Dwayne Deaver News Today

What . Traces of bird feather . Yes. In trying to solve one mystery, police may have solved two. Here i have two women that appeared to die the same way. E lightning dont strike the same place twice. Thats a whole lot of women dead at the bottom of the stairs in this guys life. Dont you think . But what looked like the end of this story its really stuff made for tv drama. Was just the beginning. I always had hope. It had to be made right. Shut with a resounding clank. I was a wreck. I really was...

Agent trying to replicate a bloodstain -- >> a nice curving motion like that. >> reporter: -- in an effort to prove the prosecutions case. until they get it right. >> thats a wrap, baby. >> in the bloodstain pattern unit, these agents, a, had no policy for over 20 years to guide them, and, b, they were just running the most bizarre unscientific experiments to try to put people in prison for life. >> thats a wrap, baby. >> reporter: the agent heard in the video, dwayne deaver, the same agent who ...

>> reporter: because this is your next appointment. who are you meeting with? >> doctor, uh -- >> he doesnt have the knowledge. he could never speak with that much definition or detail. >> reporter: this doctor? >> yeah. >> reporter: this is the confession, six pages in the first person handwritten by sbi agent mark isley who testified it was taken down verbatim. a transcript of what floyd had told him. the only thing floyd wrote down on his confession was his name. spelled wrong. what specifics...

Brown case, mark isley was promoted. now hes under investigation. we wanted to ask him about this. this six-page confession that he says floyd brown dictated to him. verbatim. but isley is not talking. >> over the years, mark isley climbed the ladder at the sbi, and today he supervises other sbi agents in the medicaid fraud unit. and his case wasnt even investigated internally by the sbi until later this summer after our series ran. >> reporter: the news and observer reporters werent the only on...

>> "i was framed." yeah. >> chief complaint -- "i was framed." >> reporter: when he entered these doors, he also entered into a kind of legal limbo, accused of murder but unable to have his day in court. floyd brown was developmentally disabled. he had the mind of a 7-year-old and was ruled incompetent to stand trial. the only evidence against floyd was a confession he had signed misspelling his own name. >> the details in that confession were so elaborate and so detailed that everyone who knows...

>> over the last 20 years a culture has developed at the sbi that basically the ends justify the means. and if law enforcement, local law enforcement, tell the sbi that so and so is their man, then the sbi is going to go out and find whatever evidence they can. and if they cant find any, in floyds case they couldnt, they manufactured it. >> reporter: floyd is still upset about his encounter with sbi agent mark isley. >> he kept saying, i dont like your attitude. mark isley saying he dont like my...

This is floyd brown. a man with the iq of a 7-year-old. floyd brown was a familiar figure here in downtown wadesboro, north carolina. one of those guys you see hanging around the courthouse in a small town. he even became friends with the clerks there. took their paychecks to the banks for them. which is why it was such a shock when on july 16th, 1993, an sbi agent took floyd to jail. >> everyone loved floyd. they knew he was slow. they knew what his intellectual deficits were. and to them, he w...

investigation crime lab withheld evidence that could have set him free. >> i aint running nobody. >> reporter: floyd brown spent 14 years locked up for a crime he didnt commit. was there any evidence whatsoever linking him to the crime? >> no. the only thing that puts floyd in this case at all is the fictional confession. >> i think over the last 20 years a culture has developed at the sbi that basically the ends justify the means. >> you had hoped that these were isolated incidents. t...