Please help! Can anybody provide any scientific ballistic forensic evidence that proves Ronald Ryan committed murder? A book by Mike Richards "The Hanged Man" claims to reveal the truth about Ryan's guilt. Where can I find the facts and the truth about Ryan's guilt?

Ronald Ryan was never proven beyond reasonable doubt that he committed murder. The author makes unproven allegations to promote sales for his book.

Ryan was convicted and sentenced to hang for the shooting death of a prison officer during an escape from prison. There was a total lack of scientific ballistic forensics. Ryan was convicted based solely on unsigned, untaped and unrecorded allegations of "hearsay" verbals/confessions, said to have been made by Ryan to police. For unknown reasons, Ryan's rifle was never scientifically tested to prove it had fired a shot. Ryan's rifle had been hidden in the boot of a police car where it had been subjected to dirt and dust. Mysteriously, vital pieces of evidence (including the fatal bullet and spent bullet cartridge), which would have cleared Ryan went missing and were never examined by scientific ballistic forensic experts for evidence.

The FACTS on the Ryan case:

•For unknown reasons, ballistic forensic experts never scientifically examined Ryan's rifle.
•There was no forensic proof and no conclusive evidence that Ryan's rifle had fired a shot at all.
•It was never proven by forensics that the fatal bullet came from the rifle in Ryan's possession.
•Despite extensive search by police, the fatal bullet mysteriously went missing and was never found.
•The fatal bullet was never scientifically examined by ballistic forensic experts, to prove which rifle fired the fatal bullet.
•Despite extensive search by police, the spent cartridge mysteriously went missing and was never found.
•The spent cartridge was never scientifically examined by ballistic forensic experts, for evidence.
•If Ryan had fired a shot, a spent cartridge would have spilled out of the rifle. No spent cartridge was ever found.
•All fourteen eyewitnesses for the prosecution testified different accounts of what they saw - there were widespread inconsistencies.
•Only four of the fourteen eyewitnesses testified of seeing Ryan fire a shot.
•All fourteen eyewitnesses testified of hearing one single shot. No person heard two shots.
•Prison officer Paterson, admitted and testified he fired one single shot, from an elevated distance.
•If Ryan had also fired a shot, at least one person among the dozens of people surrounding the scene of the crime, would have heard two shots.
•Forensic experts never scientifically examined prison officer Paterson's rifle, to prove it had fired a shot.
•Forensic experts never scientifically examined all other prison officers' rifles at the scene of the crime, to prove if their rifles had fired a shot.
•Ballistic evidence indicated that the prison officer was shot from a distance, in a downward trajectory angle.
•The measurement of the entry and exit wound on the deceased prison officer indicated that the fatal shot was fired from an elevated position. At the time of the shooting, there were many prison officers' armed with rifles surrounding the crime scene, on prison walls, on prison guard towers and on the streets.
•Eyewitnesses testified seeing prison officers aiming their rifles.
•Ryan (a shorter man) could not have fired at the prison officer (a taller man) in such a downward trajectory angle, as both were on level ground.
•Ryan could not have fired from a distance as evidence indicated, because Ryan was adjacent to the prison officer who was running after and adjacent to, the other prison escapee.
•Ryan could not have fired from an elevated position as evidence indicated, because Ryan was on level ground.
•Some eyewitnesses testified seeing Ryan recoil his rifle and smoke coming from the barrel of his rifle. In fact, ballistic experts testified at trial that type of rifle had no recoil and it contained smokeless cartridges.