The Misery Machine - The Bizarre Case of Ronald L. Fischer

Episode Date: August 6, 2026

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to the waters of the mighty Atlantic Ocean to discuss the bizarre case of Ronald L. Fischer, a former anesthesiologist and convicted sex offender who was captured by federal authorities on July 16, 2026, after evading law enforcement for 21 years as one of Rhode Island's "Most Wanted" fugitives. Wait until you hear who hired him while he was on the run...Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachineJoin Our Facebook Group: https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachineOfficial Merch Store: https://miserymachine-shop.fourthwall.com/Instagram: miserymachinepodcastTwitter: misery_podcast#documentary #themiserymachine #truecrime 🚨 EDUCATIONAL, DOCUMENTARY, SCIENTIFIC, OR ARTISTIC CONTENT DISCLAIMER 🚨CONTENT WARNING: THIS VIDEO IS ABOUT A SENSITIVE TOPIC INVOLVING LOSS OF LIFE. WE'VE REMOVED ANY GRAPHIC CONTENT TO COMPLY WITH YOUTUBE'S GUIDELINES. WE AIM TO PROVIDE INFORMATIVE, FACTUAL JOURNALISM ON A TRAGIC EVENT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST THAT DOES NOT DISMISS ITS SERIOUSNESS. ALL CLIPS ARE USED UNDER THE DOCTRINE OF FAIR USE FOR NEWS REPORTING AND ANALYSIS.Fair Use Disclaimer: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for 'fair use' for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."THE CONTENT IN THIS VIDEO IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, BASED ON BELIEVED RELIABLE SOURCES. THEY MAY NOT BE CURRENT OR FULLY ACCURATE. VIEWERS SHOULD DO THEIR OWN RESEARCH AND NOT SOLELY RELY ON THIS INFORMATION. WE'RE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INACCURACIES OR OMISSIONS. WE DO NOT CONDONE, ENDORSE, OR ENCOURAGE ANY OF THE BEHAVIORS OR ACTIVITIES SHOWN. WE URGE EVERYONE TO ALWAYS ACT RESPONSIBLY AND WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF THE LAW.

In April 2003, Cheryl Gingrich was living in Westerly Rhode Island. She taught English at the college level, and she was the mother to four sons. Normally, this is the part where we tell you everything about somebody's life. We can't do that here, and honestly, we don't need to, because she's still alive, and she's been very vocal about telling her story. For two decades, Rhode Island newspapers wouldn't print her name because most outlets don't name survivors of essay. The Boston Globe still puts a line in its coverage saying Cheryl gave them permission to use hers.

So almost everything we know about Cheryl Gingrich, we know because she bravely decided to speak out, including a television interview in April of 2025 and more of them since then. We're going to let her do the talking whenever we can. One of her four sons, Jan Hilfer, has done the same, on and off for 20 years. In the spring of 2003, Cheryl was using an online personal site. In April of that year, she agreed to go on her first date. Ronald L. Fisher was born on January 26, 1956. Information on his early life is spotty, but we know he went to Cornell University.

In Cornell, Ronald went into medicine, and for a while he did very well at it and had a very impressive resume. He became the chairman of the anesthesiology department at Memorial Hospital in Potucket, Rhode Island, a hospital that has since closed. He was also an assistant professor at Brown University's medical school. He lived in East Greenwich and owned boats. In August of 1994, a woman answered one of his personal ads. Some reports describe her at the time as a young single mother while others as a nursing student. The ad ran in a publication called The Dating Pages. According to the Boston Globe, it opened with handsome physician, single white male, kind, sensitive, sincere, and

compassionate. According to the Associated Press, he went on to say he was a handsome doctor seeking an intelligent, very beautiful companion in her 20s for fun, laughter, and love. He brought her aboard a yacht he owned called the Dreammaker, Dr. Marina Bay in Quincy, Massachusetts. There are two published accounts of what happened next. They don't match each other, so we are going to give you both of them. In 2005, the Associated Press reported her account as this. Ronald took her below deck to a bedroom, gave her a back rub, but then he pushed her onto the bed and forcibly essayed her. 2025 NBC10 reported that she had accused him of slamming her head into a door, dragging her and cutting off her airway before he essayed her.

