times, the victim of an apparent robbery. the driver s money and cell phone were missing. the investigation of the cab driver s murder would be headed by 31-year-old detective mike donnelly, who worked alongside detective aiello. the two detectives donnelly and aiello ended up putting their heads and cases together, concluding the same group of several people committed both murders. did you know the other people? i knew two of them. from the neighborhood? from the neighborhood. these are good friends of yours? acquaintances. just guys you saw around? yes. february 4th, 1995. one of those guys was 19-year-old michael cosme, the first suspect arrested. you have the right to remain
the nypd was quite proud of detectives donnelly and aiello s work, so proud that five months after the arrests the department allowed the detectives to be featured in new york magazine about how they amazingly cracked the cases. how the detectives could have believed that and decided to run with this and send them to jail for the rest of their lives on the basis of this garbage still shocks me today. all these years later, attorney cross knew his opinion of the detective work in this case wasn t going to free eric glisson or anyone else. i think the only kind of evidence that s going to sway a court is if we can point to who the real killers are. that was quite a lot to hope for. but from behind bars, eric glisson was already on the trail. i got some documents and so i see this guy s name keeps coming up. coming up a surprise visitor and an
it s really hard. i told her grandma, i just lost my last appeal. i don t know what i m going to do. i always say, eric, let s keep the faith and let s go and pray and i said, we have many, many sisters praying with you. sister joanna offered more than just her prayers. that s when she brought in peter cross, who was now fighting for eric on the outside. so you have detective donnelly as the officer assigned. yes. with eric as his guide, cross got up to speed. and he found some troubling information about how detectives donnelly and aiello connected the two murders. it was through this witness. her name is kathy gomez. kathy, we re on the record. cross tracked her down and videotaped his interview with her. you know i m here today because eric glisson gomez, who was 16 at the time of the murder, says she first came in contact with the detectives for only one reason.
justice. we wanted to speak to someone from the nypd or the bronx district attorney s office, but both declined comment citing the multiple civil suits they faced as the bronx six sought millions in damages against the city. and those two detectives, donnelly and aiello, portrayed as super sleuths back in 1995, are now both retired and they didn t have anything to say to us. but in court filings attorneys for the city of new york denied that either detective threatened witnesses or falsified statements. and yet o both new york city and state would ultimately agree to pay each of the bronx six millions of dollars in damages. but for eric, the immediate challenge was starting a new life. one full of amazing discoveries. hello? no, no. upside down. huh?
so you have detective donnelly as the officer assigned. yes. with eric as his guide, cross got up to speed. and he found some troubling information about how detectives donnelly and aiello connected the two murders. it was through this witness. her name is kathy gomez. kathy, we re on the record. cross tracked her down and videotaped his interview with her. you know i m here today because eric glisson gomez, who was 16 at the time of the murder, says she first came in contact with the detectives for only one reason. she was friends with miriam tavares, who spoke only spanish. so you served kind of as a translator? yes. but by the time she had walked out of the police station, kathy gomez had become the key witness in the investigation of the fed-ex murder. gomez had signed a sworn statement claiming she overheard the same suspects talking about details of both crimes that only the killers or the cops would know. tell me if you recognize