Jaquetta Thomas News Today

Story. >> shes like the answer to my prayers for the ideal attorney to come in my life. i mean, i read 833 books in prison, and a whole lot of them was crime fictions. and you got an attorney that actually digs and does the work and gets it right. >> reporter: she and her team reviewed documents and the main witnesses who turned out to be less than reliable. slowly, the states case unraveled. >> you have a jailhouse snitch who came forward because he was hoping to get help with his sentence. you...

Three judges believed he was innocent. innocent of murder. >> the verdict is unanimous, the panel shall enter a dismissal of all and any of the charges. >> reporter: after 6,149 days in jail. >> this matter is ready for disposition. the decision rules that gregory taylor is innocent of the charge of first-degree murder. the charge of first degree murder of jaquetta thomas against gregory taylor is dismissed. >> reporter: you must have seen that picture of you living that moment. what were you th...

Wanted to check on the truck, make sure it was still there. >> reporter: the truck was there, and so were the police. >> we pulled up, my wife and i, and there were police cars everywhere. i guess the realization hit me then. it was like, oh, yeah, we did see a body down there. >> once he saw the police and saw that his truck was still there, he realized sooner or later they were going to find out it was his truck and go looking for him. he might as well talk to them about anything he saw that c...

Through the cul-de-sac, they saw what greg thought was a roll of carpet. >> i thought it was a mannequin laying there. >> i didnt think it was any mannequin. looked back over my shoulder again. this time what caught my eye was a hand. i said, i think thats a body, and it might even be dead. >> reporter: greg was right. it was the body of jaquetta thomas, a prostitute. the two men had stumbled across a gruesome murder scene. greg taylor wanted to call the police, but johnny beck thought that was ...