He was arrested and charged with essay, but the charge was dropped. In 1996, Ronald pled guilty instead to two felony counts of assault and battery. He was given a two and a half year suspended sentence in five years of probation. He didn't spend a day in prison for any of them. He did, however, lose his medical licenses. They were revoked to Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The Massachusetts proceeding in an administrative magistrate wrote a recommendation that Ronald should be sanctioned. The magistrate told the state medical board that Ronald's conduct was that of an angry, controlling man

determined to have his way regardless of the wishes of the woman who had sought his company. By the late 1990s, Ronald Fisher wasn't a doctor anymore. He had a felony conviction in no life. license to practice, but he kept calling himself a doctor anyway. When he wrote personal ads after that, he also took seven years off his age. Real Canadian Superstore has everything you need this back-to-school season. Save on lunchbox savers like Ziggy's sliced deli-meat products for always 375. And get life brand pure Vita shampoo or conditioner for $8 each.

At Real Canadian Superstore, when you're ready, we're ready, with a whole world and more. In one internet posting, he went by the label, Romantic at heart. He called himself a six-foot-tall Aquarius and a blue-eyed physician who could find the time for the finer things in life. He wrote, and I quote, Sometimes I like to go out on the town, take in a show, music event, or comedy club. Other times, he said, he'd like to relax at home with a video. He was divorced and had two daughters. In the fall of 2002, a woman named Babette Augustine met Ronald for coffee at a Starbucks in East Greenwich after answering his ad in the local.

newspaper. Babette was the picture editor of the Providence Journal and she went on the record about all of this in 2005. The man who showed up didn't match the ad. His face was weathered and pockmarked and his hair was combed over. She said, he put himself out there as someone who was very wealthy, very worldly and cultured. She called him a name dropper. She went back to his apartment anyway. She described the furniture there as bad Florida condo furniture that was meant to impress. When Ronald tried to kiss and grope her, she pulled back, she said, I thought to myself how foolish I was just to have trusted someone because they said they were a doctor. Charles Plouffe lived next door to Ronald and East Greenwich.

He said he would look over and there Ronald would be out with a hose and a white jaguar convertible, in shorts, in the cold. According to Charles, he looked like he thought he was God's gift. to women. Cheryl Gingrich met Ronald Fisher through an online personal ad. In it, Ronald wrote, I love to travel and have been to South America, Europe, the Middle East, and China. He presented himself as a cultured, well-traveled, well-traveled doctor and yachtsmen to gain her trust. On April 12, 2003, Ronald picked Cheryl up for their first date and drove her to Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He took her to Hinckley's Marina, where he kept a 60-foot yacht called the Lion King. Cheryl later testified that she helped him clean the boat and that the plan was to go get lunch afterwards.

At some point, she was looking at a photograph of Ronald's two daughters. That's when, she told the Associated Press, he threw her onto the bed and started forcefully kissing her. She told police that he proceeded to essay her. Cheryl described the assault as happening forcibly, violently, and without her consent. She alleged that she was trapped aboard the boat and that she feared for her. her life and that she couldn't get off or call for help. This is what Cheryl wrote in her statement to police at the time, and I quote, all I could think was, I am alone in the bottom of this boat, and no one will hear me if I scream. The Portsmouth Police Department took the case. The detective

who worked it was A.J. Bucci, who has since retired as a lieutenant. When talking about Ronald, he was quoted as saying he was a chameleon, gave the appearance that he was a good catch, but in fact, he was not. Ron Fisher had a facade that he was. was still a practicing doctor. He lived the high life. He had a 60-foot yacht, motor yacht, that he was a captain. The boat was in deplorable condition. The jaguar was an older Jaguar model at the time. He lived in an apartment house. Cheryl later described Ronald as an egotist, a narcissist, all about money and living the rich lifestyle and to show off. A grand jury indicted Ronald Fisher on August 8, 2003. But before we get to that piece, we need to

