the middle of the murder of the cabdriver. was it possible she saw you? no, i was not there. bad blood? yes, bad blood. eric had a brief sexual relationship with her that did not end well. you had a fling with a girl and cut it off abruptly, and she may feel slighted. slighted enough to make you a murder suspect? i guess so. the question is how reliable was she as a witness? all of these years later, eric finally had somebody to take another look at miriam s story. attorney peter cross. no doubt this woman was lying. i went out to the crime scene and she could not possibly have seen what she said occurred. so what could miriam really see? here is the problem with her story. from that police video we know
court transcripts show she attempted suicide as the trial began, but because she did not testify against eric, hour claims all these years later wouldn t help him. to have any chance at having another day in court eric knew he would need powerful evidence, evidence of actual innocence. he started thinking, if he and the other five codefendants had nothing to do with the two murders, then who did? after trying, the documents for the days eric requested came trickling in. a document had my name, and one name stood out and it was an individual part of a gang called sex, money, murder. eric was on to an important lead. even veteran cops knew those words meant danger.
i did not do it and i was not there and i was in my house asleep. detectives didn t believe him, and he was arrested for both murders. and days later so was eric. by the time eric went to trial, prosecutors dropped charges against him in the denise raymond case citing lack of evidence, so what evidence was there against him in the cabdriver case? it was really pretty simple. there was a witness against him. her name? miriam tavares. she said she looked out her window and saw it all, smack in the middle of the murder of the cabdriver. was it possible she saw you? no, i was not there. bad blood? yes, bad blood. eric had a brief sexual
there will be four tables on the one-year anniversary of his release, eric opens a fresh juice business that he built himself, named fresh take. afternoon, sir. how are you doing? nice place you have here. thanks. where did you get fresh take? i knew i had a fresh take on life. i am free now. i am no longer the victim. i am the victor, i won. you seem to have come through this remarkably free of bitterness and anger or you are hiding it very well? i am not good at hiding things. it will always show. when you hide something it will just fester inside you and eventually it will come out. if i held in that animosity that people think i retain or possess, and it would consume me and it would affect me and the
coffin and walking, and it s like being read your last rights, and somehow a miracle happens and a doctor comes into the room and knows how to recess tate you and you are back out in society and wondering whether they accept you. yeah, you see on his first night of freedom, eric s lawyer treats him to a hotel room. i got a key that is a plastic card. wow. oh, this is excellent. holy whew. wow, that has to be at least a 40-inch tv. a bed. wow!