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Here is a partial transcript of the last phone call I ever had with Scott Paterno. It came in 2013 just after I had interviewed Jerry Sandusky in prison for the first time. I had been trying to get ahold of Scott all week as a courtesy "heads up," but he had been sick. We pick up the conversation just after I took the call after being on the other line with Dottie Sandusky.

Immediately after interviewing him the first time in prison (in March of 2013) I had my doubts that the case against Jerry Sandusky was anything close to as legitimate as the conventional wisdom has unanimously maintained from the start. However, it took me a very long time to come to the conclusion that he was almost certainly innocent of most if not all of the charges for which he was convicted and effectively sentenced to die in a maximum security prison.

I have made a lot of mistakes in this crusade for the truth of this case, but one of my biggest was trusting Ray Blehar. I brought him into "Framing Paterno," introduced him to Franco Harris, and put him in the original version of my film, "The Framing of Joe Paterno." I did these things even though I quickly suspected that Ray was at least partly insane. I did this largely because he is a pretty good encyclopedia of the details of this case and because there were so few people who seemed willing to take a serious look at the other side of this story.

Here is the official reaction of Dottie Sandusky, wife of Jerry Sandusky, to the release of the report by the Pennsylvania Attorney General into the prosecution/investigation of Jerry Sandusky:

Of the many, many, elements of the unprecedented "Perfect Storm" in this case, the most underrated may be that Penn State and Joe Paterno lost what should have been their most powerful witness when Jerry Sandusky was deemed to be "not credible" (even though I have yet to catch him in a certifiable lie or speak to anyone else who has) by the media, and the public.