stop here because nearly every new story written about this case in the last two weeks gets this next part wrong. You will read over and over that Ronald Fisher was convicted of first degree essay, singular. We pulled the Newport County Superior Court docket. There were three counts. Two of them were first degree essay. The third was second degree essay. All three lists the same offense date, and that was April 12, 2000. To be fair to these outlets, nobody ever printed one count. They just wrote first-degree assault and left it there. And the second-degree count never made it into a single story.

Ronald was arraigned on August 14, 2003, and pled not guilty, and was ordered held without bail. He was remanded to the adult correctional institutions or ACI, which is Rhode Island State Prison Complex. He was there for five days. On August 19th, he got a bail hearing in front of Associate Justice Melanie Wilk Thunberg. Bail was posted, secured against real estate, and Ronald walked out. The court entered a no-contact order the same day. As a condition of that bail, Ronald Fisher surrendered his passport. Two weeks after that on September 2nd, the docket shows that Ronald was brought back in front of the court as a violator.

Being declared a violator means that a judge found you broke the turn. terms that you were released on. His first lawyer was Stephen Pellci. In October of 2003, Robert B. Mann of Providence took over the defense. And then we get to the part of this docket that we've yet to see anyone right about. On September 19, 2003, Ronald filed a motion asking the court for permission to leave the state of Rhode Island. It was granted. On October 7, 2003, he filed another one. It was granted. Now, between January 5th and November 30th of 2004, he was given approval five more times. That seven motions to leave the state filed over 14 months.

The docket doesn't record a single one of them being denied. And remember, the court was holding his passport the entire time. The trial got pushed through 2004 and into 2005. motions to force the other side to hand things over, motions to keep evidence out, bail reviews, calendar calls, trial date set, and then scrapped. On April 19, 2005, the case finally opened to a jury in Newport in front of Associate Justice Stephen Nugent. Carl Ritchie led the prosecution. Both Cheryl and Lieutenant Bochy testified. Cheryl has said that the whole time she was up on that stand, she was thinking one thing. I just prayed that the jury would see that he was what he was.

The trial ran Tuesday through Thursday. On Thursday, the defense moved for a mistrial and was denied. On Friday, April 22nd, the docket says four words. Defendant does not appear. That Saturday, April 23rd, Ronald Fisher sent an email to his lawyer's Robert Mann and Dana Harrell. The subject line was one word. Goodbye. wrote in the body of the email, although I believe my trial has gone very well and expect to be acquitted and dismissed, the small chance of losing could carry extremely and unacceptably harsh penalties. I have therefore decided not to take the risk and to leave the U.S. and enjoy life in another country where I have long been carefully planning a good, safe, secure, and comfortable

life. He told them a $5,000 check covering his legal fees would clear within a few days. He thanked them for their work, and then he added a postscript aimed at attorney man, where he told his lawyer, please eat less chocolate and watch your diet. On Monday, April 25th, the court issued a warrant. The defense asked for a mistrial again and got the same answer. It moved twice for a judgment of acquittal and was turned down both times. When Cheryl found out he was gone, she said, I felt sick in the pit of my stomach. Her son, Jan Hilfer, has been talking about this case since 2005, he said at the time, there's no question they let him slip through the cracks.

The trial went to closing arguments without Ronald. Neither lawyer was permitted to tell the jury why the defendant's chair was empty. Attorney Mann told them he's not here, but that's also not the issue. Prosecutor Ritchie had a different problem. He wanted to talk about Ronald and point directly at him when doing so, so he used the photograph from Ronald's online dating profile. He explained it later, saying, we had his picture from his online account,

and I actually used it in the closing because he wasn't there, and I couldn't make specific reference to him not being there. In that closing, prosecutor Ritchie told the jury, not only did he tell a lot of lies, he lived a life using a lot of fake names and assumed fake identities. He ran from things he was supposed to do, and he tried to escape accountability. On April 26th, the trial concluded.

