Leo Ryan Larry Layton that "there's no way he's a defector. He's too close to Jones." Layton was the only former Peoples Temple member to be tried in the United States for criminal acts relating to the murders at Jonestown. He was convicted on four different murder-related counts. On March 3, 1987, Layton was sentenced to concurrent sentences of life in prison for "aiding and abetting the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan", "conspiracy to murder an internationally protected person, Richard Dwyer, Deputy Chief of Mission for the United States in the Republic of Guyana", as well as 15 years in prison on
James Leo Ryan (actor) James Leo Ryan (actor) James Leo Ryan , also known as Jimmy or Jim, is an American stage, film, and television actor. He is one of three children and an alumnus of Loy Norrix High School and Denison University. He was recently interviewed for the Inside Acting Podcast. Ryan has appeared as Marlon in the short film "The Ropes", as Yosef in film "Species III", and as a dancer in the 2000 film "Psycho Beach Party". In 2006, he appeared as a paralyzed man in the Hallmark Channel movie "Though None Go with Me", in the short film "Haunted Prison",