Man wrongfully imprisoned for murder in 1989 speaks out

Todd Barry, the man who confessed to the brutal murder of Victoria Cushman in 1989, was released on Wednesday.

NBC 10 spoke exclusively with Scott Hornoff, who was wrongfully imprisoned for the same murder.

Hornoff, a former police officer, spent six years at the ACI facility in Cranston for a crime he did not commit.

Twenty-two years after his release, he said, the memories still haunt him.

“When I'm awake, I don't really think about it. I still have nightmares almost every night,” he said. “About being in prison, or being told I'm going to prison, or escaping or being followed.”

On August 11, 1989, 29-year-old Victoria Cushman was brutally murdered in her home in Warwick.

Hornoff, a married police officer and Cushman's lover, was arrested, tried and found guilty of the crime.

“I was sentenced to life imprisonment and would have served it because I would never have confessed to something I did not do,” he said.

Hornoff spent six years behind bars before Barry revealed himself.

Hornoff said he wrote to him hoping to understand the evidence and find out what drove him to let an innocent man take the blame.

Barry's release on Wednesday marks the end of his 30-year prison sentence, but Hornoff's wounds are far from healed

“I'm still a little angry because I know my mother would have lived a lot longer if this hadn't happened,” he said.

Hornoff said he hasn't heard from Barry in years and has no plans to contact him.

However, he said he would be willing to meet with him if the opportunity arose.