On April 27th, the state moved to forfeit his bail and judgment was entered. On April 28, 2005, the jury came back. guilty on all three counts. Looking back on the verdict, two decades later, Cheryl said, I thought the trial was going to bring closure, and in some ways it did. Him being found guilty was very important, but she also said this.

It made me lose faith somewhat in the judicial system. About Ronald specifically, she said he was treated so leniently. Why weren't they tracking him better? His bail was forfeited to the state of Rhode Island on April 29th, and again on May 4th. On May 6th, attorney man filed a motion for a new trial on behalf of a client who was already gone. On June 22nd, Justice Nugent heard that motion and denied it.

But there was one more indictment. On July 20th, 2005, a grand jury handed a separate felony charge of bail jumping with an offense date of April 25, 2005. Michael Healy, a spokesman for the Rhode Island Attorney General's office, told reporters that in August of 2005, Ronald could spend the rest of his life in prison if he were caught. He also noted that although Ronald had surrendered his passport, it was possible that he was using phony documents. The docket shows status conference after status conference through the fall of 2005.

Defendant doesn't appear, worn outstanding, but the last entry from that era is November 4th, 2005. Then the file goes quiet for 16 years. Here's the thing that matters most about that docket, and it's the second place the news coverage got this case wrong. There is no sentencing entry, none. and not ever. You may have read multiple news outlets claim that Ronald Fisher was sentenced in absentia. We found nothing in court records to support this. What we did find is three guilty verdicts and nothing after them.

Both of those cases sat open for 21 years. Ronald went onto the Rhode Island State Police list of the state's 10 most wanted fugitives. His profile listed 17 aliases. described him as a master yachtsman, a world traveler, and internationally connected. It noted he had been featured several times on the television show America's Most Wanted. When investigators searched his East Greenwich House after he vanished, they found something in the basement. According to Lieutenant Bucci, what was very alarming to us at the time was, we were searching his basement in high up into the ceiling, there was a drain.

drop ceiling. There were several books up there, books concerning how to conceal your identity. There were several books on establishing offshore accounts. His email had said he had long been carefully planning. The leads went in every direction and none of them landed. Prosecutor Ritchie knew that Ronald had a daughter in college in upstate New York close to the Canadian border and investigators wondered whether if he had stopped there on the way out. somebody heard Brazil. Cheryl was told at one point that they were looking at Costa Rica. In 2009, the Providence Journal's W. Zachary Malinowski interviewed C.J. Wyant, then Deputy

Marshal for Rhode Island. He called the hunt for Ronald a worldwide search, saying, the marshals and Rhode Island State Police are working on some leads right now. Every lead that we have we are following up on. Fisher moves around, but not from country to country. He moves around the circles he knows and understands. People are unknowingly helping him. They don't know who he is or what he is wanted for. Lieutenant Bucci never understood how he stayed gone. In April of 2025, he said, it surprises me with the technology that's out there, his ties back to Rhode Island with family. Carl Ritchie, the prosecutor, is now a criminal defense lawyer, but he didn't stop running into Ronald Fisher, so to speak, because Ronald's face was up on the most wanted display.

at local police departments and he would see it. He said he would think to himself, oh, that picture, I remember that guy. Cheryl, in the meantime, wasn't moving on because she couldn't move on. She was treated for PTSD and developed agoraphobia of fear of leaving her own home. In her own words, I basically became a hermit. The incident definitely changed the whole trajectory of my life. It affected my family life because I couldn't really function as a mother. Two of my four sons had to go live with my parents.

