana, Pa. man who was exonerated after spending 34 years in prison, speaks to Macel Rhodes, a lawyer in Morgantown, West Virginia, while looking at his painting "Olivia's Tigers" during a closed gathering featuring his paintings at the Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown, West Virginia, on Sept. 9, 2016.