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>> 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...

Judged unfit to stand trial. finally, after 14 years, floyds lawyers got him a new hearing. >> this was the hearing where if we didnt win here, we didnt really know what we were going to do. >> reporter: testifying about the confession was dr. mark hazelrig, one of floyds psychiatrists at dorothea dix. >> this statement is not made in the language that is typical or even possible for mr. brown to make spontaneously on his own. >> at the end of that hearing the judge said, ive heard everything i ...

Structure of that confession, it reads like its written by someone investigating a crime scene. >> reporter: the confession was the linchpin of a case with no physical evidence. was there any evidence whatsoever linking him to the crime? >> no. the only -- the only thing that puts floyd in this case at all is the fictional confession. >> reporter: but it was enough to charge floyd brown. coming up, an innocent man locked away for 14 years. floyd, did you kill that woman? >> nope. i sure didnt. ...

>> "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...

For public drunkenness. once for assault. but now floyd was accused of robbing and killing 80-year-old katherine lynch here in her home. a witness told the sbi that a black man knew something about the murder. although floyd didnt match the scription of that man, the sbi questioned him and said he had confessed. mike clinkason and kelly deangeles, browns lawyers, couldnt believe it. >> reporter: when you read that confession and when you saw floyd, did you instantly say, no way. >> yes. >> yes. ...

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...

>> reporter: but floyd was free. the judge dismissed the charges against him ruling that there was nothing in the case, including the alleged confession, that was convincing evidence. how long you been living here, floyd? >> a long time. >> reporter: you like it? >> yeah, i like it. >> reporter: three years to the day after that release, floyd brown struggles to understand what happened. you knew you werent supposed to be there. right? >> yeah, i knew i didnt supposed to be there. >> reporter: b...