I always lived in fear of seeing him again because I never felt that he was far away. At one point, boarding a plane, she was certain that she was standing next to him. She said, I was positive it was him. I got to the point where I was standing next to him and I was sweating bullets. While all of this was going on, Cheryl did something that has never turned up in any of the coverage of this case. We only know about it because it was sitting in the Rhode Island court records. On April 11, 2006, one year after Ronald disappeared and one day short of three years after the assault, Cheryl Gingrich sued him.

The case was filed in Washington County Superior Court by an attorney named Thomas Broussese. It was a personal injury claim and she demanded a jury. You can't sue a man you can't find. Two weeks in, her lawyer filed a subpoena. In June of 2006, a hearing. was set in front of Associate Justice Alan Rubine on a motion for alternative service. That is what you file when a defendant can't be handed the papers the normal way because no one on earth knows where he is. And that's the end of the docket. The case sat untouched

for 10 years. Then on April 28th, 2016, the case was marked closed. 10 years after she filed it, nobody ever managed to put the papers in his hand. Somewhere in those years, Ronald Fisher became Richard Graydon. Federal investigators now believe he was using that name by at least 2017 and that he was living in the New York area. In 2017, Richard Graydon self-published a book. It's called The Genetic Risks of Cancer, The Effects of D&A, Genomics, and Inheritance on Aging and Survival. In October of 2022, a Tossa Therapeutics, a clinical-stage drug company in Seattle, Washington,

that works mainly on breast cancer treatments, announced that he had retained Dr. Richard Graydon as its interim chief medical officer. Atos told the market that Dr. Graydon had come to them from Johnson & Johnson, where he had been a senior director in clinical development for their subsidiary company Jansen Pharmaceuticals. It credited him with the 2022 approval of a CAR-T cell therapy

for multiple myeloma plus a handful of other drugs. For Jansen, the release said he had run early and late stage work at Daichi Sanko on a targeted therapy for acute myeloid leukemia. It put his specialty training at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital. Put his MD and PhD at Stanford. And then it said at the end of it, undergraduate degree in chemical engineering at Cornell, which is where Ronald Fisher did his undergrad. Atossa's chief executive, Stephen Key, said in the announcement,

we are privileged to welcome Richard to Atossa, where his deep experience in CAR-T cell therapy fits well with our current strategic direction as we explore our opportunities in cell therapy. The release also said Dr. Graydon would devote all of his professional time to the Atossa clinical programs. When NBC10 in Providence called Atossa about it this month, the company said that Dr. Graydon had been an independent contractor for less than two weeks in 2022 and didn't answer any follow-up questions. Atossa has since taken the announcement off its website. On March 30th, 2006, IMEX Biopharma, a company based in West Los Angeles, put out a press release announcing it had finished enrolling patients in a late-stage trial of a cell therapy for a rare blood

disorder called AL-emaloidosis. Buried in that same release was a second announcement. The company had brought on a new chief medical officer, specifically to help to get the drug across the finish line with the FDA. The new chief medical officer was Dr. Richard Graydon. Imitz told that shareholders had brought on a board certified. hematologists slash oncologists with over 20 years of experience in clinical development, most recently at Merkin Company and Johnson & Johnson.

The release credited him with the regulatory filings behind seven approved drugs. Four of these drugs mentioned are among the best-selling cancer medicines on Earth. Johnson and Johnson told NBC Tenet never employed anyone by that name. Merck and companies simply didn't respond. Two publicly traded drug companies handed senior clinical leader, to a man whose resume nobody appears to have called a single reference on. He had an active federal warrant. He had revoked medical licenses in two states.

His real name was on a state police most wanted page with his photograph on it. So how did this happen? Truly, this is the most bizarre thing to me about this whole case. I am just a medical coder and I get my credentials checked anytime I so much just show interest to a staffing agency. You mean to tell me that a rural hospital in Maine does more due diligence for a coder than two publicly traded drug companies for a chief medical officer position, especially when this guy is claiming he's responsible for Darcelex,

which last I checked and any oncologist watching, correct me if I'm wrong, the go-to drug for treating multiple myeloma. What are we doing? Look at this snapshot of the I'mx website I pulled up in the Wayback Machine. This is from July 3rd, 2026. He is the fifth person listed. If they aren't calling references on their chief medical officer, who are they calling references on? I would have a very hard time believing that this is the first time

either of these companies have been sloppy if they screwed up this badly. These are companies responsible for making cancer drugs. Surely we should expect that they make sure that the people working on those drugs are actually qualified to make these drugs. I could go on forever about whether or not companies like this care more about profits than making the best drug possible to save someone's life, but negligence like this in not one, but two companies is alarming. And I hope both of them are put under the microscope about exactly how they are vetting the people working for them. In the second week of July of 2026, the FBI got a tip.

WPRI in Providence reported that it came from an online sleuth. Multiple agencies spent 48 hours running it down and connected Richard Graydon to Ronald Fisher. Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Eldon De Silva said once they focused on the Dr. Graydon Identity, they found his location by linking him to sailing, to his boat, and to a yacht club. 21 years, 17 aliases, a fabricated medical career. In the end, they got him on boats, the one thing he would not give up. Task Force members went to a marina in Jersey, City, New Jersey, and set up surveillance. On the morning of Thursday, July 16, 26th, the Coast Guard told them the boat was moving.

The boat was a 56-foot sailing vessel called the Silver Lining, registered to Richard Graydon. Working off a 45-foot Coast Guard response boat, Deputy U.S. Marshals and Coast Guard personnel intercepted the vessel about an hour offshore. Ronald was taken to custody without incident on a federal warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. They brought him into the Coast Guard station in Staten Island and handed him over. Under questioning, he told them he was Richard Graydon, and he kept telling them that until they ran his fingerprints. First assistant United States attorney Charles Kalinda said, you can run, but you cannot

hide from justice. He credited the task force, the Marshal Service, the federal, state, and local partners, and the prosecutors in his own office, and said Ronald will now return to Rhode Island to face the consequences he sought to evade for more than 20 years. When Ronald was brought into court in New York, prosecutors said his Connecticut driver's license and the grade name was invalid. Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal, Justin Carvalho, said Ronald had been in touch with his two daughters on and off across the past 15 years. When asked whether or not either woman was under investigation, he wouldn't answer the question. A reporter did go to one of their homes in East Greenwich,

where she declined to comment. Neither daughter has said a word publicly, and no agency has said whether either of them is being looked at as of the date of this recording. Imec's biopharma fired Richard Graydon on Friday, July 17th. The Rhode Island State Police had announced the arrest the night before. On Monday, July 20th, the company filed an 8K with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It said he was terminated for reasons unrelated to his activities of the company, and that given his short tenure, management believed there was no material effect on the business. His biography came down off the company's website.

March 30th press release announcing his hiring was pulled off the internet. We won't forget, however. The same day that filing went up, a Boston law firm, Block and Levitin, announced it was investigating whether Emmix or any of its executives had violated federal security laws, as they should. The next day, the Portnoy Law firm announced an investigation of its own. Ronald was held at Rikers Island in New York, where he waived extradition. Rhode Island authorities collected him in Browell.

brought him back. And then he was processed at the ACI. The same state prison complex where he had spent five days back in August of 2003. Monday morning, July 27th of 2026, Ronald Fisher was walked into Newport County Superior Court. It was the same courthouse he had walked out of 21 years prior. Associate Justice William Carnes Jr. watched him come up to the bench. Ronald confirmed that he was Ronald Fisher and that he didn't have a lawyer. The judge wiped the outstanding warrants off the books. Then he took up the bail jumping charge. Justice Carnes entered a not guilty plea on Ronald's behalf and put bail on that count at $20,000 secured, but this is just a formality with nothing riding on it as Ronald is being held with no bail at all on the SA conviction and

as a bail violator on top of that. Justice Carnes gave him three weeks to find an attorney. The whole thing took under five minutes. Three days before that hearing on Friday, July 24th, Cheryl sued Ronald Fisher for the second time in her life. This one was filed in Providence in Bristol County Superior Court by an attorney named Joseph Ocola. It brings claims for battery, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and asked a jury for damages, interests, and costs. The complaint says this about Ronald's conduct, including using deception to isolate plaintiff, violently assaying her, and subsequently fleeing the jurisdiction to evade justice for over two decades, that it was extreme outrageous beyond all possible bounds of decency and utterly intolerable in a civilized

society. As of the date of this recording, Ronald hasn't filed a response. And there was one more line on that docket. On Monday, July 27th, the same day as the arraignment, Cheryl's lawyer, filed an emergency motion. A hearing on a temporary restraining order was set for two o'clock the following afternoon. Ronald is due back in front of Judge Carnes and Newport on August 17th. Three matters are stacked on that date. The violation of bail on the 2003 case, a pretrial conference on the bail jumping indictment, and a determination of whether he has managed to find himself a lawyer. He is still never been sentenced, faces up to life in prison, and is presumed innocent of any charges he's not yet been convicted of. Last year, before anybody knew where Ronald was, Cheryl's son,

Jan Hilfer said, this guy has been out there free to do whatever he pleases for the past 20 years. And what this man pleases to do is attack women. After the arrest, Jan said the family's first reaction was disbelief and that they aren't finished. He said, We still have the judicial system that needs to do their job. And number one, not let him slip through their fingers again. He also wanted to give his mother credit for something, he said. She had a feeling that he was hiding in plain sight.

She had said that for years. And then, you know, she was correct. When asked in April of 2025 whether she thought Ronald would ever be found, Cheryl said, Oh, I think he's hiding in plain sight. I don't think he's far, far away at all. Fifteen months later, they found him on a boat in Jersey City. Wing Chow, the U.S. Marshal for the District of Rhode Island, said, This arrest demonstrates that time does not erase accountability. We hope today's arrest brings a measure of justice and long-awaited closure to the victim

and everyone impacted by these crimes. The Rhode Island State Police put out their own statement, and they made a point of naming the people who had worked on it the longest. They said, we are proud of the persistent, coordinated work that brought him to justice and the numerous troopers, both currently serving and retired, who pursued this case for the last two decades. They never stopped seeking justice for his victim, and we are thankful for their dedication. Carl Ritchie, who prosecuted him in 2005, said, I was surprised.

I just figured, you know, he made it this long. I just thought he's probably going to make it for the rest of his life, if he's alive. Cheryl credited the people who helped take Ronald down, she said, it really took more than a village. It took a whole region to catch a person like that, and it took a long time. What she keeps coming back to is how fast the end was, after how slow everything else had been. She said, that's why it seems so amazing to me,

and that they did it in the space of 48 hours is even more incredible to me after a gap of a third of a lifetime, to then suddenly capture somebody that quickly. I don't know how they did it, but I'm grateful from the bottom of my heart. I really am. Cheryl knows exactly where she wants to be when he's finally sentenced. She said the last time she saw Ronald Fisher in that courtroom in 2005. He sat very casually at the desk with his attorney in a very casual position,

just staring at me and with a kind of smug look on his face, and now I'll be able to do the same to him. She wants to watch it from the gallery this time, not from the witness stand. When she found out what he had named the boat, she laughed, and she said the following. His silver lining has come to an end, and now his lining is going to be a lining behind iron bars. I hope, I sincerely hope, for the rest of his life. On the first morning of the first day in 21 years that she woke up knowing where he was, Cheryl Gingrich said this. I was happy to think when I woke up, I thought,

I slept last night in my bed. Ronald Fisher slept last night in jail. Real Canadian Superstore has everything you need this back-to-school season. Save on lunchbox savers like Ziggy's sliced deli-meat products for always 375. And get Life Brand Pure Vita shampoo or conditioner for $8 each.

At Real Canadian Superstore, when you're ready, we're ready with a whole world and more.